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Michiyo Kogure
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Michiyo Kogure (木暮実千代, Kogure Michiyo) (31 January 1918 – 13 June 1990) was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in nearly 200 films in a career which spanned 45 years, starring in works by Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and others. Film historian Donald Richie once called her "one of Japan's most versatile actresses, and perhaps the most intellectual of all in her approach to acting."
Michiyo Kogure was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from Nihon University in 1940. While still a student, she joined the Shochiku film studios and gave her screen debut in 1939. She worked for directors such as Hiroshi Shimizu, Heinosuke Gosho and Kōzaburō Yoshimura, before following her husband to Manchuria in 1944. Upon her return two years later, she starred again in films by Shochiku, but also Toho, Daiei and other studios, and repeatedly appeared in films by Mizoguchi and Shimizu. She received the 1949 Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Aoi sanmyaku.
In addition to her appearances in films and commercials, Kogure volunteered in charity work. In 1976, she was awarded the Medal with Dark Blue Ribbon.
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Boris Vian
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Boris Vian (10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. Vian's other fiction, published under his real name, featured a highly individual writing style with numerous made-up words, subtle wordplay and surrealistic plots. L'Écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) is the best known of these works, and one of the few translated into English.
Vian was also an important influence on the French jazz scene. He served as liaison for Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews (Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz) and published numerous articles dealing with jazz both in the United States and in France. His own music and songs enjoyed popularity during his lifetime, particularly the anti-war song "Le Déserteur" (The Deserter).
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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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Lily Cole
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Lily Luahana Cole (born 27 December 1987) is an English actress and entrepreneur.
Cole pursued a modelling career as a teenager and was listed in 2009 by Vogue Paris as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. She was booked for her first British Vogue cover at age 16, named "Model of the Year" at the 2004 British Fashion Awards, and worked with many well-known brands, including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Jean Paul Gaultier and Moschino. Her advertising campaigns have included Longchamp, Anna Sui, Rimmel and Cacharel.
Cole's first leading role as an actress was as Valentina in the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Her other film work includes Passages, a short directed by Shekhar Kapur and There Be Dragons, directed by Roland Joffé. In 2013 Cole founded impossible.com, a website that hosts wishes and requests for assistance
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Renate Krößner
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Renate Krössner or Renate Krößner (born 17 May 1945 in Osterode am Harz, Lower Saxony) is a German actress. She has appeared in such films as Nordkurve, Solo Sunny and Alles auf Zucker!. In television she has appeared on Tatort, Bruder Esel, Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall and Einmal Bulle, immer Bulle.
For her role in Solo Sunny, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1991, she was a member of the jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. In 1993, Krößner won a Deutscher Filmpreis Best Actress award for her work in Nordkurve.
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Julee Cruise
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Julee Cruise (December 1, 1956 – June 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and musician, best known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She released four albums and collaborated with a variety of other artists.
Cruise was known for her song "Falling", the theme song for the television series Twin Peaks. She also had minor appearances as a roadhouse singer in Twin Peaks, both the original series and the 1992 movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. She would later return for the revival series, Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), 25 years later, performing in the closing credits of the penultimate episode. She also featured in Lynch and Badalamenti's avant garde concert, Industrial Symphony No. 1, which was filmed and released on home media.
Other notable singles included "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" (1990) and "If I Survive" from her 1999 Wide Angle album. Her final album, My Secret Life, was released in 2011.
Cruise was also a stage actress and appeared on the Broadway musical Return to the Forbidden Planet and the bio-musical Radiant Baby in 2004.
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Georgia Lock
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Georgia Nathalie Lock (born 25 October 1996) is an English actress and presenter. She starred in the children's series Sadie J, The Evermoor Chronicles, and presented the CBBC magazine show Friday Download. Lock was born in Aylesbury Vale and grew up in rural Buckinghamshire. She attended Waddesdon Church of England School. Her mother began taking her to drama classes in Winslow when she was eight.
In 2010, Lock was cast as the main character in the CBBC television show Sadie J, which ran for three series from 2011 to 2013. In addition to playing the lead, she recorded the theme song, "In A Boy's World". The theme tune was officially released by Demon Records, in association with the BBC. A shortened version of the song is used for the Sadie J title sequence.
In 2011 she began presenting the CBBC entertainment programme Friday Download alongside Tyger Drew-Honey, Cel Spellman, Richard Wisker, Dionne Bromfield and Aidan Davis. She presented for 4 series from 2011 to 2012 before leaving the show.
In April 2014 it was announced that Lock had been cast as Bella in the Disney miniseries Evermoor alongside Naomi Sequeira, Jordan Loughran, George Sear and Georgie Farmer. In March 2015 it was announced that the miniseries had been given a full series order under the working title of The Evermoor Chronicles, with Lock set to reprise her role as Bella.
In April 2015 it was announced that Lock would co-present Michel Roux Jr's upcoming Disney reality children's cooking competition First Class Chefs alongside Evermoor co-star Finney Cassidy.
In October 2020, Lock published a poetry book titled, With Every Wave
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Franco Nero
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Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born November 23, 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including poliziotteschi, gialli, and Spaghetti Westerns. His best-known films include The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Camelot (1967), The Day of the Owl (1968), The Mercenary (1968), Battle of Neretva (1969), Tristana (1970), Compañeros (1970), Confessions of a Police Captain (1971), The Fifth Cord (1971), High Crime (1973), Street Law (1974), Keoma (1976), Hitch-Hike (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981), Die Hard 2 (1990), Letters to Juliet (2010), Cars 2 (2011), and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017).
Nero has had a long relationship with Vanessa Redgrave, which began during the filming of Camelot. They were married in 2006, and are the parents of the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero.
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Julianna McCarthy
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Julianna McCarthy (born August 17, 1929) is an American actress. McCarthy was an original cast member of the soap opera The Young and the Restless, starring as matriarch Liz Foster from 1973 to 1982. She reprised the role in 1984,1985-86,1993, 2003-2004, and 2008. She returned for her final appearance in the role in June, 2010.
McCarthy has also appeared in motion pictures as diverse as The Last American Virgin, The Distinguished Gentleman, The Frighteners, Starship Troopers and Ted Bundy.
She had a recurring role as Mila in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, appearing in the episodes "Improbable Cause", "The Dogs of War" and the final episode, "What You Leave Behind". McCarthy also had recurring roles in Paradise and Dark Shadows.
McCarthy was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. She married actor Michael Constantine in Erie, Pennsylvania on October 5, 1953. They had 2 children together: Thea Eileen and Brendan Neil. The marriage ended in divorce in 1969.
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Lady Lamb
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Aly Spaltro, better known by her stage name Lady Lamb (formerly called Lady Lamb the Beekeeper) is an American songwriter and musician. Spaltro first began writing music in 2007 while working at Bart & Greg's DVD Explosion, the local video rental store in her hometown of Brunswick, Maine. She is a Brunswick High School graduate. Spaltro worked the closing shift, and would experiment with and record music all night into the morning. The first Lady Lamb recordings were home recordings distributed in handmade packages to the local Bullmoose Record Store in Brunswick, Maine.
In 2010, Spaltro moved to Brooklyn, New York. In 2012, Spaltro met producer Nadim Issa and recorded her debut studio record, Ripely Pine at Let Em In Music in Gowanus, Brooklyn. It was released February 19, 2013 on Brooklyn's Ba Da Bing Records.
In 2014, Spaltro recorded and co-produced her sophomore studio album, After, with Nadim Issa at Let Em In Music. Late that same year, Spaltro signed with Mom + Pop Music and released the album After on March 3, 2015. In December 2016 she released the seven track EP "Tender Warriors Club".
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