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Michelle Belanger

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Michelle Belanger is an occult expert, presenter, singer, psychic medium, business owner, and author of over thirty books on paranormal topics, including the Psychic Energy Codex and the Dictionary of Demons. Belanger has appeared in TV shows like Paranormal State, Portals to Hell, and Conjuring Kesha, where they serve as a psychic medium and occult expert. Founder and lead clergy of House Kheperu, Belanger is an engaging presenter whose expertise and insight has been featured at conventions and universities around the nation.
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Tallulah Haddon

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Tallulah Haddon is a live art performer and actress based in South London. A performance artist whose work frequently overlaps with cabaret, comedy, beat boxing and drag art forms, Tallulah frequently performs in a diverse range of spaces including outdoor festivals, queer performance nights and live art events. Tallulah’s work looks broadly at issues of gender and power, and has previously explored her own romantic relationship, the power of celebrity men and how they abuse it (and others), heteronormativy in sex and the process by which women absorb the experiences of our close female friends. Tallulah is currently exploring themes and techniques of audience participation in relation to power, female collaboration and performance in public spaces, domestic abuse and installation. Previous events and venues where Tallulah has performed include Duckie, Low Stakes, Deadline, Latitude Festival, Shuffle Festival, Soho Theatre, Fierce Festival, Tits and Tinsel, The Royal Vauxall Tavern, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club and Morge Fest amongst many others. She has previously studied at Marissa Carnesky’s Finishing School, as well as with artists such as Lauren Barri-Holstein and Daniel Oliver. As a performer her work is frequently collaborative, and she has performed alongside Lucy McCormick, Elijah Harris (see Shared Saliva), Cloud. Bio via - tallulahhaddon.com
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Arun Bakshi

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Arun Bakshi is an Indian film and television actor and also a singer. He has acted as a character actor in over 100 Hindi films, and as a playback singer has also sung 298 songs. He has also worked in Punjabi and Bhojpuri cinema. He also played the role of Mahant Dashrath Tripathi in Colors's Ishq Ka Rang Safed. He was born and brought up in Ludhiana, Punjab, where he graduated from Arya College, Ludhiana. He worked with the Punjab Agricultural University for a while, before moving to Mumbai, to start his acting career in 1981, first in television and later films. Arun Bakshi is well known for performances in BR Chopra's Mahabharat as Dhristadyumna, Guru, Kuch To Gadbad Hai and Masoom. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nur Fazura

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Nur Fazura Sharifuddin is a Malaysian actress, singer, TV host and VJ. She began her career in the Malaysian entertainment industry by hosting a television show and several minor acting roles. She was the host of a television show called Teens World. In 2004, she launched her film career with playing the leading role in Bicara Hati which became her break-out role and earned her an award nomination. Later in 2005, she starred as the bubbly-energetic lead character in the film Gol & Gincu. Fazura is considered as one of the most stylish actress and celebrity in Malaysia according to many entertainment and fashion magazines and frequently appears in these magazines' "Stylish" and "Hot" lists. Up to 2010, she has done 10 featured films and countless hit TV series and dramas as well as hosting a number of television program. She also became a judge in the comedy television show called Maharaja Lawak Mega.
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François-Régis Bastide

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François-Régis Bastide (1 July 1926; Biarritz – 16 April 1996; Paris) was a French writer, diplomat, politician, and radio host. Bastide was born in Biarritz in the French Basque Country on 1 July 1926 and attended school in Bayonne. In October 1944 he joined the 2nd Armored Division led by General Leclerc and participated in the last phase of the WWII Western Front operations. Bastide published his first book, the novel Lettre de Bavière, in 1947. He continued to publish books regularly and won the Grand Prix de la Critique for his 1953 biographical essay Saint-Simon par lui même about Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon and the Prix Femina for his 1956 novel Les Adieux. In 1953 Bastide began a parallel career as a book editor working for the Éditions du Seuil where he worked for close to thirty years. Bastide also wrote for the theatre (Siegfried 78) and for television (most notably Le Troisième concerto which won the grand prix de la Télévision in 1963 and L'Éducation sentimentale, a mini-series adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education). In 1981 Bastide received the Pierre de Régnier Prize of the Académie française for his lifetime achievements. Bastide began his radio career after World War II as a host on "Radio Sarrebruck" then under French military control. Starting in 1949, he worked for the ORTF as a producer and host. He is perhaps best known to the wider French public as one of the original co-hosts (with Michel Polac) of the popular radio talk-show Le Masque et la Plume. The show which features debates about cinema, literature and theatre debuted in 1955 and is still running today on France Inter. Bastide left the show in 1982. Throughout his life, Bastide was active in politics in various ways. From 1968 to 1976, he was the president of the radio producers and presenters section of the powerful CFDT trade union. He was close to the Socialist Party which he represented as a city councilor in Biarritz in 1977 and as a national delegate in 1978. He also co-authored the 1978 "Bastide report" which led four years later to the creation of the Haute Autorité de la communication audiovisuelle. After the election of François Mitterrand in the 1981 presidential election he began a diplomatic career and was successively appointed Ambassador to Denmark (1982–85), Ambassador to Austria (1985–88) and Permanent delegate to UNESCO (1988–90). Source: Article "François-Régis Bastide" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Marie Avgeropoulos

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Marie Avgeropoulos (/ævdʒɛrɔːˈpuːlɔːs/; born June 17, 1986) is a Canadian actress and model with Greek ancestry. Her break-out role was as Valli Wooley in the 2009 film I Love You, Beth Cooper directed by Chris Columbus. Since then, she has appeared in more film and TV roles: as Kirstie in Cult, as Kim Rhodes in Hunt to Kill, and the sci-fi series The 100 as Octavia Blake. After studying broadcast journalism for two years in her hometown, Avgeropoulos moved to Europe. Several months later, she came back to Canada and settled in Vancouver. Avgeropoulos started playing drums when she was 16. One of her friends invited her for a casting call in Vancouver, which happened to be looking for drummers. A talent agent recognized her talent and invited her to appear in various national commercials. She caught the attention of director Chris Columbus. He hired Avgeropoulos for I Love You, Beth Cooper, which became her first feature film role. Her appearance in the film gave her the opportunities to star in more films and television shows. In 2010, Avgeropoulos was cast as Kim Rhodes in the film Hunt to Kill, which became her break-out role. Early in 2013, Avgeropoulos made her break-out in television after being cast for a recurring role in The CW's Cult. However, the series failed to attract viewers and after episode 7, the show was canceled. The remaining six episodes of the show were broadcast later in the summer. Not long after the show ended, The CW cast her as one of the main characters in their new sci-fi, The 100, to portray the character Octavia Blake.
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Daniel Craig

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Daniel Wroughton Craig (born March 2, 1968) is an English actor. He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond for five installments in the film series: Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021). After training at the National Youth Theatre in London and graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, Craig began his career on stage. He began acting with the drama The Power of One (1992) and had his breakthrough role in the drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996). He gained prominence for his supporting roles in films such as Elizabeth (1998), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Road to Perdition (2002), Layer Cake (2004), and Munich (2005). In 2006, Craig played Bond in Casino Royale, a reboot of the Bond franchise that was favourably received by critics and earned Craig a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. His non-Bond appearances since then include roles in the fantasy film The Golden Compass (2007), the drama Defiance (2008), the science fiction Western Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the heist film Logan Lucky (2017). For his performance as Detective Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out film series (2019, 2022), he received two Golden Globe Award nominations. On stage, Craig starred in the Royal National Theatre's production of Angels in America (1993) on the West End. He made his Broadway debut in the play A Steady Rain (2009) and returned to Broadway in the revivals of Harold Pinter's Betrayal (2011) and William Shakespeare's Macbeth (2022). He starred as Iago in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Othello (2016).
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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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Enrique Cerezo

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Enrique Cerezo Torres (Madrid, February 27, 1948) is a Spanish businessman and sports leader, current president of Club Atlético de Madrid since May 28, 2003 after the resignation of Jesús Gil, club of which he is a shareholder. He is also a film producer and owner of Enrique Cerezo Producciones Cinematográficas and Video Mercury Films, the regional channel 8madrid, the Madrid cinema chain Conde Duque-Verdi and the video-on-demand company FlixOlé. It owns more than 70% of Spanish cinema titles, making it the country's leading film company.
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Greta Goodworth

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Greta grew up with a love for language. Her interest in the spoken word led her to start youth theatre at the age of seven. Greta started working in television in 2011 where she guested in Alarm für Cobra 11 (dir. Axel Sand) and Phoenixsee (dir. Bettina Woernle) and was part of the main cast of Lindenstraße from 2012-2018. After graduating high school Greta moved to Sydney, Australia to study at Actors Centre Australia from which she graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Stage and Screen).
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