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R I P Catherine O'Hara 😢

Catherine O’Hara, a veteran actor who starred in “Home Alone,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “Best in Show,” has died, her manager confirmed to Variety. She was 71.

https://variety.com/2026/more/news/catherine-ohara-dead-schitts-creek-home-alone-1236646029/

Brigitte Bardot, Star of ‘And God Created Women’ and ‘Contempt,’ Dies at 91 Actor, singer, s*x symbol and style icon Brigitte Bardot, known for 'And God Created Women' and 'Contempt,' died Dec. 28.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

RIP Tom Stoppard (1937-2025)

We are deeply saddened to hear of Patricia Routledge’s death. She performed in several RSC productions in the 1980s, including Henry V with Kenneth Branagh and Richard III. Our thoughts are with her family.

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Vale Robert Redford.
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Robert Redford has died at 89 years old.

The film icon starred in classic films such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men," won an Oscar for directing “Ordinary People” and founded the Sundance Film Institute, among other career highlights. Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robert-redford-dead-all-the-presidents-men-1236520246/

Vale Terrence Stamp

RIP Terence Stamp (1938-2025)

“I don’t speak of acting as if it were a profession, which I know sounds perverse, if not militantly ignorant: Acting for me was a salvation into which I fell, a piece of the family puzzle that was given to me, and I snapped it in place, and there was now a whole image, a fuller person, something where previously there had been nothing.

“When I act, I am joining a family, and I accept and love them fully, as I do with those who are bound to me by love and blood. I am not a curious person in the sense of reading many things on acting—the history and the techniques and the application—but I am very curious about people, and acting affords me the luxury of metaphysical time travel and the voyeuristic joy of living within someone else’s skin, and seeing things through their eyes. Acting is the only way I know of in which we can live the fantasy of being invisible. Living in the mist, on the margins.

“But it begins with love—love of the work, the words, the act of rehearsing, the bonding that must take place among the company. I am a man sitting on a vast mountain of family members and friends and memories.

“Acting came to me as a salvation, and it is now my profession, but I’m holding on to my immature concept of it.”—Alec Guinness/Interview with James Grissom/1991

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Vale Gerard Kennedy.

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Vale Gene Hackman. One of the greats

Gene Hackman And Wife Betsy Arakawa Found Dead In New Mexico Home The two-time Oscar winner was 95.

RiP Joan Ploughwright.

Joan Plowright, Acting Legend of Stage and Screen and Laurence Olivier’s Widow, Dies at 95 Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was 95.

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, legendary actors of stage and screen, have left an indelible mark on the world of performance. Born in Yorkshire and Lancashire, England, respectively, both faced humble beginnings and pursued acting through rigorous training—Stewart at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and McKellen at Cambridge University. Rising through theater, they gained acclaim in Shakespearean roles before transitioning to iconic screen careers, with Stewart starring in Star Trek and McKellen in The Lord of the Rings. Lifelong friends, they continue to act and advocate for social causes, remaining cultural icons worldwide.