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16 June 2018
Births
| 1940 Carole Ann Ford Age 78 |
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Carole Ann Lillian Ford (née Higgins) is a British actress best known for her roles as Susan Foreman in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and as Bettina in the 1962 film adaptation of The Day of the Triffids. |
| 1976 Tom Lenk Age 42 |
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Thomas Loren Lenk is an American stage and television actor best known for starring as Andrew Wells in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel. |
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Births
| 1918 Kenneth Connor (Died: 28 Nov 1993) Aged 75 |
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Kenneth Connor, MBE was an English comedy stage, radio, film and television actor, best known for his appearances in the Carry On films. |
| 1944 Edgar Froese (Died: 20 Jan 2015) Aged 70 |
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Edgar Willmar Froese was a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onwards bear the name "Edgar W. Froese". |
| 1959 Josie Lawrence Age 59 |
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Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence) is an English comedian and actress best known for her work with the Comedy Store Players improvisational troupe, the television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? and as Manda Best in EastEnders. Lawrence currently plays Barbara, a synthetic marriage counsellor in the Channel 4 TV series Humans. |
| 1974 Danny Strong Age 44 |
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Daniel W. Strong is an American actor, screenwriter, television director, film director, and producer. As an actor, Strong is best known for his roles as Jonathan Levinson in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doyle McMaster in Gilmore Girls. He also wrote the screenplays for Recount, the HBO adaptation Game Change, Lee Daniels' The Butler, and the two-part finale of The Hunger Games film trilogy, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Mockingjay – Part 2. Strong also is a co-creator, executive producer, and writer for the Fox series Empire. |
| 1977 David Connolly Age 41 |
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David James Connolly is a retired professional footballer who last played as a striker in League Two for AFC Wimbledon. He has previously played for the Republic of Ireland and for various clubs including Feyenoord and Excelsior in the Netherlands as well as Wigan Athletic and Sunderland in the Premier League. Connolly played 37 times for Portsmouth scoring 12 goals between 2013 – 2014 |
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| 1960 Doug Jones Age 58 |
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Doug Jones is an American actor known for roles in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres, often wearing heavy makeup to play nonhuman characters. He has appeared in Mimic, Hellboy and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pan's Labyrinth, Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water, Tank Girl, Hocus Pocus and The Bye Bye Man. He portrayed the Silver Surfer in the superhero film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and appeared in the TV series Falling Skies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Strain. |
| 1984 Sarah Hagan Age 34 |
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Sarah Margaret Hagan is an American television and film actress. She was cast as Amanda in the seventh and final season of the hit cult series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
Deaths
| 2016 Burt Kwouk (Born: 18 Jul 1930) Died Aged 85 |
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Herbert Tsangtse Kwouk, OBE was a British actor, known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films. He made appearances in many television programmes, including a portrayal of Imperial Japanese Army Major Yamauchi in the British drama series Tenko and as Entwistle in Last of the Summer Wine. |
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| 1958 Glenn Gregory Age 60 |
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Glenn Peter Gregory is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose music career spans more than 30 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of the new wave and synthpop band Heaven 17, which released six singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, and 1990s, including "Temptation", "Come Live with Me", "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry", "Sunset Now", "This Is Mine", and "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" |
| 1964 Rebecca Front Age 54 |
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Rebecca Louise Front is an English actress, writer, comedian and singer. She won the 2010 BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for The Thick of It (2009–12). She is also known for her work in numerous other British comedies, including the radio show On The Hour (1992), The Day Today (1994), Knowing Me, Knowing You… with Alan Partridge (1994), Time Gentlemen Please (2000–02), sketch show Big Train (2002), and Nighty Night (2004–05). |
| 1969 David Boreanaz Age 49 |
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David Boreanaz is an American actor, television producer, and director, known for playing the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth on the television crime procedural comedy-drama series Bones (2005–2017) and Jason Hayes in the military drama series SEAL Team. |
| 1969 Yannick Bisson Age 49 |
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Yannick D. Bisson is a Canadian film and television actor and director best known to international audiences for playing Detective William Murdoch on the series Murdoch Mysteries. |
| 1982 Tiya Sircar Age 36 |
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Tiya Sircar is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in The Internship, 17 Again, Star Wars Rebels, and The Good Place. |
Deaths
| 2011 Edward Hardwicke (Born: 07 Aug 1932) Died Aged 78 |
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Edward Cedric Hardwicke was an English actor, who had a distinguished career on the stage, as well as being known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in the Granada TV series Sherlock Holmes. |
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| 1948 Lindsay Crouse Age 70 |
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Lindsay Ann Crouse is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the 1972 revival of Much Ado About Nothing and appeared in her first film in 1976 in All the President's Men. For her role in the 1984 film Places in the Heart, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Slap Shot (1977), Between the Lines (1977), The Verdict (1982), Prefontaine (1997), and The Insider (1999). She also had a leading role in the 1987 film House of Games, which was directed by her then-husband David Mamet. In 1996, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for "Between Mother and Daughter", an episode of CBS Schoolbreak Special. She is also a Grammy Award nominee. |
| 1978 Jason Biggs Age 40 |
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Jason Matthew Biggs is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles as Jim Levenstein in the American Pie comedy film series, and Larry Bloom in the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black. He also starred in Loser and Saving Silverman. Biggs initially gained recognition from his role in the soap opera As the World Turns, for which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series in 1995. |
| 1978 Malin Akerman Age 40 |
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Malin Maria Åkerman is a Swedish-Canadian actress, model and singer. She became known for making appearances in several Canadian productions. In the early 2000s, she had many television and film parts, including The Utopian Society (2003) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). Following a supporting role on the comedy series The Comeback (2005), Åkerman gained her first starring roles in the feature films The Heartbreak Kid (2007) and 27 Dresses (2008). |
| 1986 Emily VanCamp Age 32 |
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Emily Irene VanCamp is a Canadian actress, known for her lead roles on the WB series Everwood (2002–06), the ABC dramas Brothers & Sisters (2007–10) and Revenge (2011–15), and as Sharon Carter / Agent 13 in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016). VanCamp stars as the female lead in the Fox medical drama series The Resident, which debuted in January 2018 as a midseason entry in the 2017–18 US television season. |
| 1992 Adam Buxton Age 26 |
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Adam Mark Buxton is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Tranmere Rovers. Buxton played 5 times for Portsmouth in 2016 |
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Births
| 1958 Paul Gardiner (Died: 04 Feb 1984) Aged 25 |
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Paul Mark Gardiner was a British musician who played bass guitar with Gary Numan and Tubeway Army, as well as creating material under his own name. |
| 1972 Julie Benz Age 46 |
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Julie Marie Benz is an American actress, best known for her roles as Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (1997–2004) and Rita Bennett on Dexter (2006–2010), for which she won the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress and the 2009 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also starred on the series Roswell (1999–2000), Desperate Housewives (2010), No Ordinary Family (2010–2011), A Gifted Man (2011–2012), Defiance (2013–2015), and Hawaii Five-0 (2015–present). Her film roles include Jawbreaker (1999), The Brothers (2001), Rambo, Saw V and Punisher: War Zone (2008), The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009), and Bedrooms (2010). |
| 1975 Alexey Smertin Age 43 |
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Aleksey Gennadyevich Smertin is a retired footballer. He was a fairly versatile player and was able to play in defence as well as midfield. He works as a deputy executive director with FC Dynamo Moscow. Smertin played 33 times for Portsmouth between 2003 – 2004 |
| 1990 Caitlin Stasey Age 28 |
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Caitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Rachel Kinski in Neighbours. Previously she played Francesca Thomas in The Sleepover Club, although her breakthrough movie role came in Tomorrow, When the War Began, a 2010 movie adaption of the teen novel of the same name in which she played lead protagonist Ellie Linton. She also played Lady Kenna in the American series Reign from 2013 to 2015 and had a recurring role in the ABC2 series Please Like Me from 2013 to 2016. In 2017 Stasey starred as Ada on the Fox television drama APB, which was cancelled after one season in May 2017. |
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| 1942 David Bradley Age 76 |
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David John Bradley is an English actor. He is known for playing Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series, Walder Frey in the HBO series Game of Thrones and Abraham Setrakian in The Strain, although he is also an established stage actor with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of King Lear. |
| 1955 Kristine Sutherland Age 63 |
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Kristine Sutherland (born Kristine Young) is an American actress best known for her starring role as Buffy Summers' mother Joyce Summers on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where she appeared in every season, and her role as Mae Thompson in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). |
| 1955 Pete Shelley Age 63 |
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Peter Campbell McNeish, known professionally as Pete Shelley, is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of Buzzcocks. |
| 1959 Sean Bean Age 59 |
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Shaun Mark Bean, known professionally as Sean Bean, is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983. Retaining his Yorkshire accent, he first found mainstream success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series Sharpe. Bean has since garnered further recognition for his performance as Ned Stark in the HBO epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, as well as roles in the BBC anthology series Accused and the ITV historical drama series Henry VIII. His most prominent film role was Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03). |
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| 1929 Gerry Anderson (Died: 26 Dec 2012) Aged 83 |
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Gerry Anderson, MBE (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. He remains famous for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts). |
| 1958 Peter Capaldi Age 60 |
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Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role in In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. |
| 1977 Sarah Michelle Gellar Age 41 |
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Sarah Michelle Gellar is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. Gellar received widespread recognition for her portrayal of Buffy Summers on the WB series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), which earned her five Teen Choice Awards, a Saturn Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination. The character was widely popular during the airing of the show and became recognised as one of the greatest female characters in U.S. television |
| 1979 Noe Pamarot Age 39 |
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Louis Noé Pamarot, more commonly known as Noé Pamarot, is a French former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Before moving to Spain, Pamarot played for Portsmouth in the Premier League. Pamarot has previously played for Martigues, Nice and Tottenham Hotspur and also had a brief loan spell at Portsmouth in the 1999–2000 season Pamarot played 80 times for Portsmouth scoring 8 goals between 1999 – 2009 |
| 1994 Skyler Samuels Age 24  |
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Skyler Rose Samuels is an American actress and model, best known for her roles in the television series The Gates, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Scream Queens, and The Gifted. |
| 1996 Abigail Breslin Age 22 |
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Abigail Kathleen Breslin is an American actress and singer. She appeared in her first commercial when she was three years old, and in her first film, Signs (2002), at the age of five. Her other film roles include Raising Helen (2004), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, No Reservations (2007), Nim's Island (2008), Definitely, Maybe (2008), My Sister's Keeper (2009), Zombieland (2009), Rango (2011), and August: Osage County (2013). In September 2015, she began acting in the horror-comedy Scream Queens on Fox, in which she has her first regular role on a television series. |
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| 1947 Tom Clancy (Died: 01 Oct 2013) Aged 66 |
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Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees. |
| 1971 Nicholas Brendon Age 47 |
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Nicholas Brendon (born Nicholas Brendon Schultz) is an American actor and writer. He is best known for playing Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and Kevin Lynch in Criminal Minds (2007–2014). Since 2014 he has been writing on the Buffy Season 10 comic book. |
| 1971 Shannen Doherty Age 47 |
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Shannen Maria Doherty is an American actress, producer, and television director. She is known for her roles as Maggie Malene in Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), Heather Duke in Heathers (1988), Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–1994), and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed (1998–2001). |
| 1977 Jordana Spiro Age 41 |
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Jordana Spiro is an American actress, director, and writer. As an actress she has starred in numerous films and television series including Netflix's Ozark and TBS comedy series My Boys. |
| 1979 Claire Danes Age 39 |
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Claire Catherine Danes is an American actress. She gained recognition with her role as Angela Chase in the 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life. She made her film debut the same year in Little Women (1994). Her other films include Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Rainmaker (1997), Les Misérables (1998), Brokedown Palace(1999), the 1999 English dub of Princess Mononoke (1997), Igby Goes Down (2002), The Hours (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Shopgirl (2005) and Stardust (2007). |
| 1979 Jennifer Morrison Age 39 |
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Jennifer Marie Morrison is an American actress, producer, and former child model. She is known for her roles as Dr. Allison Cameron in the medical-drama series House (2004–2012) and Emma Swan in the ABC adventure-fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2018). She also has portrayed Zoey Pierson, one of Ted Mosby's love interests on the comedy series How I Met Your Mother; Winona Kirk, mother of James T. Kirk in the 2009 science-fiction film Star Trek; and Tess Conlon in the 2011 sports drama film Warrior. |
| 1988 Wes Fogden Age 30 |
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Wesley Keith Fogden is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Havant & Waterlooville. Fogden played 28 times for Portsmouth scoring 2 goals between 2014 – 2015 |
| 1994 Saoirse Ronan Age 24 |
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Saoirse Una Ronan is an Irish and American actress. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, three Academy Award nominations, and four British Academy Film Award nominations. In 2016, she was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and in Time's Next Generation Leaders list. |
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| 1932 Joel Grey Age 86 |
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Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz) is an American actor, singer, dancer, and photographer. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film versions of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won an Academy Award, Tony Award, and Golden Globe Award. |
| 1973 Jennifer Esposito Age 45 |
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Jennifer Esposito is an American actress and author. She is known for her roles in the feature films Crash, Summer of Sam, Don't Say a Word, and Welcome to Collinwood. Esposito has also appeared in several television series, most notably Spin City, Related, Samantha Who?, Blue Bloods, and Mistresses. From 2016 to 2017, Esposito played Special Agent Alexandra Quinn on the CBS series NCIS. |
| 1974 Tricia Helfer Age 44 |
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Tricia Janine Helfer is a Canadian model and actress. She is best known for playing the humanoid Cylon Number Six in Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series (2004–2009) and for voicing Sarah Kerrigan in the Starcraft 2 trilogy. Also played attorney Evan Smith in Suits (U.S. TV series) (2011-). |
| 1994 Dakota Blue Richards Age 24 |
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Dakota Blue Richards is an English actress. Her debut was in the film The Golden Compass, as the lead character Lyra Belacqua. She was cast as the lead of two other films: Dustbin Baby, as wayward teenager April, and The Secret of Moonacre, as Maria, the latter of which was released February 2009. She also played the character Franky Fitzgerald in the third generation of the E4 teen drama Skins. |
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| 1973 Emma Caulfield Age 45 |
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Emma Caulfield Ford (born Emma M. Chukker) is an American actress best known for her role as Anya Jenkins on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–2003), as well as Susan Keats, a love interest of Brandon Walsh's on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210. Her film roles include Darkness Falls (2003) and TiMER (2009). |
| 1980 Katee Sackhoff Age 38 |
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Kathryn Ann "Katee" Sackhoff is an American actress known for playing Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009). She was nominated for four Saturn Awards for her work on Battlestar Galactica and won the award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2005. |
| 1989 Gabriella Wilde Age 29 |
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Gabriella Wilde (born Gabriella Zanna Vanessa Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe), also known as Gabriella Calthorpe, is an English model and actress who has appeared in the films The Three Musketeers (2011), Carrie (2013) and Endless Love (2014). |
| 1992 Oliver Hawkins Age 26 |
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Oliver Jack Hawkins is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for League One side Portsmouth. |
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| 1944 Gabrielle Drake Age 74 |
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Gabrielle Drake is a British actress. She became well known in the 1970s for her appearance in television series, most notably The Brothers and UFO. In the early 1970s she appeared in several erotic roles on screen. She later took parts in soap operas Crossroads and Coronation Street. She has also had a long career on stage. |
| 1946 Eoin Hand Age 72 |
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Eoin Kevin Joseph Colin Hand is an Irish former footballer and football manager. As a player, his normal position was centre-half. He works as a television and radio football commentator for RTÉ in Ireland. Hand played 307 times for Portsmouth scoring 14 goals between 1968 – 1979 |
| 1960 Chris Price Age 58 |
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Christopher James "Chris" Price is an English former footballer who made 561 appearances in the Football League and Premier League, playing for Hereford United, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers and Portsmouth. He played as a right-back. Price played 21 times for Portsmouth in 1993 |
| 1962 Gary Stevens Age 56 |
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Gary Andrew Stevens is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion, Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth. He won seven caps for England. Stevens played 59 times for Portsmouth scoring 3 goals between 1990 – 1991 |
| 1965 Juliet Landau Age 53 |
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Juliet Rose Landau is an American actress, director, producer and ballerina best known for her role as Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff show Angel, the latter appearance earning her a Saturn Award nomination. She is also known for co-starring as Loretta King in Tim Burton's Ed Wood. |
| 1982 Jason Dohring Age 36 |
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Jason William Dohring is an American actor who is best known for his role as Logan Echolls on the television show Veronica Mars (2004–2007) and the subsequent film continuation as well as his roles as Josef Kostan on Moonlight (2007), Adam Carpenter on Ringer (2011), Detective Will Kinney on The Originals (2013) and Chase Graves on iZombie (2015). |