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Alexandra Neldel
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Alexandra Monika Neldel is a German actress, born February 11, 1976 in Berlin. She is known for playing the role of Lisa Plenske in the series Lisa's Destiny.
Born in 1976 in Berlin to Klaus-Eberhard Neldel, Alexandra Neldel graduated from the Realschule in Berlin-Steglitz.
She is doing an apprenticeship to be a dental assistant. She also works as a hostess.
In 1996, at the age of 20, she was spotted by an agent who asked her to audition for the television series The Rhythm of Life (Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten) and was accepted. From 1996 to 1999, she played the role of Katja Wettstein, where she appeared from episode 1072 until episode 1749.
In 1997, She posed for Playboy magazine.
But it was in 2005 that she really broke through as an actress, with the role of Lisa Plenske in the series Lisa's Destiny (Verliebt in Berlin). She had to get into the skin of her character using a wig, braces and glasses. She left the series at the end of the first season, with a three-hour wedding special. In the second season, Tim Sander played the main role, but the actress returned in mid-April 2007 to help the production, due to lack of audience. Then she leaves the series permanently.
She also made a few appearances in the cinema, notably in the film Autoroute racer, in 2004.
In 2006, she obtained one of the main roles in Zodiak, the German version of the French television soap opera Zodiaque. In 2008, she played in the police series Presumé Guilty, the role of a lawyer. For this role she received the Bavarian Television Prize.
In 2008, she played the lead role of Lena Berkow, a post-war woman in the 1950s in her brand new three-part TV film Die Rebellin.
From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra starred in a trilogical TV film: La Catin under the original name Die Wanderhure, La Châtelaine, (Die Rache der Wanderhure) and The Testament of the Whore, (Das Vermächtnis der Wanderhure) where she played Marie Shärer, medieval film with actor Bert Tischendorf.
In 2014, she played Verena Vermuth in the film The Forbidden Woman, based on a novel and true events. Alexandra plays alongside Mido Hamada (vo: Die Verbotene Frau).
In 2015 Alexandra starred in numerous TV films: Beauty and the Pilot, Beauty and the Boxer, Doctors Without Borders, as well as in the series Rosa wedding planeuse, where she organizes weddings.
In 2017, she starred in Allô pizza alongside actors Moritz Bleibtreu and Lucas Gregorovitz.
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Paprika Steen
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Paprika Steen (born 3 November 1964) is a Danish actress and film director best known for her performances in the films Festen, The Idiots and Open Hearts. Steen was the first Danish actress since Karin Nellemose in 1949 to win both Best Actress (for Okay) and Best Supporting Actress (Open Hearts) in the same year at the Robert Festival, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars.
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Monica Zetterlund
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Monica Zetterlund, born Eva Monica Nilsson, was a Swedish singer, stage and screen actress. In her late teens she sang with her fathers orchestra and Ib Glindemanns Big Band. She made her first recordings in 1957 and was discovered by Arne Domnérus 1958. Two years later she toured the U.S. with Thad Jones and Zoot Sims. In 1964, Monica Zetterlund recorded the critically acclaimed jazz album "Waltz for Debby" with Bill Evans. She made her film debut in "Gröna Hund" (1962). Her long career also included the song "En gång i Stockholm" ("Winter City"); a jazz ballad with which she represented Sweden in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.
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Ellen Hollman
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Hollman is widely recognized for starring as "Saxa" on the hit STARZ series Spartacus: War of the Damned and Spartacus: Vengeance, one of the most buzzed about shows in STARZ history. A seasoned jiu-jitsu practitioner, Hollman is also known for her serious ass kicking in major roles on NCIS: New Orleans as recurring antagonist/assassin "Amelia Parsons" and AMC's groundbreaking martial arts series Into the Badlands. Other credits include recurring roles on Ryan Murphy's series 9-1-1 on FOX, Navy SEAL Series SIX on A&E as well as Lethal Weapon and Hawaii Five-0.
Born in Michigan, Hollman was raised by her father Hart Hollman, a violist for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and her mother Julie, a master pianist. No stranger to the arts, Hollman spent countless hours in the Opera House and Orchestra Hall surrounding herself with classical brilliance. In her teen years, she decided to pursue a career in the arts herself, and moved to New York City. There, she studied at various acclaimed acting studios and honed in on her craft of choice: bringing to life a versatile array of characters on stage and on the silver screen. In 2004, Hollman moved out to Los Angeles. Within one year of being in LA, she started landing projects.
Aside from acting, Hollman is the CEO of Visual Impact Now, a non-profit based in Los Angeles. Visual Impact Now has served as a fundraising and awareness arm for their partner ONE SIGHT, to provide free eye exams and glasses to children and families who are unable to afford it. They have been involved with various high profile events including the GOLDEN GLOBES STYLE LOUNGE, COACHELLA, SUNDANCE, LA FASHION WEEK, and more. Their Host Committee Members and supporters have included Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine, Debra Messing, Malin Akerman, Shaun White, January Jones, and Taylor Lautner, to name a few. Over the years they have serviced over 7,000 LA youth with eye care and glasses.
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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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Esper Hagen
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Esper Hagen Andersen, der er søn af skuespillerinden Asta Esper Andersen og skuespilleren Paul Hagen, var elev af Gerda Gilboe og blev uddannet på Odense Teaters elevskole i årene 1968-1971. Han debuterede 14/9 1967 som Tommy i "Pippi Langstrømpe" på Det ny Teater i København. Han har siden haft engagementer på en række teatre og revyer bl.a. på Værkstedsteatret i Odense, Odense Teater 1970, ABC-Teatret 1972-73 og Det Danske Teater. I Rottefælden på Svendborg Sommerteater fik han i 1972 for første gang lejlighed til at prøve sit komiske talent. Det blev et gennembrud og i 1974 vendte han tilbage og gav dobbelrollen som kirke- og trafikminister Kresten Damsgaard. Særlig huskes Esper Hagen for sin rolle i "Matador" som den ambitiøse førstemand hos Mads Skjern. Siden har Esper Hagen lagt stemme til flere figurer i tegnefilm.
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Kendall Coyne Schofield
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Kendall Coyne Schofield (born May 25, 1992) is an American professional ice hockey player and captain for PWHL Minnesota and the United States national team. With the national team, she has won six gold medals at the IIHF World Women's Championships and the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. In 2016, she was the winner of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. In January 2017, Coyne was recognized as the recipient of the NCAA Today's Top 10 Award.
She has also been a color commentator for the San Jose Sharks. In 2020, she was hired by the Chicago Blackhawks as a player development coach for their American Hockey League affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs.
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Mervat Amin
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Egyptian actress. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Ain Shams University, Department of English Language. She began her artistic life through the university, where she participated in the university team and performed the play (Oh Tree of Tree) by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, and after graduation she became a professional acting as she presented the play (Airport of Love) with the artist Abdel Moneim Madbouly. It was discovered and presented to the cinema by the artist Ahmed Mazhar in 1968, when I participated with him in the film (Confused Souls), and from here I set out to the world of stardom.
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Boris Brunov
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Pop actor, outstanding entertainer, teacher of GITIS. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969). People's Artist of the RSFSR (07/12/1985). From a family of Russified Italian circus actors Brunos (at the end of the 19th century, Papi Brunos is known as an acrobat, a member of circus pantomimes). Parents of Boris Brunov owned many genres, but mainly worked on the wire (equilibrists) and like super-sharp arrows from rifles. At ten years old, the boy first entered the playpen in his parents' room. Over time, he mastered many genres: juggling, acrobatics, playing the concertina and xylophone. From childhood, the circus instilled in him a sense of publicity, ease, and relaxedness. In 1971, he graduated from the Higher Director's Courses, having received a diploma of stage director and stage show. Since 1976, he taught at the GITIS Variety Faculty (course leader). Since 1983 - Artistic Director and Director of the Moscow Variety Theater. Member of the jury of many All-Union and All-Russian competitions of pop artists. Vice-President of the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art and Design (International Union of Pop Artists). Member of a number of public organizations: Presidium of the Central House of Arts; Moscow City Peace Fund and others. Brunov was admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital due to a sharp deterioration in his health at the end of August 1997. A few days later, the artist became ill with his heart, and he was urgently transferred to the intensive care unit. However, all attempts by doctors to save Brunov were in vain. Brunov died at the 76th year of his life, not having lived four days before the holiday song prepared by him on September 6 at Tverskaya Square “Songs of Moscow”. The artist was buried on September 4 in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery (plot number 5).
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Bob Simmons
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Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1923 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man who worked in many British-made films, most notably the James Bond series.
Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, which included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.
When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role of James Bond. Simmons was also Connery's stunt double. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.
Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.
Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. He died on 21 October 1987.
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