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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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Tõnis Niinemets
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Tõnis Niinemets (born on October 10, 1987 in Rakvere) is an Estonian actor, evening and program host.
In the years 1995-2007, he studied at Rakvere Gymnasium and participated in the Rakvere Gymnasium Theater Ensemble (supervisor Aili Teedla).
In 2011, he graduated from the Viljandi Academy of Culture of the University of Tartu, where he had studied acting in the department of performing arts.
From 2012 to 2015, he worked at the Von Krahl Theatre, since the fall of 2015 he was a freelancer.
Since August 2021, he has be an actor at the Estonian Drama Theater.
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Thurston Moore
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Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
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Sara Montpetit
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Sara Montpetit (born 2001 or 2002) is a Canadian actress and environmental activist from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2021 film Maria Chapdelaine, for which she won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards.
In 2021 she was cast in Charlotte Le Bon's film Falcon Lake, which premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. In 2022 she was cast in Ariane Louis-Seize's Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person.
She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for her performance in Falcon Lake.
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Alice Tate
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Alice Tate is an Australian actress, who was born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria. She has Australian, English and Norwegian ancestry.
Alice attended and graduated from Sandringham Collage, a well known Performing Arts School. After receiving her VCE and graduating with high distinctions, Alice moved to Europe to pursue her modeling career. She was based in Milano, Munich and Barcelona.
After several years of traveling the globe, Alice then moved to Los Angeles to try her luck in the entertainment industry. Alice has taken many well known and respected acting classes in Hollywood, her favorite being renowned acting coach Ivana Chubbuck.
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Catrine da Costa
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Catrine Beatrice da Costa, born Bäckström, was a Swedish woman who was brutally murdered in June 1984. She was married to the Portuguese Jose da Costa with whom she had a son. They lived in Coimbra, Portugal, and Stockholm, Sweden. Catrine da Costa was last seen on Malmskillnadsgatan in Stockholm on June 10, 1984. One week later, on June 18th, the dismembered parts of her body where found in plastic bags, spread out far apart. How she died has not been established, since vital organs and her head has not been found.
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John Drew Barrymore
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John Drew Barrymore (born John Blyth Barrymore; June 4, 1932 – November 29, 2004) was an American film and television actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including actor John Blyth Barrymore and actress Drew Barrymore. Diana Barrymore was his half-sister from his father's second marriage.
Barrymore was born in Los Angeles, California to John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth) and his third wife, actress Dolores Costello. His parents separated when he was 18 months old, and he rarely saw his father afterward.
He made his film debut at 17, billed as John Barrymore Jr.
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Clotilde Hesme
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Clotilde Hesme ( born 30 July 1979 in Troyes, Aube) is a French actress. She is the sister of Annelise Hesme, and Élodie Hesme, who are also actresses.
After studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD), she appeared in plays and was noticed by Jérôme Bonnel who cast her in his film Le Chignon d'Olga in 2002. In 2005 she appeared in Philippe Garrel's Regular Lovers. She was nominated for the 2008 César Award for Most Promising Actress for her appearance in Christophe Honoré's Love Songs and nominated for a Molière Award the same year for her performance in Marivaux's La Seconde Surprise de l'amour. She won the SACD Plaisir du théâtre prize in 2009.
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Arista Arhin
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Arista Arhin is a 15-year old award-winning actress from Toronto, Canada. At the age of 10, Arista decided to pursue her passion for acting. Her first big break came when she was cast as Ozlyn in the award-winning children's live action educational television series Odd Squad (TVOKids/PBS Kids). Since then, Arista has been cast as Young Michael Burnham in the latest reboot of the iconic television series Star Trek: Discovery (CBS) and Alicia Windsor in the family comedy series Bajillionaires (Family Channel).
To hone her acting skills, Arista trained at the prestigious Second City and LB Acting Studio. Outside of acting, Arista enjoys dancing, playing volleyball and softball, fashion, and travelling.
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Paget Brewster
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Paget Valerie Brewster, born March 10, 1969, is an American actress and singer. She was first recognized for her recurring role as Kathy on the fourth season of the NBC sitcom Friends. Her breakthrough role came as FBI Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the crime drama Criminal Minds, on which she appeared regularly from 2006 to 2012, and then returned to for guest appearances, before returning regularly in 2016. Her other roles include voicing Elise and Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart on the final season of Community, the voice of Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Sara Kingsley on the Fox sitcom Grandfathered, and voicing Donald Duck's twin sister Della in the 2017 series of DuckTales, marking the first animated appearance of the character.
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