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Mykola Vinhranovskyi
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Writer, actor, film director, and translator. He graduated from the All-Union Institute of Cinematography (1960) in Moscow and has worked at the Kyiv Artistic Film Studio, where he played the lead role in Yuliia Solntseva's film The Tale of Flaming Years (1961). He wrote film scripts and directed the feature films The Squadron Turns Westward (1967), The Shore of Hope (1967), Duma about Brytanka (1969), and Klymko (1984) and several documentaries. Vinhranovsky gained prominence in the early 1960s as a leading poet of the shistdesiatnyky. He published the poetry collections Atomic Preludes (1962), A Hundred Poems (1967), Poems (1971), On the Silver Shore (1978), Kyiv (1982), With Warm Lips and a Golden Heart (1984), I Love This Woman (1990), From the Days Embraced by You (1993), and Love, Do Not Say Farewell (1997); several books of stories, including In the Depth of the Rains (1980; about the making of a film) and The Horse on the Evening Star (1986); the novel Nalyvaiko (1991); and, from 1970, several poetry books for children, for which he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize in 1984.
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Geoff Emerick
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Geoffrey Ernest Emerick (5 December 1945 – 2 October 2018) was an English sound engineer and record producer who worked with the Beatles on their albums Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and Abbey Road (1969). Beatles producer George Martin credited him with bringing "a new kind of mind to the recordings, always suggesting sonic ideas, different kinds of reverb, what we could do with the voices".
Emerick also engineered the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle (1968), Paul McCartney and Wings' Band on the Run (1973) and produced Elvis Costello's Imperial Bedroom (1982), among many others. He won four Grammy Awards for his work in the music recording field. His 2006 memoir Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles caused controversy for its factual errors. In 2018, Emerick died from a heart attack at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Joe Schimmel
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JOE SCHIMMEL has been equipping Christians with the truth of God’s word since 1987. His powerful testimony can be heard in his landmark documentary, “They Sold Their Souls for Rock n Roll,” which has been televised, viewed on DVD, online, and presented live around the world to millions of people. Schimmel’s calling is to carefully research growing trends and ideas that attempt to undermine biblical Christianity, having released subsequent critically acclaimed documentaries such as, “Marvel & DC’s War on God,” “The Submerging Church”, “Hollywood’s War on God”, and “The Kinsey Syndrome”. Joe is also the co-host of the popular video podcast The Good Fight Radio Show along with Chad Davidson, which airs once per week to an audience of millions of people worldwide. Parallel to the outreach of Good Fight Ministries, Joe’s ministry at his home church, Blessed Hope Chapel, continues to strengthen and grow families and individuals alike in their walk with Christ. To read Joe’s full bio, visit goodfight.org
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Reneé Rapp
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Reneé Jane Rapp (born January 10, 2000) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Rapp gained recognition for starring as Regina George in the Broadway musical Mean Girls (2019–2020) and Leighton Murray in the Max comedy series The Sex Lives of College Girls. She reprised the role of Regina George in the 2024 film Mean Girls and also contributed to its soundtrack.
Rapp released her debut EP Everything to Everyone in 2022, which was followed by her full-length studio album Snow Angel in 2023.
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Colby Strong
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Born and Raised in Salt Lake City, UT, Colby Strong began acting in local theatre companies in 2007. After gaining film representation in 2011, Colby has been doing theatre and film since. Colby attended and graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT with his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Acting in 2016. After Graduation, Colby worked on Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (2017) as Wally. Deidra & Laney Rob a Train premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2017 in the NEXT category. In October of 2017, Colby moved to Los Angeles and in just 9 months, he booked his first Series Regular on a Network Television Show. 'Blaze' in Hasbro's Power Rangers Beast Morphers on Nickelodeon in Summer of 2018.
Colby's latest projects include Cory in Mindy Kaling's HBO Max Comedy, 'The Sex Lives of College Girls' and Rory in 'The Prank', an Independent Film Starring Rita Moreno.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Colby Strong
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Annette Reilly
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Annette Reilly is an award-winning filmmaker and actor, known for her role as Diana Spellman, Sabrina's mortal mother, in the Netflix original "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina". Growing up in small town Alberta, she pursued her love of theatre with a BFA from UVic, both acting and directing once she graduated. Annette was eventually led to film in an effort to bring pressing social justice issues into cinematic storytelling. Her film "A Typical Fairytale" (which she directed, produced, and starred in), was released on Telus VOD in September 2018, was nominated for 4 Leo Awards in 2019, and has won an award for Best Art Direction.
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Michelle Alves
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Michelle Kristine da Silva Alves (born September 19, 1978, ht. 5'11") is a Brazilian model. Alves was a student in civil engineering at Brazil's Londrina State University prior to moving to São Paulo, where she pursued modeling. She is also a polyglot, fluent in Portuguese, Italian, French and English.
She was featured in the 2002 and 2003 editions of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, appeared in two editions of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and was also featured in their catalogs and their book celebrating the company's 10th anniversary, entitled Sexy.
She has been featured on more than 100 covers of major fashion magazines, including international editions of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, French, Esquire, L'Officiel, Harper's Bazaar, Amica, and Glamour.
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IU
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Lee Ji-eun (Hangul: 이지은; born May 16, 1993), commonly known by her stage name IU (Hangul: 아이유), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actress. She made her first television debut in 2011 with Dream High. She has won acclaim for her roles in South Korean dramas The Producers (2015), Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016), My Mister (2018), and Hotel Del Luna (2019). She has also starred in a Netflix anthology series Persona (2019). Lee's most recent work includes the 2021 film Dream.
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Ossie Davis
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Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. He may be best known for his roles in Spike Lee-directed films such as School Daze (1988) and Do the Right Thing (1989). Other films Davis acted in include The Hill (1965), A Man Called Adam (1966), Let's Do It Again (1975), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), Grumpy Old Men (1993), The Client (1994), Dr. Dolittle (1998), Dinosaur (2000), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, from 1948 until his death.
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