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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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Juliet Ladines

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Juliet Ladines was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. At the tender age of 2, her father moved the family to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The first role she landed was in 1998 as a MuchMusic/MTV style reporter in the award winning indie film, "Instant Dread" which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and aired on CBC and the W Network. That same year, Bravo aired "I Chair" where she played the love interest of an artist who creates a chair in the shape of the Chinese character, "Wong". Soon after, Juliet was appearing in commercials such as Mike's Hard Lemonade and Coffee Time. In 1999, her love for dancing opened up opportunities for Juliet as a professional dancer which was captured in the Toronto Sun. Like many actors, Juliet found herself easily transitioning into modeling. In 2000, she appeared as a model in newspapers and magazines such as Performance Auto and Sound, Turbo Magazine and again in the Toronto Sun. In 2001, she did modeling work for Peace! Magazine. All the while, Juliet decided to follow her mother's wishes to get a university degree. During her studies, she took periodic breaks from the industry but found herself back in local newspapers in 2003, this time as a director. Juliet received her Bachelor of Arts degree and directed her first production, an award winning music video called, "Ghost Town" which was featured in the ReelWorld Film Festival. A short stint working in management at a Fortune 500 company forced another break in Juliet's acting career. However, she continued modeling and in 2004 was the feature model in Modified Magazine. She can be seen in print ads for LG and Optiq. In 2006, Juliet returned to her love of acting and starred as the lead female character in a live-action show, "Paramount's Hollywood Stunt Spectacular" where she was able to showcase her theatrical and martial arts skills. After this show she found herself largely involved in the indie circuit appearing in a number of indie films. In 2007, she landed the role of Christine in the award winning indie film, "Binding Borders" which was screened at the Cabbagetown Film Festival, the Austin Asian Film Festival, the Golden Lion Film Festival and the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. "Binding Borders" was a finalist in CBC's Digital Diversity contest. Juliet made the move to Los Angeles in 2008 when the short film, Dirty Sexy Murder, which she produced and played a leading role, was accepted into the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival taking place in LA. The film won Best Short Film in the Comedy category. During the following years, she was cast as a host on 3 web series, became heavily involved in the theatre community, and continues to work in TV & Film. In 2013, Juliet married Recording & Mix Engineer, Laurence Schwarz.
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Marta Laan

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Marta Laan (born May 20, 1985) is an Estonian stage, television, and film actress whose career began in the late 2000s. Marta Laan was born and raised in Tallinn, where she attended primary and secondary schools. In 2006, she enrolled in the performing arts department of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre to study acting under course supervisor Hendrik Toompere Jr., graduating in 2010. Among her graduating classmates were: Mikk Jürjens, Liis Haab, Lauri Kaldoja, Liisa Pulk, Roland Laos, Hendrik Toompere Jr. Jr., Sandra Uusberg-Üksküla, and Kristjan Üksküla. Marta Laan's most significant feature film role to date was a small role in the 2008 René Vilbre-directed crime-drama Mina olin siin, based on the 2005 novel Mina olin siin. Esimene arest by Estonian author Sass Henno. She has also appeared in several short films and student films. Laan's first significant television role was as the character Johanna in a 2007 episode of the Eesti Televisioon (ETV) crime series Ohtlik lend. In 2009, she joined the ensemble cast of the popular the TV3 drama series Kodu keset linna as Betti; a role which she played until the series ended in 2012. In 2009, she appeared in a small role as a secretary on the TV3 comedy-crime series Kättemaksukontor, then again in 2013 in two episodes as the character Sandra Viliroo. In 2010, she joined the cast of the ETV comedy series ENSV as the character Anneli. In 2014, she had a recurring role on the series as Laura Lausma for approximately eight episodes. The same year, she made an appearance on the long-running ETV drama series Õnne 13. Also, in 2014, she began a starring role as Anne on the Kanal 2 comedy series Parim enne. In 2015, she appeared as Juuli Lumi in several episodes of the TV3 crime-mystery series Keeris. In 2017, Laan was a contestant on TV3's Su nägu kõlab tuttavalt, the Estonian version of Your Face Sounds Familiar, an interactive reality television franchise series where celebrity contestants impersonate singers. Laan's impersonations included Etta James, Getter Jaani, Lana Del Rey, Florence Foster Jenkins, Verka Serduchka, and Salvador Sobral, among others. Laan ultimately finished in third place behind actress and singer Hele Kõrve and composer and singer Valter Soosalu.
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David van Reybrouck

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David Grégoire Van Reybrouck (born 11 September 1971, in Bruges) is a Belgian cultural historian, archaeologist and author. He writes historical fiction, literary non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays and academic texts. He has received several Dutch literary prizes, including AKO Literature Prize (2010) and Libris History Prize. Van Reybrouck was born into a family of florists, bookbinders and artists. His father, a farmer's son, spent five years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a railway engineer immediately after independence. He holds a doctorate from Leiden University. Van Reybrouck's first book, De Plaag (in English: The Plague), was a cross between a travelogue and a literary whodunnit set in post-apartheid South Africa. It received several awards, including the prize for the best Flemish debut in 2002 and a shortlist nomination for the Gouden Uil, one of the leading literary prizes in the Low Countries. It was translated into Afrikaans, French and Hungarian. A longtime op-ed writer for the Flemish national newspaper De Morgen, Van Reybrouck has co-edited a volume on the federal future of Belgium (What Belgium Stands For: a Scenario, 2007) and a thought-provoking pamphlet, Pleidooi voor populisme (A Plea for Populism, 2008), which was met with controversy. The latter won the Netherlands most distinguished essay prize. His book Congo. Een geschiedenis (in English: Congo: The Epic History of a People) was published in 2010. Over the years, Van Reybrouck has travelled extensively throughout Africa. The book is as much the result of his ten journeys through the Democratic Republic of the Congo as of the months spent in libraries and archives. He has interviewed hundreds of individuals, with a particular predilection for so-called "ordinary people", precisely because their lives and choices are so often extraordinary. The book portrays slavery and colonialism, resistance and survival. It includes archival material, interviews and personal observations. Congo. Een geschiedenis has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Danish and Finnish. Van Reybrouck has also been actively involved in organising literary workshops for Congolese playwrights in Kinshasa and Goma. In 2020 he published Revolusi which applies to Indonesia the method he used in Congo - a combination of interviews with survivors of the events leading up to independence with historical interpretation. In his book Against Elections: The Case for Democracy he advocates for a deliberative democracy based on sortition. Source: Article "David Van Reybrouck" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Isa Miranda

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Isa Miranda (5 July 1909 – 8 July 1982) was an Italian actress with an international film career. She worked as a typist whilst attending the drama academy in Milan and training as a stage actress. She went on to play bit parts in Italian films in Rome. Success came with Max Ophüls' film La Signora di tutti (Everybody's Woman) (1934) in which she played Gaby Doriot, a famous film star and fascinating adventuress with whom men cannot help falling in love. Having brought several of them to their ruin, she slits her wrists. This was perhaps Miranda's finest screen performance and it brought in its wake several film offers and a Hollywood contract with Paramount Pictures. There, billed as the "Italian Marlene Dietrich", she played several femme fatale roles in such films as Hotel Imperial (1939) and Adventure in Diamonds (1940). She returned to Italy soon after the outbreak of World War II and continued to act on the stage and to make films. In 1949, she starred in René Clément's The Walls of Malapaga, which won an Academy Award for the most outstanding foreign language film of 1950, and for Miranda, the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Another success of that period was La Ronde (1950), also directed by Ophüls. Her career took her to France, Germany and England, where she frequently appeared in TV films, including The Avengers. Other notable film appearances include Siamo donne (1953), a portmanteau film where Miranda shares the screen with three other screen legends, Anna Magnani, Alida Valli and Ingrid Bergman, Summertime (1955), Gli Sbandati (1955), La Noia (The Empty Canvas, 1963), The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) and Liliana Cavani's Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter, 1974). Miranda was married to the Italian director and producer Alfredo Guarini until his death in 1981. She died in Rome in 1982. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isa Miranda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Manoj K Jayan

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Manoj Kadampoothramadam Jayan is an Indian actor popularly knows as Manoj K Jayan who predominantly acts in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu films. Manoj has won three Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Actor, respectively for his portrayals of Hariharan's 'Kuttan Thampuran' in Sargam (1992), 'Thalakkal Chandu' in Pazhassi Raja (2009) and 'Kunjiraman' in Farook Abdul Rahiman's Kaliyachan. His most critically acclaimed characters are "Kuttan Thampuran" (Sargam), "Digambaran" (Anandabhadram), "Thalakkal Chandu" (Pazhassi Raja).
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Eythor Gudjonsson

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eyþór Guðjónsson (born February 5, 1968), often anglicized as Eythor Gudjonsson, is an Icelandic actor. He stands 6'3" (1.91 m) tall. He got his first big role in the 2005 horror movie Hostel, where he plays an Icelandic backpacker named Óli, famous for his catchphrase "King of the Swing", traveling through Europe with American backpackers Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson) where they get lured to a Slovakian hostel with a gruesome secret. Eli Roth wrote the role of Óli for Eyþór. He had never acted a single day before "Hostel," but Roth found him so charismatic and charming he created the role to prove to the world that anyone could be a movie star if they had the right charisma. Eyþór proved to be very popular with audiences and critics in America and around the world. Hostel was written and directed by Eli Roth, and produced by Quentin Tarantino. Quentin Tarantino and Eyþór are good friends and Quentin Tarantino has visited Iceland several times, meeting his friend and enjoying the Icelandic culture and atmosphere. Eyþór was an assistant producer on Hostel: Part II. Eyþór opened an activity park in Reykjavik in 2009. Eyþór is also producing and hosting his own television show for families, which launched 18 September 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eyþór Guðjónsson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Katie Douglas

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Kathryn Emily Douglas (born October 19, 1998) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Abby Littman in the Netflix series Ginny & Georgia and as Jackie Sullivan in Pretty Hard Cases. She had her first starring role in Spooksville as Sally Wilcox for 22 episodes. Since then she has had other lead roles in film and tv series such as Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey, The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story, and Level 16. Douglas began her screen acting career at the age of six in F2: Forensic Factor. Douglas later played Sally Wilcox on Discovery Family’s fantasy action TV show Spooksville in 2013, but it only lasted one season. Douglas starred as Young Irisa on the science fiction action TV series Defiance: The Lost Ones which premiered on SyFy in March 2014. At the age of 15, Douglas was nominated for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series at the 41st Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards held in Los Angeles in 2014, for her role as Sally Wilcox in Spooksville. Douglas starred as Naomi Malik from 2017 to 2019 in the Global Network Canadian comedy and drama TV series Mary Kills People, working alongside Caroline Dhavernas. Douglas played a lead role as Vivien on the Danishka Esterhazy directed 2018 science fiction movie Level 16. In 2019, Douglas was the protagonist in the drama film Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey, which recounts the true story of Lisa McVey who was abducted and raped for 26 hours by serial killer Bobby Joe Long in 1984. Douglas received an ACTRA Award nomination for her performance, eventually losing out to Amybeth McNulty. In 2021, she starred as Abby, a friend of Ginny and part of the MANG group (Max, Abby, Norah and Ginny) in the Netflix comedy series Ginny and Georgia, alongside Brianne Howey, Antonia Gentry, Sara Waisglass, and Chelsea Clark (actress). Douglas starred in a main role as 18-year-old Jackie Sullivan in the first two series of the CBC Television female police comedy-drama television series Pretty Hard Cases from 2021 to 2022. In 2022, Douglas stars as Kate Coughlin in the Daniel Adams directed police protection film The Walk in a cast which includes Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard and Malcolm McDowell. In 2023, she was the titular role in the film The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story, which portrays the true story of how a 15 year-old girl survived the trauma of abduction, incarceration and sexual assault for over 18 hours, until an opportunity to escape transpired.
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Eric Appel

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Eric Appel (born August 13, 1980) is a writer/director working in television, film, and commercials. Originally from Endicott, New York, Appel attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, majoring in computer animation. While in college, Appel also began performing improv comedy, after his girlfriend brought him to a "show at the University of Pittsburgh called 'Friday Nite Improvs,' where anyone from the audience could volunteer to go up on stage and perform these improv games." After moving to New York City, Appel started taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and became very involved very quickly. While still in New York, Appel got a job writing for The Andy Milonakis Show, then moved to Los Angeles for that show's third season when its production was relocated to California. He subsequently wrote for Crank Yankers and Human Giant, then went to work for the comedy website Funny or Die. "Funny or Die was such a young company when they hired me... There were about eight of us all sitting around a large dining room table on laptops. Every day a few people would disappear to go shoot some shit and then the next day they would be sitting next to you editing it. Then it would go up on the site and it would either get a million hits or nobody would watch it and it would disappear and then it was on to the next thing. Everyone there worked at their own pace and you were encouraged to just go pick up a camera and make something... I used this as an opportunity to start directing my own sketches and quickly found out that not only do I like directing more than writing, but also that I’m better at it." Appel would go on to extensively direct series television, with credits including Eagleheart, NTSF:SD:SUV, The Office, New Girl, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Son of Zorn, and Die Hart. In 2022, Appel made his feature directorial debut with Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, based on a Funny or Die short that he directed twelve years earlier. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Appel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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David Giancola

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Giancola (born June 24, 1969), is a Vermont based American filmmaker. Born in Rutland, Vermont (where his Edgewood Studios is located) and graduate of Mount St. Joseph's Academy in 1987, he has directed eight films as of October 2006. His low-budget action movies have featured actors such as Steve Railsback, Morgan Fairchild, Sean Astin, Bruce Campbell, Stacy Keach, former WWE professional wrestler Chyna, and Anna Nicole Smith. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Giancola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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