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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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Raye Birk
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Raye Birk (born May 27, 1943, Flint, Michigan) is an American film and television actor best known for playing the role of Pahpshmir in the first and last of the Naked Gun movies. He was the main villain in Naked Gun 331⁄3: The Final Insult. He has also starred in Due South as the terrorist Francis Bolt in the Episodes "All the Queens Horses", "Red, White and Blue", "Call of the Wild Part One" and "Call of the Wild Part Two". He also had roles in the X-Files and Babylon 5. His other film credits include roles in Best Defense (1984), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Doc Hollywood (1991) and Star Trek: Insurrection (1998).
In addition to these roles, he had a frequently occurring role as the assistant principal on The Wonder Years; starting with the pilot episode, when he had a conference with Kevin Arnold's parents for throwing food in the cafeteria. While generally antagonist, a more sympathetic role on the show was seen in the award winning episode "Goodbye" where he confides in Kevin that he is Kevin's new math teacher as Kevin's hardnosed algebra teacher has just died. He was also on a pair of Home Improvement episodes as one of Tim's poker buddies. Raye appeared in several episodes on the TV series Night Court. He appeared twice on The Golden Girls, both times playing a wedding caterer.
Furthermore, in 1985, 1986 and 1992, he appeared on three episodes of Cheers as Walt Twitchell, a mailman who got into minor altercations with Cliff Clavin. Birk reprised the role of Twitchell in a 2002 episode of the Cheers spinoff series, Frasier, in which the title character (played by Kelsey Grammer) returned to Boston and re-acquainted himself with old friends from the bar. He played a recurring role on Coach as university band director Riley Pringle from 1989 to 1993. He also appeared in an episode of Mr. Belvedere as an accordion player.
In 2004–2008, he played Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Raye has been married to his wife Candace Barrett for 41 years. They have one son, Joshua, who is a professor of medieval history.
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Seiji Miyaguchi
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Seiji Miyaguchi (宮口 精二 Miyaguchi Seiji, November 15, 1913–April 12, 1985) was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman) despite the actor's confession to have never handled a sword before the role, Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. He died of lung cancer.
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Jude Mack
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Jude is a writer, actor and director working across TV, film and theatre. Jude is currently developing original scripts with a number of production companies, including a comedy-drama series with BBC Studios Comedy and an original drama series with Bonafide. They were recently in the Writer's Room for a comedy-drama in development with Sky.
They also co-wrote and starred in AMICABLE, a comedy pilot produced by Avalon for BBC Three and directed by Julia Jackman. The pilot was adapted from three critically acclaimed queer comedy plays which Jude took to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with writing partner Eliot Salt.
As an actor, Jude's credits include SUCH BRAVE GIRLS, I HATE SUZIE, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH and the upcoming PRIME TARGET and ANANSI BOYS. They are represented for acting by Deborah Willey at Independen
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Garima Sharma
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Garima Sharma Timilsina (गरिमा शर्मा तिमिल्सिना) is a Nepali actress & model. Recently she has been contracted in the movie "London To Paris" by Ghanasyam Giri & Nita Dhungana's "Hraswa Dirgha" She has featured in over 120 nepali music videos upto date. She is known for acting/performance in most of the popular Nepali Videos Naboli Naboli, Din Gin Gin, Euta Sapana Chha, Timrai Lagi Ho Bhane and popular Nepali TV show Sakkigoni.
She has collaborated in numerous projects with different well-recognised actors like Rajesh Hamal, Dilip Rayamajhi, Paul Shah, Akash Shrestha and many more. She is one of the youngest ladies or actresses from Nepal with such decent craze and fan following.
She can perform all kinds of script either in entertaining, sad or dance song, filmy concept, modern or in typical lok dohori songs as well. As her most of the videos are popular among the public, she is, nowadays entitled as "Music Videos Queen" & praised by most of the audiences and media for her diversity in charming facial expressions & awesome performance.
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Natasha Sill
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Natasha is an actor (SAG), writer, and director who was born and raised in the humble ole' San Fernando Valley. Her dad is an (818) native with Polish/ Russian roots and her mom is from London with Welsh/ Italian heritage. A Jewish and Catholic combo equals 100% guilt. Fancy that? Oy vey. Silver lining- dual citizenship (US & UK) and lots of fun accents.
Some of her recent credits include director Jason Woliner's upcoming series "Paul T. Goldman" (Peacock), "The Offer" (Paramount+), opposite Miles Teller & Juno Temple, directed by Dexter Fletcher, "The Shrink Next Door" (Apple TV+), opposite Will Ferrell & Kathryn Hahn, directed by Jesse Peretz and "Impeachment: American Crime Story" (FX), opposite Beanie Feldstein & Colin Hanks, directed by Ryan Murphy. She appeared as the lead in "Ratking" directed by Eric Colonna, which won the Grand Jury award for narrative shorts at the Slamdance Film Festival (2022). The film was also accepted and screened at the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, San Fransisco, New York Independent, and others. She's starting pre-production as a supporting role in the drama feature "Life After" (Practice Pictures). Training includes a BFA in Screen Acting from Chapman University and Dodge College of Film & Media Arts.
Natasha can also be seen in an Amazon Prime released comedy series opposite Annie Wood, a Blumhouse assoc. horror as lead & Pauline Chalamet's directorial debut. Some more credits include an unreleased feature as lead (Dir: Brian Robau, recently won HBO's Ibero- American Competition), a comedy pilot for Almost Cool Films, MEM's "Ways To" series, and voicing as several characters in "The Hunt", a comedy/murder mystery podcast. She has co-written, directed, and starred in a 13 and 6-part comedy web series. Several projects she has co-written and starred in have won multiple awards at various festivals. Additionally, she has appeared in national commercials, sketch comedy, professional live theatre, and musical theatre.
In actuality, this gal is just a humorous hippie. Her ultimate goal is to support and give back to those in need while also creating unique ways to tell compelling stories through her love of the arts.
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Bradley Pierce
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Bradley Pierce began acting at age 6 and has since appeared in various projects ranging from commercial and voiceover to television and film. He is best known for his role as Peter in the 1995 film, Jumanji, as well as voicing Chip in Disney’s original Beauty and the Beast. Other notable roles include voicing Tails in the Saturday morning cartoon series, Sonic the Hedgehog, and a starring role in The Borrowers with John Goodman.
Bradley also appeared with Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert in the TV film Cries from the Heart/Touch of Truth as an autistic child named Michael. He has guest starred on several TV shows including Life Goes On, Roseanne, Herman’s Head, Mad About You, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Touched by an Angel, Profiler, and Star Trek: Voyager. He voiced the character Nibs in the 2002 film Return to Never Land and has provided various voices for the Disney Interactive Studio RPG series, Kingdom Hearts. Bradley is currently producing films and a variety of digital content through his company, ZFO Entertainment, as well as in partnership with Lost In Time Pictures.
Outside of filmmaking, Bradley is the co-founder of Pierce & Luna, a cocktail community geared towards bartending education and liquor reviews. Along with his partner, Bella Luna, Pierce has begun providing bartending services and consultations for elite parties and festivals.
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Raúl Mendoza
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Raúl Mendoza is a Mexican professional wrestler, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he performs on the NXT brand. Mendoza made his professional wrestling debut on September 16, 2006. Over the next ten years, Mendoza would primarily compete on the Mexican independent circuit, most notably appearing for independent promotions Desastre Total Ultraviolento (DTU), Perros del Mal (PdM), and the International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), while also appearing for national promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah.
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Walter Carone
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Walter Carone, born July 19, 1920 in Genoa, and died May 29, 19823, was a French photojournalist, specializing in celebrity photographs and having spent most of his career at Paris Match. He was also one of the founding members of Photo magazine.
Walter Carone was born in July 1920 in Genoa, where his father was a neighborhood photographer. The family went into exile in Cannes, mainly because of "poverty and fascism". His father specializes in wedding and banquet photography. He trains his son in the technique, wishing him to take over. Walter Carone takes his first photos around the age of 15, with a Contax in 50 mm. Then photographs tourists on the beach, to sell them his prints. When the Second World War arrived, he closed his studio and became a traveling photographer. He meets a young woman of 16 who will become his wife in April 1942, and will be an actress under the name of Monique Artur. He is deported to Germany following a denunciation, but manages to escape before the border. In 1945, he went to Paris equipped with a Leica, two lenses and a few reels of film. He saves to be able to get a second-hand Rolleiflex, unobtainable during the destitution of the post-war period. The majority of his photos until the mid-1950s will be taken with a Rolleiflex. He is hired by the newspaper France Dimanche. It covers more than seven hundred topics in three years. For Roger Thérond, “Walter Carone launched neo-realism in photography. His photos of Doctor Marcel Petiot at his trial in 1946 caused a scandal. In 1948, he managed to persuade Miss Romania 1948 to allow himself to be photographed completely naked.
Noticed by André Lacaze, head of information for the future Paris Match, he was hired in January 1949 for the first issue. 1950, report on the actor Michel Simon with Catherine, his 28-year-old monkey, doing weights and dumbbells. In 1952, a series of 18-year-old Brigitte Bardot in a leotard and fishnet stockings on the roof of the building where she lives with her parents in Paris. 1956, Grace Kelly's wedding photos with Prince Rainier of Monaco. He then carried out around 200 photographic reports a year. In 1956 he became head of the photo department of Paris Match. In 1957, he was appointed deputy editor. He publishes twelve pages on Khrushchev in his dacha near Moscow. He married secondly and had two children (including Bruno Carone, musical artist, who was a member of the group Stinky Toys in the 1970s.)
In 1968, in solidarity with journalists who wanted to create a society of editors, he was fired with them, as well as Roger Thérond, by Jean Prouvost. He then created with Roger Thérond and André Lacaze, within the framework of Filipacchi publications, the monthly Photo, the magazine "professionals at the service of amateurs". He works for several agencies at the same time. He introduces Bettina Rheims to photography, which sometimes assists her. He was appointed editor in 1972. In 1979 he launched the magazine Photo Journal with Georges Bardawil, and published the book Le Portrait the following year with Chenz.
He died of cancer in 1982. In 1992, Serge Bramly devoted a book8 to him, a biography with many photos, including several unpublished.
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Meg Ryan
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Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress, producer and director. She began her acting career in 1981 when she made her acting debut in the drama film Rich and Famous. She later joined the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982.
She began to appear in supporting roles in films during the mid-1980s like box office hit Top Gun, achieving recognition in independent films such as Promised Land (1987) before her performance in the Rob Reiner-directed romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally... (1989) brought her widespread attention and her first Golden Globe nomination.
She subsequently established herself, both nationally and internationally, as one of the most successful actresses in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly in romantic comedy films such as When Harry Met Sally (1989), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), French Kiss (1995), You've Got Mail (1998), and Kate & Leopold (2001). Her other films include Top Gun (1986), Innerspace (1987), The Doors (1991), Anastasia (1997), When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), Courage Under Fire (1996), Addicted to Love (1997), City of Angels (1998), Proof of Life (2000), Against the Ropes (2004), and The Women (2008). In 2015, she made her directorial debut with Ithaca, in which she also starred.
In 1995, critic Richard Corliss called her "the current soul of romantic comedy." Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited Ryan as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
She was married to actor Dennis Quaid (1991-2001), and they have a son, Jack. In 2000, Ryan became romantically involved with actor Russell Crowe while working on their film Proof of Life. In January 2006, Ryan adopted a 14-month-old girl from China whom she named Daisy True. She was in a relationship with American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp (2010-2014). They reunited in 2017, and announced their engagement on November 8, 2018. In October 2019, it was reported that Ryan had ended their engagement.
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