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Sean C. Casey

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sean C. Casey is an IMAX filmmaker and professional storm chaser who appears in the American documentary reality television series Storm Chasers. Casey created an IMAX film called 'Tornado Alley' about chasing tornadoes and had to build the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) and the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV2) to film inside a tornado. Tornado Alley, was released worldwide on March 18, 2011. Casey has been named one of the 50 best minds of 2008 by Discover Magazine. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Casey (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tomas Alfredson

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Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (born 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film director best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and the 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge Award for Best Direction twice: in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown and in 2008 for Let the Right One In. He is the son of director and actor Hans Alfredson and the brother of director Daniel Alfredson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tomas Alfredson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Linda Fiorentino

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Clorinda 'Linda' Fiorentino (born March 9, 1958) is a retired American actress known for her roles in films such as Dogma, Vision Quest, Men in Black, After Hours, and The Last Seduction. Growing up in an artistic family, Fiorentino's love for acting led her to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. She has played a variety of roles throughout her career, showcasing her versatility and skill as an actress. Her most iconic role came in the character of the cunning and enigmatic scam artist Bridget Gregory in "The Last Seduction" (1994), which brought Fiorentino accolades and awards, establishing Fiorentino as a formidable presence in the industry. Despite her success, Fiorentino has maintained a level of privacy in her personal life, allowing her work to speak for itself. Her contributions to American film have left a lasting impact, solidifying her as a respected figure in the industry.
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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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Laura Gemser

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Laurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser (born October 5, 1950, Java, Indonesia) is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emmanuelle films. Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most notably in Love Is Forever (1983). Gemser left Indonesia in 1955, at the age of four, and moved with her parents to the Netherlands. She grew up in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where she attended the MULO Regentesseschool high school. After that, she attended the Artibus Art School in Utrecht, where she specialized in fashion design. In 1975 she moved to Italy. After modelling in various magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium, Gemser began to take part in some soft erotic films. She became internationally recognised after starring in a number of Black Emanuelle films in the 1970s. Her most mainstream and well-received role was as Laotian refugee Keo Sirisomphone in Michael Landon's 1983 American television movie, Love Is Forever, in which she was credited as Moira Chen.[citation needed] Gemser continued to do films: at times, she worked with her actor husband, Gabriele Tinti. In the 1990s, she left the movies to do costume designing for film. In addition, she lost her husband, who died of cancer in 1991. Today she lives in retirement and low profile in Rome, but she is still remembered as one of the many beautiful women who played the sensual adventuress Emmanuelle. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laura Gemser, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Kunal Mitra

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Kunal AKA Basab Mitra was born on 30 April 1965 in Kolkata, West Bengal. He was the grandson of noted Bengali filmmaker Debaki Kumar Bose. Mitra began his career in television with the comedy serial Ebar Jombe Mawja on 1994. He appeared in about 300 shows and serials, and around ten feature films. He achieved success as Janardan Jana in the popular show Raja & Goja: Bindass Moja on the Zee Bangla television channel, where he played a councilor of Ward no. 420 who performed many anti-social activities. His last film was Chhaw-a Chhuti. Mitra died on 21 January 2009 of a heart attack while shooting at Indrapuri Studio, Kolkata for the television serial 'Utsaver Ratri', directed by Jishu Dasgupta.
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Joan Monleón

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Joan Monleón (n. Valencia, 18 de octubre de 1936- f. Valencia, 28 de diciembre de 2009) fue un actor, cantante y presentador de televisión español que desarrolló la mayor parte de su carrera en la Comunidad Valenciana. Entre sus trabajos más conocidos, se encuentran su trayectoria en el grupo de folk Els Pavesos. Más tarde, pasó a actuar en espectáculos de revista, comedias, y en más de una veintena de películas como actor de reparto, llegando incluso a trabajar con Luis García Berlanga (en "Moros y Cristianos") y Ventura Pons.  Posteriormente se puso al frente del programa El show de Joan Monleon en Canal 9 desde 1989 hasta 1992. [Fuente: Wikipedia]
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František Hrubín

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Narodil se v Praze, ale své mládí prožil v Lešanech v Posázaví. Studoval na několika gymnáziích v Praze, po maturitě (1932) se neúspěšně pokoušel vystudovat filozofii a pedagogiku na Karlově univerzitě. Od roku 1934 byl zaměstnán v Městské knihovně v Praze a později na ministerstvu informací. V roce 1946 se stal spisovatelem z povolání. Roku 1939 se oženil, později měl dvě děti. Výrazně se podílel na založení dětského časopisu Mateřídouška, v letech 1945–1948 ho redigoval. Na II. sjezdu Svazu československých spisovatelů (1956) spolu s Jaroslavem Seifertem odvážně kritizoval spojení literatury a politiky, zastali se zde nejen perzekuovaných, ale i zavřených spisovatelů. Toto vystoupení vedlo nejprve k zákazu literární činnosti, velice brzy mu bylo povoleno překládat a psát literaturu pro děti, jeho samostatná tvorba procházela různými obdobími zákazů a vydávání.
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Bushwick Bill

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Bushwick Bill (born Richard William Stephen Shaw; Kingston, Jamaica, December 8, 1966 – June 9, 2019) was a Jamaican-American rapper and record producer He was best known as a member of the pioneering Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a dancer in 1986 as Little Billy. He went on to become one third of the best-known incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface. Bushwick Bill was born Richard Stephen Shaw on December 8, 1966, in Kingston, Jamaica. His father was a merchant marine, and his mother was a maid. Shaw was born with dwarfism and was listed as 3 feet 8 inches (112 cm) tall. Shaw got his start in the music industry in 1986 as a member of the Geto Boys, where he performed as a dancer known as Little Billy. He later transitioned to rapping, and was featured on the Geto Boys' debut album, Making Trouble in 1988. The album received little attention and negative reviews, which led to Rap-A-Lot dropping all members from the group except for Bill and DJ Ready Red. Soon after, Rap-A-Lot CEO J. Prince recruited Scarface and Willie Dee, two local aspiring artists out of Texas as the second incarnation of the group. The new lineup began recording together in 1988 and their debut project as a group and second overall for the Geto Boys, Grip It! On That Other Level was released in 1989 to much better reception, being considered a classic album and one of the earliest entries into the Horrorcore genre. It was around this time the group's lyrical content began to generate controversy, which was multiplied in 1991 when the cover of the group's third album We Can't Be Stopped depicted a graphic image of Bill moments after he shot himself during an argument with his girlfriend. Nevertheless, the album went on to be their most successful to that point, being certified platinum in 1992. Bushwick Bill can be heard on the album The Chronic by Dr. Dre; he appears in the video of "Dre Day" as one of Eazy-E's fellow rappers. His 1998 album No Surrender…No Retreat was dedicated to his friend Gil Epstein, a Fort Bend County prosecutor who was shot dead in Houston, Texas, in 1996. On June 19, 1991, Shaw shot himself in the eye during an argument with his girlfriend, losing his right eye in the process while under the influence of Everclear grain alcohol and PCP. The aftermath of the incident was documented on the album cover for Geto Boys' 1991 album We Can't Be Stopped, which shows Shaw being pushed through the hospital on a gurney by bandmates Willie D and Scarface. Shaw claims he "died and came back to life" during the incident, and has made reference to it in his music. In 2006, he became a born-again Christian. On May 2010, Shaw was arrested in Georgia for possession of marijuana and cocaine. Based on his prior arrest record, he was facing deportation. On May 1, 2019, Shaw revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. On June 9, 2019, reports emerged that Shaw had died, but news of his death was later refuted by his son. However, it was subsequently reported and confirmed that Shaw died later that day at a hospital in Colorado.
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Kirin Kurai

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Kirin Kurai is an adult film director for Kink.com, a family of websites specializing in BDSM. An experienced lifestyle BDSM player, Kirin Kurai is known as the “performers director.” She seeks to create an intimate on-set atmosphere that encourages Kink models to explore their darkest fantasies. Kirin curates each scene to the special abilities and talents of each performer in her movies. “I love getting inside of the models heads. BDSM porn is such a personal experience and I want the fans to get to know the performers in an up close way.” Kink’s dark unicorn has been directing BDSM porn since 1999. She also enjoys being the production manager of The Upper Floor and Families Tied.
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