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Hannah Quinlivan
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Hannah Quinlivan (also known as Jen Wu and Kun Ling) is a Taiwanese-Australian actress and model. She was born to Taiwanese-Korean mother Violet Wu and Australian-Dutch-Danish father Patrick Quinlivan in Wanhua District, Taipei, Taiwan, on 12 August 1993. She began her career by appearing in Blackie's Teenage Club in 2008. Quinlivan's first film role was an uncredited appearance in the film Step Back to Glory (2013). In December 2014 singer and actor Jay Chou announced that he would marry Quinlivan on his 36th birthday. Quinlivan holds dual Taiwanese and Australian citizenship.
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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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Bridget Albaugh
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Bridget Albaugh is an actress, creative, and drummer living in Los Angeles, California. She was born on December 1, 1996 in Des Moines, Iowa, where she began her career in the arts with an interest in music. She began to play the drums at age 9 and has become an accomplished musician. She has composed and performed her own music in a variety of jazz, indie, and rock bands. After this notable accomplishment in music, Bridget initiated a modeling career which led to an interest in acting. She attended IMTA in New York, received numerous awards including First Runner-Up Teen Actor of the Year, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. She has booked several leading and supporting roles in independent films and commercials. She has most recently studied at Warner Loughlin Studios and The Groundlings, along with private coaching.
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Kieran Bew
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Kieran Bew is an English actor known for his roles in television series such as Da Vinci's Demons, The Street, and Warrior. He has also starred in films such as Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale and Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands.
Bew was born in Hartlepool, England, in 1980. He studied drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), graduating in 2001. After graduating, he began his acting career in British theatre, appearing in productions such as The Crucible and Richard II.
Bew's first major television role came in 2006, when he was cast as Gary Parr in the BAFTA Award-winning series The Street. He went on to star in a number of other television series, including Da Vinci's Demons, The Borgias, and The Musketeers.
In 2019, Bew starred in the Cinemax series Warrior, which is based on an original concept by the late Bruce Lee. He played the role of Ah Sahm, a Chinese immigrant who becomes a San Francisco Chinatown gang leader.
Bew is also a talented stage actor. He has appeared in productions at the Shakespeare's Globe, the Old Vic, and the Royal National Theatre.
Bew is currently filming the upcoming television series House of the Dragon, a prequel to the HBO series Game of Thrones. He will play the role of Hugh Hammer, a knight of the Kingsguard.
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Sharon den Adel
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Sharon Janny den Adel, born on July 12, 1974, in Waddinxveen, Netherlands, is the lead singer and one of the lyricists of the Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation, and was previously a member of the group The Circle.
In 1998, she was invited by Arjen Lucassen to take part in the Ayreon progressive rock project’s album Into the Electric Castle, where she performed the role of Indian.
In 2002, she contributed to Timo Tolkki’s (of Stratovarius) solo album Hymn to Life, performing the vocal part on the ballad Are You the One?. She also appeared on two albums by Avantasia (Tobias Sammet’s project) and on the debut album of Delain, the band founded by former Within Temptation keyboardist Martijn Westerholt.
On December 7, 2005, she gave birth to a daughter, Eva Luna, whose father is Robert Westerholt, the guitarist of Within Temptation.
In 2008, she collaborated with Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren on the track In and Out of Love, featured on his album Imagine.
She performed a duet with Anneke van Giersbergen on the song Somewhere (a cover of a Within Temptation track) for Anneke’s album Pure Air in January 2009.
On February 22, 2009, it was announced on the official website that she was expecting her second child.
On June 1, 2009, she gave birth to a son, Robin Aiden.
Her new album, An Acoustic Night at the Theatre, was released on October 30, 2009, featuring a new song, Utopia, performed with Chris Jones.
On March 28, 2011, Within Temptation released their new album, The Unforgiving. Two days later, on March 30, 2011, Sharon announced on the band’s official website the birth of her third child, Logan.
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Michel Polac
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Born on April 10, 1930 into a family of the Parisian bourgeoisie, Michel Polac is the son of a veteran of the First World War, Jewish and Petainist, who died in deportation to Auschwitz during the Second World War, and of whom he does not learn. the conditions of the disappearance than fifty years later. Nephew of Clara Goldschmidt, wife of André Malraux, Michel Polac married an heiress of the Kadjar dynasty, ten years his senior, whom he left after a few weeks. He then married Dominique, a journalist from Vogue magazine. He separates from her a few years later after having had a daughter, Juliette. Finally, he marries Nadia.
In 1947, aged 17, he was spotted by Jean Tardieu and joined the Club d'essai, "experimental laboratory" of the RDF8: "I was still a high school student at Janson de Sailly, says Michel Polac, I animated, with comrades, a high school newspaper made of odds and ends, Entre nous, which we distribute in all the high schools of Paris”. He then multiplies the odd jobs. Worker in a factory of refrigerated locks in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, door-to-door insurance agent, cabin boy on a fishing boat in Cassis, he proposed to Jean Tardieu, in 1951, Entry of the authors, broadcast to identify new theater talent.
In 1951, Michel Polac proposed the creation of Entrance of authors, responsible for flushing out new theater talents. Faced with the programme's popularity, Tardieu then offered him, in 1955, to produce Le Masque et la plume on France Inter, with the success that we know (the show is still on the air, even if Polac has left in May 1970). In 1953 he became a literary critic at the newspaper Arts, where he officiated until 1964, then he joined the editorial staff of L'Express. In 1956, he published his first novel "La Vie incertaine" under the sponsorship of Jean Paulhan and Albert Camus. After the radio, he naturally moved on to television, where he presented literary programs (Bibliothèque de Poche, for 4 years, then Post-scriptum, which only survived for two years). He withdrew from the fire of the media for about ten years and devoted himself to filmmaking (Un fils unique in 1969, which received the Georges-Sadoul prize) and writing (Un fils unique in 1970, Le QI ou novel of a gifted in 1978).
The return to television was thunderous in 1981, when he began to host Right of Response, famous for its smoky atmosphere, his rants, even his blows altogether... Since the end of this program, Michel Polac writes a regular literary column in Charlie Hebdo, and has published, among other things, La Luxure in 1999, as well as his Journal in 2000. health, he was replaced on June 9, 2007 by columnist Éric Naulleau.
Absent for almost a year following a stroke, the literary columnist of Charlie Hebdo Michel Polac returned to the columns of the weekly in 2009. He died on August 7, 2012, "of exhaustion, after several illnesses" in the 5th arrondissement from Paris. A few years before his death, he wrote his own epitaph: “Hands-on, he ended up hitting the ground. On August 10, 2012 he was buried in Cabrerolles, in the Hérault.
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Souad Amidou
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Souad Amidou (born 4 July 1959) is a French actress.
She is the daughter of the actor Amidou. Her career started working with her father on the short film Le thé à la menthe in 1963. Then she was chosen by Claude Lelouch to play the daughter of Anouk Aimée in Un homme et une femme in 1966.
When she was younger, she followed acting lessons from Anicette Fray. She followed her training at the "New Square Sylvia Monfort" then continued at Jean-Louis Martin-Barbaz, then with John Strasberg and Andreas Voutsinas.
From the early 1980s, she was acting in cinema and television. She became popular with her role in Le Grand frère from Francis Girod that got her a nomination for the Caesar of the best female hope. She also worked under the direction of Gérald Oury, Jacques Deray, Ariel Zeitoun, Gérard Lauzier and Steven Spielberg.
On 23 December 1987 she married the director Fabien Onteniente; the couple broke up on 15 March 1991.
She received the Legion of Honour decoration in 2008.
In 2009, she directed the first short film Camille and Jamila, but she proved her talent as a filmmaker with her second film Rendez-vous avec Ninette, presented in many festivals.
Souad Amidou is vegan, member of the sponsorship committee of the Institut citoyen du cinéma and member of the NGO Vegan Marathon.
Source: Article "Souad Amidou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Saara Chaudry
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Saara Chaudry (born June 7, 2004) is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performances in The Breadwinner, for which she won an ACTRA Award for Best Voice Performance and was a finalist for Voice Acting in a Feature Production at the 45th Annie Awards, and The Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale, for which she was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Performance in an Animated Television Program or Series at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards. She has also appeared in the television series Combat Hospital, Degrassi, Odd Squad, Max & Shred, Dino Dana and The Mysterious Benedict Society.
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Howard Lew Lewis
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Howard Lew Lewis was an English comedian and actor best known for his roles in the 1980s sitcom Brush Strokes and Tony Robinson's children's comedy series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. His first job was with the RAF as a a computer operator and he worked for several years in computing and telecommunications at managerial level before undertaking acting as his chosen career. He often appeared in vehicles for Ronnie Barker, including The Magnificent Evans and Open All Hour, and appeared in the first series of Blackadder. His film roles included Hal in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, a guard in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Richard Attenborough's Chaplin, and the voice of Obelix in the 1994 animated film Asterix in America. Diabetes and dementia plagued him in later years and he was admitted into a community hospital in Edinburgh in 2017. He passed away there on 20th January 2018. Police Scotland confirmed later that month that they were investigating a complaint brought by Lewis's daughter Debora Milazzo against the hospital. She claimed that her father was given an unnecessary cocktail of high-dose sedatives and maximum-strength opiate painkillers that subsequently brought about his death. The police ultimately found no case to answer.
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Booth Tarkington
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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.
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