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Walid Fawaz
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Waleed Fawaz (Waleed Fawaz Abdelaziz El Sayyed) is an Egyptian actor who was born on December 17, 1980. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, department of drama and theater criticism. He began his career as a stand-up comedian. Of his most notable performances in TV drama include those in: “Qatil Bila Ogr” (Murderer Without Pay) in 2009, “Ahl Cairo” (People of Cairo) in 2010, “Abwab El Khof” (Doors of Fear) in 2011, and “Raqm Maghol” (Unknown Number) in 2012. His big break came after performing the role Moatamad of in the TV series “Bidoun Zikr Asmaa” (Anonymously) in 2013, and then in the TV series “El Sabaa Wesaya” (The Seven Commandments) in 2014. He also appeared in the films “Zahimer” (Alzheimer’s) in 2010, “El Maslaha” (The Deal) in 2012, and “Ba’d El Tawfan” (After the Flood) in 2012.
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Marianna Pizzolato
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Marianna Pizzolato, mezzosoprano, made her debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with Gioachino Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims”, becoming a reference performer for the main Rossini roles, as well as for Baroque and eighteenth century’s repertoire; she is now considered one of the foremost voices of our time. Marianna Pizzolato regularly sings in the most prestigious theatres and festivals in the world as Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Opéra National de Paris, Nikikai Opera Theatre in Tokyo, Santa Fe Opera Festival, Belcanto Opera Festival in Wildbad, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Massimo in Palermo working with conductors such as Bruno Campanella, Daniele Gatti, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Alberto Zedda just to name a few. She recorded for Emi, Virgin Classics, Dynamic, Naïve/Opus 111, Naxos, Opera Rara.
Future plans include: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and in Wroclaw (concert and recording) with Kammerorchester Basel under with Giovanni Antonini; Rossini’s “Tancredi” in Bremen (concert version) with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone; Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” in Edinburgh with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano and at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit; Ernest Chausson’s “Poème de l’amour et de la mer” with the Bremen Philharmoniker in Bremen; “Il Viaggio a Reims” at Bolshoi Theatre; “La Donna del Lago” in Liège, Michele Mariotti conducting; Giuseppe Verdi’s “Falstaff” in Madrid; recitals in Rouen. In future season Marianna Pizzolato will do her awaited debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York singing Hedwige in Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell”.
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Lorna Tolentino
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Victoria Lorna Perez Aluquin-Fernandez (born 23 December 1961) is a Filipina actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Manila By Night (1980), Moral (1982), Natutulog Pa Ang Diyos (1988), Narito Ang Puso Ko (1992), Patayin sa Sindak si Barbara (1995), Abakada... Ina (2002), Magnifico (2004), and Crazy Beautiful You (2016). For her work in the film Narito Ang Puso Ko, she won the Best Actress Award from the Luna Awards, FAMAS Awards, Gawad Urian, and Star Awards — thus completing the grand slam of Philippine movies.
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Reginald Sheffield
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Reginald Sheffield was born Matthew Reginald Sheffield Cassan in the St. George's, Hanover Square district of London, to Matthew Sheffield Cassan and Alice Mary Field. He had a brother, Edward Sheffield Cassan, and a sister, Flora Kathleen Sheffield Cassan, who became an actress known as Flora Sheffield.
His father was born in Ireland and his mother in England. They were married in London in 1892. Matthew died when Reginald was nine. In 1913 Reginald (billed as Eric Desmond) appeared in David Copperfield. In 1914, Alice Sheffield and her children emigrated to the United States, where they lived in Queens, New York. Reginald acted on the stage and in films. While his sister Flora was an actress, brother Edward worked as an accountant in a bank and later became a theatrical agent.
Sheffield's Broadway performances credited as Reggie Sheffield include Evidence (1914), in which his mother also appeared, The Merry Wives of Windsor (1916), If (1917), The Betrothal (1918), and Helena's Boys (1924). His performances credited as Reginald Sheffield include Youth (1920), The Way Things Happen (1924), Hay Fever (1925), Slaves All (1926), Soldiers and Women (1929), and Dear Old England (1930).
Reginald Sheffield was married in 1927 to Louise Van Loon (21 January 1905 – 14 April 1987), a New York-born Vassar College graduate with a liberal arts education. The couple had three children: Mary Alice Sheffield Cassan (born 1928), Jon Matthew Sheffield Cassan (11 April 1931 – 15 October 2010) (aka actor Johnny Sheffield), and William Hart Sheffield Cassan (15 July 1935 – 12 December 2010) (actor Billy Sheffield).
As film production became more and more located in Southern California, Sheffield and his wife travelled back and forth between New York City and Los Angeles. After several years they moved permanently to the West Coast.
Being a trained stage actor, Sheffield easily made the transition from silent films to talkies. He was a working actor who became memorable in numerous character and supporting roles and appeared with some of the greatest film stars of the day, including Constance Bennett, William Powell, George Arliss, Loretta Young, Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine.
In 1954, he began starring as Professor Mayberry in the television series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. And after his son, Johnny Sheffield [of first the Tarzan then the Bomba films series], appeared in his last jungle film in 1955, Reginald created, produced and directed a pilot for a television series, Bantu, the Zebra Boy, but a sponsor was not found and the show was never produced as a weekly series.
Sheffield acted in both versions, 1938 and 1958, of Cecil B. DeMille's The Buccaneer, the latter being his last screen appearance.
Reginald Sheffield died 8 December 1957 at his home in Pacific Palisades, California, aged 56.
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Koo Kyo-hwan
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Koo Kyo Hwan, born in Seoul (December 14, 1982), is a South Korean actor, costume designer, editor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is managed as an actor by Namoo Actors. He graduated from the Seoul Institute of Arts. Koo made his acting debut in the 2009 South Korean romantic comedy “Castaway on the Moon”.
In 2016, Kyo Hwan won Busan International Film Festival for the category “Actor of the Year” for his contribution to "Beaten Black and Blue".
In 2017, he won Busan Film Critics Awards, Buil Film Awards for the category “Best New Actor” in “Jane”. In the same year, Kyo Hwan won Chunsa Film Art Awards for the category “Best New Actor” for his work in “Beaten Black and Blue”.
In 2018, Kyo Hwan won the Baeksang Arts Awards for the category “Best New Actor – Film” for his work in "Jane".
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Napat Patcharachavalit
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Aun Napat Patcharachavalit is a Thai actor under GMMTV. In 2025, he graduated from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi with a degree in civil engineering.
Aun started in the entertainment industry in 2019 when he was a finalist in the Clean & Clear's and GMMTV's star search competition "Go On Girl & Guy Star Search 2019" and participated in the "Smart Boy 2019" contest. He made his acting debut in 2020 with a supporting role in the series "Love Songs Love Series: Rueng Tee Koh".
Aside his acting career, Aun co-owns the jewellery brand "The Wave of Happiness".
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Kiara Advani
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Kiara Advani is an Indian actress known for her work in Bollywood and Telugu cinema. Born on July 31, 1992, in Mumbai, India, she made her acting debut with Fugly (2014) but gained widespread recognition with M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), where she portrayed Sakshi Dhoni. Her career soared with the Netflix anthology Lust Stories (2018) and the Telugu blockbuster Bharat Ane Nenu (2018). She achieved stardom with Kabir Singh (2019) and Good Newwz (2019), followed by hits like Shershaah (2021) and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (2022).
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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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Évelyne Dhéliat
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Évelyne Dhéliat (born 19 April 1948) is a French weather presenter and former continuity announcer.
Évelyne Dhéliat was born in Cologne. Her father was a commercial director and her mother a perfume store owner. An only child, she grew up in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. In 1969, she studied English for one year at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
She began at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française as a continuity announcer from 1975 to 1982. She was at the same time a presenter on the French first channel that has become TF1 in January 1975. She started by presenting the program À la bonne heure. In March 1980, on the same channel, she presented the two semi-finals and the final of the French preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 1980. The band Profil was chosen by the audience. The next month, during the Eurovision Song Contest at The Hague, Netherlands, she announced in the name of the French delegation, the live performance of Profil representing France with the song "Hé, hé M'sieurs dames".
She then co-hosted from 1982 to 1988 the program La Maison de TF1, dedicated to the house maintenance, gardening and tinkering. They were accompanied of the professionals Michel Galy, Cécile Ibane and Nicolas le Jardinier. She also presented the program Ravis de vous voir until 1988. In November 1987, she received the 7 d'Or of the best continuity announcer. She then presented the programs about consumption À vrai dire and C'est bon à savoir until 1991.
In 1991, she submitted her demand to present the weather on TF1. After being selected, she was trained on presenting with Alain Gillot-Pétré during the month of August 1992. She began presenting the weather on the channel in September 1992. In 2000, she was named director of the weather service on TF1, and since March 2009, she is the director of the weather service on LCI. In 2011, she was named favorite French weather presenter. In September 2012, Évelyne Dhéliat presents again the weather after several months of absence. In a statement published by TF1, she announced having undergone a surgical operation, which required a long period of rest and treatment.
In June 2013, she appeared in the prime-time Nos chers voisins fêtent l'été on TF1, in which she plays the mother of Alexandre Volange, played by Jean-Baptiste Shelmerdine.
Évelyne Dhéliat has regularly participated at the television contest Le Grand Concours des animateurs. In an episode from September 2013, she went to the final. In January 2014, she participated at the game show Qui veut gagner des millions? in duet with Gilles Bouleau.
Évelyne Dhéliat has a daughter named Olivia, who was born in 1968 and who is a lawyer. She stated in 2013 having two grandchildren.
Source: Article "Évelyne Dhéliat" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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João Canijo
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João Canijo (born 10 December, 1957; Porto) is a Portuguese filmmaker. His film Get a Life was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. His 2011 film Blood of My Blood was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. His 2023 film Bad Living won the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Before his directorial debut, Canijo worked as assistant director for Wim Wenders in The State of Things (1982) and for Werner Schroeter in Der Rosenkönig (1986).
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