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Leslie Nielsen

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Leslie William Nielsen, OC (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010) was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse. Making his television debut in 1948, he quickly expanded to over 50 television appearances two years later. Nielsen made his film debut in 1956, and began collecting roles in dramas, westerns, and romance films. Nielsen's performances in the films Forbidden Planet (1956) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) received positive reviews as a serious actor, though he is primarily known for his comedic roles. Although Nielsen's acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and films, his deadpan delivery in Airplane! (1980) marked a turning point in his career, one that would make him, in the words of film critic Roger Ebert, "the Olivier of spoofs." Nielsen enjoyed further success with The Naked Gun film series (1988 – 1994), based on a short-lived television series Police Squad! in which he starred earlier. His portrayal of serious characters seemingly oblivious to (and complicit in) their absurd surroundings gave him a reputation as a comedian. In the final years of his career, Nielsen appeared in multiple spoof and parody films, many of which were met poorly by critics, but performed well in box office and home media releases. Nielsen married four times and had two daughters from his second marriage. He was recognized with a variety of awards throughout his career, and was inducted into the Canada and Hollywood Walks of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Nielsen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Jiang Luxia

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Jiang Luxia is the Nationalwide Wushu Champion in Shaolin quan in China. She is also a China State "Wuying Level" Sportsman; a State Martial Arts Repertoires A-level Referee; the Chief Trainer in the "Practical Ladies Self-Defense" program on CCTV.com and the Vice Chaiperson of the Beijing Sports University Wushu Association. She is also excellent in Martial Arts Repertoire, Practical Self-Defense, Qiqong, Taijiquan and Crossbow techniques. From February 2007 onwards, Jiang has uploaded videos of herself on the Internet under ID of "Mao Er Bao Bei". So far, the "Mao Er Bao Bei" series has recorded a click rate of over 25 million and was being searched for over 4 million times. "Mao Er Bao Bei" has ranked Top N°4 by the Google search engine in 2007. This record has way surpassed many of the other "web stars" from before. Commonly known as "Mao Er Bao Bei", Jiang is most loved by the Internet fans for her healthy and positive image. Due to the popularity of the "Mao Er Bao Bei" video series, each of her new videos is often featured on the home pages of many video portals and websites in order to attract the web viewers !
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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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Pauline Moran

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pauline Moran (born 26 August 1947) is an English actress, presenter, and astrologer, best known for her role as Miss Lemon in the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot. She has also been a professional astrologer since 1987. Although primarily a stage actress, Moran has appeared in films such as The Good Soldier (1981), The Woman in Black (1989), Byron (2003), and A Little Chaos (2014), as well as the 1983 television series The Cleopatras. From 1965 to about 1970, she played bass guitar in the all-female band The She Trinity.
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Kamel El Basha

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Kamel El Basha is a Palestinian actor of screen and stage, theater director, play-writer and producer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s. He gained critical acclaim in 2017 when he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (male) during the 74th Venice International Film Festival for his role as Yasser Abdallah Salameh in The Insult by the Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri. It was El Basha's first major role on screen, although he had appeared in a number of theatrical productions, actually also directing some of them. He is the former artistic director of the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem from 2007 to 2011 and the artistic director of Quds Art since 2012.
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Vincente Minnelli

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Vincente Minnelli, born in Chicago, was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Gigi (1958), The Band Wagon (1953), and An American in Paris (1951). An American in Paris and Gigi both won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Minnelli winning Best Director for Gigi. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas. He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; they were the parents of Liza Minnelli. With his background in theater, Minnelli was known as an auteur who always brought his stage experience to his films. The first film that he directed, Cabin in the Sky (1943), was visibly influenced by the theater. Shortly after that, he directed I Dood It with Red Skelton and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), during which he fell in love with the film's star, Judy Garland. They had first met on the set of Strike Up the Band (1940), a Busby Berkeley film for which Minnelli was asked to design a musical sequence performed by Garland and Mickey Rooney. They began a courtship that eventually led to their marriage in June 1945. Their one child together, Liza Minnelli, grew up to become an Academy Award-winning singer and actress. The Minnelli family is thus unique in that father, mother and child all won Oscars. Widely known for directing musicals, including An American in Paris (1951), Brigadoon (1954), Kismet (1955), and Gigi (1958), he also directed comedies and melodramas, including Madame Bovary (1949), Father of the Bride (1950), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lust for Life (1956), Designing Woman (1957), and The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963). His last film was A Matter of Time (1976). During the course of his career he directed seven different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Spencer Tracy, Gloria Grahame, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley MacLaine and Martha Hyer. Grahame and Quinn won. Minnelli received an Oscar nomination as Best Director for An American in Paris (1951) and later won the Best Director Oscar for Gigi (1958). According to Peter Bart in his book The Gross, Minnelli's films having 11 first-place finishes on Variety's opening release box office rankings. On February 8, 1960, Minnelli received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry at 6676 Hollywood Boulevard. He died in Beverly Hills, California.
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Rachid El Ouali

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Rachid El Ouali [Arabic: رشيد الوالي] is a Moroccan actor producer, and director, born in Rabat, on 3 April 1965. Began his career in 1983 by passing a Dramatic Art Contest at the National Theater Mohamed V, and studying for 4 years under the leadership of a great Moroccan director: Abbass BRAHIM. He started on the scene for the 1st time in 1986, and he quickly passed on to television where he playing a multiple roles of series and TV films. His first film role was in 1994 in "Thief of Dreams" by Hakim Noury. In 2004, after 20 years of career, he passed behind the camera with a short film "Nini Ya Med" In 2006 he founded his own production company CLAPRODUCTION; Then he made the short films "Dawn", "The Fly and Me" and "the deceased". He présented a famous TV shows like : « LALLA LAAROUSSA » over two successive years 2007 et 2008, and " WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE" in 2009. Since 2004, , UNDP Goodwill Ambassador. Is Considered among the 10 most popular personalities in Morocco according to an international survey in 2006.
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Marika Kouno

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Marika Kouno (高野 麻里佳, Kōno Marika, born February 22, 1994) is a Japanese voice actress (seiyū) and singer from Tokyo. She was previously affiliated with Mausu Promotion, but since October 2019 is affiliated with Aoni Production. She debuted as a voice actress in 2013 and played her first main role in the 2015 TV anime series Seiyu's Life!, where she voiced Rin Kohana. She is also a member of the voice actor music unit Earphones along with other main cast members of Seiyu's Life!. As member of Earphones she is signed to label Evil Line Records, while as a solo artist she is signed to Nippon Columbia. His most representative works include Seiyu's Life! (Suzuka Kobana), Scorching Ping Pong Girls (Hanabi Tenka), Akiba's Trip The Animation (Niwaka Denkigai), Hinako Note (Yua Nakajima), Mitsuboshi Colors (Sacchan), and Umamusume: Pretty Derby ( Silence Suzuka), among others.
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Sandra Ng Kwun-Yu

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The daughter of Ng Kam-chuen, Ng was born in Hong Kong, where she attended St. Stephen's Girls' College. Encouraged by her parents, she began her entertainment career at the age of 16. She is most known through her comic roles, where she often pokes fun at her plain looks. She has frequently collaborated with Stephen Chow, notably in All for the Winner, Magnificent Scoundrels and Royal Tramp, among others. In a career spanning over 20 years, she has filmed over 100 films and TV shows. She co-hosted Club Sparkle (星星同學會), a celebrity talk show, during the first half of 2009 and is also a radio personality for CRHK. Her radio program, He She Hit (她他她打到嚟!), aired from 12am to 2am on Monday to Friday. She received the 2003 Best Actress Award at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan for her role as a prostitute in Golden Chicken. She has a daughter (born in 2006) with film director Peter Chan.
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Pete Willis

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pete Willis (born Peter Andrew Willis, 16 February 1960, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) was one of the original guitarists for the British rock band Def Leppard until he was replaced by Phil Collen in 1982. He co-wrote many tracks and played guitar on the band's third album, Pyromania, which was being recorded at the time of his replacement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pete Willis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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