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Josefina Echánove
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Josefina Echánove is a Mexican actress, model and journalist. Echánove started working as an actress and then later became a journalist. Actress-journalist Josefina Echánove was born and raised in Guanajuato, Mexico. She came to fame with the release of the short film Laberinto in 1975. In late 1970s, Josefina worked in the Premios ACE award winning Drama Telenovela "La Plaza de Puerto Santo". She married lawyer Alonso Echánove, and together they have two daughters and one son. Their oldest son, Alonso Echánove, is an actor. Their daughters are Peggy Echánove and pop singer Marisol de las Mercedes Echánove, who is publicly known as María del Sol.
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Meena Kumari
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Meena Kumari (born Mahjabeen Bano; August 1, 1933 – March 31, 1972) was an Indian actress, as well as an occasional poet, playback singer and model. She was described by critics as a historically incomparable actress of Hindi Cinema. Though best known for her sensitive portrayals of struggling women, earning her the title "The Tragedy Queen", she starred in over 90 films that varied in genres, from traditional melodramas, mythological adventures, comedies, historicals and Muslim socials. At the peak of her career, she was the highest-paid actress, and set fashion trends for women in the 1950s.
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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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Kieran Hegarty
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Hegarty graduated from Queen's University, Belfast, with a first class honours in Celtic Languages and Literature.
After a brief period as a teacher, Hegarty joined BBC NI in 1983 as the region's first producer of Irish language programmes. Later an Irish Language Unit was established under Kieran's leadership, with many of the programmes being written by him.
The initial output was on radio but eventually expanded to television. A particular success was the Irish language learning series ‘Now You're Talking’.
He later went on to head the merged Education and Irish Units and at the time of his illness he was Head of Interactive and Learning, responsible for formal and life-long learning and new media, as well as all indigenous minority language output for BBC Northern Ireland – both Irish and Ulster Scots.
Hegarty chaired the Irish jury at the Celtic Media Festival for several years, and was also instrumental in helping to shape the development of the recently established Irish Language Broadcast Fund.
Pat Loughrey, BBC Director Nations & Regions, said: "Kieran Hegarty was a man of remarkable creativity. He was also delightfully understated and unpretentious in a media world full of melodrama and posture. His easy charm, his steadfast leadership and his friendship will be sorely missed."
Peter Johnston, Controller, BBC Northern Ireland, said: "Kieran was a creative, talented and committed programme-maker. He made an important and lasting contribution to local broadcasting and leaves a rich legacy of programmes, innovative ideas, friendships and happy memories."
Kieran is survived by his wife Caroline and four children – twin sons Lorcan and Ferghal, Colum and a daughter Eadaoin.
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Arthur Dignam
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Arthur Dignam (born 9 September 1939) is an Australian character actor, born on Lord Howe Island. He attended Newington College (1955–1956) as a boarder.
He is possibly best known for one of his early roles, that of Brother Francine in Fred Schepisi's The Devil's Playground (1976). While he has worked mainly in film and television, he has also worked in theatre, including musical theatre. He played Pontius Pilate in the Australian production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972–73, and appears on the original Australian cast recording.
His son is the actor Nicholas Gledhill.
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Albert Falco
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Albert Falco (17 October 1927 – 21 April 2012) was a French scuba diving veteran and champion of underwater conservation. He was one of the longest-serving diving companions of Jacques Cousteau, Chief Diver, and later Captain of the RV Calypso. He lived in France and was active in preserving aquatic ecosystems. He played several leading roles on Cousteau's films, like The Silent World (1956), World Without Sun (1964) and Voyage to the Edge of the World (1976). Falco was the author of a non-fiction book, Capitaine de La Calypso.
Source: Article "Albert Falco" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sylvie
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Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress.
The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg. She first appeared in French silent films. She was an actress known for Don Camillo (1952), The Shameless Old Lady (1965), and Le Corbeau (1943).
She was born on 3 January 1883 in Paris and died on 5 January 1970 in Compiègne, France.
She won the first National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1966 for her performance in The Shameless Old Lady.
Source: Article "Sylvie (actress)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Dean Tavoularis
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Dean Tavoularis (May 18, 1932 — April 22, 2026) was an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink's Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.
Although born in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Greek immigrant parents, Tavoularis spent his entire childhood and teenage years in Los Angeles, in the shadow of the Hollywood studios. He studied architecture and painting at different art schools and landed a job at the Disney Studios first as an in-betweener in the animation department, and later as a storyboard artist. In 1967, Arthur Penn called him to take charge of the artistic direction of Bonnie and Clyde. Three years later, Penn called him once again to design Little Big Man. But it was working with Francis Ford Coppola in 1972 on The Godfather that set the creative tone of his career. The Godfather Part II and The Conversation, in 1974, consolidated their collaboration, and laid the way for what was to be their joint creative challenge: Apocalypse Now, the film for which Tavoularis created a nightmare jungle kingdom, inspired by Angkor Wat. It was also on the set of Apocalypse Now that he met his future wife, French actress Aurore Clément. (Clément's role was eventually edited out of the final cut of the film, and only restored in the Apocalypse Now Redux version in 2001.
From 1967 until 2001, he worked on over 30 films and landed five Academy Award nominations for Art Direction, one of which he won for The Godfather Part II. For the 1982 release One from the Heart he recreated both the Las Vegas 'strip' and McCarran International Airport on the sound stages of Zoetrope Studios. The list of directors with whom he has worked includes: Michelangelo Antonioni (Zabriskie Point, 1970), Wim Wenders (Hammett, 1982), Warren Beatty (Bulworth, 1998) and Roman Polanski (The Ninth Gate, 1999).
Tavoularis died on April 22, 2026 in a Paris hospital of natural causes.
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Holly Dignard
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Holly Elissa Dignard (born 1 October 1979) is a Canadian actress.
She made her TV debut on the Sci-Fi Channel's hit series Outer Limits. Her credits include The Chris Isaak Show, Stargate SG-1, Voyage of the Unicorn, Stargate Atlantis, The L Word, Battlestar Galactica, Kyle X/Y, Eureka, Supernatural, Kill Switch and Polar Shift. She is one of the stars of the Canadian series Whistler.
Dignard has a production company entitled Jackal Empire Productions.
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Malavika Mohanan
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Malavika Mohanan (born August 4, 1993) is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Malayalam, Tamil, and Hindi cinema. She made her acting debut in *Pattam Pole* (2013), followed by *Nirnayakam* (2015) and her Kannada debut *Naanu Mattu Varalakshmi* (2016). She gained wider recognition for her performance in the drama *Beyond the Clouds* (2017) and appeared in *The Great Father* (2017).
Mohanan made her Tamil cinema debut in *Petta* (2019), followed by leading roles in *Master* (2021) and *Maaran* (2022). Her subsequent releases include the romantic drama *Christy* (2023), the historical action feature *Thangalaan* (2024), and the action film *Yudhra* (2024). She later appeared in *Hridayapoorvam* (2025) and made her Telugu cinema debut in *The Raja Saab* (2026).
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