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Mimi Chakraborty
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Mimi Chakraborty is a Bengali film and television actress. She rose to fame by playing the role "Pupe", the female lead in mega serial Gaaner Oparey. Mimi was a model briefly before starting her acting career. She participated in Femina Miss India. Her soap acting debut was with Champion. Her second project was a TV serial Gaaner Oparey, produced by Ideas Creations. It aired on Star Jalsha from 28 June 2010 to 16 April 2011. Ideas Creations, the production house of Prosenjit Chatterjee together with Star Jalsha launched the mega-serial "Gaaner Oparey" to pay tribute to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore on the 150th anniversary of his birth. The likes of Rituparno Ghosh (who was initial scriptwriter of Gaaner Oparey), Debojyoti Mishra (Music Director), and other noted personalities from the film industry were involved with the project. Her debut film "Bapi Bari Jaa" was released in 7 December 2012.
Her next ventures are Mini (2022), Khela Jawkhon (2022) and Hindi remake of Posto.
She was listed as the most desirable woman in the Calcutta Times list of Most Desirable Women 2016 and 2020. In 2019, she was elected as the Member of Parliament for Jadavpur constituency.
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James Stewart
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James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime Achievement award. He was a major MGM contract star. He also had a noted military career and was a World War II and Vietnam War veteran, who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserve.
Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, Shenandoah, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He is the most represented leading actor on the AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) and AFI's 10 Top 10 lists. He is also the most represented leading actor on the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time list presented by Entertainment Weekly. As of 2007, ten of his films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry.
Stewart left his mark on a wide range of film genres, including westerns, suspense thrillers, family films, biographies and screwball comedies. He worked for a number of renowned directors later in his career, most notably Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, George Cukor, and Anthony Mann. He won many of the industry's highest honors and earned Lifetime Achievement awards from every major film organization. He died at age 89, leaving behind a legacy of classic performances, and is considered one of the finest actors of the "Golden Age of Hollywood". He was named the third Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
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Joël de Rosnay
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Joël de Rosnay (born 12 June 1937), is a Mauritius-born French scientist and writer, presently President of Biotics International, a consulting company specialized in the impact of new technologies on industries, and Special Advisor to the President of the Universcience (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie and Palais de la Découverte) of which he was Director of Forecasting and Assessment until June 2002.
Descendant of a family of planters from the island of Mauritius (Fromet de Rosnay), Joël de Rosnay was born in Curepipe, Mauritius, and has lived in Paris since 1945. He is the son of the Franco-Mauritian painter Gaëtan de Rosnay (1912-1992) and Natacha Koltchine (born in Saint Petersburg in 1914, fleeing the Russian Revolution and arriving in Biarritz, southern France in the 1920s, died in Sens in 2005), and the brother of Zina Dotézac and Arnaud de Rosnay.
Joël de Rosnay is married to Stella Jebb, daughter of Lord Gladwyn Jebb, former acting Secretary-General of the UN (1945 - 1946) and British Ambassador to Paris from 1954 to 1960. He is the father of Tatiana de Rosnay, a writer, Cécilia de Vaucleroy, a product design consultant, and Alexis de Rosnay, a former banker at Lazard Frères, Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan, now working at Barclays.
From 1975 to 1985 he was Director of Research Applications at l'Institut Pasteur (the Pasteur Institute in Paris). Former research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the field of biology and computer graphics, he was successively Scientific Attaché to the French Embassy in the United States, and Scientific Director of European Enterprises Development Company (a venture capital group) from 1971 to 1975.
As well as several reports, namely: Biotechnologies and Bio Industry (1979), an annex to the report Sciences de la vie et Société by Professors Gros, Jacob and Royer. He was also co-responsible for the report which led to the creation of CESTA (Centre d'Etudes des Systèmes et des Technologies Avancées / Center for the study of systems and advanced technologies, 1982).
De Rosnay is particularly interested in advanced technologies and the applications of system theory; his concept of the macroscope, a "big picture" view of the globe and its residents, was published in 1975. On these subjects, he wrote: Le Macroscope (1975); Les Chemins de la Vie (The paths of life) (1983); Le Cerveau Planétaire (The planetary brain) (1986). ...
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Burgess Jenkins
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Burgess Jenkins (born October 24, 1973) is a film actor known for work in the 2000 film Remember The Titans (as Ray Budds) opposite Academy Award winner Denzel Washington; as Hilary Swank's husband David Winter in The Reaping (2007). He portrayed religious leader John Wesley in the award winning independent film Wesley (2009) with Golden Globe winner Kevin McCarthy and Emmy-nominated television legend June Lockhart. On television, Jenkins played Bobby Irons throughout season 6 on the hit WB series One Tree Hill while also playing a recurring role on Lifetime's Army Wives and Drop Dead Diva. He starred in the true story "Unshackled" with Stacy Keach. He was nominated as Best Actor at the Boston Film Festival for his portrayal of Bruce Snow in "Insignificant Others".
Jenkins is a Meisner method actor trained at the Playhouse West with Robert Carnegie and academy award nominated actor Jeff Goldblum.
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Jason Tisi
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Jason Tisi was born in upstate, New York. He has also resided in southern California, Europe, Boston, and now Central Florida. Jason has been in the performance arts since early childhood, playing trumpet professionally for many years starting at age 15 and now plays the ukulele. He has worked in television and radio broadcasting being the eye-in-the-sky as a former NBC New England affiliate traffic reporter as well as radio news anchor and alternative rock disc jockey. Jason's voice has been heard on several radio and television commercials and he played a recurring character on the nationally syndicated radio show, Mancow's Morning Madhouse on Q101 out of Chicago. His television appearances include several small bits episodes of the late Glen Larson production, 'Nightman', where he was often seen as a bartender. Jason also appeared in several episodes of the hit USA Network series 'Silk Stalkings' as a Coroner's Assistant and starred in season 1 of the Time Warner Cable comedy series, 'The House'. However, while filming on location for Silk Stalkings, Jason saw a car stunt and shifted gears himself and added precision and stunt driving to his actor tool box. As a race car driver he was behind the wheel of the #21 Monte Carlo SS in the Pure Stock Division at the NASCAR Home Track, Seekonk Speedway in Massachusetts. Jason has appeared in several MTV, BET, and World Star Hip Hop music videos, including Monty, Remy Boyz & the Zoo Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, Chris Webby, Joyner Lucas, Chief Keef, Shy Glizzy ft. Plies, Token, Prince Smooth, and more. Jason works on both Hollywood and independent films. In early 2018, he finished his first feature length screenplay, and has another in the works. He's also a graduate of the Harley Davidson Riding Academy and rides a 2018 Harley Davidson Sport Glide.
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Ilmar Raag
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Ilmar Raag (born May 21, 1968 in Kuressaare) is an Estonian media executive, actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his socio-critical film The Class. He has served as CEO of Estonian Television from 2002 to 2005. He is a well known columnist in many prestigious Estonian newspapers (Postimees, Eesti Päevaleht). He has written many scripts and directed critically acclaimed films, notably August 1991 and The Class.
He received his high school education from Aleksander Mui (:et) secondary school No 2 of Kingissepa. He graduated from University of Tartu in 1997 and received his M.A. degree in screenwriting from Ohio University, the School of Telecommunications (1999). He made internships in Hollywood development departments (New Regency, Phoenix Pictures). His further career took him to the TV management. After being the Head of Acquisitions for Estonian National Television, he was promoted to the Chairman of the Board of the same TV company. In 2002, he staged a play in one of the Estonian theaters (Ugala). At the same time, he started to consult and doctor Estonian feature scripts. In 2004, he wrote two TV feature scripts. He directed one of them - August 1991 as made-for-TV movie for Estonian Television and the other, One More Croissant got the third prize at Hartley Merill International Screenwriting Competition and the support from MEDIA New Talent program.
Eager to continue his filmmaking career, he quit as CEO of Estonian Television and made his first feature film The Class in 2007. Since then he shot a feature in France Une Estonienne à Paris with Jeanne Moreau and Laine Mägi in leading roles, back in Estonia Kertu that was released in 2013 and in Russia I Won't Come Back.
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Andrea Ortega
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She was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, on August 16, 1992. She was a film student at IMA. She worked as a Prop Master Assistant on the film Efímera and was part of the production company Onar Studios in the pre-production department. She was also the Casting Director for the film Gente Maravillosa.
She participated as part of the staff in the film series of the Women in Film Showcase organized by the Association of Women in Film and Television in collaboration with Pantalla de Cristal. She also took part in the Polos Virtuales Morelos workshop for documentary development.
Throughout her career, she collaborated on the production of several short films, excelling in roles such as script supervisor, producer, and art director. Her passion, dedication, and sensitivity left a deep impact on everyone who knew her and worked alongside her.
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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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Hussein Al Samraey
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Hussein Alwan Al-Samarrai, born in 1927 in Baghdad, transitioned from a football career in his youth to pursuing the arts. After graduating from the Fine Arts Institute, he directed plays like "The Victim" and "Layla's Mad." In cinema, he starred in "Nadim" and co-founded Samiramis Films, producing and directing "Taswahan." Beyond his artistic pursuits, Al-Samarrai held official roles in the Ministry of Youth, Public Culture, and the General Cinema and Theatre Corporation. As a director, he crafted documentaries such as "Sports and Decoration," "This is How Basra Will Be," and "Iraq, Ancient and Modern.
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Khatereh Asadi
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Khatreh Asadi is an Iranian film, television and theater actress born on October 29, 1983 in Tehran. She began her career in 2004 and graduated from the University of Art and Architecture of Azad University in the field of acting. She first became famous with her role in the film I Saw Your Father Last Night, Aida. She made her first television appearance in the television series The Fall of an Angel directed by Bahram Bahramian, in the roles of Masoud Raaygan and Fariba Kosari. After that, in addition to cinema and television, she appeared on the stage with plays by Hossein Kiani. Examples of her works include Seven Minutes to Autumn, Snow on a Hot Roof, Pointe Kour, Banboeh, and Sar Be Mehr.
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