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Miggy Jimenez

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Miggy Jimenez (born January 23, 1999) is a Filipino actor, brand endorser, host, and model. For the television show "Tropang Potchi" (2009-2015), he won Best Children's Show Host together with the other main hosts of the show from the Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) Star Awards for Television (2013, 2014). Also for "Tropang Potchi," he won Outstanding Educational Program Host together with the other main hosts of the show from the Entertainment Press Society (ENPRESS) Golden Screen TV Awards (2014).
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Michael Campion

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Michael Campion has always wanted to become a successful actor. He was thrilled to work on the new Fuller House (2016) as "Jackson Fuller". He previously worked on Christmas Trade (2015), with Billy Baldwin (aka William Baldwin) and Denise Richards. He also starred in the feature films, Robo-Dog (2015) and Robo-Dog: Airborne (2017), and has been featured in numerous Local and National commercials. Michael also loves the theater and has performed with Magic Curtain Productions in "The Wizard of Oz", "Annie" and "The Little Mermaid", just to name a few. When he isn't working on becoming an actor, he enjoys water sports, video games, performing magic tricks and hanging with friends. Michaels lives in Florida, with his parents, where he also visits all of the Theme Parks.
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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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Sylvie Valayre

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Sylvie Valayre (born 1956, Paris) is a French operatic soprano known for her versatile interpretations of lyric, spinto, and dramatic coloratura soprano parts. She sings grueling roles like Abigaille, Lady Macbeth or Turandot as well as lighter pieces like Giordano's Maddalena, Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly), or Verdi's Desdemona at major opera houses around the world. Born in Paris, she graduated at the Paris Conservatory under the guidance of Christiane Eda-Pierre and Régine Crespin. She attended master classes of Cathy Berberian, Galina Vishnevskaya, Gino Bechi, Paul von Schilawsky in Florence and Montpellier, Giuseppe Di Stefano, who later chose her to perform a concert with him at Théâtre du Châtelet. Later, she undertook advanced studies with tenor Sergio Tedesco and with mezzo-soprano Catherine Green. She began her career in 1984 with a play about Maria Malibran at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris, performing excerpts from operas like Semiramide and Norma (also available as DVD). Soon after, Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya asked her to perform the title role in their production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride at the Rome Opera. In 1987, she sang her first Mozart opera, performing the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. Other roles during this stage of her career included Mimi in La Bohème, Tosca in Tosca, Magda in La rondine, Violetta in La traviata, Norma in Norma, Leonore in Fidelio, Manon in Manon Lescaut, Thaïs in Thaïs, Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Liù in Turandot, the Infante in Der Zwerg (or The Infante's Birthday) by Zemlinsky, La Voix humaine by Poulenc and more. In 1994, she was performing in major Italian houses in works like La Voix humaine (Trieste, Genova, Naples), Cavalleria rusticana (Trieste, Bologna), L'heure espagnole and Il segreto di Susanna (Opera of Trieste). In 1995, in a production touring through the Netherlands, she debuted in the part of Lady Macbeth, later one of her signature parts. In 1996, with the production of Venice's La Fenice, she made her debut in Warsaw in the part of Elisabetta in Don Carlo. A few months later followed her debuts in Nabucco at Covent Garden Opera, Madama Butterfly in Naples and Venice (La Fenice) and in Don Carlo at Royal Albert Hall in London. In 1997, Milan invited her onto the famous stage of La Scala to perform Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Her debut in Milan was soon followed by other debuts at other famous opera houses: Madama Butterfly at San Francisco Opera, Verdi's Jerusalem at Carnegie Hall in New York, Nabucco in Zürich with Nello Santi as well as Nabucco, Aida and Tosca at the famous Arena di Verona, Macbeth in Paris and Tosca in Berlin. Aida in Munich followed and, in 2000, her first performances at the Metropolitan Opera in Madama Butterfly. Later in 2000 Manon Lescaut at Opera Pacific, Ernani at the Madrid Opera, Aida in Macerata, Tosca in Paris and Tokyo, La Gioconda at Carnegie Hall and Macbeth in Berlin. The year 2001 brought her to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Tosca, to Madrid with Verdi's Requiem, to Brussels (Théâtre de la Monnaie) with Antonio Pappano and Zürich with Macbeth, to Berlin in the title part of Aida and to Macerata with Norma. ... Source: Article "Sylvie Valayre" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Shusuke Kaneko

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Shusuke Kaneko (born June 8, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter. Kaneko began his career at Nikkatsu and would serve as a writer for film and anime. Establishing himself as an up and coming director, Kaneko would win accolades at various film festivals. His film Summer Vacation 1999, would garner him his first award for best director at the Yokohama Film Festival. As a lifelong fan of the original Godzilla films, Kaneko would be chosen as the director for Daiei's revival of the Gamera franchise. Kaneko's work on the Gamera films were met with unprecedented critical acclaim. He would be honored with the Director's Award at the 17th Yokohama Film Festival for his work on Gamera: Guardian of the Universe. This film would also go on to top Kinema Junpo's best films of the year list and earn Blue Ribbon awards for best Director and Best supporting actress. Kaneko would go on to direct the most successful Godzilla film of the millennium series as well as the live action adaptations of Death Note. Kaneko has also contributed to various documentaries on kaiju films, particularly those of Ishiro Honda, championing their artistry and imagination
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Jean Yonnel

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Jean Yonnel (21 July 1891 – 17 August 1968) was a Romanian-born French actor. Yonnel was born in Bucharest, Romania as Jean-Estève Schachmann and began his film career in France in the 1910s. Some of his notable performance were in Obsession (1933), Amok (1934), Fanatisme (1934), White Nights of St. Petersburg (1937), The Imperial Tragedy (1939) and A Funny Parishioner (1963). Yonnel died in Paris in 1968. Source: Article "Jean Yonnel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Alexandra Shipp

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Alexandra Ruth Shipp (born July 16, 1991) is an American actress and singer. She starred in the third season of Nickelodeon's mystery teen drama series House of Anubis (2011-2013) playing the role of KT Rush, but rose to prominence for portraying singer Aaliyah in the Lifetime television film Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014) and Kimberly Woodruff in the Oscar-nominated film Straight Outta Compton (2015). Shipp is best known for playing Storm in the X-Men franchise, starting with X-Men: Apocalypse, Abby Suso in the 2018 romantic comedy Love, Simon, and Susan Wilson in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical drama Tick, Tick... Boom!.
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Hilmi Sözer

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Hilmi Sözer (born March 9, 1970, in Çubuk, Ankara) is a German-Turkish actor and comedian. Hilmi Sözer grew up in the Lower Rhine region and first became involved in acting through theater projects while he was still in school. Without formal acting training, he subsequently found his way into film, rising to prominence in the 1990s—primarily through his appearances in the comedies *Voll normaaal* and *Ballermann 6*, alongside Tom Gerhardt. He also achieved widespread popularity with his role in Michael "Bully" Herbig's cinematic hit *Der Schuh des Manitu*, for which he received an award. In addition to comedy productions, Sözer has appeared in more serious film and television roles, including Lars Becker's *Kanak Attack*, the award-winning TV comedy *Meine verrückte türkische Hochzeit*, and Christian Petzold's drama *Jerichow*, which screened at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. Furthermore, he has regularly performed on stage, including at the Altonaer Theater in Hamburg. In 2011, he appeared in both the comedy *Die Superbullen* and in the lead role of the television film *Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze*.
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John Gargano

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John Anthony Nicholas Gargano is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE, where he performs on its developmental territory NXT under the ring name Johnny Gargano. Gargano started his professional wrestling career in 2005, working for the Cleveland All–Pro Wrestling (CAPW) promotion. Over the following years, Gargano worked for some of the top promotions on the American independent circuit, including Chikara, Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), Evolve and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). Titles Gargano held include the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas, the Evolve Tag Team Championship and DGUSA's Open the Freedom Gate Championship, which he held twice with his first reign lasting a record 873 days. During his independent days, Gargano also made appearances for national promotions Ring of Honor (ROH), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and WWE on the NXT brand. After making sporadic appearances for WWE early in his career, Gargano took part in the company's tryout camp in June 2015. Afterwards, he began appearing regularly for NXT, eventually signing a contract in April 2016. He formed a tag team, #DIY, with Tommaso Ciampa, and held the NXT Tag Team Championship once.
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Dave Newhouse

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Dave Newhouse chronicled Bay Area sports history through five decades of award-winning journalism, establishing himself as one of Oakland's most beloved sportswriters while authoring 19 books that preserved forgotten athletic lore. Born in 1938 in Menlo Park, California at the tail end of the Depression, Newhouse grew up as the son of an abusive alcoholic father, developing an early fantasy of becoming a sportscaster despite uncertain prospects. After graduating from Menlo-Atherton High School and attending Santa Rosa Junior College, Newhouse joined the Air Force in 1957 for a four-year stint. While stationed in Laon, France, he covered his first baseball game for the weekly base newspaper, discovering his passion for sports journalism. This experience inspired him to major in journalism at San Jose State University, where he honed the writing skills that would define his career. Newhouse joined the Oakland Tribune in 1964, the same year he married Patsy Lewis from Ely, Nevada. His 47-year tenure at the Tribune established him as the region's preeminent sports voice, covering the Raiders, Warriors, Athletics, and 49ers with distinctive insight and dedication. He also contributed to Sports Illustrated and Sporting News while hosting a KNBR radio sports talk show, becoming the only Bay Area sports journalist to simultaneously write a daily newspaper column and host weeknight sports talk radio in the 1980s. He appeared in ESPN documentaries and observed Bay Area sports since the 1940s. Retiring in November 2011, Newhouse's final column declared: "This old-school newspaperman, misplaced in a world of texters, tweeters, and bloggers, is exiting before the gigabytes start to bite." However, retirement launched a prolific second career as author. His notable works include "The Jim Plunkett Story," "Founding 49ers: The Dark Days Before the Dynasty" (2015), "The Incredible Slip Madigan," and "Goodbye, Oakland: Winning, Wanderlust, and a Sports Town's Fight for Survival" (2025, co-authored with Andy Dolich). Personal tragedy struck when son Chad took his life in 2012, devastating Newhouse and wife Patsy. Writing became therapy as he continued working despite grief. His research methodology included chance elevator encounters: meeting 49ers executive Lou Spadia inspired "Founding 49ers," while meeting David McCullough in Paris reinforced his commitment to write into his 90s. Newhouse lives in Oakland with Patsy, an artist. Their surviving son Casey has blessed them with two grandchildren.
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