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Như Quỳnh
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Nguyễn Như Quỳnh (born in 1954, known as Như Quỳnh) is a Vietnamese actress and People's Artist (NSND). She is also known as an amateur poet. She graduated in 1971 from the Vietnam Theatre School, today the University of Theatre and Film, Hanoi (SKDA). Two years later, she acted as one of the two female leads in her first film, Bài ca ra trận ("The Song of Battle", d. Trần Đắc, 1973). Then with her role as Nết in Đến hẹn lại lên ("We'll Be Seeing Us Again", d. Trần Vũ, 1974), Như Quỳnh won the Best Actress Award at the 3rd Vietnam Film Festival in 1975. Her roles in a series of French co-productions, Indochine (1992), Cyclo (1995) and Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000) introduced her to a foreign audience.
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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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Claire Maurier
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Claire Maurier (born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon; March 27, 1929) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 90 films since 1947.
Maurier was born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon on March 27, 1929 in the French commune of Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region, which is in the southwest of France.
She started her acting career in small film roles at the end of the 1940s. Her first 'main' role came when she portrayed Gilberte Doinel, the mother of the main character in François Truffaut's 1959 film The 400 Blows. Another notable early role of hers was as Christiane Colombey, the bigamist wife of the main character in the 1963 film La Cuisine au beurre.
In 1978, she had a notable role in Édouard Molinaro's film La Cage aux Folles as Simone. In 1981, she was nominated the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for A Bad Son. She played Madeleine, a seductive older woman.
In 2001, she gained international recognition when she starred as Mme. Suzanne, the owner of the Café des 2 Moulins, the Montmartre bistro where the titular character Amélie Poulain works as a waitress in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain). The film became the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States. The film won four César Awards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. In 2005, she starred as Maryse Berthelot in the French comedy series Faites comme chez vous!.
In 2010, she played the neglectful mother of Gérard Dépardieu's character Germain in Jean Becker's film My Afternoons with Margueritte.
Source: Article "Claire Maurier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Olivia Brown
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Olivia Margarette Brown (born April 10, 1960) is an American actress.
Brown was born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Livonia, Michigan, United States. Her family eventually moved to California and she is also a graduate of Santa Monica High School. She played Det. Trudy Joplin on Miami Vice and Vanessa Hargraves on Designing Women. She also played a recurring character on 7th Heaven. She also played a recurring character on Moesha which she played Barbara Lee. She has also acted in several films, including Throw Momma from the Train, 48 Hrs., All Tied Up, and Streets of Fire.
She guest starred in an episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as a psychic named Starr
She was married to Mykelti Williamson for two years. Her brother is Steve Brown, who played for the Houston Oilers of the NFL during the late 1980s.
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Brahmaji
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Brahmaji is an Indian film actor best known for his work in the Telugu cinema industry.[1][2] He appears mostly in Telugu movies. He is a regular actor in director Krishna Vamsi's films. Brahmaji appeared in an important role in Krishna Vamsi's debut film as a director, Gulabi.
He appeared in Krishna Vamsi's second film Ninne Pelladata. Krishna Vamsi made him hero with the movie Sindhooram. Later Brahmaji continued as a character artist. He appeared in lead roles in films such as Samakka Sarakka, Inspector, Kaki, Idea, Andariki Vandanalu, Adhyakshaa, Dhoom Dham, Abbo Vaada, Kumbakonam, and N.H-5.
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Eleni Krita
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Eleni Krita (1959) is a Greek actress. She made her first television appearance in 1984 in the series "A Writer Seeks Faces". Other television productions followed in the 1980s on state television, including: "Hypermnesia" in 1984, "The Life of Atticus" in 1985 and "The Death of Timotheus Konstas" in 1987. In addition to her television appearances during this period, she also took part in 10 video films, sometimes with leading roles and sometimes with smaller roles. She became more widely known in 2005 with her participation in the comedy series by Giorgos Kapoutzidis "Sto Para Pente" in the role of Marilena Dorkofiki. The series is considered one of the most successful on Greek television, achieving great success to this day.[3] After her participation in "Para Pente", she participated in various series such as "Safe Sex TV Stories", "Apostolos kai Monos", "Super Babas", "Yugerman" and "Alithinoi Erotes". From 2008 to 2010, she had one of the leading roles in the comedy series "I Polikatoikia" with her participation starting in the middle of the first season and ending shortly before the end of the second. In 2018, she had a guest appearance in the series "Parthena Zoi", where she played a nun who had abandoned her children out of necessity and re-adopted them. met after decades. In the 2018-2019 season, she starred in the daily comedy series "As Long as I Have You". Finally, in 2021, she played for a few episodes in the drama series on Alpha, "Angeliki". In the 2022-2023 season, she played in the series "Our Family" on OPEN, in the role of Evdokia. In the 2024-2025 season, she stars in the series "VIP Good Old People" on ANT1, in the role of Filareti.
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Eirini Koumarianou
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Eirini Koumarianou (1930/1931 – 25 January 2013) was a Greek actress whose career began in 1951.
Koumarianou was born in Galatsi, Athens. She studied at the Greek Conservatory and starred in several plays, mainly at the National Theatre, which included several ancient tragedies, mainly by Epidaurus. She co-starred, with Alice Vougiouklaki, Jenny Karezi, Rena Vlachopoulou and others, during her career. Her film credits included History of Life, Girls on kissing (1965), Tears for Electra (1966), Too late for tears, Captain jack baton (1968), The fairy and the lad (1969), The aristocrat and the Tramp, I pity the stature (1970), The rascal, The efoplistina (1971), Mary of Silence, The constellation of the virgin (1973).
On television she appeared in series such as Anastasia (1994), The Prince (1996), "Betrayal" (1996), San sister (ET1 – 1998), Alma libre "(2001) and I love-I love and in 2004 had a small role in George Savvatogennimenes Kapoutzidis. the big success came in 2006 with the series "Sto Para Pente".
Koumarianou died on 25 January 2013, aged 82, from heart disease.
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Kai Wulff
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Kai Wulff (born December 18, 1949) is a German-born American actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known as Lt. Colonel Yuri Voskov in Firefox or as the German in ¡Three Amigos!. He has also appeared in the films Twilight Zone: The Movie, ¡Three Amigos!, Oscar, Top Dog, Assassins and has guest-starred in several television series, such as The A-Team, MacGyver, Knight Rider, Street Hawk and Days of Our Lives. Because he is German-American, he has tended to play mostly Europeans. Recently he has appeared as a voice actor in video games, such as Captain America: Super Soldier, in which he voices Baron Strucker. Occasionally he also provides voices for German dubbings of American films including Al Pacino in Scarface and Robin Williams in Man of the Year.
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Jennifer Rubin
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Jennifer Collene Rubin (born April 3, 1962) is an American actress and model.
Rubin was discovered by the Ford Modeling Agency. In 1984 she was the Ford International Model of the Year. She was the original model for Calvin Klein Obsession ads. Jennifer was a competitive swimmer. Rubin decided to get into acting in 1987, her big break came when she got the part of Taryn in the 1987 hit horror film, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. She later starred in films like Bad Dreams (1988) and Screamers (1995). She also starred in some movies made for television.
She has made guest appearances on TV shows, including The Twilight Zone, Miami Vice, Tales from the Crypt, and The Outer Limits. She also appeared in the Chris Isaak video "Somebody's Crying". As of October 2006, she was working on a novel and in real estate.
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Gordon Jones
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Gordon Wynnivo Jones (April 5, 1911 – June 20, 1963) was an American character actor, a member of John Wayne's informal acting company best known for playing Lou Costello's TV nemesis "Mike the Cop" and appearing as The Green Hornet in the first of two movie serials based on that old-time radio program.
Iowa-born Jones had been a student athlete and star football guard ("Bull" Jones) at University of California, Los Angeles, and had also played a few seasons of professional football. He started out playing small roles in Wesley Ruggles' and Ernest B. Schoedsack's The Monkey's Paw (1933), his first credited role in Sam Wood's Let 'Em Have It (1935), and Sidney Lanfield's Red Salute (1935). By 1937, he had moved on to a contract at RKO Radio Pictures. In 1940, Jones had the title role in The Green Hornet but did not reprise the role in the sequel.
Jones held a reserve commission in the army and was called into the service after filming his roles as "The Wreck" in My Sister Eileen (1942) and "Alabama Smith" in Flying Tigers (1942), a John Wayne vehicle that was one of the most popular action films of the war. This picture began Jones' 20-year onscreen association with Wayne, who was also a former football player at the University of Southern California.
Jones remained associated with the service after the war, encouraging college students to consider the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. After resuming his acting career in the late 1940s, Jones appeared in prominent roles in the John Wayne features Big Jim McLain (1952) and Island in the Sky (1953).
By the end of the 1940s, Jones had aged into a beefier screen presence and into very physical character roles. He was no longer a leading man but he had developed a comic villain persona which meshed with the work of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Jones' association with the duo began in The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947) with the role of the film's heavy, Jake Frame, and continued through their television series The Abbott and Costello Show. Jones played "Mike the Cop", Costello's hulking, loud-voiced antagonist. The program was produced for only two seasons, but ensured continued recognition for Jones via frequent reruns and a 21st Century DVD release.
Jones also remained busy in films and on television throughout the 1950s, in pictures that ranged from the sci-fi chiller The Monster That Challenged the World to the Tony Curtis/Janet Leigh sex comedy The Perfect Furlough, and on TV series ranging from The Real McCoys to The Rifleman. Jones also appeared in two very successful Disney movies during the early '60s, The Absent-Minded Professor and Son of Flubber. He played harried school coaches in both pictures. He also starred with Mitzi Green and Virginia Gibson in the short-lived TV sitcom So This Is Hollywood (1955), and had a recurring role as neighbor Butch Barton during the early years of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Jones returned to the John Wayne stock company portraying Douglas, the bureaucrat antagonist to Wayne's G.W. McLintock in the Western comedy McLintock! (1963). Jones unexpectedly succumbed to a heart attack on June 12, 1963, five months before the release of that movie.
Jones has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the West side of the 1600 block of Vine Street.
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