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Tarmo Männard

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Tarmo Männard (born January 11, 1968) is an Estonian actor. Männard went to a kindergarten named after Valentina Tereshkova in Tallinn. He studied 1974-1977 at the 39th Secondary School in Tallinn, 1977-1982, 1982-1985 at the Keila-Joa Sanatorium Forest School and 1985-1987 at the 9th Secondary School in Tallinn. He studied acting at the Tallinn Pioneers and Koolinoorte Palace Theater Circle (Pioneeride Theater, directed by Maret Oomer) and at the Estonian Music Academy's Higher Performing Arts School (1990-1994, tutor Ingo Normet). He has worked as a window washer at TK Ekspress, as a recording equipment mechanic at Tallinnfilm, as a waiter at the Soviet Army Pigalle, as an actor at the Tallinn City Theater in 1994-2001. From 2002 to 2018, he was an actor at NUKU Theatre. Since then, he has been a freelancer and works mainly in Nipi Mängumaa, which he created himself.[1] As an actor, he has participated, for example, in the Kellerteatr production "School of Horrors". In 1995, he ran for the VIII Riigikogu on the list of the Four Forces of the electoral alliance formed by the Estonian Greens and the Estonian Royalist Party, collecting 104 votes, but was not elected. His hobbies are hiking, mountaineering, sailing and diving.
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Maria J. Cruz

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Maria J. Cruz is a born and raised Vancouver, BC actor. She booked her first professional theatre gig while attending her final year of the University of British Columbia's Theatre program. As "Tina", in 'Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding', Vancouver's longest running stage play, she was married hundreds of times to over a half a dozen different "Tony's" and has gone onto play the independent stages of Vancouver and Toronto, including the iconic Second City. She lives best in acerbic comedic roles and the Classics - having had several favourable reviews in Restoration plays. Taking some time off shortly after the new millennium to obtain her Masters degree in Museum studies, she returned to her first love of acting over 6 years ago and plans to "stay on the bus". She has had not one, but two recurring roles as a nanny - on 1999's NBC remake 'Cold Feet' and on the upcoming 'Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce', Bravo TV's first even scripted series. This year Maria had the opportunity to perform her one-woman stage play (in her native Portuguese and English) in the middle of the Atlantic at the 'Azores International Fringe Festival'. She is looking forward to taking on the role of creator, producer and actor in SMAK!Productions independent Feature Film, 'The Parties'. - IMDb Mini Biography
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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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Grigori Gorin

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Настоящая фамилия — Офштейн. Сценарист, драматург, писатель, юморист, актёр, телеведущий. Заслуженный деятель искусств РФ (1996). В 1963 году окончил Первый медицинский институт. Несколько лет работал врачом на станции «скорой помощи». Автор проблемных иронично-философских пьес (чаще — комедий) «Свадьба на всю Европу» (1966, совместно с Аркадием Аркановым), «...забыть Герострата!» (постановка 1972), «Феномены» (1979), «Дом, который построил Свифт» (1983), «... чума на оба ваши дома» (постановка 1998, театр В.В. Маяковского). В кино и театре работал в творческом содружестве с режиссёром Марком Захаровым (Театр Ленком). Автор 15 пьес, 10 сценариев и 10 книг. Один из основателей ежегодной Премии российских деловых кругов «Кумир». Григорий Горин умер у себя дома от сердечного приступа в ночь на 15 июня 2000 года. Похоронен 19 июня на Ваганьковском кладбище, участок № 24.
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Jon Blake

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An Australian actor who was primarily active in the 1980s. He appeared in several TV shows and films, including a leading role in Scott Hicks's Freedom (1982), before a car accident in 1986 left him severely disabled. On 1 December 1986, Blake was badly injured in a car accident while driving home after the last day of filming The Lighthorsemen in the South Australian desert. An oncoming car appeared in his path and he swerved to avoid it, crashing into a car which was parked on the side of the road. Blake was not expected to survive the accident. His only external injuries were a slight graze on his cheekbone and a cut to his temple, but he sustained permanent brain damage in the accident and was left paralysed and unable to speak. Blake died on 30 May 2011, aged 52, from complications from pneumonia.
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Carole Fredericks

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Carole Denise Fredericks (June 5, 1952 – June 7, 2001) was an American singer best known for her work in French music. She was the younger sister of Taj Mahal. Between 1990 and 1996 she was in the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones alongside singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman and Welsh–French guitarist Michael Jones. Carole Denise Fredericks was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on June 5, 1952, the youngest of Mildred and Harry Fredericks' five children. She and her siblings were raised in Springfield and were educated in the public school system. Her mother who was originally from Bennettsville, South Carolina, sang with Big Bands and on Sundays was the lead singer for a local gospel choir. Her father, the son of immigrants from the island of Saint Kitts, was a pianist and wrote arrangements for jazz trios. Growing up in her household, Fredericks was exposed to music from around the world. Her parents encouraged creative expression in all their children. Fredericks' brothers and sister developed careers in art, music, dance and theatre. Her eldest brother is Grammy-winning blues musician, Taj Mahal. Her parents, who came of age during the Harlem Renaissance, instilled in their children a sense of pride in their West Indian and African ancestry through their stories. Fredericks never got to know her father. When she was two years old, he was killed in a construction accident, crushed by a tractor when it flipped over. Although her mother would remarry later, the loss of her father left Fredericks with grief that remained with her the rest of her life. By the time she was 20, Fredericks was living in Oakland, California. A year after her graduation from Classical High School, she persuaded Taj Mahal to send for her. Upon her arrival in San Francisco, He put Fredericks to work as a background vocalist on a number of his albums – Mo' Roots; Music Fuh Ya'; Together; and Evolution. To supplement the income from session work, Carole was employed as a receptionist for the Pacific Personnel Services. She was one of 71 voices in the New Generation Singers Gospel Choir (Oakland, California) and performed with Odetta in the stage play Look What A Wonder. Fredericks organized a trio – piano, bass and voice – and booked singing engagements on the weekends. In an interview from OH LA! Magazine she said: "I was part of a choir for three years and I was doing backup work. It was not enough to sustain a comfortable lifestyle and I started to get sick and tired of this life. I refused to get by on my brother's name. During this period, I was working in San Francisco at a French restaurant, La Belle Helene. Some of the patrons would often suggest that I go to France. They said I would do very well there. They were very convincing and without knowing a bit of French, I left it all. I bought a one-way ticket and I was off to Paris. Everyone thought I was crazy." Fredericks arrived in France to pursue a singing career in January 1979. Fredericks met the owner of La Belle Helene at the airport. "He called his friends and I found myself working almost immediately. I started to sing everywhere. It was barely three weeks after my arrival that I was signed with Carla Music to record a disco album entitled Black Orchid." ... Source: Article "Carole Fredericks" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Will Lenney

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William Jonathan Lenney (born 11 March 1996), better known as WillNE, is an English YouTuber and internet personality based in Newcastle who has obtained over 4 Million subscribers. Lenney's content is noted for both his videos focusing around internet culture and his practical jokes, such as getting a variety of YouTubers to collaboratively sing the song "All Star" without their knowledge, and fooling several media organisations into thinking he was a contestant on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Lenny sometimes reacts to videos on his other channel with his friend George . Lenney's style of content was described by Vice Media in 2018 as designed for "teenagers hyper-literate on internet culture."
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Elba Ramalho

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Elba Ramalho (born August 17, 1951, in Conceição, Paraíba) is a Brazilian songwriter, performer, poet and actress. She is sometimes called "The Queen of Forró". In addition to her successful solo career, Elba has collaborated with a number of well-established Brazilian acts, including Alceu Valença and her first cousin Zé Ramalho. In 2019, her album O Ouro do Pó da Estrada was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Portuguese Language Roots Album. On 2021, she received another nomination for the same category, this time for the album Eu e Vocês. Source: Article "Elba Ramalho" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Menahem Golan

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Menahem Golan (born 31 October, 1929 - died 8 August, 2014) was an Israeli director and producer. He has produced movies for such stars as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and was known for a period as a producer of comic book-style movies like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America, and his aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen. Using the pen name of Joseph Goldman, Golan also wrote and "polished" film scripts. He was co-owner of Golan-Globus with his cousin Yoram Globus. Description above from the Wikipedia article Menahem Golan licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Bobby Beshro

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Bobby Beshro est diplômé du Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec. Depuis sa sortie en 1992, il travaille sans cesse en enchaînant plusieurs rôles au théâtre, au cinéma et à la télévision. Il a joué dans certaines des plus importantes séries de télévision québécoises dont, Les jeunes loups, Trauma,Toute la vérité, Les Boys, Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin et Le Négociateur, dans l’émission jeunesse Une grenade avec ça, Au nom de la loi, Un gars, une fille, 4 et demi, Tribu.com, Omerta et Caméra Café. Au cinéma, il a travaillé dans plusieurs productions prestigieuses sous la direction des plus grands réalisateurs de sa génération. On a pu le voir dansRoute 132 de Louis Bélanger, Babine et L’Audition de Luc Picard, Nez rouged’Éric Canuel, Nuit de noces d’Émile Gaudreault, 15 février 1839 de Pierre Falardeau, Le polygraphe et Le confessionnal de Robert Lepage ainsi que dans Maelström de Denis Villeneuve et Pee Wee d’Éric Tessier. Plus récemment, nous avons pu le voir dans 1987 de Ricardo Trogi, La maison du pêcheur d’Alain Chartrand et nous le retrouverons dans Paul à Québec de François Bouvier. Au théâtre, il a joué dans MacBeth sous la direction de Fernand Rainville au TNM, Lorenzaccio sous la direction de Claude Poissant pour La nouvelle compagnie théâtrale, Une grossière indécence au Théâtre du Rideau Vert, mise en scène de René-Richard Cyr, Songe d’une nuit d’été de Robert Lepage et plusieurs autres productions mises en scène par Gill Champagne à La Bordée et au Théâtre du Périscope à Québec. Plus récemment, on l’a vu dansMinuit Chrétien mise en scène de René- Richard Cyr au Théâtre Jean Duceppe et La cousine Germaine au Théâtre l’Assomption. Étant un acteur des plus versatiles, il a eu l’occasion de camper des personnages complexes autant dans des comédies que dans des drames. Dans ses temps libres, Bobby Beshro est un passionné de la nature et grand amateur de plein air de chasse et de pêche.
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