Portal:James Bond/Selected biography
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The Selected biography box on the portal chooses one of the following at random when displaying the page. Follow the instructions below for adding or nominating a new biography to the list.
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[edit] Usage
James Bond related Featured biographies can be added directly to this list without nomination. All other biographies should be nominated first to ensure that we only display our best work on the portal. The procedure for nomination is at the bottom of this page.
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[edit] To add a new biography
- Click on the next successive empty entry or red link from this page.
- Paste the above layout template if it isn't already there.
- Write three or four paragraphs in the text field using information from the selected notable FA biography, you may find it useful to examine the existing entries for an idea of the length required.
- Ensure the main title of the biography is in bold and add this same biography to the link field.
- Add a free image and caption.
- Preview the page, check that the image size is correct. If the image is too big, add 100px to the size field.
- Save the page.
- Go to the main Portal:James Bond page.
- Click on edit page.
- Update "max=" to its new total for the {{Random portal component}} on the main page. The line which is edited is this one: <no wiki>{{</no wiki>Random portal component|max=4|header=Selected biography|subpage=Selected biography<no wiki>}}</no wiki> Make sure that "max=" is the same numerical value as the biography entry added above (i.e. if you added biography 43, then max=43)
[edit] Selected biographies list
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Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. Brought up on the Wirral, he joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of sixteen and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991. His early films included The Power of One, Layer Cake and the television episode Sharpe's Eagle.
Craig became the sixth actor to portray the secret agent James Bond in the film series of the same name. He made his debut as the character in the 2006 film, Casino Royale, to critical acclaim and was nominated for a BAFTA award. He is currently filming the 22nd James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace.
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Eva Gaëlle Green; born July 5, 1980) is a French actress, raised in Paris and living partly in London.
The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, Green performed in theatre before making her film debut in The Dreamers (2003), which generated controversy over her numerous nude scenes. She achieved greater fame for her parts in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, for which she won a BAFTA.
Green was born in Paris, France on July 5, 1980, the daughter of French actress Marlène Jobert and Swedish dentist Walter Green. Green has a fraternal twin sister named Joy, who was born two minutes earlier than her.
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Pierce Brosnan OBE (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish-American actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan desired to be an artist and began training in commercial illustration at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, but later attended drama school in London for three years. Following a stage acting career he rose to popularity in the television series Remington Steele.
Brosnan portrayed James Bond in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. He also provided his voice and likeness to James Bond in the 2004 video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing.
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Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, CBE (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007) was a Scottish stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I, and she was also the recipient of honorary Academy, BAFTA and Cannes Film Festival awards.
She was nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress but never won. In 1994, however, she was cited by the Motion Picture Academy for a film career that always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance". Amongst her most famous films were Casino Royale, The King and I, An Affair to Remember, From Here to Eternity, Heaven Knows, Mr Allison and Separate Tables.
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Sir George Henry Martin CBE (born 3 January 1926) is a British record producer, arranger and composer. He has directly and indirectly contributed to the main themes of three films in the James Bond series. Martin was responsible for the signing of Matt Monro to EMI for the second Bond film, From Russia With Love just months prior to his recording of the song of the same title.
Martin also produced two James Bond themes. The first was "Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey in 1964. Despite producing the film's theme that became a hit single, Martin did not partake in the movie's score or the James Bond Theme.
In 1972, Martin finally had a crack at arranging and producing the music for the entire film of Live And Let Die. Apart from scoring a successful chart entry for the song itself (by Paul McCartney), Martin also arranged the score that served as a precursor to the music of 1970s blaxploitation films.
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Halle Maria Berry; born August 14, 1966) is an American actress and former fashion model and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the only woman of African-American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokeswoman. She is attempting to expand into the production side of Hollywood.
Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing runner-up in Miss USA (1986), and winning the Miss USA World 1986 contest. Her breakthrough feature film role was in the 1991 Jungle Fever. This led to roles in The Flintstones (1994), Bulworth (1998), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, and Die Another Day. She also won a worst actress Razzie award in 2005 for Catwoman, and accepted the award in person.
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Jonathan Pryce (born John Price; June 1, 1947) is a Tony Award-winning Welsh stage and film actor/singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and marrying Irish actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the late 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's Hamlet, led to several supporting roles in film and television. His breakthrough screen performance came in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil.
Known for his versatility, Pryce has participated in box-office hits such as Evita, Tomorrow Never Dies, Pirates of the Caribbean and The New World, as well as independent projects such as Glengarry Glen Ross and Carrington. His career in theatre has also been prolific, and he has won two Tony Awards—the first in 1977 for his Broadway debut in Comedians, the second for his 1991 role as "the Engineer" in the musical Miss Saigon.
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Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958) is an American pop singer-songwriter. She is known for the use of sexual, social and religious themes in her work and has been nicknamed the "Material Girl" and "Queen Of Pop" by the media.
Since her debut in 1982, Madonna has released many chart-topping albums and singles, and has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. In 2002, she released the title song "Die Another Day" to the 20th James Bond film, in which she had a brief cameo role. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for both a Golden Globe for Best Original Song and a Golden Raspberry for Worst Song.
According to both the 2007 Guinness Book of Records and Forbes, she is the top earning female singer in the world. In 2001, the Guinness Book of World Records listed Madonna as the "World’s Most-successful Female Musician". In 2005, she equalled Elvis Presley's record of 36 top 10 hits, the most for any artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. RIAA named her the Best Selling Female Rock Artist of the twentieth century. On March 10, 2008, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, (born 18 June 1942), is an English singer-songwriter and composer. He gained worldwide fame as one of the members of The Beatles. After leaving The Beatles, McCartney launched a solo career and formed the band Wings.' mostlauded work. In October 1972, McCartney and Wings recorded the theme song for the James Bond film Live and Let Die.
He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music; released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in projects to help international charities. McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles.
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Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English film and stage actor. Bean has also acted in a number of television productions as well as performing voice work for computer games and television adverts. As an actor, he adopted the Celtic spelling "Sean" of his first name.
Bean has played a wide range of roles, from villains to heroes. His first successful role was his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the United Kingdom television series Sharpe. Since then he has become well known internationally for his roles as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, Martin Septim in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion video game, James Bond's adversary Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye, Nicolas Cage's competitor Ian Howe in National Treasure, IRA fringe terrorist Sean Miller out for revenge on Harrison Ford in Patriot Games, Captain Rich in Flightplan with Jodie Foster, and Odysseus in Troy.
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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress. She has won eight Grammy Awards. Turner's consistent contributions to rock music have earned her the title "The Queen of Rock & Roll". She was listed on Rolling Stone's list The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All.
She has been acknowledged as one of the world's most popular and biggest-selling music artists of all time and is the most successful female rock artist of all time with record sales exceeding 180 million. She has sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history.
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Garbage is a Scottish-American rock group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994. The band consists of Scottish-born Shirley Manson and Americans Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, and has counted worldwide album sales of over 12 million units.
Garbage released a string of increasingly successful singles in 1995–1996, including "Stupid Girl". Their debut album, Garbage, was an Sleeper hit, selling over 4 million copies in the UK, USA and Australia. Garbage won the Breakthrough Artist award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards.
Garbage spent two years working on follow-up album, Version 2.0, which topped the charts in the UK upon its 1998 release and the following year was nominated for two Grammy Awards, Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. Version 2.0 went on to match the sales of its predecessor. Garbage followed this up by performing and co-producing the theme song to the movie The World Is Not Enough.
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Louis Armstrong (4 August 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo and Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.
Armstrong was the main influence for a fundamental change in jazz, shifting its focus from collective improvisation to the solo player and improvised soloing. In his early years, Armstrong was best known for his virtuosity with the cornet and trumpet on his Hot Five and Hot Seven records.
Armstrong had many hit records including "Stardust", "What a Wonderful World", "When The Saints Go Marching In", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Ain't Misbehavin'", and "Stompin' at the Savoy". "We Have All the Time in the World" featured in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Armstrong usually played a band leader or musician in Hollywood films. His most familiar role was as the bandleader cum narrator in the 1956 musical, High Society, in which he sang the title song and performed a duet with Bing Crosby on "Now You Has Jazz"In 1947, he played himself in the movie New Orleanswhich chronicled the exodus of musicians from New Orleans to Chicago.
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