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Valerie Marron
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Valerie Marron was born Valerie Merians on October 22, 1955. She was the daughter of Ron Merians, who ran and owned the hugely popular and successful music bar the Joyous Lake in Woodstock, New York from 1970 to 1979. Marron's parents divorced when she was three years old and her mother subsequently remarried. Alas, Valerie's stepfather started abusing her from the age of six. Marron was shipped off to a boarding school at age fourteen. She eventually ran away at age sixteen and headed for Manhattan, where she wound up living on the streets.
After making her hardcore movie debut for Eduardo Cemano, Valerie went on to act in a handful of explicit adult features made throughout the early to mid-1970's. During this time Marron not only hung out at such music clubs as CBGB and Max's Kansas City, but also dated Mickey Ruskin, who ran and owned both Max's Kansas City and the Ninth Circle Steak House. Valerie quit the whole porn scene circa 1975 to focus instead on making music by writing and singing her own songs. Marron eventually started dating singer, songwriter, music producer, and bass guitarist Felix Pappalardi. Valerie's relationship with Pappalardi came to an abrupt and tragic end after Pappalardi was shot dead on April 17, 1983 by his jealous estranged wife Gail Collins. In the wake of this unfortunate incident Marron had issues with drugs and depression.
Valerie fortunately was able to surmount her drug problems in 1986. Her father Ron Merians died from a brain aneurysm at age 55 in 1989. Moreover, Marron suffered from several serious illnesses that included liver failure and the loss of all her teeth. In addition, Valerie in her latter years lived in a two bedroom apartment with close friend and fellow adult film actress Andrea True. Marron died at age 52 on October 13, 2008 in Woodstock, New York; she was survived by a daughter.
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Faye Dunaway
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Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is a European-American actress. She is the recipient of such accolades as an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, and a British Academy Film Award.
Her career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. She made her screen debut in the 1967 film The Happening, and rose to fame that same year with her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Her most notable films include the crime caper The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), the drama The Arrangement (1969), the revisionist western Little Big Man (1970), an adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Three Musketeers (1973), the neo-noir mystery Chinatown (1974), for which she earned her second Oscar nomination, the action-drama disaster The Towering Inferno (1974), the political thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), the satire Network (1976), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, and the thriller Eyes of Laura Mars (1978).
Her career evolved to more mature and character roles in subsequent years, often in independent films, beginning with her controversial portrayal of Joan Crawford in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest. Other notable films in which she has appeared include Barfly (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Arizona Dream (1994), Don Juan DeMarco (1995), The Twilight of the Golds (1997), Gia (1998) and The Rules of Attraction (2002). Dunaway also performed on stage in several plays including A Man for All Seasons (1961–63), After the Fall (1964), Hogan's Goat (1965–67), A Streetcar Named Desire (1973) and was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her portrayal of opera singer Maria Callas in Master Class (1996).
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Carey Mulligan
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Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2025 for services to drama.
She made her film debut with a supporting role in Joe Wright's romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005), followed by diverse roles in television, including the drama series Bleak House (2005), and the television film Northanger Abbey (2007). Mulligan's breakthrough role came as a 1960s schoolgirl in the coming-of-age film An Education (2009), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Mulligan received further Academy Award nominations for her performances in the black comedy Promising Young Woman (2020) and the biopic Maestro (2023). She also starred in acclaimed films such as Never Let Me Go (2010), Drive (2011), Shame (2011), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Suffragette (2015), Mudbound (2017), Wildlife (2018), and She Said (2022). Her highest-grossing release to date is the period drama The Great Gatsby (2013).
On stage, Mulligan made her debut in Kevin Elyot's play Forty Winks (2004) at the Royal Court Theatre. She made her Broadway debut playing Nina in the revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (2008). She later returned to Broadway, starring in the revival of David Hare's Skylight (2015), for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.
Mulligan has been an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society since 2012 and an ambassador for War Child since 2014. She has been married to singer-songwriter Marcus Mumford since 2012, with whom she has three children.
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Joost van den Vondel
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Joost van den Vondel (1587 – 1679) was a Dutch author, poet and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are still frequently performed; his play Gijsbrecht van Aemstel (1637), for example, was performed annually on New Year's Day from 1637 to 1968, and remains one of the Netherlands most famed plays.
Vondel remained productive until a very old age. Several of his most notable plays like Lucifer (1654) - which was allegedly a source of inspiration for Milton's 'Paradise Lost' - and Adam in Exile (1664) were written when he was already over 65 years old, and his final play Noah, written at the age of eighty, is considered one of his finest.
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Shelley Regner
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Regner was born and raised in the Baton Rouge area, the daughter of Jan and Donald Regner, a businessman. She has a sister, Lauren Regner, who is also a performer. She is a graduate of Parkview Baptist High School, and the Louisiana State University with a degree in theatre. In college she was a member of a sorority. In Baton Rouge she has performed at the Theatre Baton Rouge in productions of Rent as Maureen and The Producers. While a student as LSU she performed in the musical Spring Awakening. In 2010 she played the role of Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors at the Ascension Community Theatre.
She performed in the musical Spank, a spoof of Fifty Shades of Grey, in 2014. Regner also performed in Bronies: The Musical, a show about My Little Pony. Regner played the role of Nadia in the pop-opera Bare in Los Angeles and she played the role of Cecile Caldwell in a musical version of Cruel Intentions. She recently played the role of Amy in Company at the Cabrillo Music Theater. Regner performed in the show American Idiot in Los Angeles in 2015.
Regner and Pitch Perfect co-star Kelley Jakle performed in a special concert titled Total Vocal at Carnegie Hall in March 2015.
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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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Elliot Page
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Elliot Page (born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor, producer, and activist.
He first became known for his role in the series Pit Pony (1997–2000), for which he won a Young Artist Award, and for his recurring roles in Trailer Park Boys (2002) and ReGenesis (2004). He then received recognition for his role in the film Hard Candy (2005) and won the Austin Film Critics Association's Award for Best Actress. Page had his breakthrough with the title role in Jason Reitman's film Juno (2007), earning nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He also earned praise for his roles in The Tracey Fragments (2007), Whip It (2009), Super (2010), Inception (2010), and Tallulah (2016). He has also portrayed Kitty Pryde in two X-Men films (2006, 2014), and had voice roles in the films Window Horses (2016) and My Life as a Zucchini (2016). In 2017, Page was cast as Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024). He provided the voice, motion capture, and likeness of Jodie Holmes in the video game Beyond: Two Souls (2013). He produced the film Freeheld (2015), in which he also starred, and made his directorial debut with the documentary There's Something in the Water (2019).
On December 1, 2020, Page came out as transgender on his social media accounts, specified his pronouns as he/him and they/them, and revealed his new name, Elliot Page.
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Serria Tawan
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Serria Tawan Bishop was born on September 4, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up on the south side of Chicago. Serria has a degree in finance from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. Tawan eventually moved to Los Angeles, California and was the Playmate of the Month in the November, 2002 issue of "Playboy." She has been featured in several "Playboy" videos. Moreover, Serria has appeared as herself on "Family Feud" and "The Girls Next Door." Tawan has acted in such films as "Dangerous Invitations," "Hector," "Blood Money," "Candy Stripers," and "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story." She has made guest appearances on episodes on the TV shows "Love, Inc.," "CSI: Miami," and "Everyone Hates Chris." Serria has worked as a runway model for such clients as Guess, St. John, and Fredericks of Hollywood. In addition, Tawan has done print ads for Coors, AT&T, and Yahoo. She's the co-author of the book "The Bunny Book: How to Walk, Talk, Tease, and Please Like a Playboy Bunny." Serria has a blue belt in karate.
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Kelly Vaughn
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As a gorgeous 5’5” European-American professional actress, model and host, Kelly Vaughn was born in Mississippi and raised in Tennessee, just like Elvis and Oprah! She always thought she had big shoes to fill! Television has always been her first love. One of her more recent appearances was in Series 6 of the hit TV show "The Office" with Steve Carell where she displays her quick improv skills, which she credits to her training at The Groundlings. She was a professional Cheerleader with the Oakland Raiders when she was discovered by David Hasselhoff. He then cast her as the life guard "Nancy" on a re-curring basis, on the phenomenal world hit series "Baywatch". She has also worked on shows such as "Las Vegas", "Raines" and "Saved by the Bell". Kelly was also picked by the producers of "Deal or No Deal" as a prize model for Bob Saget's "1 vs 100". Kelly recently played a news reporter in the film "Unthinkable" starring Samuel L. Jackson, which was released in June 2010. Some of her first speaking lines were to Nicole Kidman, Val Kilmer and Chris O'Donnell in the movie "Batman Forever" where she played a showgirl. She has also featured in such films as "The Brady Bunch Movie" and "That Thing You Do" directed by Tom Hanks. She has appeared in 36 US national commercials for clients including McDonalds, Domino's, Nike and IHOP. Furthermore, she played "Laura from Ohio" in Miller Lite's Cheerleader Super Bowl campaign. In 2006, Kelly ventured into hosting. She booked her first two auditions, and has since hosted shows for Fox Sports, The Outdoor Life Network and numerous national and international infomercials. Kelly moved to Singapore in April 2011 and was immediately cast in the movie "The Durian King" set to release in 2013. Her voice could be heard in numerous voice in Clear Shampoo, Axe Body Spray and Heineken. In 2012 she joined the Imagine Group where she not only narrated, but produced her first reality show "The Apartment".
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Ashton Kutcher
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Christopher Ashton Kutcher (born February 7, 1978) is an American actor, model, producer, and entrepreneur. He began his acting career portraying Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006). He made his film debut in the romantic comedy Coming Soon (1999), followed by the comedy film Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), which was a box office hit. In 2003, Kutcher moved into romantic comedies, appearing in that year's Just Married and My Boss's Daughter. In 2003, he created and produced the television series Punk'd, also serving as host for the first eight of its ten seasons. In 2004, Kutcher starred in the lead role of the psychological film The Butterfly Effect.
Kutcher subsequently appeared in more romantic comedies, including Guess Who (2005), A Lot Like Love (2005), What Happens in Vegas (2008), and No Strings Attached (2011). He starred as Walden Schmidt on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2011–2015). In 2013, Kutcher portrayed Steve Jobs in the biographical film Jobs. He also starred as Colt Bennett in the Netflix series The Ranch (2016–2020). Kutcher provided the voice of Elliot in Open Season (2006).
Beyond entertainment, Kutcher is also a venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of the venture capital firm A-Grade Investments. At SXSW in March 2015, Kutcher announced Sound Ventures, the successor to A-Grade Investments, managing a fund backed by institutional funding. Kutcher has also successfully invested in several high technology startups. Kutcher has investments in over 60 companies, the most prominent of which include Skype, Foursquare, Airbnb, Path and Fab.com. Kutcher has invested in five startups as of August 2017: Neighborly, Zenreach, ResearchGate, Kopari Beauty, and Lemonade.
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