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Anna Fonsou
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Anna Fonsou (Greek: Άννα Φόνσου; born July 6, 1939) is a Greek actress and social activist. Anna Fonsou was born in 1939 in Kaisariani in Greece and grew up in Tinos. She studied at the drama school of Dimitris Rondiris. She studied dance with Rallou Manou and singing with Popi Petrioli. Fonsou made her first theater appearance in 1956 with the troupe of Katerina Andreadi and her first film appearance in 1957 in the movie Το παιδί του δρόμου (The Child of the Street). In 1965, she founded Proskinio together with Alexis Solomos and Aimilios Hourmouzis. In cinema, she played in dozens of films, almost exclusively leading roles, in both dramas and comedies alongside famous comedians such as Thanasis Veggos with whom she co-starred in several films. In the early 1970s, she also did a series of erotic films, mainly directed by Omiros Efstratiadis, which are now considered cult. On television she participated in various series (The Two Orphans, The Ragpickers, etc.) and in theatrical performances on the show The Theater of Monday. She starred at the Lyric Stage in the operetta The Apaches of Athens, and since 2001, she has been part of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. In the 1996 parliamentary elections and the 2000 elections, she was a candidate with the KKE, and in the 2009 and 2012 elections she was a candidate with the PASOK in Athens A. In 1997 she founded charitable foundation "The Actor's House" (Greek: Το σπίτι του Ηθοποιού) to provide housing for impoverished actors, of which she is a president. She produces theatrical performances, the proceeds of which are also donated to "The Actor's House". From 1998 to 2000, she served as president of the Greek Actors Union. In 2016 she was awarded the Nikolaos Karolos prize by the Academy of Athens for her social work related to "The Actor's House". She was married to theater entrepreneur and civil engineer Kostas Paltoglou, architect Nikos Sofianos, and in 1985 to singer-songwriter and composer Takis Bougas until they divorced in 1993.
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Lorne Greene
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Lorne Hyman Greene (born Lyon Himan Green; February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor, singer, and radio personality. His notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western Bonanza and Commander Adama in the original science-fiction television series Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980. He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series Lorne Greene's New Wilderness and in television commercials.
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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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Anna Pavlova
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Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (born Anna Matveyevna Pavlova; 12 February [O.S. 31 January] 1881 – 23 January 1931) was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognized for her creation of the role of The Dying Swan and, with her own company, became the first ballerina to tour around the world, including performances in South America, India and Australia.
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Björn Andrésen
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Björn Johan Andrésen (26 January 1955 – 25 October 2025) was a Swedish actor and musician. He was best known for playing the fourteen-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice.
Andrésen had only appeared in one film, En kärlekshistoria (1970) at the time he was cast in Death in Venice, which gained him international recognition. While the film performed relatively poorly at the box office, Andrésen was noted for his performance as Tadzio, the beautiful young Polish boy with whom the film's older protagonist Gustav von Aschenbach becomes obsessed. Film historian Lawrence J. Quirk commented in his study The Great Romantic Films (1974) that some shots of Andrésen "could be extracted from the frame and hung on the walls of the Louvre or the Vatican".
Rumors circulated in America at the time of the film's release as to whether or not Andrésen was homosexual (as the role demanded that he appear to exchange romantic glances with the protagonist, and on another occasion, be kissed and caressed by another teenage boy). Andrésen emphatically denied these, and later recounted his discomfort at being forced by director Luchino Visconti during filming to visit a gay bar, where he attracted the attention of a number of older men. Eager to dispel the rumors regarding his sexuality and to shed his "pretty boy" image, Andrésen thereafter avoided homosexual roles and parts which he felt would play off of his good looks, and was angry when feminist writer Germaine Greer used a photograph of him on the cover of her book The Beautiful Boy (2003) without first obtaining his personal permission. Although Greer did consult photographer David Bailey (who owned the copyright for the image) before publishing the book, Andrésen maintained that it is common practice when a party uses an image of a person which has been copyrighted by a different individual to inform the individual and that he would not have given his consent for Greer to use his picture if she had informed him of her plans.
Andrésen has also appeared in several other films. These include Pelikaanimies (2004), Kojan (1992) and Smugglarkungen (1985).
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Isa Miranda
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Isa Miranda (5 July 1909 – 8 July 1982) was an Italian actress with an international film career.
She worked as a typist whilst attending the drama academy in Milan and training as a stage actress. She went on to play bit parts in Italian films in Rome. Success came with Max Ophüls' film La Signora di tutti (Everybody's Woman) (1934) in which she played Gaby Doriot, a famous film star and fascinating adventuress with whom men cannot help falling in love. Having brought several of them to their ruin, she slits her wrists. This was perhaps Miranda's finest screen performance and it brought in its wake several film offers and a Hollywood contract with Paramount Pictures. There, billed as the "Italian Marlene Dietrich", she played several femme fatale roles in such films as Hotel Imperial (1939) and Adventure in Diamonds (1940).
She returned to Italy soon after the outbreak of World War II and continued to act on the stage and to make films. In 1949, she starred in René Clément's The Walls of Malapaga, which won an Academy Award for the most outstanding foreign language film of 1950, and for Miranda, the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Another success of that period was La Ronde (1950), also directed by Ophüls.
Her career took her to France, Germany and England, where she frequently appeared in TV films, including The Avengers. Other notable film appearances include Siamo donne (1953), a portmanteau film where Miranda shares the screen with three other screen legends, Anna Magnani, Alida Valli and Ingrid Bergman, Summertime (1955), Gli Sbandati (1955), La Noia (The Empty Canvas, 1963), The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) and Liliana Cavani's Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter, 1974).
Miranda was married to the Italian director and producer Alfredo Guarini until his death in 1981.
She died in Rome in 1982.
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Gruschenka Stevens
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Gruschenka Stevens is a German actress.
Stevens initially made a guest appearance on the children's television program "Die Sendung mit der Maus" (The Show with the Mouse ). At the age of eleven, she performed in a play at the Schauspielhaus Köln (Cologne Playhouse) and at seventeen moved to New York City, where she took acting classes at Herbert Berghoff's studios. She then attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City, London, and Los Angeles, where she landed a role in a Canadian-German soap opera.
In 1994, she landed her first small roles in German films, including "Keiner liebt mich" and "Voll normaaal". In 1995, she played the lead role of telephone operator Conny in the erotic thriller "Der kalte Finger".
In 1999, Stevens portrayed a singer in Sherry Hormann's comedy "Widows – First Marriage, Then Pleasure" and an overwhelmed mother in the drama "Get Out of Here", directed by Franziska Buch. The film won the Max Ophüls Prize . As she had already done in the television series "Around 30", she worked again in 2001 under the direction of Ralf Huettner in the film adaptation of Ildikó von Kürthy's bestseller "Moonlight Tariff". Tim Bergmann and Jasmin Tabatabai were her co-stars in this film, in which she played a confused woman in her late twenties who, after many romantic misunderstandings, finally finds her dream man. This was followed by a collaboration with director Vivian Naefe, who cast her in two leading roles: "Crazy Is Also Normal", a musical tragicomedy alongside Dieter Pfaff, and the dark comedy "Men in Bites".
In 2010, the episode "Netzangriff" from the series Krimi.de, starring Stevens as Lena Mederling, won the Rose d'Or in the Children & Youth category.
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Helle Kuningas
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Helle Kuningas (since 1978 Helle Ralja; June 10, 1949 Pärnu – October 10, 2014 Pärnu) was an Estonian actress.
Kuningas was born in Pärnu to a family of journalists. Her uncle was an Estonian literary scholar, literary and theatre critic, cultural historian and translator Oskar Kuningas and her first couisn were chess player Merike Rõtova and writer Astrid Reinla. She graduated from Sindi Secondary School in 1968. From 1970 until 1972, she studied at Tallinn State Conservatory Stage Art Department. 1968–1970 and 1972–2010 she worked at Endla Theatre. Besides stage roles she acted also in films.
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Lance Acord
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Lance Acord (born September 9, 1964) is an American cinematographer.
Acord was born in Fresno County, California. He attended Sir Francis Drake High School's School Within A School (S.W.A.S.) program and went on to study photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. He began his professional career with photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber. Together they made documentaries, commercials and music videos.
His breakthrough in the MTV music videos world came when director Stéphane Sednaoui offered him to work on Björk's Big Time Sensuality. Acord continued to work extensively in the commercials and music videos mediums. He earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice”, which featured Christopher Walken and was directed by Spike Jonze. He also worked with R.E.M. on a regular basis.
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Harsha Vardhan
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Harsha Vardhan (born October 9, 1974) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, and film director who works predominantly in Telugu cinema and television. He gained early recognition playing the titular protagonist Icchapurapu Amrutha Rao in the long-running television sitcom *Amrutham* (2001–2007), a role he later reprised in its digital sequel *Amrutham Dhvitheeyam* (2020). Concurrently, he established a prolific career as a character actor, appearing in features including *Aithe* (2003), *Anukokunda Oka Roju* (2005), *Leader* (2010), *Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo* (2020), and *Saripodhaa Sanivaaram* (2024).
In addition to acting, Vardhan transitioned into screenwriting, providing dialogues for the thriller *Vishaka Express* (2008) and the sports drama *Guru* (2017). He gained notable industry recognition for writing the screenplay for the romantic comedy *Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde* (2013) and the dialogues for the fantasy drama *Manam* (2014). In 2023, he made his feature directorial debut with the action comedy *Maama Mascheendra*, which he also wrote. His subsequent acting credits include the streaming series *Save the Tigers* (2023), the drama *Court: State vs. A Nobody* (2025), and *Mana ShankaraVaraPrasad Garu* (2026).
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