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Holly Davidson
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Holly Davidson (born 26 April 1980 in London) is an English actress, model and personal trainer.
Davidson is most known for her recurring roles on the TV series' Renford Rejects, The Bill, and Casualty; and roles in the films Final Cut, Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, and Essex Boys.
Leaving acting behind her in her late 20s, Davidson has been working as a personal trainer for the last ten years, and has published two fitness books.
Davidson grew up in Shropshire from the age of 6 through to 16, and is the daughter of the photographer Robert Davidson and the sister of actresses Sadie Frost and Jade Davidson.
She married photographer Sebastian Roos on 21 June 2019 on a beach in Sweden.
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Øystein Aarseth
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Øystein Aarseth (22 March 1968 – 10 August 1993), better known by his stage name Euronymous, was a Norwegian musician and a founder of and central figure in the early Norwegian black metal scene. He was a co-founder and guitarist of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and was the only constant member from the band's formation in 1984 until his death in 1993. He was also founder and owner of the extreme metal record label Deathlike Silence Productions and record shop Helvete.
Euronymous professed to being a theistic Satanist and was known for making extreme misanthropic statements. He presented himself as leading a militant cult-like group known as the "Black Metal Inner Circle".
In August 1993, he was murdered by fellow musician and former bandmate Varg Vikernes.
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Terje Tolleshaug
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Terje Tolleshaug is a Norwegian film artist currently based in Oslo. His main source of inspiration is nature itself and the space that exists in the perceived distinction between natural and unnatural. For him, everything is nature. Growing up on an island on the west coast of Norway Terje spent his childhood outside. He has always felt close to the wilderness and finds pleasure in rainy days with strong winds. Yet in his artistic work there is a striking sense of calm. The small details in nature play the biggest part in his works. You will often find quiet scenes with beautiful close-up footage from nature accompanied by electronic music and surprising elements of animation. Although beautifully made and characterized by a somewhat melancholic atmosphere, humour plays an important role in all of his movies.
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Daniel Humair
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Daniel Humair (born 23 May 1938 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss drummer, composer, and painter.
He is widely renowned and became a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1986 and Officier in 1992. He has played with many jazz performers notably Phil Woods, Jean-Luc Ponty, Chet Baker, Michel Portal, Martial Solal, Dexter Gordon, Gerry Mulligan, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Eric Dolphy.
Humair is also a talented painter. He describes his own work as "figurative abstract" and has created a coherent œuvre proving his passion and knowledge of artistic painting.
Source: Article "Daniel Humair" 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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Krzysztof Czeczot
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Krzysztof Czeczot is a Polish actor, director and producer; he holds a doctorate from the Acting Department at the Łódź Film School, where he now teaches. Since 2013 he has been the head of Osorno, a sound production company that works on audio-visual productions, advertisements and audiobooks. Czeczot has written several works for the theatre and a libretto for Jacques Offenbach’s operetta La belle Hélène (Opera Krakowska, Opera na Zamku – Szczecin). He has written and directed radio plays that won awards at the Two Theatres festival in Sopot. Czeczot’s innovative audio work Andy won the Best European Radio Drama of the Year award in Berlin, the first prize at this level in the history of Polish radio. He is now working on Europe’s largest radio project: the superproduction Biblia Audio, which will include five hundred actors.
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Beth Orton
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Beth Orton (born Elizabeth Caroline Orton, 14 December 1970) is a BRIT Award–winning English singer-songwriter, known for her 'folktronica' sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica. She was initially recognised for her collaborations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers in the mid 1990s. However, these were not Orton's first recordings, she had released a solo album, Superpinkymandy, in 1993. Since the album was only released in Japan, it went largely unnoticed by international audiences. Her second solo album, Trailer Park, garnered much critical acclaim in 1996. Orton developed a devoted audience with the release of the albums Central Reservation (1999) and the 2002 UK top 10 album, Daybreaker. In her 2006 release, Comfort of Strangers, she moved towards a more folk-based sound and away from the electronic sound of her past albums.
American films and television programmes such as Felicity, How to Deal, Charmed, Dawson's Creek, Vanilla Sky and Grey's Anatomy have featured her music and provided her with exposure to a more mainstream American audience.
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Ahmad Najafi
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Ahmad Nadjafi Shoushtari (Persian: احمد نجفی شوشتری, born 1948 in Khorramshahr, Iran) is an Iranian actor, producer, and TV host. He has a B.A. in Economics from the Woodbury University in Burbank, California. In 1976, he entered cinema by assisting Massoud Kimiayee in Ghazal. In 1976, he founded a movie distributing company in U.S., and he was the vice-president of IRIB2, distributing manager of "Tel film". He was also the chairman of IRIB in America and the vice-president of "free film making" (Kargah Aazaad Filmsazi) studio; he has also founded "7th art" studio. He hosted the TV show "Sandali Dagh".
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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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Gerry Rose
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Gerry is a former Marine and MMA Fighter who transitioned into acting in his late 20's. His passion for acting led him to change his undergraduate major to Theatre and attend graduate school for Performance: Acting. After 15 Years of success in Theatre, Gerry re-focused his training on Film and TV acting. Supporting roles on Showtime, Hallmark and numerous Film projects have reinforced his love for the craft and push him to train even harder. A delicious villain currently training with firearms and competing in Jujitsu or a comic distraction specializing in pratfalls; Gerry is ready to embrace his next project and share amazing stories with the world.
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