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Joan Washington was born on 21 December 1946 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Crimson Peak (2015) and Notes on a Scandal (2006). She was married to Richard E. Grant and ??? Washington. She died on 2 September 2021 in Avening, Gloucestershire, England, UK.- Sidharth Shukla was an Indian actor and model. He was the first Asian to win the world's best model Title, which was held in Turkey in 2005, and was the runner-up of Gladrags Manhunt Contest in 2004. After appearing in so many advertisements, he made his acting debut in 2008 with Sony TV show Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na and had many shows, including Jaane Pehchaane Se Ye Ajnabbi, Love U Zindagi, Balika Vadhu and Dil Se Dil Tak. He also won Indian reality show khatron ke khiladi and Bigg Boss, and was a contestant in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. He played angad bedi role in Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (2014) movie.
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Mikis Theodorakis was born in the Greek island of Chios, in 1925. It was the same year that the other great composer of Greece was born in Xanthi, Manos Hatzidakis. He fought during the 2nd World War, and was captured at the city of Tripoli. He was tortured, but when he was set free, he joined the partisan army of Greece named EAM, which means National Liberating Movement. He took part in the civil war in Greece which occurred during 1945-1949, always with the left parties of Greece. He was exiled for the first time in the island of Ikaria in 1947, he was transferred to the island of Makronisos in 1948.
He married Myrto Altinoglou, five years later in 1953, and one year later he moved in Paris in order to continue his studies in music. He composed continuously during the following years using some of the most wonderful poems in order to express the people of Greece. After Lamprakis, a Parliamentary representative was murdered, Theodorakis became a member of the Parliament and the number one enemy of the Right parties of Greece.
The great composer didn't not stop expressing his need and hope for democracy even when military dictator Georgios Papadopoulos took power in Greece in 1967. Some months later the military dictatorship decides that he is not 'welcome' in his own country, he was exiled for one more time. Great personalities express their support to this great composer, like Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Miller etc.
He became internationally famous when he composed the music for the film Zorba the Greek (1964), directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Anthony Quinn. But he was becoming very popular even before that film, when he was composing music for the Jules Dassin film Phaedra (1962) starring Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, and Kakogiannis' Electra (1962) starring Irene Papas, Aleka Katselli. He even composed music for such acclaimed films like Z (1969) by Costa-Gavras starring Yves Montand and Papas, and Serpico (1973) by Sidney Lumet starring Al Pacino. He came back in 1974, but he stayed only for 6 years. Theodorakis was dissatisfied and went back in Paris and finished his third big work, Canto General, which together with the music from the film Zorba the Greek (1964) and "Axion Esti," a piece of work based on the poems of the Nobel winner poet Odysseas Elitis.
During the '80s, he became for one more time member of the Parliament and issue of controversy in the beginning of the 90s, when he collaborated with the right party's prime minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. In 1992, he composed the Canto Olympico for the Olympic Games of Barcelona.
His opera Ilektra gained very good reviews, in Luxemburg, the Capital City Of Europe in 1995. He composed also another opera of Lysistrati for the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004. Although, he created controversies with his actions during the last decades, 1980-1990, Mikis Theodorakis was one of the greatest composers of Greece, and created the modern music of Greece together with Manos Hadjidakis.- Actress
Daffney grew up on an Air Force base in Germany. Her father, a Lieutenant colonel, returned to the U.S, and she lived in a suburb of Atlanta as of the seventh grade. She was initially signed by WCW for a 4 week-stint but impressed WCW Executives with her work, and was offered a long term contract. Known as the Dark Goddess, Daffney came a long way in a short time. Her popularity among WCW fans was on a steady rise since she first appeared on television.- Ryan Sakoda was born on 31 December 1972 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Wrestling Society X (2007), WWE Raw (1993) and In Your Face: The Lost Episodes of the XWF (2005). He died on 2 September 2021.
