Question: What British-Irish film star was born on February 9, 1945

Context articles: Sophie Marceau
44th Berlin International Film Festival
Star Driver
Chen Kuan-tai
Mia Farrow
Will Mahoney
Carmen Miranda
Rhapsody in August
Widows' Peak
Walter Brasch

Sophie Marceau (] ; born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu; 17 November 1966) is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author.
 As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films "La Boum" (1980) and "La Boum 2" (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress.
 She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including "L'Étudiante" (1988), "Pacific Palisades" (1990), "Fanfan" (1993), and "Revenge of the Musketeers" (1994).
 Marceau became an international film star with her performances in "Braveheart" (1995), "Firelight" (1997), and the 19th James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" (1999).
The 44th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 10 to 21, 1994.
 The Golden Bear was awarded to British-Irish film "In the Name of the Father" directed by Jim Sheridan.
 The retrospective dedicated to Austrian director, actor and producer Erich von Stroheim was shown at the festival.
Star Driver also known as Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto (Japanese: STAR DRIVER 輝きのタクト , Hepburn: Sutā Doraibā Kagayaki no Takuto , lit.
 STAR DRIVER: Shining Takuto) is a 2010 Japanese anime television series created and animated by Bones.
 The series is directed by Takuya Igarashi, with character designs by Yoshiyuki Ito and Hiroka and Misa Mizuya.
 The anime premiered on October 3, 2010, on MBS-TBS's prime Sunday 5pm timeslot, replacing "".
 Aniplex of America premiered the first episode at the 2010 New York Comic Con/New York Anime Festival on October 9, 2010.
 Bandai Entertainment formerly licensed the series, but due to February when Bandai stopped selling DVDs and Blu-ray discs, they also cancelled licensing with other anime.
 Star Driver was one of them.
 The series has been licensed by Aniplex of America and was streamed with English subtitles on Hulu, Crackle, and on Crunchyroll starting on August 17, 2011.
 A film based in the series was released on February 9, 2013 in Japan by Shochiku.
Chen Kuan-tai born 24 September 1945 is a Chinese martial arts film star.
 He has primarily appeared in Shaw Brothers productions, and was one of the first solid trained, martial arts stars employed by the company.
 His first appearance in a Shaw work was in the 1969 film after high school "The Chinese Boxer", alongside Jimmy Wang Yu
María de Lourdes "Mia" Villiers Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, activist and former fashion model.
 She first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap opera "Peyton Place" and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra.
 An early film role, as Rosemary in Roman Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), saw her nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for Best Actress.
 She went on to appear in films such as "John and Mary" (1969), "Follow Me!
" (1972), "The Great Gatsby" (1974) and "Death on the Nile" (1978).
William James Fitzgerald Mahoney (February 5, 1894, Helena, Montana, USA – February 9, 1967, Australia), better known as Will Mahoney, was an American-born vaudevillian performer, stage actor and theatre manager best known for his stage success in Australia.
 He was born in Helena, Montana, USA to Rancher Michael Fitzgerald and Mary Moran, he's father died when he was two, and his mother who had two children, Frank and Mary from a previous marriage, supported the family by holding several jobs.
 Along with his step-brother Frank, they devised a vaudeville act, billed as The Mahoney Brothers, and toured around United States, Mexico and Australia.
 He was married three times, firstly aged 21 to Iva Gibbs and toured England appearing in films, after his wife's death he married to Lililan Wilson in 1928, which he later divorced and then he married actress Evie Hayes in 1938 who appeared in his numerous stage show productions, they immigrated to Australia and were featured on the Tivoli Circuit .
 He had, had extensive experience on the vaudeville circuit in the US, becoming the highest paid variety star in the country by the early 1930s, when he arrived in Australia with Hayes they acting in the film "Come Up Smiling" (1939), after which he became a theatre manager in Australia of the Cremorne theatre in Brisbane.
 After the war he went back to the USA to revitilize his career, being nominated for a Tony Award in 1956 for revival of Finian's Rainbow before eventually settling permanently in Australia, in Melbourne in 1958, playing in musicals and revue and teaching a generation of young performers.He died on February 9, 1967.
Carmen Miranda GCIH, OMC ] , born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha (February 9, 1909 – August 5, 1955), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.
 Nicknamed "The Brazilian Bombshell", Miranda is noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in her American films.
 As a young woman, she designed hats in a boutique before recording her first album with composer Josué de Barros in 1929.
 Miranda's 1930 recording of "Taí" ("Pra Você Gostar de Mim"), written by Joubert de Carvalho, catapulted her to stardom in Brazil as the foremost interpreter of samba.
Rhapsody in August (八月の狂詩曲 , Hachigatsu no rapusodī (Hachigatsu no kyōshikyoku) ) is a 1991 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa.
 The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer.
 She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
 American film star Richard Gere appears as Suzujiro's son Clark.
 The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Widows' Peak is a 1994 British-Irish film which stars Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar and Jim Broadbent and was directed by John Irvin.
 The film is based on an original screenplay by Hugh Leonard and Tim Hayes.
Walter M. Brasch (March 2, 1945 – February 9, 2017) was an American social issues journalist and university professor of journalism.
 He was the author of a weekly syndicated newspaper column and the author of 17 books.
 He was a former newspaper editor in California, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio, and a senior editor at "OpEdNews".
, He died on February 9, 2017.