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Monne de Miranda

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Salomon (Monne) Rodrigues de Miranda (Amsterdam, March 21, 1875 – Leusden (Camp Amersfoort), November 3, 1942) was a Dutch alderman for the SDAP in Amsterdam.[1] Rodrigues De Miranda – simply called De Miranda – was a diamond worker from an early age and was an active member of the Algemeene Nederlandsche Diamantbewerkersbond (ANDB). In 1916, he became a board member of this union. During the interwar period, together with Floor Wibaut, he was the most prominent alderman in Amsterdam. During the Second World War, he was arrested by the German occupiers of the Netherlands. He died as a result of severe mistreatment in Camp Amersfoort. The De Mirandabad, the Miranda Pavilion, and the De Mirandalaan, all in Amsterdam, were named after him.
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Zabou Breitman

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Zabou Breitman (born Isabelle Breitman; 30 October 1959), or simply Zabou, is a French actress and director. She is the daughter of actors Jean-Claude Deret and Céline Léger. At the age of four, she appeared in her first movie. Since 1981, Zabou has acted in dozens of roles in films, TV movies, and theaters. She made her directoral debut in 2001 with Se souvenir des belles choses, for which she won a César Award for Best Debut. In 2012, she participated in Rendez-vous en terre inconnue. In 2000 she took the role of Lucille Cadeau, a French actress, in the London premiere of Ayckbourn's House & Garden at the National Theatre in London. Zabou has two children with the sculptor Fabien Chalon: Anna (1990) and Antonin (1993). Source: Article "Zabou Breitman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Ayşen Gruda

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Ayşen Gruda (22 August 1944 – 23 January 2019) was a Turkish actress and comedian. Gruda appeared in several musicals such as "Mum Söndü", "Deve Kuşu Kabare", "Hababam Sınıfı Müzikali", and "Yedi Kocalı Hürmüz". Her role in the sketch Her Domates Güzeli Nahide Şerbet on television, gained her the nickname "Domates Güzeli". She appeared in over 100 films, including such classic movies as; Tosun Pasha, The Foster Borthers, The Chaos Class, and Happy Days.
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Pratik Gandhi

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A salesman during the day and a theater actor during the night - Pratik Gandhi juggled between his passion and profession until he finally found success with the Gujarati play Aa Paar Ke Pele Paar. The play went on to become a commercial success and soon Pratik featured in several plays such as Apurva Avsar, Hun Chandrkant Bakshi, Master Madam, and Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon. In 2006, Pratik made his feature debut with the United Kingdom-Indian co-produced film Yours Emotionally. It was in 2014 that he made his Gujarati film debut with the movie Bey Yaar directed by Abhishek Jain. He has since then appeared in movies such as Wrong Side Raju (2016), Tamburo (2017), and Love Ni Bhavai (2017).
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Chris Casamassa

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chris Casamassa (born January 17, 1965) is an American martial artist, actor and stuntman who is best known for his role as Scorpion in the movie Mortal Kombat and the related TV show, Mortal Kombat: Conquest. He is the son of martial arts guru and Red Dragon Karate founder Louis D. Casamassa. (Chris co-starred on the TV series WMAC Masters under the call-sign "Red Dragon".) Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Casamassa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Harry Cording

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Hector William “Harry” Cording was a British character actor. Cording was brought up and educated in his native England, and later settled permanently in Los Angeles, where he began a film career in 1925. He appeared in many Hollywood films from then to the 1950s. With an imposing six-foot height and stocky build, Harry the Henchman usually portrayed thugs, villains' henchmen and policemen. Cording's most notable roles were probably as the villainous Dickon Malbete, Captain of the Guard in Errol Flynn's Adventures of Robin Hood and as Thamal, the hulking henchman to Bela Lugosi's character in 1934's Black Cat. As a contract player at Universal Pictures in the 1940s, he turned up in tiny parts in many of their horror films, such as The Wolf Man. Having appeared in a bit role in 20th Century-Fox's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone (1939), he went on to appear in supporting and bit parts in seven of the twelve Universal Studios Sherlock Holmes films in which Rathbone starred.
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Julie Brown

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Julie Ann Brown is an American actress, comedian, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director best known for her iconic 1980s "valley girl" persona and sharp celebrity parodies. She carved out a unique space in pop culture by blending pop music with subversive sketch comedy and achieved massive cult success with novelty hits like "Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" (a dark parody of mid-century teenage tragedy songs) and "'Cause I'm a Blond". To avoid confusion with her contemporary British MTV counterpart, "Downtown Julie Brown," she was often referred to as "West Coast Julie Brown" or "Miss Julie Brown".
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Robert Flemyng

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor. Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944. He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp. One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Ênio Gonçalves

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Ênio Gonçalves (Porto Alegre, August 28, 1938 — São Paulo, October 5, 2013) was a Brazilian actor, director and playwright. He majored in journalism and worked in over 30 films, starred in 20 telenovelas, and performed in numerous plays, starting with "Auto de Natal" in 1959. He studied film directing at the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" in Rome, Italy, and became popular after his performance in Nelson Rodrigues's "Toda Nudez Será Castigada" in 1965, directed by Zbigniew Ziembinski. He would write some 20 plays, including "2 ou 3 Buracos" (1976), "Dia Torto" (1976), "Vem Contudo" (1977) and "Até as Orelhas" (2004), and adapt literary works such as J. Guimarães Rosa's Sorôco, Sua Mãe, Sua Filha (1975) for the screen and Erico Verissimo's "Sonata".
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Sonu Sood

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Sonu Sood is an Indian film actor, model, and producer who acts predominantly in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil films. He has also appeared in a few Kannada and Punjabi films. In 2009, he received Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Award for Best Villain and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Telugu for his work in the Telugu blockbuster, Arundhati. In 2010, He garnered Apsara Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role and IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for the Bollywood blockbuster, Dabangg. In 2012, He received SIIMA Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role for Julayi. In July 2016, he established the production house Shakti Sagar Productions, which is named after his father, Shakti Sagar.
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