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Vittoria Puccini

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vittoria Puccini (born 18 November 1981 in Florence, Italy) is an Italian film and television actress. Puccini is perhaps best known for playing a lead role in 2003 in the Italian soap opera Elisa di Rivombrosa. Puccini and Alessandro Preziosi, a fellow actor on Elisa di Rivombrosa, had a daughter together in 2006. Puccini's role as Mafalda in the 2007 Rai Uno miniseries Le ragazze di San Frediano cast her among many other well-known Italian actresses, including Martina Stella, Chiara Conti, and Camilla Filippi. Her 2009 projects include the television miniseries Tutta la verità. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vittoria Puccini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Pierre Clémenti

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Pierre Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 27 December 1999) was a French actor. Born in Paris, Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Arguably, his most famous role was that of gangster lover of bourgeois prostitute Catherine Deneuve in Belle de jour, the 1967 classic by Luis Buñuel, in whose film La voie lactée he played the Devil. He appeared in several highly regarded films of the period, working with many of Europe's best known directors, including Luchino Visconti (The Leopard), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty) and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist and Partner). Other directors he has worked with are Liliana Cavani, Glauber Rocha, Miklós Jancsó and Philippe Garrel. In 1972, his career was derailed after he was sentenced to prison for allegedly possessing or using drugs. Due to insufficient evidence, Clémenti was released after 17 months; later he penned a book about his time in prison. After his release he played the role of ever-optimistic sailor of the Potemkin in Dusan Makavejev's scandalous movie Sweet movie, and the role of the seductive saxophone player Pablo in Fred Haines's film adaptation of Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf. Throughout his career, he continued to be active on-stage. He was also involved with the French underground film movement, directing several of his own films, which often featured fellow underground filmmakers and actors. Visa de censure no X was an experimental work made up of two of films. New Old was a feature length work released in 1978 in which Viva appeared. La Revolution ce ne'est qu'un debut, continuons le combat, followed by In the shadow of the blue rascal and Sun. He died of liver cancer in 1999 Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Clémenti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Laura Bayonas

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Laura Bayonas started working in movies at the age of 4, and when 7 years old, she played her first lead in the short "Correo de guerra" (1972) together with her mother — Lola Salvador, a well known scriptwriter and film producer. Since then she has accomplished a strong career in Europe, having lead roles in film and TV with well known Spanish directors, like Jose Luis Bunuel, Jaime Chavarri, Julio Medem, Alfonso Ungria, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Jose Luis Cuerda, Manolo Matji, Jose Luis Berlanga and others. As a writer, Laura published her novel "Yes Father, no Father", a radical critic against parental education, which was a best seller in the 90's. She received an award for her first screenplay "Panfilas" by ICAA, Ministerio De Cultura of Spain. After moving from Spain, Bayonas is living in Los Angeles, California. Her most recent Hollywood-work is in "CharlottaTS" (2011, Lewis Teague).
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Michael Cerveris

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Michael Cerveris (born November 6, 1960) is an American singer, guitarist and actor. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including in several Stephen Sondheim musicals: Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Road Show, and Passion. He won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Assassins. He was called, by Playbill.com, "arguably the most versatile leading man on Broadway", playing roles from "Shakespeare's Romeo to The Who's Tommy, from the German transsexual rock diva Hedwig in Hedwig & the Angry Inch to the homicidal title character of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd." Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Cerveris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Macarena Gómez

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Macarena Gómez Traseira (born 2 February 1978) is a Spanish actress, known for her role of Lola in the current television series La que se avecina, aired on Telecinco. She is also known for her portrayal of mermaid-like priestess Uxía Cambarro in the 2001 horror movie Dagon and for her starring role in the 2008 comedy-horror film Sexykiller. She trained at Rose Bruford College Drama School in London. By the end of 2013, right after the beginning of the new season of the soap opera La que se avecina, Macarena Gómez starts presenting TV-commercials for the Spanish banking group Bankia. In June 2013, Macarena Gómez married musician and film director Aldo Comas. In 2016, Macarena Gomez has given a unique interview dedicated to all her Russian - speaking fans. the interview was given to Ukrainian horror writer Denis Bushlatov and was published in the biggest Russian horror magazine Darker. - IMDb Mini Biography By: ahmetkozan
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Sally Forrest

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Sally Forrest (born Katherine Feeney) was an American film, stage and TV actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Forrest began her film career in the 1940s as a chorus dancer in MGM musicals. She made her acting debut in Not Wanted, written and produced by Ida Lupino. The film's controversial subject of unwed motherhood was a raw and unsentimental view of a condition that was rarely explored by Hollywood at that time. Forrest starred in two more Lupino projects, Never Fear and Hard, Fast and Beautiful, as well as other film noir films, including Mystery Street, directed by John Sturges, and the star-studded While the City Sleeps, directed by Fritz Lang. Her musical background and training as a jazz and ballet dancer brought roles in the transitional musicals that rounded off the golden age of MGM; most notable was Excuse My Dust. Most of her films were made under contract to MGM, which prided itself as family entertainment, but RKO, headed by the eccentric and controlling Howard Hughes, presented a very different creative challenge. Son of Sinbad, now a cult classic, was one of his many pet projects where he had a personal interest in re-designing the star's skimpy wardrobe. With each rehearsal, Forrest noticed her harem dance costume slowly disappearing, until it was barely compliant with the Motion Picture Production Code.[citation needed] In 1953, after moving to New York with her husband, writer and producer Milo Frank (who was hired to be head of casting for CBS), her film work transitioned to theatre and TV. She starred on Broadway in The Seven Year Itch, and appeared in major stage productions of Damn Yankees, Bus Stop, As You Like It and No No Nanette. Later she returned to Hollywood and continued working at RKO and Columbia Pictures. Her final film was RKO's While the City Sleeps in 1956, a murder mystery co-starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Vincent Price and her frequent collaborator Ida Lupino.
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Imran Qureshi

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A master of the art of miniature, Imran Qureshi reworks the painting style typical of Mughal courts in the 16th to 19th centuries to depict flora, fauna, body parts, and calligraphic script. Following bombings in his home city of Lahore, he introduced blood-red paint into his palette, splattered or delicately drawn in works that contrast violence with beauty. Plant tendrils become splitting capillaries, human feet are patterned with tiny leaves, and oval canvases are covered in gold leaf. In pieces as small as six-by-eight inches or as large as room-size installations, he represents in abstracted terms the collective history of his country.
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Ulf Pilblad

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Ulf (Jean Loup) Pilblad was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a film producer, actor and script writer. In his childhood, he began early in theatre schools in Stockholm where he studied 8 years with different teachers. He also worked as an assistant to the operetta-singer and dancer, Hasse Funck, who had started an activity called Minifunckarna in 1965, where he educated children in acting! In Bangkok since 1996, he has started his own company, a Destination Management Company, PCE Travel Consultants, and worked as Production and Location Manager for several Scandinavian TV productions. He has also participated in several acting workshops with Maurizio Mistretta, Fulvio Ianneo and John Marengo and participated in several performances with ALL SOUL Production Company in Thailand and Italy! One of the plays - True Story - is based on his personal experiences during the Tsunami 2004 which was played for the first time in the Art and Culture Festival "Dramophone" in Bologna (Italy) in June / July 2012. Ulf has participated in the film The Impossible (2012) directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. In February 2013 he has participated in Bababoboa project Festival "Paura-fear-klua" at the TADU Art and Exhibition Center in Bangkok! In 2013 Ulf produced the film "Fufu - 99 Minutes of Life" in Thailand. He also played one of the main characters in the film: Roland. In 2014 he produced the film "Fatima's Secret" in Thailand. He also played one of the main characters in the film: Gogo. Ulf is also owner, together Maurizio Mistretta and Patchanee Poonthong, and producer of the All Soul Production Co., Ltd. (Thailand), All Soul Production (France). He is also owner and President of the travel agencies AFS Chic Paris (France) and PCE Travel Consultants (Thailand).
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Florence Lawrence

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star", and was the first film actor to be named publicly. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as "The Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. Lawrence appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.
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