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Nadav Lapid
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Israeli filmmaker and writer, Nadav Lapid first worked as a sports journalist before undertaking a film career. He directed three shorts while at film school, before being selected in 2008 to take part in the Résidence of the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival, where he wrote the screenplay for his first full-length feature: Policeman. Shot two years later, the film follows the day-to-day life of Yaron, member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit which clashes with a group of young far-left radicals. In 2013, he wrote and directed The Kindergarden Teacher, which was presented in a special screening at the 2014 Cannes International Critics' Week. In it, Sarit Larry plays Nira, a school teacher who becomes captivated by a five-year-old boy who has an astonishing gift for writing poems. She decides to help him, no matter what it costs, develop his talent. Through his films, Nadav Lapid offers a singular insight into the society of his own country, with characters at the crossroads of the public and personal spheres, where politics and private life meet.
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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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Omar Mostafa Metwally
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Omar Mustafa Metwally is an Egyptian actor who was born on August 1, 1983 in Cairo. His father is the actor Mustafa Metwally and his uncle is the producer Essam Imam, brother of actor Adil Imam. He began his acting career with the film “Ramadan Mabrook Abo El Alamein Hamouda” in 2008, and then appeared in several films including “Safari” in 2010, “Saa Wi Nos” (Hour and a Half) in 2012, “Tattah” in 2013, and “Qalb El Assad” (Lion Heart) in 2013. He also was the star of the TV series “9 Gameat El Dowal” in 2012.
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Robert Palmer
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Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful and soulful voice, sartorial elegance and stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, reggae and blues. His 1985 song "Addicted to Love" and its accompanying video came to "epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s".
Having started in the music industry in the 1960s, including a spell with Vinegar Joe, Palmer found success in the 1980s. It came both in his solo career and with the Power Station, scoring Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom and the United States. Three of his hit singles, including "Addicted to Love", featured music videos directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan.
Palmer received a number of awards throughout his career, including two Grammy Awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance and an MTV Video Music Award. He was also nominated for the Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist in both 1987 and 1989. Palmer died at the age of 54 from a heart attack.
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Jacques Ouaniche
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Jacques Ouaniche est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste français. Il a créé et produit lui-même la série Maison close pour la chaîne Canal+. Il en a également écrit tous les épisodes et en a réalisé deux. Jacques Ouaniche est également producteur de films notamment avec L'Esquive, drame ayant obtenu quatre César d'Abdellatif Kechiche. En 2013, il réalise son premier long-métrage, Victor Young Perez, biopic du boxeur juif tunisien dans les années 30 qui a été déporté à Auschwitz, et est mort pendant la marche de la mort en 1945, avec dans le rôle titre Brahim Asloum, ancien champion du monde de boxe.
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Risa Niigaki
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新垣里沙 (Niigaki Risa) is a Japanese actress and former idol. She is a former fifth generation member and leader of the pop group Morning Musume. under Hello! Project. She was also a member of the group Tanpopo, the Morning Musume. splinter group Morning Musume. Sakura Gumi, the leader of Athena & Robikerottsu, as well a member of the shuffle units Happy 7, 7AIR, ZYX-α and H.P. All Stars. She joined Morning Musume. in 2001 along with Takahashi Ai, Konno Asami and Ogawa Makoto. Niigaki was the sub-leader of Morning Musume. from 2007 to 2011 while Takahashi was leader. After Takahashi graduated, Niigaki Risa inherited her titles as the leader of Morning Musume. and also the leader of Hello! Project. On January 2, 2012, it was announced that Niigaki would graduate at the end of the Morning Musume. Concert Tour 2012 Haru ~Ultra Smart~. She graduated from Morning Musume. and Hello! Project on May 18 at Nippon Budokan alongside Mitsui Aika.
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Yudhi Isman
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Yudhi Isman, an independent, responsible, and adaptable person who highly motivated to be a hard worker. Like to expands knowledge and oppurtunities for personal and professional goals. Hardworker, possitive thinker, quick learner, optimistic, open minded, responsible, friendly, team and individual player. Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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Mindy Kaling
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Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), known professionally as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She rose to prominence in 2005 for her work on the NBC sitcom The Office, where she portrayed Kelly Kapoor and served as a writer, executive producer, and occasional director throughout most of the series' run. Kaling created, wrote, produced, and starred in the Fox/Hulu sitcom The Mindy Project, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017. Kailing's film career includes voice work in the films Despicable Me (2010), Wreck It Ralph (2012), Inside Out (2015) and starring roles in the fantasy adventure A Wrinkle in Time and heist-comedy Ocean's 8, both 2018.
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Christopher DeFaria
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Christopher "Chris" DeFaria born San Francisco, California is an American film producer and production manager of such films as Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Gravity (2013) and Happy Feet Two (2011).
As a child, he was a voice actor playing the part of Peppermint Patty in five Peanuts specials: It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown (1969), Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971), There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown (1973), and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973). He voiced Peppermint Patty in the second Peanuts film, Snoopy, Come Home (1972). He voiced Pig-Pen in A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969).
He is a graduate of UCLA, a member of the AMPAS and WGA and a founding member of FilmAid International.
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Richie Sambora
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Richard Stephen 'Richie' Sambora (born July 11, 1959) is an American rock guitarist, producer, musician, and singer/songwriter who was the longtime lead guitarist of the popular rock band Bon Jovi. He and frontman Jon Bon Jovi formed the primary songwriting unit of the band. He is also a solo artist, having released three solo albums: Stranger in This Town in 1991, Undiscovered Soul in 1998, and Aftermath of the Lowdown released in September 2012.
In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi, and reunited with his former bandmates for a performance at the induction ceremony. That year, he formed the duo RSO alongside his girlfriend, Orianthi. After two EPs, the pair released their debut album Radio Free America in May.
He was listed by Time magazine as one of the best guitarists of all time.
He was married to actress Heather Locklear from 1994 until their divorce in 2007; they have a daughter, Ava, born in 1997. He dated Australian guitarist/singer-songwriter Orianthi from 2014 to 2018.
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