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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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Luis Alberto García
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Luis Alberto García. Popular actor cubano con una de las carreras actorales más sólidas de Cuba en todos los tiempos. Desde su aparición en las pantallas y teatros, se ha convertido en uno de los más importantes y populares intérpretes escénicos. Graduado en 1984, del Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), en la especialidad de Actuación.
Ha incursionado en todos los medios, y ha demostrado que puede dominar un amplio registro de estilos de actuación. Sus personajes van desde policías encubiertos hasta motoristas frustrados y ha navegado tanto por la interpretación lírica como por la comedia.
Su cercanía con otros campos como la pintura, la realización fílmica, la música y la literatura son ampliamente conocidas. Su espíritu inquieto le llevó a realizar uno de los documentales más completos que se le hayan dedicado al historiador de la Ciudad de la Habana Eusebio Leal Spengler. "Leal al Tiempo"
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Jesse Pruett
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Jesse Pruett was born in San Diego, California. He is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who started the band Parker Theory in the summer of 2000 and has released 4 albums and 2 EP's. Songs he has written have been heard on MTV, VH1, NBC, ABC, CW, The Hills, Smallville, Jersey Shore, The Real world, Snooki and JWOWW, and many other TV shows, movies, and radio. Parker Theory have released albums through labels in the U.S., Japan, Brazil, and Sweden. Over the years he has shared the stage with Blink 182, Jason Mraz, Switchfoot, Smashmouth, Eve 6, P.O.D., and many other great bands and artists. He continues to write, record and release music through parker theory and other projects. He and T.J. Hill wrote the score and original soundtrack to the film General Education. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Imagine Entertainment and Management
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Mohammad Reyad
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Muhammad Muhammad Reyad studied Chemistry then graduated from the High Institute of Dramatic Arts. “Al-‘aaela i.e. The family”, “Ameera men Abdeen i.e. A princess from Abdeen”, “Lan a’eesh fee gelbaab aby i.e. I will not live in my father’s robe”, “Al-dow’ al-shaared i.e. The stray light”, “Rodd kalby i.e. My heart is back”, “Ebn Hazm”, “Nesf Rabee’ al-aakhar i.e. Rabee’s other half”, “Dedd al-tayyaar i.e. Against the trend” and “Behaar al-ghorba i.e. Expatriation seas” are among the TV roles he excelled in. He also participated in the stage play “Al-okhwa al-andaal i.e. Brothers bastards”. Muhammad is married to actress Rania Mahmoud Yasseen.
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Magda Vášáryová
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Magda (Magdaléna) Vášáryová (* August 26, 1948, Banská Štiavnica) is a Slovak politician and former actress and diplomat. Since 2006, she has been a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for SDKÚ-DS. On 12 December 2013, she resigned from the party and until the start of the so-called The third government of Robert Fico (2016) worked in the National Council of the Slovak Republic as a non-attached member of parliament.
She began her successful acting career as a 15-year-old in the film Senzi Mama (1964).
From 1966 to 1971 she studied sociology at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 1970 she has worked as an actress in the Korze Theater, the New Stage (1971 - 1983) and in the Slovak National Theater (1983 - 1990). She is the author of book memoirs about Banská Štiavnica Short Letters to a Town (1988).
In 1988 she was awarded the title of Merited Artist.
From 1990 to 1993, she served as the Czech-Slovak ambassador to Austria. During the diplomatic mission, she lived with her daughters in Vienna while her husband stayed in Bratislava. While they provide wife support for diplomats, Vášáryová, as a diplomat, did not receive compensation for the diplomat's non-working wife. Václav Havel and Jiří Dienstbier enforced her compensation payment.
On May 3, 1993, she organized a meeting at home, where the Slovak Society for Foreign Policy (SFPA) began to form. From 1993 to 2000, she was its director. In 2020, she is the Honorary Chair of the SFPA Board. In 1998, she founded Občianske oko.
In the 1999 elections, she ran as an independent candidate for the post of President of Slovakia. She won 194,635 votes, 6.6%, in the election. She did not make it to the second round. She announced her candidacy in February 1999 in Banská Bystrica. She wanted to confirm the changes in 1989 and 1998. She was the first woman in Slovakia to run for president.
From 2000 to 2005, she served as Slovakia's ambassador to Poland. Its predecessor was Ondrej Nemčok and his successor was František Ružička. Since February 21, 2005, she has held the position of State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic in the second government of Mikuláš Dzurinda.
In the summer of 2005, she joined the SDKÚ. On 12 December 2013, together with Lucia Žitňanská and Miroslav Beblavý, she resigned from SDKÚ-DS.
Since November 15, 2013, she has been the president of the Živena association. Her goals after the election were “I still have three goals within Živena. One of them is, in particular, the modernization of communication, the addition of a membership base, and I would also like to raise more money in more modern ways, for example in the form of grants. " Her predecessor was Zora Breier.
In 2016, she did not run for parliament again. In addition to Živena, she also led the Institute for Cultural Policy. He also teaches at the CEVRO INSTITUTE in the Czech Republic.
In 2016, The Prague Society for International Cooperation awarded her the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Prize for Civil Service and the Lifelong Fight against Corruption.
Sister of the actress Emilie Vášáryová. The first husband was the actor Dušan Jamrich. The second husband is Milan Lasica. He has two daughters.
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R. Marcos Taylor
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R. Marcos Taylor (born September 16, 1976) is an American actor and stuntman, best known for his portrayal of Suge Knight in Straight Out of Compton (2015).
At five years old, all Taylor wanted to become was Superman. When he realized that couldn't happen, he decided taking Karate lessons was the next best thing. He went on to earn a black belt in Karate, but along the way he began developing a love for various martial art forms. In addition to Karate, Marcus began intensive training in: Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Capoeira, and Hapkido, and has more than twenty years of training in these forms. Marcus holds the rank of Kru in Muay Thai. Marcus also trains in several other martial art forms including: Kung Fu, Boxing, Judo, Ninjitsu, Gracie Jui Jitsu, etc. He has fought in tournaments and won titles including: the NJ StateTaekwondo Champion 1994, YB Choi Taekwondo Invitational Champion 1995, and the Muay Thai Warriors Cup Super-Heavy Weight Champion 2010. He has also worked as a certified personal trainer, gym owner, professional fighter, bodyguard, and has taught martial arts and self-defense locally and internationally for the last twenty-four years. Taylor also works as an actor and stuntman, where his strongest areas are fight scenes, stunt doubling, choreography, and stunt falls. Although being Superman was unrealistic, he's found that being a student of martial arts was far more rewarding. Marcus has over 30 years of experience in martial arts and is hoping for many more years of learning and teaching the art form he came.
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Reza Naji
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Reza Naji is an Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema.
Naji started his career in theater when he was a teenager. While serving in the Iranian army, he continued to perform in different roles. His first role in a film goes back to 1997 in Children of Heaven, which proved to be a breakthrough. For playing the role of Ali's father, director Majid Majidi was seeking an actor with an Azeri accent, and Naji was carefully selected from a group of 2,500 actors tested for the role. Since then, he has played several roles in Iranian films. Among his most notable performances is his appearance in "The Song of Sparrows", directed by renowned film director Majid Majidi, for which Naji won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and Best Performance by an Actor at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
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Radhika Apte
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Radhika Apte is an Indian film and stage actress. Apte began her acting career in theater, working with the theater troupe Aasakta in her home town, before venturing into films. She made her feature film debut with a brief role in the Hindi fantasy Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005).
Apte's first starring role was in the 2009 Bengali social drama Antaheen. She made her Marathi film debut in 2009 with the tragic romance Samaantar. Her Bollywood breakthrough came in 2015, following acclaimed performances in the thriller Badlapur and the comedy Hunterrr, Manjhi - The Mountain Man—and received wide appreciation for the psychological thriller Phobia (2016).
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Ado
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Ado (born October 24, 2002) is a Japanese singer. In 2020, at the age of 17, she made her debut with the digital single titled "Usseewa", which peaked at number 1 on Billboard Japan Hot 100, Oricon Digital Singles Chart, and the Oricon Streaming Chart. The song reached 100 million plays on Billboard Japan after 17 weeks from charting-in, which was the sixth fastest in history and the youngest for a solo singer. In 2022, her song, "New Genesis", was used as the theme song for the anime film One Piece Film: Red, and topped Apple Music's Global Top 100 charts.
She is currently represented by the artist management company Cloud Nine.
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Chikako Aoyama
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Japanese actor, color psychotherapist, and a native of Osaka Prefecture. In 1989, Chikko Aoyama played a role in the movie "Sentamako". In 1999, Chikko Aoyama obtained qualifications as a color psychotherapy consultant and teacher in the United Kingdom, and has qualifications as a color blender and JAA aroma therapist in Japan, but is now active in Japan as a color psychotherapist. She appeared in many restricted movies in her early stage, mainly showing her perfect figure and glamorous look. In the early 1990s, she starred in the Hong Kong films "Female Robot" and "Breaking Out", as well as a guest star in "When the King Comes Back". In the same period, he published the beautiful art photo album "Subtropical Climate" and "Subtropical Climate".
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