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Andy Partridge
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Andrew John Partridge (born 11 November 1953) is an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer best known for co-founding the band XTC. He and Colin Moulding each acted as a songwriter and frontman for XTC, with Partridge writing and singing about two-thirds of the group's material. While XTC were a formative British new wave group, Partridge's songwriting drew heavily from 1960s pop and psychedelia and his style gradually shifted to more traditional pop, often with pastoral themes. The band's only UK top 10 hit, "Senses Working Overtime", was written by Partridge.
Partridge is sometimes regarded as the "godfather" of the 1990s Britpop movement. Since the 1980s, he has worked, written with or produced for many other recording artists, including collaborative albums with Peter Blegvad, Harold Budd and Robyn Hitchcock. From 2002 to 2006, Partridge's APE House record label released several volumes of his demos and songs as part of the Fuzzy Warbles series. Beyond music, he is also an illustrator, toy soldier hobbyist and designer of board games.
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Ervin Knausmyuller
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Erwin Knausmüller (1912-2000) was a Soviet stage and film actor of Austrian origin. In 1932 he graduated from the Academy of Trade in Graz, Austria. He took part in anti-fascist activities. From 1936 he lived and worked in Moscow. Member of the World War II in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Honored with Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class. He made his film debut in 1959 in the film by Ilya Gurin The Golden Eshelon. Knausmüller starred in 61 feature films in total. Erwin Knausmüller died in Moscow on January 4, 2000. Buried in Moscow at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erwin Knausmüller, 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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Fred Savage
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Frederick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an American actor, director and producer of television and film.
He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years and as the grandson in The Princess Bride.
In later years, he has directed and produced numerous episodes of television series, such as Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Hannah Montana, and Phil of the Future, as well as the primetime series Ugly Betty and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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Zineb Triki
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Zineb Triki (born 1980) is a French actress of Moroccan descent, known for her role as Nadia El Mansour in the French television series The Bureau.
Zineb Triki was born in 1980 in Morocco. She attended a French school, where she took up theatre and classical dance. She moved to Paris at the age of 15 to attend high school.
She obtained a degree in political science from McGill University in Canada. She did an internship in UN headquarters in NY in 2003. She obtained a master's degree in political science from the Sorbonne University in Paris, then obtained another master's degree in audio-visual production in Paris.
Triki began her acting career in earnest from 2009, with short roles in 14h05 and The Misadventures of Franck and Martha. Her first film roles were in Deux fenêtres in 2013 and La Marche verte (2016). It was the TV series The Bureau that brought her to prominence with her role of Nadia El Mansour.
Her performance as Nassim's mother in the 2017 film De toutes mes forces was described as "luminous, in this short and difficult role".
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John Herzfeld
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John Herzfeld is an American motion picture and television director, screenwriter, actor and producer. His feature film directing credits include Two of a Kind (1983), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), 15 Minutes (2001) and The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007). He has also directed numerous made-for-television movies, including The Ryan White Story (1989), The Preppie Murder (1989), Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993) and Don King: Only in America (1997) for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for directing the 1980 ABC Afterschool Special titled Stoned.
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Kara Hui Ying-Hung
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Kara Wai Ying-Hung (Chinese: 惠英紅, born 2 February 1960), also romanised as Kara Hui, is a Hong Kong actress of Manchu ethnicity. Known to the international audience for her kung-fu roles in Shaw Brothers Studio films in the 1970s and 1980s, Kara Wai has since portrayed a wide range of roles on screen and on television with much success. In 1982, she became the first recipient of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress. Her portrayal of a mother in the 2009 film At the End of Daybreak won her acting awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, Changchun Film Festival, Pacific Meridian, Asian Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
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Mel Lisboa
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Mel Lisboa Alves (born January 17, 1982) is a Brazilian actress and presenter. She became known for the character Anita of Anita's Presence. became known for playing the title character in the miniseries Presença de Anita (2001).
She is the daughter of astrologer Cláudia Lisboa Alves and musician Bebeto Alves. She is the cousin of comedian Rafinha Bastos. She studied cinema at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), in Niterói, but dropped out of the course to pursue a career as an actress. She is not directly related to the Gaucho musician Nei Lisboa. In 2009, the actress declared that she was an atheist in an interview with Tpm magazine. She debuted as an actress in 2001, starring in the Rede Globo miniseries, Presença de Anita, playing Anita, a mysterious and seductive young woman. Due to her character's great sexual appeal, she participated in a sensual shoot for the website Paparazzo. The miniseries earned an average of 30 ratings and was rebroadcast in full in 2002 on TV Globo. In 2002, in the soap opera Escolhas de Mulher , she played Gabriela, a young woman from the countryside and aspiring model. This time her character was not as successful, due to the fixed image of the previous character and the plot's low ratings. The actress, at the time, even realized that she had been dazzled after playing a prominent role, but after playing another with little acceptance, she matured. In 2003, he did his second sensual shoot. This time for Trip magazine. The following year she posed nude for the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine, in its 29th anniversary edition. In the same year, after having signed a contract with SBT, the contract did not go through, she returned to Rede Globo and acted in the soap opera Como uma Onda, playing Lenita Paiva, a rich and spoiled girl. In 2006, she became a television presenter on the GNT/Rede Globo Sat channel and released the book Mundo Afora — Diário de Bordo de Mel Lisboa, with the plot and photographs of her program. In 2007, she participated in the cast of the soap opera Sete Pecados, in which she played the character Carla, a young woman of humble origins and extremely ambitious with her dubious personality.
On April 1, 2010, she signed a contract with Rede Record and the following year she starred in the miniseries Sansão e Dalila, playing Dalila, a seductive woman with a dubious character. Still in 2011, she participated in two more sensual shoots: In Inked magazine, she shows her tattoos and talks about her passion for them. In Maxim magazine, she shows that the lolita phase is literally behind her. She won some awards in her career, including the most important national cinema award, the Kikito, at the Gramado Festival, as best actress for her performance in Sonhos e Deseios, in 2006. In cinema, she participated in films such as A Fortune Teller (The Fortune Teller ). 2003), The Wedding of Romeo and Juliet (2005), Dreams and Desires (2006), and Live (2008). In theater he participated in plays such as Há Vaga Para Moças de Fino Trato (2002), Confessões de Adolescente (2003), Brutal (2003), Luluzinhas (2003), Biting the Lips (2006), A Mulher do Candidato (2008), Cyrano (2009), After the Rain (2010) and Altered Women (2010/2011). In October 2012, she was hospitalized with an intestinal virus and had to cancel the show.
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Tharaa Goubail
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Tharaa Goubail is an Egyptian actress. She studied screen writing at Cairo's High Institute of Cinema. She started acting in short films and graduation projects from the institute. In 2013, she appeared in three television series: “Nekdeb law Olna Mabenhebbesh” (We'd be Lying if We Say we Don't Love), “Zat”, and “Adam we Gamila” (Adam and Gamila). She then landed bigger roles in two television series the following year: “Segn El Nesa” (Women's Jail) and “Sadiq El Omr” (Lifelong Freind).
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Mathew Baynton
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Mathew John Baynton (born 18 November 1980) is an English actor, writer, comedian, singer, and musician. He is best known for his numerous roles in a children’s program Horrible Histories (2009-2013), as well as Yonderland (2013-2016), where he also played various different roles, and Ghosts (2019-) where he plays Thomas Thorne; other TV series he is popular by are You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), The Wrong Mans (2013-2014). He is also known for appearing in films such as The Falling (2015) and Bill (2015).
He is familiar as one of the stars of the hit children's television series Horrible Histories, appearing over-all five series as a singer, actor, and occasional writer. He is the creator, writer, and star of Yonderland, an eight-part family fantasy comedy series that premiered on Sky1 on 10 November 2013. He starred with the same troupe in Bill, a BBC family comedy film based loosely around the early life of William Shakespeare. The troupe also reunited in 2019 to create the BBC series Ghosts, with him appearing as a romantic poet named Thomas Thorne. He teamed with James Corden to create, write, and star in The Wrong Mans (2013–2014), a comedy-thriller for BBC Two that premiered in autumn 2013.
Other notable TV comedy roles include the recurring character of Deano in Gavin & Stacey (2008–2009); co-starring as Chris in the Darren Boyd sitcom vehicle Spy (2011–2012); and William in the 2017 black comedy series Quacks. In late 2015, Baynton starred in science fiction comedy-drama miniseries You, Me and the Apocalypse.
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