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J.N. Canabarro
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J.N. Canabarro began his career in the south of Brazil as an actor in a local theater company. Later, in his own theater company, he became a director, set designer and actor. At the beginning of the 1980s, he had his first experience in cinema, acting in a Super 8 production, "Tempo sem Glória". From then on, he dedicated himself to regional and national productions. He has also appeared as an actor in TV series such as TV Globo's "O Tempo e o Vento" in 2014 and GNT's "Animal" in 2014. He has extensive experience acting in films, most recently in the film "Casa vazia", which won an award at the Gramado Film Festival (Brazil) in 2019. His most recent production is the feature film O Velho Nepo, scheduled for release in 2025.
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Haruo Tanaka
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Haruo Tanaka ( March 25 , 1912 – February 21, 1992 ) was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades.
After the war, he appeared in films for Toho and Shintoho , but gradually he began to demonstrate his unique personality and became active as a character actor, appearing in works by many of the great directors who have shaped the history of Japanese cinema, including Akira Kurosawa , Yasujiro Ozu , Kenji Mizoguchi , and Shiro Toyoda. He died of lung cancer on February 21 , 1992 , at the age of 79.
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Jester Hairston
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Jester Joseph Hairston (July 9, 1901 – January 18, 2000) was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor, and actor. He was regarded as a leading expert on Negro spirituals and choral music. His notable compositions include "Amen," a gospel-tinged theme from the film Lilies of the Field and a 1963 hit for The Impressions, and the Christmas song "Mary's Boy Child".
He sang with the Hall Johnson Choir in Harlem for a time but was nearly fired from the all black choir because he had difficulty with the rural dialects that were used in some of the songs. He had to shed his Boston accent and relearn the country speech of his parents and grandparents. Johnson had told him, "We're singing ain't and cain't and you're singing shahn't and cahn't and they don't mix in a spiritual." The Hall Johnson Choir performed in many Broadway shows including The Green Pastures. In 1936, they were asked to go to Hollywood to sing for the film The Green Pastures. At that time, a Russian composer, Dimitri Tiomkin, heard Jester and invited him to collaborate with him. This led to a thirty-year collaboration during which time Jester arranged and collected music for the movies. In 1939, Hairston married Margaret Swanigan. He also wrote and arranged spirituals for Hollywood films as well as for high school and college choirs around the country.
Hairston wrote the song "Mary's Boy Child" in 1956. He also arranged the song "Amen", which he dubbed for the Sidney Poitier film Lilies of the Field, and arranged traditional Negro spirituals. Most of Hairston's film work was in the field of composing, arranging, and choral conducting. Hairston also acted in over 20 films, mostly in small roles, some of which were uncredited. Among the films he appeared in were bit parts in some of the early Tarzan movies, St. Louis Blues, The Alamo, To Kill a Mockingbird, In the Heat of the Night, Lady Sings the Blues, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and Being John Malkovich.
In 1961, the US State Department appointed Jester Hairston as Goodwill Ambassador. He traveled all over the world teaching and performing the folk music of the slaves. In the 1960s he held choral festivals with public high school choirs, introducing them to Negro Spiritual music, and sometimes leading several hundred students in community performances. His banter about the history of the songs along with his engaging personality and sense of humor endeared him to many students.
Hairston appeared on TV's The Amos 'n' Andy Show. He had the role of Leroy on the radio program and as Henry Van Porter on the television program. He also played the role of Wildcat on the show That's My Mama. In his senior years he appeared in the show Amen as Rolly Forbes. His last television appearance was in 1993 on an episode of Family Matters. Hairston also played the role of "King Moses" on radio for the Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall show Bold Venture.
Hairston died in Los Angeles of natural causes in 2000 at age 98. Born in 1901, Hairston's life spanned each year of the 20th century. For his contribution to the television industry, Hairston has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6201 Hollywood Blvd. He is interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.
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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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Anita Chui
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Anita Chui is from a middle-class family. Dad is engaged in financial business. She cultivated interest in mathematics from a young age. Her mother is a housewife, her sister is a psychiatric nurse, and her younger brother is a college student. She has achieved excellent results since he was a child. He studied at Kowloon Tong International Kindergarten and York English Primary School. The secondary school was assigned to the Ho Man Tin Pentecost English School. She was raised by her parents when she was a child. She began to learn piano at the age of three and at the age of thirteen, she received the eighth grade qualification of the Royal College of Music. In his spare time,she began to receive official documentary education at the age of five, focusing on English and mathematics. she is active in various sports and performing arts in the school. She participated in the table team in elementary school. In the middle school period, she participated in the English poetry competition and choir and the inter-school volleyball team for four consecutive years. She completed her secondary school program and went to the University of Central Lancashire to study for a bachelor's degree in accounting and marketing. She then studied for a master's degree in business administration at the University of Sheffield. At the university level, she participated in many stage performances and dance performances in the UK, and was a cheerleader of the University of Sheffield, representing her school in 120 universities across the UK.
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Michael Ontkean
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Michael Leonard Ontkean (born January 24, 1946) is a Canadian retired actor. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ontkean relocated to the United States to attend the University of New Hampshire on a hockey scholarship before pursuing a career in acting in the early 1970s.
He initially came to prominence portraying Officer Willie Gillis on the crime drama series The Rookies from 1972 to 1974, followed by lead roles in the hockey sports comedy film Slap Shot (1977) and the romantic comedy Willie & Phil (1980). In 1982, he had a starring role opposite Harry Hamlin and Kate Jackson in the drama Making Love, in which he portrayed a married man who comes to terms with his homosexuality. Ontkean continued to appear in films, such as Clara's Heart (1988) and Postcards from the Edge (1990) before being cast as Sheriff Harry S. Truman on David Lynch's Twin Peaks (1990–1991), the role for which he is best known.
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Xander Berkeley
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Alexander Harper Berkeley (born December 16, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Sheriff Thomas McAllister on the crime drama The Mentalist, George Mason on the political thriller series 24, Percy Rose on the action thriller series Nikita, the Man on The Booth At The End and Gregory in AMC's The Walking Dead. His notable film roles include Todd Voight in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Agent Gibbs in Air Force One, Bowery Snax in Sid and Nancy, Dr. Lamar in Gattaca, Trevor Lyle in Candyman and Ralph in Heat.
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Jonathan Coachman
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Jonathan William Coachman, also known as "The Coach", is a former professional wrestling color commentator and authority figure. He is also a former college basketball player, and football play-by-play announcer. He is best known for his work with WWE, where he spent nine years as a commentator, interviewer, and occasional wrestler. He is currently the nationally syndicated afternoon drive host on ESPN Radio (Coach & Company), and serves as an anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN.
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Alexandra Neldel
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Alexandra Monika Neldel is a German actress, born February 11, 1976 in Berlin. She is known for playing the role of Lisa Plenske in the series Lisa's Destiny.
Born in 1976 in Berlin to Klaus-Eberhard Neldel, Alexandra Neldel graduated from the Realschule in Berlin-Steglitz.
She is doing an apprenticeship to be a dental assistant. She also works as a hostess.
In 1996, at the age of 20, she was spotted by an agent who asked her to audition for the television series The Rhythm of Life (Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten) and was accepted. From 1996 to 1999, she played the role of Katja Wettstein, where she appeared from episode 1072 until episode 1749.
In 1997, She posed for Playboy magazine.
But it was in 2005 that she really broke through as an actress, with the role of Lisa Plenske in the series Lisa's Destiny (Verliebt in Berlin). She had to get into the skin of her character using a wig, braces and glasses. She left the series at the end of the first season, with a three-hour wedding special. In the second season, Tim Sander played the main role, but the actress returned in mid-April 2007 to help the production, due to lack of audience. Then she leaves the series permanently.
She also made a few appearances in the cinema, notably in the film Autoroute racer, in 2004.
In 2006, she obtained one of the main roles in Zodiak, the German version of the French television soap opera Zodiaque. In 2008, she played in the police series Presumé Guilty, the role of a lawyer. For this role she received the Bavarian Television Prize.
In 2008, she played the lead role of Lena Berkow, a post-war woman in the 1950s in her brand new three-part TV film Die Rebellin.
From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra starred in a trilogical TV film: La Catin under the original name Die Wanderhure, La Châtelaine, (Die Rache der Wanderhure) and The Testament of the Whore, (Das Vermächtnis der Wanderhure) where she played Marie Shärer, medieval film with actor Bert Tischendorf.
In 2014, she played Verena Vermuth in the film The Forbidden Woman, based on a novel and true events. Alexandra plays alongside Mido Hamada (vo: Die Verbotene Frau).
In 2015 Alexandra starred in numerous TV films: Beauty and the Pilot, Beauty and the Boxer, Doctors Without Borders, as well as in the series Rosa wedding planeuse, where she organizes weddings.
In 2017, she starred in Allô pizza alongside actors Moritz Bleibtreu and Lucas Gregorovitz.
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Vidhya Pradeep
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Vidya Pradeep is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil and Malayalam films. Vidya Pradeep completed a Masters degree in biotechnology and then pursued a PhD at a leading eye hospital in Chennai. As a research scientist, she studied stem cell biology and continues to balance her commitments alongside work in the entertainment industry.She appeared in several commercials as a model and was spotted by director Vijay, who cast her in his successful family drama film, Saivam (2014) to portray Sara Arjun's mother. In the film, she put on weight to portray a middle aged woman, and the film and ensemble cast won positive reviews for their portrayal of a family. She then featured in the action drama, Adhibar (2015) as the lead actress opposite Jeevan, which opened to negative reviews Vidya then worked on Pandiraj's Pasanga 2 (2015) portraying the mother of a small child. In the film, she worked alongside actors Ramdoss, Karthik Kumar and Bindu Madhavi, while the producer Suriya also made a guest appearance.
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