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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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Maude Guérin
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Maude Guérin (born June 11, 1965) is a Canadian film and television actress. She is most noted for her performance in the 2018 film Family First (Chien de garde), for which she won the Prix Iris for Best Actress at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards. Guérin was born in La Tuque, Quebec.
She was previously a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 2000 for Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi) and in 2001 for Pandora's Beauty (La Beauté de Pandore), and Best Actress in 2003 for The Collector (Le Collectionneur).
She has also appeared in the films Heads or Tails (J'en suis!), Tar Angel (L'Ange de goudron), Audition (L'Audition), The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La clé des possibles), The Passion of Augustine (La Passion d'Augustine) and Days of Happiness (Les Jours heureux), and the television series Watatatow, Providence, Vice caché, Belle-Baie, Mémoires vives and Feux.
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Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer
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Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer is an artist, actress, and former model, the daughter of producer Sean Hepburn Ferrer and Leila Flannigan. She is the granddaughter of actors Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer. Her parents divorced when she was 6 years old. She has two younger half-siblings. Ferrer spent her childhood in Los Angeles and Florence, and briefly attended Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences. She previously studied ballet. She earned a degree from the Jersey City, New Jersey campus of Italy's Florence Academy of Art. She is 5' 11" (1.8 m).
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Nagesh
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Nagesh (born Nageswaran C. Krishna Gundu Rao), was a Tamil film actor, mostly remembered for his roles as a comedian during the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the most prolific comedians in Tamil cinema. Nagesh was born in a Kannada family from Dharapuram, Erode. He was educated in Madras and worked as a clerk in the Indian Railways before entering Tamil film industry. He acted in over 1,000 films from 1958 to 2008, performing in variety of roles as comedian, lead roles, supporting actor and antagonist.
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Barbara Bain
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Barbara Bain (born Mildred Fogel; September 13, 1931) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter on the action television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969), which earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination. She also starred as Dr. Helena Russell on the science fiction television series Space: 1999 (1975–1977).
Bain has also appeared in the films Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998), Panic (2000), Forget Me Not (2009) and On the Rocks (2020).
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Brendan Hines
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Brendan Hines, born in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He has had a number of small television roles and leading roles in a handful of independent films. He currently appears as Eli Loker on Lie to Me.
He previously played Andy Goode in the Terminator television series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Tyler Ford in The Middleman. He starred in Deep in the Valley in 2009.He was an early member of Bakerloo Theatre Project, in upstate NY, playing Orsino in Twelfth Night in 2003.
Hines writes and performs songs, solo and with a backing band, under the name The Brendan Hines. In early 2008, he released an album of 10 original songs, "Good For You Know Who".
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Jean-Pierre Frésafond
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Jean-Pierre Frésafond, born in 1936 in Montfavet, Vaucluse, discovered mountaineering after returning from the Algerian War. He began his mountaineering career at the age of 25, after leaving the family farm to become an industrial sales representative. From his earliest years, he distinguished himself on major routes such as the Walker Spur in the Grandes Jorasses and the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Dolomites.
In 1967, he joined the Groupe de Haute Montagne (GHM), which opened the doors to international expeditions: he climbed in the Iranian Caucasus, the Hindu Kush, and the Andes, and in 1972 participated in an expedition to the Gurja Himal in Nepal. He made history in French mountaineering in 1975 by leading the Lyon expedition that successfully completed the second ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m), the first peak over 8,000 meters for a Lyon team. Despite the death of Bernard Villaret during the expedition, Yannick Seigneur and Marc Batard opened the south ridge and reached the summit under his leadership. Frésafond recounts this adventure in his book Expédition au Gasherbrum 2, Lyon premier 8000 (1977). In 1979, he led a new national expedition to Nanga Parbat, stopping at 7,000 meters on the Mazenod ridge, an experience he would recount in La revanche de l’Himalaya (1980). He became president of the GHM in 1984 and organized an expedition to K2 the following year. He also serves as president of the Lyon branch of the French Alpine Club and sits on the executive committee of the French Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (FFME), spending a decade involved in the governing bodies of French mountaineering.
Jean-Pierre Frésafond has written several books, primarily focusing on his high-altitude expeditions and spiritual reflections. Among his best-known works are: Expédition Au Gasherbrum II, Lyon premier 8000 (1966), an account of the landmark expedition to Gasherbrum II, which was both tragic and victorious; and La Revanche Re l’Himalaya (1980), which recounts his experience during the Nanga Parbat expedition.
He also published works on more spiritual subjects, notably about the Jesuit Father Teilhard de Chardin, whose association he founded in Lyon and which he chaired until 2015: The Abbot Did Not Have the Right to Speak Like That..., prefaced by Yves Peysson (2000); The Abbot Did Not Have the Right to Speak Like That... Teilhard de Chardin Meets Non-Believers (2007); and Islam Explained to Other Believers, prefaced by Dalil Boubakeur (2015). These titles illustrate his dual commitment as a mountaineer and thinker, combining Himalayan adventures with philosophical, ethical, and humanist questions.
Jean-Pierre Frésafond was also recognized for his generosity and his ability to give young mountaineers, such as Marc Batard, a chance to succeed. He died on May 4, 2023 at the age of 87, leaving behind the image of a great expedition organizer, a Himalayan climber, a major figure in Lyon and French mountaineering, and a committed author.
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Ella Ballentine
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Ella Ballentine is a young Canadian film, television and stage actress. Ella is known for playing Little Cosette / Young Eponine in the Mirvish Productions 25th Anniversary Les Miserables production (2013/2014), Jennifer in Atom Egoyan's feature, The Captive, an official selection for the 2014 Cannes Film Festival one of the main characters, Kate, in Clara's Deadly Secret" a Lifetime movie, the leading role in Numbers, a Toronto Fringe Festival play in 2012 she received rave reviews for. She has starred in television productions such as Baby's First Christmas for Hallmark Channel, and as Meddie Reno in Time Tremors In 2013 Ella was invited to the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Gala as one of the "renowned Canadian performers enlivened the evening with dramatic readings of the five prize-nominated titles."
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Stephen Oremus
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Stephen Oremus (born 1971) is an American musician who has worked on Broadway theatre productions as musical director and as orchestrator. His credits include arranger and orchestrator for the music for Avenue Q, musical director and arranger for Wicked, arranger and orchestrator for All Shook Up, and musical director for 9 to 5. His orchestrations (with Larry Hochman) for The Book of Mormon won him a Tony Award in 2011, for Best Orchestrations. Oremus also won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Kinky Boots. Oremus served as orchestra conductor and music director for Frozen 2 Rufus Wainwright's 2006 Judy Garland tribute concert, which was released as the 2007 album Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall and DVD Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!: Live from the London Palladium. Oremus was born and raised in Livingston, New Jersey, and attended Livingston High School. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1992, with a major in film scoring. He is the arranger and producer of the bare bones sophisticated version of "New York, New York" sung by Carey Mulligan in the feature film Shame.
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Ariel Schulman
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Ariel Schulman (born October 1, 1981) is an American director, known for working with his creative partner, Henry Joost. Their first feature documentary, Catfish, premiered at the Sundance film festival where it received critical acclaim and went on to a nationwide release in Fall 2010. They next directed Paranormal Activity 3 and 4, as well as the thrillers Nerve and Project Power.
Henry and Rel are also Executive Producers on Catfish the TV Show, and have directed dozens of commercials and short films including A Brief History of John Baldessari, narrated by Tom Waits, which has been screened at over 75 film festivals worldwide. Their 2011 Google commercial Dear Sophie was named Time Magazine's Best Commercial of the Year. They have also made a number of short films for Vogue Magazine starring Lena Dunham, Margot Robbie, and Taylor Swift, accumulating over 5 million views.
In addition to several projects in development, Henry & Rel wrote and are attached to direct an adaptation of Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, to be produced by Ed Pressman and Gary Burden.
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