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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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Richard Hunt

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Richard Hunt (August 17, 1951 – January 7, 1992) was an American puppeteer, best known as a Muppet performer on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and other projects for The Jim Henson Company. His roles on The Muppet Show included Scooter, Statler, Janice, Beaker, and Sweetums and characters on Sesame Street included Gladys the Cow, Don Music, and Forgetful Jones. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Hunt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Perry Pirkanen

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Perry Pirkkanen is an American actor. He is best known for starring in the 1980 Italian cannibal film Cannibal Holocaust. In the movie he is erroneously credited as 'Perry Pirkanen'. Pirkkanen, then a student at New York City's Actors Studio, was hired by director Ruggero Deodato who was looking for unknown actors to play the film's four main characters. In the film, he was in an infamous scene where he butchered a large turtle. He is even seen holding the turtle's head next to his mouth. However, after filming the scene, he cried and had an emotional breakdown off camera. So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released, its director Ruggero Deodato was indicted for the actors' murder. In the film, he was seen having his penis cut off, being decapitated, and having his body eaten by the natives next to his head. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumors that the film was a snuff movie. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof. He has also starred in Perfect Crime as the original inspector Ascher.
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Katherine Anne Porter

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her only novel, Ship of Fools (1962), based on her reminiscences of a 1931 ocean cruise she had taken from Mexico to Germany, was the best-selling novel in America of the year, though her short stories received even more critical acclaim; in 1966 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. That year she was also appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Porter enjoyed a prominent reputation as one of America's most distinguished writers, but her limited output and equally-limited sales had her living on grants and advances for most of the era.
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Xia Ningjun

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He graduated from the Performance Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy and is an actor from mainland China. In 2018, he participated in the youth sports and entertainment cross-border genre program "Supernova National Games" and entered the entertainment industry. In 2019, the starring urban emotional inspirational drama "Shanyue, I don't know what's in my heart" and the vertical screen web drama "Little Brother Afraid to Be Poisonous" were broadcast successively. In 2020, starring in the ancient costume love comedy "Stealing Heart Painter", as the actor Li Hong Bin.
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Tzvika Pick

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Svika Pick, was an Israeli pop singer, songwriter, composer, and television personality. Pick first gained traction on a national level after playing a lead part in an Israeli version of the musical Hair, later pursuing a prolific songwriting and singing career. Pick first gained traction on a national level after playing a lead part in an Israeli version of the musical Hair, later pursuing a prolific songwriting and singing career. He later gained recognition after co-writing "Diva", which won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest for Israel. Pick was described by peers and critics as the Israeli King of Pop, and the Maestro.
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Nobuo Yoshihashi

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Nobuo Yoshihashi is a Japanese professional wrestler who debuted in 2008 with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he currently performs under the ring name YOSHI-HASHI. As one half of Bishamon with Hirooki Goto, he is a four-time IWGP Tag Team Champion, one-time STRONG Openweight Tag Team Champion, three-time World Tag League winner in 2021, 2022, and 2023, and co-winner of the Tokyo Sports Best Tag Team Award in 2023. He is also a one-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion with Hirooki Goto and Tomohiro Ishii, with that trio holding the record for the longest reign at 454 days.
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Jocelyn Jones

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Jocelyn Jones is an actress who lives in Santa Monica, California. Born in New York City, Jones is the daughter of Tony Award winning, actor Henry Jones. Jocelyn Jones was a child actress, debuting at age eleven in The Defenders. She later taught acting for over 15 years at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.She established the Jocelyn Jones Acting Studio in 2009 where she teaches 100 select actors, directors and filmmakers. She also serves as a Creative Consultant to some of the biggest names in the industry. Her production company, Mind's Eye Pictures, is dedicated to producing her own screenplays, co-written with husband/director, Miles Watkins.
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Stephen Odubola

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Stephen Odubola is a British actor from London, England. His films include Blue Story (2019) and his television roles include the BBC One series Boiling Point (2023). Odubola grew up in Kennington, in South London, to Nigerian parents. When he was 16 years old, he briefly worked in the hospitality box at Chelsea's football stadium, Stamford Bridge. The son of Nigerian parents, he attended Identity School of Acting in London, before earning a degree in Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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Benjamin Bratt

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Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor. He is known for playing Paco Aguilar in Blood In Blood Out. He had supporting film roles in the 1990s in Demolition Man (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), and The River Wild (1994). From 1995 to 1999, he starred as Detective Reynaldo Curtis on the NBC drama series Law & Order. In the 2000s, Bratt appeared in Miss Congeniality (2000), Traffic (2000), Piñero (2001), Catwoman (2004), Trucker (2008), Despicable Me 2 (2013), Snitch (2013), and Coco (2017), among other films. On television, Bratt has portrayed Dr. Jake Reilly on ABC's Private Practice (2011–2013), Steve Navarro on 24: Live Another Day (2014), and Jahil Rivera on Star (2016–2018). He has also done voice acting in animated feature films. Bratt has received four American Latino Media Arts Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benjamin Bratt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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