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Perico Delgado
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Pedro Delgado Robledo (born 15 April 1960), also known as Perico, is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1988 Tour de France, as well as the Vuelta a España in 1985 and 1989.
Delgado is 171 centimetres tall (5 ft 7-1/2 in) and used to weigh 64 kilograms (141 lb). He was a good climber, with an aggressive style, making cycling a spectacle, which gained him fans. On one hand, there were days when he was extremely successful attacking. On the other, he occasionally suffered from big losses of time due to mistakes or strokes of bad luck. He was also a good time-trialist until the nineties, when it became difficult for him to adapt to technical changes in the time-trial bicycles.
The ending of the 1987 Tour de France and the 1985 Vuelta a España and the whole 1989 Tour are among his more memorable participations in major competitions.
Delgado tested positive for the known masking agent Probenecid during the 1988 tour. The drug, which had been placed on the International Olympic Committee's list of banned substances in January of that year, was not banned by the sport's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (it was a month later); as a consequence, Delgado was allowed to continue racing and was not charged with any doping offence.
Delgado was such a consistently strong rider that he finished in the top 10 of eighteen Grand Tours.
He works now as a sports commentator for Televisión Española during important cycling events.
Delgado inspired the name of the Scottish indie-rock band The Delgados.
Delgado took part in the Tour de France eleven times. During his first participation, when he was 23, he rose to second place in the overall classification after the 17th stage, before falling back later in the event. From then on, Delgado was determined to achieve victory in this competition.
In 1983, the Reynolds team participated in the Tour for the first time. Delgado was a young rider, and Ángel Arroyo was the star of the team. That year the Tour had four individual time trials (ITT), plus the prologue, and six mountainous stages, so Delgado had enough opportunities to show his talent. After the 17th stage Delgado was second in the overall classification, 1´08" behind Laurent Fignon, another 23-year-old rider competing in the Tour for the first time. Unfortunately, Delgado drank a spoilt milk shake that caused him a stomach cramp during the next stage, ending in Morzine. He lost 25 minutes 34 seconds that day, and his first chance of winning the Tour. Delgado ended that Tour in 15th position, 25 minutes 44 seconds behind Fignon.
It was not the only setback he had in this race. On the contrary, in different years he suffered the fracture of a clavicle, the death of his mother during a stage, the communication of a "positive" result in a dope test that finally proved false (but after it was filtered to the media), gastroenteritis, and a tremendous mistake that led him to lose seven minutes in the first two days of the tour of 1989. ...
Source: Article "Pedro Delgado" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Lupita Lara
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She is recognized for her starring role in the series "Mi secretaria" (1978), becoming the first woman to star in a stand-alone program in Mexico. The series was so successful that it ran until 1986. Currently, she continues to act in telenovelas.
She began her career as an actress at a very early age, at 5 years old she made her debut in the children's play La Jota. At that time she also made her television debut, participating in the programs Bombonsico, Biberolandia and Yo fui testigo. In soap operas she made her debut in 1963 in El secreto with Magda Guzmán and José Gálvez.
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Aleksey Sharanin
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Aleksei Sharanin is a Russian actor and television host born on April 7, 1982, in Moscow. He graduated from Moscow State University of Culture and Arts in 2006.
In 2011, Sharanin started his TV career as a host of the "Good Morning" show (section "Useful Tips") on Channel One Russia (Perviy Kanal). He is also a singer and has showcased his improvisational acting skills at the Moscow Theater of Literary Improvisation from 2011 to 2012.
Aleksei has appeared in various music videos, including "Bluff" by the band "Bi-2". In 2013, he played in sketch comedies "Zaytsev Sisters: Welcome to Russia" by Grigory Gasparian and in "Oskolkovo 2" by Roman Doronin.
Aleksei Sharanin became a member of the Guild of Russian Film Actors in 2021 and, in 2023, joined the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. In 2023 he played the role of the Newspeak author in Diana Ringo's film "1984."
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Tarek Lotfy
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Taarek Lotfy is a talented Egyptian actor, he studied at the High Institute of Dramatic Arts and got the director diploma from the High Institute of Cinema at the 1980s. Lotfy participated in various works that helped him to him to book a place in audience’s hearts, among his most famous TV series are; Esma’eel Abdul Haafez’s “Al-‘aaela i.e. The family” and “Al’hakeeka wal saraab i.e. The truth and the mirage”. Taarek played an excellent role in the successful film “Se’eedy fel gam’a al-Amerikeyya i.e. An upper Egyptian at the American University”.
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Trishaan Singh Maini
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Trishaan Maini is a well-known Indian actor. He is well-known for his roles in TV shows such as Hadh, Crimes and Confessions, Abhay, and Bahut Pyar Karte Hai.
In 2011, quit his corporate job and came to Mumbai to seriously pursue a career in acting.
Started his career as a model and have done ramp shows for Lakme Fashion Week, India Bridal Week, United Colors of Benetton and have walked for ace designers like Manish Malhotra, Tarun Tahiliani, Rohit Bal to name a few. He has also done TVCs and print ads for international brands like Toshiba and SriLanka Airlines.
Later, joined Nadira Babbar's Theatre group to hone his acting skills and have been part of her plays.
Known for his pivotal character role of "Maninder" in the Umang Kumar movie Sarbjit (2016)
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Johann Sklenka
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Johann Sklenka (March 5, 1911 – August 5, 1983) was an Austrian composer, cabaret artist, actor, and director. He studied music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Vienna Music Academy, alongside training in acting.
Sklenka worked extensively on stage, particularly in cabaret and small theatre productions in Austria and abroad, including Vienna’s Kabarett ABC. From 1956 onward, he was active at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) as a composer and director, contributing to radio and television productions.
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Gloria Romero
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Gloria Romero (born Gloria Anne Borrego Galla; December 16, 1933 – January 25, 2025) was an American-born Filipino actress. Regarded as the "Queen of Philippine Cinema", she has appeared in more than 300 film and television productions throughout her career that spanned seven decades. She was Philippines' highest paid movie star of the 1950s and became the biggest box-office draw of the period.
Romero began appearing as a background actor at the age of 16. She made her feature film debut with a secondary role in Madame X (1952) and won the FAMAS Award for Best Actress for her performance as a tobacco-smoking maiden in Dalagang Ilocana (1954). She was posthumously conferred with the Presidential Medal of Merit in 2025 and has been the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from government agencies and major award-giving bodies, including the Luna Awards in 2002, FAMAS, Gawad Urian (both in 2004), the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) in 2009 and Film Development Council of the Philippines in 2024.
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Alikhan Rajabov
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Azerbaijani actor, director, and screenwriter Alikhan Vagif oghlu Rajabov was born on August 1, 1991, in Baku. In December 2016, he started his personal video blog. After gaining popularity through his video blogs, he passed the casting for the film "Kəklikotu" in 2017 and played the role of Qafar. Later, he began producing commercial videos for major companies. In 2018, he starred in the leading roles in the films "Woodpecker", "Winter Tale", and "Goodbye Schmidt!". In March 2019, he played the lead role in the television film The End of Show Business, broadcast on İctimai TV.
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Aisha Ibrahim
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A pioneering Kuwaiti actress, Aisha Ibrahim was born in 1944. She moved with her family to the Sharq neighborhood in Kuwait. She studied in Jibla and later attended high school, though she did not complete her graduation. In 1959, she joined the Girls’ Training Institute under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, where she studied for three years.
Her passion for theater grew during this time. After attending a stage performance, she expressed her desire to act to the renowned Mohamed El Nashmy, but he initially declined her request.
Undeterred, Aisha made her stage debut in 1963 in the play "Her Luck Breaks the Rock" (حظها يكسر الصخر). She transitioned to television and hosted the program "Diwaniyah TV", directed by Khaled Al Siddiq.
In late 1974, she co-founded the Free Theater group alongside other artists, contributing significantly to Kuwaiti theater, television, and radio. In February 1977, she was honored with the Shield of the First Arab Theater Star. Later, she received the Best Actress in a Leading Role award for her performance in the play "If the Camel Falls" at the first local theater festival in Kuwait.
She passed away in September 1992, leaving behind a legacy of artistic excellence.
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