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Lex Goudsmit
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Lex Goudsmit (1913–1999) was a Dutch-Belgian actor. He became famous in 1966 for playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, which role he performed some 1100 times in the Netherlands and in London. He played many characters on Dutch television, among others in the popular youth series Q en Q (1974) and Thomas en Senior (1985–88). From 1984 to 1999 he played Grandpa Lex on Sesamstraat, the Dutch version of Sesame Street. Goudsmit was one of the artists who recorded the song Shalom from Holland (written by Simon Hammelburg and Ron Klipstein) as a token of solidarity to the Israeli people, threatened by missiles from Iraq, during the first Gulf War in 1991.
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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 October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Jason Segel
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Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014. He began his career with director and producer Judd Apatow on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and Undeclared (2001–2002) before gaining prominence for his leading roles in various successful comedy films in which he has starred, written, and produced.
Segel has starred in many comedic films such as Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), I Love You, Man (2009), Bad Teacher (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), This Is 40 (2012), and Sex Tape (2014), as well as family films such as Despicable Me (2010), and The Muppets (2011). For his role as David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour (2015) he received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He also starred in the dramas Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Discovery (2017), Our Friend (2019), and Windfall (2022).
In 2023, he began starring as a therapist in the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, which he also co-created alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. For his performance he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.
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Xia Ningjun
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He graduated from the Performance Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy and is an actor from mainland China. In 2018, he participated in the youth sports and entertainment cross-border genre program "Supernova National Games" and entered the entertainment industry. In 2019, the starring urban emotional inspirational drama "Shanyue, I don't know what's in my heart" and the vertical screen web drama "Little Brother Afraid to Be Poisonous" were broadcast successively. In 2020, starring in the ancient costume love comedy "Stealing Heart Painter", as the actor Li Hong Bin.
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Sarah Rafferty
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While still in prep school, Sarah was bit by the acting bug at a very young age. When her drama teacher caught her cutting across his lawn in an effort not to be late for field hockey practice, he told her to skip practice and join the cast of "Richard III," and thus began her adoration of acting.
Sarah decided to take her love for this craft and educate herself by double majoring in English and Theatre at Hamilton College, studying theatre abroad in London and Oxford during her junior year, and, after graduating magna cum laude from Hamilton, went on to study at Yale Drama school. Her passion for learning about the arts was supported by her parents; her mother, the Chairwoman of the English Department at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, CT, and her father, an accomplished painter. Her education and natural talent clearly paid off.
In addition to starring on USA Network's "Suits" playing the role of Donna, she has appeared in numerous TV series such as "Law and Order," "Six Feet Under," "Brothers & Sisters," "Samantha Who?," "Without A Trace," "CSI: Miami," and "Bones," and feature films including: "Four Single Fathers" and "Falling For Grace," along with countless professional stage productions like "Gemini" and "As You Like It."
In addition to her acting roles on television, Sarah is an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Association and consistently speaks on the matter. Sarah has hosted their annual Sardi's event three years in a row and presented at the organization's final Sardi's event in March 2016. Sarah currently resides on both east and west coasts with her husband and two daughters and travels back and forth to Toronto for work.
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Alexis Damianos
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Alexis Damianos (Greek: Αλέξης Δαμιανός; 1921–2006) was a Greek, film/theatre and television director.
Damianos was born in Athens on January 21, 1921. He studied in the National Theatre of Greece and the philosophy department of the University of Athens. He was the founder of "Experimental Theatre" and "Poreia Theatre", where he directed a lot of plays. Damianos directed three feature films which contributed to the development of Greek cinema and the most famous of them is Evdokia (1971). He died in Athens on May 4, 2006.
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Robie Lester
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Robie Lester (born Roberta Lester) was an American voice artist, singer, actress, and author.
Lester was born in Megargel, Texas and raised in northern Ontario, Canada.[1] After a few years in Detroit, she joined the US Army Air Corps before attending UCLA with a major in music. In Hollywood, she worked with Henry Mancini and Herb Alpert, recorded for Liberty, Warner Brothers and A&M, and sang demos for songwriters. At A&M Records Lester recorded one of her most frequently heard, though uncredited, contributions—the Spanish verse in the Sandpipers 1966 hit "Guantanamera".
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Karel Plíhal
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Karel Plíhal (* August 23, 1958 in Přerov) is a Czech guitarist, singer, composer, lyricist, poet, music director and arranger.
He graduated from the Secondary Industrial School of Mechanical Engineering in Olomouc, then worked as a designer, a fireman in the Olomouc theater and eventually became a songwriter, although he has no musical education. He has been playing the guitar since he was fifteen. He first played in the Olomouc underground country-swing bands Hučka, Falešníisters and Plíharmonyje. He had his first solo performance in 1983. Between 1985 and 1993 he collaborated with Emil Pospíšil and in 1995–1999 he was accompanied by Petr Freund. Karel Plíhal is a four-time winner of the Porta competition music festival award.
He composed music for a number of productions at the Moravian Theater in Olomouc, including Goldilocks, The Servant of Two Masters, The Love of Don Perlimplin and the Passion of Belisina, Manon Lescaut, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Winter's Tale, The Passion and the Glorious Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Giroflá. He set some of Kainar's poems to music, directing the recording of albums, such as Jarek Nohavica, Petr Fiala, the Ebony brothers and Bokomara.
In 2006, he published a selection of his poems, Like cool in a fence, accompanied by illustrations by humorist and cartoonist Miroslav Barták. For his album Vzduchoprázdniny, which was released in 2012, he won the Anděl Award in the Folk & Country category.
After a medical break caused by focal dystonia, which prevented him from playing the guitar, guitarist Petr Fiala began to accompany him at concerts in 2018.
Karel Plíhal is a very shy man. His shyness or anxiety is kindly caricatured in the film The Year of the Devil. At concerts, he addresses the closeness of the audience, for example, by having the spotlights set against his eyes so that he cannot see the audience clearly.
"The original speech is further underlined by the small verses with which Plíhal interweaves the whole performance. They reflect the details of everyday life and the point is always laughing at the audience. … And when he returns to sign his books, he is again a timid and quiet man who he would rather not be. But that would be a great pity. "
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Don Messick
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Donald Earle Messick (September 7, 1926 – October 24, 1997) was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.[1] His best-remembered voice roles include Scooby-Doo; Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in The Flintstones; Astro in The Jetsons; Muttley in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines; Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith in The Yogi Bear Show; Sebastian the Cat in Josie and the Pussycats; Gears, Ratchet, and Scavenger in The Transformers; Papa Smurf and Azrael in The Smurfs; Hamton J. Pig in Tiny Toon Adventures; and Dr. Benton Quest in Jonny Quest.
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Abdullah Ibrahim
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Abdullah Ibrahim, born Adolph Johannes Brand, 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa, and formerly known as Dollar Brand, is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Within jazz, his music particularly reflects the influence of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington. With his wife, the jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin, he is father to the New York underground rapper Jean Grae, as well as to a son, Tsakwe.
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