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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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Margarita Terekhova
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Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (Russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова; born August 25, 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1996.
From 1959 she studied at the physics and mathematics faculty at the Tashkent State University from 1959 until 1961. After that she went to Moscow and tried to get into VGIK but her application was declined. After that she enrolled to study at the school-studio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre.
After her graduation in 1964 she worked for many years as an actress of the Mossovet Theatre. From 1983 to 1987 she acted in the theatre group "The Puppet Show" organized by her and Igor Talkov.
Terekhova's acting debut was in 1965 in the film Hello, That's Me!. Margarita became particularly popular in the late 1970s, after the release of a costumed musical TV films The Dog in the Manger and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers. At first she played the capricious Countess Diana de Belflor, in the second - the treacherous Milady. Leading roles followed in films made by directors including Andrei Smirnov and Ilya Averbakh (Monologue, 1972) as well as the dual-role in Andrei Tarkovsky's acclaimed Mirror (1975). And more international co-productions came after, including George Cukor's The Blue Bird (1976) and Konrad Wolf's Mama, I'm Alive (1977). Terekhova's subsequent work in film proved her high level of acting expertise but did not attain the success as her earlier work.
Margarita Terekhova worked and was friends with Igor Talkov. They had a close relationship and worked for some time together at the musical theatre collective "Balaganchik".
In 2005 she made her debut as a director, shooting the film The Seagull based on the work of Anton Chekhov. Since then, Terekhova has retired from acting and almost never gives interviews due to her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She rarely appears in public and hardly ever attends public events
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Andrew Lukich
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Andrew Lukich grew up in Akron, Ohio. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University’s prestigious School of Drama with a BFA in Acting, he moved to LA, and has since worked on over 30 TV shows, feature films, video games, and commercials. Recent credits include Brews Brothers on Netflix; Dirty John: Betty on FX; Just Add Magic: Mystery City on Amazon Prime; and as the wildly irresponsible Secret Service Agent in a Quibi ad that aired during the Oscars. He has been throat-punched numerous times by detectives in TV shows. You can also try to kill him in the seminal video game L.A. Noire in which he plays Garrett Mason. (Good luck with that.)
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Liana Ramirez
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Ever since she could walk, Liana Ramirez has had a passion for performing and storytelling. After booking a role in a play with Neil Patrick Harris, she and her family moved to Los Angeles to seriously pursue her career. Liana has been very successful appearing on networks like Disney Channel, CBS and Netflix, as well as being the star of a horror movie by the executive producer of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In the midst of auditioning, graduating at sixteen, and working hard on film productions, Liana has been writing her first novel, “The Secrets Within Me.” She started creative writing before she was double digits and aspires to write like J.K. Rowling. She says that one day she will have her own section dedicated to her books in Barnes and Noble.
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Richie Koh
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Richie Koh was first discovered on Channel U’s campus talent hunt show Hey Gorgeous 2013 where he emerged as the runner-up for the season. He graduated with a Diploma in Financial Informatics from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, had always wanted to be an actor. He had to put that dream on hold until after his National Service in 2016.
Richie’s stellar performances in various local drama series such as When Duty Calls 《卫国先锋》, 118 Reunion《118 大团圆》 and Divided 《分裂》 had left a lasting impression on viewers. These landed him his first nomination for “Best Newcomer” in Star Awards 2018.
Riding on his increasing recognition and popularity among the masses, he moved on to a bigger arena by acting in movies where he performed equally well. His role as the gangster leader in the movie Wonderful! Liang Xi Mei 《旺得福梁细妹》 earned him praises from Singaporean director Jack Neo, and garnered rave reviews from both local and Malaysian fans. Shortly after, he was placed in the spotlight again with his outstanding performance in director Gilbert Chan’s horror movie 23:59: The Haunting Hour 《23:59 猛鬼兵营》. He proves himself as an artiste of great acting and versatility and this landed him into leading roles for two movies - The Diam Diam Era directed by Jack Neo which has released in 2020 and 2021 and The Fatekeepers which is slated to release in 2022.
With his strong experiences in acting, he is all ready to take on more challenges and get on a bigger international platform in the regional market.
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John O'May
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John O'May is an American-born Australian actor, best known for his stage performances.
O'May was born at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, one of four children. He grew up with a love of reading and literature. At university he dabbled in theatre, learning acting, stagecraft and building sets. He became a teacher at Patapsco High School, where he himself had attended high school. He taught English literature for two and a half years. He eventually travelled overseas, and after visiting his sister in Australia and ended up staying.
In 1972, O'May auditioned for the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. He took singing lessons and found an agent. In 1973, he was offered an audition and role in Godspell, replacing John Waters as Judas. He created and performed in the revues Gershwin (with John Diedrich) in 1975 and The 20s and All That Jazz (with Diedrich and Caroline Gilmer) O'May played Che Guevara in the original Australian cast of Evita which opened in Adelaide in April 1980. In the 1980s he was a regular performer with the Melbourne Theatre Company, and played Bobby in Company for the Sydney Theatre Company in 1986 and Captain Corcoran in H.M.S. Pinafore for the Victoria State Opera in 1987.
Film credits include supporting roles in the films Starstruck and Rebel and the television opera The Divorce (2015). In 2000, O’May guest-starred in season 2, episode 11, "Sponsorship and Media Discontent", of the ABC mockumentary, The Games.
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Xian Zi
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Xian Zi is a Chinese singer and actress. Xianzi's father is a music conductor. She studied in No.12 High School in Maoming, Guangdong province. After Xianzi graduated from high school, she went back to Guangxi. In Guangxi, she went to Guangxi Art College in Nanning where she majored in dance. While Xianzi was in high school, she composed several songs with her classmates and posted them on the internet. She became famous among internet composers in Guangdong province. In 2005, she was discovered by Taiwanese producer Zihong Chen and became a singer. In 2006, she sang a famous song “I have to love (不得不愛; Bu De Bu Ai)” with Will Pan. This song made her popular in both Mainland China and Taiwan. In 2007, she was nominated for the Best Rookie singer in Golden Melody Awards, which is the biggest music award in Taiwan.
In 2016, Xian Zi married Chinese singer and actor Caesar Li. They have a son together.
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Adam Duritz
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Adam Duritz is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer. He is best known for his role as frontman and vocalist for the rock band Counting Crows, of which he is a founding member and principal composer. Duritz has recorded solo material of his own and has collaborated with other musical acts. He has branched out as the owner of at least two record labels, acting as his own artists and repertoire (A&R) man. His work scoring music for film has been recognized by the music industry, notably with an award for co-writing the song "Accidentally in Love" for the movie Shrek 2 from BMI.
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Tom Villa
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Tom Villa was born on 5 June 1989 in Paris, France. He is a French actor, comedian, and radio and television presenter. He began his career in radio, contributing to sports programmes before gradually moving into comedy and stand-up. Early on, he performed in small venues and later opened for well-known French comedians including Gad Elmaleh, Anne Roumanoff, and Jeff Panacloc.
Villa became more widely known through his work on television. He joined Canal+ as a comedic commentator on programmes such as La Nouvelle Édition and Salut les Terriens!, where he developed a style combining satire and observational humour. Alongside his television work, he also pursued acting roles, appearing in series such as Munch, while continuing to perform live on stage.
In addition to his screen and stage work, Tom Villa has taken part in a range of media and cultural projects, maintaining a versatile presence within contemporary French entertainment. He married Marion Dupont in 2022.
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Ken Yamamura
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Ken Yamamura, born Kennosuke Yamamura (山村 憲之介, Yamamura Kennosuke, born January 21, 1986), is a Japanese actor best known for playing the younger Ichirō Yashida / Silver Samurai (sharing the main antagonist's role with Haruhiko Yamanouchi) in the 2013 film The Wolverine, and Takashi in the 2014 remake of Godzilla.
Yamamura was born in Osaka on January 21, 1986. He studied drama at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. After graduating, he has not missed a chance to have a role in a Hollywood blockbuster.
In 2013, Yamamura made his first acting appearance as the younger Ichiro Yashida / Silver Samurai in the American superhero film The Wolverine, which had starred Hugh Jackman. The following year, he went on to portray the role of Takashi, the associate of Bryan Cranston's character, in the 2014 remake of Godzilla.
In 2019, he then appeared to portray as the character Oguchi in the thriller crime drama film Earthquake Bird, featuring Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough, which was released by Netflix on November 15, 2019.
In 2021, Yamamura has portrayed Taka in the film People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan.
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