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Andrea Carroll
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ANDREA
CARROLL studied at the Manhattan School of Music. She has received numerous
awards (for example the Houston Grand Opera´s Ealeanor McCollum Competition,
Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition) and has received grants for
example from the Shoshana Foundation or the William Matheaus Sullivan
Foundation. Most recently she was a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio
for two years. There, she sang parts such as Musetta in La Bohème, Adele in Die
Fledermaus, Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music, Woglinde in Das Rheingold. At
the Utah Opera she sang Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Leila in Les pêcheurs
de perles. At the Wolf Trap Opera she performed Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims
and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. At the Glimmerglass Opera she was Julie Jordan in
Carousel and Rose Segal in Later the Same Evening. Furthermore she sang Rosalba
in Florencia en el Amazonas at the Washington National Opera; at the Seattle
Opera she performed as Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos. As of September 2015 she is
member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Andrea_Carroll.en.php
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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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Yuri Vizbor
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Soviet songwriter (bard), film actor, journalist, writer, screenwriter, poet, one of the founders of the author’s song genre, creator of the reportage song genre, author of more than 300 songs. In 1955 he graduated from the faculty of Russian language and literature of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. In the same year, he wrote the text for his first song - Madagascar (the music was borrowed from the performance of Sergei Obraztsov “Under the rustle of your eyelashes”). While studying at the institute, he began to write songs - usually in his own poems. From 1950 to 1960 - composed about 40 songs. He worked as a teacher, served in the army. Since 1958 he worked on the All-Union Radio, in 1962 he initiated the creation of the youth radio station "Youth". Since 1964, together with a group of like-minded people, he published the magazine Krugozor, where he created the unique genre of "song-reporting". Since 1970, he worked as a screenwriter and editor of the cinema association "Screen" of the Central Television. The first role was played in the film "July Rain." Among the most interesting roles of Vizbor are Begounyok in the Red Tent, Sasha in You and Me, Balashov in the Belorussky Train Station, Borman in Seventeen Moments of Spring. More than forty documentaries, as well as the feature film "Year of the Dragon" and the television movie "Captain Frackass", have been delivered according to the scripts of Vizbor. Vizbor is considered one of the founders and the most prominent representatives of the author's song. He wrote a number of scripts and plays that were performed in many theaters in the country. The tales and stories of Vizbor were published mostly after his death. The book "I left my heart in the blue mountains" (1986-1989) had a circulation of 250 thousand copies. Passed away on September 17, 1984 from liver cancer in the Moscow Cancer Center on Kashirskoye Highway. He was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery of the capital.
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Alex Scott
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Alex Scott (18 September 1929 – 25 June 2015) was an Australian-British television actor best known for his appearances in British television productions of the 1960s, including Special Branch, The Avengers, Danger Man, The Saint and the final episode ("The Smile Behind the Veil", 1969) of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). He also appeared as Klaus in The Adventures of William Tell, episode 22 "The Killer" (1959).
Scott had roles in such films as Darling (1965), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), The Blue Max (1966), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Twins of Evil (1971) and The Asphyx (1972), and had been directed by Sir Laurence Olivier (The Shifting Heart), François Truffaut, John Sumner (Godsend) and John Schlesinger, among others.
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Lil Nas X
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Montero Lamar Hill (born April 9, 1999), known by his stage name Lil Nas X, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence with the release of his country rap single "Old Town Road", which first achieved viral popularity in early 2019 before climbing music charts internationally and becoming diamond certified by November of that same year, moving over ten million certified units in streaming and sales combined.
Lil Nas X was the most-nominated male artist at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, where he ultimately won awards for Best Music Video and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. "Old Town Road" earned him two MTV Video Music Awards including Song of the Year, and the American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Song; Lil Nas X is also the first openly LGBT Black artist to win a Country Music Association award. Time named him as one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet in 2019, and he was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2020.
On April 26, 2022, he announced his first concert tour, the Long Live Montero Tour. The tour was in support of Montero, and began in September 2022 and ran through January 2023.
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Maurice Garrel
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Maurice Garrel (24 February 1923 – 4 June 2011) was a French film actor.
Garrel was born in Saint-Servais, Isère. He appeared in over a hundred films and was nominated twice for a César Award for best supporting actor: in 1991 for La Discrète and in 2005 for Kings and Queen.
Garrel was the father of producer Thierry Garrel and director Philippe Garrel, and the grandfather of actor Louis Garrel and actress Esther Garrel. Garrel died in Paris, aged 88.
Source: Article "Maurice Garrel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sten Ljunggren
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Sten Ivar Ljunggren (born October 16, 1938) is a Swedish character actor. He played Henrik in the long-running Swedish drama TV series Svenska hjärtan, which aired between 1987 and 1998. Other notable roles includes criminal inspector Lennart Thorin in the TV mini-series based on the Lasermannen events, the retired doctor Axel Holtman in Skärgårdsdoktorn, the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Swedish dub of Up, the voice of Sykes in the Swedish cinema dub of Oliver & Company, and the evil principal in Kenny Starfighter.
He played the lead role as Birger in Lukas Moodysson's last short film Talk. The same character, with some modifications, was used again in Moodysson's Together. Ljunggren reprised the role.
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Sven Hugo Borg
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Sven Hugo Borg was born in Vinslöv, Skåne län, Sweden. Early in his career, Borg was a secretary with the Swedish Consulate in Los Angeles. While working at the consulate he met the actress Greta Garbo who had recently arrived in Hollywood. Garbo asked Borg to be her interpreter for an upcoming movie, to which he readily agreed. He served as Garbo's interpreter from 1925 to 1929.
After interpreting for Greta, Borg decided to pursue acting as a career. He had done some dramatic work on the Swedish stage. He continued to remain with the consulate until the late 1930s.
Borg became much in demand during World War II Hollywood films, playing both Nazi officers and Scandinavian resistance fighters. Throughout his acting career, Borg was an actor who portrayed a wide range of many different characters, e.g.Sverre-King of Norway in The Crusades.
He died in 1981 at the age of 84 in Los Angeles, California.
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Thure Lindhardt
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Thure Lindhardt is a Danish actor, educated at the drama school at Odense Theater in 1998. Lindhardt was born in Copenhagen and grew up in Roskilde. At the age of 12, he got a part in Bille August's film Pelle the Conqueror. His breakthrough in Denmark came with his portrayal of a boy with autism in A Place Nearby, starring alongside Ghita Nørby. Since then, he has played parts in a variety of movies and series, including Into the Wild, Love in Thoughts, Sugar Rush, Princess, Rejseholdet, and Flame & Citron, a movie about the World War II resistance group Holger Danske, starring alongside Mads Mikkelsen. Most recently, he played a leading role as the young Swiss Guard Lieutenant Chartrand in the 2009 film Angels & Demons, directed by Ron Howard.
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Dan Claudino
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Dan Claudino (born 7 October 1996) is an Brazilian actor and voice actor, known for his starring roles in dEus (2022), Tem Alguém em Casa? (2022), Amor à Terceira Vista (2022), Pule ou Ocorrência às 4h48 (2020), and Flores Secas (2017).
Born in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil as Daniel Claudino Batista, is the middle child of five children - a twin brother, a younger brother, an older brother and sister. His parents are Rita Claudino and Claudio Francisco. When he was 11 years old, started attending an acting school for theater actors, where he began his artistic career acting in short theatrical productions. He graduated in Performing Arts in 2018. In 2013, at 15, Dan starred in his first professional theater play Mistério na Sala de Ensaio e Outras Histórias playing Célio.
Dan appeared in some films, including Tem Alguém em Casa? (2022), playing Airton, dEus (2022), playing Gustavo Silva Rossi, Amor à Terceira Vista (2022), playing Léo, Pule ou Ocorrência às 4h48 (2020), film adaptation of the homonyms play, being recorded at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic and having a live broadcast on Facebook, and Flores Secas (2017), where he played Frederico "Fred", a double role with his twin brother Davi Claudino.
In 2014, Dan starred in the third episode of the TV miniseries Extremos da Cidade (2014) where he talks about the importance of artistic production in São Paulo, Brazil. He also appeared and directed several music videos, including Grupo Aspas: Vem Mudar o Teu Futuro (2014), Grupo Aspas: Avulso (2014), Grupo Aspas: Precoce (2014), Y3ll & Sloope: Sonhoz (2019) and Leo Lotho: Olhar (2019).
His past theatre credits include À Deriva (2019), O Último Carro (2018), The Balcony (O Balcão) (2017), 4.48 (2016-2017), Adolescer Indefinido (2016), O Casamento de Mané Bocó (2015), Histórias de bobos, bocós, burraldos e paspalhões (2014-2016), being his most successful play, having performed in several cities in the State of São Paulo and won many awards, Um Conto de Natal (2014), Jovens Opressores (2014), Aquela Água Toda (2014) directed by Cacá Carvalho, and more. Dan also directed the play Pule ou Ocorrência às 4h48 (2019), where he played Margô, this play won an award to be produced.
Dan lives in São Paulo and wrote a horror story called O Assassino da Esquina (The Corner Murderer). He is studying Cinema at Anhembi Morumbi University.
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