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Celyn Jones

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Celyn Jones is a Welsh actor born and raised in Holyhead on the island of Anglesey. His father was a sailor and mother a baker. Aged 15 Celyn attended the Manchester Youth Theatre where he gained life long creative & personal relationships. At 18 he won a scholarship to the prestigious Oxford School of Drama where he received a strong classical training. Since graduating he has secured a reputation as a very talented and versatile character actor. On TV & Film he has worked with some of the most talented and respected Directors & Actors around. Throughout his career he's returned to the Theatre and achieved critical success with each performance be it playing a "Definitive" Tony Lumpkin in "She Stoops to Conquer" or in cutting edge new plays like Gary Owen's "Ghost City" which played in Cardiff, London and New York or in Kaite O'Reilly's powerful "The Almond and the Seahorse" where his performance was described as "Superb" "Brilliant" "Captivating and Masterful".
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Roxanne Beck Raye

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Screenwriter and author Roxanne Raye has been writing stories since she was seven. After stints as a singer in Nashville and animation voice actor in New York, her love of movies and television led her to Los Angeles, where her first script was optioned by an Oscar-winning producer. Roxanne went on to earn her MFA in Screenwriting at UCLA, where her honors included a Humanitas Drama Fellowship nomination. Credits include "Miss Famous" starring Kristen Wiig and the children's book "Caterpillarland," available on Amazon. Originally from Arkansas, she now lives in Los Angeles.
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Sylvia Anderson

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sylvia Anderson (née Thamm), born 25 March 1937 (age 74), is a British voice artist and film producer, most notable for collaborations with Gerry Anderson, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1975. Though co-creator and co-writer of some of their productions through the 1960s, Sylvia's main contribution was the development of realistic characters that viewers could identify with and become involved with. She usually directed the bi-weekly voice recording sessions, and provided the voices of many female characters, most memorably Lady Penelope in the Thunderbirds television series and subsequent films. She and Gerry Anderson married in 1960 and were divorced in 1980 following a 5-year separation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sylvia Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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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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Georgina Chapman

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Georgina Rose Chapman (born 14 April 1976) is an English fashion designer and actress. Together with Keren Craig, she is a co-founder of the fashion label Marchesa. Chapman was born in London, England, the daughter of Caroline Wonfor, a journalist, and Brian Chapman, a co-owner of the coffee company Percol. Chapman grew up in Richmond, southwest London. Chapman attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire. In her 20s, Chapman model-led in an advertisement for Head & Shoulders, a dandruff shampoo, and one for throat lozenges Soothers. Chapman met future business partner Keren Craig while they were students at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Chapman graduated from Wimbledon School of Art in 2001 and began her career as a costume designer. After graduation, Chapman appeared in various television shows and films.
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Nancy La Scala

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Nancy La Scala is an actress in film, television, and live theatre. She most recently appeared on the screen in Clint Eastwood's "Jersey Boys". Nancy has consistently landed roles alongside the best of the best in films like "Guardian", "In the Cut", and the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-nominated "Vegas: Based on a True Story", which earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for her performance as Tracy. The work just kept coming after she got her big break in the MGM cult classic, "Species II". From award-winning films (Courting Chaos, Best Comedy, Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival 2014) to award-winning plays (The Importance of Being Earnest, Producer's Encore Award, Hollywood Fringe Festival 2014), Nancy has a keen eye for great scripts, be it stage, screen, or television.  She became a familiar face on television from her numerous appearances on shows like "Criminal Minds", "Castle", and "Nip/Tuck". You may also recognize her thanks to a steady string of commercial roles (Acura, Macy's, Ikea, Pond's, Verizon). She had intensely studied her craft as an actress and comedienne in New York under Sheila Gray and Freddie Karamen at Carnegie Hall. In Los Angeles, she continued her studies with Karen Maruyama at The Groundlings and Gary Imhoff. In addition to her career as an actress, Nancy is also an accomplished model. At a young age, she traded her humble beginnings of upstate farm life for Europe and New York City, walking the runways for YSL, Givenchy, and Christian Lacroix, not to mention countless editorials for Vogue Italia, L'Officiel, and Marie Claire. Amongst her favorite photographers to work with was Helmut Newton as a 'Big Nude.' Their highly-praised collaboration can be seen on the introductory page of TASCHEN's Helmut Newton: Polaroids. Nancy is also a devoted animal lover; inspired by her own adopted pit bulls, she created Throw Your Dog a Bone, a line of high-end pet products.
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Corinne Cléry

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Born near Paris, and raised in Saint Germain-en-Laye, Cléry started her acting career in the late 1960s very shortly under the name 'Corinne Piccoli'. Her first important film was Joël Le Moigne's Les Ponettes with Johnny Halliday and famous DJ Hubert Wayaffe, whom she married at the end of the filming, aged 17. Cléry first came to prominence in the controversial movie Story of O (1975) (Histoire d'O). She also modelled for a noted cover of the French magazine Lui in which she is holding a huge copy of the book Story of O. Cléry is also noted for being the Bond girl Corinne Dufour in the James Bond movie Moonraker (1979). She also starred with the other James Bond actors Barbara Bach and Richard Kiel in the little-known movie The Humanoid. Clery also starred in the movies, Covert Action and Hitch Hike (1975) with the actor David Hess. She also appeared in Sergio Corbucci's Bluff - storia di truffe e di imbroglioni (1976) with Adriano Celentano and Anthony Quinn. Most of her movies, following Moonraker, were made in Italy in Italian. Description above from the Wikipedia article Corinne Clery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kelsey Asbille

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Kelsey Asbille Chow is an American actress. In 2024, Asbille starred in the lead role of Iris in the Netflix movie Don't Move. She has played Mikayla in the Disney XD sitcom Pair of Kings. From 2005 to 2009, she had a recurring role as Gigi Silveri on the drama One Tree Hill. She portrayed Tracy Stewart in MTV's Teen Wolf from 2015 to 2016. Asbille had a supporting role in the film Wind River and a recurring role in the television series Fargo and played the main character Monica Long Dutton in the Paramount Network western drama series Yellowstone (2018–2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kelsey Asbille, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Pierre Lesueur

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Pierre Lesueur, born in Clichy (France) on January 23, 1928, is one of the representatives of the famous group of Parisian climbers who marked the history of French mountaineering in the 1950s, with in particular the first of the face south of Aconcagua. During the week, while Robert Paragot repairs typewriters at Social Security, Pierre Lesueur cuts metal parts at the factory. On weekends, they meet up with the whole gang in Fontainebleau to climb the rocks or, better yet, hitchhike to Chamonix, with the heavy pitons made by Lesueur in their backpacks. “I was a fitter because my father was a fitter, I couldn't be anything else. I worked at night. I was watching stuff and didn't have much to do, so I was doing pitons because we didn't have a lot of money to buy them. This anecdote, told by Pierre Lesueur, is perhaps the one that best sums up the era and the state of mind that reigned, in the early 1950s, within this formidable team of Parisian climbers led by Robert Paragot. , Lucien Bérardini, Edmond Denis, Adrien Dagory and the Lesueur brothers. In 1950, Paragot and Lesueur climbed the north face of the Petit Dru by the route opened in 1935 by Pierre Allain, the master, trained like them at the school of bleausarde and already nicknamed "the Old", as if to signify the handover. With yet another good anecdote: “At Dru, I had old shoes and the sole opened in the Lambert crack. It had to be fixed with a wire. They are still fabulous stories! It was a good time ! » In the summer of 1952, ambitions were on the rise and Lesueur first took on the Walker on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses with his brother Henri, Edmond Denis and still Robert Paragot. Then the brothers go to Les Drus, on the Grand this time. They need two bivouacs to open the Lesueur route on the left of the north face. A few days earlier, Magnone, Bérardini, Dagory, and Lainé had successfully completed the first of the formidable west face. Les Bleausards are at the top of their game! Going on an expedition to the end of the world is the logical continuation of alpine adventures. In December 1953, the band of Parisian proletarians flew to Buenos Aires with the south face of Aconcagua in their sights. Here again, the trip is organized thanks to the funds of each other. We don’t even take a return ticket: “no need to waste money” wrote Paragot in Vingt ans de cordée (Flammarion, 1974). On February 25, after five bivouacs, Pierre Lesueur was at the top with Edmond Denis, Guy Poulet, Adrien Dagory, Lucien Berardini and Robert Paragot. The end of the ascent was a nightmare. After the last bivouac, the men are exhausted and the extremities are frozen. All except Paragot will be seriously amputated... For Pierre Lesueur, who wanted to become a guide, it will be the end of his career at high altitude. Pierre Lesueur, nicknamed "Lafleur" by his rope companions, will die in 2021 at the age of 94 in Étampes (France).
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Babs Olusanmokun

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Babs Olusanmokun (born September 18, 1984) is a Nigerian-American actor, best known for his roles in the films Dune (2021), Too Old to Die Young (2019), and Black Mirror (2017). He is also a multilingual actor, fluent in English, French, Yoruba, and Portuguese. He is a third degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and champion. Olusanmokun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1984. He moved to the United States to attend college, where he studied theater at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating, he began his acting career in New York City. Olusanmokun's first major film role was in the 2017 episode of Black Mirror titled "Black Museum." He then went on to appear in the films Too Old to Die Young and Dune. In 2022, he began starring in the Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as Dr. Joseph M'Benga.
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