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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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Edward Lee Cornett
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He got the "bug" in high school and continued on from there. He attended Ohio University for Theater and then moved on to CSU in Cleveland Ohio to earn a BA in dramatic art. He trained with J.J. Garry, Jr., artistic director of the Playhouse Square Association as well as Richard Oberlin, then Director of the Cleveland Playhouse. His acting passion and career was sidelined while attending Ohio University to earn his medical degree. However he continued to stay in "the game" by performing in "The Normal Heart" at the Cleveland Playhouse under the direction of J.J. Garry Jr with William Rhys, then Director of the Cleveland Playhouse following the death of Richard Oberlin. He currently works as an actor and emergency medicine physician.
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Buddy Holly
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Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. His style was influenced by gospel music, country music, and rhythm and blues acts. In 1955, after opening for Elvis Presley, he decided to pursue a career in music. After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, he chartered an airplane to travel to his next show in Moorhead, Minnesota. Soon after takeoff, the plane crashed, killing Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and the pilot in a tragedy later referred to by Don McLean as "The Day the Music Died" in his song "American Pie".
During his short career, Holly wrote and recorded many songs. He is often regarded as the artist who defined the traditional rock-and-roll lineup of two guitars, bass, and drums. He was a major influence on later popular music artists, including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, The Hollies (who named themselves in his honor), Elvis Costello, Dave Edmunds, Marshall Crenshaw, and Elton John. He was among the first artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 13 in its list of "100 Greatest Artists."
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Charli D'Amelio
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Charli Grace D'Amelio (born May 1, 2004) is an American social media personality and dancer. She was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, and was a competitive dancer for over 10 years before starting her social media career. She started actively posting content on the video-sharing app TikTok in late 2019, where she began posting dance videos to trending songs on the platform. She quickly amassed a large following and subsequently became the most-followed creator on the app.
D'Amelio made her feature film debut with a voice role in the 2020 animated film StarDog and TurboCat. Charli also stars in the Hulu docuseries The D'Amelio Show in 2021. Her other endeavors include a book, a podcast, a nail polish collection, and a makeup line. She is the first person to earn both 50 million and 100 million followers on TikTok and was the second-highest earning TikTok personality in 2019 according to Forbes. She is often described as TikTok's biggest star.
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Dong Yufeng
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Dong Yufeng is an actor and singer from Anhui, China. In 2007, he participated in the tv singing competition "加油！好男儿" and was placed 10th place in the Chengdu division. In 2008, he debuted in boy band HIT-5. He rose to fame through the reality tv talent show "Asian Wave" in 2012, where he competed against music groups from different countries.
Dong started his acting career in TV series "Private Park" in 2011. Since 2013, he gradually shifted his career focus to acting.
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Christine McBurney
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Christine was born in Brooklyn, New York, mainly raised in northeast Ohio, but spent many a holiday and summer back on the east coast where she fondly remembers entertaining neighbors on the stoop in Brooklyn, singing and dancing for an audience of women who leaned out of windows. In 2017, she discovered, unbeknownst to her, but suspected by many, her lower east side Italian heritage and the requisite loads of relatives that come with such a discovery. In 2021, she finally and happily landed back in NYC after two fruitful decades of theatre making and teaching and raising her son in Cleveland. The third time has been the charm.
While in NYC as a younger woman, she studied comparative literature and writing at Columbia University's School of General Studies while working at ABC Radio Network News. After a whirlwind solo backpacking adventure across Europe, it was time time for graduate school, so she mustered the courage to pursue a dream she'd put on hold for too long: to study acting. She received her MFA from Kent State University. She is also published author and a U.S. Presidential Scholar Teacher who has won grants, including a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, to study Shakespeare at The Globe Theatre in London, The Juilliard School, and The National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare.
Christine is also an award-winning theatre director and former artistic director. She is an alum of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Directors Lab West, Directors Lab North, and Cleveland Play House Directors Gym. She has continued her acting training with Shakespeare & Company, Dream Lab Studio, James Ciccone. and Anthony Grasso. She has taught at The Film and Media Arts School at Cleveland State University and Baldwin Wallace University Department of Theatre & Dance. She's an acting coach in private practice. She has completed one screenplay and is writing a second.
She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA & SDC (the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers).
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Charles Arnt
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Charles Arnt (August 20, 1906 – August 6, 1990) was an American film actor from 1933 to 1962.
Arnt was born in Michigan City, Indiana, the son of a banker. He graduated from Phillips Academy and Princeton University. While at Princeton, he helped to found the University Playes and was president of the Princeton Triangle Club theatrical troupe. He became a banker after he graduated from college.
In the early 1930s, Arnt acted with the University Repertory Theater in Maryland. On Broadway, he appeared in Carry Nation (1932), Three Waltzes (1937), and Knickerbocker Holiday (1938).
Arnt appeared as a character actor in more than 200 films.
In 1962, Arnt retired from acting and began to import and breed Charolais cattle on a ranch in Washington state.
Arnt died in Orcas Island, Washington from pancreatic and liver cancer. He was survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
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Claudio Castagnoli
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Claudio Castagnoli is a Swiss professional wrestler, best known for his tenure in WWE under the ring name Cesaro (shortened from Antonio Cesaro). Prior to signing with WWE, Castagnoli wrestled under his real name in Ring of Honor (ROH) and various independent promotions, including Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), and Pro Wrestling Noah (NOAH). Castagnoli is an accomplished tag team wrestler, being a two-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with his partner Chris Hero (as "The Kings of Wrestling;" their 364-day reign as champions was the longest in ROH history up to that time). As Cesaro, he held 7 tag team titles in WWE: a two-time WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champion, and a five-time WWE (Raw) Tag Team Champion. Castagnoli has also held various independent tag team titles, such as the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas, the JCW Tag Team Championship, and the CZW World Tag Team Championship. The Kings of Wrestling (the tag team he had with Chris Hero) were voted the 2010 Tag Team of the Year by Wrestling Observer Newsletter readers. He has additionally had success as a singles wrestler, being a one-time WWE United States Champion, the winner of the inaugural André the Giant Memorial Trophy at WrestleMania XXX, and a one-time PWG World Champion. When playing a villainous character, particularly in the United States, Castagnoli has been known to emphasize his European origin as part of his gimmick, proclaiming a superior intellect and fashion sensibility while regularly using moves such as the European uppercut. He gained a reputation for impressive in-ring feats of strength, and was called one of WWE's best and most underrated performers for much of his time there. He was even voted Most Underrated Wrestler in the world, for a record four years in a row (2013–2016), by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
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Amy McKenna
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is an Australian female professional wrestler better known by her ring names Alison Wonderland and Harley Wonderland. She currently works for the Australian independent promotions International Wrestling Australia, Newcastle Pro Wrestling and Riot City Wrestling.
McKenna began her wrestling career in 2007. She first trained at the Australian Wrestling Federation's School. Two years later, McKenna travelled to California in 2009, wrestling with various promotions and trained with Jesse Hernandez at the "School of Hard Knocks" in southern California. After returning home to Newcastle, McKenna began working closely with the professional wrestling school "House Of Free Fighting" as an assistant trainer under head trainer Adam Hoffman.
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Aleksandra Kurzak
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Already at the age of seven, Aleskandra Kurzak began her musical education with violin and piano lessons. She studied vocal arts at the Musikhochschule Breslau, later at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, where she was at the same time member of the Opernstudio of the Hamburgische Staatsoper. At the age of 21, still a student, the winner of numerous international competitions debuted as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. Between 2004 and 2007 she was member of the ensemble of the Hamburgische Staatsoper. At the age of 27 she made her debut at the Met as Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and at the ROH Covent Garden as Aspasia in Mitridate. In 2010 she debuted at Teatro alla Scala as Gilda in Rigoletto. Her repertoire includes roles such as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Maria Stuarda, Donna Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Nedda (Pagliacci), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Marzelline (Fidelio), Nannetta (Falstaff), Gilda, Adele, Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Musetta (La Bohème), Marie (La fille du régiment), Norina (Don Pasquale), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Violetta (La traviata), Rosina, Lucia di Lammermoor. She made her debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2008 as Rosina and sang also Adina, Susanna, Marie, Gilda and Violetta. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Kurzak.en.php
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