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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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Jerry Doyle
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Jerry Doyle (July 16, 1956 – July 27, 2016) was an American talk radio host, right-libertarian political commentator, television actor and founder of the content platform EpicTimes. His nationally syndicated talk show, The Jerry Doyle Show, aired throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network. As an actor, Doyle was known for his role as Michael Garibaldi in the science fiction series Babylon 5 (1994–1998). Doyle grew up in Brooklyn, New York, raised as the eldest son of a police officer and a housewife. He spent the first six months of his life in an orphanage before being adopted. He graduated from Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta, New Jersey, in 1973, where he played varsity football and basketball. In 1978, Doyle earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, while also receiving his flight training.
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Linda Harrison
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Linda Melson Harrison (born July 26, 1945) is an American television and film actress. She is best remembered for portraying Nova alongside co-star Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes. She went on to appear in many films and then made a cameo in 2001's Planet of the Apes film directed by Tim Burton. She retired from acting for family reasons until returning to co-star in 2018's Midnight Massacre, a modern day version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar directed by Travis Bowen. Linda is considered Hollywood royalty as her family created 20th Century Fox.
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Rhonda Smith
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Smith was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her family moved to Montreal when she was a child. She and her three siblings were encouraged to play music and she began playing baritone horn, keyboards, guitar, and eventually electric bass. In addition to taking private classical training on upright bass, Smith attended McGill University in Montreal studying jazz performance. After gaining some experience in the local rock scene, she moved on to work with Canadian artists Claude Dubois, Daniel Lavoie, Robert Charlebois and James Blovin. She won a Juno award for "Best Contemporary Jazz Album", for her work with Jim Hillman and The Merlin Factor.
While attending a music convention in Germany, Smith met Sheila E. and gave her a press kit after learning Prince was putting a new band together. Two months later, Prince called and Smith went to Paisley Park to record on the Emancipation album. Smith recorded and toured with Prince for almost 10 years. Other musicians she has worked with include Chaka Khan, Beyoncé, T.I., Erykah Badu, Lee Ritenour, Jeff Beck, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
In 2000, she released her first solo record, Intellipop.
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Natalia Makarova
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Natalia Romanovna Makarova (Russian: Ната́лия Рома́новна Мака́рова, born 21 November 1940) is a Russian prima ballerina and choreographer. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that "her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation in the West."
Makarova was born in Leningrad in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. At the age of 12, she auditioned for the Leningrad Choreographic School (formerly the Imperial Ballet School), and was accepted although most students join the school at the age of 9.
Makarova was a permanent member of the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad from 1956 to 1970, achieving prima ballerina status during the 1960s. She defected to the West on 4 September 1970, while on tour with the Kirov in London. Soon after defecting, Makarova began performing with the American Ballet Theatre in New York City and the Royal Ballet in London.
When she first arrived in the West, Makarova was eager to expand her choreography by dancing ballets by modern choreographers. At the same time, she remained most identified with classical roles such as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake and Giselle. In December 1975, she and her dance partner Mikhail Baryshnikov featured prominently in an episode of the BBC television series Arena. She was featured in the 1976 live American Ballet Theatre production of Swan Lake, simulcast from Lincoln Center on both PBS and NPR. When ABT artistic director Lucia Chase stepped down, both Makarova and Baryshnikov applied. After the company went with Baryshnikov, she left for the Royal Ballet of London.
Makarova continued to excel in many different roles, most notably, her title role in Giselle. In 1989, she returned to her home theatre of the Kirov Ballet and was reunited with her family and with former colleagues and teachers. Her emotional homecoming was documented in the film Makarova Returns, which she wrote as well as presented. After her performance at the Kirov, she retired from dancing, donating her shoes and costumes to the Kirov Museum. Today Makarova stages ballets such as Swan Lake, La Bayadère and Sleeping Beauty for companies across the world. She retired from dancing due to accumulating injuries, especially to her knees. Makarova won a Tony Award, as well as numerous other stage awards for her performances in Broadway revival of On Your Toes. She played Lydia Lopokova (Lady Keynes) in Wooing in Absence, compiled by Patrick Garland. It was first performed at Charleston Farmhouse and then at the Tate Britain.
Makarova has been married three times. Once to another ballet dancer and once to director Leonid Kvinikhidze. In 1976, Makarova married industrialist Edward Karkar, and together they had a son, Andrei. Karkar died 22 December 2013, at the age of 81. Janet Sassoon said about Makarova: "When I began teaching in San Francisco, through Madam Bali, I got to work with all these great Russian first dancers when they were there. So I got Natalia (Natasha) Makarova, a Prima Ballerina Assoluta. There was only one Prima Ballerina Assoluta up until the time she danced. And here I had her in my hands for five months after the birth of her child!"
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Brian Viloria
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Brian Viloria (born November 24, 1980 in Waipahu, Hawaii) is a Filipino-American professional boxer He was a former WBO and WBA Flyweight champion. He also won the WBC Light Flyweight and IBF Junior Flyweight titles. His nickname "The Hawaiian Punch" was first given to him by Jesus Salud, another former world champion in boxing.
In 1999, he won the US championships, the national Golden Gloves and the world title as an amateur at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas but lost early at the Sydney Olympics 2000 against Brahim Asloum, who he had beaten in the 1999 World Championships in Houston, Texas. His overall record was 230-8.
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Karen Jenkins
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Karen Jenkins was born in Toronto Ontario, Canada. She was Orphaned at the age of 5, and then adopted. Her Adoptive Father was a Film Projectionist and Sound Engineer for Music. Her Adoptive Grandfather was also a Film Projectionist. The influence of being raised in this environment from a young age made for a very active imagination, and hence led Karen into a career in the Creative Arts. Whether it was performing on the streets of Toronto dancing on stages for large audiences, or playing a Kasmiri Bollywood Actress in the Himalayan Mountains of India; entertaining in every form was always something that came naturally. Karen’s acting training includes classes with The Second City in Toronto, ON and Company of Rogues in Calgary, AB. She has also studied dance including Hip Hop, Tap, Salsa and Bacchata. Her personal interests have led her to train in Shiatsu Therapy, Minor in Acupuncture, Eastern Medical Theory, Western Medical Theory, Meditation, and Muay Thai. She is also a Certified Yoga Instructor, and is adept in the Basic Foundations of Shamanism.
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Patrick Chêne
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Patrick Chêne (born 26 April 1956 in Lyon) is a French journalist who worked mainly on France TV, where he commented on the Tour de France between 1989 and 2000.
Educated at the Lyons High School of St. Mary Lyon, and then becoming a law graduate, Patrick Chêne began his journalistic career in 1977 as a freelancer at the Progrès de Lyon. He then worked in the letters department, then the sports section of the newspaper.
In 1982 he joined the newspaper L'Équipe, then in 1985 he worked on television at Antenne 2 as a journalist for Stade 2.
He commented on the Tour de France from 1989 to 2000 in the company of Robert Chapatte, then Bernard Thevenet.
Patrick Chêne was appointed sports director of Antenne 2 and presented Stade 2 between March 1992 – July 1995 before moving to newscast the newsshow 13 heures on France 2 from 1995 to 1998. He was then director of the sports department of France Télévisions from 1998 to 2000, succeeding Jean Reveillon.
From 1997 to 1999 he co-hosted Telethon with Sophie Davant. He also co-hosted Les Trésors du monde with Nathalie Simon in 1994.
After leaving France Télévisions in 2000, he founded and directed the group Sporever which specializes in publishing and content production.
He was also host of the Histoires de Sport on Orange sport.
In September 2010 Patrick Chêne had taken over for Pierre Sled – Also a former presenter of Stade 2 – on The Parliamentary Channel and presented Politique Matin, the "little political lunch" of the TV channel. He was also executive producer of the show.
In September 2012 Patrick Chêne created a TV channel dedicated to sports news, Sport365 where he hosted the show Incognito.
In July 2015 Patrick Chêne announced he was leaving Politique Matin and CPAC but that the shows will continue.
In 2009 he wrote a play, C'est pas gagné (It is not won). The main performers are his daughter Juliette and his son-in-law Jean-Charles Chagachbanian. Given the success of the performances, a tour was organized until 2011.
He wrote four TV movies about a policeman in the series Les Cinq Dernières Minutes: Un mort sur les pavés. The action takes place during the Paris-Roubaix and Patrick Chêne appears as himself.
Patrick Chêne is the father of five children. One of his daughters, Juliette, is an actress, best known for the role of Juliet in the soap opera Plus belle la vie.
His niece, Astrid Veillon, is also an actress, and best known for her role in Quai numéro un.
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Mohamed Bastaoui
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Famous moroccan actor (1954-2014)
Mohamed Bastaoui in arabic [محمد البسطاوي] was born in Mrizig on june 3,1954 and died in rabat on decembre 17, 2014 with a career spanning 30 years.
He begin his acting career in the theater on 1987, with a theater group called "Masrah al Yaoum", Then ten years later with group "The sun".
In cinema, his career started in the late 1990s, exactly on 1998 into a movie "Adieu Forain"
And then rolled his roles simple and complex in several films, serials and plays.
His departure left a great sadness for his friends in the profession or the Moroccan public in general.
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Bruce Dern
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Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). His other major film appearances include Silent Running (1972), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), The Cowboys (1972), Posse (1975), Family Plot (1976), Black Sunday (1977), Tattoo (1981), Monster (2003), The Hateful Eight (2015), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
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