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Harold Pruett

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Harold P. Pruett (April 13, 1969 – February 21, 2002) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in over 30 films and TV series in the 1970s to the 1990s. During the 1970s and 1980s, Pruett guest starred on numerous television series including Wonder Woman, The New Leave It to Beaver, It's Your Move, Eye to Eye, The Best Times, Hotel and Night Court. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he danced in several music videos including two for the pop singer Martika, "More Than You Know" (1989) and "Coloured Kisses" (1992). In 1990, Pruett had his first co-starring television role on the NBC musical teen drama Hull High. Due to low ratings, the series was canceled in October 1990 after nine episodes. Later that year, he was cast as Steve Randle in the television adaptation of the 1967 S. E. Hinton novel The Outsiders, shown on Fox. That series was also canceled after one season because of low ratings.[3] From 1992 to 1993, he had a recurring role as Brad Penny on the teen sitcom Parker Lewis. In 1995, he co-starred on another short lived Fox series, Medicine Ball. His last television appearance was in a recurring role on the Fox teen drama series Party of Five, in 1996. Pruett's final film appearance was in the independent drama The Right Way (1998), starring Geoff Pierson.
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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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Étienne Mougeotte

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Étienne Mougeotte (4 March 1940 – 7 October 2021) was a French journalist and media director. During his fifty-year career, he served as Vice-President of TF1 Group and was satellite director of TF1 from 1987 to 2007 alongside Patrick Le Lay. He directed the editorial staff at Le Figaro from 2008 to 2012 and was Director-General of Radio Classique from 2012 to 2018. From 2015 to 2020, he was President of Groupe Valmonde, including the magazine Valeurs actuelles. Mougeotte was born in La Rochefoucauld on 4 March 1940, during the Phoney War. His father worked as an inspector for SNCF and his mother was a housewife in Charente. His father died when he was 18, which compelled his mother to start working. He was a khâgne student at the Lycée Henri-IV, which prepared him to attend Sciences Po, where he became Vice-President of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France. He was opposed to President Charles de Gaulle while maintaining an anti-Marxist stance. While a student, he spent his time playing basketball alongside Lionel Jospin. He finished his studies at the French Press Institute. Mougeotte began his career with Paris-Normandie before joining France Inter as a reporter and correspondent in Beirut. During his time in Lebanon, he often interacted with Lebanese radio. He notably covered the Six-Day War for France Inter. He then worked as a newspaper editor for Europe 1 during May 68. In 1969, he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), presented the newscast Information Première with Philippe Gildas. From 1972 to 1973, he worked for RTL before returning to Europe 1 in 1974, where he became editor and news director until 1981. In 1987, Mougeotte joined TF1, which had just been purchased by Bouygues. He quickly became Vice=President of TF1 Group and became antenna director of TF1 in 1989. In 1987, he was diagnosed with throat cancer, which he recovered from, but left lasting effects on his voice. He and Patrick Le Lay were credited with the group's success in the 1990s and 2000s. He was responsible for hiring multiple personalities who became prominent news anchors, such as Nikos Aliagas, Arthur, Christophe Dechavanne, and Jean-Luc Reichmann. Several successful programs also took off under Mougeotte's leadership, such as Ciel, mon mardi!, À prendre ou à laisser, Qui veut gagner des millions?, and others. He received great renown for his journalistic and professional skills. Mougeotte also served as President of La Chaîne Info, the non-stop news channel of the TF1 Group, from 1994 to 2007. In 2006, he became Vice-President of France 24. Mougeotte left TF1 in 2007 to become a communications consultant. However, he remained an adviser to TF1 Group CEO Nonce Paolini, who replaced Patrick Le Lay. In August 2007, he began working for Le Figaro Magazine and became editorial director of the Le Figaro group in November of that year, replacing Nicolas Beytout. On 2 December 2007, he joined the team of interviewers on Le Grand Jury. In 2012, he took part in the group with supported re-election for President Nicolas Sarkozy. In July 2012, he left his post as editorial director of Le Figaro and was replaced by Alexis Brézet. That month, he briefly worked as a consultant for TVous. ... Source: Article "Étienne Mougeotte" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Pam Grier

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Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. Described by director Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation, and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award, and a Saturn Award. Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974); her other major films during this period included The Big Doll House (1971), Women in Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), Black Mama, White Mama (1973), Scream Blacula Scream (1973), The Arena (1974), Sheba, Baby (1975), Bucktown (1975), and Friday Foster (1975). She portrayed the title character in Quentin Tarantino's crime film Jackie Brown (1997), and also appeared in Escape from L.A. (1996), Jawbreaker (1999), Holy Smoke!, (1999), Bones (2001), Just Wright (2010), Larry Crowne (2011), and Poms (2019). On television, Grier portrayed Eleanor Winthrop in the Showtime comedy-drama series Linc's (1998–2000), Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004–2009), and Constance Terry in the ABC sitcom Bless This Mess (2019–2020). She received praise for her work in the animated series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1999).
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Kas Graham

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kas Graham is a UK screenwriter and film editor. Kas Graham was born in Norfolk and studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. After working for Illeen Maisel at New Line, Kas Graham was mentored by the South African screenwriter Shawn Slovo through the Guiding Lights scheme. Kas Graham has written several screenplays for the Oscar nominated Polish director Lukasz Karwowski. Kas Graham is also an award winning video director and photographer, and he teaches film editing at Central Film School London. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kas Graham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mélanie Laurent

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Mélanie Laurent (French pronunciation: [melani loʁɑ̃]; born 21 February 1983) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is an accomplished actress in the French film industry and the recipient of two César Awards and a Lumières Award. Internationally, Laurent is best known for her roles in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Now You See Me (2013), Operation Finale (2018) and 6 Underground (2019).  Laurent began acting at age sixteen, cast by Gérard Depardieu in a small role in the romantic drama The Bridge (1999). She gained wider recognition for supporting work in several French films, including the comedy Dikkenek (2006), for which she won Étoiles d'Or for Best Female Newcomer. Her breakthrough role came in the 2006 drama film Don't Worry, I'm Fine, for which she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress and the Prix Romy Schneider. Laurent made her Hollywood debut in 2009 with the role of Shosanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster war film Inglourious Basterds. Her performance won the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film Critics Association Best Actress Awards. While she has worked mainly in independent films, including Paris (2008) and Enemy (2013), Laurent also appeared in commercially successful international films, including the comedy-drama Beginners (2011) and the caper film Now You See Me (2013), the former earning her a nomination at the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable works include the art-house drama The Round Up (2010), the comedy-drama The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011), and the mystery thriller Night Train to Lisbon (2013). She is also known for voicing Mary Katherine and Disgust in the French dubs of Epic (2013) and Inside Out (2015). Additionally, she starred in Chris Weitz's 2018 drama Operation Finale, telling the story of the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann. In addition to her film career, Laurent has appeared in stage productions in France. She made her theatre debut in 2010 in Nicolas Bedos's Promenade de santé. The short film De moins en moins (2008) marked her debut as a filmmaker. Her feature film directorial debut is The Adopted (2011). Respire (2014), her second production as a director, was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. She made her singing debut with a studio album, En attendant (Waiting For You), in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mélanie Laurent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mia Lyhne

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​Lyhne er som skuespiller autodidakt efter flere forgæves forsøg på at blive optaget på Statens Teaterskole. Hun har en baggrund i teater- og sanggruppen på Vesterbro Ungdomsgård. Siden 1996 tilknyttet Teater Grob, hvor hun har medvirket i flere forestillinger. På Bellevue Teatret har Mia Lyhne 1995-2000 kunnet ses som Kamomilla i Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by. Har desuden arbejdet med radio, bl.a. som studievært i Børneradio og for Radioteatret. Hun spiller rollen som Mia i TV2 zulus "Klovn". Har også optrådt i "Krøniken". Hun blev for alvor landskendt i TV2-programmet Vild med dans, hvor hun vandt finalen med sin partner Thomas Evers Poulsen den 4. juni 2005. En musikgruppe ved navn M.I.A. Lyhne udgav i 2006 et nummer kaldet "Mia Lyhne", som var en form for hyldest til Mia Lyhne. Nummeret blev fremført live ved Zulu Awards 2007. Da der blev udskrevet folketingsvalg i 2007 meldte hun sig ind i Socialistisk Folkeparti og hun var med til Villy Søvndals tale på valgaftenen. I 2002 modtog hun en talentpris ved Årets Reumert for sin præstation i Udvidelsen af kampzonen på Det Kongelige Teater.  
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Anne Hathaway

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Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades, most notably an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance as Fantine in Les Misérables (2012). In 2015, she was one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, and in 2024, she was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people. Additionally, she holds a Primetime Emmy Award for her voice work on The Simpsons. ​She began her career appearing in the television series Get Real (1999) before achieving worldwide fame as the lead in her film debut, the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001). She earned critical acclaim for her transition to more adult roles in the dramas Havoc and Brokeback Mountain in 2005. Her star status was solidified with the commercial success of The Devil Wears Prada (2006), starring alongside Meryl Streep, and she received her first Oscar nomination for her role as a woman in rehab in Rachel Getting Married (2008). ​Since 2010, she has starred in several of her career's biggest box-office hits, including the romantic comedies Valentine's Day (2010) and Love and Other Drugs (2010), the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland (2010), and her role as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Her films Interstellar (2014), The Intern (2015), Ocean's 8 (2018), The Idea of You (2024), and the most recent The Odyssey (2026) have reaffirmed her versatility in the industry. Beyond her artistic work, she serves as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, advocating for gender equality and women's rights in the workplace.
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Katharine Higgins

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Her theatric skills began in the 4th grade when her teacher stopped class to watch a play she had written. She knew she was on to something when the 5th graders from next door came over to watch her. Years later she honed in on these skills further when she was accepted to the NYSSSA School of Theatre while in Mamaroneck High School and later at the British American Drama Academy while attending Tufts University. She has since developed an eclectic resume on stage, screen & in commercials. And has worked with such greats as Michael Howard, Austin Pendleton & Harold Guskin.
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Sydney Sweeney

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Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress. She gained early recognition for her roles in Everything Sucks!, The Handmaid's Tale and Sharp Objects in 2018. She received wider acclaim for her performances in the drama series Euphoria (2019–present) and the first season of the anthology series The White Lotus (2021), both of which earned her nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards. In film, Sweeney garnered critical acclaim for her performances in the drama film Reality (2023) and for her portrayal of professional boxer Christy Martin in the biopic Christy (2025), and has also appeared in the box office hits Anyone but You (2023) and The Housemaid (2025). Her other film credits include Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Madame Web (2024), and Immaculate (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sydney Sweeney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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