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Ladan Tabatabaei
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Ladan Tabatabaei is one the most famous actress in Iran. She was born in Tehran, Iran in 1970, she graduated in Theatre Acting from the School of Fine Arts of Tehran University. she began her acting career in university with performance in students play. she first studied with tendency of puppetry then she changed her tendency in field of performing and acting and focused in this area. She had not yet graduated from college, who succeeded to won the best actress award from "Fadjr International Theater Festival" for her performance in "Sorena, Luck's Mother" in 1994, She graduated from university in 1995, in that year she worked as an actress in "Saye be Saye" by Ali Zhekan and began her successful career.
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Mandy Baggot
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Mandy Baggot is an international bestselling and award-winning romance writer represented by Tanera Simons of The Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency. Born at Salisbury District Hospital in 1976 she grew up in the Durrington area of Wiltshire.
Mandy is best-known for her laugh-out-loud romantic comedies featuring strong heroines, gorgeous heroes and always that happy-ever-after! The winner of the Innovation in Romantic Fiction award at the UK's Festival of Romance, her novel, One Wish in Manhattan, was also shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year award in 2016. Mandy's books have so far been translated into Bulgarian, Czech, German, Hungarian and Italian.
Mandy loves the Greek island of Corfu where she has a home. She also loves wine, cheese, Netflix, handbags and horse racing. Also a singer, she has taken part in ITV1's Who Dares Sings and The X-Factor. Most recently, Mandy took part in BBC1's Ready Steady Cook with Greek celebrity chef, Akis Petretzikis.
Mandy is a member of the Society of Authors and splits her time between living in Wiltshire, UK and Corfu, Greece.
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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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Victoria Abril
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Victoria Mérida Rojas (born 4 July 1959), better known as Victoria Abril, is a Spanish film actress and singer based in France. She is possibly best known to international audiences for her performance in the film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! by director Pedro Almodóvar.
Born in Malaga, Abril became widely known in Spain in 1976 when she appeared in the show Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez for two years. In addition to working in Spain, she has made films in France, Italy, and Iceland. She has been nominated eight times for Goya Awards in the Lead Actress category and has won once. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for her role in Amantes. Two years later, she was awarded with the Berlinale Camera at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Abril is also a singer. In 2005, she made her debut with a bossanova-jazz album called PutchEros do Brasil. She also tried to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 with "Bang-Bang-Bang", but Betty Missiego was chosen instead.
On 28 July 1977, Abril married Gustavo Laube, former footballer of the Chile national football team. The couple separated in early 1982.
Abril has two sons with the French director Gérard de Battista. She lives in France, where she has resided since 1982.
Source: Article "Victoria Abril" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Stefania Rocca
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Stefania Rocca was born on April 24, 1971 in Turin. She is best known for her roles in the films Nirvana (1997), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Dracula (2002). Rocca also was the lead in Dario Argento's The Card Player. Among her most recent appearances, she was in Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy film Commediasexi where she played the main character, Pia Roncaldi. She starred as Hannah in the 1997 film Solomon.
Rocca was born on 24 April 1971 in Turin, the daughter of a Fiat chief of security and a stylist. Beginning in her adolescence Rocca studied piano, singing, and dancing at the Teatro Stabile di Torino. In the late 1980s she moved to Milan where she started working as a model; in Milan, she enrolled in a series of acting courses. In 1993, thanks to a scholarship, she joined the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. She also studied at the Actors Studio in New York City.
Rocca is married to her long-time partner Carlo Capasa, whom she wed in a highly secretive ceremony in 2013. The couple has been together since 2005, and has two sons.
Rocca made her acting debut with a secondary role in Giulio Base's Policemen but her breakout role was the blue-haired Naima in the Gabriele Salvatores' cyberpunk film Nirvana (1997). After enrolling a course at the Actors Studio in New York, in 1998, Rocca had her first main role in the controversial erotic thriller Viol@, and for her performance she was nominated to the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress. One year later, Rocca appeared in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley as Jude Law's lover, then she appeared in other international productions, including Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost, Mike Figgis' experimental Hotel and Tom Tykwer's Heaven.
In 2003, Rocca had her main commercial success in Italy, with Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy Casomai, which also gave her a nomination for Best Actress at the Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello Awards. In 2005, she played a blind lesbian in the Academy Award-nominated drama The Beast in the Heart, and for her performance, she was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress. Since the mid-2000s, Rocca has mainly appeared on television. She is also active on stage.
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Nikolay Miklukho-Maklay
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Born (July 5 [July 17] 1846, Yazykovo-Rozhdestvenskoe, Novgorodskaya guberniya, Russian Empire, died April 2 [April 14] 1888, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) - Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and traveler studying the indigenous population of the South - East Asia, Australia and Oceania, including the Papuans of the northeastern coast of New Guinea, called the Maclay Coast. Educated in Germany. In 1864-1869, 1870-1882 and 1883-1886 he lived outside of Russia, never staying at home for more than a year. He is the author of about 160 scientific papers, mainly articles and notes, which during his lifetime were published most often in German and English. Also known as the defender of the indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia and Oceania, he actively opposed the slave trade. As a scientist, he consistently adhered to the principle of the unity of the human race; He rejected the popular theories that black races, including the Australian aborigines and Papuans, were a transitional biological species from monkeys to Homo sapiens. At the same time, he considered the northeastern coast of New Guinea as an “ethnographic reserve”, which he claimed to possess alone. This pushed him on the path of political adventures, in particular - calls for the Russian colonization of the Maclay Coast, with the simultaneous creation of the Papuan Union - an independent state, whose head he sought to become. After the Russian government rejected this project, he made a simultaneous proposal to establish a protectorate for the governments of Great Britain and the German Empire (at the same time, in an appeal to Bismarck, Miklouho-Maclay called on Germany to guarantee that New Guinea would not be colonized). As a result, the Maclay Coast was turned into a German colony in 1884. Miklouho-Maclay's birthday is unofficially celebrated as a professional holiday for ethnographers.
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Mathéo Boisselier
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D’origine vendéenne, le petit Nicolas Boisselier n’a que 9 ans lorsque les portes du cinéma s’ouvrent à lui. A l’issue d’une audition qui a vu défiler près de 800 enfants, c’est vers le jeune acteur que le réalisateur Laurent Tirard porte son choix, pour succéder à Maxime Godart dans le rôle du petit Nicolas, dans le deuxième volet des aventures de petit farceur imaginé par Sempé et Goscinny. Le film sort en salles courant 2014, et a pour cadre un lieu qui n'est pas étranger au comédien : la côté vendéenne.
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Jesse James
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Jesse James (born September 14, 1989) is an American actor. As a child actor, he had roles in a number of blockbuster movies - his best known roles are as Jason McIntyre in The Flyboys, Young Mark in Jumper, Billy Lutz in the remake of The Amityville Horror (2005), 13-year-old Tommy in The Butterfly Effect, Young Rafe in Pearl Harbor, Young George in Blow, Jesse Marks in Hanging Up, Jason Osborne in Message in a Bottle, Jeff Magruder in The Gingerbread Man, Michael Boone in Gods and Monsters, and Spencer Connolly in As Good as it Gets.
As an adult, his best known are as Rev. Johnny Jones in The Lucky Man, Matt Hoffman in The Hollow One, and Silas in The Last Ride.
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Nonna Mordyukova
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Nonna (Noyabrina) Viktorovna Mordyukova was a distinguished Soviet and Russian actress, born on November 25, 1925, in the village of Konstantinovka, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. Mordyukova graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1950 and became known for her powerful performances and strong screen presence. She starred in numerous acclaimed films, including "The Commissar" (1967), "The Red Snowball Tree" (1974), and "Kinship" (1981). She was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and received various honors for her contributions to cinema. Nonna Mordyukova passed away on July 6, 2008, in Moscow, leaving a lasting legacy as one of Soviet cinema's most iconic actresses.
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Rosa Robson
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Rosa Grace Robson (born 29 February 1992) is an English actress and comedian. On television, she is known for her role in the ITV2 sitcom Buffering (2021–23). Her films include She Is Love (2022). Robson is from Frome, Somerset. She completed her A Levels at Frome Community College in 2010. She went on to graduate from Homerton College, Cambridge. During her time at university, she was a member of Footlights, Pembroke Players, and the Marlowe Society. In 2012, while still at university, Robson formed a comedy duo called Beard with fellow Footlights member Matilda Wnek; the duo made their debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that year. They returned to Edinburgh Fringe in 2014, 2015, and 2018. Robson and Wnek featured in a 2015 Vice article about female comedy duos.
Also in 2015, Robson made both her feature film debut and her television debut as Louise Cabaye in Jamie Adams' Black Mountain Poets and in an episode Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment respectively. In 2016, she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon on the productions Doctor Faustus, Don Quixote, and The Alchemist. Robson would return to Don Quixote in 2018 at the Garrick Theatre, marking her West End debut. In 2021, Robson began starring as Ashley in the ITV2 sitcom Buffering. She also had a recurring role as Lara in the BBC One crime comedy The Outlaws and made a guest appearance in an installment of the BBC Two anthology series Inside No. 9. Robson reunited with director Jamie Adams for his 2022 film She Is Love. She has a role in the second season of the Disney+ Star superhero comedy series Extraordinary. In 2024, Rosa Robson played Sarah in Sami Ibrahim's Multiple Casualty Incident at The Yard Theatre, London.
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