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Solar

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Solar, born Kim Yong-sun (김용선), is a South Korean singer and songwriter, best known as the leader and main vocalist of the South Korean girl group MAMAMOO. She made her solo debut with the single "Spit It Out" on April 23, 2020 and released her first mini album 容: Face on March 16, 2022. She made a cameo appearance in the 2015 romance web drama "Imaginary Cat" as Jung Soo-in. She has appeared in various South Korean variety and reality shows and has won the Best Entertainer Award in Variety Show in the 2021 KBS Entertainment Awards.
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Séverine

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Séverine (born Josiane Grizeau; 10 October 1948) is a French singer. Séverine won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971 for Monaco, performing "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" (A bench, a tree, a street), with music by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and words by Yves Dessca. It was recorded in English as "Chance in Time", in German as "Mach die Augen zu (und wünsch dir einen Traum)" and Italian as "Il posto". The original French version made #9 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1971, whereas the English version, released on CBS rather than Philips, did not chart. The song charted highly in most other European markets. Séverine had further success in France and Germany, but never again on an international scale. Séverine made two further attempts at winning the Eurovision Song Contest, participating in the German national finals of 1975 and 1982. Neither song won. She accompanied Monaco's delegation to the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece. Source: Article "Séverine (singer)" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sylvia Lewis

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sylvia Lewis (born April 22, 1931) is an American actress, dancer and choreographer. Lewis began her film career in Singin' in the Rain and Red Garters as a dancer, then in Drums of Tahiti as an actress. Later she added choreography on her list of credits, which began while she was a regular featured character on the ABC television series Where's Raymond?, in which she played the dance partner, Sylvia, of series star Ray Bolger. In the second season, the program was renamed The Ray Bolger Show. Lewis has choreographed many television shows since the 1950s, including Who's the Boss? and Married... with Children. She has made guest appearances on shows like The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., plus had a stage career on both coasts.
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Allen Case

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Allen Case (born Alan Case Lavelle Jones, October 8, 1934 – August 25, 1986) was an American television actor most noted for the lead role of Deputy Clay McCord in NBC-TV's The Deputy (1959–1961) opposite series regular Henry Fonda, who received top billing, but appeared far less frequently than Case. Case was born in Dallas, Texas. His parents were retail clothiers Casey Jones and Nadine Allen Jones. He attended Southern Methodist University, but left in his junior year. After he left SMU, Case sang on a television program in Dallas, and then toured in musicals. Following those experiences, he traveled to New York to audition for the Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts program. Case signed a contract with Columbia Records in 1955, and performed on the first studio cast recording of the Gershwins' musical Oh, Kay! He starred in his first Broadway show, Reuben, Reuben. He also toured with musicals, including South Pacific, Damn Yankees, and My Fair Lady. In addition to starring in The Deputy,  Case was one of the "friends" on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends. Case made more than 30 television appearances between 1958 and 1982, often in cowboy roles, such as on the ABC/Warner Bros. Western series, Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston. In the late 1960s, Case went into business manufacturing fur coats for men. Furs used in the coats included wolf, Norwegian seal, muskrat, and sheared rabbit. Prices ranged from $350 to $1,250. During his theatrical career, Case designed his own clothes, and as the menswear market changed, he thought the time was ripe to express his own ideas and designs. On September 22, 1961, Case married Bobbie Jones. They had a daughter, and they divorced on June 27, 1979. While on vacation, he died after suffering a heart attack in Truckee, California, at the age of 51. CLR
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Jim Marrs

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James Farrell Marrs Jr. (December 5, 1943 – August 2, 2017) was an American newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author of books and articles on a wide range of alleged cover-ups and conspiracies. Marrs was a prominent figure in the JFK assassination conspiracy theories community and his 1989 book Crossfire was a source for Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK. He wrote books asserting the existence of government conspiracies regarding aliens, 9/11, telepathy, and secret societies. He began his career as a news reporter in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metroplex and taught a class on the assassination of John F. Kennedy at University of Texas at Arlington for 30 years. Marrs was a member of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Source: Wikipedia
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Layla El

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Layla El is an English dancer, model, professional wrestler, valet, and actress. She works for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown brand under the ring name Layla. After attending a performing arts college, El was a dancer for Carnival Cruise Lines, the Miami Heat franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where Layla received a championship ring, and also danced for P. Diddy and Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards.  She has also appeared on several television shows, including Family Feud, Project Runway, and Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp. In 2006, Layla won the 2006 WWE Diva Search, earning a contract with the World Wrestling Entertainment. After briefly appearing on SmackDown brand, she was moved to the ECW brand in January 2007 where she formed the Extreme Exposé dance troupe with Kelly Kelly and Brooke Adams. In 2008, she was drafted to the Raw brand, where she began managing William Regal. The following year, she returned to the SmackDown brand, where she formed an alliance with Michelle McCool known as LayCool. In May 2010, Layla won the WWE Women's Championship for the first time, making her the first British woman and Diva Search winner to have won the championship in history; she was also the final recognized WWE Women's Champion as the title was retired in September 2010. At the Extreme Rules pay-per-view in May 2011, the team would split after Layla defeated McCool in a no countout, no disqualification, loser leaves WWE match. Layla won her first-ever WWE Divas Championship at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, lasting up to the Night of Champions pay-per-view in September 2012.
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Francis Perrin

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Francis Pierre Horton Perrin (born 10 October 1947) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He enter the Comédie-Française in 1972, but left the following year. He headed the Théâtre Montansier in his birthplace from 1992 to 2000. In 2001, he was made Officier de l'ordre national du Mérite, in 2007 Officier de la Légion d'honneur and in 2016, Officier des Arts et Lettres. Source: Article "Francis Perrin (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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María Eugenia Rigón

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She graduated as an actress from the Theater Arts program at Andamio 90 (COSATYC), the school and independent theater founded by Alejandra Boero and currently directed by Alejandro Samek. She continued her studies at the CELCIT (Latin American Center for Theater Creation and Research) with Juan Carlos Gené, at the CALIBAN theater school, by Norman Briski and at Nora Monseico's studio. She complemented her acting studies with the practice of disciplines such as jazz dance, contemporary dance, body training, clowning and pole acrobatics. As a playwright she has taken workshops with Ariel Barchilón (CELCIT), Ignacio Apolo (CELCIT), Mariela Asensio (Argentores) and Andres Binetti (SAGAI). In 2019, she premiered her first work “La República Argentina” (2019) at Teatro Off Shore. Likewise, she trained as a pedagogue with Débora Astrosky, specializing in the TIA method (Actor Research Work). She is an English translator and interpreter and her third language is Italian. She has attended the Aldo Lumbia Dubbing Academy where she has taken Neutral Spanish and Dubbing workshops with Matilde Ávila and Rolando Agüero. Among his latest works in theater, Samsara (2022) by Francisco Ortiz stands out, at the Payró theater, a work that had a long rehearsal process during 2020 and 2021. Additionally, various works at Microteatro, among the latest are: Talle 36 (2002) by Roberto Mauri, Beauty and Rich (2022) by Patricio Abadi, and Hijos a la carta (2022) by Nuria Angles, directed by Ezequiel Tronconi. And it is worth highlighting When the Lights Go Out, by Lisi Dikof, a work that had two seasons at the Teatro del Artefacto, during 2018 and 2019; declared by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires as of “Cultural Interest 2019”, and selected as part of the programming of the San Martín Cultural Center during 2020. In cinema, his latest films have been: 1978 (2023), Río, therefore I am (2023), Corpórea (2022) by Cristian Bidone, Vladimir (2022) by Martín Riwnyj, Los Olvidados 2: Cicatrices (2021) by Nicolás Onetti, Astrogauchos (2019) by Matías Szulanski, and Abrakadabra by Nicolas and Luciano Onetti (2018), the latter having premiered in Sitges and having toured more than twenty genre festivals. She has also participated in series such as Coppola, the Representative, by Ariel Winograd (2024) and Santa Evita, by Alejandro Macci (2023). Additionally, she has worked on dozens of music videos and advertisements. Currently, she is actively working in theater, cinema and advertising both in Argentina and abroad; and she has created, together with Desirée Salgueiro, the FIRST ARGENTINE SCHOOL OF ACTING IN HORROR FILM, in which she plays the role of acting coach in annual on-camera acting workshops and in intensive seminars, both in person and virtual.
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Diana Gibson

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Diana Gibson (March 21, 1915 – October 12, 1991) was an American film actress. Born Rosemary La Bie in Chicago, Illinois, Gibson started her film career in 1935 with a role in His Night Out, starring Edward Everett Horton and Irene Hervey. She appeared in nine film roles in 1936, four of which were uncredited. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1937 film Adventure's End, which would be her best known role. That year she appeared in six films, in five credited roles. However, in 1938 and 1939 her career took a downward turn, and she only appeared in three films over the two years; two of her roles were uncredited. Her last credited role was in the 1938 film Western Welcome starring Ray Whitley. She retired afterward, and eventually settled in Coral Gables, Florida, where she was residing at the time of her death in 1991.
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