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Barry Fitzgerald
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Brother of actor Arthur Shields, with whom he performed in several films, most notably John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952). One of the very few character actors ever to achieve star status.
Fitzgerald was the only player ever nominated for the Academy Award for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the same year for the same role. The recognition was for Going My Way (1944). After he received this double nomination, the Academy immediately changed their rules to prevent this from happening again, rules which have remained unchanged to this day.
One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and joined Dublin's world-famous Abbey Players. He subsequently starred in the Abbey Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's Juno And The Paycock, a role that he recreated in his film debut for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1930. He was coaxed to the U.S. in 1935 by John Ford to appear in Ford's film adaptation of another O'Casey masterpiece, The Plough and the Stars (1936). Fitzgerald took up residence in Hollywood and went on to give outstanding performances in such films as The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), None But the Lonely Heart (1944), And Then There Were None (1945), Two Years Before the Mast (1946) and what is probably the role for which he is most fondly remembered, The Quiet Man (1952). He won the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of gruff, aging Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way (1944). He was also nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for the same role and was the only actor to ever be so honored. Barry Fitzgerald died in his beloved Dublin in 1961.
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Sachin Pilgaonkar
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Sachin Pilgaonkar (Konkani: सचिन पिळगावकर; born 17 August 1957), often known by his first name Sachin, is an Indian film and television actor, director, singer and producer.
Starting as a footballer in the Marathi film, Ha Majha Marg Ekla (1962), he went on to act in around 65 films as a child artist, before switching to adult roles, and giving hits like Geet Gaata Chal (1975), Balika Badhu (1976), Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se (1978) and Nadiya Ke Paar (1982) as a lead actor. He has worked in Hindi, Marathi and also in Bhojpuri cinema, and has acted, produced and directed successful comedy shows on Indian television, including Tu Tu Main Main (2000) and Kadvee Khatti Meethi. Besides that, he also directed several hit Marathi films starting with Mai Baap (1982), Navri Mile Navryala (1984), Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi (1988), Amchyasarkhe Aamich (1990) and Navra Mazha Navsacha (2004).
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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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Lilita Ozoliņa
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Lilita Ozoliņa (born 19 November 1947 in Riga) is an actress of Latvian theater and cinema.
Before the war, Lilita's mother, Albertina, worked as a director's assistant at a German film studio, and father Arvids was a pilot-pilot. Lilita, having passed the admission competition, successfully entered the Riga Film Studio folk cinema actor studio. In parallel with her studies in 1966, she began working at the Latvian Academy of Arts Daile Theater of the Latvian SSR. In 1969, Lilita graduated from cinema actor studies, and in 1971, faculty of actors at the Latvian Academy of Music, Jāzeps Vītols.
Received Lilita Berzina Award (2008). "The Night of the Night" as the best actress of the year for the role of Alice in the production of A. Strindberg's play "Dance of Death" at M. Chekhov's Riga Russian Theater (1996). as an annual actress in the role of the second.
Lilita Ozoliņa has a daughter Liliāna Ozoliņa, who has been the director of the television channel MTV Latvia.
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Bill Burr
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William Frederick Burr (born June 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster. Outside of stand-up, he is known for creating and starring in the Netflix animated sitcom F Is for Family (2015–present), playing Patrick Kuby in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), and co-founding the All Things Comedy network. He has hosted the twice-weekly comedy podcast, titled The Monday Morning Podcast, since May 2007.
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Holger Munk
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Holger Munk (Andersen) begyndte i 1947 at læse hos Einar Juhl og blev uddannet på Det Kongelige Teaters elevskole 1948-1950. I denne periode spillede han mindre roller bl.a. i "Omstigning til paradis" og "Den stundesløse". Samtidig fik han sin sangstemme uddannet. Efter afgangsprøven blev han engageret til Aarhus Teater med debut i "Sankt Hansaften-spil". Han fik sit gennembrud i Riddersalen i 1950erne. Siden var han free lance skuespiller, fx havde han roller i "Nitouche" og "Napoleons vaskepige" på Det Ny Scala i 1958. Fra 1960-66 var han en af hovedkræfterne på Aalborg Teater med elskerroller i "Ruths bog" og "Vildfuglen" og "Helligtrekongersaften" og som den rare bøsse i "En duft af honning" i 1960 og med komiske roller som Barberen i "Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by" i 61 og Fyrstinde Grace i "Gidslet" og "Jean de France" i 62, men også alvorlige som Pateren i "Andorra" og som Baronen i "Båndet" i 64. Han var også en dygtig lærer på elevskolen. Og siden har han haft engagementer på Nørrebros Teater, Gladsaxe Teater, Betty Nansen Teatret og Folketeatret. Fra 1972-1984 var han teaterleder på det turnerende Hvidovre Teater, hvor han skabte en lang række bemærkelsesværdige forestillinger. Derefter etablerede han sit eget turneteater - Motivteatret - som dog kun kom til at vare i tre år. I slutningen af 1980erne og op gennem 1990erne medvirkede han i en række forestillinger på Aarhus Teater og siden på Det kgl. Teater, bl.a. i "Richard III", "Don Carlos" og "Sparekassen". Udover medvirken i en række film har han også medvirket i TV-serier som "Taxa" og "Hvide løgne", ligesom han har lagt stemme til flere tegnefilm. Han har medvirket i en lang række hørespil samt haft mange oplæsninger. Han har desuden haft instruktøropgaver ved teater og radio. Holger Munk medvirkede såvel i danske film som i udenlandske produktioner. Uden for teatret har Holger Munk siden 50erne dyrket sit talent for malerkunsten og han har udstillet på museer, gallerier og i kunstforeninger, ligesom hans værker indgår i såvel offentlige som private samlinger i en lang række lande. Holger Munk giftede sig med skuespillerinden Susanne Bruun Koppel den 4. juni 1963 i Budolfi Kirke, Aalborg.
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Robin Hunter
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Robin Ian Hunter (4 September 1929 – 8 March 2004) was an English actor, who was also a performer and writer in musicals, music hall and comedy. The son of actor Ian Hunter, he made film and television appearances from the 1950s to the 1990s, which included Up Pompeii, the Carry Ons, Sherlock Holmes and Poirot. Musicals in which he performed included Damn Yankees, and the scripts he wrote himself for the Aba Daba Music Hall were of a comedic turn - such as Botome's Dream (produced in Brighton) in which Shakespeare is put on trial for plagiarism, and Aladdin & His Microsoft Compatible Floppy Drive Laptop (performed at the Arches Theatre, Southwark). For many years he and his life partner Aline Waites - herself an actress, playwright and critic - collaborated on scripts for plays, revues and musical theatre of all kinds. Their Illustrated Victorian Songbook was published by Michael Joseph in 1984. Appearances in West End theatre included male lead in Barefoot in the Park, and juvenile lead in The Pleasure of his Company. From Wikipedia (en), the free encyclopedia
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Irene Esser
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Irene Sofía Esser Quintero is a Venezuelan actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2011. Esser grew up in Río Caribe, Sucre, Venezuela. She represented Venezuela in Miss Universe 2012, finishing as 2nd Runner-Up.
Irene was born in the city of Puerto Ordaz, but has studied and lived in the town of Río Caribe, located in the state of Sucre, since she was a little girl. Her father, Billy Esser Bonta, is an important cacao businessman, owner of Hacienda Bukare, founded in 1997. After graduating from "Andres Bello High School" in Carupano, she moved to England, where she took a course at Shrewsbury College.
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Rhys Schuffman
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Rhys Schuffman is a 15-year-old filmmaker and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. He wrote and directed the short film Riffs (2024), a coming-of-age story about artistic identity in the age of AI. Rhys is currently developing several original screenplays, including Perdu, a psychological thriller set in Paris; Nü, a short about a stage manager unraveling at a Nu-Metal concert; and Before the Robots Come, a poetic drama set on New Year’s Eve 1999. His work aims to stand apart from the current “new wave” of teen filmmakers by embracing emotional discomfort, moral ambiguity, and bold, atmospheric storytelling.
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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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