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Louise Fletcher
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Louise Fletcher (July 21, 1934 – September 23, 2022) was an American actress. She was best known for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was also well-known for her recurring role as the Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn Adami in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–99), as well as for her role as Helen Rosemond in the movie Cruel Intentions (1999). She was nominated for two Emmy Awards for her roles in the television series Picket Fences (1996) and Joan of Arcadia (2004). Her final role was as Rosie in the Netflix series Girlboss (2017).
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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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Sebastien Izambard
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Sébastien Izambard (French: [sebastjɛ̃ izɑ̃baʁ]; born 7 March 1973) is a French musician, singer, composer, and record producer. His vocal range is classified as popular melody or vox populi to a loud, so it has a tenor tessitura phonic.
He has been a member of the classical crossover group Il Divo since 2004, who has sold over 28 million copies worldwide discs.[1] In 2000 he launched the solo titled "Libre" pop album, reaching number No. 1 ranking with the single "Si tu savais"[2] achieving excellent sales ranking in France, Canada and Belgium.[3] Currently, Izambard writes, produces and composes for pop artists of international stature.[4]
He is an active member of the French organization AMTM, Assistance Médicale Toit du Monde and global ambassador for the Sanfilippo Children's Foundation.
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Miles Gutierrez-Riley
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Miles Gutierrez-Riley (born September 17, 1998) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Ivan Taylor in the Amazon Prime series The Wilds (2020-2022), Eddie in the Disney+ series Agatha All Along (2024), Joshua in the film Smile 2 (2024) and Nathan in the film I Wish You All the Best (2024). He made his screen debut in The Wilds in which he received rave reviews, including RobertEbert.com calling him a "stand-out" and "future star" amongst the large cast. Gutierrez-Riley, who is of African-American and Puerto Rican descent, was named one of Essence’s 20 Young Black Hollywood Stars To Watch In 2022.
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Pierre-André Boutang
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Pierre-André Boutang, born March 25, 1937, in Paris and died August 20, 2008, in Grosseto-Prugna, Corsica, was a French documentary filmmaker, producer, and director.
He was one of the directors of the Franco-German channel Arte, after previously being one of the directors of La Sept. A major figure in French television, Pierre-André Boutang, producer, director, programmer, and interviewer, knew how to combine intelligence and a broad audience through films and documentary series for ORTF since the 1960s. Throughout his long career, Pierre-André Boutang explored the worlds of literature, film, and television while fostering intellectual debate.
The son of philosopher Pierre Boutang, he was first a student at the Institute of Political Studies before becoming an assistant director for film and television. From 1962 to 1967, Pierre-André Boutang was responsible for selecting films for television, and later became a producer and director of numerous films and television series ("Les Écrans de la Ville," "Le Journal du Cinéma," "Cinéregards," "Champ Contre Champ"). He also wrote numerous articles for "Dim Dam Dom," a scathing program from the days of ORTF.
From 1967 to 1986, he produced several programs such as "Le Nouveau dimanche," "L'invité du dimanche," "L'homme en question," "Désir des arts," "Projection privée," "Bibliothèque de poche," "Archives du XXe siècle," and then "Océaniques" for FR3, where he produced profiles of Fidel Castro, Martin Heidegger, and Louis Althusser. The magazine was awarded a 7 d'Or in 1987 and 1988.
Television also owes him major series of interviews co-produced with Jean Rouch, including "Mémoires du XXe siècle," featuring portraits of Gilles Deleuze (3 DVDs from Editions Montparnasse) and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, as well as "Sartre par lui-même," in which the philosopher spoke about his work for three hours. At the same time, he produced films for the cinema by Jean Yanne, Marco Ferreri, Robert Bresson, and Alexandre Astruc's Sartre par lui-même, as well as Otar Iosseliani's Les Favoris de la lune. He is the author of a biography of Roman Polanski.
In 1990, invited by historian Georges Duby to work for Sept, the cultural television channel that later became Arte, he was appointed Deputy Director of Programming under Jérôme Clément and launched the cultural magazine "Océanopolis." Pierre-André Boutang, the initiator of numerous "Thema" programs that contributed to the channel's success, also created the channel's cultural magazine, "Metropolis," for which he was editor-in-chief for France from 1995 to 2006.
For eighteen years, Pierre-André Boutang had become a pillar of Arte. The Franco-German channel broadcast his documentaries such as "The ABCs of Gilles Deleuze," "13 Days in the Life of Picasso," "Alexander Solzhenitsyn," "Depardieu, the View of Others," "Mao, a Chinese Story," and, most recently, "Jeanne M," a portrait of Jeanne Moreau, and "Claude Levi-Strauss by Himself."
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Renee Renor
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Evelyn Camarillo, known by various stage names including Renee Renor, Rita Renay, Renee Medina, Harla Day, and Tia Camarillo, was a Mexican-American singer and performer who rose to prominence during the 1950s. A trailblazer for her time, Evelyn's talent allowed her to overcome the racial barriers that shaped the entertainment industry in mid-20th century America. Evelyn grew up in an era where discrimination made it difficult for performers of colour to be recognized, leading her to adopt multiple stage names throughout her career.
She toured with legendary jazz musician Billy Eckstein, captivating audiences with her powerful voice. Known for her versatility, Evelyn performed a range of genres, including blues and country. Among her most notable recordings are "The Boy I Love," performed under the name Renee Medina, and "Everynight," released as Rita Renay.
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Vicco von Bülow
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Bernhard-Viktor Christoph-Carl von Bülow (12 November 1923 – 22 August 2011), known as Vicco von Bülow or Loriot was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer. As an artist, he was almost exclusively known under his pen name Loriot, which is the French term for the bird oriole depicted as a crest in the coat of arms of the Bülow family.
He was best known for his cartoons, the television series Loriot (1976-78) and his two movies, Ödipussi (1988) and Pappa Ante Portas (1991). On the television series Unsere Besten (Our Best), Loriot was ranked the 54th best German ever. In a special comedy episode of Unsere Besten, he was ranked as the most famous German comedian ever.
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Stephen Graham
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Stephen Graham (born 3 August 1973) is an English actor and film producer. He began his career in 1990, with notable early roles in Snatch (2000) and Gangs of New York (2002), before his breakthrough as Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in This Is England (2006).
On television, Graham reprised his role as Combo in This Is England '86, This Is England '88, and This Is England '90. He also starred in the drama Little Boy Blue, the fifth series of Line of Duty, the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, the BBC drama Time, and the sixth series of Peaky Blinders. He created, co-wrote, and executive-produced the miniseries Adolescence (2025) on Netflix, in which he also appeared, and won all three nominations at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards for it.
Graham's film appearances include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), The Irishman (2019), Boiling Point (2021) and its sequel series of the same name (2023), and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) and its sequel Venom: The Last Dance (2024).
He has received nominations for seven British Academy Television Awards and one British Academy Film Award. He was appointed OBE in 2023.
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Samuel Ruiz García
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Samuel Ruiz García was a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, from 1959 until 1999. Ruiz is best known for his role as mediator during the conflict between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), a Mexican political party which had held power for over seventy years, and whose policies were often disadvantageous to the indigenous populations of Chiapas. Inspired by Liberation Theology, which swept through the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America after the 1960s, Ruiz's diocese helped some hundreds of thousands of indigenous Maya people in Chiapas who were among Mexico's poorest marginalized communities.
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Keyshia Cole
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Keyshia Myeshia Cole (born October 15, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter and television personality. At the age of 15, she moved to Los Angeles and was later introduced to A&M Records. She released her debut album, The Way It Is (2005). It was certified gold within 17 weeks, and then platinum just eight weeks later. The album stayed on the charts for over a year, selling over 1.6 million copies. After A&M folded, Cole released her second album Just Like You (2007) under Geffen Records. It was nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 50th Grammy Awards. The album has been certified platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America, and has sold 1.7 million copies in the US.
Along with her music, Cole has ventured into reality television. She signed to a reality/documentary series Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is which aired on BET from 2006 until 2008, giving viewers a closer look into Cole's career and family life with her biological mother and sister. Her second reality show, Family First, premiered in 2012. Her third reality show, Keyshia Cole: All In, premiered in 2015.
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