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Georgia Craig
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Georgia Craig (born March 20, 1979, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress. She pursued classical studies at Montreal's National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 2001. She worked as a pollster and bartender before her first movie appearance in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in 2003.
Craig is known to science fiction fans from her roles as Sabrina Gosling in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Moebius" and as Oracle Yolanda Brenn in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. Craig was a casting associate working on the CBC Television drama Arctic Air. Georgia Craig was passionate about acting from a young age. Then She pursued classical studies at Montreal’s National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 2001.
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James Hunt
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James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 – 15 June 1993) was a British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1976. After retiring from racing in 1979, Hunt became a media commentator and businessman.
Beginning his racing career in touring car racing, Hunt progressed into Formula Three where he attracted the attention of the Hesketh Racing team and was soon taken under their wing. Hunt's often action-packed exploits on track earned him the nickname "Hunt the Shunt." Hunt entered Formula One in 1973, driving a March 731 entered by the Hesketh Racing team. He went on to win for Hesketh, driving their own Hesketh 308 car, in both World Championship and non-Championship races, before joining the McLaren team at the end of 1975. In his first year with McLaren, Hunt won the 1976 World Drivers' Championship, and he remained with the team for a further two years, although with less success, before moving to the Wolf team in early 1979. Following a string of races in which he failed to finish, Hunt retired from driving halfway through the 1979 season.
After retiring from motor racing, he established a career commentating on Grands Prix for the BBC. He was known for his knowledge, insights, dry sense of humour and his criticism of drivers who, he believed, were not trying hard enough, which in the process brought him a whole new fanbase. Hunt died from a heart attack aged 45. He was inducted into the Motor Sport Hall of Fame on January 29, 2014.
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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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Martin Whitmarsh
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Martin Richard Whitmarsh is a British businessman and Group CEO of the Aston Martin Performance Technologies team since 21 September 2021. Whitmarsh is best known to motorsport insiders, media, and fans for his long and successful period at McLaren, for which he worked for 25 years (1989–2014) in various senior positions, including group chief executive officer, as well as Formula One Team Principal for six years (2008–2014).
Under his leadership, McLaren diversified its business activities beyond its core activity of Formula One, launching McLaren Automotive and McLaren Applied Technologies. Whitmarsh played a senior and leading role in the winning of more than 100 Formula One Grands Prix and multiple Formula One World Championships, and was at the centre of the development of several Formula One World Champions, including Lewis Hamilton. Whitmarsh was also chairman of the Formula One Teams Association for three years (2010–2012).
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Neil Oatley
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Neil Oatley is a British design and development director in Formula One teams. Born in Britain, Oatley graduated from Loughborough University in 1976 with an automotive engineering degree. He worked briefly outside motor racing before joining the Williams team in 1977. There he became one of many young engineers to have worked alongside Patrick Head early in their careers before moving on to other organisations. Oatley worked as a draughtsman before becoming a race engineer for both Clay Regazzoni and Carlos Reutemann.
In 1984 Oatley was recruited by Carl Haas to work on the FORCE F1 project, but the results were poor, and the team withdrew from Formula One in 1986.
Oatley joined the McLaren team shortly after leaving FORCE and worked alongside John Barnard in the design office. After Gordon Murray replaced Barnard as technical director, Oatley was put in charge of the design of the naturally aspirated car for 1989—Steve Nichols having been appointed chief designer of the 1988 chassis—and remained chief designer after Murray moved to the new McLaren road car project. His cars secured titles in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998 and 1999. Oatley continued to work as chief designer at McLaren until 2003, when he became executive director of engineering.
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Chloe Hesar
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Chloe Hesar was born in Gateshead, England, UK.
At the age of three, she relocated to Surrey. She started attending acting classes at Laine Theatre Arts when she was 10. Eager to appear on television, Chloe auditioned for her first professional acting agency at 11. Her screen debut came at 12, when she portrayed Jen Brooks in The Bill (1984). Her first feature film role was Emily in Faintheart (2008), a comedy about an irresponsible man trying to win back his wife. She secured the part from 25,000 actresses worldwide who submitted audition tapes. The director later noted that her audition stood out because she was the only one who kissed Martin, played by Joseph Hamilton, on the cheek.
Following critical praise and attention at the Cambridge Film Festival, Chloe began landing more prominent television roles. Within just four months, she appeared in M.I.High (2007), Silent Witness (1996), and returned to The Bill (1984). She was invited back for a two-part special titled The Forgotten Child, in which she reprised her role as Jen Kilshaw, a foster girl being groomed by an older teenage boy. Her performance attracted coverage in several television magazines, some of which featured images from the episode.
After completing high school, Chloe studied Philosophy at King's College London. While earning her degree, she continued acting in television series including Sky One's Parents (2012), The Inbetweeners (2008), and CBBC's Sadie J (2011). She also appeared in a small role in the feature film Survivor (2015), alongside Milla Jovovich and Pierce Brosnan.
Chloe graduated from King's College London in July 2014 with a 2:1 BA Honours degree in Philosophy. Soon after, she appeared in a two-episode special of BBC's Doctors (2000). In early 2015, she made her theatre debut at the Almeida Theatre, playing Mandy in Mike Bartlett's world premiere of Game. The production received four-star reviews from Time Out and The Guardian.
In October 2015, it was announced that Chloe would join the regular cast of the BAFTA Children's Award-winning series Wolfblood (2012) on CBBC. Filming began in September 2015, with the series set to air internationally in 2016, including on the Disney Channel in the US. In 2016, Chloe is also set to play Shanice in Nadia Fall's production of The Suicide at the National Theatre.
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Rhonda Ann Sing
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was a Canadian professional wrestler. After training with Mildred Burke, she wrestled in Japan under the name Monster Ripper. In 1987, she returned to Canada and began working with Stampede Wrestling, where she was their first Stampede Women's Champion. In 1995, she worked in the World Wrestling Federation as the comedic character Bertha Faye, winning the WWF Women's Championship. She also wrestled in World Championship Wrestling to help generate interest in their women's division. In 1995, Sing was contacted by the World Wrestling Federation to help their ailing women's division. She, however, was repackaged as Bertha Faye, a comedic character who lived in a trailer park and dated Harvey Wippleman. (in an OWW radio interview Wippleman revealed that the two never got along well)[8] WWF management originally wanted her to have an on-screen feud with Bull Nakano, but there was a change of plans after Nakano was charged with cocaine possession.
Sing made her WWF debut on the April 3, 1995 episode of Monday Night Raw participating in a sneak attack on Alundra Blayze, making it appear as if Blayze's nose had been broken. At SummerSlam, Faye defeated Blayze for the WWF Women's Championship and held the title until the October 23, 1995 airing of Monday Night Raw, where Blayze regained the title, ending Faye's reign at only 57 days.
Fan interest in women's wrestling sunk once again as the year closed, and Sing tired of working there. Moreover, Faye was frustrated with her gimmick. WWF management asked her not to perform the same power moves as the male wrestlers, so instead, Faye was forced to act as comic relief.After a year with the company, Sing asked for a release from her contract. She briefly returned to Japan, but did not like the new system, which did not guarantee payouts.
World Championship Wrestling (1999–2000)
In late 1999, she worked with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) briefly, appearing on several telecasts to help generate interest in a women's division. She was also a contender for both the WCW Cruiserweight Championship and WCW Hardcore Championship. In addition to competing in matches using her Singh and Monster Ripper gimmicks, she also made a couple of appearances with the Nitro Girls dance troupe under the name "Beef", for comic relief.
Personal life
Backstage, Sing was friends with the male, rather than the female, wrestlers.During her time in the WWF, she developed a close friendship with Owen Hart.
After leaving WCW, Sing took a break from wrestling. In 2001, she worked as a caregiver to the handicapped. On July 27, 2001, Sing died from a heart attack at the age of 40.Bruno Lauer disputes her cause of death in an interview with Online World of Wrestling Radio where he states that, "she took herself out."She never married or had children.
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Mike Bacarella
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Mike Bacarella was born on 4 August 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for While You Were Sleeping, The Fugitive and The Relic. He is also an author, having wrote Lincoln's Foreign Legion, the regimental history of the 39th New York Infantry known as the Garibaldi Guard, soldiers who came from fifty-two European principalities and fourteen American States, which served during the Civil War 1861-1865 and Italactors, a directory of 630 actors and actresses who you may or may not have known were Italian Americans, backed up with a data base of nearly 6,000 more names and biographies.
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Hal Hickel
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Hal T. Hickel is a visual effects animator for Industrial Light & Magic.
At the age of 12, Hickel wrote a letter to Lucasfilm, outlining his ideas for a sequel to the original Star Wars movie (now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), and received a polite rejection letter from producer Gary Kurtz. The letter now hangs on the wall of Hickel's office at ILM. Twenty years later, Hickel found himself working on Star Wars after all, as a lead animator on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
A native of Bailey, Colorado, Hickel joined the Film Graphics Program at CalArts in 1982. He worked at An-FX from 1982 until 1988, and then joined Will Vinton Studios, working in stop-motion and motion control.
Hickel began his animation career at Pixar in 1994, where he worked on Toy Story and the THXpromos, as well as some of Pixar's short films. Hearing that a new Star Wars trilogy was in pre-production, Hickel applied for a transfer to ILM on the chance that he might get to work on the prequels. He was first assigned as an animator on The Lost World: Jurassic Park, but was eventually assigned to work on The Phantom Menace, and later its sequel, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, where he was responsible for the unique movement of the Droideka destroyer droids.
His other credits include A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Space Cowboys, Dreamcatcher and Van Helsing. In 2007, Hickel won the BAFTA and the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects along with John Knoll, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall, for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. He also received an Academy Award nomination for his work on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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Lucille Carlisle
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Lucille Carlisle was born Ida Lucille White in Galesburg, Illinois. After her father abandoned the family her mother opened a boarding house in Spokane, Washington. At the age of sixteen Lucille was briefly married. Soon after she she won a beauty contest organized by Photoplay Magazine. She moved to New York City and began her career on Broadway as Lucille Zintheo. Later she changed her stage name Lucille Carlisle. In 1918 she was signed by Vitagraph Pictures and was cast in the Larry Semon comedy Boodle and Bandits. Larry and Lucille would make more than a twenty movies together including The Simple Life and A Pair of Kings. They became a popular onscreen team while off screen they had a tempestuous romance. Lucille was unhappy with the shape of her nose and underwent numerous plastic surgeries.
In 1922 she and Larry were secretly married. Later that year Lucille suffered a nervous breakdown. She recovered but her marriage to Larry ended in divorce. In 1923 she auditioned for the lead in The Hunchback of Notre Dame but Patsy Ruth Miller got the part. Lucille developed a drinking problem and was often under a doctor's care for her nerves. She decided to stop acting and married businessman Leland H. Millikin in 1930. Lucille, who never had children, adopted her niece when her sister was unable to raise her. During World War 2 she made several radio appearances. Lucille died on October 19, 1958 due to a liver disorder. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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