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Jennifer McCartney
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Jennifer McCartney is a Canadian author and TV host. She is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books published in 18 (ish) countries. She is the co-host of The Happy Mess Method—a home organizing show streaming free on the Roku Channel.
Her books include The Joy of Series (W.W. Norton) and the Animal Philosophy Series (HarperCollins UK) as well as the humorous handbook, So You Want to Move to Canada, Eh? (Running Press), and The Rodent Not Taken: And Other Poems by Cats (Countryman Press). In addition to non-fiction, she has published one novel, Afloat (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin UK), a Canadian bestseller.
She has written for outlets like BBC Radio 4, The Atlantic, Architectural Digest, ADWEEK, Vice Magazine, Teen Vogue, Curbed, and CBC.
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Christy Imperial
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Christy Imperial is a Filipino actress and performer who began her career as a member of PPOP Generation, a girl group under Viva Entertainment. Her early experience in singing and live performance helped shape her confidence and on-camera ease, which she later carried into acting.
Since transitioning to film, Imperial has appeared in various Vivamax projects, steadily building a reputation for her composed screen presence and adaptability across genres. She continues to develop her craft through roles that highlight both her versatility and her grounded approach to performance, marking her as one of the emerging talents in contemporary Filipino cinema.
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Nithya Menen
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Nithya Menen is an Indian film actress and playback singer. She has acted in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada language films, as well as an English film. She won 2Filmfare Awards for the Telugu films Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and Malli Malli Idhi Rani Roju.
She once said in an interview that she never wished to become an actress but a journalist, as she was "an idealist", but felt journalism was "not what it used to be". She then decided to become a filmmaker as she could express her ideas "better through films", and enrolled for a course in cinematography at the FTII Pune. During the entrance examination, she met Nandini Reddy, who "brainwashed" and convinced her to take up acting. Vamshidhar Reddy would later turn director and sign Nithya for the lead female role in her first project.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Ricardo Bofill
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Ricardo Bofill Leví was a Spanish architect born December 5, 1939 in Barcelona and died January 14, 2022 in Barcelona. He is particularly known in France for the creation of the Abraxas spaces in Noisy-le-Grand and the Antigone district in Montpellier. His main influences are the architects Palladio, Mansart and Ledoux.
Ricardo Bofill is the son of the Catalan Emilio Bofill y Benessat, architect, and a Venetian, Maria Levi. He began his studies at the French high school in Barcelona, allowing him to master this language. He continued at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona, until his expulsion due to his activism in the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. He is also part, with other Spanish intellectuals of the 1960s, of the divine left. His anti-Franco action led him to continue his education at the Geneva School of Architecture. He did not return to Barcelona until after Franco's death in 1975. In 1963, he surrounded himself with architects, engineers, sociologists and philosophers, the core of what is today the Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. The group moved to Barcelona in 1975 in a former cement factory, La Fabrica, an initiative that has since become commonplace in the artistic world but an innovation at the time. This international team operates all over the world and uses modern techniques and know-how accumulated over more than forty years. The drawing of the city is a discipline extensively studied by the Taller de Arquitectura, particularly in the cities of Bordeaux, Luxembourg and Madrid, as well as Boston in the United States and Kobe in Japan. Among the main projects developed in China are the competition for the Olympic city of Qingdao, Landmark Buildings, a complex of high-rise buildings, the new residential districts "The Reflections and Sunshine Upper East Side", the Shangrila Hotel, all the three completed in 2009. The Antigone district in Montpellier, whose project initiated in 1980 continues to be enriched with new buildings, testifies to this approach: a piece of town designed and built by the workshop.
Among the major infrastructures built in Spain, mention should be made of the Barcelona-El Prat international airport in 1992 as well as its extension, the new terminal T1, delivered in June 2009. In Madrid, the Palace of Congresses (es) is one of the works the most significant of the Spanish capital. In the field of cultural facilities, Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura realized the Arsenal music center in Metz, the TNC - national theater of Catalonia in Barcelona, the Shepherd music school, within the University of Rice in Houston, and the Miguel-Delibes Cultural Center in Valladolid. Among the office projects built in Paris, the Paribas Marché Saint-Honoré office building and the headquarters of the Rochas, Dior, Decaux, Axa and Cartier companies stand out. Also worth mentioning, in the category of skyscrapers, is the Donnelley Building in Chicago, followed by the very recent Dearborn Center and the representative building of the Shiseido company in Tokyo.
Ricardo Bofill died on January 14, 2022 in Barcelona at the age of 82 from complications related to Covid-19.
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Mauro Soares
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Mauro Soares is an awarded Portuguese actor. Having started his career in theater during his Integrated Masters in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, he starred in films such as António One Two Three (IFFR 2017), Sol Alegria (IFFR 2018), Bela Mandil (Viennale 2018) and Half a Light-Year (IDFA 2021), having produced the latter. Mauro co-wrote and starred in Rain Hums a Lullaby to Pain (IFFR 2020), Life Lasts Two Days (FIDMarseille 2022) which he also produced, is a Berlinale Talents Acting Studio alumnus of 2019, part of the cast of The Portuguese Woman (Berlinale 2019) and 1st Assistant Director in The Kegelstatt Trio (Berlinale 2022).
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Kenichi Hagiwara
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Kenichi Hagiwara (born 26 July 1950 in Omiya, Saitama, Japan), also known as Sho-Ken, was the lead singer of The Tempters, the "bad boys" of the Group Sounds Japan pop scene in the mid and late 1960s. A teen idol with a legion of loyal fans, Hagiwara was known for his good looks and arrogance, which appealed to both young male and female Japanese fans. After The Tempters, he formed the band PYG along with Kenji Sawada, the first true Japanese supergroup, a unit which included members of The Tigers, The Tempters and The Spiders.
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Nathaniel Arcand
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Nathaniel Arcand (born November 13, 1971) is a Canadian actor and is Nēhilawē (Plains Cree), from the Alexander First Nation Reserve.
His first major role was as troubled teen William MacNeil for 3 seasons in the Canadian drama series North of 60. In 1997, he was nominated for a Gemini Award in the category "Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series" for the North of 60 episode "Traces and Tracks."
He had a major role as Clinton Skye in the CBS crime drama FBI: Most Wanted, and one of his longest running roles is that of Scott Cardinal on the CBC series Heartland. He has also appeared on Murdoch Mysteries, Smallville, Longmire, Bull, Supernatural, and Into the West, to name a few.
He portrays Victor Merasty on Blackstone, "an unmuted exploration of First Nations’ power and politics" set in a small Plains Cree community. He also portrays Nathan in the comedic drama Two Indians Talking, which won the 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival Most Popular Canadian Film Award. He appeared in Cold Pursuit with Liam Neeson, as well as many other films.
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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
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Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (née Kennedy; born July 4, 1951) is an American attorney who served as the sixth lieutenant governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She was the first woman to serve in that role. A member of the Democratic Party, she ran unsuccessfully for governor of Maryland in 2002.
In 2010, Townsend became the chair of the non-profit American Bridge, an organization whose focus is to raise funds for Democratic candidates and causes. Since 2021, she has served in the United States Department of Labor as an advisor on retirement. She is a member of the prominent political Kennedy family, and is the oldest grandchild of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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Audra McDonald
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Audra Ann McDonald is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win in all four acting categories. She has performed in musicals, operas, and dramas such as A Moon for the Misbegotten, 110 in the Shade, Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, and Porgy and Bess. In addition to her six Tony Awards, she has received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 2016 from President Barack Obama and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2017.
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