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Andrew Neil
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Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster.
He currently works for the BBC, presenting the live political programmes The Daily Politics and This Week. For the BBC he also anchors Straight Talk with Andrew Neil and makes documentaries.
He is also chairman of Spectator Magazines; Chairman of ITP Magazines (Dubai); and Chairman of World Media Rights (London).
Neil made his name at The Sunday Times where he was editor for 11 years. In 1995 he was made editor-in-chief of the Press Holdings group of newspapers, owner of The Business and (from 2005) The Spectator, moving to become chairman in July 2008.
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Lynn Hershman-Leeson
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Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has received international acclaim for her art and films. She is recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression. She is considered one of the most influential media artists and has made pioneering contributions in photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art.
Her activist films on injustice within the art world and society at large have been praised worldwide. !Women Art Revolution! won first prize in the Montreal Festival for Films on Art and hailed by the Museum of Modern Art as one of the three best documentaries of 2012. Holland Cotter of the New York Times called it “the most comprehensive documentary ever made on the feminist art movement.” Her 2009 film Strange Culture – which the NY Time deemed “the perfect balance of form and content” and The Nation called “a brilliant and moving examination of fear and its manipulation” – resulted in the the release of an artist facing a prison sentence of 23 years.
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Elizabeth Teixeira
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Elizabeth Altino Teixeira (Sapé, February 13, 1925) is a Brazilian rural worker and activist. She confronted a family of small landowners when she married João Pedro Teixeira, a black landless worker. Alongside him, she campaigned in the Peasant Leagues of Paraíba. In 1962, after her husband was murdered, she took over the leadership of the organization in the municipality of Sapé. She was arrested on several occasions. On one of her trips home, she discovered that her eldest daughter, Marluce, had committed suicide, believing that her mother had suffered the same fate as her father. With the military coup of 1964, she had to go underground, adopting the name Marta Maria Costa and taking refuge in São Rafael (Rio Grande do Norte), with her son Carlos. She remained underground until 1981, when she was found by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho, who resumed filming of his documentary ‘Twenty Years Later’. She went to live in João Pessoa, in a house that Coutinho gave her.
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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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Tomi Alatalo
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Tomi Alatalo (1981 – Sept 21, 2025) was a Finnish actor. Alatalo acted in films, on television, and in theater. He appeared in films such as Love Records, Forest Giant and Compartment No. 6, for which he was nominated for a Jussi Award for Best Supporting Actor. Alatalo performed in theater at venues such as Tampere Theater, Turku City Theater, and Espoo City Theater.
Alatalo graduated with a master's degree in theater arts from the University of Tampere's theater arts degree program in 2009.
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Matthew Roy
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Winner of Best Male Lead Actor at the Dallas SFA Film Festival; known for his roles Vindication, Run starring Stephen Baldwin, RunHideFightand the series The Front
Matthew has worked with Sara Mornell at Mornell Studios, Anthony Meindl's coach Jonathan Kehoe (AMAW), Theresa Bell at Tbell's studio, and Michelle Condrey at REACT studio.
Matthew has worked in over 20 different film projects such as Hoovey, Shattered and Jean Claude Van Damme's Universal Soldier II. Matthew just completed the feature film Sense of Urgency, Daddy's Little Girl, Wonderkind, and Ten. He also worked in multiple commercials and national print ads for Wal-Mart, Zaxbys, American Airlines, RealPage, Jaguar/LandRover, Goldbond and Verizon.
In addition, he worked on the film Warning Shot starring Bruce Dern, James Earl Jones, David Spade, and Frank Whaley. As well as To Serve and Protect with James Franco, Craig T.
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Toshihiko Seki
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Toshihiko Seki, born on June 11, 1962, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is a celebrated Japanese voice actor, actor, singer, and narrator. He has been active in the entertainment industry since 1983 and is affiliated with 81 Produce, a prominent talent agency.
Seki is known for his versatility, often voicing characters with serious or easily agitated personalities, such as Duo Maxwell in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Iruka Umino in Naruto, Kaien Shiba in Bleach and Riki in Ai no Kusabi. He has also portrayed deranged villains like Legato Bluesummers in Trigun and Muzan Kibutsuji in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. One of his most iconic roles is Momotaros in Kamen Rider Den-O, a character he has reprised in numerous productions.
In addition to his work in anime, Seki has contributed to video games, movies, and dubbing. His talent and dedication have earned him recognition, including being ranked as the 9th favorite voice actor in the 26th Annual Reader's Poll by Animage Magazine in 2004.
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Marjorie Main
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Marjorie Main (born Mary Tomlinson, February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975) was an American actress, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player and for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.
Main worked in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit and in Chautauqua presentations, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931.
Main began playing upper class dowagers, but ultimately was typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles, for which her distinctive voice was well suited. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the 1937 film version, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude-ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. At this time, she guest-starred on radio programs such as Columbia Presents Corwin and The Goldbergs.
Main was signed to a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract in 1940 and stayed with the studio until the mid-1950s. She made six films with Wallace Beery in the 1940s, including Barnacle Bill (1941), Jackass Mail (1942), and Bad Bascomb (1946). She played Sonora Cassidy, the chief cook, in The Harvey Girls (1946). The director George Sidney remarked in the commentary for the film that Miss Main was a "great lady" as well as a great actress who donated most of her paychecks over the years to the support of a school.
Perhaps her most famous role is that of Ma Kettle, which she first played in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the part and portrayed the character in nine more Ma and Pa Kettle films.
By the early 1950s, she had appeared in several MGM musicals, including, Meet Me in St. Louis and The Belle of New York. She played Mrs. Wrenley in the studio's all-star film It's a Big Country (1951). In 1954, Marjorie Main played her last roles for the studio: Mrs. Hittaway in The Long, Long Trailer and Jane Dunstock in Rose Marie. In 1956, Main's performance as the widow Hudspeth in the hit film Friendly Persuasion was well-received, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1958, Main appeared twice as rugged frontierswoman Cassie Tanner in the episodes "The Cassie Tanner Story" and "The Sacramento Story" on NBC's television series Wagon Train. In the first segment, she joins the wagon train, casts her romantic interest on Ward Bond as Major Adams, and helps the train locate needed horses despite a Paiute threat.
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Rut Blees Luxemburg
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Rut Blees Luxemburg is an artist working on the representation of the city and the urban phenomenon through large-scale photographic works, public art installations or operatic productions.
Her works have been exhibited in various public institutions including the Tate Modern, the V&A and the Centre Pompidou. Among her best-known works are Piccadilly’s Peccadilloes, commissioned by Art on the Underground in Heathrow Airport, and Silver Forest, a photographic-monumental work made in the heart of Victoria in London.
Rut read Politics at Duisburg in Germany before attending the London College of Printing, graduating in Photography in 1993. In 1996, she specialised in Photography at the University of Westminster. At present, Rut teaches in the Photography Programme at the Royal College of Art where she is a reader in urban aesthetics.
Her first book, London – A Modern Project, was published in 1997 and includes an essay by Michael Bracewell. This was followed in 2000 by Liebeslied/My Suicides, with an essay by Alexander Garcia Düttman. In 2004, Ffotoworks published Ffolly, a photo book, with contributions by Cerith Wyn Evans, Patrick Lynch and Douglas Park. In 2009, Black Dog published Commonsensual – to date the most complete book of her works, including a critical essay by Regis Durand. Her most recent book of photographs, The Academic Year, published by SPBH in 2015 transformed into a three-dimensional public installation named The Teaser, positioned in the square of Somerset House to celebrate the first edition of Photo London.
Rut Blees Luxemburg has held shows everywhere in the United Kingdom and in Europe, among which her personal exhibition Phantom stands out in particular – a photo exploration of the effects of modern architecture in Dakar in Senegal, shown at the Tate Liverpool in 2003.
Rut has frequently been the guest of TV shows or conferences. In 2012, she took part in The Forum: Night – Friend or Foe on the BBC World Service, while in 2013, she took part in the think-tank on the theme of Photography and the Ethnographic Archive at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt. Rut also created the iconic cover of the album Original Pirate Material by The Streets.
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Lady Gaga
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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her image reinventions and versatility across the entertainment industry, she is an influential figure in popular music. With estimated sales of 124 million records, she is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Publications such as Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked her among the greatest artists in history.
After signing with Interscope Records in 2007, Gaga achieved global recognition with her debut album, The Fame (2008), and its reissue, The Fame Monster (2009). The project yielded a string of successful singles, including "Just Dance", "Poker Face", and "Bad Romance", making her one of the few artists with at least 3 Diamond-certified songs in the US. Her second studio album, Born This Way (2011), explored electronic rock and techno-pop and sold 1.1 million copies in its first week in the US. Its title track became the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store, with over one million downloads in less than a week. Following her electronic dance music-influenced third album, Artpop (2013), she pursued jazz on the album Cheek to Cheek (2014) with Tony Bennett. She delved into soft rock on the album Joanne (2016).
Gaga also ventured into acting, gaining praise for her leading roles in the miniseries American Horror Story: Hotel (2015–2016) and the films A Star Is Born (2018) and House of Gucci (2021). Her contributions to the A Star Is Born soundtrack, which spawned the chart-topping single "Shallow", made her the first person to win an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy Award in one year. Gaga returned to her early sound with the pop-oriented albums Chromatica (2020) and Mayhem (2025), which respectively included the number-one singles "Rain on Me" and "Die with a Smile". She also continued to explore jazz with Love for Sale (2021), her second and final album with Bennett, and the soundtrack Harlequin (2024).
Gaga has seven number-one albums and six number-one songs on the US Billboard 200 and Hot 100 charts, respectively. She is the only female artist with four singles that each sold at least 10 million copies globally, and she holds the record for the most-attended concert by a woman. The highest-paid female musician in 2011, she has received 14 Grammy Awards, 22 MTV Video Music Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Sports Emmy Award, and recognition from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Gaga's philanthropy and activism focus on mental health awareness and LGBTQ rights. Her business ventures include vegan cosmetics brand Haus Labs and the non-profit Born This Way Foundation, which supports the wellness of young people.
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