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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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Elena Poniatowska
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Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico") about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
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Kumud Pant
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Kumud Pant is an actor,model,director and film producer. Currently, he is living in Aldershot Hampshire UK.He was born 13 May 1971 in Dang district of Nepal.Having born in a small village of Nepal, near the boundary of Himalayas.In the initial days of his career, he acted in films in his hometown.He has also acted in TV series, commercials, music videos and taken part in Modeling. He took up modeling assignments in Nepal, but his career there was short-lived. He then migrated to the UK and started his modeling and acting career. His luck smiled in the UK and he began progressing in his career which he had dreamed. After his short stint in Nepali movies, he shifted to the UK and became a successful business in the entertainment industry. Currently he is running Kumud Entertainment.His father and mother were teacher.From a young age, he was very interested in acting & modeling.He lived and grew up in Dang's Teraute village.He received his school education from Rajhena High School dang Nepal and higher education from Mahendra Multiple Campus Dang.He moved to Kathmandu.In 1995 he got his first modeling job in Nepali magazine Satya Katha and he got his first movie break in a Janma Janma as a supporting role.In 1998 he moved in UK.
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Gabriella Martinez
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Gabriella Martinez is a Dominican American actress. She grew up a bi-coastal child having been born in NY and moving to Las Vegas at a young age. She took her passion for acting very seriously and at the young age of 6 years old along with her parents traveled to LA weekly in search of landing her dream job. Some days consisted of an eight-hour drive back and forth and attending virtual school on the road. This did not deter her dedication. She has always had an incredibly positive outlook that has prepared her for this long journey. Gabriella attended theatre and acting classes weekly and is still dedicated to this day. She has trained consistently with, Constance Tillotson, Billy Hufsey, Amy Lyndon, Lisa Picotte, and Margie Haber Studios to name a few.
Gabriella has worked in leading female roles on many films based out of Las Vegas and also produced alongside director Joe Lujan. Her resume includes credits with Eric Roberts, Adriana Barranza, Nathan Lane, Tom Sizemore, Tom Arnold, Macy Gray, and many others.
Her first on-screen role was on Young Sheldon (CBS). Her most recent credits include the roles of Cristy on Grown-ish (Freeform & HULU), Vera on S.W.A.T (CBS), Ana on Penny Dreadful City of Angels (Showtime) as well as Ashley on Today's Special, alongside Michael Cera and Jane Lynch (TBS) and a voice-over role on The Chosen One (Netflix)
When not filming, Gabriella volunteers her time with a few non-profit organizations including Hope Means Nevada, a mental health awareness organization. She earned a degree in Social and Behavioral Science and spends her time writing and wants to produce and direct to offer others opportunities in the industry.
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Bronté Barbé
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Bronte Barbe is known is an Actress. Bronté’s work in theatre includes: ‘Katherine’ in Newsies (Troubador Theatre London), ‘Mary’ in What’s New Pussycat (Birmingham Rep), ‘Ado Annie’ in Oklahoma at Chichester, starring as ‘Carole King’ in the first UK tour of the musical Beautiful, ’Jane’ in the concert version of Girlfriends at the Bishopsgate Institute, ‘Nadine’ in Drew McOnie’s production of The Wild Party at The Other Palace, ‘Little Match Girl’ in Striking 12 at the Union Theatre, ‘Helen/Vinnie’ in The Donkey Show (Proud London) and ‘Princess Fiona’ in the UK tour of Shrek, and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ before this. She started performing at a very young age in her hometown of Macclesfield. In 2010 she was selected as one of the final 10 in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s search for Dorothy – Over the Rainbow. Following this, Bronté attended Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts where she gained the Gyearbuor Asante prize for Acting and graduated with first class honours.
After finishing Mountview she made her professional debut as ‘Odette’ in Carnival of the Animals (Riverside Studios).
Other credits include: Years & Years (BBC), Call the Midwife (BBC), ‘Sharon’ in Cool Rider – the Grease 2 concert (Lyric Theatre, West End) and cast recording, Momentous Musicals UK Tour, ‘Penny Pingleton’ in Hairspray (Kuala Lumpur/Singapore) and the role of ‘Megan’ in the But I’m a Cheerleader workshop directed by Jerry Mitchell.
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Jason Cerbone
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Jason Cerbone (born November 2, 1977) is an actor from Yonkers, New York. He got his start acting at age 4, appearing on a commercial for Sesame Street. He signed with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York City at age 7. Jason later appeared in Bon Jovi's "Silent Night" music video, as well as the title character in Suzanne Vega's video for the song "Luka". He attended Sacred Heart High School and Concordia College in New York and received a degree in biology. After graduating college, he resumed his acting career. He is most notable for the role of Jackie Aprile, Jr. on the hit HBO series, The Sopranos. Cerbone also had a cameo appearance in the movie Cloverfield, in which he played a New York police officer.
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Kaj Pindal
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Kaj Pindal was a Danish-Canadian animator and educator renowned for his distinctive animation style and contributions to the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He began his career in Denmark, creating anti-Hitler cartoons during World War II, which led to his relocation to Canada. At the NFB, Pindal co-directed the Academy Award-nominated short What on Earth! (1967) and created Peep and the Big Wide World (1988), which later inspired a television series. His work is characterized by wit and a unique cartoon style, leaving a lasting impact on the animation industry.
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Maggie Aderin-Pocock
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I’m so pleased to be part of this cherished and much loved institution. Presenting The Sky at Night has brought me full circle; as a child I would beg my parents to allow me to stay up late and watch the programme. It even inspired me to go to night school at a young age to make my own telescope mirror, which I lovingly crafted and gave me my first glimpse of the breath-taking spectacle above us.
This enthusiasm eventually led to a degree in Physics and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and then working on the wonderful 8m Gemini telescope in Chile, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope. Growing up, I always wanted to be an astronaut - I haven’t succeeded in doing that (yet!) but being a space scientist is the next best thing because I’m building instruments that go into space.
I’m very lucky to have found work I enjoy so much and that is also so varied – not just building equipment that goes into space but also talking about it. I like to pass on my enthusiasm when I can. But I haven’t given up on that dream; I want to retire to Mars. Some people choose gardening, I choose Mars!
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Ben Stobber
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Ben Stobber is a Student Emmy and Broadway World award winning actor. Born in Hudson, Wisconsin but raised in the small town of Pueblo West, Colorado, he developed his passion for acting since age five through talent shows, musicals, speech & debate, and love for Shakespeare. His move to Las Vegas in 2002 brought opportunities with Paramount in Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton, followed by other local Vegas acting opportunities as a scare actor for Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, Blue Man Group at the Venetian, & Cirque du Soleil's Love at the Mirage. His first time in front of the camera was in 2004 for TNT's Dramatic Auditions when they were traveling around the country looking for the best actors. Of the many who auditioned, he was chosen as one of five semifinalists in the Las Vegas region. Biggest stage performance break came from being cast as the lead role of Ash in the Las Vegas premiere of Evil Dead the Musical. This lead him to his first starring performance on the strip at Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino where he performed for almost three years. Other notable credits on the Las Vegas strip were Legwarmers, Divorce Party the Musical, & Awesome 80's Prom. Recent film credits include Immortal Wars(Eric Roberts, Tom Sizemore, Bill Oberst Jr.) distributed by ITN, Bus Party to Hell(Tara Reid, Sadie Katz, Devanny Pinn) distributed by Gravitas Ventures, Sunset Society(Lemmy, Dizzy Reed, Ron Jeremy, Steve-O) distributed by Cleopatra Entertainment, and Unwritten( Lorenzo Lamas).
IMDb Mini Biography By: Ben Stobber
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Klaus Doldinger
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Klaus Doldinger (born 12 May 1936) is a German saxophonist, especially well known for jazz and as a composer of film music. He was the recipient of 1997's Bavarian Film Awards.
Doldinger was born in Berlin, and entered a Düsseldorf conservatory in 1947, originally studying piano and then clarinet, graduating in 1957. In his student years, Doldinger gained professional performing experience, starting in 1953 in the German Dixieland band The Feetwarmers, and recording with them in 1955. Later that year he founded Oscar's Trio, modeled on Oscar Peterson's work.
During the 1960s he worked as a tenor saxophonist, working with visiting American jazz musicians and recording in his own right.
Doldinger is perhaps best known for his film scores to the acclaimed German U-boat film Das Boot (1981) and later The NeverEnding Story (1984).
Doldinger married Inge Beck in 1960; they have three children, Viola, Melanie and Nicolas Doldinger. Since 1968 they have resided in Icking, a small Bavarian village, south of Munich.
Doldinger's jazz band Passport (2008)
Doldinger's recurring jazz project Passport, started in 1971 (then called "Klaus Doldinger's Passport"), still enjoys huge success in Germany. In its influence it was sometimes called the European version of Weather Report.
At various times members of Passport included Peter O'Mara (guitar), Roberto DiGioia (keyboards), Patrick Scales (bass, since 1994), Ernst Stroer (de:Ernst Ströer) (percussion, since 1989), Christian Lettner (drums, since 2000), Michael Hornek (keyboard since 2009), Biboul Darouiche (percussion, since 1995) and others. Guests include Brian Auger (1973), Johnny Griffin (1973) and Pete York (1973).[3] The first true Passport album had strong ties to Amon Düül II containing contributions from Olaf Kübler, Lothar Meid and Jimmy Jackson, it remains an off-the-radar Krautrock essential.
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