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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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Norm Li

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Norm Li is a Canadian cinematographer. Known for his work on the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019), Li won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography. Li is most noted for his work on the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. He was previously nominated in the same category at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for Never Steady, Never Still, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI. His other credits have included the films Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), Below Zero (2011), In Their Skin (2012), Afflicted (2013), Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2014), Edge of Winter (2016), Hollow in the Land (2017) and Same Old (2022).
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Justin Benson

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Justin Benson (born June 9, 1983) is an American filmmaker who works with his filmmaking partner, Aaron Moorhead. Both have served in directing, producing, editing, and acting roles in their projects, while Moorhead is also a cinematographer and Benson is a writer. Their films primarily centre around science fiction or horror elements. The duo have also contributed to several television series within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Aaron Moorhead

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Aaron Scott Moorhead (born March 3, 1987) is a filmmaker, who works with his filmmaking partner Justin Benson. Alongside Benson, he has served in directing, producing, editing, and acting roles in their projects, while Moorhead is also a cinematographer and Benson is a writer. Their films primarily centre around science fiction or horror elements. The duo have also contributed to several television series within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Valentina de Angelis

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She started acting at the age of 10 and studied at Lee Strasberg as well studying under various acting coaches. At the age of 12, she starred in her first film, "Off the Map" with Joan Allen, Sam Elliot and J.K. Simmons, directed by Campbell Scott. Her career launched when the film premiered at both Sundance and Cannes film festivals and was given a "Star of Tomorrow" award for her performance. Since then she has starred in various Television shows like Law & Order, CSI, Person of Interest and Blue Bloods. Her biggest role on television was on the hit show Gossip Girl and shortly after appeared as a regular on As The World Turns. Valentina became a bi-coastal actress working in both New York and Los Angeles. And in 2008, she got accepted to the USC film school where she studied both film and acting while continuing on with her career on the west coast. She's starred in various independent films like Kind of a Funny Story, Affluenza, and The Bronx Bull. She has also performed in various horror films like Bereavement, The Midnight Game, and The Malibu Tapes. She has a background in theatre, commercials, and voice overs. You can hear her narration on many of the Maximum Ride books by James Patterson.
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Adolfo Quinones

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shabba Doo is the stage name of Adolfo Quiñones (born May 11, 1955), an American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director. He became one of the founders of the dance style commonly known as locking as a member of The Original Lockers with Toni Basil, Don "Campbellock" Campbell and Fred "Rerun" Berry. Quiñones' most well known role was the role of Ozone in the 1984 hit cult film, Breakin' and its sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.  He appeared in the film Rave - Dancing to a Different Beat, which he also directed. Quiñones has made guest appearances on TV shows, including The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Married... with Children, Miami Vice, What's Happening!!, Saturday Night Live and Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure. Besides his acting and dancing work in film and television, he has served as a choreographer to many singers such as Lionel Richie, Madonna, and Luther Vandross. He was a primary dancer and main choreographer for Madonna's Who's That Girl  Tour in 1987.  Presently he serves as choreographer for Jamie Kennedy's new MTV sitcom, Blowin' Up. He choreographed Three Six Mafia's performance on the 78th Academy Awards. The group won the Oscar for best original song for their song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp". Quiñones (along with his Breakin' co-star Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers and other dancers from the film) is prominently featured in the music video for Chaka Khan's 1984 song "I Feel for You". Description above from the Wikipedia article Shabba Doo , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Rob Schrab

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Robby Christopher Schrab (born November 12, 1969) is an American comic book creator, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is the creator of the comic book Scud: The Disposable Assassin, co-writer of the feature film Monster House, co-creator of the competitive film festival Channel 101, and the co-creator of Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program. He has directed three seasons of The Sarah Silverman Program and episodes of Childrens Hospital, Blue Mountain State, Community, Parks and Recreation, The Mindy Project, Workaholics, Creepshow, and the second revival season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Schrab, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Suphakorn Sriphotong

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Pod Suphakorn Sriphothong is an actor born in Bangkok, Thailand. He graduated high school from Princess Sirindhorn's College and earned his Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration (Culinary Arts and Kitchen Management) from Dusit Tani College. Pod received a bronze medal Freestyle poultry cooking competition (such as ducks, chickens, etc.) (Junior) in the individual category from Thailand's International Culinary Cup (TICC) 2012 / Bangkok Exhibition Services Ltd. He once opens a shop selling fried chicken, the shop name is "DEEP FLY", which Pod promoted the shop in a GMMTV program “The Route” back in 2016 but stopped selling since 2018. He now owns an online bakery called "Mr.Poss". He is active in entertainment industry since 2018, being an artist under GMMTV since then. He is well known for his role as Sun in "Kiss Me Again" (2018) and "Dark Blue Kiss" (2019).
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Jacques Dutronc

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Jacques Dutronc (born 28 April 1943) is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. Some of Dutronc's best-known hits include "Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" (which AllMusic has called "his finest hour"), "Le Responsable", and "Les Cactus". Dutronc played guitar in the rock group El Toro et les Cyclones. He wrote successful songs for singer Françoise Hardy in the 1960s before moving on to pursue a successful solo career. His music incorporated traditional French pop and French rock as well as styles such as psychedelic and garage rock. He was also very important in the yéyé music movement and has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann. According to AllMusic, Dutronc is "one of the most popular performers in the French-speaking world", although he "remains little known in English speaking territories" aside from a cult following in the UK. Dutronc later branched out into film acting, starting in 1973. He earned a César Award for Best Actor for the leading role in Van Gogh (1991), which was directed by Maurice Pialat. He married Hardy in 1981 and together they have a son, guitarist Thomas Dutronc (born 1973); the couple separated in 1988, but never divorced. Jacques Dutronc was born on 28 April 1943 at 67 Rue de Provence in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the home of his parents, Pierre and Madeleine. His father was a manager for the state-run Office of Coal Distribution. Jacques was educated at Rocroy-Saint-Léon elementary school (now a lycée), the École de la Rue Blanche (now a drama school), and then at the École Professionnelle de Dessin Industriel, where he studied graphic design from 1959. In 1960, Dutronc formed a band with himself as guitarist, schoolfriend Hadi Kalafate as bassist, Charlot Bénaroch as drummer (later replaced with André Crudot), and Daniel Dray as singer. They auditioned in 1961 for Jacques Wolfsohn, an artistic director at Disques Vogue, who signed them and gave them the name El Toro et les Cyclones. The group released two singles, "L'Oncle John" and "Le Vagabond", but disbanded when Dutronc was obliged to undertake military service. After being discharged from the army in 1963, Dutronc briefly played guitar in Eddy Mitchell's backing band and was also given a job at Vogue as Jacques Wolfsohn's assistant. In this capacity, he co-wrote songs for artists such as ZouZou, Cléo, and Françoise Hardy. Wolfsohn asked Dutronc to work with Jacques Lanzmann, a novelist and editor of Lui magazine, to create songs for a beatnik singer called Benjamin. Benjamin released an EP in 1966, featuring songs written with Dutronc and a Lanzmann–Dutronc composition, "Cheveux longs" ("Long Hair"). However, Wolfsohn was disappointed by Benjamin's recording of a song titled "Et moi, et moi, et moi". A second version was recorded, with Dutronc's former bandmate Hadi Kalafate on vocals. Wolfsohn then asked Dutronc if he would be interested in recording his own version. The single reached number 2 in the French charts in September 1966. ... Source: Article "Jacques Dutronc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Fannie Flagg

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Fannie Flagg (born Patricia Neal; September 21, 1944) is an American actress, comedian, author, and screenwriter. She is best known for her bestselling 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. She also adapted the screenplay for the 1991 film Fried Green Tomatoes. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; supporting actress Jessica Tandy was also nominated. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) gave the adaptation and award for best feature film with lesbian content. As of 2026, her most recent acting credit is in 1999. However, she is still publishing novels, including a sequel to Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
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