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Paul Bassett

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Paul Bassett Davies, also known as Paul Bassett, is a British actor and writer. Davies' writing credits include Spitting Image; Alas Smith and Jones; Rory Bremner; Jasper Carrot; Brogue Male; KYTV; Hello Mum; Up Your News; Midweek on BBC Radio 4; News Huddlines and At Home with the Hardys (with Jeremy Hardy). His awards include Best Film at New York Film and Video Festival and IVCA Best Script award. He has also scripted music videos for, among many others, Kate Bush and Ken Russell. Davies was a scriptwriter for The Magic Roundabout film and Grass Roots. Davies appeared as a performer in the following shows: Unnatural Acts, At Home with the Hardys, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, and The Long Hot Satsum. Davies is the author of three novels under the name of Paul Bassett Davies. Utter Folly: A High Comedy of Bad Manners was self-published in 2012 and his second novel, Dead Writers In Rehab was published through the crowdfunding online publishing platform, Unbound, in 2017. Stone Heart Deep was published in 2021. Source: Article "Paul B. Davies" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Archen Aydin

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Joong Archen Aydin is an actor, singer and model under GMMTV. He moved to Turkey at the age of eight with his mother and stepfather and lived there until he was sixteen. Joong then came back to Thailand to finish his education. He started study Creative Media Design at Stamford International University before changing majors, and is currently attending the School of Communication Arts at Bangkok University, majoring in Broadcasting and Streaming Media Production. Joong is a former member of boy group "OXQ" under Motive Village and boy group "Insight Rookies" under Insight Entertainment. On September 12 2021, Joong announced on his Instagram that he would be joining GMMTV as one of their artists. He made his acting debut in 2019 with a main role in the series "2 Moons 2".
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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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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his leading performances in 500 Days of Summer (2009) and 50/50 (2011). He is the founder of the online media platform HitRecord whose projects such as HitRecord on TV (2014–15) and Create Together (2020) won him two Primetime Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Interactive Program. Born in Los Angeles to a Jewish family, Gordon-Levitt began his acting career as a child, appearing in the films A River Runs Through It (1992), Holy Matrimony (1994), and Angels in the Outfield (1994), which earned him a Young Artist Award and a Saturn Award nomination. He played the role of Tommy Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) for which he received three nominations at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. He had a supporting role in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and voiced Jim Hawkins in the Disney animated Treasure Planet (2002) before taking a break from acting to study at Columbia University, but dropped out in 2004 to resume his acting career. Since returning to acting, Gordon-Levitt has starred in Manic (2001), Mysterious Skin (2004), Brick (2005), The Lookout (2007), The Brothers Bloom (2008), Miracle at St. Anna (2008), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Inception (2010), Hesher (2010), Premium Rush (2012), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Looper (2012), and Lincoln (2012). He portrayed Philippe Petit in the Robert Zemeckis-directed film The Walk (2015) and whistleblower Edward Snowden in the Oliver Stone film Snowden (2016). In 2020, he starred in the legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In 2013, he wrote and directed Don Jon, a comedy-drama film that was released to critical acclaim, earning him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. He previously directed and edited two short films, both of which were released in 2010: Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny and Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo. In 2021, he wrote, directed and starred in a comedy drama series Mr. Corman on Apple TV+.
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Helen Traubel

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Helen Francesca Traubel (June 16, 1899 – July 28, 1972) was an American opera and concert singer. A dramatic soprano, she was best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and Isolde. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, she began her career as a concert singer and went on to sing at the Metropolitan Opera from 1937 to 1953. Starting in the 1950s, she also developed a career as a nightclub and cabaret singer as well as appearing in television, films and musical theatre. Traubel spent her later years in Santa Monica, California, where she died at the age of 73. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Traubel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dani Mateo

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Es un periodista, actor, cómico y presentador español nacido en Granollers (Cataluña). Es licenciado en periodismo por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y ha trabajado como tal en diversas emisoras de radio como Onda Cero o RAC 1. En la televisión trabajó en canales como Paramount Comedy y TV3. Trabajó como actor en la serie 'La Familia Mata' de Antena 3 en 2007. Por el gran público es conocido por su faceta como cómico, presentador y monologuista. Participó en el programa 'Sé lo que hicisteis' de la Sexta como presentador. Actualmente trabaja en el programa de La Sexta 'El intermedio' junto al Gran Wyoming y Sandra Sabatés. También ha participado regularmente en el programa 'El club de la comedia' como monologuista. Desde 2012 presenta un programa de humor en la cadena de radio Los 40 Principales llamado 'Yu, no te pierdas nada' junto a David Broncano, Antonio Castelo, Lorena Castell, Cristina Boscá o Iñaki Urrutia entre otros. En el terreno personal, está casado con la actriz Elena Ballesteros desde 2010.
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Bruno Todeschini

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Bruno Todeschini (born 19 September 1962) is a Franco-Swiss actor. Todeschini studied at L'école supérieure d'art dramatique in Genève and after graduating in 1986, he joined the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, directed by Patrice Chéreau. He has since then been appearing on television (Les Rois maudits, 2005) and in films, many directed by Chéreau. Todeschini has a child from a previous relationship, a son named Romain, born in 1997. He is married to actress Sophie Broustal, with whom he has a daughter, Paloma, born on 6 June 2006. He is fluent in French and Italian. Source: Article "Bruno Todeschini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Loco Dice

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Loco Dice (born Yassine Ben Achour on 10 August 1974) is a German DJ and electronic music producer born and based in Düsseldorf. His family is from Tunisia, Loco Dice started his career as Hip-Hop DJ and rapper, playing support slots to performers like Usher, Ice Cube, Jamiroquai, Snoop Dogg and R. Kelly.[1] He has released records on labels such as Ovum, M-nus, Cadenza, Cocoon and Four Twenty.[1] He also compiled and mixed "Time Warp 07", a double CD featuring various minimal tracks. Loco Dice also collaborated with the cosmetics brand uslu airlines with whom he co-created a nail polish coming with a special music mix.
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Amber Tassel

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Amber was born in Hot Springs, AK but considers herself born and raised in Santa Fe, NM where her parents moved shortly after her birth. Her father, Denis Tassel, worked for the state growing up. Her mother, whom she credits with giving her the "acting bug", Julia Minesci, is an actress as well best know for her infamous role as "Wendy" in AMC's Breaking Bad. Amber grew up riding horses and hanging around at the barn with friends and spending time in her local theater. She considers herself shy but she she enjoys being pushed outside of her comfort zone with acting.
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Paulina Porizkova

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paulina Porizkova-Ocasek (born Pavlína Pořízková on 9 April 1965) is a Czechoslovakian model and actress. At the age of eighteen years, she became the first woman from Eastern Europe to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated swim-suit issue. She was the second woman (after Christie Brinkley) to be featured on the swim-suit issue's front cover consecutive times (1984 and 1985). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paulina Porizkova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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