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Anderz Wrethov

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Wrethov graduated from Musikhögskolan in Malmö in 2002. He sings and plays the piano and guitar. Already as a child, Anderz passion for music, performing and songwriting has been the main thing in life. He started up playing the guitar at the age of seven after hearing dad’s vinyl with Diana Ross and the Supremes. Some years later he began to take piano lessons and started to write songs with his older sister Elin. He soon had his first live show at the local music school in Vellinge, South Sweden where Anderz is born and raised. A couple of years later Anderz started up his first band, playing melodic hard rock and they soon won the attention from the local media with their own composed songs and powerful live shows. Later he also started to produce and write pop and dance songs and found a new way of creating music beyond his rock band. At the age of 16 Anderz formed a new band with a more funky pop sound, Mighty Nice and got his first record deal and released one album in Sweden and Japan. After graduating from the Malmoe Academy of Music, where Wrethov had studied guitar, piano and song, he got his first break-through as a producer and songwriter. Wrethov began his international career, with several hit songs in Scandinavia, UK and Germany as a result. Later, Wrethov established his name in Japan and South Korea by writing for the biggest J and K-pop stars, generating huge record sales and earning him several gold and platinum awards.
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Clara Henry

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Clara Henry, born on April 9, 1994, in Partille, Sweden, is a Swedish comedian, author, actress, and television and radio host. She gained popularity through her YouTube channel, which had around 395,000 subscribers as of May 2020, and has also hosted her own talk show on Kanal 5 Play. In 2015, she made her literary debut with Ja jag har mens, hurså?, a book about menstruation that has been translated into multiple languages. She was one of the hosts of Melodifestivalen 2017 and launched the podcast Konsten att vara with Gustaf Jernberg in 2018. Raised in Gökskulla near Landvetter, she studied journalism at Ingrid Segerstedt's high school in Gothenburg. She has a younger sister, Kimberly, and a younger brother, Christoffer. Her father is originally from the UK but has lived in Sweden for many years. She is openly pansexual. Henry began her career as a youth reporter for Göteborgs-Posten and started blogging at the age of 12. From 2011 to 2017, she was one of the biggest YouTubers in the Nordic region. She also had a talk show on Kanal 5 Play in 2013 and later hosted Häng med Clara Henry, where she spent a day with her guests rather than conducting studio interviews. She won Vlogger of the Year at the Blog Awards 2013. In 2014, she worked with SVT Play, interviewing contestants and guests during Melodifestivalen, and later became one of the main hosts in 2017. She also hosted the Guldtuben awards, recognizing Sweden’s top YouTubers, and won Vlog Channel of the Year. That same year, she participated in Valfeber, an SVT comedy show about politics. She was a summer host on Sommar i P1 in 2015 and worked with Musikhjälpen, traveling to the Philippines to report on families affected by typhoons. She also hosted radio programs, including Hallå i P3 and Clara Henry i P3. Beyond hosting, she ventured into acting, starring as Ellen in Sjukt oklar, a series released on SVT in 2018. She also appeared in Bäst i test, winning its third season, and had a role in Solsidan in 2019. In 2020, she participated in Robinson, joining mid-season and making it to the final three. The following year, she hosted Vem kan vad on SVT.
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Eyad Nassar

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Eyad Nassar is a Jordanian actor and director. He was born in Amman in 1974, and worked as a teacher, before switching his career to art. He started by working as an assistant director in many television series, after which he directed theater plays. Nassar's acting talent appeared strongly in the popular Syrian series “Al Amin wal Ma'moun,” after which he moved to live in Cairo and started a new phase in his career through working in Egyptian television dramas like “Sarkhet Ontha” (A Female's Cry). His breakthrough performance was that of the Muslim Brotherhood leader Hassan El Banna in the historical series “Al Gama'a” (The Community). He received wide critical acclaim for his depiction of the Brotherhood leader and earned a big fan base in Egypt. From then on, his work shifted majorly to Egyptian television series, and he went on to play successful roles in series like “Al Mowaten X” (Citizen X) and “Moga Harra” (Heat Wave). Nassar also worked in film, starring in works like “Bentein min Masr” (Two Girls from Egypt) and “Basra.”
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai

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Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Chinese: 梁朝偉, born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is considered one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognised actors and was named as "Small Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB. He has won many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor for his performance in Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love. Leung is widely considered the best native Hong Kong actor of his generation. He was named by CNN as one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time". Leung is known for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai, with whom he has worked in seven films including Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), and The Grandmaster (2013). He also appeared in three Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning films, including A City of Sadness (1989), Cyclo (1995) and Lust, Caution (2007), directed by Ang Lee. Leung also stars in the Academy Award-nominated film Hero, and the box office hits Hard Boiled (1992) and Infernal Affairs (2002). Leung was cast as the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Leung has a comprehensive set of awards that he has won in a career that began in the 1980s. For In the Mood for Love, Leung earned the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also a six-time winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards and three-time winner at the Golden Horse Film Awards, holding the record for most awards in the Best Actor category. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as "undoubtedly one of the most successful and widely-acclaimed Hong Kong actors of his generation, with a broad and diverse filmography."
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Jean Tigana

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Amadou Jean Tigana (born 23 June 1955) is a French former footballer and coach. He has played in midfield and managed professional football extensively throughout France, including 52 appearances and one goal for the France national football team during the 1980s. He most recently coached Chinese Super League outfit Shanghai Shenhua. In his prime, he was a tireless central midfielder, renowned as one of the best midfielders in the world during the 1980s. Tigana started his professional career as a player at Toulon, having been spotted fairly late playing part-time while employed in a spaghetti factory and then as a postman. He moved to Lyon in 1978 and then to Bordeaux in a $4 million transfer. In Bordeaux's midfield for eight years, Tigana helped them to three league titles and three French cups, as well as taking them close to European glory on two occasions, losing in the semi-final of the European Cup and Cup Winners' Cup in 1985 and 1987 respectively. He moved in 1989 to Olympique Marseille, and ended his career there following the 1990–91 season, winning two consecutive league titles, and reaching the European Cup Final during the latter season, only to be defeated by Red Star Belgrade on penalties following a 0–0 draw. Tigana was born in Bamako, French Sudan (now Mali) to a Malian father and a French mother. He represented France, and as an international Tigana joined Michel Platini, Luis Fernandez and Alain Giresse in what was termed "the Magic Square" (le Carré Magique) – one of the greatest midfield foursomes of all time. He was part of the France national football team that won UEFA Euro 1984 on home soil, defeating Spain in the final. Tigana's single international goal came against Hungary in the 1986 FIFA World Cup finals, in which France managed a third-place finish. Tigana was a world-class box-to box midfielder, who usually played in the centre, and who was noted for his great movement, teamwork, pace and tireless stamina. Although Tigana was mainly responsible for his team's defensive duties, he also often ventured forward to create scoring opportunities for his teammates. His work ethic and expansive range of passing, from both long and short range, made him an excellent distributor which, when combined with his close control and simplistic yet efficient dribbling technique, made him a world–class midfielder. He was also well known for his contributions in the more advanced areas of the pitch, due to his ability to spot and execute defence-splitting passes. For his first managerial role, Tigana returned to Lyon, coaching them from 1993 to 1995, before moving on to AS Monaco, where he remained until 1999. They were French league champions in 1997 and Champions League semi-finalists a year later, beating Manchester United in the quarter-finals. ... Source: Article "Jean Tigana" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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María Conchita Alonso

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María Concepción Alonso Bustillo (born June 29, 1957), better known as María Conchita Alonso, is a Cuban-born Venezuelan-American actress, singer, songwriter, former beauty queen, and philanthropist. Throughout her career, she has participated in multiple productions both in film and on television, having been nominated for the Independent Spirit Award as Best Leading Actress in 1996 for her role in Caught. As a singer, she has received several gold and platinum records, and has been nominated three times for the Grammy Awards. Alonso was the first Latin American actress not born in the United States to star in a musical play on Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman at the Broadhurst Theater in 1995. Description above from the Wikipedia article María Conchita Alonso, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Mario Conocchia

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Conocchia made his film debut in 1960 with Federico Fellini 's La Dolce Vita , playing the part of a lawyer. Three years later, he worked again with Fellini, for 8½ , a film where he had a good part, that of the production inspector at the service of the protagonist Marcello Mastroianni . In the film he was dubbed by Mario Carotenuto . In 1965 he took part in the film Giulietta degli spiriti , again in the role of a lawyer. Seven years later he lent his voice to Gore Vidal , for the film Roma . The last film in which he took part was Ginger and Fred . He was the father of the voice actress Luisella Visconti , who died prematurely in 1967.
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Tony Darrow

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Tony Darrow (born Anthony Borgese; October 1, 1938) is an Italian-American actor. Darrow was born in the East New York section of Brooklyn. Darrow had plenty of opportunity to observe would-be mobsters and their attitudes while growing up in his neighborhood in Brooklyn. As a teenager, he gravitated towards show business, entering and winning talent shows while working odd jobs. After ten years of singing in nightclubs, Darrow received an offer to appear in what turned out to be a cult film, Street Trash in which he played a mobster. Several months after Street Trash, Darrow was contacted by the film director Martin Scorsese. It turned out that Scorsese had seen Street Trash and wanted him to audition for a role in Goodfellas. He was successful and was cast as the owner of the Bamboo Lounge, Sonny. Darrow was also in the Woody Allen films Bullets over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Deconstructing Harry, Small Time Crooks and Sweet and Lowdown. In 1999, Darrow played a large role in Analyze This with Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal. The following year, he appeared in Mickey Blue Eyes with Hugh Grant, and got another big role as mobster Larry Barese in the HBO hit series The Sopranos, which he was on for the entire series run (1999–2007). More recently, Darrow starred in the independent film Lynch Mob.
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Julie Crosthwaite

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Julie Crosthwaite (also known as Julie Crosthwait) was born in July 1951 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. She is an actress, known for Armchair Cinema (1973), The Picnic (1976) and The Protectors (1972). She was on the first British edition of the Cosmopolitan in March 1971. The then twenty-one-year-old Julie Crosthwait was the model for the first issue cover taken by David Magnus. She was chosen by editorial director Helen Gurley Brown and told the Daily Mirror 30 years later (Feb 21): “I didn't live the Cosmopolitan lifestyle at all. I must admit I was a bit shocked when I actually read the magazine.” She is 178 cm (5' 10") tall.
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