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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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Justine Stafford

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Justine Stafford is an Irish comedian, writer, podcaster and television presenter. She attended Kilbeg National School where she was introduced to a short-film project for primary schools called Fis Films for which she won a national prize in Dublin. She began making her own comedy films after receiving a Camcorder the following Christmas, aged 11. At 13 Stafford won an award at Ireland’s Youth Film Festival called Fresh Films, held in Limerick. Stafford subsequently was the Irish representative taking her winning short film to an international youth film festival held in South Korea. Stafford studied film and broadcasting at the Dublin Institute of Technology after which worked for the radio station FM104 and spent five years at JOE.ie as senior social creative and content creator. She became a comedic presence on social media, including for posts based on comedically creative Halloween costumes, social commentary, and satire on popular television programmes. In 2019 Stafford was a finalist in Irish TV's Stand Up And Be Funny competition. In 2021 Stafford co-hosted television food game show Battle of the Food Trucks with Gary Patrice on RTE Player. The series was renewed for a second season that aired in 2022. In 2021 Stafford also had a role in Irish film Poster Boys, starring Keith Duffy, amongst others. In 2022 Stafford appeared on RTÉ 2 series No Worries If Not! The series was, according to RTÉ director of content Jim Jennings, “a vehicle for young comedy talent”, with a sketch comedy format. Stafford also appeared on both series of RTÉ player comedy series Darren & Joe's Free Gaff in 2021 and 2022.
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Rafael L. Silva

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Rafael Silva was born on June 18th, 1994, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He moved to the United States at the age of 13, to Harrison, New Jersey. Silva did not grow up in the acting world. Following his grandfather' and many of his uncles' footsteps, he grew up wanting to become a veterinarian and working with farm animals. However, when Silva moved to the United States and experienced continuous culture shock, he became introverted and fearful of speaking in public. In order to overcome that fear, he signed up to do a play his junior year of high school and slowly grew passionate for the theater and film. Silva attended Pace University, in downtown Manhattan, NY, and graduated with a B.F.A. in Acting for Film, Television, Voice-Overs & Commercial.
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David Quantick

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David Quantick (born 14 May 1961) is an English novelist, comedy writer and critic, who has worked as a journalist and screenwriter. A former freelance writer for the music magazine NME, his writing credits have included On the Hour, Blue Jam and TV Burp. He won an Emmy Award for Veep in 2015. Quantick was born in Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire (now South Yorkshire) on 14 May 1961, adopted, and moved at an early age with his family to Plymouth. Quantick spent the 1970s in Exmouth. Quantick went to Woodford Junior School and Plymouth College, then Exmouth Comprehensive School. He was born in 1961, in a mother-and-baby home in Wortley, Yorkshire. His mother lived in the Midlands and went to stay with an aunt In Derbyshire to conceal the fact she was pregnant. He was adopted by a family, who were living in Sheffield at the time and then moved to Plymouth. Quantick studied for a Law degree at University College London and "discovered I had no aptitude. They had these 'moot courts' - simulated a court hearings - and all I remember is dressing up in a cape like Batman." and took a Civil Service exam "to please my parents" and nearly failed" - "which was a shock". "The school I went to has a mentor system. I was asked to go back and give a talk on 'having a dream'. I told them I believe strongly that you should not have a dream." - David Quantick Quantick began writing for the music publication NME in 1983, where with Steven Wells he concentrated on comedy writing until 1995. Alongside this, he also contributed material to British comedy shows such as Spitting Image. In 1992, he joined the writing team for the Radio 4 spoof news programme On the Hour, before writing for the television follow-up The Day Today in 1994. He appeared regularly on Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade (Radio 1, 1994–1997), with his Quantick's World slot and on the weekly show, The Treatment on BBC Radio Five Live, which was an hour-long satirical news round-up. In 1995, Quantick presented a pilot show called Now What? to Carlton Television but he series was not picked up for development. He wrote with Chris Morris for Brass Eye in 1996 (broadcast in 1997) and Blue Jam (Radio 1, 1997), as well as the subsequent television version Jam (Channel 4, 2000). He also provided material for Smack the Pony (Channel 4, 1999–2001), Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show (Sky One, 2000), So Graham Norton (Channel 4, 1998) and featured on Radio 4's The 99p Challenge.
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Noa Bressane

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Director Noa Bressane was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978. Daughter of filmmaker Júlio Bressane, she worked with the filmmaker on several films. In O mandarim (1995), a biography of singer Mário Reis starring Fernando Eiras and with the director's very personal perspective, she is part of the cast as an actress. She also acts as an actress in Miramar (1997), a film about the formation of a young filmmaker starring João Rebello. Still with her father, Noa Bressane works as an assistant director on São Jerônimo (1998), a film about the desert monk in the 4th century who translates the Old Testament into Latin and later becomes a saint. São Jerônimo received awards for Best Director, Best Actor – for Everaldo Pontes, as São Jerônimo, and Best Cinematography at the Brasília Festival in 1999. Noa Bressane also works in television as an assistant director and co-director on series, soap operas and miniseries such as: Sítio do pica pau amarelo (2001), Um só coração (2004), A diarista (2007), Dicas de um sedutor (2008), Passione (2010), O astro (2011), Gabriela (2012). Her debut as a feature film director was Belair (2009), which she directed alongside Bruno Safadi. Belair is a documentary about the cinematographic universe of filmmakers Júlio Bressane and Rogério Sganzerla and the films they produced and directed in 1970 through their production company, Belair - such as Barão Olavo, o horrid, by Bressane, and Copacabana mon amour, by Sganzerla.
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Charlie Kemp

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Charlie Kemp studied drama for 3 years at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating with distinction in 2001. He has worked on a number of TV shows (Emmerdale, White Gold, Bodkin) both in the UK and abroad including a number of commercials. He is the Co-creator/writer of This Week's This Show with Thaila Zucchi. He Co-Wrote and produced 'The Many Minds of Dr Jackson' for the Edinburgh fringe festival in 2011 with Rebecca Keatley. He has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe withThe FAs Jacuzzi show, many times. He is the co-host and co-creator of the podcast "Mind Canyon' with Steve Dawson that was nominated for 2 British podcast awards, receiving a bronze medal for 'the creativity' category He was a writer for Channel 4's Off Their Rockers. Charlie teaches Long Form Improv The Free Association in London and has been performing shows with their house team The Cartel. He has directed the show 'Episodes'. He performs with Austentatious on tour and in The West End
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Phil Manzanera

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Phillip Geoffrey Targett-Adams (born 31 January 1951), known professionally as Phil Manzanera, is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music, and was the lead guitarist with 801, and Quiet Sun. In 2006, Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On an Island, and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America. He wrote and presented a series of 14 one-hour radio programmes for station Planet Rock entitled The A-Z of Great Guitarists.
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Vanča Kljaković

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Vanca Kljakovic was born on 20 March 1930 in Split, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was a director and writer, known for Hotelska soba (1975), Kljuc (1965) and Kuzis stari moj (1973). He was married to Vida Tucan and Zdenka Hersak. He died on 16 September 2010 in Croatia. Kljaković graduated from classical high school in his native Split . He studied and graduated in acting at the Academy of Theater Arts in Belgrade , and then at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, he studied and graduated in directing in the class of Dr. Branko Gavella. Kljaković appeared in Croatian theater and film life at the end of the 1950s , first as an actor and screenwriter and then, in the early 1960s , as a director at the then Zagreb Drama Theater (today GDK Gavella ). He was employed at the "Gavella" theater until 1970 , and then worked as a freelance artist. From 1996 until his retirement, he worked at the Croatian National Theater in Split : after that engagement, he became almost the "house director" of the Split City Youth Theater , where his wife, costume designer Vida Tućan , was one of his most loyal collaborators . For the past fifteen years, he has successfully collaborated with the City Puppet Theater in Split. Vanča Kljaković made his debut as a film director in 1965 with the film Duga ulica , the first part of the Ključ omnibus . Then followed the films The Eleventh Commandment (1970), My Old Man's Home (1973) and Slow Motion (1979). In 1987, he directed the film Marjuča ili smrt , and a year later Buža , perhaps his most valuable film production based on the story and screenplay of the same name by Živko Jeličić .
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Rodolfo Bebán

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Rodolfo Bebán (1938-2022) was a prominent Argentine actor and theater director. Son of actor Miguel Bebán, he rose to fame in the 1960s as a leading man in the series "El amor tiene cara de mujer". His cinematic breakthrough came with the title role in Leonardo Favio's "Juan Moreira" (1973), a performance that established him as one of the most important actors of his generation. With an extensive career in film, theater and television, he participated in memorable productions such as "Del brazo y por la calle" (1966), "Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina" (1969), and the telenovelas "Malevo" (1972) and "El Gato" (1976). In theater, he excelled in Shakespeare's classic works and popular comedies of the 60s and 70s. He was married to actress Claudia Lapacó and had six children. He remained professionally active until 2019, when health problems led him to retire from acting.
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Dermot Mulroney

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Dermot Patrick Mulroney (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is known for his roles in romantic comedy, western, and drama films. Mulroney is known for his work in various films such as Long Gone (1987), Young Guns (1988), Staying Together (1989), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Point of No Return (1993), The Last Outlaw (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), About Schmidt (2002), The Wedding Date (2005), Zodiac (2007), August: Osage County (2013), Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), Scream VI, and Anyone but You (2023). Mulroney played the main antagonist Francis Gibson in NBC's Crisis (2014), Dr. Walter Wallace in Pure Genius (2016–2017), Sean Pierce in Showtime's Shameless (2015–2017), and Bobby Sheridan in USA's The Purge (2018–2019).
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