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Darwin Yu
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Darwin Yu is a Filipino actor, brand endorser, entrepreneur, and model. He was born in Manila, Philippines. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Tourism Management from Trinity University of Asia, Quezon City, Philippines.
Darwin remembers that at around the age of 7, he watched Filipino dramas that starred well-known artists in the Philippines and he liked to mimic their acting. Since then, he knew that he was destined to be in the show business. In 2014, he was discovered around the compound of a major broadcasting company in the Philippines and because of this, he was asked to do a cameo in a local TV show. In 2016, he was cast in his first indie film entitled "1st Sem." It was an official entry at the CineFilipino film festival and it paved the way for his Best Actor nomination at the Madrid International Film Festival in 2018.
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Jessica Green
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Jessica Green, was born on February 11, 1993, in Tasmania, Australia. With her striking blue eyes and a height of 5’9" (1.75 m), she has made a significant impact in the entertainment industry. In her early career, she appeared in minor roles in films such as Peter Pan (Universal Pictures) and Aqua Marine (Fox). However, her breakthrough came in 2013 when she secured the lead role of “KIKI” in the Jonathon M. Shiff production LIGHTNING POINT (also known as Alien Surf Girls). This role required her to surf and ride horses, showcasing her versatility.
Jessica continued to make her mark in the industry with film appearances. Notably, she played ‘Rebecca’ in the Australian action-thriller RED BILLABONG (Sparke Films) in 2016. Her talent and dedication also led her to a role in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Disney).
In 2017, Jessica portrayed Cleopatra in ROMAN EMPIRE (Netflix) and Lexx in ASH VS EVIL DEAD (Starz), further establishing her presence on the international stage.
However, her most iconic role to date is that of ‘TALON’ in THE OUTPOST, a fantasy adventure series that aired on The CW Network and NBCU SYFY channels. Jessica performed her own stunts, including wire work, demonstrating her mixed martial arts, horse riding, and weapon skills.
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Nedumudi Venu
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Kesavan Venu Gopal, known popularly by his stage name Nedumudi Venu, was an Indian actor, writer and director. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in Indian cinema.
Venu was born as Venugopal to P. K. Kesavan Nair-a school master- and P. Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi, Alappuzha as the youngest of their five children. He has four elder brothers. He had his primary education from N S S Higher Secondary School, Nedumudi, and St. Mary's Higher Secondary School,Champakulam. He was involved in art and music since his academic period. After graduating from Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha, he worked as a journalist in Kalakaumudi and as a teacher in a tutorial institute. Venu was living in Thiruvananthapuram when he made friends with the likes of Aravindan, Padmarajan, and Bharath Gopi. This ultimately paved way for his film career. He is a talented Mridangam player.
Venu started his career in theater and went on to act in films. He was a member of Kavalam Narayana Panicker's dramas. He debuted in the film Thambu (1978) by director G. Aravindan. His acting skills were showcased in the Bharathan film Aaravam. Padmarajan's Oridathoru Phayalwan and Kallan Pavithran set a milestone for him. It marked his start in karanavar (head of the family) roles, which included most of his memorable performances.
Venu also wrote scripts for movies. He wrote the stories for the films Kattathe Kilikkoodu, Theertham, Sruthi, Ambada Njane, Oru Katha Oru Nunnakkatha, Savidham, and Angane Oru Avadhikkalathu. He also tried his hand in direction with Pooram. He has also acted in a few Tamil films with director Shankar, such as Kamal Hasan's Indian and Vikram's Anniyan.
Venu has also acted in some television serials. He acted in NFDC film Parinamam (The Change), directed by P. Venu that won the best screenplay award at the Ashdod International Film Festival held in Israel. He won the Best Actor award for his role in Saira at the Zimbabwe International Film Festival which concluded in September 2007; Saira was the only film from India to be included in the festival. The committee mentioned that he acted compellingly and convincingly in his portrayal of a man caught between secularism and fundamentalism.
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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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Eric Escoffier
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Éric Escoffier is a French mountaineer born on August 9, 1960 in L'Arbresle in France and died in the mountains, at Broad Peak, on July 29, 1998 in Pakistan.
"Escoff", the gymnast converted into climbing, was a pioneer, one of the leaders of this generation who revisited the great routes of the Alps, dividing the timetables by two, three or four, and chaining at the same time two, three or four main routes during the day thanks to hang-gliding or paragliding; of a generation now largely decimated, who, at the start of the 1980s, practiced "excessive" mountaineering, making him take such a leap forward that some people today wonder if he has really recovered . At 25, he became, with Christophe Profit, the star of a demanding system. The scene of this confrontation in the shadow of sponsors and helicopters was the winter trilogy. At the beginning of March 1987, Profit succeeded where Escoffier had failed, the latter having gotten lost on the north face of the Eiger, where he had refused to do a reconnaissance.
Escoffier was constantly inventing new challenges: lining up the summits, taking part in the Monaco rally, flying hang-gliding or paragliding, practicing free solo climbing... In 1985, among some of his many exploits, he succeeded in overcoming three eight thousand meters in the Himalayas, Gasherbrum 2 (8,035 meters) Hidden Peak (8,068 meters) and K2 (French premiere, 8,611 meters).
Above all, the life of Eric Escoffier, a motor racing enthusiast, changed six months later, on September 18, 1987, when his car rolled over in the Arly gorges, leaving him hemiplegic for more than six months. By force of will, thanks, he said, to his habit of training, Escoffier fought against this handicap, a word he refused to pronounce until quite recently. He had relearned to walk, overcame two new serious accidents, falls in a paraglider (in 1988) and in a crevasse of Mont Blanc (in 1996). He swallowed up kilometers on a mountain bike, but walking on uneven terrain (scree, mixed, or deep snow) was a constant battle for him. He had two children, aged 8 and 10, and was expecting a third, in December, with his new partner.
Not resigning himself to living in anonymity, he found himself a somewhat disproportionate challenge, combining all the fashionable challenges: he wanted to have climbed the fourteen 8,000, the summit of the seven continents (Arctic and Antarctica included) , and reached the two poles in the year 2000. By passing the McKinley, the Kilimanjaro, the Aconcagua and, above all, last September, the Cho Oyu (8,201 m), he had rediscovered the pleasure of his first roles. With his partner Pascale Bessière they disappeared while attempting the ascent of Broad Peak on July 29, 1998. A Polish mountaineer, Piotr Pustelnik, had seen them one last time on the summit ridge while a very strong wind was blowing. The day before, they had spent the night without bivouac equipment in a snow hole dug at 7,700 meters, under the pass which leads to the summit ramp. “Nothing is impossible”, Eric Escoffier liked to repeat to anyone who wanted to hear it.
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Bob Giraldi
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Robert Nicholas "Bob" Giraldi (born January 17, 1939) is an American film and television director, best known for directing the music videos for Michael Jackson’s song "Beat It" and Pat Benatar’s "Love Is a Battlefield". His work has garnered many accolades, including several London International Awards, Cannes Advertising Awards, NY International Awards, Addy Awards, Chicago Film Festival Awards and hundreds of Clio Awards. He has also been named one of the "101 Stars Behind 100 Years of Advertising."
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Joel Jones
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Joel Lofton Jones is an American professional wrestler, better known as Joel Deaton or Joe Deaton. He is most noticed for being one of the members of a tag team in Jim Crockett Promotions known as the Thunderfoots. He was the original Thunderfoot.
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Joel Jones was discovered while working as a personal trainer by Lars Anderson. Joel was trained by Anderson, who trained him along with David Deaton, who would go on to be his tag team partner.
Anderson started his own promotion as a rival to the established Georgia Championship Wrestling, that being World League Wrestling. Jones and Deaton were re-christened "The Bruno Brothers" and were the company's top tag team winning the titles. After a disastrous tour of the West Indies, the company was on the verge of folding, the Deatons left and joined the rival Georgia Championship Wrestling.
After a brief stays in Georgia & Louisiana they joined Southwest Championship Wrestling under booker Wahoo McDaniel and there they wrestled as "the new Anderson Brothers". From there they relocated to Florida Championship Wrestling and became The Deaton Brothers.
Joel Jones started wrestling in 1983 as "Outlaw" Joel Deaton in the National Wrestling Alliance's Georgia territory. In 1984, he went to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions where he wrestled as the masked Thunderfoot. He would "load" his boot during his matches and kick his opponents in the head to gain the victory. He was managed by James J. Dillon and often teamed with Black Bart.
Dillon left him to manage the Four Horsemen in late 1985. Deaton still as Thunderfoot was joined by Gene Ligon who became Thunderfoot #2, they moved to the NWA's Central States territory and in September 1986 won the tag team titles. On their return to Jim Crockett Promotions the Thunderfoots were used as preliminary wrestlers. Deaton left the team (replaced by David Isley, the team of Ligon & Isley went to on to win the tag titles in Rob Russen's IWA) and Joel once again teamed up with David Deaton. Unfortunately Joel was involved in a head on car accident and was sidelined, he and David left JCP for the last time.
In 1988 Joel returned to action in Joe Pedicino and Jerry Blackwell owned, Buck Robley booked Southern Championship Wrestling where he won the SCW Heavyweight title 8 times and the tag team titles 7 times (with Dave Deaton) and feuded with Georgia Power (Nightmare Ted Allen & Jimmy Powell) & Terry Gordy. In that same year Deaton appeared in Nelson Royal's Atlantic Coast Wrestling as part of The Outlaw Deaton Brothers again with brother Hoss (Dave) Deaton.
In 1991, Jones wrestled as Joel Deaton in the Global Wrestling Federation and teamed with Chaz Taylor in the tournament for the GWF Tag Team Championship. In that same year he formed his most successful team with Billy Black to win the Georgia All Star Wrestling tag team titles.
July 1991 was Deaton's finest hour as he and Billy Black (aka The Wild Bunch) teamed up to win the All Asia Tag Team Championship in All Japan, and in 1992, The Wild Bunch made their debuts in Smoky Mountain Wrestling.
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Per Linderoth
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Per Linderoth graduated from The Danish School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen in 1986. He had his first breakthrough in Nikolaj Cederholms and Hanna Lundblads International Ballade. Critics compared his virtuoso performance to both Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. His presence and continuous search for the subconscious motives of the character are the underlying features of his acting. Per Linderoth's interest in different forms of expression and his versatility as an actor have given him the opportunity to perform in a wide range of art forms and styles including: Theatre, Film, TV and Radio, classical, modern and experimental text-based drama, comedies, music-theatre, musicals, children's theatre, cabaret, revue and multi-disciplinary shows with text, song and dance. Per has a wealth of experience in the field of role-play, interactive theatre and forum theatre. Per has also worked on a range of television and film as a voice over and dubbing artist. He was part of the original team, developing the emotion technique Alba-emoting with Susana Bloch and the TheatreClan.
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Glen Hansard
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Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970) is the Academy Award–winning principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish group The Frames and one half of folk rock duo, The Swell Season. He is also known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA winning film The Commitments, as well as starring the film Once.
His song "Falling Slowly" from Once, co-written with Markéta Irglová, won the Academy-Award for Best Original Song in 2007, and between 2007–2008 earned him ten other major nominations or awards.
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Richard Rodgers
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Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music.
Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top American entertainment awards in television, recording, movies and Broadway – an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award — now known collectively as an EGOT. In addition, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, making him only one of two people to receive each award (Marvin Hamlisch is the other).
Rodgers died in 1979 at the age of 77, after surviving cancer of the jaw, a heart attack, and a laryngectomy. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea.
In 1990, the 46th Street Theatre was renamed "The Richard Rodgers Theatre" in his memory. In 1999, Rodgers and Hart were each commemorated on United States postage stamps. In 2002, the centennial year of Rodgers's birth was celebrated worldwide with books, retrospectives, performances, new recordings of his music, and a Broadway revival of Oklahoma!. The BBC Proms that year devoted an entire evening to Rodgers's music, including a concert performance of Oklahoma! The Boston Pops Orchestra released a new CD that year in tribute to Rodgers, entitled My Favorite Things: A Richard Rodgers Celebration.
Several American schools are named after Richard Rodgers.
Alec Wilder wrote the following about Rodgers: "Of all the writers whose songs are considered and examined in this book, those of Rodgers show the highest degree of consistent excellence, inventiveness, and sophistication...[A]fter spending weeks playing his songs, I am more than impressed and respectful: I am astonished."
Richard Rodgers is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Along with the Academy of Arts and Letters, Rodgers also started and endowed an award for non-established musical theater composers to produce new productions either by way of full productions or staged readings. It is the only award for which the Academy of Arts and Letters accepts applications and is presented every year. Below are the previous winners of the award
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