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Nando Mello
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Nando Mello começou a tocar contra baixo na cidade onde mora Gravataí no Rio Grande do Sul em 1989 em uma banda de progressivo chamada Fohat. Em 1994 montou sua própria banda de hard rock chamada Alma Beat, onde compôs suas primeiras músicas. Em 1998 atendendo a um anúncio de jornal feito pelo baterista Aquiles Priester fez um teste para entrar na banda de heavy metal Hangar onde foi efetivado em fevereiro de 1999, quando a banda estava em fase final de lançamento do seu primeiro cd chamado “Last Time”. Em 2001 gravou o segundo cd do Hangar “Inside Your Soul” que foi lançado no Brasil e Europa e teve grande repercussão entre o público brasileiro, culminando com a turnê pelo Nordeste realizada em fevereiro de 2003, além de várias participações em festivais nacionais. Em 2007, após um hiato de seis anos a banda lança simultaneamente no Brasil, Japão e Europa seu terceiro disco “The Reason of Your Conviction”. Com grande sucesso de público e crítica o disco projeta a carreira do baixista que realiza a “The Conviction Tour” com o Hangar em mais de 50 shows pelo Brasil. Em 2008 começa um trabalho com Aquiles Priester participando como convidado dos workshops do baterista, realizando cerca de 30 eventos durante o ano. Ainda em 2008 é lançado pela Ledur o Power Bass NM Signature Nando Mello, contrabaixo de cinco cordas desenvolvido pelo baixista em conjunto com a fábrica. No inicio de 2009 é eleito pelos leitores da revista especializada Roadie Crew o quinto melhor baixista do Brasil e pelo site Whiplash com terceiro melhor baixista do país. Em 2009 grava “Infallible” , disco que leva o Hangar a uma nova etapa da carreira com uma crescente popularidade em todos segmentos musicais conhecidos, inclusive com a participação do grupo Roupa Nova em uma das canções. Durante os anos de 2010 e 2011 a Infallible Tour teve cerca de 150 shows e workshops. Ainda em 2010 lança seu blog de textos e resenhas chamado Riffmaker. Em 2011 o Hangar lança seu CD “Acoustic, But Plugged In!” com grande aceitação por parte do público, culminando coma gravação do DVD “Haunted By Your Ghots in Ijuí – RS” no mês de dezembro e que será lançado em setembro de 2012. Mais uma vez em 2011 foi lembrado como terceiro melhor baixista pelo Whiplash e quinto lugar na Roadie Crew. Além de baixista do Hangar realiza uma série de atividades ligadas a música como workshops, workshows, master classes de todos os integrantes da banda, além de representar algumas marcas endorsadas no estado do Rio Grande do Sul através de sua empresa chamada Riffmaker.
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Jose Casas Ruiz
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José Casas Ruiz is a Mexican professional wrestler (called a Luchador in Spanish) and trainer working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Negro Casas. He is the son of former wrestler turned referee Pepe Casas, and part of the large Casas wrestling family; brother of professional wrestlers El Felino and Heavy Metal and uncle of Puma, Tiger, Canelo Casas, Rocky Casas, Danny Casas and many more. Casas has trained several wrestlers, including Mephisto, Kazushige Nosawa, T.J. Perkins, Rocky Romero, and Ricky Marvin. Casas has worked all over the world, making appearances for WWE in the United States of America as well as touring with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in Japan for over a decade. In Mexico Casas has worked for CMLL since the 1990s but has also wrestled for the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), World Wrestling Association (WWA) and International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). In 2008 Negro Casas joined with Mr. Niebla and Heavy Metal to form the group La Peste Negra (Spanish for "the Black Plague"), a group that would later be joined by El Felino.
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Dono
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Drs. H. Wahyu Sardono, better known as Dono Warkop (born in Delanggu, Klaten, Central Java, 30 September 1951 - died in Jakarta, 30 December 2001 at the age of 50 years), was an Indonesian actor and comedian with a height of 167 cm. He starred in several comedy film titles in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. He died of lung cancer.
While studying at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Dono worked in the editorial section of the newspaper, among others at the Tribune and Salemba, mainly as a caricature. Both print media ceased publication in 1974. Then Dono joined the warung Warung Kopi Prambors group that was established a year earlier. Dono with Casinos, Indro, and Nanu fills the coffee shop Prambors with a coffee shop-style atmosphere on Prambors private radio.
While still a student, Dono is a member of the University of Indonesia Nature Lovers Student Group (Mapala UI) with Casino and Nanu. Therefore, Warkop DKI films show their activities as nature lovers.
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Fasha Sandha
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Nur Fasha Sandha binti Hassan or commercially known as Fasha Sandha is a Malaysian actress who has appeared in movies, television shows, and commercials.
She was born in Johor Bahru, Johor, but moved to Penang, She then transferred to Kuala Lumpur, and later to Perlis due to her father's work. She was married to Rizal Ashram. They have two children together.
Since graduating from the Kuala Lumpur-based Institut Kebudayaan Negara in 2002, she has appeared in movies Black Maria, Bujang Senang, Gong and Cicak-Man. Sandha was named most popular new actress in the 2005 Anugerah Bintang Popular for her performance on television drama Natasya. She won again 2011 Anugerah Bintang Popular for her outstanding acting in Chinta (TV Series) beating the other nominees, Tiz Zaqyah and Lisa Surihani. She is also famous for her best-selling novel, Sumpahan Fasha (Fasha's Curse).
In 2007, she was appointed as the Maybelline ambassador, succeeding Siti Nurhaliza.
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Jack Kehler
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Jack has appeared in over 60 feature films, including Men in Black II. One of his most memorable performances was in film Love Liza as Denny, an energetic radio control hobbyist trying to help Philip Seymour Hoffman's character come to terms with the suicide of his wife. He also had a brief but memorable role in The Big Lebowski as The Dude's (Jeff Bridges) landlord.
He guest starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Babel", and in the Angel episode "Long Day's Journey". In 1995 he played Mr. Chase in the Babylon 5 episode "Comes the Inquisitor".
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Rohini Hattangadi
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Rohini Hattangadi (born 11 April 1955) is an Indian actress of film, theatre and television. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in Gandhi (1982). An alumna of the National School of Drama of New Delhi, Hattangadi had worked mainly in theatre when she made her movie debut with Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan in 1978. Some of her noted cinematic roles were in such art films as Arth (1982), Party and Saaransh (1984). Hattangadi was mostly offered character roles in mainstream Hindi cinema after her portrayal in Gandhi, often typecast in mother roles much ahead of her years. Respected for her acting prowess, she has appeared in over 80 feature films, and is active in theatre and television.
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Angie Chen
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Angie Chen has been making films since 1979. She was born in Shanghai, brought up in Hong Kong and Taiwan, received her MFA from UCLA, and lived in America for over more than a decade. She now resides in Hong Kong, working in the industry as director/producer, and teaching part-time in the Film Academy’s MFA Program at Baptist University.
Hong Kong cinema’s New Wave saw many young moviemakers returning from overseas film schools, and Angie was among them. She received her master’s degree from the University of Southern California’s Film Department, and directed The Visit , a short that was awarded Best Documentary at the 1980 Toronto Film Festival. She returned to Hong Kong in 1981 and worked as assistant director on Jackie Chan’s Dragon Lord and Leong Po-Chih’s He Lives By Night. She made her feature directorial debut, Maybe It’s Love starring Cherie Chung Cho-hung, for Shaw Brothers in 1984. This was followed by My Name Ain’t Suzie , which launched the movie career of Anthony Wong. Her last feature was Chaos By Design, also starring Cherie Chung Cho-hung. More recently, she has made commercials and has lectured at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.
Recently she has made a comeback to feature filmmaking and directed two feature-length documentaries, This Darling Life (2008) nominated Best Documentary in the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards; and One Tree Three Lives (2012) world premiered in the 2012 Hong Kong International Film Festival, and Asia-premiere in the 2012 Taipei Film Festival.
Sources : Celestial DVD and official biography
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Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore, born 27 June 1965, is a British historian, television presenter and author of popular history books and novels. Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in London. His father was psychotherapist Stephen Eric Sebag Montefiore (1926–2014), a great-grandson of the banker Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore (1822-1903), the nephew and heir of the wealthy philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore[3] considered by some "the most important Jew of the 19th century". Simon's mother was Phyllis April Jaffé, (1927–2019) from the Lithuanian branch of the Jaffe family. Her parents fled the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. They bought tickets for New York City, but were cheated, being instead dropped off at Cork, Ireland. Due to the Limerick boycott in 1904 her father Henry Jaffé left the country and moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, England.[4] Simon's brother is Hugh Sebag-Montefiore.
The Montefiore family are descended from a line of wealthy Sephardi Jews who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe and who originated from Morocco and Italy. After the Alhambra Decree was issued against the Jews in Spain of 1492, some of Montefiore's ancestors stayed in the country whilst remaining secretly Jewish. During the reign of Philip II of Spain, one of them became governor of a province of Mexico, where he and his family were denounced by a political rival and tortured by the Inquisition. Two teenaged girls were burned alive in Mexico City while a son escaped to Italy and changed his name to Montefiore.
Sebag Montefiore was educated at Ludgrove School and Harrow School where he was editor of the school newspaper, The Harrovian. In the autumn of 1983 he interviewed Margaret Thatcher for The Harrovian.He won an Exhibition to read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD).
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Verity Lambert
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Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer.
Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died.
Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963, she was BBC Television's only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players."
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Rolfe Sedan
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Rolfe Sedan (January 20, 1896 – September 15, 1982) was an American character actor, best known for appearing in bit parts, often uncredited, usually portraying clerks, train conductors, postmen, cooks, waiters etc. He began his career in show business as a nightclub and vaudeville performer and began acting in East Coast theatre. Sedan debuted on Broadway in 1916 and appeared in his first motion picture for Metro Pictures Corporation in 1921.
He became a prolific character actor and is probably best remembered by movie buffs as the hotel manager in Ninotchka (1939) starring Greta Garbo. Around the same time, he appeared in an uncredited role as the Emerald City's Balloon Ascensionist in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He returned to Broadway, performing in several different shows during the first half of the 1940s and in the 1950s began a sequence of guest roles in television series such as The Jack Benny Show. His most frequent TV work came from recurring roles as put-upon mail carriers (25 episodes as Mr. Beasley on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; 4 episodes as Mr. Briggs on The Addams Family). He was also seen as the train conductor in the film Young Frankenstein (1974). Rolfe Sedan remained active throughout a career that spanned more than six decades.
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