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La La Anthony
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Alani Nicole "La La" Anthony is an American television personality and actress. In the early 2000s, she worked as an MTV VJ on Total Request Live. She was the host of the VH1 reality television reunion shows Flavor of Love, I Love New York, For the Love of Ray J, and Real Chance of Love, and was a dean on Charm School with Ricki Lake.
Anthony appeared in Two Can Play That Game (2001), You Got Served (2004), Think Like a Man (2012), Think Like a Man Too (2014), November Rule (2015) and Destined (2015). She appeared as Lakeisha Grant in the Starz original drama series Power. She hosted the American reality television series La La's Full Court Wedding and La La's Full Court Life. She was married to NBA player Carmelo Anthony from 2010 to 2021.
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Abu Bakr Ezzat
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Abu Bakr Ezzat, who is from the Sayyeda Zeynab area of Cairo, was born on August 2, 1933. He studied at the Khedive School. Ezzat participated in school theater, and acted in Richard Sheridan’s play, “The Scandals,” directed by Kamal Yassin. Ezzat’s relationship with the theater developed where he worked in 1955. Throughout his school years, Ezzat directed several plays in schools, as well as at the Faculty of Arts where he was a student in the Department of Sociology. After graduating in 1959, he joined the Free Theater Group. During this time, he played the role of Kamal in the play “Qasr El Shoq” (Palace of Desire) and started working in television and film. He married screenwriter Kawthar Heikal. The plays he acted in include “El Mofatish El ‘Am” (The Inspector General), “El Dabor” (The Hornet), “El Ardh” (The Earth), “Sana Ma’ El Shoghl El Laziz” (A Year Of Enjoyable Work), “El Dukhol Bil-Melabis Rasmiya” (Entering With Official Clothes), “Sika El Salaama” (The Safe Way). He moved from the Television Theater to the Rehani Theater, and in 1996 received the Best Actor’s Award in the Cairo Film Festival for his role in the film “El Mar’a We El Satour” (The Woman and the Cleaver).
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Colin Vearncombe
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Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 – 26 January 2016), known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He emerged from the punk rock music scene and achieved mainstream pop success in the late 1980s, most notably with the 1986 single "Wonderful Life", which was an international hit the next year.
William Ruhlmann of AllMusic described Vearncombe as a "smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey". Michael Hann of The Guardian described his voice as a "slightly frayed baritone".
Vearncombe was born in West Derby, Liverpool and attended Prescot Grammar School. He then enrolled on an art foundation course at Liverpool Polytechnic. He first aspired to become a musician after seeing Elvis Presley in the 1957 film Jailhouse Rock.
Black's first release was the single "Human Features" on Rox Records from Birkenhead in 1981. At this time the band also included Dane Goulding (formerly of Blazetroopers) on bass and Greg Leyland (another school friend) on drums, with Vearncombe calling himself Black as he did not think his own surname would be remembered. The single was followed by another independent release, "More than the Sun", in 1982. It was then that Vearncombe formed a friendship with Dave "Dix" Dickie of the Last Chant, and the two became musical collaborators and signed for WEA Records.
In 1982, Black played with the Thompson Twins on their 'Quick Step and Side Kick' tour and also supported Wah! on a UK tour. Black signed with WEA in 1984, and the next single was "Hey Presto", which got Vearncombe noticed outside the UK: the video for the song featured on the satellite channel Music Box, and the single was also released in Australia. The second WEA single was a re-recording of "More than the Sun". After this, Black was dropped from the record label, and Vearncombe and Dix went their separate ways.
In 1985, Vearncombe wrote the minor key song "Wonderful Life". It was released independently through Ugly Man Records, and got Black noticed by A&M Records, who signed Vearncombe and launched his international career. Vearncombe said: "By the end of 1985 I had been in a couple of car crashes, my mother had a serious illness, I had been dropped by a record company, my first marriage went belly-up and I was homeless. Then I sat down and wrote this song called 'Wonderful Life'. I was being sarcastic."
The song reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart. "Wonderful Life" was later covered by singers including Kim Wilde and Tony Hadley. A version by Katie Melua was included on the BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 80s compilation album, and was released as a single in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Children's Hospital Charity. But its widespread popularity came from its use on several advertising commercials for brands that included Standard Life, Cadbury's chocolate and Fleury Michon. In 2015, Melua sang a version in an advertisement for Premier Inn. Vearncombe suffered from the feeling of being a one-hit wonder: "Once you have had a hit, it's hard to write another song without having that in the back of your mind. For a long time, I would find myself hearing, 'I like it but it's not Wonderful Life'." ...
Source: Article "Black (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Tan Songyun
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Tan Song Yun, or Seven, is an award-winning actor, singer and model born in Luzhou, Sichuan, China. A graduate of Beijing Film Academy, she got her start as a child actor in 2005 when she filmed the TV series “Wild Chrysanthemum” (山菊花). It was in the 2005 series "Live Your Days Peacefully" (好好过日子), however, that audiences first saw her.
In 2016, following her performance in "The Whirlwind Girl" (旋风少女), Song Yun snagged the Best New Actress award at the 22nd Huading Awards, earning her second Huading award—this time Best Actress—for "Under the Power" (锦衣之下). For her work on "The Fox's Summer" (狐狸的夏天), she won the award for Best Actress in a web series at both the 2nd Asia New Media Film Festival and the 2nd Golden Gudeo Media Awards in 2017.
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Bruce Lee
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Bruce Jun Fan Lee (Lee Siu Lung) was born on November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, CA while his parents were on tour with the Chinese Opera. Ultimately raised in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was a child actor appearing in more than 20 films. At the age of 13, Bruce took up the study of wing chun gung fu under renowned wing chun master, Yip Man. Bruce left Hong Kong at the age of 18, came to the United States and made his way to Seattle, Washington where he worked in the restaurant of a family friend. He soon enrolled in the University of Washington where he pursued a degree in philosophy. Bruce began to teach gung fu in Seattle and soon opened his first school, the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute. Two more schools followed in Oakland and Los Angeles. Concurrently Bruce married his wife, Linda and had his two children, Brandon and Shannon. In the mid sixties, Bruce was discovered while doing an exhibition at the Long Beach Internationals and a role as Kato in the tv series The Green Hornet soon followed. During this time, Bruce was also developing his own martial art, which he ultimately named Jeet Kune Do (translated: the way of the intercepting fist). Bruce's art was steeped in a philosophical foundation and did not follow long held martial traditions. Instead it had at its core the ideas of simplicity, directness and personal freedom. After The Green Hornet series was canceled, Bruce encountered resistance while working in Hollywood and so headed to Hong Kong to pursue a film career. In Hong Kong he made 3 films, which consecutively broke all box office records and showcased martial arts in an entirely new way. Hollywood took notice and soon Bruce was making the first Hollywood / Hong Kong coproduction with a film called Enter the Dragon. Unfortunately, Bruce Lee died in 1973 before this film was released. This film catapulted him to international fame. Today Bruce Lee’s legacy of self expression, equality, and pioneering innovation continues to inspire people all around the world.
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Carlos Esteban Fonseca
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Carlos Esteban Fonseca is a Puerto Rican actor and television host that rose to fame while co-hosting the hit television game show "Dame Un Break". Also famous for his portrayal of a broke down family man in the "La Fiebre" television movie saga.
His most famous role is in the 2005 film "Cayo", which started a huge cult following in his native island of Puerto Rico. Besides his work in local films and television shows, he has been known to participate in plays as well, most recently starring as "Edipo" in "Edipo Rey", for which he received great reviews.
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Doug Chapman
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Douglas 'Doug' Chapman is a Canadian stunt coordinator, stunt performer, actor, and director. He's also a member of Stunts Canada .
He began both his acting and stunt work career in 1996 with the film Street Gun (1996). Since then, he worked continuously throughout film and television series, including Smallville (2001), Fantastic Four (2005) and Stargate: Atlantis (2004).
He has been a stunt double for Kurt Russell, Dermot Mulroney, Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe, Robert Englund, and Christian Slater. He has also performed stunts for many commercials, including precision driving for commercials for Honda and Chrysler. Notable acting roles include Sergeant Cole in Stargate Atlantis and Roy Chess in Watchmen.
He has been involved with movies such as Freddy vs. Jason (2003), X2: X-Men United (2003), 300 (2006) and Watchmen (2009) among a countless heap of credits. In the film Watchmen, he performed the first ever bare-skin burn stunt performance in a feature film.
He was nominated for a Taurus World Stunt Award for Best Fire Stunt in 2004 for stunts performed in the film Freddy vs. Jason (2003), in which he doubled for actor Robert Englund, and performed a full body burn and wire stunt.
In addition to acting and stunt performing, Douglas has worked as a second unit director and stunt coordinator.
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Adam Blackwood
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Adam Blackwood (born 14 July 1959) is an English actor. Blackwood was born in Chichester, West Sussex, the only son of Rona (née Archer) and John Blackwood. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
Blackwood played Balazar in the first four episodes of the 1986 Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord. He has provided the voice of James Bond in four video games: The World Is Not Enough (Nintendo 64 and PlayStation), 007 Racing, Tomorrow Never Dies, and 007: Agent Under Fire.
Blackwood retired from acting in 2002 and since then has run Private Drama Events, a company specialising in corporate storytelling
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Antonino Pruiti
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Antonino was born in the borough of East York in Toronto, Ontario. The second child to Italian immigrant parents, he has been involved in the performing arts since a young child. Sometimes credited as Nino, Anthony or Tony, he was also very invested in the creation of small projects over the years beginning in his mid teens. This ranged from stage plays to short films, to web series. In his high school graduating year he, along with fellow artists, completed a successful feature film which received some attention.
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Tareq Salameh
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Tareq Monjed Edris Salameh (born December 9 1994)[1]is an affiliate of MrBeast known for being the primary cameraman of many of MrBeast's videos since 2017-2018. Sometimes, he even makes a few appearances himself, normally when MrBeast talks to the cameraman. For example, he appeared in Last To Leave Revolving Door Wins $50,000. His voice can commonly be heard from behind the camera. He was a challenger in Last To Leave The Tesla, Keeps It Challenge and If You Click This Video I'll Give My Friend .001$, the latter making Tareq gain over $210,000 because that video reached 210M views as of May 2024.
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