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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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Koen Kessels
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Koen Kessels, Music Director, studied at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire of Music, Antwerp. He made his debut with the Royal Ballet of Flanders with Cinderella and has been a regular guest conductor for Opéra National de Paris (Le Parc, Coppélia, Proust, Cinderella, Hurlevent, Hommage à Jerôme Robbins, Giselle, La Petite Danseuse de Degas) since 2005 and with The Royal Ballet (Nutcracker, Giselle) since 2008. This season he makes his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper and the Bolshoi and is back with the Brussels Opéra de Munt (Hanjo) and Antwerp Opera (L'Amour de loin). He made his opera debut with Rouen Opera, France, conducting Il barbiere di Siviglia. His standard repertory contains the main Verdi, Mozart and Puccini operas, although there is a definite accent on contemporary opera. He founded and is Artistic Director of HERMES ensemble, specialising in contemporary music. He is Music Director of Zomeropera Alden Biesen, Belgium and on the artistic direction team at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. He joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in September 2010.
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Eduard Stürmer
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Eduard Stürmer wurde 1987 in Tschkalowo, Kasachstan (damals Sowjetunion), geboren. 1992 Übersiedlung nach Deutschland. Von 2007 bis 2015 studierte er Medienkunst mit dem Schwerpunkt Dokumentarfilm, Kommunikationsdesign und Kunstwissenschaft und Medientheorie an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Während des Studiums war er studentische Hilfskraft von Dokumentarfilmregisseur und Professor Thomas Heise. Bundeskunstpreis 2013 für ORTUNG (Dokumentarfilm & Installation) beim 21. Kunstwettbewerb des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung. Seit 2013 arbeitet er als freier Autor, Regisseur, sowie als Kameramann und Editor.
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Zar
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Born in Moscow, Zar had a rough childhood filled with instability and hardship. Zar's parents, Nikoli and Natasha, were supporters of the Stalin regime in place in the Soviet Union in 1954. However, after Stalin put Nikoli's brother, Piotr, to death, Zar's parents became unhappy with the leader of the USSR. Nikoli and Natasha attempted to start a revolution, and gathered a group of highly specialized farm workers to help them covertly infiltrate the Kremlin. Nikoli entered Stalin's chamber and nearly killed him, until Natasha revealed she had been a spy working for Stalin the entire time she had been married to Nikoli. She killed Nikoli and next went to comfort her son, Zar. Natasha spun a lie to young Zar that his father had been killed by a drunken solider, and they continued to live a fairly happy lifestyle. However, around 1975, Zar discovered that his mother had in fact been the one to murder Nikoli. In anger, Zar killed his mother and fled the country. For many years, Zar had trained hard to become the greatest triathlete in Moscow. He used these skills to swim across the Pacific Ocean to The United States, hoping to begin life anew. He arrived in San Francisco on October 24, 1975. There he was picked up by the CIA and forced to become a covert double agent amongst the Soviet spy rings in the United States. Zar successfully apprehended fourteen different Russian spies for the US Government. After his retirement from CIA work, Zar became a carefree man-of-the-land. He lived in People's Park, in Berkeley, California for three years, experimenting with multiple different substances and sitting in on classes on Molecular Cell Biology and Astrophysics. Zar slowly worked his way south, throughout California before arriving in Fresno, a large farming city in the San Joaquin Valley. It was in Fresno that Zar truly began to feel at home. He became friends with the fitness guru, Rock, and eventually they had an incredible idea. Zar and Rock, along with friends Dorral Silverthorn, Big Zaddy, and John (One of the 30th Street Boys of Newport Beach) created an immortal workout video for those who do not have access to weights. It was in this video that Zar demonstrated his physical perfection, his massive vertical jump, and once again showed why he is one of the greatest triathletes of the all time. Curently, Zar can still be found relaxing in his pool after a long workout.
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Leana Wen
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Leana Sheryle Wen (born Wen Linyan; January 27, 1983) is an American physician, author, professor, speaker, consultant, newspaper columnist and television commentator. She is former health commissioner for the city of Baltimore and former president of Planned Parenthood. She has written two books based on her experiences as a medical professional.
Wen has served as a public health communicator during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 mpox outbreak, appearing frequently on CNN as an on-air medical analyst.
Wen was asked to testify four times to Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic, including twice to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
Currently, Wen serves as a public health professor at George Washington University and is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is also a columnist for The Washington Post and a medical analyst for CNN
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Loco Dice
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Loco Dice (born Yassine Ben Achour on 10 August 1974) is a German DJ and electronic music producer born and based in Düsseldorf. His family is from Tunisia, Loco Dice started his career as Hip-Hop DJ and rapper, playing support slots to performers like Usher, Ice Cube, Jamiroquai, Snoop Dogg and R. Kelly.[1] He has released records on labels such as Ovum, M-nus, Cadenza, Cocoon and Four Twenty.[1] He also compiled and mixed "Time Warp 07", a double CD featuring various minimal tracks. Loco Dice also collaborated with the cosmetics brand uslu airlines with whom he co-created a nail polish coming with a special music mix.
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Ela Velden
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In 2013, Velden debuted as an actress in the Mexican television series, Gossip Girl: Acapulco. Originally, she was cast as "Jenny Parra" and filmed a promotional trailer for the show, but when the role was recast, she later appeared in a recurring role as "Gaby". The show was filmed on location in Acapulco, Mexico from January to May 2013. It premiered exclusively on the subscription channel, Golden Premier, in Mexico on August 5, 2013. The show was canceled after one season. Following the conclusion ofGossip Girl: Acapulco, she filmed an appearance on the teen-oriented telenovela, Niñas Mal 2 for MTV Latin America. She also participated in several episodes of the Mexican television drama series, Como dice el dicho, in the spring and summer of 2014. In May 2014, Velden auditioned to play the younger sister of the main character in producer Pedro Damián's latest telenovela, Muchacha italiana viene a casarse, in Mexico City. The telenovela is based on the popular 1971 Mexican telenovela of the same name. In July of that same year, she was announced as one of the actors in the final considerations for a role in the telenovela.In August, Velden's participation in Muchacha italiana viene a casarse was officially confirmed. This is her debut role in a telenovela. Filming began on August 25, 2014 where she and some of the cast traveled to Maratea, Italy and filmed scenes and promotional material for two weeks. After returning from Italy, filming resumed in Mexico City. Velden learned Italian in preparation for her role. The telenovela airs weekdays on Canal de las Estrellas, following its premiere on October 20, 2014.
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Sun Yi Hang
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Huang Yu Hang, known by his stage name Sun Yi Hang, is a Chinese singer, dancer, and actor represented by Original Plan Entertainment. He was born in Chongqing, China. His career started after he joining Times Fengjun Entertainment in 2012. He was part of the TF family and a member of the group Tai Feng Si Zi (Typhoon Four) and Tai Feng Shi Er Zi (Typhoon Twelve). He eventually left the company in 2017 and joined Original Plan Entertainment.
He debuted as a member of Yi'An Music Club on March 30, 2017.
He was a contestant on Youth With You Season 3 and is now a member of the group IX FORM.
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Klaus Dahlen
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Born in Berlin, he was a trained carpenter and commercial artist. The entertainer Harald Juhnke was one of the sponsors of the curly headed entertainer. In 1959 Dahlen made his cinema debut in Kurt Meisel's comedy "Love forbidden - marriage allowed". In 1964, Dahlen's career began in television. The actor, also known in Switzerland and Austria, has appeared in more than 35 feature films. He stood in front of the camera with Loni von Friedl, Elke Sommer, Claus Biederstaedt, Rolf Becker and Willy Millowitsch, among others. Dahlen became known to a wide audience in 1978 in Michael Pfleghar's series "Klimbim". Together with Ingrid Steeger and Iris Berben, Dahlen also played in the series "Two Heavenly Daughters". In "A heart and a soul" he took over the role of the son-in-law of "Ekel Alfred" after Diether Krebs left. He also took part in television series such as “The Commissioner”, “The Men from K3”, “Coast Guard” or “Tatort”.
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Art Hindle
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Arthur Hindle (born July 21, 1948) is a Canadian actor and director.
Hindle was born in Halifax. His family moved to Toronto while he was a child. Although shy as a youngster, he grew to be a rebellious and independent teenager. This led him to travel, mostly via hitchhiking, while picking up odd jobs and meeting people from varied walks of life.
By the time he was 21, he was a father, a stockbroker and an amateur photographer. Although fairly successful as a broker, he was unfulfilled and eventually, after being inspired and touched by a Toronto Workshop Productions play, he made the commitment to leave the stock market for the theatre. He worked for a few months with TWP and got an acting agent, which led to started auditioning for commercials.
It was at this time that Hindle credits a discovery that changed his future. He was directed to the Eli Rill workshop. Eli Rill had moved to Toronto from New York, where he taught at the Actor’s Studio. At this workshop, Hindle studied Method. He thrived in this environment and soon started applying his knowledge to getting acting jobs. Further inspiration for becoming an actor was his uncle, Michael Kane, with whom Art finally had the opportunity to work in the film "The Gunfighters".
He has made guest appearances in a long list of television programs in North America, and has also appeared in several movies, dating from 1971. His first major role was in a biker movie, "The Proud Rider", spawned by the popularity of Easy Rider. Hindle worked with a real motorcycle gang, Satan’s Choice. It was during the making of this rather bad movie that Art almost changed his professional name to Jeremy Kane. The producers thought that Hindle should have a more showbiz-sounding name. He chose Jeremy Kane (Kane in honor of his uncle), and even though he reverted to his birth name due to urging from his uncle, his "Jeremy Kane" pseudonym is still connected to the film.
The next big step was being cast as Billy Duke, the best hockey player in the world, drafted by the Maple Leafs to lead them back to the playoffs in the film "Face-Off", Canada’s first million-dollar movie. This film led to offers from Hollywood which he resisted until work dried up and Hindle - who had four children by this time - finally moved to Los Angeles.
Over the years, Art has come to be known as a “working actor” involved as a leading actor in some classic films and numerous pilots and series. His work in E.N.G., one of Canada’s most successful series, won him a Gemini. From the early 1990s, Art has also worked as a director.
Hindle is married and divides his time between California and Canada. He currently stars in and directs the popular series Paradise Falls showing on cable stations in the USA and on the Showcase channel in Canada.
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