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Wendell Rodricks

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Wendell Rodricks (28 May 1960 – 12 February 2020) was an Indian fashion designer and author based in the Indian state of Goa. He was also an activist for social causes, the environment, and gay rights. In 2014, the Government of India conferred upon him its fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri. Rodricks was born to the Goan Catholic family of Greta and Felix in Parel, Bombay. He was the eldest brother to Robin, Chester and Joel. The original surname of the family was "Rodrigues", but changed to "Rodricks" after a misspelling during his grandfather's time. He grew up in Mahim and attended St. Michael's High School in Mahim. After completing school, he took a graduate diploma in catering. After this, he joined as Assistant Director of the Royal Oman Police (ROP) Officers Club in the city of Muscat in 1982. However, he did not pursue these professions but moved to fashion designing. He began by using his savings to study fashion in Los Angeles and Paris. Rodricks began his career in fashion by designing for Garden Vareli, Lakmé Cosmetics and DeBeers.[12] When in Paris with his first portfolio in hand, he was advised to put "your country in your clothes". He launched his own label in 1989 with his first show held at the Regal Room of the Oberoi Hotel, Mumbai. He was the first Indian designer to be invited to IGEDO (the world's largest garment fair) in 1995; the first Indian designer to open the Dubai Fashion Week in 2001; and was invited to present at the Paris Fashion Week Pret a Porter salon in 2007. Rodricks was known for pioneering the idea of resort wear and for advocating eco-friendly fashion. In 2010, he revived the traditional Goan attire of the kunbi sari. He convinced Pratibha Patil, Priyanka Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi to be its patrons, thus increasing the cost from a meagre Rs. 700 to more than Rs. 7000, for the benefit of the weavers. In 2016, he announced his retirement from his label, to concentrate on his museum. He handed over creative control to his student, Schulen Fernandes, who first worked with him in 1999. Rodricks made cameo appearances in the 2003 film Boom and in the television play True West in 2002. He also played himself in the 2008 film Fashion. In 2012, Rodricks released his autobiography, titled The Green Room. It came about as the result of a writing challenge by a fellow author. In 2017, he released Poskem: Goans in the Shadows. It is a work of fiction about poskem, orphans taken in by well-off Goan families, who were employed as servants. The book features illustrations by Mario Miranda. He was married with Jerome Marrel ​from 2002.
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Alexandra K*

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Alexandra K* was born in Corfu in 1985. She studied theater at the school of the State Theater of Northern Greece, at the Theater Department of the Aristotle School of Fine Arts and at Stella Adler's school in New York. She also attended courses in screenwriting (Gotham Writers, NY) and playwriting (International Theater Institute, Athens) alongside A. Staikos, while at the same time she started writing articles for newspapers and magazines. She worked briefly as an actor. Since 2007, she has been working as a columnist for newspapers and magazines, copywriter for advertising, screenwriter for television and cinema. At the same time, she writes books for children and plays.
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Prince Randian

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Prince Randian (sometimes misspelled Rardion or Randion; October 12, 1871 – December 19, 1934), also nicknamed Pillow Man, The Snake Man, The Human Torso, The Human Caterpillar and a variety of other names, was a Guyanese-born American performer with tetra-amelia syndrome and a famous limbless sideshow performer of the early 1900s, best known for his ability to roll cigarettes with his lips. He was brought to the United States by P.T. Barnum in 1889, at the age of 18, and was a popular Coney Island carnival and circus attraction for 45 years. In 1932, he was featured in the film Freaks, in which he is seen lighting up a cigarette with a match. Description above from the Wikipedia article Prince Randian, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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François Jaubert

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François Jaubert is a French actor, director, and artistic director, active both on screen and in the field of dubbing. He established himself as one of the notable voices of French-language dubbing, lending his tone to actors such as Hector Elizondo and Dennis Farina, as well as to animated characters. In film and television, he appears in numerous French productions. Alongside his acting career, François Jaubert also worked as an artistic director on several dubbing projects and took part in historical performances, notably in Autun, where he remains a well‑regarded figure.
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Filippo Pucillo

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Extrait de Wikipedia, l'Encyclopedie libre. Filippo Pucillo est découvert par hasard lors de repérages par Emanuele Crialese sur l'île de Lampedusa pour son film Respiro en 20001,2,3. Jeune acteur, dont la présence est remarquée dans ce film au succès international, il sera dès lors l'un des comédiens fétiches du réalisateur italien tout en poursuivant sa vie et ses études sur son île natale puis à Rome. Informations extraites de l'article Filippo Pucillo de Wikipedia, licence CC-BY-SA, liste complète des contributeurs sur Wikipedia.
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Kendrick Leon

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Kendrick is a distinguished actor, singer, model, producer, and social media personality of Colombian descent, raised in Miami, Florida. He embarked on his artistic journey at a very young age, training in voice and acting. At the tender age of fourteen, Kendrick became a recording artist and songwriter in Latin America. During this time, he also debuted as an actor in various projects. After seven years in the industry, Kendrick pursued an education in music and theater to become a more well-rounded performer. During 2020, Kendrick endeavored in the world of social media cultivating an extensive audience highlighting his weight-loss self-love journey as we work towards dismantling the negative perceptions with regards to Colombian culture using comedy as a vessel. Currently, Kendrick has continued his artistic journey by contributing his talents to several projects. Kendrick aspires to become a positive representation of his Colombian heritage.
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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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Vidal Arzoni

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Born into a family of artists, Vidal Arzoni played his first role in Elsa Amiel's feature film Pearl at the age of 7, alongside Peter Mullan, Julia Föry, Arieh Worthalter and Agata Buzek. He then played the role of Arthur in Julien Rambaldi's social comedy The Nannies (Les Femmes du square), alongside Eye Haïdara, Ahmed Sylla and Léa Drucker. In Gianluca Jodice's historical drama The Flood (Le Déluge), which opened the Locarno Festival 2024, Vidal Arzoni plays Le Dauphin Louis-Charles de France (Louis XVII), the son of Louis XVI (Guillaume Canet) and Marie-Antoinette (Mélanie Laurent). On television, he plays in the MAX HBO serie Le Sens des choses by Keren Ben Rafael and in the Netflix serie Winter Palace by Pierre Monnard. He also appears in the series Helvetica by Romain Graf, which won the Best Foreign French-Language Fiction Award at the 2019 La Rochelle Fiction Festival, and La Vie devant by Klaudia Reynicke and Kristina Wagenbauer. He has also appeared in a number of short and medium-length films, including the lead role in 7 Fois, by Christine Wiederkehr, which won the Best International Short Film Award at the Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) 2024. Vidal Arzoni received his first acting award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival (USA) in 2021 for his role in the film Stories Keep me Awake at Night (Nuits sans sommeil) by Jérémy van der Haegen.
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José Luis García Agraz

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José Luis García Agraz (born 16 November 1952) is a Mexican film director. He was born in Mexico City in 1952. He studied at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos (or CUEC) at UNAM. His script Los supersabios was turned into an animated feature in 1975. He was assistant director to José Estrada in Maten al león (1975) and Los indolentes; to Julián Pastor in El esperado amor desesperado (1975) and La casta divina (1976); to Gonzalo Martínez in Del otro lado del puente (1977), and to Arturo Ripstein in La viuda negra (1977) and Cadena perpetua (1978). His first short film Háblame de Rita (1979), which he also wrote, was shown at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival in Bilbao. His second short Patricio (1982) received an Ariel award. It was also selected for the Festival Internacional de Nuevo Cine in Havana and once again the Bilbao short film festival. His other shorts include Saxofón (1987), Solamente una vez (1988), Ladrón de sábado (1990) and El último tren (1996). Along with Fernando Cámara, Toño Betancourt, Nerio Barbieris and Marcelo Llacarino, Agraz founded the film cooperative Kinam to realize his debut feature Nocaut, which he also wrote. Nocaut won the Ariel for best debut film. It also won the Heraldo and the Diosa de Plata awards. The film was shown at film festivals in Amiens, Madrid and New York City among others. Agraz followed up with a number of features, notable among which are Sueños de oro / Dreams of gold (a co-production between México and the USA, 1984); La paloma azul (a Japanese-Mexican co-production, 1989); and Desiertos mares (1993), which won him the best director prize at the Ariel awards in 1994. He repeated the feat in 2004 with El Misterio del Trinidad.
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Billy Haynes

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William Albert Haynes III, is a retired American professional wrestler better known as Billy Jack Haynes. Haynes started wrestling in 1982 at the age of 28. He trained in Stu Hart's Dungeon pro wrestling school and briefly wrestled in Hart's Stampede Wrestling under his given name, forming a tag team with Bruce Hart. He started wrestling as Billy Jack in the Pacific Northwest territory but had to change his name when Tom Laughlin (who starred in the movie Billy Jack) threatened to sue him. He added his real last name to the gimmick and continued to work as a babyface. It is rumored that Haynes served time for manslaughter before becoming a pro wrestler
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