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Talena Atfield
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Talena A. L. Atfield (born January 14, 1983) is a retired Canadian bass guitarist and Indigenous persons historian of the University of Waterloo, best known as a former member of the heavy metal group Kittie.
After retiring from the music industry in 2009, Atfield would go on to receive a doctorate In Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and currently specializes in Indigenous relations and history. In a July 2022 interview with Media Relations, it is revealed that she is a member of the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River, an Indigenous peoples society primarily based in Canada.
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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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Roger Herren
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Roger Herren was a handsome young U.S. actor of brief acclaim in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Blessed with good looks and southern charm, Herren appeared to be headed for stardom. His career peaked and ended with his co-starring performance as Rusty Godowsky in the 1970 film of Gore Vidal's 1968 best-seller Myra Breckinridge (1970), which was a flop and his acting career tapered off.
Amid his brief time in front of the lights and cameras, Herren had something of a roller-coaster personal life which included dating Barbara Thinnes, ex-wife of actor Roy Thinnes. He lived inauspiciously in Santa Barbara, California and could still be found on the beach until his death at the age of 68.
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Claude Lanzmann
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Claude Lanzmann (27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985).
Lanzmann was born on 27 November 1925 in Paris, France, the son of Paulette (née Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann. His family was Jewish, and had immigrated to France from The Russian Empire. He was the brother of writer Jacques Lanzmann. Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. While his family disguised their identity and went into hiding during World War II, he joined the French resistance at the age of 17, along with his father and brother, and fought in Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121.
Lanzmann was the chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and lecturer at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In 2009 he published his memoirs under the title Le lièvre de Patagonie ("The Patagonian Hare").
Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah (1985), is a nine-and-a-half-hour oral history of the Holocaust. Shoah is made without the use of any historical footage, and uses only first-person testimony from perpetrators and victims, and contemporary footage of Holocaust-related sites. Interviewees include the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski and the American Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg. When the film was released, the director also published the complete text, including in English translation, with introductions by Lanzmann and Simone de Beauvoir.
Lanzmann disagreed, sometimes angrily, with attempts to understand the why of Hitler, stating that the evil of Hitler cannot or should not be explained and that to do so is immoral and an obscenity.
Lanzmann also oftentimes pushed his subjects to extreme emotional limits to bring out the most authentic reactions for his audience. The interview with barber Abraham Bomba is a staple of a Claude Lanzmann interview.
A compilation of "Shoah: Unseen Interviews" was released in 2012 that included interviews filmed at the time of the original production but never made it into the film.
On 4 July 2018, his last work, Les Quatre Soeurs (Shoah: Four Sisters) was released, featuring testimonials from four Holocaust survivors not included in his Shoah. Lanzmann died the following day.
From 1952 to 1959, he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. They divorced in 1971, and he later married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer. He divorced a second time, and was the father of Angélique Lanzmann and Félix Lanzmann. Claude Lanzmann died on 5 July 2018 at his Paris home, after having been ill for several days. He was 92.
Source: Article "Claude Lanzmann" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Arturo Ripstein
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Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director.
Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir. Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, it began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors. His 1981 film Seduction was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1989 film Love Lies was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1997 Ripstein won the National Prize of Arts and Sciences, the second filmmaker after Buñuel to do so. Some of Ripstein's films, especially the earlier ones, "highlighted characters beset by futile compulsions to escape [their]destinies". Many of his films are shot in tawdry interiors, with bleak brown color schemes, and seedy pathetic characters who manage to achieve a hint of pathos and dignity. Asi Es la Vida, according to Jonathan Crow, "boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices". Deep Crimson, according to the New York Times, is "a ferociously anti-romantic portrait of an obese nurse and a seedy small-time gigolo whose bungling scheme to swindle a succession of lonely women out of their life savings turns into a killing spree."
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David Petraeus
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A retired United States Army general and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus served 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and commander, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A) from July 4, 2010, to July 18, 2011. His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from October 13, 2008, to June 30, 2010, and as commanding general, Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I) from February 10, 2007, to September 16, 2008. As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.
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Jean Sagal
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Jean Sagal (born 9 October 1961) is an American television actress and director. In the 1980s, she co-starred with her twin sister Liz Sagal in the 23-episode television series Double Trouble that ran from 1984-85. She has since appeared on such shows as Picket Fences, Knots Landing, Quantum Leap and 21 Jump Street. She has directed episodes of Two and a Half Men, Mad TV, So Little Time and Just Shoot Me. Sagal and her twin sister also served for a time as the "Doublemint Twins" in the long-running ad campaign by Doublemint gum.
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Jessie Pavelka
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Jessie Pavelka, born on September 26, 1982 in Corpus Christi, Texas, is a well-known fitness model. He hails from a family that still resides in Texas, with his mother living in Corpus Christi and his father in Denton. Standing at an impressive height of 6' 0", Jessie attended Calallen High School where he developed a passion for athletics from a young age. His mother introduced him to track and field when he was in the fourth grade, and he also actively participated in football during his high school years.
At the age of 21, Jessie made a life-changing decision to move to California in pursuit of a career in fitness. It was there that he began competing in bodybuilding competitions and ventured into fitness modeling. In his first bodybuilding competition, he achieved an admirable fourth place. Following his relocation to Los Angeles, Jessie continued to focus on bodybuilding and modeling. Additionally, he partnered with Australian Fitness Star, David Rylah, to establish their own personal training business catering to bariatric patients. They collaborated with a doctor who referred his patients to them, enabling Jessie to share his knowledge and guide individuals towards healthier lifestyles.
In a recent interview, Jessie revealed that he tied the knot with Sitara Hewitt, a Canadian actress whom he met through a mutual friend. Their wedding took place on September 18, 2009. Interestingly, not many people are aware that Jessie and Jake Pavelka, the new star of The Bachelor (2002), are distant cousins. Although they have never met, Jessie's father mentioned having met Jake's father. However, due to circumstances during their upbringing, Jessie never had the opportunity to get to know Jake personally. Nevertheless, Jessie wholeheartedly supports Jake's journey on The Bachelor and hopes that he finds love and succeeds in his endeavors.
At the age of 27, Jessie has already established himself as one of Hollywood's top fitness experts, earning a reputation as a household name. With his current success and humble demeanor, it is evident that Jessie is poised for a flourishing career in the years to come.
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Bridget Albaugh
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Bridget Albaugh is an actress, creative, and drummer living in Los Angeles, California. She was born on December 1, 1996 in Des Moines, Iowa, where she began her career in the arts with an interest in music. She began to play the drums at age 9 and has become an accomplished musician. She has composed and performed her own music in a variety of jazz, indie, and rock bands. After this notable accomplishment in music, Bridget initiated a modeling career which led to an interest in acting. She attended IMTA in New York, received numerous awards including First Runner-Up Teen Actor of the Year, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. She has booked several leading and supporting roles in independent films and commercials. She has most recently studied at Warner Loughlin Studios and The Groundlings, along with private coaching.
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Chase A. Coustley
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Chase A. Coustley has been professionally acting with Grace Acting Studios since 2021 and joined the "Master Class" in 2024. He started Galaxy Studios with Ash Hase in "All Kinds of Crazy" (2019).
Chase has created multiple Galaxy Studios projects since then, such as "The Stray", "The Space Lamp Chronicles" and "Guy and Guys".
Chase has been appointed Co-CEO of Galaxy Studios, created 'Solar Films', and head of Marketing.
He made his professional acting debut in 2024 with Greg Gould's "Who Gave You Permission?" music video about sexual assault, in which he played a younger version of the main character.
He is 15 years old.
Currently represented by New Dimension Management.
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