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<td valign="TOP" colspan="2" bgcolor="#330066"><b><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><a name="honorb"></a>Honor
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<p><font size="1">Born 22 August 2020 in London, England, Honor Blackman
credits her father for her acting career-unusual, given that her
family was not especially wealthy. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">For her fifteenth birthday he offered her a choice:
a bicycle or elocution classes. Feeling her accent was becoming
a bit too Cockney, she chose the latter. Her teacher advised her
father to enrol her in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,
which she attended part-time while working as an office clerk. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Upon graduation, her father once again influenced
her career by suggesting that she audition as an understudy in a
West End play. When the show's lead actress fell ill, Honor had
her first "big break." Her first film appearance was a non-speaking
part in Fame is the Spur, wherein a cavalryman killed her--and she
was nearly killed for real by a horse that stepped on her hair while
she was lying on the ground. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">From '61 to '75 Honor was married to an actor named
Maurice Kauffman; she's got a son and a daughter, and as of the
new millennium she's still single.<br>
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</font><font size="1">British audiences knew Honor as Mrs. Catherine
Gale, karate-chopping leather wearing partner to John Steed, on
the pre-Diana Rigg "The Avengers" TV series from '62 to '64. Honor
was one of the most famous Bond Beauties, Honor's character in Goldfinger
beds 007 twice in one movie, and she lives to tell about it; many
do him once, and then die. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Honor is involved with an organization called Fairtrade,
which aims to ensure that third world producers get treated fairly
and can actually make a living from their work. It is not clear
whether she's actively supporting it or just allowing her name to
be used, but she was on the front cover of their March newsletter
and was quoted saying how much she supported the organization. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">She won a BAFTA (2000) for her role in The Avengers.
She has written a book called How to Look and Feel Half Your Age
as well as a number of children's books. </font></p>
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<p><font color="#333333" size="1">One of her films turned a racist
ex-colonialist into a national hero, another witnessed her falling
in love with a maintenance worker she happened to shoot. The relationship
failed when he took her home and she found herself 'in one of my
own documentaries'. </font></p>
<p><font color="#333333" size="1">Her subjects, most notably Geri
Halliwell and Tony Blair, have begged for her services. Her friends
accuse her of interviewing them during casual conversation and she
gets angry when people talk about her 'fly-on-the-wall' documentaries,
insisting that they're 'fly on your bloody face'. Married to publisher
William Sieghart, she has a daughter named Maud. </font></p>
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<td valign="TOP" colspan="2" bgcolor="#330066"><font size="1"><b><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="anitad"></a>Anita
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<p><font size="1">Anita Dobson is an actress, most famously on Eastenders;
a writer, of a book entitled 'My East End' and singer, of the hit
single 'Anyone Can Fall In Love'.</font></p>
<p><font size="1">After years in the media spotlight playing the part
of Angie, long suffering alcoholic wife of "Dirty Den",
she now takes a lower profile, appearing on television in a variety
of programmes including 'Red Dwarf VI'. She is the partner of Queen
guitarist Brian May</font><font size="1"> and they got married last
year after 12 years. At the ceremony at Richmond Registry Office
the bride wore a red outfit and Brian a grey linen suit with a red
waistcoat. Roger Taylor, the drummer from Queen was best man. </font></p>
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<td valign="TOP" colspan="2" bgcolor="#330066"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b><a name="sylvieg"></a>Sylvie
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<p><font size="1" color="#000000">Sylvie, the daughter of a garage
mechanic and a gym teacher, grew up with three older brothers in
Paris's 11th arrondissement. She joined the Paris Opera Ballet at
11 and her rise was meteoric - at 19 she was made �toile (principal).
She left following a legendary row with Nureyev (who once said she
was the only woman he could have married) to join the Royal Ballet.
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<p><font size="1" color="#000000">In London, dancers complained that
she was too snooty to join them in the cafeteria. A princess with
a shard of ice in her heart, she now enjoys more privileges than
any other dancer: she picks the ballet, the orchestra and her partner.
She is currently dating photographer Gilles Tapie and is the wrist
of Rolex.</font></p>
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<td valign="TOP" colspan="2" bgcolor="#330066"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b><font size="1"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="vanessam"></a>Vanessa
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<p><font size="1">Vanessa Mae is a musician who has received critical
acclaim as a violinst. She has been compared with Menuhin, Heifetz
and Kreisler. The Director of the Royal College of Music pronounced
her a "true child prodigy - like Mozart and Mendelssohn" when she
was 11. She is the youngest violinist in the world to have recorded
both the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven Violin Concertos and by 13 Vanessa-Mae
had made three highly praised recordings. She performed with the
Philharmonia aged 10, toured internationally with the London Mozart
Players and made her UK debut tour with the Tchaikovsky by the age
of 12. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Half-Thai, half-Chinese, Singapore-born Vanessa-Mae
moved to London at four, adopting Britain, British nationality and
her English father. At five, she took up the violin. At eight she
reached the first crossroads of her life, choosing to concentrate
on the violin, after collecting her prize in the British Young Pianist
of the Year Competition. Vanessa-Mae shares the same birthday as
the legendary Paganini and was born on 27 October 1978. Aside from
performing classical concerts all over the world, Vanessa-Mae has
appeared on many massive rating network TV and radio shows where
she has performed classical repertoire as well as many of her own
arrangements. She started writing her own cadenzas for Mozart concertos
at 9, went on to play her own arrangements of 'Over the Rainbow'
on the Children's Royal Variety Performance, and recorded arrangements
of contemporary pop tunes by Paganini and Heifetz as well as her
own versions of 'Yellow Submarine' and other 'pop' songs. </font></p>
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<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#330066"><font size="1"><b><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="brianm"></a>Brian
May</font></b><font color="#FFFFFF"> - </font><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">Musician
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<p><font size="1">Brian Harold May was born on July 19th 1947 in Hampton
to parents Harold & Ruth. He started school in 1952 at Cardinal
Road Infants School and then Hanworth Road Primary School, Feltham.
</font></p>
<p><font size="1">In 1954 his father began to teach him to play the
ukulele and he had piano lessons. He won a scholarship and started
at Hampton Grammar School, which is where he found fuel for his
interest in astronomy. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">He formed his first band in 1964 called "1984".
They played several small gigs that year. He left school in 1966
with eleven 'O' levels and four "A" levels in Science. He began
at Imperial College in 1967 studying physics and fully intended
to become an astronomer. When he eventually left he had achieved
a BSc Honours degree in Physics & Maths. He began work on a thesis
to obtain a doctorate, but never completed it. During his final
Post-Graduate year he taught Maths at Stockwell Manor School.</font></p>
<p><font size="1">He has three children, Jimmy, Louisa & Emily. Best
known as the guitarist in rock band Queen, May has also enjoyed
notable solo success. May enjoyed his biggest UK solo hit in September
1992 with the number 5 single, 'Too Much Love Will Kill You'. Brian
is married to actress Anita Dobson, well known for her role as Angie
in Eastenders. </font></p>
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<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#330066"><font size="1"><b><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="freddiem"></a>Freddie
Mercury - </font></b><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">Late singer of
rock band Queen</font></font></td>
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<p><font size="1">Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on September
5th 1946 in Zanzibar, to parents Bomi & Jer Bulsara. Freddie moved
to India in 1947. He attended boarding school in Panchgani, just
outside Bombay. Whilst there he began his piano lessons, reaching
Grade 4 in practical and theory. The family, with the addition now
of younger sister Kashmira, moved to England in 1963. Freddie left
Isleworth school in 1964 with three "O" levels and one "A" level
in Art. He went to Ealing College of Art to study Graphic Illustration.
He left college in 1969 with a Diploma in Graphic Art & Design (the
equivalent of a Degree).</font></p>
<p><font size="1">Freddie joined his first serious band in 1969, the
were called IBEX. He was single and shared his large house and garden
with several cats, creatures he adored. He loved opera and ballet,
Marilyn Monroe was his favourite actress and Aretha Franklin just
one of his many favourite singers. He liked to drink either Champagne
or iced Vodka and Indian food was one of his favourites. He died
on November 24th 1991. </font></p>
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<td valign="top" colspan="2" bgcolor="#330066"><font size="1"><b><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="dianar"></a>Dame
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<p><font size="1">Born 20 July 2020 in Doncaster, England, Diana Rigg
was transplanted to India at the age of two when her father, a railroad
construction engineer, moved the family there for seven years (where
she learned to speak Hindi). Returning to Yorkshire, she graduated
from Fulneck Girls School in Pudsey and was promptly accepted by
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, although she frequently butted
heads with the faculty and was nearly kicked out.<br>
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</font><font size="1">While highly successful at the Royal Shakespeare
Company, she was starving on the meagre pay, and started moonlighting
on television shows. An appearance on Armchair Theatre ("The Hothouse")
indirectly led to her world-famous role as Mrs. Emma Peel. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Voted #1 in TV Guide's "Top Ten Hottest Stars of
All Time" (7 August 2020),<br>
</font><font size="1">Ms. Rigg started her acting career early,
appearing in a school play of "Goldilocks" at the age of thirteen,
and thereafter expressed a preference for the stage.<br>
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<p><font size="1">Named Commander of the Order of the British Empire
in 1987 and made a Dame in 1994, she has received honorary doctorates
from Stirling University and from the University of Leeds. She was
also briefly a model.</font></p>
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<p><font size="1">On her way to the USA, and bragging that she would
take American television by storm, Anne Robinson, the cruel, po-faced,
Kensington-based presenter of the ground-breaking TV game show,
the Weakest Link, was still waving a red rag at the Welsh this week
as she flew out of Heathrow. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Robinson, 57, voted the rudest woman on TV and rated,
alongside Hannibal Lecter, as the person other people would least
like to have dinner with, sent a storm through the valleys when
she tried to consign Wales to oblivion on the BBC2 show Room 101.
Robinson was being humorous, she insisted later. But many in Wales
failed to get the joke. Viewers complained to the BBC. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Letters accusing her of "racism" poured into London-based
newspapers. One recommended that the "witch" be forced to stand
in the national stadium, in front of 73,000 Welsh rugby fans, while
another, vaguely threatening, said "everyone would love five minutes
alone with Anne Robinson". </font></p>
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<p><font size="1">Jeremy (John) Irons was born on 19th September 1948
(that makes him 49 now) in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">His first debut on screen was Nijinsky after several
roles on stage in theatre (also for the Royal Shakespeare Company)
and musical (in Godspell). He became internationally known after
his appearance as Charles in the TV series Brideshead Revisited
and from that point his career has gone from strength to strength.</font></p>
<p><font size="1">After several Golden Globe Award Nominations his
career reached a peak when his performance as Claus von B�low in
Barbet Schroeder's Reversal of Fortune earned him the Academy Award
for Best Actor in 1991.</font></p>
<p><font size="1"><br>
Jeremy Irons is married to Sin�ad Cusack, daughter of actor Cyril
Cusack, and they have two sons, Max and Samuel. He has starred with
Sinead in a number of films including Waterland and Stealing Beauty.
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