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Yoshirō Muraki

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Yoshirō Muraki was a Japanese production designer, art director, and costume designer. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the films Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Kagemusha (1980), and Ran (1985). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for his work in Yojimbo (1961). He is most well known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa, having done work on all of Kurosawa's films from Record of a Living Being (1955) onward, with the exception of Dersu Uzala (1975).
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Camilo Bevilacqua

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Camilo Bevilacqua (Gaurama, September 11, 1949) is a Brazilian actor and director. He began his career in 1968 in Porto Alegre, with the piece Pique Nique no Front, by Fernando Arrabal. Because of the repression of the lead years, he entered the School of Theater of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in the course of dramatic art, in 1970. In college he made important pieces, such as A Lição, by Ionesco, Vestido de Bride, by Nelson Rodrigues and Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. In 1973 he won the MUTEPLA prize with the monologue The Malicious Effects of Smoking, by Anton Tchecov. In 1975 he was chosen to play the title role of Mockinpot, by Peter Weiss, work with which he traveled throughout Brazil, when he settled in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives to this day. He has participated in 45 plays. On television, he has made miniseries and soap operas at Rede Globo. His last work on television was the character Jorge in Malhação. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kanawut Traipipattanapong

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Gulf Kanawut Traipipattanapong is an actor and model. He went to an all-boys high school in Bangkok called Suankularb Wittyalai. He later attended the King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, majoring in Industrial Education and Technology. Kanawut's acting career began in 2015, when he played Young Tee, a guest role in one of Channel 3's lakorn, Mafia Luerd Mungkorn: Singha. Later in late January 2019, he was announced to star as Type, the main protagonists of One 31 and LINE TV's TharnType: The Series. The series immediately gained popularity within Thailand as well as internationally. From his acting in TharnType: The Series, Kanawut won "Shining Star" and "Best Young Actor" at the Kazz Awards 2020. Also, he won "Moon of the Yniverse" and "Iconic Star of the Yniverse" at the Yniverse Award 2020. Kanawut and his co-star Suppasit won "Best Kiss Scene" at the 2020 LINE TV Awards and "Best Couple" at the Maya Awards 2020. Kanawut and Suppasit also appeared in the February issue of Harper's Bazaar Thailand, the first onscreen "Y Series" couple to do so in the history of the magazine. Due to the immense outpour of fans trying to read the article, Harper's Bazaar Thailand's website crashed. In August 2020, he was one of ten artists who joined a project "Boyfriends" led by record label GMM Grammy. He released his first single "แฟนผมหาย" ("Missing Baby") with War Wanarat on 27 October 2020. With Kanawut's popularity growing, he is trusted as a presenter and brand ambassador for several domestic and international brands. In March 2021, he signed a contract with Channel 3, one of the big Thai television networks.
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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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Karina Suwandi

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Karina Suwandi (born in Jakarta, December 26, 1973) was a popular Indonesian actress in the 1980s. She is Indonesian from her father's side and Czech Republic from her mother's side. Her career began in modeling for teen magazines in the late 1980s. Her innocent and beautiful facial features made her the central attraction in Achiel Nasrun's movie Lupus II in 1987. She was given the opportunity to become a supporting actress in the film, despite her lack of acting experience. She then continued her acting career in various movies. Some of the movies that starred include "Valentine Valentines For You" (1989) directed by Bobby Sandy. In addition, she also acted in Indonesian soap operas. One of them was to become the main actress in the popular Warkop Millennium comedy soap from the late 1990s to early 2001. From Wikipedia ID, the free encyclopedia
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Camila Queiroz

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Camila Queiroz is a Brazilian model and actress. At just 14 years old, she went to live alone in the city of São Paulo, after winning the Pernambucanas Faces contest on a national stage and signing a contract with Ford Models. At the age of sixteen, she went to live in Japan, hired by a local agency. At the age of eighteen, she moved to New York, continuing her modeling career, where she participated in international campaigns, such as the one for the Armani Exchange brand. Camila lived in the US for three years, until she was 21, when she was called to audition for Rede Globo to play a model in Walcyr Carrasco's soap opera, Verdades Secretas, where she plays Arlete, a naive young woman who dreams of being a model. of success, but ends up working in the world of luxury prostitution. Camila had never done any work as an actress, but she received praise from the director for her performance as the protagonist of the soap opera.
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Fábio Júnior

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Fábio Jr. began performing in São Paulo as a child on TV (Bandeirantes) and radio shows. In 1971, he adopted the stage name Uncle Jack and later Mark Davis, under which he recorded several singles sung in English, having success with "Don't Let Me Try" and "I Want to Be Free Again." In the late '70s, he adopted the stage name Fábio Jr. and became a popular leading man in soap operas, also adopting a mellifluous singing style and a repertory of romantic pop songs. His first LP, Fábio Júnior, came in 1976. He worked in the cinema (his most important assignment being Bye Bye Brasil, Cacá Diegues) and he also recorded in Spanish and hosted his own show at TV Record beginning in 1990. Among his many hits as an author/interpreter, "Vinte e Poucos Anos," "O Que é Que Há?" (with Sérgio Sá), and "Pai" are among the most successful. Since 1976, with a few exceptions, he has been recording an album per year.
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Sabrina Sato

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Brazilian presenter, actress, model, businesswoman and former dancer.[2][3][4]It is one of the great highlights of carnival in the country. She became known for integrating for a decade the program Pânico na TV, both the radio version on Jovem Pan FM and on television, initially on RedeTV! and then he went to Panic in the Band, from Band. In 2013 she was hired by Record, where she presented from 2014 to 2019 a nightly auditorium program that beare her name, the weekly Sabrina Program. As of March 8, 2020, Sabrina began to lead the Domingo Show attraction.[5]The program ended in the same year on March 19, 2020. On March 21, 2023, Sabrina made public the end of the relationship with Duda Nagle after 7 years of marriage, with a request for shared custody of Zoe (4 years). Sabrina deals with theattention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and talks about the subject openly.[
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Keltoum (Aïcha Adjouri)

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Keltoum, whose real name is Aïcha Adjouri, is an Algerian actress, born February 4, 1916 in Blida, and died November 11, 2010 in Algiers. Figure and dean of Algerian theater and cinema, Keltoum crosses paths with Mahieddine Bachtarzi who recruits her for a small role as a dancer in an operetta. In 1937, she co-starred with Rachid Ksentini in Marriage by Telephone and appeared in most of the shows on the famous "Mahieddine tours" in Algeria, North Africa and Europe. It also happened that the rigors of the colonial law of the time came to sanction the actress. In its edition of March 21, 1950, the daily newspaper Algiers Republican reports a fine of 50,000 francs imposed on Mahieddine by the municipality, the layoff for a month of the actress Keltoum and the ban on performing on the stage. of the Opera made to the Tunisian singer Ali Riahi, on the grounds that the piece El-Ouadjib and the songs during the performance included passages deemed "seditious". (Memoirs of M. Bachetarzi) Member of the Arab troupe of the Opera of Algiers when it was created in 1947 under the direction of Bachtarzi, alongside many stars including Mohammed Touri, Djelloul Bachdjerrah, Réda Falaki and Mustapha Kateb, she interrupted her activities in 1956 with the independance War. She is back on stage with the creation, in 1963, of the National Theater in the company of Mustapha Kateb, Mohamed Boudia, Abderrahmane Kaki, Allel el-Mouhib and Abdelkader Alloula. Until the turn of 1990, she will have played in several dozen plays. After Mort d'un commercial voyageur by Arthur Miller by Fouzia Aït El-Hadj (1987), followed by La Maison de Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca, staged by Allel el-Mouhib, his last appearance dates back to 1991 , with the cover of El Bouaboune (Les Concierges) by Rouiched. At the cinema, she appeared in La Septième Porte by French filmmaker André Swobada with, in the main roles of Leila and Ali, on the one hand, Maria Casarès and Georges Marchal for the French version and, on the other hand, Keltoum and Bechir Gabsi for the Arabic version. She will shine especially in a magnificent silent and stripped interpretation of mother courage in the Vent des Aurès by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina in 1966. Asked about his meeting with the actress, Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina confided that it was on the recommendation of André Swobada whom he met and chose Keltoum for the Vent des Aurès. She will play again in Hassan Terro (1968), December (1972) and Chronicle of the Brazen Years (1974) by the same director, then in Les Déracinés (Beni Hendel) by Lamine Merbah (1976), Le Vent du sud (Rih el- djanoub, 1975) and Hassan Taxi (1982) by Mohamed Slim Riad, The Roaring Years of the Twist by Mahmoud Zemmouri (1986) or even Hassan Niya by Ghaouti Bendedouche (1989). A figure of theater and cinema in Algeria, Keltoum was given a tribute in March 2010 at the initiative of the association of filmmakers Lumières. Ill, she could not be present at the ceremony. Keltoum was buried in the cemetery of El Alia.
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Hélcio Henriques

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Hélcio Henriques was born 7/27/1963 in Fernandópolis, São Paulo state , Brazil. started his acting carrier in the amateur theater in 1979, right after that he majored in drama/acting in 1980 by Carlos Gomes Conservatory. Since then he has taken roles in more than 30 theater plays, 43 films (full length and short films, among them). On Brazil TV, he has taken roles in soap operas in SBT and TV Record channels and has also been seen on TV series at Multishow and HBO channels. Participation in TV commercials.
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