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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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Katerina Helmy

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Katerina Helmi (Athens, 12 August 1939 - Kifissia, 15 April 2023) was a Greek actress. She became widely known to the Greek audience through roles in some of the most beloved films of Greek cinema. Her first appearance in cinema was in 1957 in the film Barbagiannis the Pitcher, but her greatest success is The Red Lights. She was also the rival of Aliki Vougiouklaki in the film Our Love. During her career, she has participated in more than 25 films and 4 television series. She has also written several books. Her husband was the professor and academic Konstantinos Svolopoulos. Unlike her husband Konstantinos Svolopoulos, who was a close friend of Konstantinos Karamanlis and director of the Karamanlis Foundation, Katerina Helmi was politically active in PASOK, as a member of the Trade Union Committee of Scientists-Artists. In the 1994 municipal elections, she was elected as a municipal councilor of the Municipality of Athens with the faction of Theodoros Pangalos. She died on 15 April 2023.
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Saxon Sharbino

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Saxon Paige Sharbino (born June 11, 1999) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Amelia Robbins in the Fox series Touch and Kendra Bowen in the 2015 remake of Poltergeist. Sharbino was born in Lewisville, Texas, the daughter of Angela and Ron Sharbino. She began acting at the age of nine. Saxon is the older sister of Brighton Sharbino and Sawyer Sharbino. She attended Bridlewood Elementary School for a few years, choosing to finish her elementary schooling at home while focusing on her acting. She would later come back to Flower Mound and skip a grade when starting Downing Middle School. In 2013, she and her family moved to Los Angeles, California.
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Paget Brewster

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Paget Valerie Brewster, born March 10, 1969, is an American actress and singer. She was first recognized for her recurring role as Kathy on the fourth season of the NBC sitcom Friends. Her breakthrough role came as FBI Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the crime drama Criminal Minds, on which she appeared regularly from 2006 to 2012, and then returned to for guest appearances, before returning regularly in 2016. Her other roles include voicing Elise and Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart on the final season of Community, the voice of Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Sara Kingsley on the Fox sitcom Grandfathered, and voicing Donald Duck's twin sister Della in the 2017 series of DuckTales, marking the first animated appearance of the character. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Derek Miller

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Two-time JUNO winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Derek Miller from Six Nations of the Grand River is a journeyman musician with eclectic taste and a knack for guitar oriented roots-inflected rock with a pop sensibility. With his unique take on roots rock, and soul-stirring blues, Derek Miller is a force of musical nature. With 17 albums to his credit, Miller has shared a stage with artists such as Blood, Sweat & Tears, George Thorogood, Smokey Robinson and The Neville Brothers. Canada’s Olympic Committee, wanting an artist that reflected Canada’s roots, hired Miller to rock the crowds alongside Eva Avila and Nikki Yanofsky at the Closing Ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. In addition to recording with Willie Nelson, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Daniel Lanois, among many other talented artists across the globe, Derek has also recorded for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, resulting in the 2016 JUNO-nominated album Rumble: A Tribute To Native Music Icons. Most recently, Buffy asked the guitarist to play on her 2015 Polaris prize and Juno-winning album Power In The Blood. Derek continues to work as a touring performer/artist, producing music, making television, writing novels, making movies and racing cars.
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Jennifer Cooke

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jennifer Cooke (born September 19, 1964) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as the "Star Child", Elizabeth, who is half Human/half Visitor in the 1984 television series V. She also starred in the soap opera Guiding Light as Morgan Richards Nelson from 1981-1983. Cooke played "Debbie" on the critically acclaimed NBC series "A Year in The Life". Her only well-known film role is in the 1986 horror film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives as Megan. Cooke's only guest appearance on TV is on the HBO series The Hitchhiker. Cooke has retired from acting, but is active in the Urantia Brotherhood/Fellowship. She has been married to Celestial Seasonings co-founder Mo Siegel since 1989. Cooke is reportedly the basis for the "Alexandra Bass" heroine in Buck Winthrop's debut novel, "Delusions of Grandeur" published May 3, 2010 by Captive Audience Books. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Cooke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Rahat Rahman

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Rahat Rahman is a filmmaker from Bangladesh, currently living in Canada. in 2016 he was selected as a director fellow in the prestigious Asian Film Academy 2016 held in Busan, South Korea and as part of the program, in a group collaboration with three other directors made the short film "hello uncle!" in 2018, he wrote and directed the segment "Jibon's Gun" in the First Bangladeshi Anthology Film "Sincerely Yours, Dhaka" which had its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival in the same year and has since been screened and awarded at various film festivals all over the world. The film was chosen as Bangladesh's official submission for the best foreign language film award at The Oscars 2021. He is currently pursuing a Film Production diploma at Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Canada.
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Ulla Jacobsson

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Ulla Jacobsson (23 May 1929, Mölndal – 20 August 1982, Vienna, buried at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof) was a Swedish actress who is perhaps best known for playing one of the very few female roles in the film Zulu. Jacobsson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Originally a stage actress, she started appearing in English language films in the early 1960s and tended to play serious and anxious looking characters. She first become known internationally for nude scenes in One Summer of Happiness. Other notable roles include Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, The Heroes of Telemark and la Servante. A role in the American film Love Is a Ball was an attempt to make her a sex symbol. She won the German Film Award for Supporting Actress in Alle Jahre wieder (1967). She was married to Austrian ethnologist Hans Winfried Rohsmann (1918–2002). Jacobsson's film career tailed off in the 1970s, and she died in Vienna, Austria from bone cancer at age 53. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulla Jacobsson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Shizuka Ishibashi

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Shizuka Ishibashi, born in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She is represented by the talent agency Plage. Ishibashi was born as the second of three daughters of actors Ryo Ishibashi and Mieko Harada. She began classical ballet at the age of four, and in 2009 went abroad to study at ballet schools in Boston and Calgary before returning to Japan in 2013. After her return, she was active as a contemporary dancer until she started acting in 2015. From January to April 2016, she appeared on stage in the Noda Hideki-directed play "Gekirin." In 2017, she had the leading role in Yuya Ishii's film "The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue." She won numerous awards for her role in the film: including the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Newcomer. Ishibashi's mother received the same award in 1976, marking the first time in Blue Ribbon's history that a parent and child received the same award.
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Jordan Deal

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Jordan Deal, also known as ROSEKILLJUPITER, is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary practitioner. Their investigative practice uses performance, sound, and image as a conduit between unseen forces and the materializations of socio-political structures. They have been expanding on the use of storytelling as the accumulation of Black and Indigenous mythologies, collective memory, queer intimacy, and celebration as a generative, subversive and healing material. Through using the interflux of collected field recordings, video/film documenta, and real-time mythological fabrication, Deal explores dialectics, borders and territories; deadundead knowledge; and counter-active channels of potentiality that exists outside of global colonialism and imperialism’s frameworks and mappings.
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