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Bradley Nowell
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Bradley James Nowell (February 22, 1968 – May 25, 1996) was an American musician who served as the founder, lead singer, andguitarist of the ska-punk band Sublime. He died at the age of 28 from a heroin overdose shortly before the release of Sublime's self-titledmajor label debut. Raised in Long Beach, California, Nowell developed an interest in music at a young age. His father took him on a trip to the Virgin Islandsduring childhood, which exposed him to reggae and dancehall music. Nowell played in various bands until forming the group Sublime with bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh, whom he had met while attending California State University, Long Beach. As Sublime gained success, Nowell struggled with a worsening addiction to heroin, eventually dying of a heroin overdose while Sublime was on tour on May 25, 1996.
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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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Shirley Souagnon
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Née d'un père franco-ivoirien et d'une mère franco-ivoirienne du nom de charlotte Souagnon, elle grandit à Clichy et au Plateau à Abidjan, en Côte d'Ivoire.
Elle apparaît pour la première fois à la télévision à l'âge de 8 ans dans une publicité pour la Coupe d'Europe 96 et dans un épisode de Navarro.
Elle est ouvertement lesbienne. Elle joue au basket de manière intensive pendant dix ans et intègre l'équipe de la Madison High School de Houston au Texas, pendant une année à l'âge de 17 ans.
De retour en France, elle se lance dans le cinéma puis l'humour. Elle écrit son premier sketch en 2006 et joue son premier one-woman-show Sketch Up ! en 2008 au Théâtre Le Bout à Paris. Elle est repérée dès l'année suivante dans Pliés en 4 (sur France 4), Paris fait sa Comédie et le festival Youhumour. Elle remporte La Route du Rire en 2009, puis le Prix Jeune Talent de l'année 2010 dans le palmarès « Humour ».
Elle intègre l'équipe du Jamel Comedy Club en 2010 et participe au Comedy Club Live en tant que chroniqueuse sur la radio Mouv'. Elle joue la première partie de Franck Dubosc à l'Olympia durant quatorze jours du 1er au 9 octobre 2010 et participe au Gala Ni putes ni soumises le 8 novembre 2010. Du 14 septembre 2010 au 24 novembre 2010, elle se fait connaitre du public en participant six fois à l'émission On n'demande qu'à en rire sur France 2 en tant que candidate.
Ses interventions sont ensuite suspendues.
Elle joue au Festival du rire de Montreux en décembre 2010. Elle devait faire partie des chroniqueurs de l'émission Stéphane et les sept mercenaires présentée par Stéphane Bern sur France 2 qui aurait du être diffusée début 2011.
À partir du 5 février 2011, elle est chroniqueuse dans l'émission hebdomadaire Samedi Roumanoff sur Europe 1.
L'émission s'arrête en 2014.
En juillet 2011, elle participe pour la première fois au festival Juste pour rire de Montréal. Elle revient le 20 septembre 2011 dans la deuxième saison On n'demande qu'à en rire sur France 2 en reprenant son nombre de passages précédents à vingt-et-une reprises, puis elle a fait son retour dans la troisième saison à deux reprises avant d'abandonner le 9 octobre 2012 pour son trentième passage.
Le 31 mars 2012, elle joue une version revisitée de son spectacle Sketch Up pour une date exceptionnelle à La Cigale. Elle est à l'affiche de la Comédie de Paris les dimanches et lundis du 15 janvier 2012 au 25 juin 2012. Depuis 2012, elle est marraine de la Ligue féminine de basket, avec laquelle elle produit notamment des spectacles alliant basket-ball et humour. En 2014, Shirley Souagnon rejoint le casting de la série Engrenages.
En novembre 2014, elle apporte sa voix dans son spectacle auto-produit Free, The One Woman Funky Show qui mélange l'humour et la musique. À partir du 2 mai 2015, elle présente l'émission Mieux vaut en rire sur France Ô.
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Kaori Ishihara
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Kaori Ishihara is a Japanese pop singer, voice actress, idol, and actress managed by Style Cube since 2011. She was formerly part of Up-Front Agency in which she was involved with Happy! Style and Team Dekaris. She is now affiliated with Sigma Seven. She was a member of StylipS up to April 2013, and idol duo YuiKaori with Yui Ogura. As a solo singer, she has recorded several character songs in which she sings in the voice of one of her anime characters. A couple of these singles have charted on the Oricon charts.
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Mouni Roy
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Mouni Roy (born 28 September 1985) is an Indian film and television actress and model. She is best known for playing Shivanya Ritik Singh and Shivangi Rocky Pratap Singh in Naagin. She also played Meera in Junoon – Aisi Nafrat Toh Kaisa Ishq. She was a contestant and finalist on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa in 2014. She is a trained Kathak dancer. She starts her film career with Gold in which his character is of a Bengali woman. Roy got married to the UAE-based Malayalee rich businessman Suraj Nambiar on Januray 27, 2022 in Goa.
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Jenny Torso
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Jenny Torso (born April 4, 2023) is an Argentine actress, model, CEO, and media personality, known for her work through her production company, Medio Cuerpo Cine, named after her.
Torso gained public attention when she was featured as Playnnequin’s February 2023 Womannequin of the Month, eventually setting a record for the most covers by any torso in the magazine’s history. Her popularity surged in June after appearing on TASTY! as herself, and she reached an international audience through her active social media presence.
An advocate for animal rights, Torso has supported various charitable causes and PETA initiatives. She has also authored two autobiographies and four novels. In 2024, she was honored with a star on the Argentine Walk of Fame.
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Awkwafina
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Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina (/ˌɔːkwəˈfiːnə/), is an American actress, comedian and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014–2015). She expanded to films with supporting roles in the comedies Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). She won a Golden Globe Award for her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell (2019).
Since 2020, Awkwafina has been a co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, where she also plays a fictionalized version of herself. In 2021, she portrayed Katy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. She has also performed voice roles in the animated films Storks (2016), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), The Bad Guys (2022), The Little Mermaid, Migration (both 2023), Kung Fu Panda 4, and IF (both 2024). For starring and producing the TV movie Quiz Lady (2023), she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.
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Philip DeFranco
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Philip James DeFranco Jr. (né Franchini; born December 1, 1985) is an American video blogger and YouTube personality. He is most notable for The Philip DeFranco Show, usually abbreviated as PDS, a news show centered on current events, politics, pop culture, and celebrity gossip in which he voices his opinion, often presented in a satirical manner and with frequent jump cuts to create a fast- paced feel.
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Elizabeth Montgomery
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Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American film and television actress whose career spanned five decades. She is best remembered as the star of the TV series Bewitched.
The daughter of Robert Montgomery, she began her career in the 1950s with a role on her father's television series Robert Montgomery Presents. In the 1960s, she rose to fame as Samantha Stephens on the ABC sitcom Bewitched. Her work on the series earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations. After Bewitched ended its run in 1972, Montgomery continued her career with roles in numerous television films. In 1974, she portrayed Ellen Harrod in A Case of Rape and Lizzie Borden in the 1975 television film The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Both roles earned her additional Emmy Award nominations.
Montgomery was married four times, most notably to actor producer/director William Asher with whom she had three children. Her final marriage was to actor Robert Foxworth, with whom she lived for twenty years before marrying in 1993. Montgomery died of colorectal cancer in May 1995, eight weeks after being diagnosed with the disease.
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Brett Gaylor
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Brett Gaylor is a Canadian documentary filmmaker living in Montreal, Quebec. Born in 1977, he grew up on Galiano Island, British Columbia. He is a member director of EyeSteelFilm documentary production company and its Head of New Media.
He is the founder of the Open Source Cinema project and the web producer of Homeless Nation.
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