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Cassandra Charlick
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Cassandra Charlick is an award-winning wine journalist, wine judge, travel and food writer, and television presenter. She is an in-demand host and MC thanks to her warm, engaging tone, industry expertise, and 20+ years in the entertainment industry. In addition to MCing events, Cassandra facilitates wine masterclasses and tastings for trade and consumers and is regularly called upon for commentary at wine tastings. When her nose isn’t in a wine glass, you can catch her behind the microphone. She spent over twenty years treading the boards globally, from London to Tokyo, as a singer, actor and model before settling in two of Australia’s wine paradises – Wooditjup / Margaret River and Lutruwita /Tasmania.
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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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Lale Westvind
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Lale Westvind b.1987 is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily in comics and animation in Pennsylvania, USA.
Her work has been published in magazines and anthologies internationally such as Kramers Ergot (USA), Best American Comics (USA), The Lifted Brow (AUS), Strapazin (CHE), Lagon Revue (FR) and the New York Times (USA). She has self-published over a dozen comic books and two anthologies. She is the author of Hax (Breakdown Press, 2015) and Grip (Perfectly Acceptable Press, 2019). A segment of her series Hyperspeed to Nowhere was featured in the 2014 issue of Best American Comics and her self-published comic Hot Dog Beach #2 won an Ignatz Award in 2012. Her animation work has shown internationally at festivals, galleries and the New Museum in New York City. Her music video for Lightning Bolt’s Metal East won an award at Leeds International Film Festival in 2015.
Lale Westvind is currently teaching animation and illustration at Parsons School of Design whilst finishing a new book for Breakdown Press (London). Her work is inspired by the natural world, the corporeal experience and her love of motorcycles and other machines.
(Source: https://lalewestvind.com/biography-and-about-page-for-comix-and-animation-artist-lale-westvind/ )
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Carlos Mestanza
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Carlos Mestanza is a Spanish actor and producer born in Barcelona, Spain. Located between Los Angeles (USA) and Madrid (Spain) who started playing theatre at the age of six, after finishing his studies in drama, script, dance, jazz and funky, he moves to Madrid where he begins working in theatre, cinema and TV series such as "Central Hospital", "Countdowns", etc.. With more than 25 years of experiences, he has developed his acting career being part of more than fifteen plays and among them we will highlight: "Luces de Bohemia" Best leading role award in the theatre festival of Barcelona (Spain), "El zoo de cristal", "Le Vilain Mire", winner of the international theatre festival of Europe. Also works in "Matar al presidente", nominated to Max Prizes, which is played for 5 seasons, counting 1.500 performances and more of 500.000 spectators. He has got an outstanding formation in Cinema and TV next to prestigious filmmakers like: Vicente Aranda, Benito Zambrano, Ramón Salazar, Imanol Uribe. In 2015 he founds and heads the audiovisual producer American Road Films S.L in Spain which is supported by renamed cinema producers and directors in Europe, the USA and Mexico.
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Charles Napier
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Charles Lewis Napier (April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was a prolific American actor known for his many supporting and occasional leading roles in television and film. Born near Scottsville, Kentucky, Napier served in the U.S. Army before pursuing higher education, earning a degree in art from Western Kentucky University. He initially worked as a sports coach and art teacher before dedicating himself to acting.
Napier gained early attention after starring in several low-budget films by director Russ Meyer, including his debut in Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969). He became well-known for his portrayal of tough, authoritative characters such as police officers, soldiers, and villains often with a rugged or corrupt edge. Among his memorable roles are the short-tempered country singer Tucker McElroy in The Blues Brothers (1980), CIA officer Marshall Murdock in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), and multiple collaborations with director Jonathan Demme in films like The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Philadelphia (1993).
He also had notable appearances in television, including roles in The A-Team, The Oregon Trail, Star Trek: The Original Series, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Napier was appreciated for his strong voice, steely gaze, and distinct broad chin, which made him a standout character actor.
Napier passed away in 2011 in Bakersfield, California, due to thrombosis at the age of 75. He also published a book about his life titled Square Jaw and Big Heart
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Jean-Loup Trassard
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Jean-Loup Trassard (11 August 1933, Saint-Hilaire-du-Maine) is a French writer and photographer.
He says of himself that he is a "writer of agriculture." Since 1961, he has been publishing short texts, narratives, photographs and texts in which he recounts his "territory" by Gallimard and Le Temps qu'il fait. The vision he offers of the traditional rural civilization which disappears irrevocably, is both ethnological and poetic.
In 2012 he was awarded the grand prix of the Société des gens de lettres Magdeleine-Cluzel for the whole of his work.
His father, René, was an entrepreneur ("fermier de droits de place" - "farmer of rights of place"-) on the markets, which was a service to the communes organizing markets, in Brittany and in Normandy. He was a single child who went to the secular school of the village. Catechism, communions and masses were little appreciated.
He lived a country childhood punctuated by agricultural work and which would influence all his work as a writer and photographer. He lost his mother in 1945.
He had poor beginnings in high school (by correspondence then at Lycée Michelet in Vanves). From the 4th to the philosophy class he attended the Lycée of Laval, whose last two years he spent as a boarder. He obtained a degree in law from the Faculté de droit de Paris. Between these legal studies, he followed the courses of ethnology at the Musée de l'Homme and especially, during two years, the courses of prehistory of André Leroi-Gourhan.
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In 1955, he married. His first child, François, was born in 1957. At the end of 1959, he sent his first texts to Jean Paulhan who received him at the La Nouvelle Revue française (NRF) and led him to Georges Lambrichs, the new literary director at Gallimard.
In July 1960, came the first publication, Le lait de taupes ("Mole milk") at the NRF. In 1960, he became a farmer of communal rights alongside his father, then in his place after his disappearance in 1968. He kept this profession until 31 December 2000. In 1961, a friendship was established with Jean Clay, a journalist and historian of art, who, for a time, was his first reader and an important support. Jean Clay later became the publisher of the Macula publishing house
In 1962, Jean-Loup remarried. He has a daughter, Laure, in 1968.
Around Georges Lambrichs, he met Dominique Aury and Constance Delaunay, and all the authors of the new series of Georges Lambrichs, Le Chemin: Jacques Borel, Le Clézio, Michel Butor, Georges Perros, Jean Roudaut, Pierre Bourgeade, Ludovic Janvier, Marianne Alphant, Max Loreau and many others, including Henri Thomas, though he was older.
The magazines successively directed by Georges Lambrichs, Les Cahiers du Chemin then the NRF, in which he actively participated, gave rise to various meetings where the authors met. Some of them became and remained very close friends: Michel Chaillou, Michel Deguy, Gérard Macé. From time to time he published in the magazine Poésie directed by Michel Deguy. In 1980, he met Georges Monti, a publisher installed at Cognac. ...
Source: Article "Jean-Loup Trassard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Maureen Flannigan
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Maureen Flannigan (born December 30, 1973) is an American documentary filmmaker and former child actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as teenager Evie Ethel Garland on the fantasy sitcom Out of This World, which ran from 1987 to 1991.
Flannigan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the USC School of Theater. She appeared in productions of Macbeth, The Crucible and William Saroyan'sThe Cave Dwellers.
Flannigan made her television debut in a guest starring role in an episode of Highway to Heaven. Two years later, in 1987, Flannigan landed the role of Evie Garland in the first-run syndication children's comedy series Out of This World, starring with Donna Pescow and Joe Alaskey. She stayed with the show until its cancellation in 1991.
Flannigan had a recurring role on The WB's 7th Heaven as Shana Sullivan, the girlfriend of Matt Camden. She was in the ABC soap opera Push, playing swimmer Erin Galway. She has also appeared on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, ER, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Starved, Close to Home, Kindred: The Embraced and 90210.
Flannigan has also acted in films. She starred in Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde (1993), National Lampoon's Last Resort (1994), Written in Blood (2003), A Day Without a Mexican (2004), and Homecoming (2005). In 2010 she appeared in the film Do Not Disturb, which she also co-produced.
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Chen Shiang-Chyi
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Chen Shiang-chyi (Chinese: 陳湘琪; pinyin: chén xiāng qí; born 27 November 1969) is a Taiwanese actress best known for her long-lasting collaboration with critically acclaimed filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang.
When she was studying at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Chen was spotted by Edward Yang when he walked by her acting class. After her performance in Yang's A Confucian Confusion, she moved to New York City to study performing arts, later graduating from the Educational Theatre master's program at New York University.
After Chen returned to Taiwan, she starred in many of Tsai Ming-liang's films. She also appeared in Lin Cheng-sheng's Sweet Degeneration (1997), which was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2014, she won the Best Actress award at the Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in Exit. Chen teaches at the Taipei National University of the Arts as an assistant professor of theatre.
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Lam Suet
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Lam Suet (Chinese: 林雪, born on 8 July 1964) was born in Tianjin and came to Hong Kong as a youth in 1979 to receive inheritance money left by his grandfather. Soon after, all the money had been squandered and Lam had to work various odd jobs to make a living.
In the mid‑eighties he got found work on movie sets through the help of friends. He performed many different roles, from lighting and props to stage manager and set and script supervisor.
Lam gradually developed an interest in acting and, by his own account, pestered various directors until they relented and gave him tiny roles. There are two pivotal people in Lam's acting career. The first is Stephen Chow, who befriended him in his early days as a crew member and cast him in films such as The God of Cookery (1996) and Kung Fu Hustle.
The second person is director Johnnie To. Lam has appeared in over 80 films since 1996 and at least 20 of those have been directed or produced by To.
Known for his weight and size, his roles are often those of a bumbling secondary character who provides comic relief amid the intense nature of To's films. He is perhaps best known for his various supporting roles in To's films, notably as the bumbling taxi driver Yip in the award‑winning film Breaking News (2004).
The most notable To–Lam collaborations include The Mission, which earned Lam Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards, and PTU. Lam was nominated for a Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in PTU. He has also had memorable roles in movies like Wu Yen (2001), as the effeminate prime minister, and in Diva — Ah Hey (2003), in which he played Charlene Choi's loving and supportive father. Lam has been married for almost a decade; his wife is 10 years his junior and is from the same hometown.
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Dayana Erappa
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Dayana Erappa is an Indian Model and an Actress who is one of the contestants in Miss India 2016 competition. She is currently doing modelling as well as getting Kollywood opportunities. Dayana Erappa was very interested in Modelling and she used to do modelling photo shoots for top brands like Kingfisher. She has also modelled for leading fashion designers such as Manish Malhotra, Tarun Tahiliani and Anita Dongre. She is an established model and has walked the ramp at many international fashion weeks including the Milan Fashion Week.
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