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Casey Affleck
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Casey Affleck (born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt; August 12, 1975) is an American actor. He receives various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. The younger brother of actor Ben Affleck, he began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film Lemon Sky (1988). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films: To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), Gerry (2002), and in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's film series (2001–2007). His first role was in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim (2006).
Affleck's breakthrough came in 2007 when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Robert Ford in the Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and starred in his brother's crime drama Gone Baby Gone. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary I'm Still Here. He went on to appear in Tower Heist (2011), ParaNorman (2012), and Interstellar (2014), and he received praise for his performance as an outlaw in Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013).
In 2016, Affleck starred in the drama Manchester by the Sea, in which his performance as a grieving man earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has since starred in the dramas A Ghost Story (2017) and The Old Man & the Gun (2018) and as Boris Pash in the biographical thriller Oppenheimer (2023), his highest-grossing release.
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Maurice Genevoix
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Maurice Genevoix (29 November 1890 – 8 September 1980) was a French author.
Born on 29 November 1890 at Decize, Nièvre as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix, Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. After attending the local school, he studied at the lycée of Orléans and the Lycée Lakanal. Genevoix was accepted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, being first in his class, but was soon mobilized into World War I in 1914. He was quickly promoted to a lieutenant. He participated in the bloody battles of the Les Éparges hill as well as along the road of Tranchée de Calonne to the south east of Verdun-sur-Meuse in late 1914 and early 1915. On the 25 April 1915 he was severely wounded in action in his left arm and side in the Tranchée de Calonne sector and returned to Paris. The battle in the Meuse in which he participated, especially those at Les Éparges left a profound influence on him, and he wrote the tetralogy Ceux de 14 (The Men of 1914), which brought him recognition among the public.
Around 1919, Genevoix contracted Spanish influenza, causing him to move back to the Loire. He was quite prolific during his time in the Loire area, earning a Prix Blumenthal grant from the Florence Blumenthal Foundation to support him as a professional writer. It was this grant that allowed him to continue with some of his most celebrated works, Rémi des Rauches and Raboliot, the latter of which earned him the Prix Goncourt.
In 1928, his father died, and Genevoix moved to Vernelles in Loiret. At around this time, Genevoix started to travel abroad to Canada, Scandinavia, Mexico, and Africa. Canada and Africa were both admired by the writer, the latter of which he dedicated a 1949 essay to it, Afrique blanche, Afrique noire. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 October 1946 and was formally inducted the following year. In 1950, he returned to Paris and became secretary of the Académie française in 1958. In 1970, Genevoix, who was president of the program committee of French state radio, started a television series on French writers. He was also offered the Grand prix national des Lettres. He died on 8 September 1980 and was buried in Passy Cemetery.
Genevoix presided over the Friends of the Natural History Museum Paris society for ten years from 1970 to 1980. The Académie française literary Prix Maurice Genevoix is named for him.
On 11 November 2020, Genevoix' remains were transferred to the Panthéon.
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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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Laura Bayonas
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Laura Bayonas started working in movies at the age of 4, and when 7 years old, she played her first lead in the short "Correo de guerra" (1972) together with her mother — Lola Salvador, a well known scriptwriter and film producer. Since then she has accomplished a strong career in Europe, having lead roles in film and TV with well known Spanish directors, like Jose Luis Bunuel, Jaime Chavarri, Julio Medem, Alfonso Ungria, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Jose Luis Cuerda, Manolo Matji, Jose Luis Berlanga and others.
As a writer, Laura published her novel "Yes Father, no Father", a radical critic against parental education, which was a best seller in the 90's. She received an award for her first screenplay "Panfilas" by ICAA, Ministerio De Cultura of Spain.
After moving from Spain, Bayonas is living in Los Angeles, California. Her most recent Hollywood-work is in "CharlottaTS" (2011, Lewis Teague).
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Jim Bannon
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Jim Bannon (April 9, 1911 - July 28, 1984) was an actor in radio and Hollywood western films during the 1940s and 1950s. He is best remembered as the fourth cinema Red Ryder from 1949 - 1950. He appeared in numerous western television series, including the 1958 episode "Attack" of Richard Carlson's Mackenzie's Raiders.
Bannon was also the first husband of American actor and comedian Bea Benaderet. Their son, Jack Bannon, was a regular on the CBS drama series, Lou Grant, starring Ed Asner.
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Maja Salvador
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Maja Ross Andres Salvador (born October 5, 1988) is a Filipino film and television actress. In 2006, she made her film debut in the horror movie Sukob, for which she won the Golden Screen Award for Breakthrough Performance by an Actress, the PMPC Star Award for New Movie Actress of the Year, and received a FAMAS nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2011, she starred in and co-produced the film Thelma, which earned her a Gawad Urian Award for Best Actress and a Film Academy of the Philippines Award for Best Actress. She also starred in First Day High (2006), One More Chance (2007), My Cactus Heart (2012), 24/7 in Love (2012), Status: It's Complicated (2013), I'm Drunk, I Love You (2017), and To Love Some Buddy (2018). Salvador is also known for her role in the television series Wildflower (2017-2018) which earned her a Best Actress award from the 1st Asia Contents Award which was held during the 24th Busan International Film Festival.
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Edward Ellsworth Annis
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He is the eldest child of B. J. Annis and Georgia Hart. His ring name is Teddy Hart. He is the grandson of Stu and Helen Hart of the famous Hart Family. He became the youngest wrestler to sign with the WWE, but then was released because of attitude problems. He made his debut in 1995 and teamed with his late brother Matthew Annis against his cousin Harry Smith and T. J. Wilson in Stampede Wrestling. He formed The Hart Foundation Version 2.0 with Harry Smith, T. J. Wilson and Jack Evans. This group wrestled in Major League Wrestling and he teamed with Jack Evans to make up The New Hart Foundation. He also wrestled in Matrats run by Eric Bischoff. He has wrestled for Ring of Honor and Total Nonstop Action(TNA) and other independent wrestlings shows. He has a son Bradley with girlfriend, Kim.
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Manoel de Oliveira
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Manoel de Oliveira was born in Porto, Portugal on December 11, 1908, to Francisco José de Oliveira and Cândida Ferreira Pinto. His family were wealthy industrialists. Oliveira attended school in Galicia, Spain and his goal as a teenager was to become an actor. He enrolled in Italian film-maker Rino Lupo's acting school at age 20, but later changed his mind when he saw Walther Ruttmann's documentary Berlin: Symphony of a City. This prompted him to direct his first film, also a documentary, titledDouro, Faina Fluvial (1931). He also acted in the second Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa (1933). His first feature film came much later, in 1942. Aniki-Bóbó, a portrait of Oporto's street children, was a commercial failure when it opened, and its merit only came to be recognised over time. This drawback forced Oliveira to abandon other film projects he was involved in, and to dedicate himself to running his family vineyard. He re-emerged onto the film scene in 1956 with The Artist and the City, a work that marked a turning point in Oliveira's conception of the cinema. In 1963, O Acto de Primavera (The Rite of Spring), a documentary depicting an annual passion play, marked a turning point for his career. This was shortly followed by A caça (The Hunt), a grim feature film that contrasted with the happy tones of his previous documentary. Despite the widespread acclaim garnered by both films, he would not return to the director's seat until the 1970s. Since 1990 (when he turned 82), he has made at least one film each year. Oliveira has said that he direct movies for the sheer pleasure of doing it, regardless of critical reaction. He maintains a quiet life away from the spotlights, despite multiple honours such as those of the Cannes, Venice and Montreal film festivals. He has been awarded two Career Golden Lions in 1985 and 2004 and a golden palm for his lifetime achievements in 2008.
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Barbara Ferris
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Barbara Gillian Ferris (born in London on 27 July 1942) is an English actress and former fashion model.
She appeared in a number of films and productions for television and is possibly best remembered as Dinah, the young woman who eloped with Dave Clark in the 1965 film Catch Us If You Can. Her other roles were as diverse as the female lead in Edward Bond's controversial play Saved (1965) and a vicar's wife in the television comedy series All in Good Faith in the mid-1980s.
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Tia Mowry
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Tia Dashon Mowry (born July 6, 1978) is an American actress. She first gained recognition for her starring role as Tia Landry in the sitcom Sister, Sister (1994–1999), opposite her twin sister Tamera Mowry. The sisters then starred together in the Disney Channel Original Movie Twitches (2005) and its sequel, Twitches Too (2007). The two also starred in the fantasy comedy film Seventeen Again (2000) and voiced the LaBelle sisters in the animated series Detention (1999–2000). They were featured in the reality series Tia & Tamera from 2011 to 2013.
Mowry voiced Sasha in the animated series Bratz (2005–2006). She starred as Melanie Barnett in the comedy-drama series The Game (2006–2015), Stephanie Phillips in the sitcom Instant Mom (2013–2015) and Cocoa McKellan in the sitcom Family Reunion (2019–2022).
Mowry had starring roles in the teen comedy film The Hot Chick (2002), the musical comedy film The Mistle-Tones (2012), the romantic comedy film Baggage Claim (2013) and the drama film Indivisible (2018).
Mowry and her sister, Tamera, formed a singing group in the early 1990s called Voices. The group debuted their first single, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!", in 1992 and it charted at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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