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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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Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ekin Cheng (Chinese: 鄭伊健, born 4 October 1967) is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. Early in his career he used the name Dior (because that was what it sounded like when his younger sister tried to call him ) as a first name. He has also been referred to as Noodle Cheng, after a popular noodle product with a similar name. Currently Ekin is the name used. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ekin Cheng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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George Henry Horton

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George Henry Horton is a British filmmaker, actor and writer with a passion for dynamic and immersive world-building. George loves to tell stories set in fantastical and unique worlds with themes rooted in the human experience. With an impressive resume of five features and over a dozen shorts under his belt, George is most inspired by stories that take place in the sci-fi, horror and action genres. His work on other projects has been featured in film festivals such as Beverly Hills, Soho, Pasadena and he has won or been nominated for several Best Film awards. Starting his career in comedy, his comedy channel, JesterLads, has received wide coverage, including on ABC's 'Today Show' and NBC's 'Good Morning America," receiving tens of millions of views throughout various media. George is an alumni of the American Film Institute Conservatory and has been mentored by Academy Award winner Christopher Branch. He is also a member of the Producers Guild of America. He resides in Los Angeles. Description above from the IMDb mini biography.
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Miss DuPont

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Miss DuPont (April 28, 1894 – February 6, 1973) was an American film actress and fashion designer. Sometimes credited as Patty DuPont, Miss DuPont was born as Patricia Hannon in Frankfort, Kentucky, though sources sometimes state her place of birth as Frankfort, Indiana. She appeared as a wealthy and naive American woman seduced by Erich von Stroheim's odious count in Foolish Wives (1922). Although Stroheim is credited with discovering her, she had already made several films beginning in 1919 with The Day She Paid. Miss DuPont died in Palm Beach in 1973.
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Edgar Vivar

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Édgar Vivar is a Mexican actor and comedian, born on December 28, 1948, in Mexico City. Although his grandfather had encouraged his artistic side, in which he was very interested, Edgar ended up choosing medicine as an area of ​​study, preparing at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). But given that his career required completing credits in the artistic area, Vivar found that the only option with space was theater and remembering his interest in it, generated by his grandfather, he decided that it could be an interesting experience. The taste for theater did not end and, although he finished his medical degree, he entered the University Theater Center, which concluded in 1964. He practiced as a doctor for a year, but left the profession when he received a call from Roberto Gómez Bolaños, to join the television show "El Chavo del 8", where he plays "El Señor Barriga", 'Ñoño" and "Caquito Botija", characters for which Édgar is known and admired worldwide.
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María Fernanda Yépes

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María Fernanda Yepes Alzate (born 23 December 1980) is a Colombian actress and model. She is mostly known for playing Yésica Franco "La Diabla", in the hit Telemundo telenovela Sin Senos no hay Paraíso. She also played the title role in the Colombian telenovela Rosario Tijeras. Personal life María Fernanda Yepés started modeling in her home country of Colombia at the age of 14. As a model, she has been part of important national and international campaigns including one of Colombia's top female intimate apparel labels. Most recently she was seen as a print model for the swimwear line Agua Bendita, which was featured in the "Hottest Swimsuit Issue" of Sports Illustrated in 2007, 2008 and 2009.[1] In order to pursue a career in the media, she moved to Bogotá. Yepés has also studied psychology, social communication, and journalism; she also took photography and cooking classes, and spent three years in Spain studying theater art.
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Affif Ben Badra

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Affif Ben Badra (sometimes credited as Afif Ben Badra or Ben Badra) (born 1960) is an actor and dancer currently living in France. In the United States he appeared as a warlord in the Roland Emmerich film 10,000 BC and as Tamas in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He also appeared in the suspense/thriller film Taken, written by Luc Besson, and in the Spanish public TV serie "Aguila Roja". Description above from the Wikipedia article Affif Ben Badra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jodi Cash

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Jodi Cash is a journalist from Atlanta living in Barcelona. “The Green Flash” is an extension of her story, “High Times and Low Tides at Reefer Beach,” which was published on The Bitter Southerner, featuring photos by Ethan Payne. Her work has also been featured in Hidden Compass, Scalawag, Paste, Kinfolk, ArtsATL, and Georgia Health News. She co-founded The Seed & Plate, which features stories about community through the lens of sustainable agriculture. In 2019, she published “Concrete Jungle: A Foraged Fruit Cookbook,” in collaboration with the Atlanta-based nonprofit of the same name. She’s a 2024 Hidden Compass Pathfinder Prize finalist. “The Green Flash” is her first film.
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Miloš 'Miša' Radivojević

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Miloš Miša Radivojević is a Serbian television and movie director, and a professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. Miloš started his higher education as a philosophy student but eventually graduated in 1966 from Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1966, as one of the first students of Aleksandar Saša Petrović with the medium length film Adam & Eva 66. He worked as assistant director under Puriše Đorđević between 1961 to 1969. He directed 16 feature films, beginning with Bube u glavi ("This Crazy World of Ours") which received the Golden Lion medal at the 1970 film festival.  Other prizes include: Silver Mermaid and Roberto Paolela (Naples, 1975) – Testament, Bronze Palm (Valencia, 1989) – ČavkaLokarno, 1979 - Kvar'
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Barbara Tennant

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Barbara Tennant was born in London, England in 1892. Barbara is one of those actresses that is very hard to find anything on. Research brings up so very little. We do know that Barbara started life on the stage, but changed to films when she was 20. Her first movie was The Holy City (1912) in 1912. The parts she had weren't big ones by any means, but it was more than some aspiring actresses were getting. Barbara was 35 when she made Hidden Aces (1927) in 1927. Afterwards she made no others. It's as though she dropped off the face of the earth because no one seems to know what happened to her or what she had done since her film career.
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