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Jeri Ryan
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Jeri Lynn Ryan (born February 22, 1968) is an American actress best known for her roles as the liberated ("de-assimilated") Borg, Seven of Nine, on Star Trek: Voyager (1997–2001) and Veronica "Ronnie" Cooke on Boston Public (2001–04).
She was a regular on the science fiction series Dark Skies (1997) and the legal drama series Shark (2006–08). From 2011 to 2013, she starred as Dr. Kate Murphy in the ABC drama series Body of Proof and in 2009 she guest starred as Tara Cole on Leverage.
Ryan was born Jeri Lynn Zimmermann in Munich, West Germany, the daughter of Gerhard Florian "Jerry" Zimmermann. She has one older brother, Mark. As a "military brat", Ryan grew up on Army posts in Kansas, Maryland, Hawaii, Georgia and Texas.When she was eleven, her father retired from the Army and the family settled in Paducah, Kentucky. She graduated from Lone Oak High School in 1986 (as a National Merit Scholar), and then attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority.
In 1989, Ryan was chosen Miss Illinois. She was the third runner-up in the 1990 Miss America Pageant, winning the preliminary swimsuit competition. She graduated from Northwestern in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre.
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Susan Fleming
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Susan Fleming (February 19, 1908 – December 22, 2002) was an American actress and the wife of comic actor Harpo Marx. Fleming was known as the "Girl with the Million Dollar Legs" for a role she played in the W. C. Fields film Million Dollar Legs (1932). Her big stage break, which led to her Hollywood career, was as a Ziegfeld girl, performing in The Ziegfeld Follies.
Fleming was from New York City and went to school in Forest Hills, Queens. After starring in the Ziegfeld Follies productions on Broadway, she started appearing in movies. One of her earliest film roles was a starring role in Range Feud as Judy Walton, the love interest of John Wayne. Fleming combined her dancing and cinematic interests in the 1932 movie Million Dollar Legs, in which she played the daughter of W. C. Fields' character. As part of a publicity stunt for the film, her legs were insured for the eponymous million dollars.
Fleming was unhappy with Hollywood, stating in a 1995 interview that she found "nothing more boring than working on a movie... I hated it!". At a dinner party held in the home of Samuel Goldwyn, she was seated next to Harpo Marx and found him fascinating. Despite his silent persona in films, she found Marx to be "a warm, fun, darling man to talk to". She pursued him relentlessly, dating for four years and proposing marriage to him on three separate occasions before he accepted. She ended her Hollywood career when she married Marx on September 28, 1936. Fleming's wedding to Marx was revealed to the public when President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt sent the couple a telegram of congratulations in November. Marx had sent a thank you letter to Roosevelt in appreciation for a signed photograph of the President, in which Marx had stated that he was "in line for congratulations, too, having been married since September" in an unspecified "little town up North".
Fleming outlived Marx by almost forty years during which she was an artist and activist in the Palm Springs area. She died at age 94 on December 22, 2002, of a heart attack at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. She was survived by a daughter, three sons, five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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Maritza Montañez
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Maritza is a Brooklyn-based improviser, improv teacher, and bookseller originally from California's San Joaquin Valley. She taught and performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Training Center up until the pandemic settled in. She improvised with weekend house team The Law Firm and with Living Room: The First Generation, an improv show based on stories about growing up in immigrant households as first generation Americans. Before that, she performed on Harold Night for two years with At Last! and Party City, and on Lloyd Night for two years with seventeen and the Nightmare.
Maritza previously hosted long-running indie show Kaleidoscope, and has been featured in videos for Disney+, MTVNews, Fusion, and lots of miscellaneous fun friends’ videos. She studied improv, sketch, and characters at UCB Theatre, and history and Spanish at New York University, and sometimes she plays flute! (photo by Alex Schaefe)
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Agata Mutsenietse
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Agata Edgarovna Muceniece (Priluchnaya) (Latvian: Agata Muceniece, Russian: Ага́та Эдга́ровна Му́цениеце, born 1 March 1989) is a Latvian actress, model, and television presenter.
Muceniece was born in Riga, Latvia in 1989. Her father was Latvian, her mother is Russian (both born in USSR). She has two older sisters Renata and Santa. Muceniece studied at the University of Latvia where she gained degree in Chinese philology. She then studied at the Russian State Film Institute in Moscow, Russia. She first gained fame in the television series "Closed School" (Russian: Закрытая Школа). She has also featured in projects such as "Secret City", "Kvest", "Three Musketeers".
Muceniece became a co-presenter of the Russian TV show, The Voice Kids in its fifth season.
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Todd Von Joel
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TODD is multifaceted creative from London. Over the past decade he has worked within film, TV and radio as an actor, voice artist, writer and producer.
Notable acting credits include Eastenders (BBC), Holby City (BBC), Silent Witness (BBC) and TINAR (Nominee - The Taash Award for Comedy in Film, London Short Film Festival 2021). Commercially he has fronted TV campaigns for Sky Bet, Volvic, Cadbury and KFC.
He voiced the intro to the UEFA Europa League Final 2019 (BT Sport), was 'Nathan' on the Royal Navy radio ads (2015-19) and is a regular voice on TFL's radio announcements. Further voice credits include Google, Xbox, Carling, ITV, BBC, Lynx, Halfords, Nestle and Sony PlayStation.
Todd also co-hosts the weekly Painting & Decorating Show & Podcast on UK national DAB radio station Fix Radio.
His critically acclaimed poem Company was published in Lung Jazz - Young British Poets Anthology (Cinnamon Press, 2012).
Todd produced No Dog (Nominee - Best Short Film, British Urban Film Festival 2021 & Winner - Best Casting, Kinsale Shark Awards 2021), based on the critically acclaimed novel The Lost Boyz (Waterside Press, 2011) by Justin Rollins. Further production credits include NatWest, Heineken, Eharmony and Harry Potter And The Cursed Child.
Away from work, he mentors ex-offenders at Carney's Community boxing gym in South London and is a guest speaker for Lads Need Dads in Essex. Both are award winning charities doing life changing work within their communities.
Todd holds a First Class BA Hons Degree in Creative Writing & Drama from Kingston University, Surrey.
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Regīna Razuma
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Regīna Razuma (born Regīna Vesere; September 22, 1951 – May 14, 2023) was a Latvian actress and ballerina.
Razuma was born into a large family in Riga on 22 September 1951. In 1968, she graduated from the Riga Choreographic School.
From 1968 to 1974, Razuma was a ballerina of the Daile State Song and Dance Ensemble. In 1971, she began acting in films. She retired as a ballerina in 1975. From 1975 to 1978 she studied at the People's Film Actor Studio at the Riga Film Studio. In 1982, she graduated from the acting department of the theater department of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. From 1980 to 1992 she was an actress at the Dailes Theatre. From 1992 to 2023, she was an actress at the New Riga Theatre.
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Olga Kurylenko
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Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (Ukrainian: Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко, IPA: [ˈɔlʲɦɐkosʲtʲɐnˈtɪn⁽ʲ⁾iu̯nɐ kʊrɪˈlɛnko]; born 14 November 1979) is a Ukrainian-born French actress. She rose to prominence by playing Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008).
Kurylenko had a successful modelling career in Paris before refocusing on acting in 2004. She had her breakthrough role in the action film Hitman (2007). She has also starred in the romantic drama To the Wonder (2012), the crime comedy Seven Psychopaths (2012), the science fiction film Oblivion (2013), the political satire The Death of Stalin (2017), the comedy The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), the superhero film Black Widow (2021), the Netflix spy thriller miniseries Treason (2022) and the action thriller Extraction 2 (2023).
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Peter Ellis
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Peter Ellis (born 30 May 1936) is an English actor. Ellis has worked extensively in theatre and television both as an actor and director. He spent four seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as spending five years at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, and three years with the Old Vic Company which included playing Benvolio in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, Hotspur in Henry IV, Part 1 and later Rosencrantz in a world tour of Hamlet starring Derek Jacobi. He also played Guildenstern in Hamlet on the site of the new Globe Theatre.
In the West End he appeared in The Tulip Tree and in Ray Cooney's Funny Money. He is perhaps best known for playing the role of Chief Superintendent Charles Brownlow in the long running ITV drama The Bill. Has also appeared as a semi-regular in Emmerdale Farm and Coronation Street. Other series include Sam Lyttons Diary, Edward and Mrs Simpson, The XYY Man, Nolan, The Les Dawson Show, Victoria Wood's play Talent for Granada and Acorn Antiques for BBC TV. He appeared in the David Mercer television play In Two Minds (1967), a work which was directed by Ken Loach. Ellis also appeared as a Jury Foreman in Granada Television’s daytime legal drama series Crown Court, the case of Regina v Vennings & Vennings.
In 1981 Ellis appeared as a police officer in Trafalgar Square in the horror film An American Werewolf in London. In 1983, he appeared in the play Trafford Tanzi, starring Toyah Willcox, at the Mermaid Theatre in London.
Ellis was a regular cast member of The Bill from the first series in 1984 until 2000 when he left the series. His last episode was written by his son Hugh Ellis who went on to write the award-winning feature Summer starring Robert Carlyle. However he did return to The Bill in 2002 for a guest appearance. He also appeared in Hugh's film The Mortician's Tea Party playing Jed. Ellis played the title role in The Mikado, Carl Rosa's opera tour of Australia.
Ellis played Mr Bennet opposite Susan Hampshire in Bath Theatre tour of Pride and Prejudice, Sorin in the Bristol Old Vic production of The Seagull. More recently Ellis directed his wife Anita Parry in the comedy drama What Would Helen Mirren Do? for the Edinburgh Festival 2010.
In 2011 he played Adam/Corin in Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Ellis has also appeared in Hindle Wakes at the Finbourgh Theatre
In 2018, Ellis starred in For King & Country at the Southwark Playhouse.
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Jacqueline Boyer
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Jacqueline Boyer (born Eliane Ducos, 23 April 1941) is a French singer and actress. She is also the daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer.
In 1960, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi", with music composed by André Popp and lyrics by Pierre Cour. The resulting single reached #33 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1960. At 18 years and 341 days of age at the time of her victory, Boyer was the first teenager to win the contest and the youngest until 1964. Following the death of Lys Assia in 2018, Boyer as of 2023, 63 years after her victory, is the longest surviving winning singer of the Eurovision Song Contest (although not the oldest by age).
Source: Article "Jacqueline Boyer" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Vidya Balan
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Vidya Balan (born January 1, 1978) is an Indian actress, who appears in Hindi films. After graduating with a degree in sociology, she started her career starring in music videos, television shows and commercials, before appearing in feature films.
Balan made her movie debut in the Bengali film, Bhalo Theko in 2003. She later made her Hindi film debut with Parineeta (2005), which earned her a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut as well as her first Best Actress nomination at the same ceremony. She subsequently essayed a variety of character roles, receiving her first commercial success with Rajkumar Hirani's Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006). She subsequently appeared in such films as Guru, Heyy Babyy (2008) and Bhool Bhulaiya (2008), the latter earning her another Filmfare nomination.
In 2009 she appeared as a single mother of a child suffering from progeria in R. Balki's Paa, her performance in which ultimately won her a Best Actress award at Filmfare. 2010 saw the release of Ishqiya, starring Balan in a role for which she was praised and awarded, and she followed it with her first real-life character of Sabrina Lal in the biopic No One Killed Jessica.
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