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Ernesto Sevilla

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Ernesto Sevilla López is a Spanish TV director, actor, comedian, screenwriter and TV presenter. Career He began as a screenwriter for Paramount Comedy. In July 2015 he became a main character in La que se avecina with Jordi Sánchez and Nathalie Seseña. He appeared in an advertising campaign for Amena. In February 2018 he presented with Joaquín Reyes the 32nd Goya Awards. He portrayed the TV series Capítulo 0 with Joaquín Reyes, which was released on 11 September 2018. In April 2019 he appeared in the film I Can Quit Whenever I Want, directed by Carlos Therón and starring Amaia Salamanca, Cristina Castaño and Miren Ibarguren.
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Harini

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Harini is an Indian film playback singer and classical singer, who sings mainly in Tamil films. She sings in Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada language films, whilst working with many leading film composers. She considers legendary singer K. S. Chitra as her inspiration. She is married to another playback singer Tippu. Harini learnt Carnatic music from Gowri and Radha Viswanathan from the age of four. In her later years, she learned from Sudha Raghunathan and currently from Suguna Purushotthaman. She used to participate in school competitions and in one such competition which she won, A. R. Rahman who distributed the prizes invited the winners to his studio to record their voices. Subsequently, she was called by Suhasini Maniratnam to sing "Nila Kaigirathu" for her first film Indira. Her very first song, "Nila Kaigirathu", was recorded at the age of 15. Since then, she has received offers from various music directors across South India. Within a career spanning for a decade, she sang over 2000 film songs and several album songs, most of them in Tamil. She is also credited for her good memory skills for not having any reference while singing in her stage shows. She claims to have known all her songs by heart at any point in time.
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Carlos López Puccio

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Carlos Alberto Daniel López Puccio (born October 9, 1946, in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is a multi-instrumentalist musician, orchestral and choral conductor, composer, arranger and one of the current members of Les Luthiers. After graduating from orchestral conducting in La Plata, he was hired by Les Luthiers to play the fiddlecan (a violin made of tuna can), and famously learnt the repertoire in two days (around 1970). For the next season, he started a songwriting partnership with Jorge Maronna, and they penned 'Pieza en Forma de Tango'; he also composed 'Voglio Entrare Per la Finestra' (with libretto by Marcos Mundstock) and around June 1971 he was invited to be a group member rather than a paid collaborator. During the first years in Les Luthiers, López-Puccio played other instruments such as cello, viola and percussion, and he often provided backing vocals. He also composed all the music for many pieces for the group, including 'Concierto de Mpkstroff' (which features group-mate Carlos Núñez Cortés as soloist) and 'Brotan und Gretchen'. He slowly gained notoriety scripting jokes for his groupmates as well as occasional song lyrics. From 1979 onwards he also played piano, synthesiser and harmonica for several musical pieces, especially since Ernesto Acher left the group, and they started including electronic keyboards more often. He also became more and more involved as an actor, having several starring parts from the 80's onwards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlos López Puccio, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Radivoje 'Lola' Đukić

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Radivoje Lola Đukić ( Smederevo , April 3 , 1923 - Belgrade , September 7 , 1995 ) was a Serbian and Yugoslav television, theater and film director and comedian. He was born on April 3, 1923 . in Smederevo. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and film direction at the High Film School in Belgrade. First, he worked as an editor of the Children's and Drama program, as well as the Entertainment program of Radio Belgrade . He is the founder of the Humorist Theater ( Pozorište na Terazije ), and at Television Belgrade since its inception, he has worked as an assistant director for production, chief and responsible editor of the cultural and artistic program (until 1963 ). He dedicated most of his activities at Television Belgrade to comedy programs. He directed several feature films. In addition, he filmed documentaries, educational and puppet films, as well as writing songs and theater plays for children. He is the author of numerous comedies: Zlatni Maidan, God Died in Vain, Man with Four Legs, I Have to Kill Peter, The Happiness Maker, One Love and Five Dead People, Steal, Steal, Steal, and the musical Kill or Kiss. As a comedy writer, Đukić is one of the most played domestic authors of the 1960s and 1970s on Yugoslav theater stages. He dedicated the largest part of his comedic creativity to the television medium. He is the author of about 200 serial comedy shows and TV comedies and satires, most of which he directed himself. He is the author of humorous memoirs published in the book " Sclerotic Memoirs". He was married to actress Vera Đukić . Their son Andrija was also a director. His second wife was the journalist Jelena Jovanović, who after Lola's death did everything to ensure that his work would not be forgotten. He died on September 7, 1995. in Belgrade.
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Christopher Lee

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Lee joined TCS on a contract in 1995 after emerging as 1st runner-up in the male category of the Star Search programme in 1995. He worked as a factory worker, salesman and part-time model before joining star search in 1995. Lee first started acting in Chinese-language television dramas produced by Channel 8. Lee rose to prominence in his career after winning the Best Actor award at the Star Awards 1997 for his role as a hanjian in the television drama The Price of Peace, set in Japanese-occupied Singapore during World War II. In 1998, he starred as Yang Guo in The Return of the Condor Heroes, an adaptation of Louis Cha's novel of the same title. He was voted in as Taiwan's Most Popular MediaCorp Male Artiste at the Star Awards 1998 for his performance. Since then, Lee has acted in many television series jointly produced by Singapore and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, co-starring with actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan, such as Nadia Chan, Vincent Chiao, Jimmy Lin and Jordan Chan. Apart from acting, Lee also recorded the theme songs of MediaCorp's television dramas. He released his first solo album in 1999 and another one in 2002. At the 2010 Star Awards, Lee was awarded the coveted All-Time Favourite Artiste Award after winning the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award from 1997–1998, 2000, 2002-2009 respectively with long-time colleague Mark Lee. He became the first non-Singaporean artiste to win the award. More recently, Lee has also ventured into hosting and has hosted several travel and food programmes. He was nominated for the Best Info-Ed Show Host award at the Star Awards 2012.
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Isabela Merced

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Isabela Yolanda Moner (born July 10, 2001), known professionally as Isabela Merced since 2019, is an American actress and singer. She played the lead role of CJ Martin on the Nickelodeon television series 100 Things to Do Before High School (2014–2016) and voiced Kate in Nickelodeon's animated spinoff series Dora and Friends: Into the City! (2014–2017). In film, she has played Izabella in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Lizzy in Instant Family (2018), Isabel in Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), the titular character in Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019), and Rachel Cooper in the Netflix film Sweet Girl (2021).
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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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Hedie Tehrani

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Hedie Tehrani is a Persian actress who was born in 1972 in Tehran, Iran. The turning point of her professional work was formed with the movie "Sultan" made by Massoud Kimiaei. Her first play was in "The Red" movie by Fereydoun Jeirani, and the second one was for Asghar Farhadi's "Fireworks Wednesday" movie which she won the Best First Role Actress Award for the Fajr Festival. Also, She was nominated for Crystal Simorgh for "Esrafil" made by Aida Panahandeh and "Seven Minutes to Fall" made by Alireza Amini, for Best First Role Actress. Among the best movies that she has been featured in, "The Red" by Fereydoun Jirani, "Fireworks Wednesday" by Asghar Farhadi, "Shokran" by Behrouz Afkhami and "Unruled Paper" by Nasser Taghvaei can be named.
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Soumendra Bhattacharya

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The co-founder of Kolkata-based theatre company Mad About Drama, Soumendra Bhattacharya made his feature film debut with the Bengali horror thriller Ludo (2015). Since then, he has appeared in the detective thriller Byomkesh O Agnibaan (2017) and the television series Charitraheen (2018). In 2019, Soumendra essayed a pivotal role in the horror thriller film Bhoot Chaturdashi, which was directed by Shabbir Mallick. Soumendra Bhattacharya was born and brought up in Kolkata. He went to school at Don Bosco Park Circus and grew up shy and quiet until one day in standard nine he discovered his love for public speaking and plays.
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Patricia Quinn

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens (born 28 May 1944) is a Northern Irish actress best known for her role as Magenta in the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Hers were the red lips that appeared in the film's opening song "Science Fiction/Double Feature" (although the singing voice was that of Richard O'Brien). She has appeared in many film and television roles including the Rocky Horror semi-sequel, Shock Treatment (1981), as well as I, Claudius (1976), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), and the 1987 Doctor Who serial Dragonfire. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Patricia Quinn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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