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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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Rahul Banerjee
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Arunoday Banerjee, known as "Rahul", (born 16 October 1983), is an Indian Bengali actor. He has worked in films and TV. Banerjee made his stage appearance at the age of three with his father’s (Biswanath Banerjee) theater troupe Bijoygarh Atmaprakash play entitled Raj Darshan. Since then, he has acted in almost 450 stage shows, with his father’s troupe and with Theatron. He is married to co-actress Priyanka Sarkar. His first film, Chirodini Tumi Je Amar, directed by Raj Chakraborty, was a box-office success. He has subsequently appeared in films including Love Circus, Shono Mon Boli Tomay and Poti Poromesshor. His television debut was in the series Tumi Asbe Bole. He has received a number of awards such as Anandalok Award for the Best Actor for his role in Chirodini Tumi Je Amar.
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Maya Karin
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Maya Karin Roelcke better known by her stage name Maya Karin, is a German-born Malaysian film actress, television host, and singer. One of the leading and established actresses in Malaysia's local film industry, she garnered wide recognition from the critics and public for her award-winning and memorable performances in movies such as Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam and Ombak Rindu.
Maya holds the record in the history of the Malaysia Film Festival for an actress with most nominations in the category of Best Actress Award and she's among few actresses to have won the award twice. Maya is also the first of only two Malaysian actresses to have won the prestigious Best Actress Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
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Steven Seagal
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Steven Seagal is an American action film star, producer, writer, martial artist, guitarist, and a reserve deputy sheriff.
A 7th-dan black belt in Aikido, he began his adult life as an Aikido instructor in Japan. He became the first foreigner to operate an Aikido Dojo in Japan. He later moved to the Los Angeles, California, area where he made his film debut in 1988 in Above the Law. By 1991, he had starred in three successful films, and would go on to achieve greater fame in Under Siege (1992), where he played Navy SEALs counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback.
However, his image became tarnished when both On Deadly Ground (1994, which he directed) and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) did poorly in theaters. During the later half of the 90s, he starred in three more theatrical films and a direct-to-video The Patriot. Aside from Exit Wounds (2001) and Half Past Dead (2002), his career shifted almost entirely to direct-to-video films (often low budget productions and shot in Europe or Asia). Between 1998 to 2009, he appeared in a total of 22 of these. At the age of 59, he finally returned to the big screen as Torrez in the 2010 film Machete.
He is also a recording artist and guitarist and the founder of Steven Seagal Enterprises. In addition to his professional achievements, he is also known as an environmentalist, an animal rights activist and a supporter of the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, and the Tibetan independence movement.
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Lori Nelson
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Lori Nelson was an American actress born in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 15, 1933. She began as a performer, dancing at the young age of 4, as well as winning a Little Miss America title. Many of her early auditions were unsuccessful. However, in 1952, she made it into her first role as Marjie Baile in Bend of the River. Many of her roles were large, but were mostly in 1950s B-movies. Today, she is acting sparingly, most recently in The Naked Monster. She costarred with Barbara Eden in the series How to Marry a Millionaire (1957–1959). However, she also had a well-remembered role as Mara, the Mayor's daughter, opposite Van Johnson (who played two roles) in the 1957 made-for-TV musical film The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a motion picture which premiered on NBC and then went on to be syndicated and shown annually on local television stations.
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Matt LeBlanc
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Matthew Steven LeBlanc (born July 25, 1967) is an American actor. He garnered global recognition with his portrayal of Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom Friends and in its spin-off series, Joey. For his work on Friends, LeBlanc received three nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. He has also starred as a fictionalized version of himself in Episodes (2011–2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received four additional Emmy Award nominations. He co-hosted Top Gear from 2016 to 2019. From 2016 to 2020, he played patriarch Adam Burns in the CBS sitcom Man with a Plan.
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Ethan Peck
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Ethan Gregory Peck is an American actor. He is the grandson of actor Gregory Peck and Greta Kukkonen, the elder Peck's first wife. In 2019, he played a young Spock in Star Trek: Discovery, a role he has reprised for the television series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Peck was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 2, 1986. He is the son of Stephen Peck, a former actor, documentary filmmaker, and Vietnam veteran who is president and CEO of U.S. Veterans Initiative, and abstract artist Francine Matarazzo. He is the grandson of actor Gregory Peck and his first wife, Finnish-born Greta Kukkonen. Peck attended private schools Campbell Hall and Harvard-Westlake in Studio City. He excelled in athletics and learned to play classical cello.
Peck began his acting career as a child, appearing in television shows such as That '70s Show and Gossip Girl. He made his film debut in 1999 with a small role in the movie Passport to Paris. In 2008, he starred in the independent film Tennessee, opposite Mariah Carey. He also appeared in the films Adopt a Sailor (2009) and The Midnight Sky (2020).
In 2019, Peck was cast as a young Spock in the television series Star Trek: Discovery. He reprised the role in the spin-off series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which premiered in 2022. Peck's performance as Spock has been praised by critics and fans alike.
In addition to his work on Star Trek, Peck has also appeared in the films The Curse of La Llorona (2019) and The Good House (2021). He is currently filming the upcoming television series The Book of Boba Fett.
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Paul Nicholson
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Paul Nicholson (born 10 May 1979) is a former English professional darts player who played in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won a major tournament, the 2010 Players Championship Finals, where he defeated Mervyn King in the final. He was also the runner-up to Phil Taylor in the 2011 Championship League Darts, and part of the Australia team which lost a sudden death shoot-out to England in the 2012 PDC World Cup of Darts final.
Nicholson also acts as a sports commentator and TV and radio pundit. He was nicknamed "The Asset", and was known for coming on to the stage with sunglasses, and was also known for his Wrestling-style walk ons, using the song "Club Foot" as his walk on music for most of his career. Nicholson had a feud with Phil Taylor during the 2011 UK Open, in which he supposedly "waved goodbye" to Taylor after beating him in a sudden death leg to reach the quarter-finals.
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Tenika Davis
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Tenika Davis was born July 16 in Toronto, Canada and raised in the small town of Newmarket, Ontario. It was at 10 years old, Tenika discovered a keen interest in public speaking and the performing arts, it was at that point she began entering various speech competitions and having her voice heard by audiences. It was also at this age that Tenika began intensively training in the highly disciplined martial art of Taekwondo, almost instantly she excelled and began competing at a national level, earning numerous gold metals, trophies and awards for her outstanding abilities. Not only did her training provide an excellent outlet for the enthusiastic and energetic youngster, it would also prove to be a fortunate precursor for the start of her professional acting career. Tenika Davis began her career as one of the finalists on the first season of the famed reality TV series "Canada's Next Top Model". After completing the show she signed with world-renowned top modeling agency Ford Models. Tenika's talent, determination and hard work allowed her to land her first lead role in the indie hit, 'Jumping the Broom' alongside Angela Bassett, Paula Patton, Loretta Devine and Meagan Good amongst many others well-known talents. Almost immediately after she was cast as Sara Suarez, the seductive action heroine in the successful 'Wrong Turn', horror movie franchise. Most recently she's been cast as Petra Small in Netflix's first original superhero-drama based on comic book series, 'Jupiter's Legacy'. Tenika has had the privilege to be involved in blockbuster films, television series and to work with major actors, directors and producers at a pace that very few young professionals have experienced.
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Angie Stardust
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She began performing at age 14 and was a transgender woman.
Stardust performed at the Jewel Box Revue and Club 82, both in New York City. She was one of the first drag stars to take female hormones, an act she was scorned for at the time, and either quit over or was fired for.
In 1974, Stardust moved to Europe, settling in Hamburg, Germany. There, she became manager of the city's first all-male strip club, Crazy Boys.
In 1983, Stardust performed in the Rosa von Praunheim's City of Lost Souls, a film that helped influence Hedwig and the Angry Itch,[2] in which she played the proprietor of a restaurant called the Hamburger Queen and a boarding house called Pension Stardust.[10] Two of her co-stars were Jayne County and Tara O'Hara. The film was first screened as part of a punk rock roadshow. Shortly after the film was finished, Stardust completed her gender affirmation with surgery to complement the hormones she had been taking for years.
Stardust founded her own club, Angie's Nightclub, in Schmidts Tivoli Theatre in Hamburg, Germany in 1990. By 1994, the venue was regarded as "one of the best places to hear free-form jazz." Stardust performed nightly until 1999 and came to be known as the Big Mama of Soul, as she was known for singing soul, jazz, pop, and musical theater standards. Annually since 2008, Angie's Nightclub has been one of the participating venues for Hamburg's Reeperbahn Festival. Acts have included Skinny Lister, Mo Kenney, Ezra Furman, Kristoffer Ragnstam, Andreas Moe, Leyya, Louis Berry, George Cosby, Vita Bergen, Joel Culpepper, Conner Youngblood, Inna Modja, Bess Atwell, and others.
In 2017, Angie's Nightclub was still "one of the most popular clubs of Sankt Pauli’s night scene," according to the travel blog At 30,000 Feet. As of 2020, Stardust's club is still extant and operates under the same name.
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