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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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Alexandra Bokova
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A multi-ethnic Russian-born American actress, Bokova was born into an artistic family that allowed her to participate in the arts, which shaped her love and understanding of the field. At age eight, Bokova hosted a children’s television show called “Nezhniy Vozrast” and later, as a teenager, moved to the United States to pursue her other passion for human rights. After earning a Political Science degree from San Francisco State University, Bokova re-entered the arts and landed the lead in “Mermaid Down.”
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Lizzie Stanton
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A British actress trained in America and the UK. She graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from Ivy League Brown University, and an MA in Acting for Screen at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has two Best Actress awards for her work in short films, and she has toured her five-star winning solo show (BEAT) in America and to the Edinburgh Fringe. The leading roles Lizzie has played include Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, Katisha in The Mikado and most recently Leona Dawson in Tennessee Williams's Confessional at The Southwark Playhouse. She also plays ‘the girl’ in Andy Burrow's Music video See a Girl. Her latest features, Book of Monsters and The Good Neighbour are due for release 2019.
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Rasmus Merivoo
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Rasmus Merivoo (born May 1, 1983 in Russia) is an Estonian director.
A director by education, having since 2006 a bachelor's degree from the chair of Film and Video at Tallinn University. He's directed TV commercials, music videos and movies. He's been on the jury of several festivals, conducted film trainings and made music for both films and commercials.
Rasmus Merivoo gained fame as a filmmaker with his cult short film "Tulnukas ehk Valdise pääsemine 11 osas". In addition, Rasmus Merivoo directed the feature film "Buratino", which premiered in 2009, and the family comedy "Kratt", which premiered in 2020.
His sister is Maarja Merivoo-Parro.
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Maria Carta
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Maria Carta (24 June 1934 – 22 September 1994) was a Sardinian folk music singer-songwriter. She also performed in film and theatre. In 1975 she wrote a book of poetry, Canto rituale (Ritual Song).
Throughout her 25-year career she covered the richly diverse genres of traditional music of her native Sardinia (Cantu a chiterra, ninne nanne—children's lullabies, gosos, Gregorian chants, and more), often updating them with a modern and personal touch. She succeeded in bringing Sardinian folk music into wider popular awareness in demonstrations at a national level in Italy (like the Canzonissima in 1974) as well as internationally (especially in France and the United States).
Maria Carta won the Miss Sardinia beauty contest in 1957 and later participated in the national Miss Italy competition.
Around 1960, she moved to Rome where she met the screenwriter Salvatore Laurani whom she later married. She attended the Centro Nazionale di Studi di Musica Popolare, directed by Diego Carpitella, at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia and at the same time she pursued a musical and ethnographic research path with important productions and collaborations.
In 1971, she made two albums: Sardegna canta and Paradiso in re, and in the meantime she attended the ethnomusicologist Gavino Gabriel. The same year RAI broadcast the television documentary Incontro con Maria Carta (photography by Franco Pinna and texts by Velia Magno), in which she sang and recited with Riccardo Cucciolla.
In 1972, she played at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in the Medea by Franco Enriquez. The same year she met Amália Rodrigues, with whom she held a concert at the Teatro Sistina. In 1973, the two artists made a tour in Sardinia.
In 1974, she participated in Canzonissima, interpreting the traditional Sardinian Ave Maria Deus ti salvet Maria. She reached the final and was ranked second in the group of folk music with the song Amore disisperadu. In 1975, she held an important concert at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. In 1976, she served as Communal Councilwoman for the Italian Communist Party, in the city council of Rome and remained in office until 1981.
In 1980, she participated in the Festival d'Avignon; in 1987 she performed in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City; and in 1988 in St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco.
She caught the attention of such directors as Francis Ford Coppola – who gave her the first of two of her widely-seen film roles as the mother of Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974) – and Franco Zeffirelli, who cast her as Martha, the sister of Lazarus, in Jesus of Nazareth (1977).
In 1985, she was awarded, as songwriter, the Targo Tenco for dialectal/regional music.
In the last years of her life, Carta gave her time to the University of Bologna where she conducted a series of classes and advised student theses on which she had relevant personal, human experience and scholarly background.
In 1991, the President of Italy, Francesco Cossiga, named her a "Commendatore della Repubblica" ("Knight of the Republic"), similar to the British CBE.
Source: Article "Maria Carta" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Andrey Slabakov
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Andrey Slabakov was born in 1960 in Sofia. He graduated in Film and TV Directing from National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia in 1984. In the period 1991-1995 he worked for RAI. Filmography: Train to the Sea (documentary) - 1990, The Jews in Bulgaria (documentary) - 1995, Wagner - 1998, The Wolves (TV) - 1999, Ali Mehmet - the Lonely Poet and the Meaning of Life (documentary) - 2000, Improvisation (documentary) - co-direction with Rumiana Petkova - 2001, Perlovetz - the River of Life (documentary) - 2001, My Father (documentary) - 2003, Hindemith - 2007.
Mini Biography by: Georgi Djulgerov
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Keith Olbermann
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Keith Theodore Olbermann (born January 27, 1959) is an American sports and political commentator and writer. Olbermann spent the first 20 years of his career in sports journalism. He was a sports correspondent for CNN and for local TV and radio stations in the 1980s, winning the Best Sportscaster award from the California Associated Press three times. He co-hosted ESPN's SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. From 1998 to 2001, he was a producer and anchor for Fox Sports Net and a host for Fox Sports' coverage of Major League Baseball.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith Olbermann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Damso
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William Kalubi Mwamba (born 10 May 1992 in Kinshasa), better known by his stage name Damso, is a Belgian-Congolese rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is popular in France, where all of his albums were certified at least platinum.
Kalubi was born in Kinshasa, Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo). When he was nine years old, he and his family left the country because of the bloody armed conflict and moved to Belgium. They eventually settled in Matonge, a largely Congolese neighborhood in Ixelles, Brussels. William's mother is Rose Marthe.
After completing secondary school, Damso's parents urged him to pursue a degree in marketing and psychology, but his passion for music led him to spend more time in recording studios, causing his academic performance to suffer. This resulted in conflicts with his parents, especially his father, who had been a medical doctor in Kinshasa, ultimately leading to Damso being kicked out of his home. Struggling to make ends meet, Damso resorted to living in squats and engaging in illegal activities for financial survival, driven by his refusal to tolerate racism and mistreatment in traditional workplaces.
Damso started his rap career in 2006 by performing at local and underground events. At the start of his rap career, he formed rap collective OPG with childhood friend Dolfa. They later recruited Ducke, Lio Brown, and Rex. He released his first solo project Salle d'attente online as a free download in 2014. In collaboration with his band OPG, and significantly inspired by his older brother Mehdi Rais, he released his mixtape MMMXIII on 24 September 2014. Damso made his name in 2015 thanks to his song "Poseidon", which appears on Booba's OKLM mixtape. Following this, he joined Booba's 92i collective and signed with Universal Music. He made an appearance on Booba's album Nero Nemesis on the track "Pinocchio", in collaboration with Booba and rapper Gato Da Bato. Damso's verse was noted by the public and the media, increasing his popularity and widening his audience.
In France, all of Damso's albums have attained at minimum platinum certification.
On July 8, 2016, his first studio album, entitled Batterie Faible, was released on Booba's label: 92i Records. The project, fully mixed and recorded by Krisy, has been certified platinum in France selling more than 300,000 units.
His second album Ipséité was released on April 28, 2017, and was certified triple platinum in less than six months. The album is now certified diamond with over 900,000 cumulative album sales in France.
In 2018, Damso's third album Lithopedion was certified platinum within a week of its release and is now certified Diamond with over 500,000 units sold. He won the best musicer awards.
In 2020, he released album QALF. Which is now certified Diamond with over 500,000 units sold. ...
Source: Article "Damso" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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John Garfield
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John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle; March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters. He grew up in poverty in Depression-era New York City. In the early 1930s, he became a member of the Group Theater. In 1937, he moved to Hollywood, eventually becoming one of Warner Bros.' stars. Called to testify before the U.S. Congressional House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), he denied communist affiliation and refused to "name names", effectively ending his film career. Some have alleged that the stress of this incident led to his premature death at 39 from a heart attack. Garfield is acknowledged as a predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and James Dean.
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KPY Dheena
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Dhina aka Dinesh M is an Indian Actor and a Television star who become famous for his comedy skills. He along with KPY Sarath Participated in Kalakka Povathu Yaaru Season 5 and was one of the finalists in the season. Dhina also made his entry as an actor through Dhanush’s movie “Power Pandi“. He played the role of hero’s teenage friend. KPY Dhina aka Dheena was born and brought up in Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, India. He was born on 17 August 1991. Dhina did his schooling at Veludaiyar Higher Secondary School which is located in Thiruvarur and then moved to Mayiladudurai to pursue his graduation in the field of Instrumentation Engineering at A.V.C. College of Engineering. From his college days, he was much interested in acting and trolling others.
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