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Cher

Cher born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American pop singer-songwriter, actor, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Cher came to prominence in 1965 as one half of the pop/rock duo Sonny & Cher. She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist, a television star in the 1970s, and a film actress in the 1980s, starring in a string of hit films including The Witches of Eastwick, Silkwood, Mask and Moonstruck, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Her smash hit dance single "Believe" is her biggest-selling recording, having sold over 10 million copies worldwide.She is the only female recording artist to have Top 10 hits in every decade beginning in the 1960s and the oldest female artist to reach number one. With a career lasting over 40 years, Cher is an enduring pop culture icon and one of the most popular and biggest-selling artists in music history. She is currently performing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with her show "Cher at the Colosseum". Cher is well known for her deep contralto vocal range.

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Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis (Greek: born June 20, 1931) is an American actress. Dukakis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Alexandra (née Christos) and Constantine S. Dukakis. Her parents were Greek immigrants to the United States, her father from Anatolia and her mother from Peloponnese. She has a brother, Apollo, and is a cousin of Michael Dukakis, a former governor of Massachusetts and the Democratic nominee for president in 1988, for whom she was a delegate from New Jersey at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. She is an alumna of Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts, and was educated at Boston University. Dukakis has been married to actor Louis Zorich since 1962, with whom she has three children.

Dukakis has starred in films, including Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland's Opus, Jane Austen's Mafia!, The Thing About My Folks, and Moonstruck, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She also played the role of Anna Madrigal in the Tales of the City television mini-series, which garnered her an Emmy Award nomination, she also appeared on Search for Tomorrow as Dr. Barbara Moreno, who romanced Stu Bergman. She also appears as Dolly Sinatra (Frank's mother) in the mini-series of Frank Sinatra's life (1992).Her Broadway theatre credits include Who's Who in Hell, Social Security, and the one-woman play Rose. Her theater, film, and television work has won her an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and a Golden Globe.

Dukakis won a BAFTA Award for Moonstruck and was nominated for the Canadian Academy Award for The Event.

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Julie Bovasso (b. August 1, 1930 - d. September 14, 1991) was an American actress of stage, screen and television. She was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Italian-American family. Bovasso appeared in many films, including such famous ones as Saturday Night Fever and Moonstruck, in which she played stereotypical Italian-American matrons. She also appeared in a supporting role in Sidney Lumet's film The Verdict.

However, Off-Broadway she wrote and appeared in very avant-garde material, such as Jean Genet's The Maids, for which she won the very first Best Actress Obie (Off-Broadway) Award in the mid-1950s, which was presented to her by Shelley Winters. A sought-after acting coach, Bovasso was known as a exacting instructor and her private New York workshops regularly included prominent performers. She also was known as a writer, with her writing credits including Gloria and Esperanza.

In her earlier acting days, she played Rose Corelli Fraser in the short-lived soap opera, From These Roots. She was subsequently fired from that show, due to a disagreement with producers and was replaced. She passed away of cancer in New York City, aged 61.

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Louis Guss (January 4, 1918 - September 29, 2008) was an American character actor with a long line of screen credits, specializing in blue-collar ethnic roles. He was born in New York City. He has a family that lives in Pennsylvania. Actor Louis Guss, who appeared in hundreds of TV series, features and stage productions over his five decade career, died Sept. 29 in New York of natural causes. He was 90. Often cast as Italian and in other blue collar ethnic roles, he appeared as Dominic in "Harry and Tonto," as Raymond Coppomaggi in "Moonstruck" and also appeared in "New York, New York," "Girlfight," "Two Family House," "The Cemetery Club," "Used People" and "Slaves of New York." His last role was in Sidney Lumet's "Find Me Guilty" in 2006.

On TV, he appeared in series throughout the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s including "Golden Girls," "Chicago Hope," "Maude," "The Odd Couple" and "Cagney and Lacey." He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Tsuneko, and a son.

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John Mahoney (born June 20, 1940) is a SAGA- and Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-nominated English American actor, best known for playing Martin "Marty" Crane, the retired police officer father of Kelsey Grammer's Dr. Frasier Crane, in the American TV series Frasier (NBC, 1993-2004). Mahoney, the seventh of eight children, was born in Blackpool, England - the town to which his mother was evacuated as the Mahoneys' home city of Manchester was bombed during the Second World War and the town where he started school at St Joseph's College, Blackpool. After the war, the Mahoneys moved back to Manchester. Mahoney grew up in the Withington area of the city and discovered acting at the Stretford Youth Theatre. His father, Reg, was a baker.

Mahoney moved to the United States as a young man when his older sister, Vera, a war-bride living in rural Illinois, agreed to sponsor him. He studied at Quincy University, Illinois, before joining the United States Army to speed up the citizenship process and to become a U.S. citizen; he received citizenship in 1959. He lived in Macomb, Illinois and taught English at Western Illinois University in the early 1970s, before settling in Oak Park, Illinois. He served as editor of a medical journal through much of the decade.

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Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. (Russian: October 6, 1905 - September 17, 1992), was the son of opera basso Feodor Chaliapin and namesake of the world's greatest Operatic Bass of the twentieth century. Fedorovich(=Russian "-vich"= son of") was born in Moscow, Russia, and had a distinguished career in acting throughout Europe, mainly in Italy. His mother was Iola Tornagi, a noted ballerina, who quit Ballet and acting to take care of Feodor and his 5 other siblings. When the Russian Revolution came the Chaliapin's attempted to continue to live in Russia but things became impossible especially after the Bolshevik's reputedly confiscated his father's property. Along with many other Russian emigres---, part of the family immigrated to Paris in 1924 via Finland, which the Senior Chaliapin used as his world base and like other emigres and members of their families---often ended up living in the United States as Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff did and for a while so did Prokofiev.

Chaliapin, Jr. spent his early life in the shadow of his famous father---the greatest Operatic Bass singer of the 19th and 20th century in Paris. He received an excellent education in Moscow and grew up in a family that spoke three languages. Chaliapin, Jr., lived in Moscow until 1924 immigrating to Paris to be with his father leaving behind his mother and the rest of the family.

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