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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Doug Mitchell

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Doug Mitchell (born September 19, 1952) is a film producer. Mitchell's career as a producer began in the mid-1980s as a member of the Kennedy Miller production house based in Sydney. In the late 1980s he was nominated with George Miller and Terry Hayes on three occasions in the AACTA Award for Best Film category at the Australian Film Institute Awards. In 1987 they won best film for The Year My Voice Broke, were nominated in 1989 for Dead Calm, and won a second award for Flirting in 1990. In 1995 Mitchell was nominated for an Academy Award with George Miller and his brother Bill Miller in the Academy Award for Best Picture category for the film Babe. In total the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The trio won the 1995 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy and received nominations for the 1995 BAFTA Award for Best Film and the 1995 Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture. In 2006 he was a producer with George Miller and Bill Miller of the animated film Happy Feet. The film won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the 2006 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, and was nominated for the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The trio was nominated in the Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures category for Happy Feet at the Producers Guild of America Awards 2006. Following the release of Happy Feet Two in 2011, they were nominated for the 2012 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Mitchell received another Academy Award for Best Picture nomination with George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road. The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning in six categories. Mitchell, Miller, and P. J. Voeten (First Assistant Director) received further nominations for the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture—Drama and the 2015 Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture. The trio won the 2015 AACTA Award for Best Film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nico Lathouris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Akkin

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Real Name: Akihito Suzuki 鈴木 玲史 (すずき あきひと) 2000 Heart Bazaar debuted by Toshiba EMI. Dissolved in 2002. Debuted in 2003 with Toys Factory on a jet plane. Dissolved in 2008. From the time of his band activities, he started working as a producer and support guitarist for various artists. In the live performance, it has explosive power and coolness that will captivate the viewer. The subtlety that appears in the shadow is also a characteristic of akkin. Also in the production work, I place great importance on the atmosphere of the place, draw the artist's own power to the maximum, make music while empathizing with each other and gain great trust from various artists. Since 2008, he has been working on sound production for ONE OK ROCK. In the latest album “35xxxv” released in 2015, he went to LA with the members for recording. A number of overseas producers are appointed, and this is the only Japanese producer. In addition, he has worked extensively on bands such as MAN WITH A MISSION, FTISLAND, FUZZY CONTROL, Aqua Timez, MAGIC OF LiFE, ROOKIEZ is PUNK'D, and female artists such as Mao Abe, LiSA, Hitomi Yaida, Kaera Kimura. As a guitarist, he participates in recordings such as Ringo Shiina, Yuzu, MCU, Tamar Yamada, and also participates in YUKI, Kobukuro, Nanami, Kazuya Miyata, etc. on the tour.
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Mark Patton

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Mark Patton (born September 22, 1958) is an American interior designer and former actor. Patton grew up in Riverside, Missouri and, after graduating high school, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Within a few years he landed the role of Joe Qualley in the 1982 Broadway production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Patton reprised the role in the 1982 film of the same name. In 1985 Patton landed the lead role in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge portraying Jesse Walsh, a teen whose body becomes possessed by Freddy Krueger. Patton, who is openly gay, gave up on his acting career following being cast in a planned CBS series in which he would have played a gay character. The reason being the strong homophobia he perceived in Hollywood at that time. After that, years later, he had a hard time struggling with HIV (was diagnosed on his 40th birthday). Upon recovering, he moved to Mexico, where he currently lives happily married. Patton appears in the A Nightmare on Elm Street documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, directed by Dan Farrands. Following his appearance in the documentary Patton began touring horror conventions where he is lauded as mainstream cinema's first male "scream queen". After the success he started some projects concerning his life experiences with film (including books and a documentary called "There is no Jesse").
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Albert Hackett

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Maurice Hackett (February 16, 1900 – March 16, 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his collaborations with his partner and wife Frances Goodrich. Hackett was born in New York City, the son of actress Florence Hackett (née Hart) and Maurice Hackett. Not long after marrying screenwriter Frances Goodrich, the couple went to Hollywood in the late 1920s to write the screenplay for their stage success Up Pops the Devil for Paramount Pictures. In 1933 they signed a contract with MGM and remained with them until 1939. Among their earliest assignments was writing the screenplay for The Thin Man (1934). They were encouraged by the director W. S. Van Dyke to use the writing of Dashiell Hammett as a basis only, and to concentrate on providing witty exchanges for the principal characters, Nick and Nora Charles (played by William Powell and Myrna Loy). The resulting film was one of the major hits of the year, and the script, considered to show a modern relationship in a realistic manner for the first time, was considered to be groundbreaking. However this is only because it was written and released before the enactment of the Hollywood Production Code, which strictly censored movies from mid-1934 until the early 1960s (see Pre-Code). The other Nick and Nora films show a steep decline regarding the "groundbreaking maturity" of the Charleses' marriage. The Hacketts received Academy Award for Screenplay nominations for The Thin Man, After the Thin Man (1936), Father of the Bride (1950) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1955).[1] They won Writers Guild of America awards for Easter Parade (1949), Father's Little Dividend (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), as well as nominations for In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Father of the Bride (1950) and The Long, Long Trailer (1954). They also won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle award for their original play The Diary of Anne Frank. Some of their other films include: Another Thin Man (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
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Giselle Eisenberg

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Giselle Eisenberg (born March 7, 2007, in Poughkeepsie, New York) is an American actress who began a remarkable career in film and television at a young age. She is one of a number of young actresses who appeared early on in both major Hollywood productions and successful TV series. She began auditioning for acting roles at the age of three. Her first casting was for a Holiday Inn commercial, which she got right away. She has an older sister, Julia Eisenberg, who is also an actress. Giselle Eisenberg became known to an international audience when, at the age of just five, she played the daughter of Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie in Martin Scorsese's film “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013). Other notable roles: Life in Pieces (CBS) – Role: Sophia Hughes, one of her most famous characters, described as “sassy, spunky, tell-it-like-it-is”; American Housewife – Role: Anna-Kat Otto (season 5); guest roles in Law & Order: SVU, Believe, Flesh and Bone. Her film roles include: Sex Tape (2014) – supporting role; A Most Violent Year (2014) – role as Catherine Morales; Danny Collins (2015) – role as Hope Donnelly. Eisenberg is often praised for her ability to switch between comedy and drama, making her a versatile young actress. Her roles in Life in Pieces and A Most Violent Year in particular showcase her range between humorous lightness and serious character acting.
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Janine Windolph

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Janine Windolph is a filmmaker, educator and storyteller who’s currently working at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity as Director of Indigenous Arts. She was formerly the Curator of Community Engagement at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she also worked as a Storykeeper, Education Program Assistant and Curator of Public Programs. Janine teaches beading, visual arts, photography, filmmaking, writing, storytelling and Indigenous iconography in schools, libraries and non-profits.
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Hanim Zakaria

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Hanim Zakaria (born 11 September 1950) is an Indonesian teacher. He was born in Bengkalis, Central Sumatra, as the six child and youngest daughter of the seven children of Zakaria bin Muhammad Amin, an ulama, and Mariah binti Ahmad, a homemaker. Zakaria has three brothers, Nashruddin, a civil servant, Azra'ie, a lecturer, and Syakrani Zakaria, a harbormaster, and three sisters, Aminah, a teacher, Zaharah, a politician, and Ulfah, a gynecologist. She also has three half-brothers, Zulkarnain and Nukman, both were civil servant, and Gamal Abdul Nasir Zakaria, a lecturer, and four half-sisters, Rinie Yuslina Fairuz and Rita Puspa, both were civil servant, Nida Suryani, a science teacher, and Sri Purnama Zakaria, an English teacher, from his father second marriage to Siti Zainab binti Kimpal. Zakaria is married to Mokhtar in 1982 and has had two daughters, Tirta Mahdalena Mokhtar and Desy Ananda. She started her career by working as a junior school teacher in Pekanbaru.
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Elena Liberatori

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Lawyer graduated from the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, specialized in Administrative Law and Public Administration. She is the head of the First Instance Court of Administrative and Tax Litigation n. °4, since 2000. She was a professor of Administrative Law and Human Rights and Guarantees at the University of Buenos Aires (1974-1994). He was awarded a prize by the Federación Argentina de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Trans (FALGTB) for "his support, contribution and committed action for a fairer and more egalitarian country". His rulings on equal marriages, change of name for trans people, recognition of self-perceived identity, co-parenting and co-parenting, have served as background to the laws passed by the Congress of the Nation, as recorded in the parliamentary debates. Since October 2011, she has been in charge of the Ad Hoc Secretariat of Collective Cases on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Vulnerable Neighborhoods of the City of Buenos Aires. In 2015 she ruled in the "Parques Interama Case" issuing a 300-page final judgment in a process originated in the revocation of a concession in December 1983 and with judicial proceedings for almost 32 years. Likewise, in 2015 she was the first judge of first instance to recognize the "non-human" personality of an animal ("Sandra" case), a decision of wide repercussion both nationally and internationally.
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Picabo Street

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Picabo Street (/ˈpiːkəbuː/; born April 3, 1971) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at the 1996 World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals. Street also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995 and 1996, the first American woman to do so, along with nine World Cup downhill race wins. Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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