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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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Stephanie Hsu

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Stephanie Ann Hsu (/ˈʃuː/ SHOO: born November 25, 1990) is an American actress. She received critical acclaim for her dual roles as Joy Wang and Jobu Tupaki in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hsu trained at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and began her career in experimental theatre before starring on Broadway, originating the roles of Christine Canigula in Be More Chill (2015–2019) and Karen the Computer in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (2016–2017). On television, she had recurring roles in the Hulu series The Path (2016–2018) and the Amazon Prime series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019–2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephanie Hsu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ayten Amin

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Director Iten Amen studied film directing at the AUC and her graduation project then was the movie “Her Man” from Art Lab in the AUC, which stirred a storm then because of its daring boldness. The movie was played in 10 international festivals. Item also presented 2 short movies about actress Madeeha Kamel and about the oriental belly dancing in Egypt. Iten won an award at the Cairo International Cinema festival in 2010 for her movie “Area 69”. She also presented her movie “Spring 89” that discusses all the adolescent problems and everything they go through.
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Aure Atika

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Aure Atika (b. July 12, 1970) is a French actress, writer and director. Born in Portugal to a Moroccan mother and a French father, Aure Aitka grew up in Paris. She was born to Ode Atika Bitton and Michel Fournier who are also film actors and directors. Autika won the 2004 Best French-Language Short Film Award at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival for À quoi ça sert de voter écolo? (What's the Point of Voting Green?) (2004) and was nominated for the 2010 César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Mademoiselle Chambon (2009). Autika has one daughter, Angelica (February 2002) with Philippe Zdar of house music group, Cassius.
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Andy Nyman

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Andy Nyman is an English actor and magician. Nyman first came to note with his performance as a hard nosed director in Musical! and then as Keith Whitehead in the cult film of the Martin Amis novel, Dead Babies. He has played lead roles in Jon Avnet's Emmy award winning film Uprising (NBC) as a Polish freedom fighter and in Coney Island Baby as a gay French gun dealer. In 2006, he played Gordon in the cult hit Severance. Most recently he played Patrick, a sleazy reality show producer in Charlie Brooker's E4 horror satire Dead Set, and suffers the most violent death in the series, being decapitated and disembowelled. Nyman currently has four films due for release over the next 18 months: London-based romantic comedy Are You Ready for Love?; a bio-pic of 70s Dutch rock group Herman Brood, Wild Romance; and improvised gangster thriller Played where he stars opposite Vinnie Jones, Val Kilmer and Gabriel Byrne. The film was released by Lionsgate Entertainment in 2007. Nyman appeared as one of the leads in the latest Frank Oz movie, Death at a Funeral. He stars opposite Matthew Macfadyen, Ewen Bremner, and Keeley Hawes. The movie was released by MGM in 2007. Nyman is also a magician and the co-creator and co-writer of the Derren Brown TV shows Derren Brown - Mind Control and Trick of the Mind. He and Brown wrote "Russian Roulette", "Séance", and "Messiah", as well as three series of the "Trick of the Mind" series. He also co-wrote and co-directed four of Brown's stage shows, all of which have toured and played the West End. For "Something Wicked This Way Comes" they were awarded the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. Their fourth show Enigma was also nominated for an Olivier Award. Nyman won the award for best actor at the 2006 Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film for his role as Colin Frampton in Shut Up and Shoot Me. He was nominated for Lew Grade Award at the 2007 BAFTA Awards for his work on "Derren Brown: The Heist". He shared the nomination with fellow collaborators Derren Brown, Simon Mills, and Ben Caron. In December 2008 he appeared in BBC Four's supernatural drama series Crooked House. In February 2010 he co-wrote (with Jeremy Dyson), directed and starred in the horror play Ghost Stories. In April 2011 he starred in a new British sitcom, Campus.
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Deborah Zoe

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Deborah Zoe ( born October 1, 1972) joined the cast of Guiding Light on September 30, 2003 in the role of Eden August. Originally from New Jersey, Deborah's interest in acting was sparked at a young age. She has been seen on television in various popular Tv series, such as Sex and the City, Monk, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Angel, Spin City, as well as She Spies and Pensacola: Wings of Gold. She also starred in the tv movie Skin Complex, and various feature films such as: A Sight for Sore Eyes, White Rush, Asylum Days, and Road Trip among others. In her spare time, the actress enjoys reading, roller-blading, and hanging out with her dog.
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Isabell Gerschke

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Isabell Gerschke is a German actress, born June 5, 1979 in Potsdam (Potsdam district, GDR). She had her breakthrough in 1996 as 14-year-old Laura in the youth drama Crash Kids. Isabell Gerschke was born to a teacher and a craftsman. She studied pop singing at the Musicians Institute Hollywood under Carol Rogers and Mike Campbell in 1999. She completed her stage dance training at "Danceworks" in Berlin from 2001 to 2003. In addition to her acting commitments, Gerschke gives dance lessons for young people in Potsdam and, as patron of the "Kultür Potsdam" initiative, is committed to the participation of all people in the cultural life of her home town. She is the mother of two children.
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Stefania Casini

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After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where she acted in Andy Warhol's 'Bad'. While in New York she decided to move behind the camera, and became a director. With Francesca Marciano, she wrote and directed the film "Lontano da dove", presented at the Venice Film Festival (1983). In 1997 she wrote and directed another feature film "Un Paradiso di Bugie". Her career as director also includes the making of six feature films for the Italian television network MEDIASET. A passionate traveler, Stefania has made a great number of documentaries and reportages for RAI and MEDIASET. She focuses her attention on contemporary topics concerning women and young people. She has made many hard-hitting series including: "Islam: stories of women"; "Latin America: stories of women"; "To be 20 years old in..." (broadcast in ten European Countries 2004-2005); "So close so far :portraits in the suburbs". "Schiaffo alla mafia"(A blow to the Mafia) Between 2000-2002 , Stefania was the Artistic Director of Siena's Film Festival "Terra di Siena". In 2010 she was Managing Director of DGTV IESTV. Currently, Stefania writes and directs programs, reportages and documentaries for RAI, and for satellite channels: RAI Sat Cinema World, Gambero Rosso Channel, and Sky. She also works as a journalist, contributing to several popular women's magazines.
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Mayu Iizuka

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Mayu Iizuka (飯塚 麻結, Iizuka Mayu, April 15, 1996) is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Prefecture, Japan, affiliated with Sun Music Production. She has been active as a voice actress since she was in the first year of high school, and became a member of JTB Entertainment when she was in the second year. She is active not only in anime but also in songs, theatrical performances, radio, Nico Nico Live and magazines. She joined Sun Music Production in January 2017. She is also a member of Dialogue+ (stylized as DIALOGUE+) since 2019, a Japanese idol group which is signed to Pony Canyon.
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Antonin Baudry

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Antonin Baudry, born May 6, 1975, also known by the writing pseudonym Abel Lanzac, is a French diplomat specializing in cultural affairs, comic book author, screenwriter, and film director. After finishing his studies at lycée Louis-le-Grand, Antonin Baudry began at the École polytechnique in 1994, graduating as an engineer of bridges, water and forest. He graduated second in literature from École normale supérieure in Paris in 1998. and obtained a Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) en cinematography. In April 2004, he became a conseiller of Minister Dominique de Villepin at the Ministry of the Interior. From 2010 to 2014, he was the cultural counsellor at the French Embassy in Washington D.C., United States and counsellor for cooperation and cultural action at the French Embassy in Madrid, Spain. Under the pseudonym Abel Lanzac, he used his diplomatic experience to help him write the comic book Quai d'Orsay (2010-2011), in collaboration with Christophe Blain. After the second comic book in this series won the prix du meilleur album at the festival d'Angoulême 2013, he revealed his true identity. In 2014, he founded Albertine, the only French-language bookstore in New York. Named for the mysterious beloved in Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, the bookstore shares the Payne Whitney House with the Cultural Services arm of the French embassy. On January 28, 2015, Baudry was appointed as Ambassador for French Culture at the Institut français. He resigned after a few months to work on personal projects. He was president of the jury for the 43rd festival international de la bande dessinée in January 2016. In 2019, he directed his first film, Le Chant du loup, a submarine thriller. Source: Article "Antonin Baudry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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