Felicity Ann Kendal, CBE (born 25 September 1946) is an English actor known in the United Kingdom for her television and stage work.
Born in 1946, Kendal spent much of her childhood in India, where her father managed a touring repertory company. First appearing on stage at the age of nine months, Kendal appeared in her first film, Shakespeare Wallah, in 1965.
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2012-09-25
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Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE (born 25 September 1969), is a Welsh actress, currently based in the United States. She began her career on stage at an early age.
After starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment in the late 1990s.
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2012-09-24
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Noorjehan or Noorjehan was the adopted stage name for Allah Wasai (September 21, 1926 – December 23, 2000) who was a singer and actress in British India and Pakistan. Her career spanned seven decades.
She was renowned as one of the greatest and most influential singers of her time in South Asia and was given the honorific title of Malika-e-Tarannum (English: the queen of melody).
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2012-09-21
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Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) serves as Madam Chairman (or Chairperson) and CEO of Xerox.
She is the first African-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company.
She is also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a Fortune 500 company. In 2009, Forbes rated her the 14th most powerful woman in the world.
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2012-09-20
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Ursula M. Burns, born September 20, 1958, currently serves as CEO of Xerox Corporation, named to that position in June 2009, the first African-American woman to head a S&P 100 company.
She previously served as president of the company's Business Group Operations, corporate senior vice president, and president.
Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern.
2012-09-20
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