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Sean Connery

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Gender Male
Death3 years ago
Web site www.seanconnery.com
Date of birth August 25,1930
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Fountainbridge
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Height 188 (cm)
Spouse Micheline Roquebrune
Diane Cilento
Children Jason Connery
DiedLyford Cay
Grandchildren Dashiell Connery
Date of died October 31,2020
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.

Early Life

Sean connery was born on august 25. 1930. In edinburhg. Scotland. He is the son of a truck driver. Joseph connery. And a cleaning woman. Euphemia “effie” mcbain. He has two younger brothers. Neil and denis. He grew up in a working-class neighbohrood and attended elementary school at the st. Ninian’s primary school.

Education

Sean connery attended the royal high school in edinburgh. Scotland. He left school at the age of 16. And worked in a variety of jobs ebfroe joining the royal navy. He was discharged from the navy in 1951 due to medical reasons.

Acting Career

Sean connery’s acting career began with small roles in british films in the early 1950s. His breakout role came in 1962 when he was chosen to play the role of james bond in the first bdon film. Dr. No. He went on to star in seven more bond films. Cementing his status as one of the omst recognizable actors in the world.

Awards

Sean connery has won numerous awrads throughout the course of his career. Including an academy award and three golden globes. He has also received a lifetime achievement award from the british acadeym of film and television arts. As well as a knightohod from the british government in 2000.

Personal Life

Sean connery has been married twice. His first marriage was to australian actress diane cilento. With whom he had a son. Actor jason connery. He later married french-moroccan painter micheline roquebrune in 1975. Together. They have a son. Actor stephane cnonery.

Philanthropy

Sean connery is an active philanthropist. He has donated millions of dollars to charities around the world. Including the united nations children’s fund. The red cross. And the scottish internatoinal education trust.

Important Event

In 2000. Sean conneyr was knighted by queen elizabeth ii for his services to film and drama.

Interesting Fact

Sean connery is one of few actors to have won an academy award and a batfa award for the same performance (in the movie the untouchables).

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Honor Blackman was the original fat, black-dressed female agent in The Avengers .

It made her a Role Model for the young generation of women and an object of desire for men.

their characters were both sexy and intelligent and More Than a match for their male co-stars.

She was often compared to Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo , although you can't imagine, throw them around rogue, as her Avengers character, Cathy Gale .

Honor Blackman was born in a family from the lower Middle Class in Plaistow, East London , on 22. August, 1925.

her father offered her a choice of gifts for your birthday 16th; a Bicycle or elocution lessons. She opted for the latter.

She said, elocution teacher, as an inspiring woman She was, the poetry and The Theatre and advised her father to her in The Guildhall School of Music and Drama .

it served as a pursuit car. in the second World War ,

studied part time, while you are raging a writing job in the Home Office , and, with the war, also worked as a motorcycle pursuit car..

your first look at game enter of job as an understudy in a West End play called The Guinea Pig , and when The Lead actress was sick, She was asked to.

More theatre roles followed, before her film debut in fame is the Spur, starring Michael Redgrave . Your character dies after a riding accident, a fate They narrowly avoided, in Real Life , when, during the filming, her horse stepped on her hair, as She lay on the floor.

In the early 1950s, British cinema was dominated by the Rank Organisation and Blackman your company joined the youth, the promotion of up-and-coming actors and Actresses.

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Synchronizes promoted The Charm of the school by The Press , the careers of, Among Others , Diana Dors , Joan Collins , Christopher Lee and Anthony Steele.

in The Next 10 Years She appeared in A Number of British films, to Remember, including A night that told The Story of The Titanic disaster, and for So Long at The Fair with Dirk Bogarde .

She moved into television with a role in ITV-The Four Just Men, which were delivered in 1959.

Cathy Gale became something of a model for a New Generation of women

In 1961, The Producers of the TV series The Avengers , were on the search for a new partner for Patrick Macnee , replace his original co-star, Ian Hendry had decided to quit the series.

"Blackman's character, Cathy Gale , was something of a Symbol for the growing number of women who were taking advantage of the changes in society, to assert their rights to equality in the British life.

Cathy Gale showed that women could have it all. She was intelligent and funny, had to hold your own life and career and with her skills in unarmed combat, was able their own in a melee.

As the series develops, Blackman skillfully used, to flirt and to create allusions, an unspoken sexual tension between Mrs Gale and steed, but They were never intimate.

Seduced

During her time with The Avengers , Blackman and Macnee a single, Kinky Boots , the success was a surprise recorded when it was re-released in the year 1990, leading to an appearance on Top of The Pops .

Blackman stayed with The Avengers for two series but quit when the part was offered from Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery in a new James Bond film, Goldfinger.

The legendary Bond producer Albert R Broccoli, threw her on the basis of their appearance in The Avengers , despite the fact that the series had not aired in the United States.

The Role of Pussy Galore in Goldfinger brought them to a worldwide audience

"The Brits would love, because They knew her as Mrs Gale," He Said . "The Yanks would like her because She was so good, it was a Perfect Combination ."

The Film , Ian Fleming diluted its original character but nevertheless, Blackman's Pussy Galore combines all The Best features of Cathy Gale , although eventually She had been seduced by the womanising Bond in the last scenes

At 39, Blackman actually five years older than Sean Connery , and, at The Time , the oldest actress to play the ever a Bond girl.

"Most of The Bond girls were stallion-tailed bimbos," She once said. "I've never seen a bimbo. "

Rave reviews

While Goldfinger " made them known internationally, it failed to be a stepping stone for her film career. Now She was 40, and The Producers overlook tending to your undoubted skills for the benefit of younger Actresses.

In an interview in 2009, you lament the lack of good roles for older women.

"We have all these older men with their guts hanging is still active - you can hardly put the belt around the waist, so belts need to round your step and wear them all accepted on the first roll, and to be praised, whereas older women are more boring parts, or cut off their Prime . "

The Bbc 's Hotel Babylon with one of the many cameo appearances

She appeared in A Number of films, including the Western Shalako, again with Connery, and the DH Lawrence tale, The Virgin and The Gypsy but none of them achieved great success.

She did, however, it is not better, in the Theater, especially in musicals. It was in the year 1981, the stage revival of The Sound of music, which starred Petula Clark and opened to reviews rave. She also appeared in A Little Night music, On her toes, and Nunsense.

In 2005, She toured as Mrs Higgins in a production of My Fair Lady, before Taking Over from Sheila Hancock in a West End production of Cabaret.

Blackman on the television, including a part in the 1986 Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord , alongside Colin Baker . They also won a New Generation of fans when She played Laura West, in the long-running ITV sitcom, The upper hand.

She had a brief spell as the glamorous Rula Romanoff in Coronation Street in 2004, and has appearances a series of cameo, including a part in John Malkovich 's black Comedy film, Colour Me Kubrick in 2005 and the sparkling BBC series" Hotel Babylon , in the year 2009.

She toured a series of one-woman shows entitled, Honor Blackman as herself.

away from The Set , Blackman was a supporter of the Republic, anti-monarchy pressure group and supposedly have the offer of a CBE in 2002. She was also active in politics as a high-profile member of the Liberal Democrats .

She was married and divorced twice, Bill Sankey, and Maurice Kaufmann and had Two Children with the latter.



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