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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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Hani Al Naimi
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Hani Al Naimi (birth-name Michael Anthony Desante) is an Arab American actor, writer and director of Palestinian descent. He was born in Bethlehem and spent the beginning years of his childhood in Beirut, Lebanon. At age 9 he attended Fettes College for Boys in Edinburgh, Scotland and then Hurtwood House in Surrey, England where he completed his school. His interest in acting started at an early age with school play renditions of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night Dream" and "Much Ado About Nothing." He was 12 when Andrew Lloyd Webber came to his school to cast his play "Joseph and His Technicolor Dreamcoat" for its Edinburgh premiere; Hani was selected to be in the choir and went on to be in the production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" as well.
After graduating from school, Hani moved to the United States to continue his education, where he earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. His dedication and passion for acting and storytelling never wavered. Shortly thereafter Hani was discovered by casting director Judith Holstra when she cast him in his first movie role with Mariel Hemingway.
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Nadia Charbel
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Nadia Charbel is a Lebanese actress who began her career as a child on the TV show Aayle Aa Fared Mayle, playing alongside her parents, Carine Rizcallah and Fady Charbel. She later featured in TV series such as Helwe W Kezzebe, Albi Dak, and W Msheet. In 2021, she was part of the main cast of the award-winning film Costa Brava, Lebanon, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, portraying Tala, the teenage daughter of Soraya (Nadine Labaki) and Walid (Saleh Bakri). She most recently appeared in Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano (2023).
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Mark Northover
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Mark Northover (27 March 1950—6 June 2004) was a British actor, with the distinctive characteristic of dwarfism, whose best-known screen character was Burglekutt in the 1988 film Willow. Another memorable role was that of Alvy in Hardware. Outside cinema, he made an appearance in the music video for Depeche Mode's "Walking In My Shoes". A native of New Orleans, Mark Northover was ten weeks past his 54th birthday when he died of a heart attack in Upton, Dorset, England. He was survived by wife Patsy and namesake son Mark. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Northover, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Antonio Drove
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Antonio Drove (Madrid, November 1, 1942 - Paris, September 24, 2005) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.
He began his studies in Industrial Engineering, abandoning them to devote himself to cinema, enrolling in the Escuela Oficial de Cine (Official Film School). He was part of the Argüelles School, together with Luis Revenga, Antonio Franco, José María Carreño, Miguel Marías and Manolo Marinero, who met at the end of the 1960s in the cafeteria La Verdad, and in the cinemas of this neighborhood. The writer Antonio Martínez Sarrión defined him as follows: "The funambulist, the illusionist, the Fregoli of the group was Drove, personification and sign of the noble and ancient art of inventing entertainment". He also wrote in the magazine Nuestro cine and in El Mundo. He also made a documentary on Luis Buñuel. He has German ancestors.
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Carol Grace
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American actress, author, and socialite, Carol Grace (September 11, 1924 – July 20, 2003) was an American actress and author. She is often referred to as Carol Marcus Saroyan or Carol Matthau.
Carol Grace was born in New York City's Lower East Side; her mother, who was sixteen when she gave birth, was a Russian Jewish immigrant who arrived in New York on August 20, 1913. Her parents arrived later. Grace never knew her biological father. Her mother, Rosheen "Ray" Marcus (née Brofman, formerly Shapiro), would reportedly later claim it was British-Jewish actor Leslie Howard, who was killed during WWII. Young Carol was placed in foster care until the age of eight. In 1933, her mother married her second husband, Charles Marcus, who was some two decades Rosheen's senior. He was the very wealthy co-founder of the Bendix Corporation. Grace took his last name as her own. They lived on Park Avenue in luxury, with servants. Two years later he learned that his wife had hidden the existence of another daughter, Elinor, who had been left in a foster home when they married.
Grace was reportedly the inspiration for the Holly Golightly character in Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T. R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in New York politics, including serving as the state's 33rd governor for two years. He served as the 25th vice president under President William McKinley for six months in 1901, assuming the presidency after McKinley's assassination. As president, Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for anti-trust and Progressive policies.
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Fumani Shilubana
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Fumani Shilubana is a South African actor best known for his role as Detective Dabula on the SABC3 soapie Isidingo.
He was previously known for his roles as Detective Nataniel in the SABC2 drama series Hillside (2006-2008) and for his role as Dr. Mokhethi on the SABC1 soapie Generations, from 2008-2009.
Shilubana was born at Shiluvana Village in Tzaneen, Limpopo. In 2000 he nearly became a model, but he left it all together when he went to the South African State Theatre to enquire about drama, where he met Irene Mathe. He obtained a Certificate in Speech and Drama with Tshwana Modern Arts Company (TMAC) in 2001.
In 2002 he joined The South African State Theatre's Development Program (52 Seasons) where he meet his mentor and friend playwright/director Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, who taught Fumani all he knows. He did his first professional play in 2003 (Julius Caesar and Maru as a school set work).
He went on to do a number of productions with the State Theatre including Hamlet, Cards, Relativity "township stories", Telling Stories, Interracial and the first installment of the trilogy Welcome to Rocksburg, in 2009.
Some of the plays toured Europe countries like Austria, Belgium, Germany, UK, Poland, Holland and South Africa. Fumani was nominated for Best Supporting Role for the play Relativity "township stories" at the Naledi Awards in 2006.
In the same year he starred in a number of TV productions including Hillside (SABC2) and Soul City (SABC1). He also appeared in Death of a Queen (a mini-series that was part of SABC1's Shakespeare in Mzansi strand), Generations (SABC1) and Muvhango (SABC2).
He also appeared in television commercials for Sun International, Hollard Insurance and Hyundai. In 2009 he was a recipient of the Mama Beka Community Award given to individuals who have made their Province better with their achievement.
He was the founder of Xitengile Media House, a production company.
In 2010, Fumani appeared in the e.tv drama series eKasi: Our Stories, in the episode entitled "Foreign Husband". In 2011 he appeared in the episode "Over My Dead Body".
In 2012 he featured in his first film role in the movie Zama Zama.
He also had a starring role as Mountain, the incompetent caretaker at the retirement home who is an accident waiting to happen, in the SABC3 sitcom Let Heaven Wait, in 2013.
In the same year he had a starring role in the Mzansi Magic miniseries Naledi and in 2014 had a starring role as Rudzani Makwarela, a successful building contractor whose crooked dealings leave his family fighting for survival as he lies in a coma, in the SABC2 thriller series Thola.
Shilubana also appeared in four Mzansi Magic Lokshin Bioskop films as the leading man: Regrets (2014), Cursed (2015), Love Specialist (2015) and Battle Of The House (2015). He also had a supporting role in the miniseries Naledi, in 2014.
In 2015 Shilubana produced and directed his first film, Khomelela, in which 80% of the language spoken is Tsonga. The project was designed to leave a legacy in the Tsonga movie space.
In the same year he guest starred on the third and final season of the Mzansi Magic soapie Zabalaza, and on the channel's comedy series The Mayor, created by Kagiso Lediga.
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Bernard Hill
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Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 – 5 May 2024) was an English actor. He was known as a character actor of film, stage and television, having acted in nearly 130 projects. He is best known to British television viewers for playing Yosser Hughes in the groundbreaking 1982 TV series Boys from the Blackstuff. On film he has played Captain Edward John Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill is the only actor to have appeared in more than one of the three films awarded 11 Oscars, and one of only three actors to have starred in more than one film grossing more than $1 billion USD, namely: Titanic and The Return of the King (the others being Orlando Bloom who also starred in The Return of the King, as well as Pirates of the Caribbean and Johnny Depp who also starred in Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as Alice in Wonderland). Hill has appeared in three films which have won Best Picture: Gandhi, Titanic, and The Return of the King. Hill died on 5th May 2024 at the age of 79.
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Bojan Dimitrijević
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Bojan Dimitrijević is a Serbian actor.
He's best known for playing the role of a junkie nicknamed Pikac on the television series Vratiće se Rode and movie Rode U Magli. His notable theatre roles include plays such as Trainspotting and Shopping and Fucking, both at Bitef Theatre. He's appearing in music video of Skunk Anansie "My ugly boy" (2010).
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