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Yumika Hayashi
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Yumika Hayashi (林由美香 Hayashi Yumika, June 27, 1970 – June 28, 2005) was a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She earned the title of "Japan's Original Adult Video Queen" during a 16-year career in which she starred in nearly 200 AVs and appeared in over 180 films. Hayashi was also a prominent pink film actress; she was the subject of a 1997 documentary and the recipient of the Best Actress award at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony in 2004 as well as receiving the Special Career Award the following year. Her death on June 28, 2005, one day after her 35th birthday, ended one of the longest careers in the AV field and made front-page news in Tokyo. Following her death, Hayashi was awarded a second Special Career Award at the 2006 Pink Grand Prix ceremony and became the subject of several theatrical retrospectives and a 382-page biography. [Wikipedia]
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Kyōko Enami
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Kyōko Enami (江波 杏子, Enami Kyōko) was a Japanese film and television actress. Enami was the daughter of the actress Kazuko Enami. She joined the Daiei Film studio in 1959 and made her screen debut in 1960 with Ashita kara otona da. Her first starring role as Noboriryū no Ogin in Onna no toba (1966) was a major hit, and developed into the Woman Gambler series that totaled 17 films. She also had serious roles, and won the best actress award from Kinema Junpo for Tsugaru Jongarabushi (1973). She died rather suddenly at a Tokyo hospital on 27 October 2018 of pulmonary emphysema, having performed on a radio drama only five days before.
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Rosa María Bianchi
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With 35 years of artistic career, Rosa María Bianchi is one of the most respected actresses in the industry due to the quality of her performances. Trained in the ranks of the University Theater Center (CUT), as well as at the National Institute of Fine Arts, she began her career in the television field thanks to projects such as “Monte Calvario”, “Cuna de lobos”, “The Strange Return of Diana Salazar” and “Teresa”.
Thanks to her versatility, Bianchi has been part of different television projects as well as plays that have allowed her to explore different facets, as she did in “The Shadow of the Caudillo”, “Women Who Dream of Horses”, “Now and in the hour”, “Puppets”, “I”, “The divine Sarah” and “Jacques and his master”. In film she has worked in more than 20 different productions such as “Amores Perros”, directed in 2000 by Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu, “Por la libre”, “Nicotina”, a film that awarded her an Ariel for Best Actress in 2004, “Out of Heaven”, “Dying on Sunday”, “Sultans of the South”, “The Misfits”, “What a shame your life”, “You will know what to do with me”, “Faust” among others.
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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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Mokobé Traoré
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Mokobé Traoré (born 24 May 1980 in Vitry-sur-Seine, France), better known by the mononym Mokobé, is a Malian–French rapper and part of the music collective 113 alongside Rim'K and AP and within the greater French musical project and collective Mafia K-1 Fry. He also has his own solo career with two album releases Mon Afrique in 2007 and Africa Forever in 2011.
Mokobé was born to a Malian–Senegalese father and a Malian–Mauritanian mother. He was a founding member of 113 and his works appeared in the collective albums of the band. He was also actively involved in the artistic aspects of the band and took part in the live shows of the band. He was also responsible for the band's mediatic image (Visuals, music videos, DVDs, interviews, public relations), becoming a de facto manager of the 113 operations.
His solo album Mon Afrique was in collaboration with David Tayorault in Abidjan and was released on 11 June 2007. Le Molare, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Oumou Sangaré, Patson, Fally Ipupa, and hip hop stars like Diam's and Booba.
His album Africa Forever included collaborations with Soprano), Nathalie Bleue, Oumou Sangare, Despo Rutti, Fode Baro, J-Mi Sissoko, Jah Cure, Mbaye Dieye Faye, Soumbill and Apocalypse.
Source: Article "Mokobé" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Bob Woodward
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Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist. He started working for The Washington Post as a reporter in 1971 and now holds the title of associate editor.
While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts.
Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate. He has written 21 books on American politics and current affairs, 13 of which have topped best-seller lists.
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Antonis Dagklidis
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He was born in Cairo in 1956. He studied architecture at the National Technical University (1974/78) and did his postgraduate studies in Paris, where he attended scenography courses as a freelance student. He worked as an architect in private and public projects (1984/93) and as an assistant to stage designer Savvas Haratsidis (1984/87). As an architect, he designed the Embros theater (in collaboration with Takis Fragoulis), the Neos Kosmos theater, the Analia space, as well as the space for the photography exhibition "Nelly's - Body and Dance" (Kalamata Dance Festival, 1997). He participated in the Greek representation at the 10th International Exhibition of Scenography and Theater Architecture "Prague Quadrennial 2003". As a set designer and costume designer, he has collaborated with the National Theatre, KTHBE, MMA (The Miracle Scene by George Kouroupos, The Turning of the Screw by Benjamin Britten), the Athens Festival, the New Art Stage-New World Theater, the Art Theaters , Piraeus 131, South, Horn, Poria, Mikri Porta, Embros, the OKTANA Dance Theater. He also collaborated with directors and choreographers, such as: Thomas Moschopoulos, Vangelis Theodoropoulos, Mimis Kougioumtzis, Stamatis Fasoulis, Nikita Milivojevics, Julia Pevsner, Viktoras Arditis, Nikos Hatzopoulos, Efi Theodorou, Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanasiou, Nikos Mastorakis, Elena Pega, Alexis Alatsis, Konstantinos Rigos, Haris Mantafounis, Apostolia Papadamaki et al. In total, he has participated in more than ninety productions. In cinema, he collaborated, among others, in the films Equinox by Nikos Cornelios (Thessaloniki Festival Screenplay Award, 1991), Wind in the City by Petros Sevastikoglou (State Quality-Screenplay Award 1996), Little England by Pantelis Voulgaris and on television in the series Because of Honor. He directed the opera Nabucco [Nabucco] (2006/07) for ELLS. He taught scenography at the Dramatic School of Theater Art (2003/04). He was an assistant professor of scenography and costume design (Cinema Department ASKT, AUTH).
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Rea Lest-Liik
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Rea Lest-Liik (born May 14, 1990) is an Estonian stage and film actress who came to prominence in the 2010s following leading roles in several Estonian films, such as November and Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow. She has won several awards for stage and film roles.
Rea Lest was born and raised in Tallinn. She is a 2009 graduate of the Jakob Westholm Gymnasium secondary school. In 2010, she enrolled at the University of Tartu to study art therapy, but left shortly after to enroll in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre's drama department to study acting under instructor Tiit Ojasoo. In 2012, she won the Voldemar Panso Young Actor Award while studying at academy. She graduated from the academy in 2014. Among her graduating classmates were actors Jaanika Arum, Helena Pruuli, Reimo Sagor, Simeoni Sundja, Kärt Tammjärv, and future husband Jörgen Liik.
In 2014, shortly after graduating from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Lest began an engagement at the Theatre NO99; a non-profit foundation repertory theatre in Tallinn. Lest left the theatre in 2018, prior to its closing in 2019.
Lest made her film debut in the 2014 student film comedy short Lõputu suvi (English: Endless Summer), directed by Jaan Penjam, and was Penjam's master's thesis production for the Film Department of the Baltic Film and Media School. In 2016, she was cast in her first feature-length film as the character Riin in the Kadri Kõusaar directed darkly comic crime mystery Ema (English: Mother). The film was selected as Estonia's entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category at the 2017 89th Academy Awards.
In 2016, was cast in the lead role of Liina in the 2017 Rainer Sarnet directed gothic fantasy thriller November, based on Andrus Kivirähk's 2000 novel Rehepapp ehk November. The film received positive reviews and was selected as the Estonian entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. It made its North American premiere in the International Narrative Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. The film is also notable for being Estonian veteran actor Arvo Kukumägi's last film role before his death in May 2017.
The same year, Lest appeared as the lead in the Sulev Keedus directed drama Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari (English: The Man Slayer/The Virgin/The Shadow). Lest portrayed three different protagonists in three historical triptychs of women in Estonia struggling to decide their own destiny.
In 2019, she appeared in a leading role opposite former Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre classmate Reimo Sagor in the Martti Helde directed psychological thriller Skandinaavia vaikus (English: Scandinavian Silence). The film won both the critics and the audience award at the 2019 Riga Film Festival.
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John Alford
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The Glasgow-born actor was cast in Grange Hill after attending a London stage school from the age of nine where he studied alongside EastEnders' stars Patsy Palmer and Sid Owen. After appearing briefly in an ITV sitcom called Now and Then (1983), Alford landed the role in Grange Hill (1978) at the age of 11. But the young actor found fame too tough to handle and started drinking heavily. By the time he left the show at the age of 17 he had reportedly spent up to £80,000 on alcohol and gambling.
John, most famous for his role of young fireman Billy in the hit TV series, London's Burning (1988), became an overnight pop star with reggae version of the song "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" which went into the UK charts at number 13 in 1996. In December of that year, just before he was due to appear in pantomime in Sunderland, Alford collapsed and was taken to hospital in Newcastle suffering from a rare blood disorder.
In May 1999, he was jailed for nine months for supplying drugs to an undercover Journalist. After the drug charges and sentence John found TV work extremely difficult to find and became a roofer. The following year he appeared in Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001), playing the part of Deano.
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Therica Wilson-Read
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Therica Alice Wilson-Read (born August 12, 1993) is an English actress. She is most notable for her roles as Sabrina Glevissig in the Netflix television series The Witcher (2019–2024), and as Polly in the film Stopmotion (2023). Other credits include Young Wallander (2020), Coyote (2023) and Back to Black (2024).
Wilson-Read was born in the North London Borough of Camden. When she was young, Wilson-Read expressed interest in pursuing Law or Psychology, however she attended Drama school at the suggestion of her mother as she always loved acting.
In 2019 she was cast in the Netflix television series The Witcher as Sabrina Glevissig, a sorceress in the Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Wilson-Read described her character as "powerful, feisty, opinionated and influential in the political arena" and remarked that playing Sabrina has helped bring out her own personal confidence. She appeared at the September 2023 ACME Comic Con as a notable guest in support of the show.
In 2023, she played the lead role in the film Coyote, a love story set in a human trafficking ring in a dystopian future setting. Wilson-Read was nominated for best actress for her performance as the protagonist at the Unrestricted View Film Festival Awards 2024. In 2023, she played a main role as Polly, alongside Aisling Franciosi, in the Robert Morgan directed psychological horror film Stopmotion (2023).
In 2024, she appeared as Becky in the 2024 Amy Winehouse biographical drama film Back to Black.
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