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Robert Knepper

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Robert Lyle Knepper (born July 8, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in the Fox network's drama series, Prison Break, for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award. He has also appeared in the films Hitman (2007) and Transporter 3 (2008), and joined the cast of Heroes for its fourth season. Most recently, he joined the cast of Stargate Universe for its second season, which has started airing in the US in the 2010 fall season. Knepper is set to reprise his role as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in the upcoming series Breakout Kings. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Knepper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Cricket Brown

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Cricket Brown is a 2019 graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts' drama program. Prior to her role in Sam Raimi and Evan Spiliotopoulos's 2021 horror film "The Unholy," Cricket acted in shorts and independent features such as Wake Up (directed by Olivia Wilde) Aus Liebe, Dukeland, and Alice at the Party. Cricket has also performed in many theatrical productions across the country, including Richard Jones' production "Judgment Day" at the Park Avenue Armory, Romeo and Juliet with the North Carolina Symphony and numerous shows at Pittsburgh CLO. She enjoys creating and making her own short films, plays, musicals, and audience experiences
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Adirley Queirós

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Adirley Queirós (Morro Agudo de Goiás, July 18, 1970) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Queirós was a professional footballer from the age of 16 to 25. He then studied film at the Universidade de Brasília, from which he graduated in 2005. He became involved in the cultural life of Brazil and directed his first film Rap o canto da Ceilândia (2005), which won thirteen Brazilian awards. With his documentary A cidade é uma só? (2010), Queirós participated in international film festivals such as World Cinema Amsterdam, Brazilian Hollywood Festival and BAFICI in Argentina. White Out, Black In (2014) is his fifth film and fourth documentary, which participated in Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema, Cartagena Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival, Torino Film Festival and IFFR+.
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Kimberly McCullough

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Kimberly Anne McCullough (born March 5, 1978) is an American actress and television director. She is best known for her role as Robin Scorpio on the soap opera General Hospital, which she originated at age seven, playing the character on and off from 1985 to 2000 and 2004 to 2018, in addition to 2021. She has subsequently taken a step back from acting to focus on directing. McCullough played the character in one episode of the GH spinoff Port Charles and a few episodes of All My Children. In 2007 and 2008, she portrayed Robin as one of the leading characters in the primetime GH spinoff, General Hospital: Night Shift. McCullough is also an ABC Director Fellow, shadowing other directors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kimberly McCullough, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Joshua Homme

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Joshua Michael Homme (born May 17, 1973) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. He is the founder, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, which he formed in 1996 and in which he sings lead vocals and plays guitar, as well as occasionally playing bass, piano, and drums. He also co-founded Eagles of Death Metal in 1998, playing drums for their studio recordings and occasionally performing live with them. Homme was formerly the co-founder and guitarist of the rock band Kyuss from 1987 to 1995. He has produced a musical improv series with other musicians (mostly from the Palm Desert Scene) known as The Desert Sessions since 1997. He formed a new project in 2009 called Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones, releasing their self-titled debut album later that year. In 2016, he produced, co-wrote, and performed on the Iggy Pop album Post Pop Depression. He has also been involved with acts such as Foo Fighters and Arctic Monkeys.
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Kate Barnett

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Kate Barnett has always known her path was acting. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Dan Barnett and Kit Gohl, she is of Irish, German and Polish descent. Both her mother and grandparents participated in local theatrical productions. She appeared in her first stage production in 3rd grade. Kate attended the University of Minnesota earning a BA with a major in theater. Upon graduating, she moved to Chicago, where she studied at the Players Workshop of the Second City before making a move to southern California.
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Amandine Henry

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Amandine Chantal Henry (born 28 September 1989) is a French footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Division 1 Féminine club Lyon and the French national team. A former women's youth international having played all levels, Henry made her senior international debut in 2009. She has captained the national team since October 2017. Henry began her career in 2004, at the age of 15, at Hénin-Beaumont. After one season, she attended the women's section of the Clairefontaine academy for two seasons. In 2007, at the age of 18, she joined Lyon, the most successful women's team in France. During her first season with Lyon, she injured the cartilage in her knee, which kept her out of competition for a year and a half. It was a difficult time, and she considered giving up on football, but with the support of her family, she persevered and returned to Lyon. With Lyon, Henry was featured in the final match of the UEFA Women's Champions League in three consecutive seasons beginning in 2010. Henry was awarded the Silver Ball Award as the tournament's 2nd Best Player at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. Henry was also named among the best players in Europe in 2015, becoming a finalist in the annual UEFA Best Women's Player in Europe Award, finishing 2nd behind Célia Šašić. She signed with the Portland Thorns in March 2016 and joined the team in June, where she played in 8 matches and started in 9 for the regular season-winning National Women's Soccer League team. After undergoing surgery following the NWSL season, she joined Paris Saint-Germain in January 2017, where she played in four Division 1 matches and one Coupe de France Féminine match before rejoining the Thorns in March. Henry scored her first NWSL goal against Boston on 27 May. Also, in May, she was named to the NWSL Team of the Month. She started in 12 consecutive games between April and July before departing for the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. During Euro 2017, Henry started in all four games for France. France was ranked #3 in the world. France beat Iceland 1–0 on 18 July. On 22 July, Henry scored the goal that drew the game against Austria 1–1, and on 26 July, France drew Switzerland 1–1. This qualified France to advance to the quarter-finals where they lost to England 1–0 on 30 July. Henry received the player of the match award for the quarter-final match against England. Henry returned to the Thorns to score in consecutive matches. First she scored against Kansas City on 16 August, converting her first penalty kick for the Thorns. Then, she played 30 minutes as a substitute in the game against the Houston Dash on 19 August, scoring her third goal of the season. The Thorns finished the 2017 season in second place, advancing to the playoffs where Henry scored the first goal against the third-place team Orlando Pride. Portland defeated Orlando 4–1. Henry became an NWSL champion when the Thorns defeated the regular-season winning team North Carolina Courage 1–0 in the 2017 NWSL Championship on 14 October 2017. After the 2017 NWSL season, Henry came back to Lyon. Henry was born in Lille and started playing football at the age of 5. There were no girls' teams for such young players, so she played with boys until she was 13 years old. ... Source: Article "Amandine Henry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Mary Astor

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Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941). She was an MGM contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to act in movies, on television and on stage until her retirement from the screen in 1964. Astor was the author of five novels. Her autobiography became a bestseller, as did her later book, A Life on Film, which was specifically about her career. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of her in 1990: "...(W)hen two or three who love the cinema are gathered together, the name of Mary Astor always comes up, and everybody agrees that she was an actress of special attraction, whose qualities of depth and reality always seemed to illuminate the parts she played." Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Astor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Brian Jones

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Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and composer, best known as the founder and original leader of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, Jones went on to play a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts, including rhythm guitar, lead guitar, sitar, dulcimer, various keyboard instruments such as piano and mellotron, marimba, wind instruments such as harmonica, recorder, saxophone, as well as drums, vocals and numerous others. After he founded the Rolling Stones as a British blues outfit in 1962, and gave the band its name, Jones' fellow band members Keith Richards and Mick Jagger began to take over the band's musical direction, especially after they became a successful songwriting team. Jones and fellow guitarist Richards also developed a unique style of guitar play that Richards refers to as the "ancient art of weaving" where both players would play rhythm and lead parts together. Richards continued the style with later guitarists, and the sound became a Rolling Stones trademark. Jones, however, did not get along with the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, who pushed the band into a musical direction at odds with Jones' blues background. When Jones developed alcohol and drug problems, his performance in the studio became increasingly unreliable, leading to a diminished role within the band he had founded. In June 1969, the Rolling Stones dismissed Jones; guitarist Mick Taylor took his place in the group. Jones died less than a month later, drowning in the swimming pool at his home at the age of 27. Jones’ death was referenced in songs by many other pop-bands, and was the subject of poems by Pete Townshend and Jim Morrison. Referring to Jones, the Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman lamented the waste of a great innovator. In 1989, the Rolling Stones, including Jones, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vaja-Pshavela

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Vaja grew up in Pshavi, in the village of Chargali, in the small family of his father, the village priest Pavle, and his mother, Barbale Pkhikelashvili (Vazha-Pshavela brothers Bachana and Tedo Razikashvili also became famous writers). He studied at the Municipal Theological School, 1877 - 1879 - Tbilisi Teachers' Institute of the School of Civil orklasian, 1879 to Gori Teacher (saostato) Seminary in 1882 , he graduated from. The innate call of the truth-seeker brought Vazha-Pshavela closer to the circle of people in Gori. Once taught in Amtniskhevi , 1883 - 1884In the years he was a free listener at the Faculty of Law of the University of St. Petersburg . Due to lack of money, he soon left the university and worked for several years, first in Otarasheni , in the Amilakhvari family, as a home teacher, and then in the village school of Didi Toneti . 1888 was the drinksHe lived, plowing the land like other peasants, tending cattle and hunting. Enjoyed great influence among the mountain people. Rarely came to the bar. Pshauri wrote his genius poems, stories and poems during the long winter nights. In Pshavi, on the bank of the river Charglura, stands a small house of Kvitkiri. It was in this house that Luka Razikashvili was born on July 14, 1861, whom we know as Vazha-Pshavela. Vazha's father was a man of rare talent, eloquent, curious, and a man of letters. He taught himself to read and write and became a priest. The father instilled in his children a love of books, told about David the Builder , Georgian and foreign heroes, loved the "Panther- skinned " and famous contemporaries - Ilia and AkakiCreatures. He also instilled in his children a love for the sacred books. Vazha-Pshavela remembers how Sulganabul listened to his father's sweet conversation when he was telling from divine history. The mother told heroic stories, Pshauri legends and poems. Thanks to his mother, Vaja knew a lot of folk poems by heart, so everyone was amazed at how one person was able to memorize so many poems. Vazha grew up like this until he was eight years old, and at the age of eight he was sent to the Telavi Theological School . The knowledge gained at the Telavi school was not enough for him. For this reason he could not continue his studies at the Tbilisi Teaching Institute and entered the Gori Master Seminary. His future has already been determined - his public activity and artistic creation would be his activity. In the seminary, students published a manuscript magazine "Rijrazh". Vazha-Pshavela was an active employee and one of the heads of this publishing house. Soon his translations and poems appeared in the newspaper "Droeba" and the magazine "Imedi" . At that time he was working as a teacher. He then left for St. Petersburg and entered the university as a free listener at the Faculty of Law. But he left because of lack, returned to his homeland and settled in Chargali. Vazha had a small child and had to work hard to earn a living. He worked hard, but he still could not reach the poverty. Hard work and hardship soon affected Vajra's health. He was diagnosed with pulmonary pleurisy and underwent surgery. Once it seemed to be repaired. The Georgian orthodox society took advantage of the poet's work and held a literary evening, at the end of which Vazha was presented with a laurel wreath with the inscription - "Georgian Poetry Eagle".
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