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Michael Bowen
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Michael Bowen (born June 21, 1953) is an American actor. Films he has appeared in include Jackie Brown, Magnolia, and Less Than Zero. Bowen also had a recurring role as Danny Pickett on the ABC television series, Lost.
Bowen (also credited as Michael Bowen Jr.) was born to actress Sonia Sorel (1921–2004) and Beat painter Michael Bowen. He is half-brother to Robert and Keith Carradine. His nieces are actresses Martha Plimpton and Ever Carradine.
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Anastas Mikoyan
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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (English: /miːkoʊˈjɑːn/; Russian: Анаста́с Ива́нович Микоя́н; Armenian: Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան; 25 November 1895 – 21 October 1978) was an Armenian Communist revolutionary, Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman. He was the only Soviet politician who managed to remain at the highest levels of power within the Communist Party while that power oscillated between the Central Committee and the Politburo. His career extended from the days of Lenin, to the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, to his peaceful retirement under Brezhnev.
An early convert to the Bolshevik cause, Mikoyan participated in the Baku Commune under the leadership of Stepan Shahumyan during the Russian Civil War in the Caucasus. In the 1920s, he served as the First Secretary of the North Caucasus region. During Stalin's rule, Mikoyan held several high governmental posts, including that of Minister of Foreign Trade. However, by the 1940s, Mikoyan began to lose favour with Stalin. In 1949, he lost his long-standing post of minister of foreign trade, and in October 1952, Stalin attacked him harshly at the 19th Party Congress. When Stalin died in 1953, Mikoyan again took a leading role in policy-making. Together, he and Khrushchev crafted the de-Stalinization policy and later he became First Deputy Premier under Khrushchev. Mikoyan's position during the Thaw made him the second most powerful figure in the Soviet Union at the time.
Mikoyan made several key trips to communist Cuba and to the United States, acquiring an important stature on the international diplomatic scene, especially with his skill in exercising soft power to further Soviet interests. In 1964 Khrushchev was forced to step down in a coup that brought Brezhnev to power. Mikoyan served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nominal Head of State, from 1964 until his forced retirement in 1965.
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Liane Curtis
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Daughter of Jack Curtis and Paulette Rubinstein was born in NYC on July 11, 1965. She made her debut on the pilot of "Sesame Street" (1969) at the ripe age of 4. Liane went to the Lycee Francais de New York and then to the Rudolf Steiner School. She studied acting with Anthony Mannino and Bill Alderson. Liane worked behind the scenes throughout her childhood dubbing several foreign films into English. Liane was a member of the Metropolitain and City Opera children's choruses. Liane's feature film debut was in John Sayles's Baby It's You (1983) in 1983. She was given special permission by SAG to work as an adult even though she was still a minor. Liane currently lives happily in Los Angeles with her husband and three children. She has written several songs which she has been known to play at coffee houses on the Westside of LA from time to time and works in TV and Film as often as she can. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Liane Curtis
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Roddy Llewellyn
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Sir Roderic Victor Llewellyn, 5th Baronet (born 9 October 1947), is a British baronet, garden designer, journalist, author, and television presenter. He had an eight-year relationship with Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
Llewellyn was born in Crickhowell, Brecknockshire, the younger son of Sir Harry Llewellyn, 3rd Bt. (d. 1999), an Olympic gold medallist in show jumping, and his wife, the Hon. Christine Saumarez (d. 1998). He was educated at Shrewsbury School and then received a National Certificate in Horticulture at Merrist Wood College. In 2009, he succeeded his elder brother, Dai, to the Llewellyn baronetcy.
In 2012, Llewellyn discussed his early life at Gobion Manor and later, at Llanfair Grange, with some sadness. His parents were often away at equestrian events, and his nanny, Rebecca Jenkins, became his muse, encouraging the boy's gardening. By age 7, he was sent to Hawtreys, a boarding school.
Beginning in 1973, Llewellyn, then aged 25, began an affair with Princess Margaret, then 43. They had met in Scotland at the Café Royal in Edinburgh in September 1973. Margaret's biographer Theo Aronson made this comment some years later, "He was well-mannered, well-spoken, and amusing; above all, he was very sweet-natured."
In 1976, photographs of the couple in Mustique led to a scandal. In the tabloids, he was referred to as her "toy boy". Llewellyn issued a public statement which said, "I much regret any embarrassment caused to Her Majesty the Queen and the royal family, for whom I wish to express the greatest respect, admiration and loyalty".
The much publicised eight-year relationship was a factor in the dissolution of the princess's marriage to the Earl of Snowdon. After Princess Margaret's break-up with Llewellyn, she destroyed all of their correspondence, according to her then chauffeur, David Griffin.
According to Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner, quoted in the 2018 documentary Elizabeth: Our Queen, the monarch discussed Llewellyn with her after Princess Margaret's funeral in 2002. She offered Lady Glenconner thanks for having introduced her sister to him because "he made her really happy".
On 11 July 1981, Llewellyn married Tatiana Soskin, a daughter of film producer Paul Soskin. The couple have three daughters, Alexandra, Natasha, and Rosie. Alexandra, the eldest, is a designer and artist.
Llewellyn has said, "I have always been fascinated by plants...They give me an enormous amount of solace."
It was apparently his nanny, Rebecca Jenkins, who introduced him to gardening. When the family removed to Llanfair Grange, Llewellyn said, "we had huge lawns and wonderful views. It was pretty country...it had a big vegetable garden and fabulous trees." Throughout Llewellyn always regarded himself as part of that rich Welsh heritage beneath the Sugar Loaf Mountain. Llewellyn runs his own company, Roddy Llewellyn's Garden Design. ...
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Giorgos Sevastikoglou
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Giorgos Sevastikoglou (Istanbul 1913 - Athens 1990) was a Greek playwright, translator and director. He actively participated in the National Resistance.
Sevastikoglou was born in Fanari, Constantinople in 1913. The following year his family settled in Athens. He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens. He was a founding member of the Art Theatre and first appeared in the literature with the translation of the play Swanepoel by August Strindberg, directed by Karolos Koun in 1942. The following year, the Art Theatre "Karolos Koun" staged the play Constantine and Helen with which he began his dual artistic activity, as a director and translator. He was responsible for the B' department of the United Artists Troupe, which was a pole of attraction for left-wing playwrights and actors from 1945. He was in charge of the film crew of the Democratic Army in Grammos. After the end of the civil war, he went into self-exile in the Soviet Union, first in Tashkent and then in Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Theater Academy and became known as a director and translator. His play Angelos, translated into Russian, was staged by eighteen Soviet stages, including the Vakhtangov Theater.
In 1965 he returned to Greece. He collaborated as a director with the Alexandrakis-Georgoulis troupe, while Karolos Koun staged his play Angelos. After the imposition of the dictatorship of the colonels in Greece, he fled again, this time with his wife Alki Zei to Paris. There he taught at the Sorbonne University and the Paris Conservatory and also founded the Praxis troupe.
He returned to Greece in 1974 where he was active in the fields of directing and translation. In 1981 he settled in Athens. In 1985 he directed at the National Theatre the play Death of the Royal Commissioner, which he had written thirty years earlier. He translated works by George Bernard Shaw, Erskine Caldwell, Claude André Pizet and directed ancient classics, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, Alexei Arbuzov, etc. He died in 1991.
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Dominique Coq Vassallo
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An accomplished musician, actor, director and singer/songwriter, Dominique has had a devotion for performing arts since she was a child. At age seven, she had already married a passion for humanitarianism and music by giving a series of concerts for famine relief, recognized by the New York, Philadelphia and London, Philharmonic Orchestras. Her work has led to many accolades, events, stage productions and television appearances. Her love to connect entertainment and philanthropy also found it's way in her luxury, handmade jewelry collection, worn on the red carpet and by the likes of Minnie Driver, Patti Labelle, Vanessa Williams. Dominique also wrote "Let My Life" on the Bright Ones Album
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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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Frank McHugh
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Francis Curray "Frank" McHugh (May 23, 1898 – September 11, 1981) was an American film and television actor.
Born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a stock theatre company and as a young child he performed on stage. His brother Matt and sister Kitty performed an act with him by the time he was ten years old, but the family quit the stage around 1930. Another brother, Ed, became a stage manager and agent in New York.
McHugh debuted on Broadway in The Fall Guy in 1925. Warner Bros. hired him as a contract player in 1930. McHugh played everything from lead actor to sidekick and would often provide comedy relief. He appeared in over 150 films and television productions and worked with almost every star at Warner Bros. He was a close friend of James Cagney and appeared in more Cagney movies than any other actor. He appeared with him in eleven movies between 1932 and 1953. Their friendship lasted until McHugh's death.
By the 1950s his film career had begun to decline, as evinced by his smaller role in Career (1959). From 1964 to 1965 he played the role of Willie Walters, a live-in handyman, on ABC's sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. His last television appearance was as Charlie Wingate in the episode "The Fix-It Man" on CBS's Lancer western series. McHugh played a handyman in that role too.
McHugh was married to Dorothy Spencer. He had three children and two grandchildren.
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Jesse Einstein
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Jesse Einstein is an actor, voice-over artist, and filmmaker living in Los Angeles.
He has appeared on television (The League, Kroll Show, Lopez) and stage (Originating the role of Komitas in Komitas at Atwater Village Theatre, Jared in Paloma at LA Theatre Center, and playing Marvin in Falsettos at Third Street Theatre “Pitch perfect!” - LA Times) and in film where he’s worked with William H Macy, Rhea Perlman, John Rubinstein, and Brittany Snow. As a voiceover artist he has performed in commercials and narrated dozens of widely-distributed audiobooks.
As a filmmaker, Jesse has produced internationally distributed content for Sky TV, Radical Productions, Rock the Vote, Mom+Pop Music, The Media Collective, and Dawn Machine.
Jesse is a member of The Road Theatre and Road Friez Sketch Comedy Team (performing monthly at The Ruby in Los Angeles), and is an alum of University of Southern California (David Dukes Scholarship Award), The Atlantic Acting School (NYU), Second City, and UCB.
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Dusty Mitchell
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Dusty Mitchell was born in Georgia, but he was raised and spent most of his childhood in the small town of Valley, Alabama except for a few brief, but impressionable years in Houston, Texas. Dusty majored in Theatre at Auburn University and served as a Security Forces troop in the Air Force. During his six years of service Dusty served two tours overseas. Finishing his military obligation with the rank of Staff Sergeant. After his military service he set his sights on working in film, studying and developing himself not only from a perspective in front of the lens, but also behind the scenes.
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