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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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Miyoko Asô

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Miyoko Asō (麻生 美代子 Asō Miyoko, April 7, 1926 – August 25, 2018) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. She is best known for her role as the first voice of Fune Isono from 1969 to 2015 in the longest-running Japanese anime series Sazae-san, which first aired in 1969. She was the voice of Dr. Pinako Rockbell in both Fullmetal Alchemist anime adaptations. Asō also starred as an actress in cinema, in the 2006 movie Aogeba Tōtoshi, directed by Jun Ichikawa. On September 18, 2015, it was announced that Asō would step down from her role in Sazae-san. She was replaced by Yorie Terauchi on October 5, 2015. On September 3, 2018, it was reported that Asō had died on August 25 from senility. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ruben A. Aquino

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Filipino-Japanese American character animator and supervising animator who formerly worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios. His work has included several Disney characters, including Simba as an adult in The Lion King, Chief Powhatan in Pocahontas, Maurice in Beauty and the Beast, Denahi in Brother Bear, Shang in Mulan, and Ursula in The Little Mermaid. In March 2013, it was announced that Aquino had been laid off, as well as 8 other animators who worked at the studio, including Nik Ranieri. His style is easily recognized by his powerful figures and his extremely geometric facial movements. -Wikipedia
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Frank Alamo

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Frank Alamo (born Jean-François Grandin; 12 October 1941 – 11 October 2012) was a French singer. He achieved his greatest success in the 1960s. He was born in Paris. He sang in a leading French children's choir, "Les Petits Chanteurs à la croix de bois", and studied music in London between 1957 and 1960. While skiing at Val-d'Isère in 1962, he met pop music promoter and record company executive Eddie Barclay, who heard him singing popular English and American songs in French. Barclay signed him to his label, and persuaded him to take the stage name Frank Alamo, the surname being in tribute to John Wayne's film The Alamo. Alamo helped popularise the yé-yé style of music in France. His hit records included "Biche ô ma Biche" ("Sweets for My Sweet"), "Je veux prendre ta main" ("I Want to Hold Your Hand"), and "Je me bats pour gagner" ("A Hard Day's Night"). In all, he released 30 singles over a five-year period in the early and mid-1960s, including some original songs. He retired from the music business when he married in 1969, becoming a photographer and later a manager in the automobile industry. In 1983, he was chasing a beautiful blonde girl who was driving a funny car, she brought him to a factory and there Frank Alamo bought not a single car but the whole plant: the Dallas jeep company. He sold it in 1996 in order to give further singing performances. However he never recovered success. He was married twice. He died in Paris in 2012, on the eve of his 71st birthday, after having been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Source: Article "Frank Alamo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Autumn Federici

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Originally born in Pittsburgh, Autumn spent her earliest years on a farm in West Virginia, but at the tender age of 5 was whisked off to California by her Mother.  No sooner than arriving, Autumn’s involvement in the arts began.  Modeling, ballet, tap, jazz, modern dance and gymnastics filled her evenings after school and her love of equestrian riding took over on the weekends.  At 16 years old she choreographed her first lyrical routine with the team winning first place.  Her dynamic dance technique and choreography won her a place on several companies and afforded her the ability to travel extensively throughout the US, Europe and Asia.  Autumn’s prominent features landed her several national print campaigns and magazine covers only to discover that her success in modeling was just the beginning.  At 18 years of age, after booking several regional and national commercials, the acting bug bit her. Since then she has dedicated herself to the art, studying with Richard Brander, Harvery Lembeck Comedy Workshop, Divisek, and most recently with Shanelle and David Gray at Gray Studios. Autumn has appeared in projects with Kellan Lutz, Peter Weller, Joe Anderson, Brock Cuchna, Jane Seymour, and Billy Zane. Last year Autumn was involved in projects that were screened at Queen's Int'l Film Festival, Bev Hills Hi-Def Festival, Mammoth Film Festival, Sacramento Film Festival, and Honest Thieves Film Festival. The year started out in the UK filming the feature film "Flutter" in which she plays "Nancy", Billy Zane's Wife who is a Dental Nurse. The next project took her to New Orleans for Dermot Mulroney's Directorial debut in "Love, Wedding, Marriage". Autumn's short film "Ugly" was nominated Best Short at the Burbank International Film Festival. Biography from Autumn Federici official webpage www.autumnfederici.com
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Bill Hicks

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William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian and satirist. His humor challenged mainstream beliefs, aiming to "enlighten people to think for themselves." Hicks used a ribald approach to express his material, describing himself as "Chomsky with dick jokes." His jokes included general discussions about society, religion, politics, philosophy and personal issues. Hicks' material was often deliberately controversial and steeped in dark comedy. In both his stand-up performances, and during interviews, he often criticized consumerism, superficiality, mediocrity and banality within the media and popular culture, describing them as oppressive tools of the ruling class, meant to "keep people stupid and apathetic." Hicks died of pancreatic cancer, which had spread to his liver, in 1994 at the age of 32. In the years after his death, his work and legacy achieved significant admiration and acclaim, of numerous comedians, writers, actors and musicians alike. He was listed as the 19th greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central in 2004, and 6th greatest in 2007 and 4th greatest by Channel 4 in 2010.
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Kanon Fukuda

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福田花音 (Fukuda Kanon) is a Japanese lyricist and pop idol. She is best known as a former original member of the Hello! Project group ANGERME (formerly S/mileage). After initially joining Hello! Project in 2004 as a member of Hello Pro Egg, Fukuda also participated in the groups Shugo Chara Egg!, Shin Minimoni, and HI-FIN. She graduated from ANGERME and Hello! Project in 2015 to become a lyricist. She later left UP-FRONT PROMOTION in 2020, and joined the idol group METAMUSE (then known as ZOC) as a new member under the stage name Kannagi Maro (巫まろ), and the sub-unit zoc in 2021.
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Jorge Vargas

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Jorge Vargas (Aguascalientes, June 25, 1941 - Mexico City, November 2, 2009) was a Mexican actor. Jorge Vargas was a great actor and Mexican singer, a man with an unparalleled personality, who was often in the eye of the hurricane, when it comes to his personal life. His career began in 1966 in the telenovela "Más fuerte que tu amor", followed by "La sonrisa del diablo", Jorge worked in great productions of success like the telenovelas "Corazón salvaje" in his second version of 1977, Maria Isabel in 1997 having a prominent role in the plot, Mi destino eres tú in 2000 and Amor real 2003. These were just some of the various telenovelas of his career, his last one was Destilando amor, alongside the actors Angélica Rivera and Eduardo Yáñez. He also made history in the seventh art, acting in the films "Por un cuñado de tierra", "Tequila y mezcal", "Tres fronteras", "Matar a morir", "El secuestro del pollo", among other Mexican films. Jorge was an artist in every sense of the word. He also participated in the theater, all the pieces that he acted were in poster for long seasons in the Mexican theaters, and in the United States. Certainly one of his major influences was his uncle the great producer of Mexican telenovelas Ernesto Alonso, who was popularly known as "The Lord Soap Opera". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dariush Mehrjui

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Dariush Mehrjui (December 8, 1939 - October 14, 2023) also spelled as Mehrjui Mehrjoui, and Mehrjuyi, was an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor. Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s. His second film, The Cow, is considered to be the first film of this movement, which also included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays. On October 14, 2023, Mehrjui and his wife were found murdered in their home in the city of Karaj, near Tehran.
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Sandra Nori

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Sandra Nori is a Mexican and American actress. After attending at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) Drama School, Sandra Nori began her career in Mexico City during the late 1980's appearing in multiple films and starring in more than 50 commercials. In 2000 Nori moved to Hollywood and attended The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, which in turn lead to a position at Lieberman Broadcasting local station Canal 62 Los Angeles morning news magazine 'Los Angeles al Dia'. Sandra Nori returned to Mexico briefly to fulfill a variety of film and commercial projects for the Hispanic market in the US. In 2006 Nori relocated to San Antonio Texas, where she married and established her permanent residence. Since then Nori has been building a steady resume in the promising Texas Film industry. She is known for her work on Gino's Wife (2015), Gang Money Run (2014) and Dani the Ranch Hand (2012).
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