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Farkhad Amankulov
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Amankulov Farhad Amenovich was born in Kazakhstan. He started playing sports at the age of 14, although before that he was a rather sickly child. Two years later he became the winner of the All-Union Karate Tournament. During his subsequent sports career, he was awarded many titles and titles. He repeatedly became the champion of Kazakhstan in Wushu Sanda, a prize-winner of the Soviet Union and international tournaments, including tournaments in the Shaolin Monastery. He is an honored coach of Kazakhstan and an international master of sports. He is also the vice-president of the Kazakhstan Thai Boxing Federation.
Thanks to his sporting success, he was repeatedly invited to take part in films, both as an actor and to help stage fights. The first films with the participation of Farhad Amankulov were the historical films Baybars and Sultan Baybars, where he played the famous sultan in his youth on the way to his supreme power. Two years later he appeared in the television film Psychic. Here his role was less significant, but Farhad Amankulov took part in staging the fights that unfold on the screen. Another television project to his credit is the film Lotus Strike, where he played “his son-in-law” Farhad, a student of Lotus.
In 2005, he and the students of his school took part in the filming of the battle scenes of the famous Nomad.
In 2011, Farhad Amankulov’s roles in films were replenished with the image of a tough Kazakh businessman Batyr, on whose land lives a healer who solved the problem of his wife’s infertility. And one crime boss wants to buy this land, but Batyr cannot sell it, because he does not want to deprive the miracle savior of her home. Naturally, a conflict ensues between them, and Baksa’s film again contains scenes of fights both with the participation of Amankulov and fighters from his club.
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Mike Mills
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Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of R.E.M., his musical repertoire also includes keyboards and occasional lead vocals. He contributed to a majority of the band's musical compositions and is the only member to have had formal musical training.
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.
Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Austin Pendleton
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Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor.
Pendleton is known as a prolific character actor on the stage and screen, whose six-decade career has included roles in films including Catch-22 (1970); What's Up, Doc? (1972); The Front Page (1974); The Muppet Movie (1979), Short Circuit (1986); Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990); My Cousin Vinny (1992); Amistad (1997); A Beautiful Mind (2001), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination; and Finding Nemo (2003).
Pendleton received a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play for the Broadway revival of The Little Foxes in 1981. He has received two Drama Desk Award nominations and the recipient of a Special Drama Desk Award in 2007. He also received a Obie Award for Best Director for the 2011 off-Broadway revival of Three Sisters. Recent Broadway credits include Choir Boy in 2016 and The Minutes in 2022.
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Carla Gravina
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Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1993.
Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983.
During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.
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Nora Tschirner
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Nora Marie Tschirner (June 12, 1981 in East Berlin) is a German actress, musician and presenter. Tschirner began her acting career in 2001 with a supporting role in Connie Walther's Wie Feuer und Flamme and the lead role in Sternenfänger. In 2003 she made her stage debut at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus in Trainspotting. In 2007 she took on the role of the adversary in Keinohrhasen and two years later in the sequel Zweiohrküken.
She has also played several supporting roles in several TV series, including A Strong Team and Section 40.
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Lorenzo Robledo
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Lorenzo Robledo (3 July 1918 – September 2006) was a Spanish film actor, who made over 85 appearances in film between 1956 and 1982. He is a familiar face in Italian westerns, having appeared in a total of 32 Spaghetti Western films throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.
Robledo is probably best known for his roles in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films of the 1960s and 1970s, portraying minor characters in the trilogy of films A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968. He acted in many other westerns prolifically including the tortured sheriff in Four of the Apocalypse (1975).
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Apasiri Nitibhon
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Apasiri Nitibhon, nicknamed Um, is a Thai supermodel and actress. She is the younger sister of Amarin Nitibhon, a Thai singer and actor. She entered the entertainment industry by becoming a model at the age of 18 after the 'Trend Setter' contest. Likewise, Apasiri then took photoshoots for magazines and became well known in the modeling industry in the 1990s with a unique face and 173 centimeters tall.
She began her acting career at the age of 25 by taking part in the film 'Sunset at Chaopraya' in 1995, starring as 'Angsumalin'. Apasiri trained as a likay dancer in her youth. For the 2006 film, 'The Victim', she portrayed a beauty queen who performs a likay dance. For this role, she had to receive a refresher course in Thai classical dance.
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Ajay Devgan
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Ajay Devgan is an Indian film actor, director and producer. He is widely considered as one of the most popular actors of Hindi cinema who has appeared in over a hundred Hindi films. He has won numerous awards, including two National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards. In 2016, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour of the country.
Devgan began his professional career with Phool Aur Kaante in 1991 and received a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut for his performance. In 1998, he appeared in a critically acclaimed performance in Mahesh Bhatt's drama Zakhm and he received his first National Film Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie. In 1999, his most-talked-about film was Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam in which he played Vanraj, a man who tries to unite his wife with her lover. He has starred in more than hundred Hindi films. Having done so, he established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema.
In addition, Devgn owns a production company Ajay Devgn FFilms which was established in 2000. In 2008 he debuted as a film director with U Me Aur Hum. He is married to film actress, Kajol since 1999 and the couple have two children. In August 2009, Devgn changed his surname from Devgan to Devgn on the request of his family.
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Derek Hough
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Derek Hough is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer, choreographer, actor and singer. From 2007 to 2016, Hough was a professional dancer on the ABC dance competition series Dancing with the Stars, winning the show a record-breaking six times with his celebrity partners. He later became a judge on the series beginning with its 29th season.
Hough has also appeared as an actor on stage, appearing at the West End premiere of Footloose: The Musical at the Novello Theatre and as well as the 2015 New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. In film and television, he has starred in the film Make Your Move and had a recurring role in the ABC musical-drama Nashville. In 2016, he appeared as Corny Collins in NBC's live musical TV-production of Hairspray Live! From 2017 to 2020, Hough served as a judge on the NBC dance competition series World of Dance. In 2024, Hough co-starred in Jennifer Lopez autobiographical musical comedy 'This Is Me... Now'.
Hough is a four-time Emmy winner for Outstanding Choreography and has earned fourteen Emmy Award nominations in total for his work on Dancing with the Stars.
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