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British actor Clive Owen is one of a handful of stars who, though he is best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal measures of grace and skill. Owen is typically cast as characters whose primary traits are a balance of physical strength, intellect, conflicting soul but forceful will. He is best known to film audiences for his work in Children of Men (2006), Closer (2004) and his breakout part in Croupier (1998).
Born in Coventry, in England's West Midlands county, on 3 October 1964, Owen is the fourth of five brothers. He is the son of Pamela (Cotton) and Jess Owen, a country and western singer. His father abandoned the family when he was three years old, and Owen was subsequently raised by his mother and stepfather. He attended Binley Park Comprehensive School and joined the youth theater at 13 after playing the scene-stealing role of the Artful Dodger in a production of "Oliver!"
Acting was not his first choice as a profession, but he changed his mind and went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1987. Owen proceeded to join the Young Vic Theatre Company, where he honed his craft while performing in a number of Shakespearean productions.
Clive made his film debut in the British-made Vroom (1990) co-starring with David Thewlis as two fellows who restore a classic American car and take off on the road. Within two years, Clive became a full-fledged TV star playing devilish rogue Stephen Crane in Chancer (1990). However, the now-sought-after Clive abandoned the star-making part at the height of the show's popularity because of unwanted invasion of privacy and his fear of typecasting. His next project raised more than a few eyebrows when he filmed Close My Eyes (1991) in which he played a brother who acts on his incestuous desires for his older sister. Clive's reputation as a lovable shyster was completely shattered and he lost profitable commercial endorsements following the film's release. Offers fell off for the next two years as a result. But the persistent Clive carried on with stage work, including the role of a bisexual in a production of Noël Coward's "Design For Living." He returned to TV at that time as well and played a number of roles in both mini-movies and series.
In 1997, Clive had a huge hit on the London stage with "Closer," a cynical, contemporary ensemble piece about relationships. Controversy surrounded him again in the film role of Max in Bent (1997) playing a brash, reckless homosexual lothario in decadent pre-war Germany who finds unconditional love while interned in a Nazi war camp. His biggest film break, however, was in Mike Hodges' Croupier (1998), as a struggling writer-turned-casino employee who gets in over his head with a femme fatale scam artist. English audiences stayed away in droves but the U.S. embraced the film and Hollywood took notice of Clive, who was virtually unknown outside of England. Despite playing detective Ross Tanner in a series of successful "Second Sight" mini-movies and finding critical acclaim on stage with "The Day in the Death of Joe Egg" in 2001, Clive has focused primarily on film, including the offbeat Brit romantic comedy Greenfingers (2000), the classy and popular Robert Altman period piece Gosford Park (2001), the Matt Damon star-vehicle The Bourne Identity (2002), and the title role in King Arthur (2004). He has since reached the top rungs of the Hollywood ladder with the film version of his stage smash Closer (2004), in which he received an Academy Award nomination and won both the Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for "Supporting Actor." He also had noteworthy roles opposite Denzel Washington in Inside Man (2006); and Julianne Moore and Michael Caine in Children of Men (2006), as well as handling a few biopics, playing Sir Walter Raleigh opposite Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth I in the film Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and Ernest Hemingway (Emmy nomination) in Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) also starring Nicole Kidman.
More recent films include starring roles in The International (2009), Duplicity (2009), The Boys Are Back (2009), Trust (2010), Intruders (2011), Blood Ties (2013), Last Knights (2015), The Confirmation (2016) and Anon (2018). He also played Claudius in a retelling of "Hamlet" per Ophelia's perspective in Ophelia (2018); and played in support to Will Smith in the sci-fi thriller Gemini Man (2019).
Owen is married to former actress Sarah-Jane Fenton, who played Juliet to his Romeo at the Young Vic in 1998. The couple has two daughters.- Calam Lynch was born on 7 November 1994 in Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Dunkirk (2017), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) and The Upside of Falling Down.
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Ben Daniels is a multi-award winning performer who is equally at home whether working in Film, Television or Theatre. He was born in the Midlands and became interested in acting through drama lessons while at comprehensive school. He began his career after leaving London's prestigious LAMDA drama school. His early work in theatres around the UK led to him being cast as Richard Loeb, one of the two Chicago "thrill killers" who murdered a nine-year-old boy in John Logan's factual play, "Never the Sinner", at London's Playhouse Theatre. His performance earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in that year's Laurence Olivier Awards and has led to a highly respected theatre career, notably "Martin Yesterday" by Canadian writer Brad Fraser for which he received a M.E.N. nomination for Best Actor, "As You Like It" (TMA Supporting Actor award nomination), "All My Sons" receiving an Olivier Award and a Whatsonstage Award for Supporting Actor and, most recently, starring opposite Academy Award nominee Laura Linney in the Broadway revival of Christopher Hampton's "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", for which he received a Tony Nomination for Best Actor, A Theatre World Award for Breakthrough Broadway Performance, a Drama Desk nomination for Distinguished Performance and an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Performance.
Ben's television breakthrough came playing philandering "Finn Bevan" in three seasons of the BAFTA-nominated BBC series Cutting It (2002). Other notable television work includes the late, great Frank Deasy's hard-hitting drama Real Men (2003) and the controversial The Passion (2008), playing "Caiaphas"; "Francis Walsingham" in The Virgin Queen (2005); HBO's Conspiracy (2001); Ian Fleming in Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005); the political thriller The State Within (2006) and, more recently, four seasons of the acclaimed ITV drama, Law & Order: UK (2009), as senior crown prosecutor "James Steel".
His diverse film work includes the religious fanatic "Goat" in Doom (2005); "Leopold the Tutor" in Daisy von Scherler Mayer's Madeline (1998); neo-hippy "Tony" in Beautiful Thing (1996); "DJ Bob" in Michael Winterbottom's I Want You (1998); "Augustin Robert", the soldier who falls in love with a leopard, in Passion in the Desert (1997), the sadistic "Danny" in Noli's disturbing Married/Unmarried (2001) and the also excellent Luna (2014), written and directed by cult artist and graphic novelist Dave McKean.- Visual Effects
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Gareth James Edwards was born on June 1, 1975 in the English town of Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Growing up, he admired movies such as the 1977 classic "Star Wars", and went on to pursue a film career. He even cites George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as his biggest influences. Edwards studied BA (Hons) Film & Video at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham (formerly the Surrey Institute of Art & Design), graduating in 1996. In 2012, he received an honorary Master of Arts from UCA.
Edwards got his start in special visual effects, working on visual f/x for programs that aired on networks such as PBS, BBC and the Discovery Channel. In 2008 he entered (and won) the Sci-Fi-London 48-hour film challenge, where a movie had to be created from start-to-finish in just two days, within certain criteria. Edwards wrote and directed his first full-length feature, "Monsters", which was shot in only three weeks. Edwards personally created the film's special effects by using off-the-shelf equipment. Asides from the two main actors (real-life couple Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able), the crew consisted of just five people. The $500,000 thriller received a riotous reception at the South by Southwest festival, and was released by Veritgo Films to great success.
The success of "Monsters" resulted in Edwards getting offers from the major studios, especially Warner Bros., who tapped him to direct an English-language reboot of the 1954 Japanese classic "Gojira". Produced by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, "Godzilla" began development in 2011 with Edwards at the helm, and was released on May 16, 2014 to mixed reviews and tremendous box office success, grossing $529 million worldwide against a $160 million budget.
Following the success of "Godzilla", producer Kathleen Kennedy tapped Edwards to helm a spin-off of "Star Wars" for Lucasfilm Limited. In 2015, it was revealed that Edwards' "Star Wars" spin-off, written Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, would be titled "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", set for release on December 16, 2016. The film boasts an ensemble cast including Felicity Jones, Donnie Yen, Mad Mikkelsen and James Earl Jones among others.- Actor
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The refined and debonair English actor Jeremy Brett will forever be best remembered for his long-running and critically acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for Britain's Granada Television. From a privileged background, Brett was educated at England's most prestigious independent school, Eton College. After training as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Brett made his professional stage debut in repertory in 1954. He became a noteworthy classical actor who was to make regular appearances on stage, including many with the National Theatre.
Brett was as cultured off screen as on. His interests included classical music, archery and horseback riding. His greatest popularity and acclaim would come with his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on television from the 1980s through to the 1990s. Where so many have tried and failed to capture the essence of the character, either being derided or forgotten, Brett's widely praised take on it has been described by many as superlative and even definitive. Brett suffered from poor health towards the end of his life but he was still playing the role of Holmes shortly before his death in 1995 at the age of 61.- Even though Sarah Douglas was born and raised in Stratford-Upon-Avon, and knew that she wanted to act, she did try to expand options available to her. She worked in a factory and for a time, also in a sterilizing department of a hospital. She briefly moved to France and also undertook a teacher training course in English and Drama. However, these were all abandoned in favour of acting. Soon after leaving Drama School, she won her first film role in The Final Programme (1973) as well as starring in the television series The Inheritors (1974). Other work began to follow, including the television series Space: 1999 (1975) and the films The Brute (1977) and The People That Time Forgot (1977). During the filming, the casting began for the science fiction blockbuster Superman (1978), and the rest is history.
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Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.
After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into the theater, performing with a touring repertory company. This led to television, where in alliance with producer Tony Garnett he produced a series of docudramas, most notably the devastating "Cathy Come Home" episode of The Wednesday Play (1964), whose impact was so massive that it led directly to a change in the homeless laws.
He made his feature debut Poor Cow (1967) the following year, and with Kes (1969), he produced what is now acclaimed as one of the finest films ever made in Britain. However, the following two decades saw his career in the doldrums with his films poorly distributed (despite the obvious quality of work such as The Gamekeeper (1968) and Looks and Smiles (1981)) and his TV work in some cases never broadcast (most notoriously, his documentaries on the 1984 miners' strike).
He made a spectacular comeback in the 1990s, with a series of award-winning films firmly establishing him in the pantheon of great European directors - his films have always been more popular in mainland Europe than in his native country or the US (where Riff-Raff (1991) was shown with subtitles because of the wide range of dialects). Hidden Agenda (1990) won the Special Jury Prize at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival; Riff-Raff (1991) won the Felix award for Best European Film of 1992; Raining Stones (1993) won the Cannes Special Jury Prize for 1993, and Land and Freedom (1995) won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival - and was a substantial box-office hit in Spain where it sparked intense debate about its subject matter. This needless to say, was one of the reasons that Loach made the film!- Actress
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Amaka Okafor was born on 3 November 1981 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for The Sandman (2020), Bodies (2023) and Upon the Edge (2022).- Actress
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British leading woman best known at one time for "cute" roles but a formidable actress in a wide variety of parts. Born in England, she was raised in India where her parents Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Liddell toured the nation for decades with a traveling classical theatre troupe called Shakespeareana. Young Felicity first appeared on stage as an infant and grew up doing backstage chores and filling in on stage as boys or various supernumeraries. She attended whatever convent school was immediately convenient and by her teen years was appearing in important Shakespearean roles. Family friends James Ivory and Ismail Merchant fashioned their fictional film Shakespeare-Wallah (1965) around the Kendal troupe and gave Felicity the leading role. She returned to England following the film and struggled for a number of years getting work. She appeared on television opposite John Gielgud and soon thereafter was given the role that made her famous, Barbara Good in the TV series The Good Life (1975), about a couple who decides to live off the land in their decidedly suburban home. She followed "The Good Life" with several other TV programs, but made her most important contributions on the stage. She created roles in a number of plays by Tom Stoppard (with whom she had a highly publicized affair), and continued unabated her lifelong work in Shakespeare, playing Desdemona to Paul Scofield's Othello and a memorable Viola in a BBC production of Twelfth Night (1980). She continues to perform with regularity in London's West End. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1995. In 1999, she published her memoirs, "White Cargo."- Born in 1988 at Leamington Spa. Warwickshire, to knighted British actor Ben Kingsley and his theatrical director wife Alison Sutcliffe, Ferdinand has a brother Edmund and they both began appearing on stage in no-speaking roles as children. He also a brother Thomas Alexis Bhanji and sister Jasmine Bhanji from his father's first marriage. Turning down the opportunity to attend Clare College, Cambridge, Ferdinand instead was a student at the Guildhall Theatre School and since graduating has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company,and the National Theatre earning a nomination in 2010 for the Ian Charleson Award for his role as best newcomer as Rosencratz. He also appeared in the film 'The Last Legion' playing his father's character as a young man and on television in crime dramas 'Ripper Street' and 'Poirot'. He is also a music producer under the name of FK.
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Born in 1986 in Coventry, England as Ghulam Dustgir Khan he is a British comedian, impressionist, and actor, best known for his comedy-drama series Man Like Mobeen (2017). He is of Pakistani descent and grew up in Coventry; he has two older sisters. After graduation from Coventry University he worked as a teacher. His career in comedy took off when he started publishing YouTube videos in 2014 and the following year he performed his stand-up for the first time. In the same year, a video of Khan performing as his character Mobeen and feigning an outrage at a scene from Jurassic World (2015) went viral and he gained popularity and recognition, prompting Khan to quit his job as a teacher and focus on his comedy career full-time. In 2017, Man Like Mobeen debuted on BBC iPlayer to much critical acclaim. Since then, he's appeared on game shows such as Taskmaster (2015), Would I Lie to You? (2007) and QI (2003), scripted shows such as Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019) and Our Flag Means Death (2022) and movies such as Army of Thieves (2021) and The Bubble (2022). He lives in the West Midlands with his wife and their four children.- Actor
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Tom McKay was born on 27 December 1979 in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Imagine Me & You (2005), Kingdom Come: Deliverance (2018) and Kill Command (2016).- Actor
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native UK and internationally, the unparalleled Nigel Hawthorne was born in Coventry, England on 5 April 1929, raised in South Africa and returned to the UK in the 1950s with his extensive work as a great gentleman of acting following during the decade as well as in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His portrayal of 'Sir Humphrey Appleby' in the BBC comedy Yes Minister (1980) won him international acclaim in the 1980s. In 1992, he was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for his sublime interpretation of 'George III' in Alan Bennett's hit stage play, "The Madness of King George III" and he was also nominated for an Academy Award of Best Actor in a Leading Role in its brilliant film adaptation The Madness of King George (1994), both of them exquisitely directed by Nicholas Hytner.- Actor
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Leo Bill was born on 31 August 1980 in Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for 28 Days Later (2002), Becoming Jane (2007) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).- Actress
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Billie Whitelaw first appeared on the radio aged 11. She made her theatrical debut in 1950 and in films from 1953. She has made a speciality of playing intense, single-purposed women. Also, (on stage), she has appeared in many of the stranger plays by Samuel Beckett.- Actress
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Stephanie Cole was born in Warwickshire, England, UK. At the age of 15 she auditioned for, and was accepted to, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career at the age of 17 playing a 90-year-old woman. She went on to play notable television roles, which included appearing in all 30 episodes of the prisoner-of-war drama Tenko (1981) and playing memorable characters in comedies such as Open All Hours (1976), A Bit of a Do (1989), Waiting for God (1990) and Doc Martin (2004), as well as legendary soap opera Coronation Street (1960).- Amelia (born Emily Morris) grew up in Warwickshire, England. She took to the stage at a very early age and after doing her first voiceover at the age of 5 she went on to appear in 'Boon' (ITV) and 'Verdict' (BBC). At just 16 she trained with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (the youngest person to be accepted onto the full course that year) and just six months later became ITV's youngest ever continuity announcer, hosting kids' show CITV five days a week.
After taking a break from performance to gain a degree in Experimental Psychology Amelia signed with one of London's top voice agencies and launched herself back into the world of acting with characteristic enthusiasm. Since then she has appeared in multiple video games, movies and series, including playing Malady in 'Divinity Original Sin II' (Larian Studios) and several roles in both 'Elite Dangerous: Horizons' (Frontier Developments) and 'Star Wars Battlefront II' (EA). She was also the female continuity announcer for the UK's SyFy Channel for five years (2005 - 2010). - Actor
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A familiar patrician-looking face both here and abroad, blue-eyed, fair-haired classical stage and TV actor Tim Pigott-Smith, the son of a journalist, was born on in Rugby, Warwickshire, on May 13, 1946. The Britisher attended King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon, graduated from Bristol University in 1967, and then receiving his acting training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In later years, he would return to Bristol University as a lecturer.
Tim made his professional debut in 1969 with the Bristol Old Vic under the stage name of "Tim Smith" and was predominantly a stage player in both regional and repertory companies. He focused quite strongly on Shakespeare and Greek plays and went on to play Balthazar in "Much Ado About Nothing" for the Prospect touring company as well as Posthumus in a 1974 production of "Cymbeline" for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his Broadway debut that same year in "Sherlock Holmes" as Dr. Watson opposite John Wood. Over the years, he would act alongside most of England's grande dame royalty including Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Geraldine James, Margaret Tyzack, Peggy Ashcroft, Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton.
A charming, distinguished presence on stage, Tim was invited by an ailing Anthony Quayle to take over the running of the Compass theatre company founded by him in 1984 and served as its artistic director from 1989-1992. A theatre director as well ("Hamlet," and "A Royal Hunt of the Sun"), he would take several Shakespearean classics later to BBC-TV. He, in fact, started his small screen career in secondary Shakespeare roles as Laertes in Hamlet (1970) opposite Ian McKellen in the title role and Proculeius in Antony and Cleopatra (1974) starring Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman. He transitioned into more prominent BBC roles with his Angelo in Measure for Measure (1979) and Hotspur in Henry IV Part I (1979).
Aside from Tim's theatre work, quality TV remained an extremely successful venue for decades with impressive performances in such prestigious min-series as North & South (1975), The Glittering Prizes (1976), The Lost Boys (1978), Danger UXB (1979), Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981), Fame Is the Spur (1982), I Remember Nelson (1982), The Jewel in the Crown (1984) (BAFTA-TV as sadistic villain Ronald Merrick) and The Challenge (1986). He enjoyed recurring roles on the TV series Doctor Who (1963), Hannah (1980) and regular roles in the short-lived comedy Struggle (1983), the drama The Chief (1990) and with The Vice (1999). His mellifluous voice was also popular on many BBC radio productions, in audio books, as well as serving as a narrator on such documentary series as Crimes That Shook the World (2006) and Doomsday: World War I (2013)
Film work began in the 1970's but remained far and few and less distinguished with his minor participation in Aces High (1976), Joseph Andrews (1977), Sweet William (1980), Clash of the Titans (1981), Richard's Things (1980), Victory (1981) and The Remains of the Day (1993). He did enjoy a prime role in the nuclear drama A State of Emergency (1985) starring opposite Martin Sheen and Peter Firth.
Pigott-Smith remained a strong, vibrant present on the stage throughout his career. In later years, he played in such contemporary plays as "Benefactors" (1984), "Coming in to Land" (1987) opposite Ms. Smith and "Amadeus" as composer Salieri. He also portrayed Leontes in "The Winter's Tale" (1988) and scored critical acclaim in the 1999 version of "The Iceman Cometh" (both London and Broadway) and with Ms. Mirren in an over four-hour production of "Mourning Becomes Electra." Into the millennium, he was seen in "Julius Caesar" (as Cassius, 2001), "A Christmas Carol" (as Scrooge, 2002), "Women Beware Women" (2006), "Enron" (2009), "Educating Rita" (2010), "A Delicate Balance" (2011), "King Lear" (title role, 2011), "The Tempest" (as Prospero, 2012), the Chorus in "Henry V" in 2013, and earned both Olivier and Tony nominations here and abroad for his powerful portrayal of King Charles III (2015). Tim became an RSC Associate Artist in 2012, and served on both the RSC board (from 2005 until 2011) and as a governor from 2005 until his retirement in 2016.
On film in later years, he often appeared in official high-ranking parts. His list of movies include Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002), The Four Feathers (2002), the historical Greek biopic Alexander (2004) starring Colin Farrell, V for Vendetta (2005), Flyboys (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Alice in Wonderland (2010), RED 2 (2013), Jupiter Ascending (2015) and Whisky Galore (2016). He also graced such TV shows as "Downtown Abbey" and recreated his stage triumph in the title role of King Charles III (2017) which earned him a second BAFTA-TV nomination.
Tim was in rehearsals for an upcoming stage performance of "Death of a Salesman" as Willy Loman in London when he died suddenly of natural causes on April 7, 2017, at age 70. He was survived by his actress wife Pamela Miles and their son Tom Pigott Smith, a concert/studio violinist.- Jane Booker was born on 9 May 1956 in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Finding Neverland (2004), A Perfect Spy (1987) and Get Back (1992). She has been married to James Fleet since 1984. They have one child.
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Gethin Anthony was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon to Welsh parents and grew up in the UK and USA. He trained in acting at LAMDA, after graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature and Language.
Soon after completing his training Gethin featured as the ill-fated Renly Baratheon in Game of Thrones and led a company at the RSC.
He has worked on both stage and screen throughout his career.- Actor
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John Charles Marquez was born in Coventry on 5th June 1970 to a Spanish father - who owned a chip shop - and English mother, describing his upbringing as 'very English.' Older brother is actor Martin Marquez, who encouraged him to tread the boards and with whom he has appeared in comedy duo the Brothers Marquez, and his niece Ramona Marquez, Martin's daughter, was an established comedy player at the age of six in TV sitcom 'Outnumbered', Martin's son Raoul also being an actor. Best known as well-meaning but dim P.C.Penhale in television series 'Doc Martin', set in his wife's native county of Cornwall and in which Martin has played a guest role, John has an impressive stage C.V. appearing with the RSC in 'The Taming of the Shrew', the Royal Court ('Ding Dong the Wicked') the National Theatre ('The Emperor Jones, 'Market Boy') and in 'House of Games' and 'The Hypochondriac' at the Almeida, 'Privates on Parade' at the Noel Coward Theatre and in 2014 the musical 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' In 2016 he was back in a television series as Hermione Norris's - rather overly - sympathetic husband in comedy drama 'In the Club'. John has two daughters by the late actress Clare Cathcart.- June Chadwick was born on 30 November 1951 in Warwickshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for This Is Spinal Tap (1984), V (1984) and Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986). She is married to Dr. Toby Mayer.
- Leigh Lawson was born on 21 July 1945 in Atherston, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Casanova (2005), Tess (1979) and Sword of the Valiant (1984). He has been married to Twiggy since 23 September 1988. He was previously married to Mondy ?.
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Richard Bremmer was born on 27 January 1953 in Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The 13th Warrior (1999), Les Misérables (2012) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).- Daniel Brocklebank grew up in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. He started acting professionally at the age of 14. One of his first projects was playing the lead role of Ralph in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Lord Of The Flies" in 1995. He returned to the RSC in 2003 in productions of "As You Like It", "Titus Andronicus" and "The Tamer Tamed". He also starred in "Cressida" opposite Sir Michael Gambon in Londons west end, directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner. Daniel works extensively in the UK and in the USA in all aspects of the industry. In 1999 he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the multi award winning "Shakespeare In Love" and in 2010 he won a Best Actor Award at LesGaiCineMad International Film Festival for his role in British indie film "Release." As well as private LAMDA tuition Daniel also trained in musical theatre and is a strong singer and pianist.
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William Shakespeare's birthdate is assumed from his baptism on April 25. His father John was the son of a farmer who became a successful tradesman; his mother Mary Arden was gentry. He studied Latin works at Stratford Grammar School, leaving at about age 15. About this time his father suffered an unknown financial setback, though the family home remained in his possession. An affair with Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior and a nearby farmer's daughter, led to pregnancy and a hasty marriage late in 1582. Susanna was born in May of 1583, twins Hamnet and Judith in January of 1585. By 1592 he was an established actor and playwright in London though his "career path" afterward (fugitive? butcher? soldier? actor?) is highly debated. When plague closed the London theatres for two years he apparently toured; he also wrote two long poems, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece". He may have spent this time at the estate of the Earl of Southampton. By December 1594 he was back in London as a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the company he stayed with the rest of his life. In 1596 he seems to have purchased a coat of arms for his father; the same year Hamnet died at age 11. The following year he purchased the grand Stratford mansion New Place. A 1598 edition of "Love's Labors" was the first to bear his name, though he was already regarded as England's greatest playwright. He is believed to have written his "Sonnets" during the 1590s. In 1599 he became a partner in the new Globe Theatre, the company of which joined the royal household on the accession of James in 1603. That is the last year in which he appeared in a cast list. He seems to have retired to Stratford in 1612, where he continued to be active in real estate investment. The cause of his death is unknown.- Actor
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Chris Jury is an award-winning actor and director. Born in Coventry in the English Midlands, Chris studied Drama/English at Hull University and began working as an actor in the theatre with such names as Mike Bradwell, Danny Boyle and Anthony Minghella; And with companies as diverse as Hull Truck, The Bush and Stratford East. He also worked extensively in film and TV appearing most notably as Eric Catchpole in over 50 episodes of the BBC's long running series, Lovejoy.
He has directed for many of the major UK long-running series including Eastenders and Coronation Street.- Actor
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Tim Dutton (born in 1964 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England) is an English actor. Dutton began as a stage performer in British theatre and made his screen debut in 1991. His television credits include Ally McBeal (1997) as the love interest of series lead Calista Flockhart. Dutton's big screen credits involve high-profile films starring a score of Hollywood stars, including the Harrison Ford action movie Patriot Games (1992), The Bourne Identity (2002) starring Matt Damon, and The Detonator (2006), starring Wesley Snipes. In recent years, Dutton has appeared on various British television series such as Midsomer Murders (1997), New Tricks (2003), Inspector Lewis (2006), Harley Street (2008), and DCI Banks (2010).- Patrick Ryecart was born on 9 May 1952 in Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The King's Speech (2010), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Dick Turpin (1979). He was previously married to Marsha Fitzalan.
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Raised in a staunchly Catholic home by her Irish mum, the former Kathleen Parke, Anna Quayle had an immediate experience of elements used for her character as 'Reverend Mother Joseph' in Father Charlie (1982). Her acting work also includes many other fine performances in a variety of roles in theatre, cinema and television.- Jasmine Hyde was born in 1976 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Amaurosis (2017), Angel Has Fallen (2019) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). She has been married to Jonathan Tafler since 14 June 2009. They have one child.
- Tony Steedman was born on 21 August 1927 in Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Citizen Smith (1977) and Scrooged (1988). He was married to Judy Parfitt and Ann Steedman. He died on 4 February 2001 in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England, UK.
- Wendy Padbury trained at the Aida Foster Stage School and made her TV debut on the BBC arts programme "Monitor" soon after starting the course. More TV work followed and, by the age of seventeen, she had landed a regular role in the ATV soap opera Crossroads (1964). Soon after this, she applied for the role of "Zoe" on Doctor Who (1963). After several rounds of auditions and a screen test at Lime Grove, she was given the job. Although the production team tried to persuade her to stay on at the end of season six and she was tempted to do so, she decided to leave at the same time as her co-stars, Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines. She then worked in the theatre and, in the early seventies, appeared in three seasons of the Southern TV children's series Freewheelers (1968). Since the mid-seventies, she has divided her time between raising a family and continuing her acting career.
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Amy Marston was born in 1972 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), Operation Mincemeat (2021) and Neverwhere (1996).- Actor
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Best known as the hapless MP Ben Swain in "The Thick Of It", Justin has also appeared in "Father Brown", "Are You Being Served", "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher", "Veep", "The Old Guys", "The Trip", and "Skins". His film work includes "Love and Friendship", "The Death Of Stalin", "Paddington" and "Thor". He is a regular voice on Radio Four as an actor and presenter and is well known to live comedy audiences for his Perrier nominated show as horrific children's entertainer Jeremy Lion.- Leila Mimmack was born on 5 November 1993 in Leamington Spa to parents Maddy Kerr and Peter Mimmack, who run the Heartbreak Productions theatre company in Spencer Yard, Leamington is an English actress.. Mimmack went to Stratford-upon-Avon College. During her eight year at school Mimmack's teacher described the destruction of the rain forest, which had a big effect on her. Mimmack later became a climate change campaigner and attended rallies and marches. When she was 19 she moved to a narrow boat moored in Hackney marshes, partly because of environmental reasons.
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Leon Vitali was born on 26 July 1948 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor and casting director, known for Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Barry Lyndon (1975) and Romeo & Juliet (2013). He was married to Sharon Messer and Kersti Vitali. He died on 19 August 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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David Avery is a British actor best known for his roles in The Night Manager (2016), Starred Up (2013) and Lost in London (2017). Born on April 6th, 1986 Avery grew up in Birmingham, England. In his late teens Avery moved to London where he would pursue a career in acting. In 2013 Avery landed a major co-starring role in Starred Up (2013) opposite Jack O'Connell and Ben Mendelsohn. Avery's career gained momentum in 2016 after a stand out performance as Freddie Hamid in BBC/AMC's The Night Manager (2016). The series was directed by Susanne Bier and lead cast included Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Coleman.- Actor
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Nicholas Ball was born on 11 April 1946 in Leamington, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Lifeforce (1985), Mutant Chronicles (2008) and Overlord (1975).- Steven Pacey was born on 5 June 1957 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Blake's 7 (1978), Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007) and Hope Gap (2019). He has been married to Joan Marine since 1986. They have two children.
- Born in 17 December 1929, Jacqueline Hill was orphaned as a toddler and raised by her grandparents. She was taken out of school at the age of 14 to enable her younger brother to continue. She then worked at Cadbury's, which had an amateur dramatics society. She was encouraged to apply for, and was awarded, a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and entered RADA at the age of 16. She made her stage debut in London's West End in "The Shrike." Many more roles followed, including, on TV, Shop Window, Patrol Car (1954) and An Enemy of the People. It was around this time that she married top director Alvin Rakoff, who cast her opposite Sean Connery in one of ABC TV's Armchair Theatre plays. She was asked to play Barbara Wright in Doctor Who (1963) after she and producer Verity Lambert, whom she knew socially, discussed the role at a party. Soon after leaving the series in 1965 she gave up acting to raise a family. However, she resumed her career in 1979 and gained further TV credits on, amongst other programmes, Romeo & Juliet (1978), Tales of the Unexpected (1979), and the 1980 Doctor Who (1963) story "Meglos" (as a character called Lexa).
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Mary Healey was born in 1942 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Chaplin (1992), Line of Duty (2012) and Doctor Who (1963). She is married to Morgan Deare.- Actor
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Arthur Bostrom was born on 6 January 1955 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984) and 99-1 (1994).- Actor
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Edmund Kingsley was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Capsule (2015), Stonehearst Asylum (2014) and Hugo (2011).- Actor
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Steven Grives was born on 16 March 1951 in Lordsworth, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) and Scooby-Doo (2002).- Actress
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Aptly for a stage performer, Sian was born in Stratford-on-Avon, sister of fellow actress Sara Mair-Thomas, though she spent part of her childhood in Canada. After graduating in acting from the Central School of Speech and Drama, she spent a year in rep before working for two years at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, which she describes as one of the happiest times of her life. Shortly after she made her debut as "Katarina" in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "The Taming of the Shrew" and has since worked with several leading stage groups, notably the National Theatre, where she met her partner, the director and writer Tony Harrison. She also co-starred with Madonna in the American performer's West End debut in "Up For Grabs" and it is no secret that several critics thought she rather upstaged the then-Mrs. Ritchie. Sian, however, recalls her time with Madonna as very enjoyable and would be happy to work with her, again. On television, she has, in company with most actors in Britain, done the rounds of mystery thrillers, such as Midsomer Murders (1997), Taggart (1983) and The Bill (1984).- Director
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Craig Rees was born on 10 January 1974 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is a director and actor, known for Sutures (2009), Friends (1994) and The X-Files (1993).- Miranda's credits include Inception, Dunkirk, The Dark Knight Rises, Witness for the prosecution, Eastenders, Casualty, and Silent Witness. Theatre work includes the Royal Shakespeare Company and London's Westend. Miranda completed an Art degree at Central Saint Martins College of Art, London, before becoming an actor. She holds a Black belt in Kickboxing and co founded The PinkBelt Kickboxing Empowerment Program for Women and Girls, with her husband.
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Kiran is a comedian who starred on the NBC/Hulu comedy Sunnyside, in addition to other shows like How to Get Away with Murder and Modern Family. She's a co-host on Crooked Media's Hysteria podcast and a touring stand-up comedian who headlined the NY Comedy Festival, the Kennedy Center, and more. As a writer/director, Kiran has made films for HBO and Sundance, been nominated for an Emmy, and shortlisted for an Academy Award. She loves naps and ice cream.- Actor
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Paul Bradley was born on 28 May 1955 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Pianist (2002), EastEnders (1985) and The Young Ones (1982).