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Derek Hamilton
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Derek Hamilton was born in Northern New Brunswick where his grandfather was the village blacksmith. He was a celebrated athlete and played hockey as well as boxed. He held the Maritime Provinces Golden Gloves title in his teens and early twenties and fought in the Bon Ami Festival (Dalhousie, New Brunswick) Tough man competition at age 18, winning the money he used to move from the Maritime Provinces to Vancouver B.C. Derek was discovered when he was noticed by a casting agent who saw him dropping off an actress at an audition. In the 20 years that have followed, Derek has consistently worked in film and TV. He Keeps busy acting and raising his beautiful family on British Columbia's Pacific coast.
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Jessie Lunderby
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Jessie Lunderby was born on December 23, 1988 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She first started modeling in late 2005. In 2007 Lunderby got a job as a detention officer at her local Sheriff's Office in Washington County, Arkansas. Jessie was the Playboy Cyber Girl of the Week for June 7, 2010. Lunderby was first placed on administrative leave and was eventually fired a month later from her job on the grounds that she had violated department policy by posing nude for Playboy. Jessie has subsequently not only done gigs as a body-painted model at Playboy Mansion parties, but also has worked as a promotional model for such companies as Hooters and Rockstar Energy. Lunderby now works as a Hooters Girl in Arkansas while continuing to pursue a career as both a model and actress.
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Tara Strong
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Tara Lyn Strong (née Charendoff; born February 12, 1973) is a Canadian and American actress. She is known for her voice work in animation, websites, and video games. Strong's voice roles include animated series such as The New Batman Adventures, Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!, Rugrats, The Powerpuff Girls, The Fairly OddParents, The Proud Family, Xiaolin Showdown, Ben 10, Chowder, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Unikitty!, and DC Super Hero Girls. She has also voiced characters in the video games Mortal Kombat X, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Jak and Daxter, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Blue Dragon, and Batman: Arkham. Strong has earned Annie Award and Daytime Emmy nominations and won an award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
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Louise Lorraine
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Louise Lorraine (October 1, 1904 – February 2, 1981) was an American film actress.
Louise started out in two-reel comedies for independent studios, then spent time at MGM and Universal. She became very popular in action-filled serials such as The Radio King and With Stanley in Africa in 1922.
She starred in 11 in all, showing much energy and charisma, not as much seen in many of her colleagues in that genre. Louise was selected one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922. She may be best-remembered for being the third actress to portray Jane, having portrayed the character in the 1921 movie serial The Adventures of Tarzan.[2] She starred in only five talkies in her film career, including Near the Rainbow's End (1930), co-starring Bob Steele. Following this film, she retired from the film industry to devote her time with her husband and two children.
She married twice. Her first marriage to actor Art Acord ended in divorce in 1928. Her second marriage to Chester J. Hubbard ended in 1963 upon his death. She had two children. She died in 1981, aged 76, in New York City, from undisclosed causes. Her interment was in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.
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Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac
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Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac CBE (22 January 1917 – 8 April 2015) was a French journalist, a member of the French Resistance and a historian. During World War II he directed the Free French propaganda radio broadcasts to Europe. After the war he helped create France's state-owned publishing house, La Documentation Française.
Crémieux was born to a middle class Jewish family in the Colombes suburb of Paris. His political awareness was raised in high school by his uncle Benjamin Crémieux (1888-1944), a literary critic. Through his uncle, Crémieux met and was influenced by the anti-authoritarian surrealism of André Malraux and the liberal internationalism of Stefan Zweig. He graduated from the Lycée Condorcet in 1933. But it was first during a school vacation in 1931 that he visited Germany and in subsequent trips saw first-hand the work of the Nazi Party. In 1935 he joined, and became the youngest member of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes (CVIA) which spearheaded the unification of left-wing politics in France.
During the Second World War he served as General Charles de Gaulle's 'propaganda chief in London'.
Source: Article "Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Olga Vanessa Aristodemou
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Olga Vanessa Aristodemou played Kirsty in the 2011 Lee Neville Entertainment short film Time Always Moving. Olga believes that a career in the entertainment industry is not a ‘dream’ but a realistic life choice and a fulfilling one at that. She has so far trained and worked professionally in LA, London and Cyprus. She has experienced a variety of mediums including Stage, Film and TV and Hosting and Commercial work. She also writes and draws and has taught modeling and worked in the field as a child. From her portrayal of Abigail Williams in 'The Crucible', to taking the stage at the ancient amphitheatre of Curium in Cyprus, where she originates, she is always ready to meet and surpass the demands of alternate spaces and audiences; with the desire to command her craft and prosper as an artist and a person. She has appeared in multiple short films and in the realm of comedy and improvisation, enjoyed a run at the Avery Schreiber theatre’s ongoing production 'One night stands-the sex comedies' written and directed by Paul Storiale in LA. Having had some practical training in radio broadcasting she plans to produce her own radio show in the near future. She has spent the past year exploring physical theatre and devised performance and developing her Meisner Technique at The Actors' Temple and The Actors Centre in London. When in LA she auditions frequently for feature films, working as News Anchor and Host at Transit TV and is in the preliminary stages of writing her radio show and book. She also takes an ongoing scene study class at The Ivana Chubbuck Studio. She aims to continue to build on her career internationally with a focus on independent film.
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Giusto Gervasutti
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Giusto Gervasutti, born on April 17, 1909, in Cervignano del Friuli and died on September 16, 1946, on Mont Blanc du Tacul, was an Italian mountaineer who opened numerous routes in the Alps, such as the northwest face of the Ailefroide and the Olan (considered at the time to be the biggest problem in the Alps after the Grandes Jorasses).
Gervasutti discovered the mountains at a very young age in the Carnic Alps and the Dolomites, where he forged his temperament as a top-level mountaineer. At sixteen, he began climbing seriously, quickly linking increasingly challenging routes, and then settled in Turin in 1931, which definitively opened the door to major climbs in the Western Alps. His first significant achievements were the south face of the Marmolada and the first ascent of Monte Siera above Sappada, which established his skill on rock faces. In 1932, he discovered high-altitude winter climbing on the Nordend and the Matterhorn, laying the foundations for a style characterized by speed, commitment, and a quest for difficulty in the most challenging conditions.
Very quickly, Gervasutti tackled the major problems of the era: in 1934, he opened the northwest face of the Olan, then considered one of the greatest alpine challenges after the Grandes Jorasses, followed by the northwest pillar of the Ailefroide Occidentale in 1936, often cited as one of the most beautiful lines in the Écrins massif. He also made the first ascent of the northeast couloir of Mont Blanc du Tacul and, with Boccalatte and other companions, established a series of pre-war routes that left a lasting mark on the Mont Blanc massif. Nicknamed "Il Fortissimo" for the physical and mental strength he displayed on the rock face, he combined technical mastery on rock, ice, and mixed terrain, a curiosity for modern equipment—particularly Vibram soles—and a keen sense of route finding that impressed his contemporaries. His masterpiece remains the first ascent of the east face of the Grandes Jorasses, achieved in 1942 with Giuseppe Gagliardone, while he was an officer during World War II. This route, long considered the most demanding in the Mont Blanc massif, crystallized his vision: a direct, committing climb where technical difficulty is compounded by extreme psychological exposure.
Gervasutti died on September 16, 1946, on Mont Blanc du Tacul, the victim of a rappelling accident, leaving a legacy that extends far beyond his list of first ascents. His routes – Devies-Gervasutti on the Ailefroide, Gervasutti-Boccalette on the Gugliermina peak, the north pillar of the Frêney, the east face of the Grandes Jorasses – remain classics that still define high-level mountaineering. Giusto Gervasutti, a solitary and tormented mountaineer, endowed with an impeccable moral compass, an advocate of lightweight and ethical mountaineering, forever in pursuit of an unattainable happiness, is forever a legend of the mountains.
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Jennifer Hudson
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Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981), also known by her nickname J.Hud, is an American singer, actress, and talk show host. Hudson rose to fame in 2004 as a finalist on the third season of American Idol, placing seventh. She made her film debut as Effie White in the musical Dreamgirls (2006), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the youngest African-American to win in a competitive acting category. After signing to Arista Records, Hudson released her self-titled debut studio album in 2008, which was certified Gold in the US and the UK, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album.
Hudson's subsequent studio albums, I Remember Me (2011) and JHUD (2014), both charted within the top ten of the Billboard 200, with the former also being certified Gold in the US. Meanwhile, her other acting roles include the films Sex and the City (2008), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Winnie Mandela (2011), Black Nativity (2013), Sing (2016), Cats (2019) and Respect (2021), the television shows Smash (2012), Empire (2015) and Confirmation (2016), and her Broadway debut with the musical The Color Purple. Hudson also contributed as a coach on the UK and the US version of The Voice from 2017 up to 2019, becoming the first female coach to win the former.
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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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Keith Buterbaugh
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Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Keith grew up loving the outdoors, skiing, fishing, and camping until his parents returned to their roots in the Amish country of Western Pennsylvania. It was here, during his teenage years that he discovered music, acting and theatre. He received a bachelors degree in music education/trumpet from Clarion University and then spent the next three years as a high school band director in Northwestern Pa. From there, he moved to South Florida to work on a masters degree from the University of Miami in theatre/voice. After graduating, New York became his home as he pursued his love affair with story telling and performance.
Within three years, he was co-starring with Tammy Grimes, Off-Broadway in "Mademoiselle Colombe", when Harold Prince saw his work and invited him to join the Broadway company of "Phantom Of The Opera". Since then he has starred in Broadway productions working with Stephen Sondheim and John Doyle, regional theatre, opera, and an appearance at the White House for President George H. Bush. Symphonic concerts have taken him all over the world with Skitch Henderson and Peter Nero.
Early television appearances lead to more definitive work in film and episodic television, including "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", "Royal Pains" and "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll". Recent film work includes "Joker", "Red", "Diving Normal", and "Crime Partners".
As a writer, his screen play "Conduit" finds the most cynical woman on earth traveling through time to alter the events of 33 AD. Outrageous exploits and shocking discoveries force her to confront personal demons or risk a cataclysmic change of history.
Keith continues to make the New York area a home for his family, and when he's not busy on set or in the theatre, he spends much of his time pursing his love for flying. As a single engine pilot, his perfect weekend is a flight to some location where he can return to the outdoors, golfing, scuba diving, skiing, camping or fishing.
(Biography by SYI.)
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