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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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Funlola Aofiyebi

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Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi(FAR) is a professional actor born in Lagos, Nigeria in the mid 70s. The year 1996 paved way for her first paid role although she had been bit by the acting bug from as early as 8 years old whilst participating in school plays after watching her aunt and veteran actress, Teni Aofiyebi on TV. FAR lived and schooled in both Nigeria and the U.K. and is a trained actress. She holds a Certificate in Drama and Theater Arts from WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, LONDON, ENGLAND(1992). To further sharpen her skills and steer her career in a specific direction, she took an Intensive Acting Course for TV and Film in 2010 at the prestigious PINEWOOD STUDIOS, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UK. Her longest running appearance on TV, is on the Mnet (Pan African Network) daily soap - Tinsel, where she has for 10 seasons played the Fierce and Memorable VILLAIN, Brenda Mensah ( nominated at the 2010 Nigerian Entertainment Awards, New York (NEA) for Best Actress in a TV Show
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Anas Khalaf

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Anas Khalaf is a Syrian filmmaker who currently lives in Jordan, having left Damascus with his family as a result of the Syrian conflict. He holds an MBA from the Normandy Business School, and with his wife Rana Kazkaz, he co-founded the production company Synéastes Films in 2010. He is the screenwriter and director of three short films, including 'Mare Nostrum' (2016), which has been selected for more than 30 festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Dubai International Film Festival, and has won nine international prizes. He also works as an actor, having played roles in 'Dégradé' (2015), 'With Premeditation' (2014) and the television series 'The Bureau' (2015-).
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Cole Doman

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Cole Doman is a trained stage and film actor living in Brooklyn, NY. During his time in Chicago, he worked with Drury Lane Oakbrook, Chicago Shakespeare, Chicago Dramatists, and studied at the School at Steppenwolf under Amy Morton, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Michael Patrick Thornton, and more. Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune named Cole among the "Hot New Faces of Chicago Theater" in 2016. He made his film debut as the titular role in the critically acclaimed Henry Gamble's Birthday Party directed by Stephen Cone. He has profiles with IndieWire, OUT, Milk.xyz, and was featured as one of "Best Breakout Performances of 2016" by The Film Stage. This year he has guest starred on NBC's Chicago P.D. and HBO Max's Equal from executive producers Jim Parsons & Greg Berlanti. Most recently, he can be seen in Uncle Frank (Sundance 2020) as young Frank Bledsoe played by Paul Bettany from writer/director Alan Ball now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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Eric Bruskotter

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Big, brawny, blond-haired Eric Bruskotter owns an equally sizable and extensive acting career that transcends well over 20 years. Bruskotter, who was born on March 22, 1966 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, originally appeared most commonly in television. His first acting gig came in the form of an episode of Amazing Stories (1985). He did a few other television appearances before landing a more consistent role on the series Tour of Duty (1987), playing a member of a platoon set in the backdrop of the Vietnam War. This series lasted from 1987 up until 1989; however, Bruskotter managed to stay busy with each year as time spiraled into the 1990s. His film roles at that point in time included Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), playing an arrogant gym bully, opposite Jason Scott Lee as the lead role of martial artist Bruce Lee. 1997 would see the return of Bruskotter in a familiar soldier-type role, when he appeared in the science fiction cult movie Starship Troopers (1997). In this he played an unlucky trooper who lost his life during a training course accident. Other acting roles in his impressive resume include episodes on Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), JAG (1995), Angel (1999), 24 (2001) and Law & Order: LA (2010).
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Ji Jin-hee

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Ji Jin-Hee (June 24, 1971), or Jin-Hee Ji, is a South Korean actor best known for his roles as lead actor in various South Korean drama series, which include Miss Kim's Adventures in Making a Million, Love Letter, Spring Day, and the highly popular and successful, Dae Jang Geum. He first debuted at music video of Jo Sung-Bin, Like A Trash Movie, in 1999. His first known drama series was Juliet's Man with actress, Ye Ji-Won. In November 2004 he married his girlfriend of six years, Lee Su-yon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ji Jin-Hee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.                    
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McLean Stevenson

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McLean Stevenson began in show business at age 31. During the 1960s, he worked in night clubs and comedy cabarets, did summer stock theater and some television before moving to Hollywood, where he worked as a comedy writer for Tom Smothers. He eventually began acting in sketches. Mr. Stevenson is best known as the fumbling commanding officer, Lt. Colonel Henry Blake, on the CBS television series, M*A*S*H (1972). Over a period of thirty years, he also appeared on a number of television series and was a regular guest star on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) and the game show, The Hollywood Squares (1965).
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Bernard Paul

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Bernard Paul (14 March 1930 – 6 December 1980) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was the companion of the French actress Françoise Arnoul since 1964. Worried by the problems of the proletarians, he realized in particular three social films: 1969: Time to Live (Le Temps de vivre), starring Marina Vlady, Frédéric de Pasquale, Catherine Allégret; 1972: Handsome Face (Beau masque), starring Dominique Labourier, Luigi Diberti; 1977: Last Exit Before Roissy (Dernière sortie avant Roissy), starring Pierre Mondy, Sabine Haudepin, Françoise Arnoul. Time to Live was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. Source: Article "Bernard Paul (director)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Vishnuvardhan

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Vishnuvardhan's father was a famous artist and script writer for films. His father also taught dance. Vishnu's sister, Smt. Ramaramachandra, was a famous kathak dancer, who was praised by the King of Mysore. Vishnuvardhan has one elder brother and four sisters. Vishnuvardhan did his primary schooling in Mysore's Gopalswamy School. He attended middle school in Bangalore's Kannada Madari School. He attended high School and took his degree in the National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, India.
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Dhafer L'Abidine

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He is a Tunisian actor and former professional soccer player. Dhaffer made his acting debut in the UK after graduating from Birmingham school of Acting. He starred in Sky One's Dream Team, BBC's Spooks and ITV's The Bill. He also starred in The Mark of Cain as Omar Abdullah and in A Hologram for the King. He became famous in Tunisia after he played the role of "Dali" in a Tunisian series called "Maktoub". He later went on to participate in dramas in the Arab world, notably in Egypt, the UAE and Lebanon including shows and series such as Taht Al Saytara, Prince of Poets, and Arous Beirut.
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