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Feridun Karakaya

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A well-known Turkish comedy actor. Karakaya educated in Kabataş Erkek Lisesi. He took part in several stage and film productions between years 1955 and 2002. He is best remembered with his famous character "Cilalı İbo" (Ibo the Polished). He died of heart failure at the age of 76. Due to his competent Molière interpretations, he was awarded with Légion d'Honneur. He was laid to rest at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following the religious funeral ceremony held in Teşvikiye Mosque on 26 April 2004, at the time when he could not see his latest movie released.
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Brooke Burke

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Brooke Burke is a successful host, actress and entrepreneur. She currently co-hosts ABC's hit competition show, "Dancing With The Stars," with Tom Bergeron, having earned the coveted mirror ball trophy as season seven's champion with her professional dance partner, Derek Hough. The mother of four is Co-CEO of the popular website ModernMom.com, President of BabooshBaby.com and author of the best-seller, "The Naked Mom." In January 2012, she starred in two fitness DVD's for Sony Home Entertainment, Transform Your Body With Brooke Burke: Strengthen & Condition and Tone & Tighten; and will be shooting two more titles this Fall. Most recently, Brooke has taken her creativity to the fashion world, launching IntiMint, a line of intimate and lounge apparel and creating her own line of jewelry with designer Chad Allison.
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Manuel Pachón

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Manuel Pachón (1936 - February 20, 2021) was a Colombian film, theater, television and radio actor. Pachón began his acting career as a child, playing the role of Alberto Limonta in the radio soap opera El derecho de nacer. He continued to be linked to this medium for some years and starred in Kadir, a very popular radio soap opera in Colombia. In the 1960s and 1970s he made the leap to television and film, appearing in productions such as La abuela, El cazador nocturno and El Virrey Solís. In the 1980s he played his most recognized roles in the films Cóndores no entierran todos los días, El embajador de la India and Técnicas de duelo, and in the television series Dejémonos de vainas and Los dueños del poder. After acting in productions by filmmaker Sergio Cabrera in the 1990s, such as Águilas no cazan moscas, Ilona llega con la lluvia and Golpe de estadio, he made sporadic appearances on Colombian television in the series Sin senos no hay paraíso, Verano en Venecia, Victorinos and La ley del corazón. Afflicted with heart problems and kidney failure, Pachón died of heart complications on February 21, 2021 at the age of 84.
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Common

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Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 13, 1972), known by his stage name Common (formerly Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor. He has received three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar?, and gained critical acclaim with his 1994 album Resurrection. He maintained an underground following into the late 1990s. He achieved mainstream success through his work with the Soulquarians. His first major-label album Like Water for Chocolate (2000), received commercial success. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for the Erykah Badu single "Love of My Life". His 2005 album Be was also a commercial success and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards. Common received his second Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Southside" (featuring Kanye West), from his 2007 album Finding Forever. His best-of album, Thisisme Then: The Best of Common, was released in late 2007. In 2011, Common launched Think Common Entertainment, his own record label imprint, having previously released music under various other labels including Relativity, Geffen, and GOOD Music. Common won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his song, co-written and performed with John Legend, "Glory" from the 2014 film Selma, in which he co-starred as Civil Rights Movement leader James Bevel. Common's acting career also includes roles in the films Smokin' Aces, Street Kings, American Gangster, Wanted, Terminator Salvation, Date Night, Just Wright, Happy Feet Two, New Year's Eve, Run All Night, Being Charlie, Rex, John Wick: Chapter 2, Smallfoot and Hunter Killer. He also narrated the documentary Bouncing Cats, about one man's efforts to improve the lives of children in Uganda through hip-hop/b-boy culture. He starred as Elam Ferguson on the AMC western television series Hell on Wheels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Common (rapper), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Prakash Raj

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Prakash Raj is a polyglot Indian film actor, film director, producer, thespian and television presenter who is known for his works in the South Indian film industry. Apart from his mother tongue Kannada, Prakash's fluency in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi and English has placed him among the most sought after actors in Indian cinema. He has played a variety of roles, most notably as the antagonist and, of late, as a character actor. Prakash, as an actor has won a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for Mani Ratnam's Iruvar and a National Film Award for Best Actor in 2009 for his role in Kanchivaram, a Tamil film directed by Priyadarshan, and as a producer has won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada for Puttakkana Highway.
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Debra Messing

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Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an American actress. After graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Messing starred in the shortlived television series, Ned and Stacey on Fox (1995–1997), and Prey on ABC (1998). She achieved her breakthrough role as Grace Adler, an interior designer, on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace (1998–2006, 2017–2020), for which she received seven Golden Globe Award nominations and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, winning once, in 2003. From 2007 to 2008, Messing starred as Molly Kagan, the ex-wife of a Hollywood film mogul, on the television miniseries The Starter Wife, for which she received two Golden Globe nominations, a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Thereafter, she appeared as Broadway playwright Julia Houston on the NBC musical drama Smash (2012–2013) and as homicide detective Laura Diamond on the NBC police-procedural comedy The Mysteries of Laura (2014–2016). From 2017 to 2020, Messing reprised her role as Grace Adler on NBC's three season revival of Will & Grace, garnering a ninth Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Messing's film work includes A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Jesus (1999), The Mothman Prophecies (2002), Hollywood Ending (2002), Along Came Polly (2004), The Wedding Date (2005), Lucky You (2007), The Women (2008), Nothing Like the Holidays (2008), Searching (2018), and 13: The Musical (2022). She has also lent her voice to animated films such as Garfield (2004) and Open Season (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Debra Messing, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Alma Delia Fuentes

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Alma Delia Fuentes (born 22 January 1937 - died 2 Abril 2017) was an Mexican actress of film, television, and theatre. Fuentes began her career as a child actress. In 1951, she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Youth Performance for her role in Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados. In the 1960s, Fuentes debuted in television and also starred in films as the leading lady of such popular performers as Cantinflas, Demetrio González, Antonio Aguilar,Eulalio González "Piporro", and Viruta y Capulina.
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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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Anthony Azizi

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Anthony Azizi is an American film and television actor. He starred on the shows Threat Matrix and Commander in Chief. Also he had recurring roles in shows as Lost, 24, Desperate Housewives and JAG and made guest appearances in many shows, including The Unit, Chuck, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami and Gilmore Girls. He co-starred opposite Shia LeBeouf and Michelle Monaghan in the Paramount / Dreamworks feature film Eagly Eye, and opposite Tony Shalhoub in the independent movie AmericanEast.
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Mark Roberts

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Mark Roberts (born January 19, 1961) is an Americanproducer, screenwriter, playwrighter, actor and comedian, best known for creating the American sitcom Mike & Molly. Mark has began as a stand-up in Chicago, and was soon spotted by a casting director who helped him land work in commercials. Sitcom work soon followed, including a series regular gig on the Tea Leoni series "The Naked Truth", before Roberts chose to pursue writing, his true passion. His 2000 play "Couples Counseling Killed Katie", starring Roberts and Jessica Tuck, caught the eye of producer Chuck Lorre, who went on to hire him as a writer and producer on "Two and a Half Men". Roberts would then go on to create "Mike and Molly", which won an Emmy for star Melissa McCarthy.
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