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Michael Nyqvist

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Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist (November 8, 1960 – June 27, 2017), better known as Michael Nyqvist, was a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known for playing police officer Banck in the first series of Martin Beck films made in 1997, and later for his leading role in the film Grabben i graven bredvid in 2002. He was most recognized internationally for his role in the acclaimed Millennium series as Mikael Blomkvist, as well as the lead villains in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (as Kurt Hendricks) and John Wick (as Viggo Tarasov). In 2004, he played the leading role in the Academy Award-nominated Best Foreign Film As It Is in Heaven. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Nyqvist, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Bey Logan

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A film producer and martial artist, Bey Logan has worked in the Hong Kong film industry since the 1990s. He was a writer on Jackie Chan's The Medallion (2003), and starred in another Chan film, Rob-B-Hood (2006). Logan joined the Weinstein Company in 2005 as its vice president of acquisitions, where he also provided commentaries on its DVD releases under the Dragon Dynasty label. In 2013, he co-produced Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny with the Weinstein Company. Logan was accused of sexual misconduct by seven Asia-based actresses and crew members in 2017, as well as arranging for actresses to meet privately with Harvey Weinstein under false pretenses.
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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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Jennie Walldén

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Jennie Anneli Hyun Hee Walldén, formerly Mårtensson, born March 4, 1976, in Gwangju, South Korea, is a Swedish TV chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. At the age of six, she was adopted by a Swedish family and moved to Kristianstad. Her parents are postal clerk Hans Inge Gunnar Mårtensson (born 1941) and clerk Siv Berit Walldén-Mårtensson (born 1940). In 2013, she participated in the cooking program Masterchef Sweden on TV4, which she ultimately won. It was her husband who made her apply to the program. In October 2015, she and her husband started the Korean fusion restaurant Namu in Malmö. As early as 2016, they received a mention in Guide Michelin Nordic Countries and the following year a Bib Gourmand. A Bib Gourmand is an award in the Guide Michelin that shows that it is a restaurant that serves good food at a reasonable price.
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Mika Kobayashi

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is a piano playing, talking singer and songwriter. At the age of 22, he challenged female vocal audition with original songs and won the Grand Prix from over 1,000 applicants. Later in 2005, she made her CD debut with the mini album “Ketsuo no Kakechichi” (the main arrangement is Hirohiko Fukuda , the album producer, who also participates in backing as a keyboard). Since 2010, he has participated in many drama and anime soundtracks as a vocalist. Anime: such as " Mobile Suit Gundam UC ", " Blue Exorcist ", " Sengoku BASARA Vol.2", " Kōtetsujō no Kabaneri " " Attack on Titan ," " Arudonoa zero ", Drama: Kenji Sakaguchi starring continuous " Iryu -Team Medical Dragon- 3 "( Fuji television ), Ryuta Sato starring" straight man "( Fuji television ), Tao Tsuchiya starring-asadora" rare "( NHK ), movie Hayato Ichihara starring" box! "and the like. (The main composition of each soundtrack is Hiroyuki Sawano ). Others, " Final Fantasy XI ", " Xenoblade Cross ", " Kanso 3 "I participate in a lot of game music.
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Marcelo Machado

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Marcelo Machado (Araraquara, June 8, 1958) is a Brazilian filmmaker, known for his work with experimental video in the 1980s and, more recently, for his documentaries. He graduated in Architecture from USP. In 1981, with former classmates Fernando Meirelles, Beto Salatini and Paulo Morelli, he created the production company Olhar Eletrônico, a creative group that became known for the pioneering and experimental nature of its video productions. In the production company's early works, as producer and director of photography, Marcelo helped to document the emergence of the "Vanguarda Paulista" ("Música na praça", 1981) and to reflect on the conflict between electricity production and ecology in Brazil ("Eletroagentes", 1982). In 1983, his first fictional work, the short film "Marly Normal" (co-directed with Fernando Meirelles) won the main prize at the 1st Festival Video Brasil. Still in the 1980s, even before the dissolution of Olhar Eletrônico, Marcelo Machado was programming director of TV Gazeta, then production coordinator of TV Cultura. In 1991, he worked on the launching of MTV Brasil. He then took over the Radio and Television Department at the advertising agency DPZ, for which he directed dozens of campaigns and the documentaries "No limits" and "Around the world". In 2000 he left DPZ, working alternately as director of advertising and of television programs, as well as working in video art. In 2001 he directed the series "Brazilian Music" for the Multishow channel and the special "Drum in Braz" for MTV Brasil. In 2003 he received the award for best electronic music video for "Samba Sim". In 2005, he created and co-directed the feature documentary "Ginga, the soul of Brazilian football" for Bossa Nova Filmes. Since then, he has dedicated himself to feature documentaries, such as "Oscar Niemeyer, the architect of invention" (2007), about Oscar Niemeyer's centennial and "O Sarau" (2011), about the role of poetry in the life of the citizens of Dois Córregos. In September 2012, after two years of production, he launched the documentary "Tropicália", recovering rare images of the Tropicalist movement and with unpublished interviews with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé and Rogério Duarte.
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Jacob Farley

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Jacob Farley is a filmmaker and editor based in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated in Spring 2024 from the University of Colorado Boulder, with a BFA in Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts. Specializing in writing and directing, he has released numerous short films to the Youtube channel Farley Films, including "Slumber Hunger" and “Foos." In 2021, Farley received the Achievement in Filmmaking Award from CU Boulder for his drama short film Last Second. In 2024, he won the Best Minnesota Filmmaker Award from the Star City Film Festival for his horror short film Fine Cuts. He has worked on numerous independent film sets as a Director of Photography, Camera Operator, First Assistant Camera, Gaffer, Actor, and Production Assistant. In the post-production field, he has varied experience as an Editor, Composer, and Colorist. Farley sees himself breaking into the industry with his ambitious work ethic and unique style.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London. It was founded by the conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent in 1932 as a rival to the existing London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra. The founders' ambition was to build an orchestra the equal of any European or American rival. Between 1932 and the Second World War the LPO was widely judged to have succeeded in this regard. After the outbreak of war, the orchestra's private backers withdrew and the players reconstituted the LPO as a self-governing cooperative. In the post-war years, the orchestra faced challenges from two new rivals; the Philharmonia and the Royal Philharmonic, founded respectively in 1946 and 1947, achieved a quality of playing not matched by the older orchestras, including the LPO. By the 1960s the LPO had regained its earlier standards, and in 1964 it secured a valuable engagement to play in the Glyndebourne Festival opera house during the summer months. In 1993 it was appointed resident orchestra of the Royal Festival Hall on the south bank of the Thames, one of London's major concert venues. Since 1995 the residency has been jointly held with the Philharmonia. In addition to its work at the Festival Hall and Glyndebourne, the LPO performs regularly at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne and the Brighton Dome, and tours nationally and internationally. Since Beecham, the orchestra has had ten principal conductors, including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Vladimir Jurowski. The orchestra has been active in recording studios since its earliest days, and has played on hundreds of sets made by EMI, Decca and other companies. Since 2005 the LPO has had its own record label, issuing live recordings of concerts. The orchestra has played on numerous film soundtracks, including Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03).
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Thomas Jouannet

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Thomas Jouannet (born 30 September 1970 in Geneva) is Swiss actor. Jouannet started in a theatre class in Geneva, then he went to Paris and was trained by Jean Périmony. He started his career in several French TV series and TV movies, such as The Dominici Case and Le Silence de la Mer. He also appeared as Antoine in Clara Sheller. In 2009, he played Don Pedro in La Reine morte which is an adaptation of the play by Henry de Montherlant. He was in a relationship with actress Alexandra Lamy from 1995 to 2003, with whom he had a daughter, Chloé, born in October 1997. He married actress Armelle Deutsch in 2010, with whom he has two children. Source: Article "Thomas Jouannet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Frankie Miller

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Francis John Miller (born 2 November 1949) is a Scottish rock singer-songwriter and actor. Miller wrote for and performed with many recording artists and is best known for his 1977 album Full House, the singles "Be Good To Yourself", "Darlin'" and his duet with Phil Lynott on the Thin Lizzy song "Still in Love with You". Miller was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland in 1949. Miller began singing professionally as a teenager with a Glasgow band called The Stoics. In mid 1970, he moved to London to further his career. Later in 1972, Miller signed a solo recording contract with Chrysalis Records, and recorded his first LP Once in a Blue Moon, with record producer Dave Robinson. The album was an early example of pub rock, and featured backing by the pub rock band Brinsley Schwarz. Miller received consistently good reviews, although his singles and albums were not chart hits, Chrysalis continued to invest in his talent. In 1974 Miller sang "Still in Love with You", as a duet with Phil Lynott; the song appeared on the Thin Lizzy album, Nightlife. Miller's second album High Life, was produced and partly written by Allen Toussaint and recorded in Atlanta, Georgia during 1974. Although two album tracks, "Shoorah Shoorah" and "Play Something Sweet", subsequently provided hits for Betty Wright and Three Dog Night respectively, the album was not a commercial success. Miller's next album The Rock (1975) was recorded in San Francisco using the producer Elliot Mazer, who had co-produced Harvest for Neil Young. The next album Full House (1977), was produced by Chris Thomas. The lead off track "Be Good to Yourself" became Miller's first UK top 40 hit, peaking at No. 27 in the UK Singles Chart during June that year. In 1978 Miller hit the UK top 10 with the song "Darlin' ", which peaked at No. 6 on 14 October 1978. "Darlin' " also made the Billboard "Bubbling Under" chart in the US, peaking at No. 103. The next single penned by Miller "When I'm Away From You" rose to No. 42 in UK, but failed to chart in US. During 1979, Miller wrote the opening and closing songs on the film A Sense of Freedom, as well as performing on them. He diversified into acting. During 1979 Miller starred in Peter McDougall's TV film, Just a Boys' Game, directed by John Mackenzie. In 1980, Miller released his seventh album, Easy Money. The lead single, "Why Don't You Spend the Night", was a minor hit in Australia. Miller later re-recorded the album's closing track, "Tears", as a duet with Bonnie Tyler on her album Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983). Miller moved to Capitol Records for his next album, Standing on the Edge. It was noted by Newsday as a departure from the R&B influences on his earlier releases, sounding more like the music of rock bands Foreigner and Bad Company. In 1985, Miller released his final studio album, Dancing in the Rain. It was produced by John Jansen, and like its predecessor, the album was noted for its rock influences. Mark Deming of AllMusic compared it to Robert Palmer's single "Addicted to Love" and said that the album sounds more "dated" than his earlier work. ... Source: Article "Frankie Miller" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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