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Princess Julia
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Princess Julia was born in Hackney and gained a name in the 1980s as one of the original Blitz Kids; a social scene from London's nightlife. She was a core member of the group who frequented Steve Strange and Rusty Egan's Blitz Club and contributed to the proliferation of flamboyant, glamorous and individual styles in club culture. Her DJing career initially began working at The Wag, Queer Nation and Kinky Gerlinky, and more recently for the likes of Gareth Pugh, Tate Modern and Vivienne Westwood.
Princess Julia has also held positions as the editor-at-large at GQ Style and music editor at i-D magazine and regularly contributes to Ponystep, QX and other online and print publications.
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Vicky Hall
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Vicky Hall is a semi-retired British actress best known for her roles as a series regular in BBC medical drama Bodies and Channel 4 comedy drama Teachers. In 2019, Hall swapped careers to become an A&E nurse in the NHS. She appears in Ken Loach's 2019 movie Sorry We Missed You as an A&E nurse and was tasked with designing the hospital set and dressing the extras up to look like patients in need of medical care. She returned to TV in 2022 with a recurring semi-regular role in Doctors as a Board of Health inspector.
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Jon Lord
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John Douglas Lord (9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012) was an English keyboardist and composer. In 1968, Lord co-founded the hard rock band Deep Purple, and he became regarded as its leader in the early years. Lord performed on most of the band's most popular songs; he and drummer Ian Paice were the only continuous presence in the band between 1968 and 1976, and also from when it was re-established in 1984, until Lord's retirement in 2002. He also spent time in the bands Whitesnake, Paice Ashton Lord, the Artwoods, the Flower Pot Men and Santa Barbara Machine Head.
Lord became known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple. His distinctive organ playing during Deep Purple's hard rock period was essential to the band's signature heavy sound and contributed to the early development of heavy metal. On 11 November 2010, he was inducted as an Honorary Fellow of Stevenson College in Edinburgh, Scotland. On 15 July 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree at De Montfort Hall by the University of Leicester. Lord was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 8 April 2016 as a member of Deep Purple.
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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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Stockard Channing
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Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American actress. Her accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award.
Channing played Betty Rizzo in the film Grease (1978) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing (1999–2006). She also originated the role of Ouisa Kittredge in the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of Separation; the 1993 film version earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Channing won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and won Emmy Awards for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, both in 2002. She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2005 for her role in Jack. Her film appearances include The Fortune (1975), The Big Bus (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978), Heartburn (1986), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), Up Close & Personal (1996), Practical Magic (1998), and Woody Allen's Anything Else (2003). She also played the recurring role of Veronica Loy on the CBS drama The Good Wife (2012–16).
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Bianca Andrade
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Boca Rosa or Bianca Andrade , is a Brazilian digital influencer , businesswoman , YouTuber , creative director , actress and presenter . Bianca was born and raised in the Maré community , in Rio de Janeiro , where she lived until she was 20 years old. As a teenager , she took a makeup course at SENAC and created a blog about the subject. She worked as a waitress , waitress and taught children to buy a camera and continue her YouTube project . [ 3 ] In May 2020, she started living in a rented mansion, located in São Paulo . She also earned several million subscribers on YouTube by posting beauty vlogs. She is also known online as Boca Rosa. She kicked off her social media career in 2011 by registering for both Twitter and YouTube. She graduated from a makeup school in Senac. She was listening to music via YouTube one day when she stumbled across a makeup tutorial which led her to become a makeup tutorial YouTuber. She launched the beauty lines Boca Rosa Hair feat. Cadiveu and Boca Rosa Beauty by Payot . She was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro. She has a son with Fred Desimpedidos . She is Brazilian beauty blogger and vlogger.
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Rika Dialina
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Rika Dialina (Greek: Ρίκα Διαλυνά; born Eirini Dialinna; 8 August 1931) is a Greek actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Star Hellas 1954 and then represented her country at Miss Universe 1954 in Long Beach, California.
Diallina, along with Miss Korea, Pu Rak Hi, were denied entry into the U.S. because of their alleged Communist affiliations. Dialina was disqualified from obtaining a U.S. visa for allegedly illustrating a book on Communism. In her place went first runner up, Effie Androulakakis, who won the Miss Friendship' award. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles intervened in Dialina's case and she was able to obtain a temporary entry permit. She arrived just a few days before the event, making the top 16 finalists. Effie Androulakakis was asked to remain in the competition as Miss Crete but she declined, stating that Dialina was "the choice the people of my country to represent them here." Dialina got married while in the U.S. and remained in the country.
In 2002 her artwork was put on display at the Benedictine Art Awards, her work being one of the 40 to make the Park Avenue Art Gallery out of 2000 that participated in the event.
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Sonny Chiba
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Sonny Chiba (born January 23, 1939 - August 19, 2021), also known as Shin'ichi Chiba, was a Japanese actor and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience. Born in Fukuoka, Chiba played a variety of sports in high school, including baseball and volleyball. He also practiced gymnastics and participated at the National Sports Festival of Japan in his third year. When he was a university student, he learned martial arts, earning a black belt in Kyokushin Karate in 1965 and later receiving a fourth degree in 1984.
Chiba's career began in the 1960s, when he starred in two tokusatsu superhero shows. In his first role, he replaced Susumu Wajima as the main character Kōtarō Ran/Seven Color Mask in Seven Color Mask (Nana-iro Kamen) in the second half of the series. However, his breakthrough role was in the 1974 film The Street Fighter. Before retiring, Chiba had also appeared in a number of English language American films, including Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Fast & Furious 3: Tokyo Drift (2006).
Chiba died of COVID-19 complications at the hospital in Tokyo on 19 August 2021, at the age of 82.
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Sophie Thatcher
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Sophie Bathsheba Thatcher (born October 18, 2000) is an American actress and musician. After beginning as a child actress appearing in stage plays and guest television roles, she made her feature film debut in Prospect (2018). Thatcher had her breakthrough role in the series Yellowjackets (2021–present). She has since appeared in The Book of Boba Fett (2022), The Boogeyman (2023), Heretic (2024), and Companion (2025). As a musical artist, Thatcher released her debut EP, Pivot & Scrape, in 2024.
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Jimmy Urbain
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Jimmy Urbain (parfois crédité James Urbain), né le 6 décembre 1943 à Paris (France), est un acteur français.
Il fut surtout employé au cinéma comme enfant acteur dans les années 1950 et fait ses débuts, à sept ans, dans On n'aime qu'une fois de Jean Stelli (1950). De sa courte filmographie, on peut citer Chiens perdus sans collier de Jean Delannoy (1955) et son interprétation de Gavroche dans Les Misérables de Jean-Paul Le Chanois (1958). Il apparaît parmi les élèves du pensionnat dans Les Diaboliques d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955).
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