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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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Paulo Avelino

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Paulo Avelino (born Michael Paulo Lingbanan Avelino on 13 May 1988) is a Filipino actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in the films Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa (2011), I'm Drunk, I Love You (2017), Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral (2018), Fan Girl (2020), and My Love Will Make You Disappear (2025). Avelino won Best Actor for Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa at the Gawad Urian Awards in 2012. He is also a three-time FAMAS nominee. He founded his own film company, WASD Films, in 2021.
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Wendee Lee

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Melinda Wendee Lee (born February 20, 1960) is an American voice actress.While she has done voice work for many video games as well as several episodes in the Power Rangers franchise, she is particularly prolific in the dubbing of anime. As of April 2009, with 223 credits to her name, she has more credits in this medium than any other English voice-over actor. According to her interview on the Magic Knight Rayearth DVDs, she started doing voices at school, and got in trouble for it. Lee is also experienced in ADR directing. Currently, both she and Kirk Thornton are directing the ADR process for Bleach. Her noted roles include Faye Valentine on Cowboy Bebop, Takeru "T.K." Takaishi on Digimon Adventure, Haruhi Suzumiya on The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Konata Izumi on Lucky ☆ Star.
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Viola Odette Harlow

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Viola Harlow was born and raised in the city of angels. Getting her first taste of the silver screen as a child actress, she juggled time between training her voice, exploring music & wrestling with her health. Her various autoimmune issues eventually evolved into a heart disease known as Prinzmetal. She doesn't feel her body and soul are quite comparable with this world...but she loves visiting and writing about the people here. Her music collides at the crossroads where tomorrow has forgotten yesterday.
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Tracey Corbin-Matchett

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As CEO of Bus Stop Films Tracey Corbin-Matchett is advocating for greater representation of people with disability in the advertising and screen industry. In 2023, she received her Order of Australia for services to people with disability and the arts. Her 25-year career has crossed social housing, women’s domestic violence services, including 6 years as the State Manager of Women’s Domestic Violence Court Assistance Program and the film and television industry, working with a number of industry services including Screen NSW, Event Cinemas and Women in Film and TV (WIFT) NSW.  Her advocacy work in the screen industry has seen her lead on strategies including Screenability and She Shoots, aimed at supporting women to work in camera and sound at Screen NSW and WIFT’s Raising Films Australia, supporting parents and carers to work in the film industry. Tracey is an Includeability Ambassador on disability employment to the Australian Human Rights Commission and a Director of Deaf Sports Australia and Northcott (Disability Services). She is also a member of the Gender Matters Taskforce with Screen Australia, Screen Producer’s Australia Respectful Workplaces Reference Group and TAFE NSW Creative Industries Taskforce
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Shin So-yul

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Shin So-yul (born August 5, 1985) is a South Korean actress. Shin began acting in 2006, and appeared in supporting roles in films and television series such as Hello My Love, Jungle Fish 2, and Penny Pinchers. Her breakthrough would come in 2012 with the popular cable dramedy Reply 1997. In 2013, she received acting nominations from the Baeksang Arts Awards and the Grand Bell Awards for her risqué role in romantic comedy film Whatcha Wearin'?, and became one of the hosts of talk show Talk Club Actors. Shin played the leading role in the 2014 daily drama Love & Secret. In recent years, Shin became recognized for her supporting roles in various television dramas.
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Olivia Munn

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Lisa Olivia Munn (born July 3, 1980) is an American actress. After an internship at a news station in Tulsa, she moved to Los Angeles, where she began her professional career as a television host for the gaming network G4, and on the series Attack of the Show! (2006–2010) before appearing as a recurring correspondent on the Comedy Central late-night series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 2010 to 2011. On television, she has taken dramatic roles, acting in both the Aaron Sorkin HBO political drama series The Newsroom (2012–2014) and the Jonathan Tropper Apple TV+ dark comedy crime series Your Friends and Neighbors (2025). On film, she has taken leading roles in The Predator (2018), Buddy Games (2019), Love Wedding Repeat (2020), and Violet (2021) with supporting roles in Big Stan (2007), Date Night (2010), Magic Mike (2012), Deliver Us from Evil (2014), Mortdecai (2015), Office Christmas Party (2016), and Ride Along 2 (2016). She portrayed Psylocke in the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and voiced a role in The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017). She married comedian John Mulaney in 2024, with whom she has two children. She is a vocal advocate for women's rights and has used her platform to speak out against anti-Asian harassment. She was named one of Time magazine's Women of the Year for 2025. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivia Munn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Randy Rhoads

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Randall William Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style. He died in a plane accident while on tour with Osbourne in Florida in 1982. Despite his short career, Rhoads, who was a major influence on neoclassical metal, is cited as an influence by many guitarists and is included in several "Greatest Guitarist" lists.
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James Anthony Pearson

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Anthony Pearson is a British actor who lives in Glasgow. He was born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Pearson is best known for his performance as Bernard Sumner in Anton Corbijn's film Control.[1] He also stars in the 2009 British film New Town Killers, an action thriller for which Pearson performed most of his own stunts. Pearson first appeared on TV in the BBC TV series Jeopardy playing the central role of Simon. It ran for three series, with a total of 40 episodes. He also now stars as Ed in the BBC Drama Lip Service. Other notable Television appearances include:     Kidnapped TV (2005) as the main character     Monarch of the Glen     Doctors     Casualty     Holby City.     Lip Service. He stars in the music video for Come Monday Night, the first single from Stuart Murdoch's new project God Help The Girl. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Pearson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jacob Kressner

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Ernst Jacob Theodor Kressner (born in February 12, 2000) is an independent film director, writer, producer and sound designer in Stockholm, Sweden. Between 2018 and 2021 he studied a broad film education in high school and Sundbybergs Folkhögskola. In 2022 he finished his second short film "Water!" which competed in six film festivals internationally. In 2024 he started the production company "Förbannade Myror" ("Damned Ants") together with collaborator Lukas Sjögren. His third short film "The Ant" is made with the support of the Swedish film fund "Film Stockholm AB" and crowdfunding. He plans to make his debut feature film next. Jacob's films use allegories and visual storytelling to tell personal stories.
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