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Jean Kent

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Kent (29 June 1921 - 30 November 2013) was a British film actress. She signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War. Kent's first good role in Two Thousand Women (1944), playing a stripper who is interned by the Germans. She was a Pacific Islander in Bees in Paradise (1944) with Arthur Askey and was the ingenue in a Tommy Trinder musical Champagne Charlie (1944). The turning point in her career came when she was given a dramatic part in the Gainsborough melodrama film Fanny by Gaslight (1944). The movie established Kent as Gainsborough's backup to Margaret Lockwood. Kent played another sexually aggressive girl in Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) with Calvert and Granger. It was a big hit. Rank borrowed her to support Rex Harrison in The Rake's Progress (1945). Kent continued to have success in films. Her favorite film was musical Trottie True (1949) where she played the lead. Kent's film appearances grew less frequent from the mid 1950s onward. She had support roles in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) and Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and a good part in the horror film The Haunted Strangler (1959). She was in the comedy Please Turn Over (1959) and the thriller Beyond This Place (1959). She was one of several female stars in Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960) with George Sanders. Kent was married to Austrian actor Josef Ramart from 1946 until his death in 1989, aged 70. They met on the set of Caravan. Actor Stewart Granger was the best man at their wedding. They appeared together in the films Caravan and Trottie True. Kent made her last public appearance in June 2011, when she was honoured by the British Film Institute on her 90th birthday. Kent died in the West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds on 30 November 2013, following a fall at her home in Westhorpe. The coroner recorded a narrative verdict that Kent died from accidental injuries and that cardiac disease may have contributed to a fall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Kent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tania Kloek

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Tania Kloek (Antwerp, January 12, 1973) is a Flemish actress. She is known for her roles in the Team Spirit films and television series such as Nancy, and for her roles of Manou Van Steen in Familie (1993-1997) and of Tina Demeester in Flikken. Kloek had roles in the films Dada, Dief!, Shades, M. zkt. Fri., Everyone famous!, Team Spirit, Team Spirit 2, Zot van A. and Frits & Freddy. She also played roles in the television series Familie, Dennis, Team Spirit and Koffie verkeerd. Kloek also plays the role of dance teacher Pia in teen-show Spring. In seasons 7 and 8 of Flikken she plays the role of Tina Demeester, an agent with weird eating habits (lots of sweets) and an eccentric clothing style. From 2012 she played in De zonen van Van As as Martine, Herman's wife. In 2019 she can be seen in the Gina & Chantal series in which she takes the role of rich housewife Eve. She also had guest roles in the television series De Kotmadam, En daarmee basta, Costa!, FC De Kampioenen, Aspe, De Wet volgens Milo, De Rodenburgs, Zone Stad, Witse and Vermist. In 2010 she played the role of Conny in the series Duts and in 2013 she also participated in the comic program Funnymals as voice actress of the week. On television she competed in the beginning of 2009 in the singing competition of the third season of Steracteur Sterartiest. In the theater, Kloek has been involved with Theater Froe Froe since 1997, which offers figure theater for all ages, with productions with puppetry, and acting roles such as Koning Ubu, Kloon and Orfee. In the 2008-2009 season she plays with puppetry in Midzomernachtsdroom. Kloek was married for several years to the Belgian actor Tom Van Bauwel, with whom she had a daughter in 2003. The couple divorced in 2004. Afterwards she got into a relationship with a Belgian director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tania Kloek, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jean-Paul Salomé

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Jean-Paul Salomé, born in 1960, is a French director and screenwriter. After studying cinema at the Sorbonne Censier, he worked as an assistant in the shooting of films, notably in 1981 in the film Les Uns et les Autres by Claude Lelouch. Then he made two short films which were documentaries: L'Heure d'aimer in 1983 and La petite Commission in 1984. In 1991, he made his first feature film for television: Crimes et jardins for which he also wrote the scenario. He then directed other feature films, including Les Femmes de l'ombre with Sophie Marceau, released in 2008. In January 2013, he was elected president of UniFrance Films.
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Susanna Thompson

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Susanna Thompson is an accomplished American actress, born on January 27, 1958, in San Diego, California. She is best known for her versatile performances across television, film, and stage. On television, Thompson gained widespread attention for her roles as Karen Sammler on "Once and Again," Moira Queen on the CW series "Arrow," Queen Rose Benjamin on NBC’s "Kings," and for her appearances in the Star Trek universe, notably as Dr. Lenara Kahn in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and the Borg Queen in "Star Trek: Voyager." Her film credits include prominent roles in "Little Giants," "Ghosts of Mississippi," "Random Hearts," "Dragonfly," and "Malignant." Thompson's stage career has also been notable, earning her a Dramatic Award for her performance in "A Shayna Maidel" and a San Diego Critics Circle nomination for "Agnes of God." Educated at San Diego State University, where her husband Martin Katz is a professor, Thompson is respected for her depth, range, and memorable portrayals throughout her multi-decade career.
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Ed Sheeran

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Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (/ˈʃɪərən/; born 17 February 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK. The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John. His second studio album, x (pronounced "multiply"), was released in June 2014. It peaked at number one in the UK and the US, and was named the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015. In 2015, x won the Brit Award for Album of the Year, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. His single from x, "Thinking Out Loud", earned him two Grammy Awards at the 2016 ceremony: Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Sheeran's third album, ÷ (pronounced "divide"), was released in March 2017. The album debuted at number one in the UK, the US and other major markets, and was the best-selling album worldwide of 2017. The first two singles from the album, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill", were released in January 2017 and broke records in a number of countries, including the UK, Australia and Germany, by debuting in the top two positions of the charts. He also became the first artist to have two songs debut in the US top 10 in the same week. By March 2017, Sheeran had accumulated ten top 10 singles from ÷ on the UK Singles Chart, breaking the record for most top 10 UK singles from one album. His fourth single from ÷, "Perfect", reached number one in the US, Australia and the UK, where it became the Christmas number one in 2017. Released in 2019, his fourth studio album, No.6 Collaborations Project, debuted atop the UK and US charts. Sheeran has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling music artists. Two of his albums are in the list of the best-selling albums in UK chart history: x at number 20, and ÷ at number 34. Beginning in March 2017, his ÷ Tour became the highest-grossing of all time in August 2019. An alumnus of the National Youth Theatre in London, as an actor Sheeran has portrayed a recurring role on The Bastard Executioner, and in 2019, he appeared in the Richard Curtis/Danny Boyle film Yesterday.
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Jean-Pierre François

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Jean-Pierre François (born on 7 June 1965) is a French singer and former footballer. He remained particularly known for his 1989 summer hit "Je te survivrai", a love song written by Didier Barbelivien, which reached number 2 on the French Singles Chart. François began his football career with CS Blénod et Pont-à-Mousson. He played for Dijon from 1983 to 1986. Following a short spell with FC Basel in Switzerland he returned to France to play for AS Saint-Étienne in the 1987–88 season. In 1989, François began a singing career with his smash hit "Je te survivrai", then with "Il a neigé sur lacs" and "Des Nuits", released in early 1990. The same year, he also released his first and sole album entitled Des Nuits, which contains a duet with Debbie Davis, but it was not successful. He decided to leave the show-biz, and became owner of a discothèque in Saint-Cyprien. In 2004, his daughter Sandy, participated in the French TV reality show Star Academy 4. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre François" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Napakpapha Nakprasitte

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Napakpapha Nakprasitte (better known as Mamee, born April 19, 1981) is a Thai film actress. She is sometimes credited as Napakapa Nakprasit. Mamee's first film role was as the star of the 2001 horror film, Mae bia (Snake Lady), in which she portrayed a woman who has a symbiotic relationship with a cobra. She then starred in Butterfly Man, an Anglo-Thai production directed by Kaprice Kea. She portrayed a traditional Thai massuese who becomes the love object for a young British backpacker, portrayed by Stuart Laing. It was her first English-speaking role. In 2005, Mamee starred in Art of the Devil 2, a thriller in which she portrayed a teacher at a rural school who has a cruel prank played on her by some students. She then gets her revenge by learning black magic and using it on her former students. For her role in Art of the Devil 2, she was nominated for best actress by the Bangkok Critics Assembly. She was also nominated for best supporting actress for the Thailand National Film Awards, but asked that the nomination be withdrawn out of protest. Mamee was featured in an experimental Thai film titled Ma-Mee (Three Friends), a partly fictional docu-drama in which she and two of her bikini-clad girlfriends (Jitraporn Panit and Penporn Poonsaem) go to an island for a video shoot, with the camera following their activities both on the set and off. She was listed among the cast for the 2006 Canadian horror-comedy, First Bite, by Malaysian-Canadian director Hunt Hoe. She starred in Art of the Devil 3 in 2008.
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Nolwenn Leroy

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Nolwenn Le Magueresse (born 28 September 1982), known by her stage name Nolwenn Leroy, is a French singer-songwriter, musician and Actor. Originally classically trained (violin and opera singing), she rose to fame after winning the second season of the French television music competition Star Academy in 2002. She has since recorded eight studio albums and scored two number one singles, "Cassé" and "Nolwenn Ohwo!", on the French charts. In 2012, her album Bretonne was certified two times diamond for sales exceeding one million copies. Leroy is fluent in English, having spent a year in the US as an exchange student. She sings in many languages, including French, Breton, English and Irish. Leroy has received numerous awards and nominations. In January 2015, she was ranked 17th on Le Journal du Dimanche's 50 Most Loved Celebrities in France, making her the top female singer on the list since December 2012. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture in 2021. Leroy was born in Saint-Renan in 1982. Leroy's parents left Saint-Renan (Finistère) when she was four years old. After living in Paris, Lille, and Guingamp, her mother, Muriel Leroy, and her younger sister, Kay, settled with Leroy's grandparents in Saint-Yorre. Her mother divorced from her father, professional footballer Jean-Luc Le Magueresse, in 1993. Nolwenn studied at the "Collège des Célestins" in Vichy. When Leroy was eleven, her music teacher noticed her musical talents and encouraged her to learn the violin. At the age of thirteen she won "Les écoles du désert", a contest sponsored by the Cora supermarket chain, which allowed her to travel with a humanitarian mission from Gao to Timbuktu, Mali; she later claimed this had a profound influence on her. In July 1998, Leroy was awarded a scholarship by the Vichy Rotary Club to travel to Hamilton, Ohio, United States, as an exchange student. While attending Hamilton High School, she took music lessons at the Performing Arts School and became fluent in English. When she returned to France, she began classical singing classes at the Vichy music conservatory. In 2001, she enrolled in the University of Clermont-Ferrand to study law for a potential alternative career to music. After watching the first season of Star Academy broadcast on TF1 in 2001, Leroy was impressed by Armande Altaï, a singing teacher and one of the show's judges. She subsequently joined Altaï's singing classes in Paris for over six months. In 2002, Nolwenn was selected for the second season of Star Academy, but she was also given the part of Scarlett O'Hara in the French stage musical Autant en emporte le vent (Gone with the Wind) by Gérard Presgurvic. Leroy ended up choosing Star Academy over the musical. As a contestant on the show, Leroy spent four months in a castle located in Dammarie-lès-Lys, and followed acting, dancing and singing classes. On 21 December 2002, she was declared the winner ahead of fellow finalist, Houcine Camara. ... Source: Article "Nolwenn Leroy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Polina Vitorgan

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Polina Vitorgan (born July 26, 1996, Moscow) is a Russian theater and film actress. She was born in the family of actors Maxim Vitorgan and Victoria Verberg. In 2015, she completed a course at the New York Film Academy. In 2017, she graduated from RATI-GITIS (Workshop of A.V. Borodin) and joined the RAMT troupe, where she worked until 2021. Meanwhile, in 2018, the audience saw her in the play "The Snow Maiden", staged at the Theater of Nations by Oleg Dolin. In 2022, the actress left Russia for political reasons and now lives in Israel.
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Stuart Organ

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Stuart Adrian Organ (8 November 1951 – 15 February 2024) was a British actor, best known for his role as teacher Peter Robson on the television series Grange Hill. He appeared as the character for 15 years, from 1988 to 2003, across 260 episodes. Organ was best known for his portrayal of the character Mr. Robson in the children's television drama Grange Hill. Organ portrayed the series' longest-serving teacher, arriving in 1988 as the new head of PE. In 1998 he finally landed the headmaster's job, but left the series in 2003 soon after production of Grange Hill transferred to Liverpool. Prior to Grange Hill, Organ appeared as Kevin Cross in the Mersey TV soap opera Brookside, and played Bazin in the Doctor Who story Dragonfire in 1987. Thereafter, he appeared in a variety of roles on T.V., including Monk, a flasher who exposed himself to Anna and yet was defended by Miles in This Life; Richard Thornton, who stalked Acting D.I. Sam Nixon across a double episode special in The Bill; and later as D.I. Dixon in 2000, Leighton Peters, a top civil servant who was responsible for the downfall of Anthony Calf's regular in a double episode of Holby City and as solicitor Steve Morris in series 13, episode 14 of London's Burning. Organ died on 15 February 2024, at the age of 72
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