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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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Joe Mantegna
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Joseph Anthony “Joe” Mantegna, Jr. (born November 13, 1947) is an American actor, producer, writer and director. He is best known for his roles in box-office hits such as Three Amigos (1986), The Godfather Part III (1990), Forget Paris (1995) and Up Close & Personal (1996). He currently stars in the CBS television series Criminal Minds as FBI Special Agent David Rossi.
Mantegna has gained Emmy Award nominations for his roles in three different miniseries, The Last Don (1997), The Rat Pack (1999) and The Starter Wife (2007). Mantegna served as executive producer for various movies and television movies, such as Corduroy (1984), Hoods (1998), and Lakeboat (2000), which he also directed.
On television, Mantegna starred in the short lived series First Monday (2002) and Joan of Arcadia (2003–2005). Since the 1991 episode "Bart the Murderer", Mantegna has had a recurring role on the animated comedy series The Simpsons as mob boss Fat Tony, reprising the role in The Simpsons Movie (2007). He also played Robert B. Parker's fictional detective Spenser in three made-for-TV movies between 1999 and 2001.
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Jordan Metcalfe
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Jordan Metcalfe (born 24 May 1986) is an English actor.
Metcalfe has appeared as Jake in The Queen's Nose in 2003. He has played the roles of Chris Travis in Heartbeat, and Kieran Tyler in Tea with Betty, Afternoon Play in 2006. He also played 'Mould' in Fungus the Bogeyman (2004), the character 'Chip' in My Parents Are Aliens in 2006, Young Garstin in These Foolish Things (2006), Lightfoot in the documentary The Iceman Murder (2005), John Chappel Jr. in the drama-documentary The Last Flight To Kuwait, Byron in Ultimate Force, Wayne in Jacqueline Wilson's Girls In Love and Brian in Misfits. 2019 saw Metcalfe join the cast of Father Brown on BBC1 afternoons.
Other notable appearances include Timon in Maddigan's Quest and Oliver in Neil Bartlett's acclaimed production of Oliver Twist at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 2004. He also played the roles of Jack in The Dreaming, and Young Katurian in The Pillowman.
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Ian Burfield
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Ian Burfield is an English actor, who has often played roles as police officers and detectives on television. He appeared in 12 episodes of The Bill, 39 episodes of EastEnders, and played the part of a Tweed Coat Fingerman in 2005 film V for Vendetta. He is also a company member of the National Theatre, and has acted in two plays which were screened in cinemas around the UK as part of the National Theatre Live scheme. Since September 2018, Burfield has been a recurring character in EastEnders as Detective Inspector/Detective Chief Inspector Peter Arthurs. (wikipedia)
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Henry Watkins
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An alumni of The Groundlings Sunday Company and a current faculty member teaching improv at the Groundlings School, Henry Watkins was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Andover and Columbia University. Inspired by his first job in show business working for Joan Rivers, he went on to study with comedy luminaries like Phil Hartman and Jason Alexander, and graduated from the Second City Conservatory. As a stand-up comic, he has appeared at the Comedy Store, The Improv and many smellier comedy venues. Outside of the Groundlings, he also performed improv and sketch comedy in hundreds of shows with The ACME Comedy Theatre, Patrick Bristow's Improvatorium, and the musical improv group Second City Sings. In addition, he was a principal writer-performer and producer on the pilots Slice, The Ghost Boys, and the forthcoming Mane Men. He had roles in the pilots Brooke and Totally, appeared on The Young and The Restless, Tosh.O, The Neighbors, Man Up and once died as a guest star on Spike TV's 1000 Ways to Die. Henry was also cast by Christopher Guest in his Census 2010 project, appeared as a contestant on Jeopardy, and co-starred on American Horror Story alongside Jessica Lange. He has appeared in more than 50 national commercials, including as spokesman for Dish Network, Pictsweet Farms, and Direct TV's NASCAR Hot Pass. He lives in Los Angeles. For more details, sit next to his mother on an airplane.
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Jay Clift
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Jay Clift is one of Canada's most sought after and celebrated theatre performers. Since graduating from Vancouver's prestigious theatre conservatory, Studio 58, Jay has not stopped working, collecting a nearly unprecedented twenty-two professional theatre credits from every major city in the country. Jay is a two time nominee and one time winner of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award. In 2014 Jay was recognized as the most promising newcomer in Canadian Theatre with the prestigious Sam Payne Award.
Jay won the first position lead in the Peabody Award winning director, Leon Lee's 2016 feature film, The Bleeding Edge. The Bleeding Edge was the recipient of the 2016 Gabriel award and is now being distributed around the world on iTunes and Amazon.
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Liina Vahtrik
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Liina Vahtrik (née Liina Sallo; born August 8, 1972 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actress.
Liina Vahtrik was born in Tallinn to actress and singer Helgi Sallo and opera singer Uno Heinapuu (:et). She attended schools in Tallinn, graduating from Tallinn Secondary School no. 47, before enrolling at the drama department of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1994, graduating in 1998.
After graduation from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, in 1998 Vahtrik began an engagement as an actress at the Von Krahl Theatre in Tallinn. She left the Von Krahl Theatre in 2008, became a freelance actress and has appeared in a number of films and television series.
Liina Vahtrik was married to Andre Vahtrik, who died in 2001. Afterwards, she had a long-term relationship with actor Jan Uuspõld.
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Zalman King
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Zalman King (born Zalman King Lefkowitz; May 23, 1942 – February 3, 2012) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His films are known for incorporating sexuality, and are often categorized as erotica.
He was born Zalman Lefkovitz in Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. As a young man in 1963 he played a gang member on Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Memo from Purgatory" written by Harlan Ellison) with James Caan and Walter Koenig. In 1967 he played the outlaw Muley in "Muley", an episode of the TV show Gunsmoke. His character shoots Marshall Matt Dillon as part of a plan to rob the Dodge City Bank, but as he and his gang are waiting for Dillon to recover (so they can try again to kill him), Muley falls in love with one of the girls at the Long Branch Saloon, which thwarts the plan.
From September 1970 until May 1971, King played attorney Aaron Silverman on the drama The Young Lawyers, broadcast on the ABC television network. King later contributed a unique delivery to Trip with the Teacher (1975), portraying the psychopathic Al, a narcoleptic murdering motorbiker.
King has directed several commercially successful films, including Two Moon Junction (1988), Wild Orchid (1990), and Red Shoe Diaries (1992), which became a long-running television series for Showtime network. It spawned many sequels. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with director Adrian Lyne on the film 9½ Weeks which starred Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. He produced (and usually directed) the television series and film ChromiumBlue.com and Showtime series Body Language. He appeared in Lee Grant's directorial debut feature film Tell Me a Riddle.
Other work as director includes the 1995 film Delta of Venus based on the book by Anaïs Nin and starring Audie England. The film about an American girl living in Paris in 1939 is in many ways reminiscent of European art house films where erotica forms a centerpiece to a plot which is nevertheless about greater issues.
He is married to writer/producer Patricia Louisianna Knop. They have collaborated on many projects, such as writing Wild Orchid, Delta of Venus and 9½ Weeks as well as many episodes of Red Shoe Diaries. They have two daughters, Chloe King and Gillian Lefkowitz.
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Hochu Otsuka
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Hochu Otsuka (大塚 芳忠, Ōtsuka Hōchū, born Yoshitada Ōtsuka [same kanji], May 19, 1954) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator affiliated with the talent management firm Crazy Box.
He is best known for his roles as the voices of Kyao Mirao in Heavy Metal L-Gaim; Yazan Gable in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam; Akira Sendō in Slam Dunk; SignalMan in Gekisou Sentai Carranger; Imagin, Deneb in Kamen Rider Den-O, Abuto in Gintama, Makoto Sōda in Captain Tsubasa and Jiraiya in Naruto. He is also the famous official dubbing roles for Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donnie Yen (especially in Ip Man series), Jeff Goldblum, Ray Liotta, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Brent Spiner, Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Patrick and many more.
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Shams El-Barudy
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Egyptian actress of Syrian origins, born in 1945, she studied at the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts for only two and a half years, then began her artistic career in the early sixties, and at that time she was still using her real name (Shams al-Muluk), but soon she changed her nickname To be (Shams Al-Baroudi) after her family name.
After that, she had many roles in the cinema, which made her an icon of temptation in the history of Egyptian cinema, and among the films in which she participated: (The Malatilian Bath, Pleasure and Agony, El Amusement Street)
Shams Al-Baroudi has also been a mainstay in the films directed by her husband, actor Hassan Youssef, including (Cowardly and Love, Fat Cats, Two On the Road).
Shams Al-Baroudi decided in the mid-eighties to retire and wear the hijab after the trip that she made with her father to perform the Umrah rituals, and she disavowed all the works that she participated in.
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