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Chelsea Kane

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Chelsea Kane Staub (born September 15, 1988 ) is an American actress and singer professionally known as Chelsea Kane since December 2010.  Her first starring role was in the 2007 film Bratz: The Movie. She co-starred as Stella Malone in the Disney Channel sitcom Jonas L.A.. She also appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movies, Minutemen and Starstruck. She currently co-stars in the Disney Channel animated series, Fish Hooks. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chelsea Kane, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Pulp

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Pulp are an English alternative rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. Their lineup consists of Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar), Candida Doyle (keyboards), Mark Webber (guitar), Steve Mackey (bass) and Nick Banks (drums).  Throughout the 1980s, the band struggled to find success, but gained prominence in the UK in the mid-1990s with the release of the albums His 'n' Hers in 1994 and particularly Different Class in 1995, which reached the number one spot in the UK Albums Chart. Different Class spawned four top ten singles, including "Common People" and "Sorted for E's & Wizz", both of which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart. Pulp's musical style during this period consisted of disco influenced pop-rock coupled with "kitchen sink drama"-style lyrics. Jarvis Cocker and the band became major figures in the Britpop movement, and were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 1994 for His 'n' Hers; they won the prize in 1996 for Different Class. The band would release two further albums, This Is Hardcore (1998) and We Love Life (2001), after which they entered an extended hiatus, having sold more than 10 million records.
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Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos

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Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos is a Greek film and stage actor, based in Athens. Graduated from "Vasilis Diamantopoulos" drama school in 2003 and since then he has been working as an actor, a playwright and a scriptwriter. He has participated in over 30 theatrical plays and more than 60 shorts, feature films and TV series. Recently, he has been awarded with the Best Male Performance Award both in Athens and Drama International Film Festivals for his performance in Valentin Stejkals' "5 p.m. Seaside" and shared the Best Screenplay Award with Yorgos Gousis and Elena Topalidou for the feature film "Magnetic Fields" in the Hellenic Film Academy Awards, in which he was also nominated as Best Actor.
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Kelly O'Neal

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Kelly O'Neal is an actor, singer, writer, director, producer, and illustrator. Her acting credits include classical theater, musical theater, performance art, film, television, commercials, and stand-up comedy. She is the creator of The Gilda Sue Rosenstern Computer Internet Show, a web series, a live show, and a feature film now in production. Kelly has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater from Florida State University where she studied with Joseph Papp, Roger Rees, and Raul Julia among others. Her musical career has included stints as vocalist in jazz, and country bands, and she was a founding member of the 90's glam/funk musical extravaganza, Superchick and Goodpussy. In addition, Kelly's paintings and drawings have been exhibited in galleries and appeared on book covers. - IMDb Mini Biography
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Robbi Chong

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Robbi Lynn Chong (born May 28, 1965) is a Canadian actress and former model. Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong, a comedian, actor, writer and director.[1] Chong's father is of Chinese and Scots-Irish ancestry and her mother is of African and Cherokee descent.[2] Her sister Rae Dawn Chong is an actress. Chong studied acting in Los Angeles, California for two years and began appearing frequently on stage and television, working full-time. She was an international covergirl who joined the Click Modeling Agency at age 19 and was a Paris model from 1983 to 1988. Source http://www.in.com/robbi-chong/biography-235713.html.
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Noel MacNeal

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Noel MacNeal (born September 15, 1961), sometimes credited as Noel McNeal or Edward Noel MacNeal, is an American puppeteer, actor, director and writer of children's television who has performed since the early 1980s. He was the voice and puppeteer of Bear on Bear in the Big Blue House. He also starred as Kako on Oobi, Leon MacNeal on The Puzzle Place and as Magellan on Eureeka's Castle. He is also the resident puppeteer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, portraying puppet characters such as "Mr. Nutterbutter". Description above from the Wikipedia article Noel MacNeal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Melody Klaver

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Melody Zoë Klaver (born September 9, 1990) is a Dutch actress. Melody played the part of Heleen in Diep, a movie from Simone van Dusseldorp, for which she got a Golden Calf nomination, one of the most important film awards in the Netherlands. In 2006, she played the role of Debby in Afblijven. In 2008, she starred as Erica van Beusekom in Oorlogswinter, a movie that is set in the Dutch famine of 1944. Melody's boyfriend Timo Smeehuijzen was killed by a suicide attack during his military service in Afghanistan in June 2007. Melody has two older sisters, actress Kimberley Klaver and dancer Stephanie.
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Gwendoline Taylor

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Gwendoline Taylor is an actress from New Zealand. She first appeared on screen in 2007 in Show of Hands, which was filmed in her hometown of New Plymouth. In 2008, Gwendoline moved to Auckland to study post-production at South Seas Film & Television School, where her tutors insisted that she belonged in front of the camera. In 2012, she was cast as Sibyl in Spartacus: War of the Damned, a television series on the Starz network. She has made a number of appearances in short films and on the series Go Girls. Her other film credits include a featured role as Emily in Sione's 2: Unfinished Business, the sequel to the NZ smash hit Sione's Wedding.
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Billie Bird

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Vaudeville comedienne Billie Bird Sellen was discovered at an orphanage at the age of eight years and hired to tour theater circuits with a vaudeville troupe. During the Vietnam War she accompanied 12 USO tours entertaining the troops in the war zone in the 1960s and 1970s. She had worked as recently as 1995 when she appeared in Jury Duty (1995), starring Pauly Shore. Other notable performances were in Dennis the Menace (1993) and Home Alone (1990). One of her best-known film appearances was in the 1968 movie The Odd Couple (1968). Her last appearance was a cameo in 1997 in the short-lived television comedy George & Leo (1997) with Judd Hirsch and Bob Newhart. She had also been a regular from 1988-1992 in the sitcom Dear John (1988), and in a series of performances as a cheerful and sassy senior citizen in such productions as Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987). Date of Death: 27 November 2002, Granada Hills (Alzheimer's disease)
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