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5Jul

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Egypt, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ragaa El-Gadawi, actress

Ragaa El-Gadawi, a veteran Egyptian actress, died from coronavirus complications on July 5, 2020. The actress, whose career spanned over six decades, passed away due to complications while undergoing treatment for Covid-19, reported Arab News. She was 81 years old. The late legendary actress tested positive for the coronavirus in May, two days before she wrapped up filming for the TV series “Le’bet El Nesyan” She was moved to a hospital in Ismailia, north-eastern Egypt, for treatment. Last week, a source at the Abu Khalifa Isolation Hospital revealed that the actress had reportedly been transferred into the intensive care unit, as her health worsened. The source added that El-Gedawy was transferred immediately to the ICU after she felt shortness of br...

5Jun

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Dulce Nunes, actress

Dulce Pinto Bressane aka Dulce Nunes or Dulce Bressane ‑ a Brazilian actress and singer-songwriter of the genre MPB – died on June 4, 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. As a singer-songwriter, Nunes released three studio albums between 1964 and 1968, one of them alongside Carlos Lyra. She also collaborated as special guest in several albums by her then husband Egberto Gismonti. Outside her musical career, Nunes also ventured into cinema, acting in four Feature films between 1949 and 1967. Nunes was also an architect and owned Bressane Arquitetura & Interiores, an architecture firm in Rio de Janeiro. Nunes was married two times. First to pianist Bené Nunes breaking up in 1965 and later to fellow musician Egberto Gismonti between 1968-76. Nunes died in ...

17May

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Mexico, Noteworthy, Profiles

Pilar Pellicer, actress

Pilar Pellicer ‑ a Mexican film actress ‑ died from COVID-19 on May 16, 2020,at the age of 82 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico At the 17th Ariel Awards, Pellicer won the Ariel Award for Best Actress for La Choca. She is a daughter of César Pellicer Sánchez, a lawyer by profession, and Pilar López de Llergo, both from Tabasco. At age 18, she studied at the Academy of Contemporary Dance, and was trained by Seki Sano. She later abandoned dance to study philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She also studied at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. She debuted as an actress in the movie El vendedor de muñecas in 1955.

13May

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Canada, Noteworthy, Profiles

Renée Claude CM, actress & singer

Renée Claude CM ‑ a Canadian actress and singer from Quebec ‑ died on May 12, 2020 due to COVID-19. She was best known as an interpretive singer, particularly of songs by Stéphane Venne, Michel Conte, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré. She was born Renée Bélanger, in Montreal. She studied piano at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy, took singing lessons from Alphonse Ledoux, and won a music competition on CKVL radio program Découvertes de Billy Munro in 1955. In 1960 she made her first major television appearance on Clémence DesRochers's Télévision de Radio-Canada variety show Chez Clémence. Around the same era she began performing in Quebec City's boîtes à chanson, specializing in the songs of Ferré, Brassens and Jean-Pierre Ferland. She released her self-titled first album on Distribut...

26Apr

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Japan, Noteworthy, Profiles

Kumiko Owada, actress

Kumiko Owada –a Japanese actress, voice actress, and television presenter was admitted to a Tokyo hospital on April 6, placed on a respirator and later diagnosed with COVID-19. Okae died from pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus in the Tokyo hospital on April 23, 2020, at the age of 63. She is survived by her husband and daughter. She was known for her work on television dramas, as well as hosting entertainment and variety shows, such as Renso Game on NHK. Okae also hosted the morning show Hanamaru Market on TBS Television from 1996 to 2014. Okae began her professional acting career in 1975. She appeared in numerous television roles and variety shows from the 1970s to the 2010s. She acted in television dramas, and hosted entertainment and variety shows, such as Renso Game on...

19Apr

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Netherland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Martine Crefcoeur, actress

Martine Crefcoeur ‑ a Dutch stage and film actress – passed away on 18 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19 in Rotterdam. He was 84. Born in Rotterdam, Crefcoeur attended the Lyceum there. During her education at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts, she became the leading actor, playing Anne Frank, in The Diary of Anne Frank at Toneelgroep Theater. After she graduated, she continued working with the theater company from Arnhem for five more years. Later Crefcoeur worked for, among others, Nieuw Rotterdams Toneel, Ro Theater, and theater group Bonheur. She was the leading actor in the theater series The Family by Lodewijk de Boer and also in the 1973 film The Family. In the nineties she gave lessons at Jeugdtheater Hofplein in Rotterdam.

6Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Lee Fierro, actress

Elizabeth Lee Fierro ‑ an American actress and theater promoter best known for playing Mrs. Kintner in the Jaws film franchise - died on April 5, 2020 in Aurora, Ohio, of COVID-19. Fierro had training as an actress in theater but not as a screen actress. Fierro acted in a famous scene in the 1975 film Jaws, in which she (as Mrs. Kintner) slapped the police chief. Fierro lived for many years on Martha's Vineyard, where from 1974 to 2017 she was artistic director of the Island Theatre Workshop and mentored hundreds of aspiring actors. Kevin Ryan, the Theater's board president in 2020, who had worked with her for 30 years, estimated that Fierro had mentored and taught theater to more than 1,000 children, and recalled Fierro as "fiercely dedicated to the missi...

3Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Patricia Bosworth, journalist & actress

Patricia Bosworth ‑ an American journalist and biographer, memoirist, and actress – dies of Covid-19 on April 2, 2020. She was a faculty member of Columbia University’s school of journalism as well as Barnard College, and was a winner of the Front Page Award for her journalistic achievement in writing about the Hollywood Blacklist. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Born Patricia Crum in Oakland, California, Bosworth was the daughter of prominent attorney Bartley Crum and novelist Anna Gertrude Bosworth. She grew up especially close to her younger brother, Bartley Crum Jr. Their father was active in politics as a confidant to Wendell Willkie during the 1940 U.S. presidential election, and served on the 1945 Anglo-American Commi...

1Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Julie Bennett, actress & voice artist

Julie Bennett, an American actress and voice artist, died on March 31, 2020 from coronavirus. A native of Hollywood, Bennett worked as a character actress on stage, on radio, and in several film and television programs, including The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Adventures of Superman, and Dragnet. Bennett worked as a voice actress from the 1950s until the early 2000s. She recorded voices for UPA, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Format Films' The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (for the segment Fractured Fairy Tales), and Hanna-Barbera Productions. She is best known as the voice of Hanna-Barbera's Cindy Bear on The Yogi Bear Show and its feature-film spin-off Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! She reprised the character in Yogi's Tre...

Hilary Dwyer, actress, businessperson & film producer

31Mar

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Hilary Dwyer, actress, businessperson & film producer

Hilary Dwyer aka Hilary Heath ‑ an English actress, businessperson, and film producer – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on 30 March 2020. She was best known for her acting roles in films such as Witchfinder General (1968) and Wuthering Heights (1970). She also performed on the London stage. In 1974, she married the talent agent Duncan Heath, with whom she had two children, and helped to found Duncan Heath Associates, which was later bought by ICM Partners. They divorced in 1989. Later in her career, under her married name, "Hilary Heath", she produced the feature film An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), as well as TV remakes of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1997) and Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)....