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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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Jason Gedrick
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An American actor best known for his work on the television series Murder One and Boomtown, as well as the motion picture Iron Eagle. Gedrick began his career as an extra in films such as Bad Boys (1983) and Risky Business (1983). After roles in The Heavenly Kid (1985), Iron Eagle (1986), Promised Land (1987) with director Michael Hoffman, Iron Eagle II (1988 in an uncredited role for the first few minutes of the movie), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Backdraft (1991), and Crossing the Bridge (1992), Gedrick appeared in television series such as Class of '96 (1993) and Sweet Justice (1994). In 1994, Gedrick starred in the film The Force with Yasmine Bleeth and Kim Delaney. Gedrick's big break was in Steven Bochco's innovative 1995 series Murder One. The series followed the trial of Gedrick's character, bad-boy actor Neil Avedon, alleged to have murdered a 15-year-old girl. The series, which also starred talent such as Daniel Benzali, Patricia Clarkson, Mary McCormack, Dylan Baker and Stanley Tucci was a runaway success. Due to this, a second season was commissioned. Due to network concerns, the new season featured several small cases rather than one big one. Anthony LaPaglia stepped in to replace the cast such as Benzali, Tucci and Gedrick, who had left, and the series was canceled midway through its second season. Gedrick's next major project was the three-hour TV movie The Third Twin, a 1997 thriller based on the best-selling 1996 novel by British writer Ken Follett. Gedrick plays a university employee accused of rape, whose friend later discovers he has a twin--and actually several more twins cloned by an evil millionaire university donor and biomedical technology CEO (played to the hilt by Larry Hagman, a.k.a. Dallas's J. R. Ewing). Gedrick next took roles in television series such as EZ Streets (1996), Falcone (2000) and The Beast (2001). None of which were major successes. In 1999, he guest starred on Ally McBeal as the "hot car wash guy". Also appearing in Mario Puzo's 1997 mini-series, The Last Don and in its sequel, The Last Don II. Gedrick returned to television screens as Tom Turcotte in 2002's Boomtown. The series, which also starred Donnie Wahlberg and Neal McDonough was a moderate success, but ratings plummeted - particularly after the second season suffered a format change, and Boomtown was cancelled. In 2003, Gedrick played Andrew Luster, the infamous rapist in a Lifetime movie based on his trial, A Date with Darkness. Gedrick is part of the cast of the 2006 NBC television series Windfall also starring Luke Perry and Gedrick's former Boomtown alumni, Lana Parrilla. In 2007 Gedrick again starred alongside Donnie Wahlberg in the A&E original movie Kings of South Beach. He is also the new love interest at Scavo's Pizzeria in Desperate Housewives Season 3 and 4 on ABC.
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Lukas Podolski
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Lukas Podolski is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was born on June 4, 1985, in Gliwice, Poland.
He began his professional career with 1. FC Köln and later played for Bayern Munich. In 2012, he joined Arsenal, where he made over 80 appearances and won the FA Cup in the 2013–14 season.
Podolski later played for clubs including Inter Milan, Galatasaray, and Vissel Kobe. At international level, he represented Germany, earning over 100 caps and winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
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Lata Mangeshkar
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Lata Mangeshkar was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She was the best-known and most respected playback singer in India. She was referred to as the Nightingale of India and the Queen of Melody. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and had spanned over seven decades. She recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and had sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, primarily in Marathi and Hindi. She was the recipient of three National Film Awards, 12 Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards, two Filmfare Special Awards, Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award and many more. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on her in 1989 by the Government of India. She was also the second vocalist, after M. S. Subbulakshmi, to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2001, India's highest civilian honor. She was the first Indian to perform in Royal Albert Hall in 1974. She was conferred France's highest civilian award (Officer of the Legion of Honour) in 2007. Due to all of her achievements, many singers and musicians consider her to be one of the greatest female singers in the Hindi film industry. She had four siblings—Asha Bhosle, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar—of whom she is the eldest.
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Nicholas Goroff
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Nicholas Goroff is an actor, writer and activist and born August 8th, 1983 in Beverly Massachusetts. He grew up primarily in New Hampshire in the towns of Londonderry and Manchester. After high school and a brief stint in the military, he attended college in Manchester where he studied Criminal Justice and Political Science, while working as a security officer and cook.
In 2008, after the birth of his daughter, his interest in politics led him to a career as a campaign consultant and field operative for the Political Action Committee (PAC) and Non-Profit sectors, engaging in everything from campaign management to field investigation and policy research. Following one such research project, where he was tasked to improvise various roles and performances in public in order to study reaction, he began dabbling in student and independent film, auditioning for Boston and New York based productions whenever time permitted.
For many years he traveled, both professionally as a political consultant and later, a union organizer as well as privately, "vagabonding" his way throughout the north east by way of bus, ride-share and whatever means he could find. It was in 2011 on a trip to New Orleans to see a friend (and fellow actor) that he first thought to try his hand professionally at acting. Since then, he has worked on numerous independent projects throughout New England and New Orleans.
Now residing primarily back in New Hampshire full time, he continues to act where time and roles permit while spending the majority of his time writing both fiction and as a journalist.
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Case Esparros
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Case Esparros is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and visual artist whose work often explores fractured memory, longing, and expressionistic portraits of solitude. A graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, Esparros has developed a deeply personal unique visual language, blending experimental and narrative forms of cinema to create films that feel intimate, uncanny, and emotionally resonant with his DIY film production label "Dancing Fireman Pictures." Through his films, Esparros creates an otherworldly mythology full of deeply fascinating outsider characters and eerie expressions of escapism. His short works have screened widely and garnered major praise in underground film circles for their sensitivity, surreal tone & world building. His no budget debut feature, a vivid gutter collage of the Christ story, King Baby (2019), was followed by his second feature The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost (2023), a haunting expressionist lyrical portrait of disconnection, grief and desire. Esparros continues to build an oeuvre rooted in handmade aesthetics, inner risk taking, and a commitment to storytelling as a form of personal and collective liberation. He lives and works in Highland Park, where he remains an active part of the Los Angeles creative community.
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Gin Clarke
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Gin Clarke was first spotted by French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier whilst on a trip in London. Soon her tall athletic figure and beautifully shaped bald head were gracing catwalks all over Europe. Her look was copied by a number of young, black models, especially in the UK where many bald black women modeled for UK shows in the mid-90s.
She no longer does catwalk modelling, but has appeared in the movies Le cinquième élément
(1997), the latest Star War films and several music videos. Her clean-shaven head has been a permanent feature and become the most important part of her look. - IMDb Mini Biography
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Heinz Zak
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Heinz Zak (born March 23, 1958 in Wörgl) is an Austrian climber, photographer, and slackliner.
Zak initially worked as a teacher but later turned climbing and mountain photography into his profession. As one of the pioneers of free climbing, he brought sport climbing from America to Austria by helping to develop sport climbing areas and routes of high and extremely difficult difficulty. His mountain home is the Karwendel Mountains and the Stubai Alps. He now works worldwide as a mountaineer and climbing photographer.
He has completed many extremely difficult and long routes down to the lower tenth grade. Not only in the Karwendel and Wetterstein regions, he has opened new routes and made previously unimaginable first ascents, such as the traverse of the Karwendel main ridge in winter and without a rope, a strenuous undertaking that included 36 peaks with 10,000 meters of elevation gain in just three days.
Zak has also climbed and photographed challenging routes and peaks in many other mountain ranges around the world, including in the USA in Yosemite National Park on the famous 1,000 m vertical granite face of El Capitan and in southern South America in Patagonia. One route there took him to Cerro Torre, and on the spectacular 1,300 m vertical rock face of Fitz Roy, he climbed the "Royal Flush" route with Peter Janschek in extreme weather conditions.
In May 2005, Heinz Zak was the second person, 19 years after Wolfgang Güllich, to free solo the "Separate Reality" route, a challenging crack and roof climb in Yosemite National Park.
Together with Bernd Ritschel, Heinz Zak is one of the most well-known mountain, climbing, and landscape photographers in German-speaking countries. Heinz Zak works for various mountaineering magazines, publishes books, and also presents his images in multivision shows. For the feature documentary "At the Limit" featuring world-renowned speed climbers Alexander and Thomas Huber, Zak shot stills from extreme positions on the 1,000-meter wall of El Capitan, among other places.
In November 2016, Heinz Zak accompanied top climber Adam Ondra on his second ascent of the world's hardest multi-pitch route, the "Dawn Wall" on El Capitan. Adam completed the climb in just eight days. The resulting documentary, "The Art of Climbing," also features Adam Ondra on some of the world's hardest sport climbing routes, such as "Silence" 9c in Flatanger, Norway.
Another of Heinz Zak's passions is slacklining. Heinz Zak is considered a pioneer in Europe in this sport as well. In 2005 and 2006, he organized the world's first slackline meetings in Scharnitz. Heinz Zak was also the first European to cross the Lost Arrow highline in Yosemite, still the most famous today, in 2003.
Heinz Zak lives in Scharnitz, Tyrol. He is married and has one son.
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Ruben E. A. Brown
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Ruben E. A. Brown is a SAG Eligible film/television/commercial actor. Some of his biggest credits to date are feature films Waves (2018) and Party Trollers (2018), Sci-Fi TV Show "It's Voice", commercials and productions for major brands such as Coca-Cola, Clorox, Ciroc, amongst others. He is also featured in the music video for the Official Anthem of the 2018 FIFA World Cup by Jason Derulo 'Colors' sponsored by Coca-Cola.
Ruben E. A. Brown was born on May 31 in Miami, Florida. From the beginning stages of life people would always gush over "the beautiful hazel-eyed baby boy." His mother and grandmother frequently captured his essence, taking him to take professional pictures monthly. At the age of 5 he was introduced to basketball. As the years went by his appealing attributes became more and more defined. Ruben succeeded in basketball and steered away from what's deemed as the "pretty boy" image. However, with his rugged good looks and bad-boy persona, Ruben gradually carved out a niche' as an actor.
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Rachel Parris
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Rachel Parris is an award-winning musical comedian, actress and improviser. Her songs have been played on BBC Radio 4 and BBC 6 Music, and she has enjoyed three highly successful solo Edinburgh runs. Rachel was named The Independent’s One To Watch 2014, and was nominated for a Chortle award. As an improviser, she has performed with The Comedy Store Players, The Oxford Imps, The Beau Zeaux, Scenes From Communal Living and The Bishop, as well as guesting with Grand Theft Impro and at The PIT and the Magnet in New York. She has appeared on Channel 4’s The IT Crowd and in BBC Three’s Murder in Successville, and presented Thronecast on Sky Atlantic. She also hosts the popular Throneroom podcast
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