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Mark Salzman
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Mark Joseph Salzman (born December 3, 1959 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk, which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s.
Salzman grew up in Ridgefield, Conn., the oldest child of a piano teacher mother and a social worker father. He studied Chinese Language and Literature at Yale University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude in 1982 and spent the next two years in Changsha, Hunan teaching English at Hunan Medical College and studying martial arts with Pan Qingfu, a Chinese martial arts teacher and kung fu movie actor. His experiences in China are recounted in his first book, Iron & Silk: A young American encounters swordsmen, bureaucrats and other citizens of contemporary China, published in 1986. Salzman received several literary awards for Iron & Silk. The book was made into a 1990 film of the same title. Salzman wrote the screenplay and starred as himself in the film. Though the real venue of the story was in Changsha, the film was shot in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Salzman's other publications include several works of fiction, a memoir dealing with growing up in suburbia, more specifically Ridgefield, Connecticut, and a report on his work as a creative writing instructor for juvenile delinquents.
Salzman plays the cello. In high school, he played the cello for the Norwalk Youth Symphony.
In the mid-1990s, Salzman appeared in magazine advertisements for Dewar's Scotch Whisky.
In 2007, Mark Salzman, along with three other men, was featured in the documentary Protagonist, directed by his wife, Jessica Yu.
Salzman was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000. He, his wife Jessica Yu, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and their daughters Ava and Esme live in Los Angeles.
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Ann Turkel
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Ann Kathryn Turkel (born July 16, 1946 in New York, New York, United States) is an American actress and model.
Turkel studied at the Musical Theatre Academy.
She was photographed for American Vogue. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in England, the Bahamas and Sardinia during the early seventies and included them in his 1981 book The Most Beautiful Women.
She has starred in television film, her first major roles occurring in the 1974 film 99 and 44/100% Dead and 1976's The Cassandra Crossing, both alongside her future husband Richard Harris; they were divorced in 1982. Despite their divorce she and Harris remained good friends and when Harris died in 2002 Turkel was so saddened and called him a mentor and good friend.
She portrayed comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise in a 1982 TV pilot.
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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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Grace Renat
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Born Graciela Prior Morin, Grace ran away from home at age 14 to follow her lover, taking the place of one of his chorus girls' sisters. Two years later, she was the single mother of a baby, working as a cabaret dancer in Tijuana and being the talk of the town. In 1973, her fame was recognized by the National Actors Association (ANDA) with the title of Diosa de la Noche. She worked for the classy Blanquita theatre and Club Capri. She made it into Televisa soap operas, some of them popular, before starting a movie career, namely with daring nude scenes, as she had startled the nightclub exotic world ten years before.
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Donnell J. Clayton
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Donnell J Clayton is an actor , fireman , model and author from Detroit Michigan. He got his start with an improv class at a local community college and fell in love with acting. Shortly after his introduction to improv, he signed with an agency in Detroit and began working in background print and commercial work. He's acted on stage and movies, YouTube shorts and a few feature films. As time goes on, I soak up knowledge and sharpen my craft with every project I am blessed to be a part of. I am continuously a student of the art, and I pride myself on striving to be my personal best whenever I’m in front of a camera , as well as maintaining a high quality of professionalism when there aren’t any cameras in sight. When you hear the name Donnell J Clayton, I want that name to be synonymous with hard work, perseverance, and humility.
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Katie Boyle
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Caterina Irene Elena Maria Boyle, Lady Saunders (née Imperiali dei Principi di Francavilla; 29 May 1926 – 20 March 2018), usually known as Katie Boyle, was an Italian-born British actress, writer, radio announcer, television personality and game-show panellist. She became best known for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest on a record four occasions: in 1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974; the first three in London and the last in Brighton, England. She was also an agony aunt, answering problems that had been posted by readers of the TVTimes.
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Carla Azar
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Carla Azar is an American drummer, guitarist, keyboardist , and singer. She is a member of the band Autolux. She also played drums on Jack White's albums Blunderbuss, Lazaretto, and Boarding House Reach, and in 2012, she played with White's touring band, The Peacocks.
From 2009–2011, she collaborated with painter Mark Whalen (also known as Kill Pixie) on art exhibitions, creating music for installation rooms. She had a role in the 2014 film Frank starring Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson.
She also played drums for Ednaswap for two albums and an EP. In addition, she played drums, as well as some percussion, on Come To Where I'm From (2000) by Joseph Arthur.
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JeeJa Yanin
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Jeeja Chanthathanisa Tang, formerly Yanin Vismitananda, is an actress and martial artist specialising in Muay Thai from Bangkok, Thailand. She holds a 4th Dan Black belt in Taekwondo and received a bachelor's degree from Kasem Bundit University.
Jeeja's film debut was the starring role in the 2008 film "Chocolate" (ช็อคโกแลต).
On 29 August 2012, Yanin revealed that she was five months pregnant and married Andrian Robert Bowden, a co-star in her previous films and younger brother of singer Pamela Bowden. On 22 January 2013, she gave birth to her son, Jayden Bowden Vismitananda. They are now divorced.
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Ivete Sangalo
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Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo (Brazilian Portuguese: [iˈvɛtʃi sɐ̃ˈɡaɫu], born May 27, 1972) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host. She is one of the most popular and best-selling Brazilian female singers, with six albums released with Banda Eva, and seven more albums in a solo career. Sangalo is most often recognized by her powerful voice, charisma and live performances. Her music is also very popular in Portugal. She has sold 15 million copies of her albums.
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Sriimurali
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Murali is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Kannada cinema. After making his debut in 2003 in Chandra Chakori, he appeared in Kanti as the eponymous lead, a performance that won him the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor. He has since appeared in over 10 Kannada films and a film each in Telugu and Malayalam, all of which proved to be commercial failures. His performance in the 2014 Kannada film Ugramm received unanimous praise and emerged as a major success. His father S. A. Chinne Gowda was a film producer and brother Vijay Raghavendra, an actor. Actor Rajkumar was his uncle and actors Shiva Rajkumar and Puneeth Rajkumar his cousins. He married Vidya, his girlfriend and daughter of a hotelier, on 11 May 2008. They have a son and a daughter together.
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