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Marie Eykel
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Marie Eykel is a Quebec actress born on April 2, 1948. The daughter of a Dutch father and a Quebec mother, Marie's mother was Rose Léonard and her mother was Irish. Marie lived a good part of her youth in Saint-Lambert. A theatre festival from her youth, she exercised her talent in several experimental theatres, worked for Paul Buissonneau's Roulette, before playing the role of Passe-Partout in the tele-series of the same name broadcast at Télé-Québec (Radio-Québec at the time) from 1977 to 1998. This series was remarkable for a whole generation, at a point called the "Passe-Partout Generation". Later she remained associated with this character, which greatly harmed her to gain a significant role after the withdrawal of the waves from the series.
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James Adam Reuben
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In April 2010, Jamie Reuben's family firm Reuben Brothers bought a stake in Metro Bank and, in October 2011, he was appointed as a non-executive member of the Board of Directors. In February 2015, Reuben resigned from the Board.
In 2011, Jamie Reuben, on behalf of Reuben Brothers Limited, was the co-founder along with financier Andrew Danenza of the investment firm Melbury Capital, whose Advisory Board is chaired by David Reuben.
In the 2012 London mayor election, Reuben served as chairman of Boris Johnson's re-election campaign committee. Reuben has donated £816,000 to the Conservative Party, and is a member of the party's Advisory Board for significant donors.
In May 2018, brothers David and Simon Reuben bought the Burlington Arcade shopping mall for £300m and appointed Jamie Reuben as managing director. On 8 October 2018, Jamie Reuben was appointed to the board of London-based football club Queen's Park Rangers.
Jamie Reuben has been a principal of the Reuben Brothers firm whose projects have included property in Grosvenor Square, properties in Italy and the 30-room boutique hotel La Residence in Mykonos.
In March 2021, Reuben was appointed co-chair to the Growth Board of homelessness charity Centrepoint.
In October 2021, Reuben became co-owner of Newcastle United Football Club alongside PCP Capital Partners and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.
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Sarah Lynn Dawson
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Sarah is a English actress, screenwriter and filmmaker who trained as an actress at the New York's Lee Strasberg Institute of Film and Television.
She voiced the role of the Mother in the Oscar Nominated Feature Film I Lost My Body (2019). Other films she has appeared in, include Duality (2014), which she wrote and starred in and which was narrated by Deepak Chopra. She also played the lead role of Alice Clark the LAPD's first female detective in the 1940's film noir Unsolved (2015), which she also produced.
She was born in the Lake District in England and she spent a large part of her childhood growing up in Qatar, in the Middle East where she started acting at the age of seven when she was cast in a community theatre show.
She starred in theatre productions throughout her school years at boarding school, playing lead roles in several Greek Tragedies. After pursuing academia and graduating from the University of Leeds with a BA Hons Degree in Sociology, Sarah realized her future career lay in the performing arts and after acting in several independent films, she was cast in a play 'Reality TV' directed by Jim Tommaney. At this time she started writing and completed her first feature script. She then moved to New York and studied acting at The Lee Strasberg Institute of Film and Television in New York, on their two year conservatory program.
She made her Off-Broadway debut in the Manhattan Repertory Theater's production of 'Men' directed by Ken Wolfe, quickly followed by another Off-Broadway appearance in the showcase 'Conflict', at The Producers Club, before moving to Los Angeles. In LA she was accepted on the prestigious BAFTA/LA Newcomers program and also became an Observer at The Actors Studio where she learned from Martin Landau and the teachers there. She continues to act and write.
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Fred 'Sonic' Smith
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Frederick Dewey Smith (September 14, 1949 – November 4, 1994), known by his stage name Fred "Sonic" Smith, was an American guitarist. Smith is best known as a member of the band MC5. He later went on to form Sonic's Rendezvous Band, which released one single, "City Slang", during Smith's lifetime. Smith was born in West Virginia. He and his band opened a show for singer and poet Patti Smith. Patti Smith's guitarist, Lenny Kaye, introduced Fred and Patti before the show. The two were married in 1980. He and Smith collaborated on her 1988 album Dream of Life. A resident of St. Clair Shores, Michigan (a Detroit suburb), Fred Smith died in Detroit in 1994. The apparent cause was heart failure.
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Adolfo Arrieta
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Adolfo González Arrieta is a spanish filmmaker, considered as the pioneer of independent film both in Spain and France, due to the artisan quality and the unique spirit of freedom of his films. He usually uses variations of his name in the credits of his films, such as Udolfo Arrieta, Alfo Arrieta or Adolpho Arrieta. His cinematic language is very poetic, apart from narrative conventions, which has made it to be compared with the cinema of Jean Cocteau. Having started as a painter, Arrieta began his filmmaking with the short films El crimen de la pirindola (1965) and Imitación del ángel (1966) both shot in Madrid, a milestone for independent cinema in Spain. He moved to Paris in 1967 with Javier Grandes, an usual actor in most of his films, where he would live through the events of May 1968. In 1969 he met Jean Marais, leading actor in La Belle et la Bête (1945), Orphée (1949) and Le Testament d'Orphée (1959) by Jean Cocteau, of whom he had been a former lover. With Marais Arrieta would shot his first feature film, Le Jouet criminel (1969), that was compared to Cocteau's cinema for his poetic nature. With Le Château de Pointilly (1972), he would receive critical praise from Marguerite Duras. He won the Great Prize at the Toulon Film Festival with Les Intrigues de Sylvia Couski (1974), acclaimed by the critics and considered as the first underground parisian film. He would follow with Tam Tam (1976), the record of an uninterrupted party between New York, Paris and Spain; and Flammes (1978), a story about a sexual childhood fantasy turning into a real passion in the adulthood. In the following years he would make Grenouilles (1983), Kiki, la gata (episode of the TV series Delirios de amor, 1989), Merlín (1990) and Narciso (2004). His next film, Vacanza permanente (2006), was awarded at the Lucca International Film Festival, and meant for Arrieta a creative rebirth. It was premiered in Madrid at La Casa Encendida de Madrid on May 27 2007, during the polipoetry festival Yuxtaposiciones, and presented by the writer Leopoldo Alas. In March 2008 the venue La Enana Marrón in Madrid held a partial retrospective of Arrieta's filmography, screening his most outstanding works.
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Katherine Black
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Katherine Louise Black was born in New York City, April 9, 1984 and raised in the Westchester Suburbs. She has a Bachelor's degree in Theater and Drama with a Dance minor from Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont in 2007. She is currently studying at Penny Templeton Studio where she has completed the Advanced On Camera and Script Analysis classes and is presently taking Penny Templeton's Master Class. Katherine has a speech disability but acting has helped her overcome this obstacle. "When I get adjustments in class or during rehearsal, it enables me to transcend the challenges when I am on stage or in front of the camera." She loves to immerse herself in her roles and explore the character's process. She is also an experienced dancer and has performed with various dance groups. She says, "When I dance, it feels like I am performing sign language with movement so people can understand the story." Since 2010, she has been focused more on her acting training.
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Virginia Leith
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Leith (October 15, 1925 - November 4, 2019) was an American film and television actress.
Leith starred in a few films, with her most productive period coming in the 1950s. Her debut in 1953 was also the first film directed by Stanley Kubrick, a self-financed art house film, Fear and Desire. She signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox in 1954 and had leading roles in films such as On the Threshold of Space, Toward the Unknown, Violent Saturday and opposite Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward in the crime drama A Kiss Before Dying.
She left show business following her 1960 marriage to actor Donald Harron. After her divorce from Harron, in the 1970s Leith resumed her career and appeared in a few films and on television shows, including Starsky and Hutch, Barnaby Jones, and Baretta. She left the screen again in the early 1980s. Her most recognizable role may have been that of a decapitated woman whose head is kept alive in The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
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Alexandre Tharaud
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Alexandre Tharaud (born 9 December 1968) is a French pianist. He is active on the concert stage and has released a large and diverse discography.
Born in Paris, Tharaud discovered the music scene through his mother who was a dance teacher at the Opéra de Paris, and his father, an amateur director and singer of operettas. Tharaud thus appeared as a child in theatres around northern France, where the family spent many weekends. His grandfather was a violinist in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. At the initiative of his parents, Alexandre started his piano studies at the age of five, and he entered Conservatory of the 14th Arrondissement, where his teacher was Carmen Taccon-Devenat, a student of Marguerite Long.
He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 14 where he won first prize for piano in the class of Germaine Mounier when he was 17 years old. With Theodor Paraskivesco, he mastered the piano, and he sought and received advice from Claude Helffer, Leon Fleisher and Nikita Magaloff. In 1987, he won third prize at the Maria Canals International Competition in Barcelona and, a year later, the Senigallia Competition in Italy. In 1989, he was awarded 2nd prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. His career developed quickly in Europe as well as in North America and Japan.
In 2009, he took part in a show devoted to Erik Satie with actor François Morel. Alongside the singer Juliette, he organised a Satie Day at the Cité de la musique, recorded for France Télévisions. He has also worked with the French composer Thierry Pécou, performing the première of his first piano concerto in October 2006 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and later recording it.
In 2012, Tharaud took part in the French film Amour by Michael Haneke where he played himself, alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert, although he said that it would not be the start of a film career for him.
The New York Times described his Bach playing at a recital in 2005 as "crisply articulated and vividly etched".
In 2015 Tharaud starred as the central performer at the Prinsengrachtconcert in Amsterdam.
Following Piano intime: conversations avec Nicolas Southon (Philippe Rey, 2013), in 2017 Tharaud published a second book entitled Montrez-moi vos mains (Show me your hands) (Grasset, 2017), in which he recounts his career, methods of working, relationships with colleagues, variations in audiences around the world, and his personal feelings about a musician's life. ...
Source: Article "Alexandre Tharaud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
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Sammo Hung Kam-Bo (Chinese: 洪金寶, born Hung Kam-Bo, 7 January 1952) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, producer and director, known for his work in many kung fu films and Hong Kong action cinema. He has been a fight choreographer for, amongst others, Jackie Chan, King Hu, and John Woo. Hung is one of the pivotal figures who spearheaded the Hong Kong New Wave movement of the 1980s, helped reinvent the martial arts genre and started the vampire-like Jiang Shi genre. He is widely credited with assisting many of his compatriots, giving them their starts in the Hong Kong film industry, by casting them in the films he produced, or giving them roles in the production crew. In East Asia, it is common for people to address their elders or influential people with familial nouns as a sign of familiarity and respect. Jackie Chan, for example, is often addressed as "Dai Goh", meaning Big Brother. Hung was also known as "Dai Goh", until the filming of Project A, which featured both actors. As Hung was the eldest of the kung fu "brothers", and the first to make a mark on the industry, he was given the nickname "Dai Goh Dai", meaning, Big, Big Brother or Biggest Big Brother.
Was a member of the"Seven Little Fortunes" in Yu Jim-Yuen's China Drama Academy's Peking Opera School.
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Godfred Orindeod
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Alfridus Godfred Eon, known as Godfred Orindeod, is an Indonesian actor, architect, and martial artist. Godfred is a former Tarung Derajat athlete. He made his acting debut in the film The Raid, which was released in Indonesia in 2012. Throughout his acting career, he has frequently appeared in action films. He gained widespread attention after starring as the lead in the film Kaka Boss (2024).
As an architect, Godfred has worked on interior design projects, one of which earned the Best Interior Design Award from Unilever. He has also worked on several interior design projects for government ministry offices. Godfred has a strong background in martial arts, specifically in Tarung Derajat. He won a gold medal at the 2004 National Sports Week (PON), representing the East Java contingent. Currently, he serves as a Tarung Derajat coach. He was also appointed as part of the Competition and Refereeing Division of the Tarung Derajat Sports Family in Jakarta for the 2016 term.
Godfred ventured into acting by starring in the action film The Raid. During the casting test, Godfred accidentally hit Iko Uwais, causing Uwais' right kneecap to shift. Throughout his acting career, Godfred has frequently starred in action films. He gained significant recognition after playing the lead role in the musical comedy-drama film Kaka Boss in 2024.
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