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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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Heloísa Helena

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Heloísa Helena (28 October 1917 – 19 June 1999) was a Brazilian actress and singer. Her real name was Heloísa Helena Almeida Gama de Magalhães or Heloisa Helena de Almeida Lima. She was born on in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In her early career, Heloísa sang in English on the radio, which she spoke with an American accent. The United States embassy made a cultural exchange with Brazil and Heloisa Helena ended up going to New Orleans, staying there for some time. She appeared in several movies and was the host of the Brazilian What's My Line? television program. She also appeared on the December 16, 1956 episode of the American What's My Line? (Wikipedia)
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Babek Ahmadpour

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Babak Ahamadpour, born in 1979 (or 1358 in the Persian calender) in the village of Koker in Rudbar County, Gilan Province of Iran, is an Iranian boy who is very well known in Iranian cinema and cinephile circles as the main protagonist Ahmed Ahmadpour in Where Is The Friend’s directed by Abbas Kiarostami, which is widely considered one of the greatest films of Iranian and global cinema, alongside his brother named similarly Ahmad Ahamdpour who plays the character’s best friend Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh. He grew up with almost no exposure to media, and later recalled, “we had never seen television or a camera, and did not even know what film was”. In late-1986, Kiarostami had been taking a trip to the village of Koker and had selected him and his brother as the two leads for his film. They had no prior acting experience before the film and the film would be their only lead roles. Babak later said they simply recited Kiarostami’s lines without knowing they would become a film. He described the whole process of making the film deeply surreal. Part of what makes the film so loved is how natural the performances are. He and his brother make brief background appearances in the final film of Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy titled Through The Olive Trees. They were interviewed by Houman Baba-Nouruzi in the 2018 documentary Tree Of Life.
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Loretta Devine

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Loretta Devine (born August 21, 1949) is an American actress, singer and voice actor. She is known for numerous roles across stage and screen. Her most high profile roles include Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, the long-suffering Gloria Matthews in the film Waiting to Exhale, and her recurring role as Adele Webber on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Loretta Devine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Bille Brown

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Bille Brown (11 January 1952 - 13 January 2013) was an Australian Shakespearean actor and acclaimed writer of plays. After Bille graduated his drama at the University of Queensland, he began with the Queensland Theatre Company and, later, was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Strathford and London. While with the RSC, he was one of its few commissioned writers. Bille Brown AM has been recognised twice in the Australian Honours System. On 1 January 2001 he was granted the Centenary Medal "for distinguished service to the arts" and on 26 January 2011, Bille was named as a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to the performing arts as an actor and playwright, and to education". The latter honour is denoted by the post-nominal "AM" after his name.
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Shah Rukh Khan

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Shah Rukh Khan (born November 2, 1965) is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Hindi cinema. After appearing in the television series *Fauji* (1988) and *Circus* (1989), he made his feature film debut with the romantic drama *Deewana* (1992), winning the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. He subsequently achieved recognition playing antagonistic roles in the thrillers *Baazigar* (1993) and *Darr* (1993), earning his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor for the former. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Khan established himself in commercial Hindi cinema with leading roles in the romantic dramas *Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge* (1995), *Dil To Pagal Hai* (1997), and *Kuch Kuch Hota Hai* (1998), all of which earned him Filmfare Awards for Best Actor. His subsequent dramatic credits included the period romance *Devdas* (2002), the drama *Swades* (2004), the sports drama *Chak De! India* (2007), and *My Name Is Khan* (2010), earning four additional Filmfare Awards for Best Actor. As a producer, Khan co-founded the production and distribution company Red Chillies Entertainment, backing features such as *Main Hoon Na* (2004), *Om Shanti Om* (2007), and *Chennai Express* (2013). In 2023, he returned to leading roles in the action thrillers *Pathaan* and *Jawan*, followed by the social comedy-drama *Dunki*. For his performance in *Jawan*, he won the National Film Award for Best Actor.
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Andrea Di Stefano

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Andrea Di Stefano (born 15 December 1972) is an Italian actor. Born in Rome, he moved to New York City to study acting at the Actor's Studio. In the U.S. he played in Smile, an independent movie directed by Andrew Hunt. He played the leading role in the 1997 film Il principe di Homburg directed by Marco Bellocchio and entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. He has played in films such as Il fantasma dell'opera by Dario Argento, Almost blue by Alex Infascelli, and Angela by Roberta Torre. Lately he played the role of Giancarlo in the movie Cuore Sacro directed by Ferzan Özpetek. Andrea Di Stefano has also appeared in many TV episodes. In 1999 with the role of Fabrizio Canepa in Ama il tuo nemico by Damiano Damiani. In 2006 he played in the TV movie I colori della gioventù directed by Gianluigi Calderone and in the most recent Medicina generale broadcast in the spring 2007 in which he played Giacomo Pogliani, a talented doctor in a big Roman hospital.
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C. Ernst Harth

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C. Ernst Harth got his first taste of acting in grade school when the drama club cast the school's largest child to play Santa in their Christmas pageant. He was just in kindergarten at the time. Involved in community theatre and improvisational comedy during high school, it wasn't until he relocated to Vancouver in 1989 that he seriously pursued acting full-time. In 1990, he landed his first professional gig in a TV commercial for the BC Chicken Growers. Since then, Ernst has become a busy character actor known for dozens of roles. He is also a producer.
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Ernesto Díaz Espinoza

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From Insolito Film Festival. The term "Latin American action cinema" may sound contradictory to many, even almost utopian; or at least that is how it seemed until the arrival of Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, who since his first film, "Kiltro", and throughout an extensive filmography, has given a fair place to genre cinema in our region. His cinema draws from many sources: martial arts, superheroes in "Mirageman", or exploitation flicks in "Mandrill" or "Bring me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman". But these films go beyond mere tribute; They are also due to the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of his country. A reinterpretation of certain elements closer to the Latin American feeling. This is how Díaz Espinoza's universe - one of cool criminals, fierce fighters, and women at arms - becomes one that operates under his own rules, a genre on its own. A talent worth discovering under a flurry of kicks and punches or a hail of bullets.
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Clémence Poésy

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Clémence Guichard (born 30 October 1982), known professionally as Clémence Poésy, is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions. She is known for the roles of Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter film series, Chloë in In Bruges, Rana in 127 Hours, Natasha Rostova in War and Peace, and the lead role as Elise Wassermann in the 24-episode series The Tunnel.
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