| Name | British Academy Film Awards |
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| Description | The best in film |
| Presenter | Jonathan Ross |
| Country | |
| Year | 1947 |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The British Academy Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is the British counterpart of the Oscars. In 2008, it took place in the Royal Opera House, having taken place since 2000 in the flagship Odeon cinema on Leicester Square. The 2009 ceremony was also held at the Royal Opera House, on 8 February 2009. The 2010 Awards took place on 21 February 2010.
BAFTA's stated charitable remit is to "support, develop and promote the art forms of the moving image, by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public". In addition to high profile awards ceremonies BAFTA runs a year-round programme of educational events including film screenings and tribute evenings. BAFTA is supported by a membership of around 6000 people from the film, television and video game industries.
The Academy's awards are in the form of a theatrical mask designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, which was commissioned by the Guild of Television Producers in 1955.
The Awards ceremony is broadcast on British television, usually the day after it has taken place. It is mostly broadcast on BBC One.
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| Name | Colin Firth |
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| Caption | Firth at the 2009 Venice Film Festival |
| Birth name | Colin Andrew Firth |
| Birth date | September 10, 1960 |
| Birth place | Grayshott, Hampshire, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse | Livia Giuggioli (1997–present) |
Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English film, television, and stage actor. Firth first gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaption of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. He subsequently achieved film stardom with the international box office success of Bridget Jones's Diary, Mamma Mia!, A Single Man, and The King's Speech.
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| Caption | Tom Ford, September 2009 |
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| Name | Tom Ford |
| Nationality | American |
| Birth date | August 27, 1961 (age ) |
| Name | Ford, Tom |
| Date of birth | August 27, 1961 |
| Place of birth | Austin, Texas |
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| Name | Simon Cowell |
|---|---|
| Background | non_performing_personnel |
| Birth name | Simon Phillip Cowell |
| Born | October 07, 1959Lambeth, London, England, UK |
| Died | |
| Origin | Elstree, Hertfordshire, UK |
| Occupation | Artists and repertoire (A&R;) executiveTelevision producerTelevision personality Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Label | EMIE&S; MusicFanfare RecordsBMGS RecordsSony Music EntertainmentSyco |
| Associated acts | Westlife, Sinitta, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Sonia Evans, Five, Robson & Jerome, Ultimate Kaos, WWF Wrestlers, Zig and Zag, Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke, Joe McElderry, Shayne Ward, Il Divo, Susan Boyle, Paul Potts, JLS and more |
Cowell is notorious as a judge for his blunt and often controversial criticisms, insults and wisecracks about contestants and their abilities. Cowell is known for combining activities in the television and music industries, having promoted singles and records for various artists, including television personalities. He was most recently featured on the seventh series of The X Factor and the fourth series of Britain's Got Talent.
In 2010, British magazine New Statesman listed Cowell at number 41 in a list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". was an estate agent developer and music industry executive; his mother, Julie Brett (née Josie Dalglish), is a former ballet dancer and socialite. Cowell set up another label, Syco Music, in 2002 which later became part of Columbia Records and Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Artists such as Leona Lewis, Il Divo and contestants from The X Factor and America's Got Talent are released on Syco. Cowell explained, "There has to come a point when I will step down from being on camera and remain behind the scenes because you can't keep doing this forever...I think by [the end of my contract] that the public will be sick to death of me anyway and it will be time to go." In October 2010, he signed new three-year deals with ITV for both Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor. He also supports animal rights and has appeared in a video for PETA in which he reminds drivers of the cruelty to animals that can occur when their pets are locked in cars in the summer. In view of his charitable works, particularly the production of the charity single Everybody Hurts in aid of victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, as well as his services to the music industry, there was considerable media speculation as to whether Cowell would receive a knighthood in the Queen's 2010 Birthday Honours, a proposal allegedly put forward by former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Cowell stated that he believed his chances of receiving the honour were "zero" following what he described as being a "royal row"; ultimately Cowell did not receive an honour in the list.
In December 2003, Cowell published his autobiography titled I Don't Mean to be Rude, but.... In it, he told the whole story of his childhood, his years working in music and experiences on Pop Idol, Pop Stars Rivals, and American Idol, and finally, his tips for being successful as a pop star.
Cowell has appeared as a guest voice in an episode of The Simpsons ("Smart and Smarter"), in which he gets beaten up by Homer Simpson (while criticising Homer's punches). His voice was also heard on an episode of Family Guy ("Lois Kills Stewie"), in which he told Stewie that his singing was so awful that he should be dead. He made an MTV Movie Award-winning cameo appearance as himself in Scary Movie 3, where he sits in judgment during a battle rap (and subsequently gets killed by gunfire for criticising the rappers). He also appears in the DVD version of Shrek 2 as a judge in Far Far Away Idol, and also provided the voice.
He appeared on an episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (the original British version) and Saturday Night Live in 2004. Cowell has also guest-starred (filling in for Regis Philbin) in the popular talk show Live with Regis and Kelly during American Idol's finalist week in early 2006. Cowell was once the fastest "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" on BBC's motoring show Top Gear, driving a Suzuki Liana around the show's test track in a time of 1:47.1. When Top Gear retired the Liana along with its rankings after the eighth series, Cowell was the eighth fastest overall and the third fastest non-professional driver. On 11 November 2007 Cowell yet again appeared on Top Gear, achieving a time of 1:45.9 thus putting him ahead of Gordon Ramsay and back at the top of the table. Cowell introduced entertainer Dick Clark at the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards. He was seen on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice where he donated £25,000 for a fun fair ticket. Cowell has also appeared on the MTV shows Cribs and Punk'd. On Punk'd, Ryan Seacrest and Randy Jackson set him up to believe his $400,000 Rolls Royce was stolen and had caused an accident by using a nearly-identical car.
Cowell was chosen as the first subject of the re-launched This Is Your Life in an episode broadcast on 2 June 2007. He was presented with the Red Book by Sir Trevor McDonald while presenting American Idol.
On 1 July 2007 Cowell appeared alongside Randy Jackson and Ryan Seacrest as a speaker at the Concert For Diana, held at Wembley Stadium.
Simon Cowell was a partner in the Royal Ascot Racing Club, a thoroughbred horse racing syndicate which owned the 2005 Epsom Derby winner, Motivator.
In December 2010 he was added as a new entry to the latest edition of Who's Who.
Cowell is the godfather of pop singer Sinitta's adopted children.
Upon his appearance on Top Gear, it was revealed that Cowell pays more than £21.7m per year in income tax, suggesting that his taxable income is over £54.25m per year with income tax at the time approximately 40%. (NB: UK Income Tax 40% for earnings over £34,600).
Cowell has admitted to using Botox.
Cowell has a $22 million, home in Beverly Hills.
In May 2009, in the Daily Mail tabloid newspaper, Cowell revealed that he is often plagued by "dark moods and miserable thoughts". He claims that he has considered seeking therapy for this, stating that it would be a 'long session'.
Cowell became engaged to make up artist Mezhgan Hussainy in February 2010. They met on the set of American Idol.
Cowell endorsed David Cameron to be Prime Minister and claimed that he has the 'substance and the stomach to navigate us through difficult times'.
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| Name | Paddy Considine |
| Birthname | Patrick George Considine |
| Birthdate | September 05, 1973 |
| Birthplace | Burton upon Trent, East Staffordshire, England |
| Occupation | Actor, film director, writer, musician |
| Yearsactive | 1999–present |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | http://www.paddyconsidine.co.uk |
To international audiences, he may be more familiar for his roles in In America, The Bourne Ultimatum, 24 Hour Party People and Hot Fuzz. To British audiences he may be more familiar for his roles in Dead Man's Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass and Red Riding: 1980.
His directorial debut, the short film Dog Altogether, won a number of awards including the 2008 BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.
After a short stint in a virtual, comedy thrash group called Grunt, Considine and Meadows formed the band She Talks To Angels (inspired by a Black Crowes song of the same name) with Richard Eaton and Simon Hudson, Nick Hemming as lead guitar, Meadows as vocalist and "Bamm-Bamm" Considine (after Bamm-Bamm Rubble of The Flintstones) as drummer. Considine is now in a rock band called Riding The Low with Eaton, and released an EP in 2009. He resides in Burton upon Trent with his wife and three children. Considine won the 'Best British Actor' award for the role at the 2005 Empire Awards.
Considine's outstanding performance in A Room For Romeo Brass had not gone unnoticed and Pawel Pawlikowski cast him in Last Resort (2000) the following year. Considine played the love-struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the best actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Other high-profile films include Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love (2004), Cinderella Man (2005) alongside Russell Crowe and Renée Zellweger, and Stoned (2005).
In 2006, Considine appeared in Spanish thriller Bosque de Sombras (also known as BackWoods) with British actor Gary Oldman, and PU-239 (also known as The Half Life of Timofey Berezin), a drama about the plutonium black market in Russia, with Australian actress Radha Mitchell from executive producers George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh. Considine also continued working in music videos with an appearance in the Arctic Monkeys track "Leave Before The Lights Come On" (he wrote the video). He featured in the action comedy Hot Fuzz from the writers Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright in 2007.
In the same year, he directed and wrote the short Dog Altogether starring Peter Mullan, partially based on the life of his father Joseph. Dog Altogether went on to win the 2007 BAFTA award for Best Short Film, as well as a Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival a Best British Short at the 2007 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) and the Seattle International Film Festival Short Film Jury Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize).
Considine has appeared as a newspaper reporter in the 2007 spy thriller The Bourne Ultimatum alongside Matt Damon.
In 2008 Considine starred in My Zinc Bed a TV movie for BBC/HBO alongside Uma Thurman and Jonathan Pryce. In 2009 he appeared in the Channel 4 mini series Red Riding based on the novels by David Peace and another collaboration with Shane Meadows - Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee a low-budget mockrockumentary (it was filmed in five days at a cost of £48,000) featuring the Arctic Monkeys and UK rapper Scorzayzee, in which Considine plays roadie Le Donk, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Considine recently finished work on a film adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's book Submarine, for which Richard Ayoade wrote the screenplay. Ayoade also directed this film which began shooting in October 2009. The cast includes Sally Hawkins and Noah Taylor. which will feature in competition in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. He is currently writing his next film a ghost story called 'The Leaning, Considine is currently attached to work on Birdsong the long awaited film adaptation of Sebastian Faulks book of the same name.
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| Caption | Rourke at the 2009 premiere of City Island |
| Birth name | Philip Andre Rourke, Jr. |
| Birth date | September 16, 1952 |
| Birth place | Schenectady, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Sir Eddie Cook |
| Occupation | Actor, professional boxer, screenwriter, music supervisor |
| Years active | Actor (1979–present)Boxer (1991-1994) |
Rourke's film debut was a small role in Steven Spielberg's film 1941. However, it was his portrayal of an arsonist in Body Heat that garnered significant attention, despite his modest time onscreen. He mostly appeared in television movies in his early career. During the early 1980s, Rourke starred in Diner, alongside Paul Reiser, Daniel Stern, Steve Guttenberg, Tim Daly and Kevin Bacon. Soon thereafter, Rourke starred in Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola's follow-up to The Outsiders.
Rourke's performance in the film The Pope of Greenwich Village alongside Daryl Hannah and Eric Roberts also caught the attention of critics, although the film was not financially successful. In the mid-1980s, Rourke earned himself additional leading roles. His role alongside Kim Basinger in the erotic drama 9½ Weeks helped him gain "sex symbol" status. that he projected in Year of the Dragon, 9½ Weeks, Angel Heart, and Desperate Hours.
In the late 1980s, Rourke performed with David Bowie on the Never Let Me Down album. Around the same time he also wrote his first screenplay, Homeboy, a boxing tale in which he starred. In 1989, Rourke starred in the docu-drama Francesco, portraying St. Francis of Assisi. This was followed by Wild Orchid, another critically panned film, which gained him a nomination for a Razzie award (also for Desperate Hours). In 1991, he starred in the box office bomb Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man as Harley Davidson, a biker whose best friend, Marlboro, was played by Don Johnson. In his last role before departing for the boxing ring, Rourke played an arms dealer chased by Willem Dafoe and Samuel Jackson in White Sands, a film noir which reviewers found to be stylish but incoherent. Rourke was undefeated in eight fights, with six wins (four by knockout) and two draws. He fought as far away as Spain, Japan and Germany.
In 2005, Rourke made his comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role (Marv) in Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City. Rourke received awards from the Chicago Film Critics Association, the IFTA and the Online Film Critics Society, as well as "Man of the Year" from Total Film magazine that year. Rourke followed Sin City with a supporting role in Tony Scott's Domino alongside Keira Knightley, in which he played a bounty hunter.
Rourke played the role of "The Blackbird" in an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot, and appeared as Darrius Sayle in the adaptation of the Alex Rider novel Stormbreaker.
.]] In addition, in 2004, Rourke provided the voice for "Jericho" in the third installment of the Driver video game series. Rourke also recently appeared in a 40-page story by photographer Bryan Adams for Berlin's Zoo Magazine. In an article about Rourke's return to steady acting roles, entitled "Mickey Rourke Rising", He is well-known as a pet fancier, particularly fond of small-breed dogs. A spay/neuter advocate, Rourke participated in a protest outside of a pet shop in 2007 and has done a public service announcement for PETA.
His first little dog was reportedly a gift from his second wife. Though Rourke's dogs are generally referred to as "chihuahuas," some are not pure-bred. Loki, his most-publicized dog whom he described as "the love of my life," So reliant was Rourke on Loki's companionship, he spent US$5,400 to have her flown to England while he was on the set of the film Stormbreaker. In addition to those dogs and several other past pets, Rourke currently owns a chihuahua named Jaws who appeared with him in his 2009 PETA ad, as well as in the movie "Man on Fire." At the time of his Golden Globes tribute to his pets, Rourke owned five chihuahuas: Loki, Jaws, Ruby Baby, La Negra and Bella Loca. About a month later, on February 18, 2009, Loki died in Rourke's arms at the age of 18.
Rourke is also a motorcycle enthusiast and uses motorcycles in some of his films.
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| Name | Michelle Keegan |
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| Caption | Michelle Keegan as Tina McIntyre in Coronation Street. |
| Birthname | Michelle Elizabeth Keegan |
| Birth date | June 03, 1987 |
| Birth place | Stockport, Greater Manchester |
| Yearsactive | 2007–present |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Awards | British Soap AwardsBest Newcomer2008 Coronation Street |
Michelle Keegan (born 3 June 1987) is an English actress who currently plays Tina McIntyre in the soap opera Coronation Street.
She appeared as a guest judge on the Dancing on Ice Tour 2010.
2009:
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| Name | Kylie Minogue |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Kylie Ann Minogue |
| Birth date | May 28, 1968 |
| Birth place | Melbourne, Australia |
| Genre | Pop, synthpop and is a judge on The X Factor, and her brother, Brendan, works as a news cameraman in Australia. From the age of 11, Kylie appeared in small roles in soap operas such as The Sullivans and Skyways, and in 1985 was cast in one of the lead roles in The Henderson Kids. until Kylie was cast in the soap opera Neighbours in 1986, as Charlene Mitchell, a schoolgirl turned garage mechanic. Neighbours achieved popularity in the UK, and a story arc that created a romance between her character and the character played by Jason Donovan, culminated in a wedding episode in 1987 that attracted an audience of 20 million British viewers. became the highest selling single of the 1980s, and "Turn It Into Love" was released as a single in Japan, where it reached number one. |
| Name | Minogue, Kylie |
| Alternative names | Minogue, Kylie Ann |
| Short description | pop singer, songwriter, actress |
| Date of birth | 28 May 1968 |
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia |
| Place of death | }} |
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| Caption | Stewart at Photocall at the Crillon Hotel in Paris, France |
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| Birthname | Kristen Jaymes Stewart |
| Birthdate | April 09, 1990 |
| Birthplace | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Yearsactive | 1999–present |
| Website | kristenstewart.com |
| Signature | Kristen Stewart signature.svg90px |
Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga. She has also starred in films such as Panic Room (2002), Zathura (2005), In the Land of Women (2007), The Messengers (2007), Adventureland (2009) and The Runaways (2010). She has won various awards in three consecutive years.
Her first starring role followed, in the children's action-comedy Catch That Kid, opposite Max Thieriot and Corbin Bleu. Stewart also played the role of Lila in the thriller Undertow. To date, Stewart's most critically acclaimed role may be in the Showtime television film Speak (2004), based on the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. Stewart, 13 at the time of filming, played high school freshman Melinda Sordino, who stops almost all verbal contact after being raped. Stewart received great praise for playing the character, who had only a few speaking lines, but kept up a darkly humorous commentary inside her head throughout the film.
In 2005, Stewart appeared in the fantasy-adventure film Zathura, playing the role of Lisa, the irresponsible older sister of two little boys, who turn their house into a spacecraft hurtling uncontrollably in outer space by playing a board game. The film received praise by critics, but Stewart's performance did not garner much media attention, as it was noted that her character is immobilized during most of the film. The film, which is being directed by Stewart's mother, takes place in a dorm of the Los Angeles County Jail, and will feature Stewart as a male character. She has also been cast in the role of Mary Lou in an upcoming film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's cult classic novel On the Road. Shooting began in August 2010.
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| Name | Katie Piper |
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| Birth date | October 12, 1983 |
| Birth place | Andover, Hampshire, England, UK |
| Occupation | Former model and television presenter, campaigner |
| Nationality | British |
Katie Piper (born 12 October 1983) is a former model and television presenter from Andover, Hampshire in England. Piper had hoped to have a full-time career in the media, but in March 2008 in North London, sulphuric acid was thrown at her face by Stefan Sylvestre. The acid attack, which blinded Piper in one eye, was arranged by Piper's ex-boyfriend, Daniel Lynch. Both Sylvestre and Lynch were arrested and are serving jail time for their crimes.
Piper was treated in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where the surgeons removed all the skin from her face, before rebuilding it with a skin substitute and then a skin graft. The procedure was the first of its kind to be completed in a single operation.
In 2009, Piper chose to give up her anonymity in an attempt to increase awareness about burn victims. The Channel 4 documentary, Katie: My Beautiful Face, was aired on 29 October 2009 as part of the Cutting Edge series, and repeated on Christmas Day 2009.
Two weeks into their relationship, the couple booked into a hotel in Bayswater, following a meal out. In the hotel room, Lynch viciously raped and beat Piper, and threatened to cut her with a razor and hang her before stabbing her several times in the arms. After eight hours at the hotel, they drove back to Piper's Golders Green flat. Piper was treated for her wounds at Royal Free Hospital, but withheld the nature of the incident from the doctors and police, because she was afraid of Lynch.
Piper received numerous phone calls and apologies from Lynch. Two days after the attack, Lynch persuaded Piper to go to an internet cafe to read an email he had sent to her Facebook account. Lynch gave her details to Stefan Sylvestre, who identified her on Golders Green Road. Sylvestre approached Piper, who thought he was going to ask for money, and then threw sulphuric acid at her face. and both Lynch and Sylvestre were later arrested. As a pre-trial inmate Lynch was held in the Pentonville Prison. Crews had to wait an hour before being able to treat Piper, because of the risk presented by the acid, which was still unidentified at that point, and Sylvestre, who could still have been nearby. Piper was treated in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where her pioneering and revolutionary treatment was led by Dr. Mohammad Ali Jawad. The acid, some of which Piper had swallowed, blinded her in her left eye, and caused third-degree burns. The surgeons completely removed the skin of Piper's face, and replaced it with a skin substitute, Matriderm, to build the foundations for a skin graft. This procedure was the first of its kind to be done in a single operation. Piper was put into an induced coma for 12 days, during which her weight dropped to . She has been through a total of 40 surgical operations to treat her injuries, which flattens the scar and helps retain moisture. As part of her care from the National Health Service, Piper was treated at a clinic in southern France. The treatment she received there was designed to break down scar tissue, and prevent skin contraction.
Following the acid attack, Katie Piper moved out of her London flat and returned to Hampshire to live with her parents and younger sister Susy. Her father, David Piper, is a businessman.
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| Caption | During the Paris premiere of Public Enemies in July 2009 |
| Birth date | June 09, 1963 |
| Birth place | Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Birth name | John Christopher Depp II |
| Spouse | Lori Anne Allison (1983–1986) |
| Partner | Sherilyn Fenn (1985–1988)Winona Ryder (1989–1993)Kate Moss (1994–1998)Vanessa Paradis (1998–present) |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter, director, producer, musician |
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters in a wide variety of dramas and fantasy films. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for major roles in recent films.
Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, quickly becoming a teen idol. Turning to film, he was notable as the title character of Edward Scissorhands (1990), and later found box office success in films such as Sleepy Hollow (1999), (2003), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
He has collaborated with director and close friend Tim Burton in seven films, the most recent of which are (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). Depp has gained acclaim for his portrayals of people such as Edward D. Wood, Jr., in Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and George Jung in Blow. More recently, he portrayed the bank robber John Dillinger in Michael Mann's 2009 film Public Enemies.
Films featuring Depp have grossed over $2.6 billion at the United States box office and over $6 billion worldwide. According to biographies, the Depp family in the United States began with a French Huguenot immigrant, Pierre Deppe or Dieppe, who settled in Virginia around 1700, part of a refugee colony situated above the falls on the James River.
The family moved frequently during Depp's childhood, and he and his siblings lived in more than 20 different locations, settling in Miramar, Florida, in 1970. In 1978, Depp's parents divorced. He engaged in self-harm as a child, due to the stress of dealing with family problems. He has seven or eight self-inflicted scars. In a 1993 interview, he explained his self-injury by saying, "My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist".
Depp, a fan and long-time friend of writer Hunter S. Thompson, played a version of Thompson (named Raoul Duke) in 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on the writer's pseudobiographical novel of the same name. Depp accompanied Thompson as his road manager on one of the author's last book tours. Depp has chosen roles which he found interesting, rather than those he thought would succeed at the box office.
The 2003 Walt Disney Pictures film was a major success, in which Depp's his lead performance as the suave pirate Captain Jack Sparrow was highly praised. Studio bosses were more ambivalent at first, According to a survey taken by Fandango, Depp was a major draw for audiences.
In 2007, Depp accepted Warner Bros.' proposal to make a film of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, a series that aired on ABC from 1966 to 1971. He had been a fan as a child. Depp and Graham King will produce the movie with David Kennedy, who ran Dan Curtis Productions inc. until Curtis died in 2006. Depp will also appear in a film version of writer Hunter S. Thompson's book, The Rum Diary, portraying the main character, Paul Kemp. Depp played the former Heath Ledger character in the 2009 film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus along with Jude Law and Colin Farrell. All three actors gave their salaries from the film to Ledger's daughter, Matilda.
Producer Scott Rudin once said, "Basically Johnny Depp is playing Tim Burton in all his movies," although Burton personally disapproved of the comment. Depp, however agrees with Rudin's statement. According to Depp, Edward Scissorhands represented Burton's inability to communicate as a teenager. Ed Wood reflected Burton's relationship with Vincent Price (very similar with Edward D. Wood, Jr. and Béla Lugosi).
star received on November 19, 1999.]]
Depp's next venture with Burton was the role of Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999), opposite Christina Ricci. Sleepy Hollow reflected Burton's battle with the Hollywood studio system. For his performance, Depp took inspiration from Angela Lansbury, Roddy McDowall and Basil Rathbone. Depp stated, "I always thought of Ichabod as a very delicate, fragile person who was maybe a little too in touch with his feminine side, like a frightened little girl." "You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. It was destiny; kismet. All the math finally worked." The family divides its time between their home in Meudon, located in the suburbs of Paris, Los Angeles, an island he bought in The Bahamas, and their villa in Le Plan-de-la-Tour, a small town 20 km from Saint-Tropez, in the south of France. Although he later asserted that the magazine misquoted him and the quotation was taken out of context, Stern stood by its story, as did CNN.com in its coverage of the interview. CNN added his remark that he would like his children "to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out." The July 17, 2006 edition of Newsweek reprinted the "dumb puppy" quotation, verbatim, in the context of a Letter to the Magazine. Depp has also disagreed with subsequent media reports that he says paint him as a "European wannabe", saying that he just likes the anonymity of living in France and his simpler life there. He is known for a fondness of French wines: among Depp's favorites are the Bordeaux wines Château Calon-Ségur, Château Cheval Blanc and Château Pétrus, and the Burgundy wine Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Interviewed in Madame Figaro, he stated, "With those wines, you reach nirvana".Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |- | rowspan="3" | 1995 | Nick of Time | Gene Watson | |- | Dead Man | William Blake | |- | Don Juan DeMarco | Don Juan/John R. DeMarco | London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor (also for Ed Wood) |- | 1996 | Cannes Man | Himself | |- | rowspan="2" | 1997 | Donnie Brasco | Donnie Brasco/Joseph D. Pistone | Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor |- | | Raphael | Nominated—Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival) |- | rowspan="2" | 1998 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Raoul Duke | playing Hunter S. Thompson |- | L.A. Without a Map | Himself/William Blake | Cameo |- | rowspan="3" | 1999 | Sleepy Hollow | Ichabod Crane | Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor |- | | Spencer Armacost | |- | | Dean Corso | |- | rowspan="2" | 2000 | Chocolat | Roux | Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |- | Before Night Falls | Lt. Victor, Bon Bon | |- | rowspan="3" | 2001 | From Hell | Frederick Abberline | Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor |- | | Cesar | (Limited release) |- | Blow | George Jung | |- | rowspan="2" | 2003 | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Sheldon Sands | Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture |- | | Captain Jack Sparrow | Empire Award for Best ActorIrish Film Award for Best International ActorScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleNominated—Academy Award for Best ActorNominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated—Saturn Award for Best ActorNominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor |- | rowspan="3"| 2004 | Happily Ever After | L'inconnu | Cameo |- | Finding Neverland | J. M. Barrie | Nominated—Academy Award for Best ActorNominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Empire Award for Best ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated—London Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorNominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated—Saturn Award for Best ActorNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |- | Secret Window | Mort Rainey | |- | rowspan="3"| 2005 | | John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester | Nominated—British Independent Film Award for Best Actor |- | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Willy Wonka | Empire Award for Best ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated—Irish Film Award for Best International ActorNominated—London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor |- | Corpse Bride | Victor Van Dort | voice role |- | 2006 | | Captain Jack Sparrow | Empire Award for Best ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated—National Movie Award for Performance – Male |- | rowspan="2"| 2007 | | Captain Jack Sparrow | |- | | Sweeney Todd/Benjamin Barker | Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNational Movie Award for Performance – MaleNominated—Academy Award for Best ActorNominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor |- | rowspan="2"| 2009 | Public Enemies | John Dillinger | Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |- | | Tony (1st transformation) | |- | rowspan="2"| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Mad Hatter | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated—MTV Movie Award for Global SuperstarNominated—National Movie Award for Best PerformanceNominated—Teen Choice Award for Best Fantasy Actor |- | | Frank Tupelo/Alexander Pearce | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |- | rowspan="4"| 2011 | Rango | Rango | voice rolepost-production |- | | Paul Kemp | post-production |- | | Captain Jack Sparrow | post production"They're Red Hot","Caravan" |- | 2003 | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | "Sands' Theme" |- | 2007 | | "No Place Like London","My Friends","Pirelli's Miracle Elixir","Pretty Women","Epiphany","A Little Priest","Johanna (Act II)","By The Sea","The Judge's Return","Final Scene (Part 1)","Final Scene (Part 2)" |}
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| Name | Heath Ledger |
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| Alt | Close up of a man's face with brown eyes, tousled brown hair and scraggly beard growth. He is looking toward his left. He is wearing a grey jumper with an orange stripe near his left shoulder and upper left arm. The background is blue with out of focus writing. |
| Caption | Ledger at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival. |
| Birth name | Heath Andrew Ledger |
| Birth date | April 04, 1979 |
| Birth place | Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Death date | January 22, 2008 |
| Death place | New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1992–2008 |
| Domesticpartner | Michelle Williams(2005–2007, 1 child) |
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work encompassed nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), Monster's Ball (2001), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008). as well as the 2006 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
He died at the age of 28, Ledger attended Mary's Mount Primary School, in Gooseberry Hill, His parents separated when he was 10 and divorced when he was 11. and he had a serious on-and-off-again long-term relationship with actress Naomi Watts, whom he met during the filming of Ned Kelly and with whom he lived at times from 2002 to 2004. With Trevor DiCarlo, his best friend since he was 3, Ledger drove across Australia from Perth to Sydney, returning to Perth to take a small role in Clowning Around (1992), the first part of a two-part television series, and to work on the TV series Sweat (1996), in which he played a gay cyclist. From 1993 to 1997, Ledger also had parts in the Perth television series Ship to Shore (1993); in the short-lived Fox Broadcasting Company fantasy-drama Roar (1997); in Home and Away (1997), one of Australia's most successful television shows; and in the Australian film Blackrock (1997), his feature film debut. In 1999, he starred in the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You and in the acclaimed Australian crime film Two Hands, directed by Gregor Jordan.
In his next to last film performance, Ledger played the Joker in The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, first released, in Australia, on 16 July 2008, nearly six months after his death. While still working on the film, in London, Ledger told Sarah Lyall, in their interview published in the New York Times on 4 November 2007, that he viewed The Dark Knight's Joker as a "psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy."
At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, Ledger had completed about half of the work for his final film performance as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. On 13 January 2006, "Several members of the paparazzi retaliated ... squirting Ledger and Williams with water pistols on the red carpet at the Sydney premiere of Brokeback Mountain."
Prior to his return to New York from his last film assignment, in London, in January 2008, while he was apparently suffering from some kind of respiratory illness, he reportedly complained to his co-star Christopher Plummer that he was continuing to have difficulty sleeping and taking pills to help with that problem: "Confirming earlier reports that Ledger hadn't been feeling well on set, Plummer says, 'we all caught colds because we were shooting outside on horrible, damp nights. But Heath's went on and I don't think he dealt with it immediately with the antibiotics.... I think what he did have was the walking pneumonia.' [...] On top of that, 'He was saying all the time, "dammit, I can't sleep"... and he was taking all these pills to help him.' "
In talking with Interview magazine after his death, Ledger's former fiancée Michelle Williams "also confirmed reports the actor had experienced trouble sleeping. "For as long as I'd known him, he had bouts with insomnia. He had too much energy. His mind was turning, turning turning — always turning."
According to the police, Wolozin, who had arrived early for a 3:00 p.m. appointment with Ledger, called Ledger's friend, actress Mary-Kate Olsen, for help. Olsen, who was in California, directed a New York City private security guard to go to the scene. At 3:26 p.m., "[fewer] than 15 minutes after Wolozin first saw him in bed and only a few moments" after first calling Olsen and then calling her a second time to express her fears that Ledger was dead, Wolozin telephoned 9-1-1 "to say that Mr. Ledger was not breathing." At the urging of the 9-1-1 operator, Wolozin administered CPR, which was unsuccessful in reviving him.
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| Caption | Hawn at the 61st Academy Awards, 1989 |
| Birth name | Goldie Jeanne Hawn |
| Birth date | November 21, 1945 |
| Birth place | Washington, D.C.,United States |
| Occupation | Actress, producer, director |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Spouse | Gus Trikonis (1969–1976)Bill Hudson (1976–1980) |
| Partner | Kurt Russell (1983–present) |
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Wildcats, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, The Banger Sisters, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is also the mother of actors Oliver Hudson and Kate Hudson. Hawn has maintained a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983.
Hawn's Laugh-In persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Cactus Flower, There's a Girl in My Soup, and Butterflies Are Free. Hawn had made her feature film debut in a bit role as a giggling dancer in the 1968 film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, in which she was billed as "Goldie Jeanne", but in her first major film role, in Cactus Flower (1969), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Walter Matthau's suicidal fiancee.
At the age of thirty-nine, Hawn posed for the cover of Playboy's January 1985 issue, which went on to be one of their highest selling issues. Hawn posed in a giant martini glass wearing nothing but a white collar shirt, a loosened black tie, and a pair of red stilettos. The headline read: "A SPARKLING PLAYBOY INTERVIEW WITH GOLDIE HAWN". Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell (for the third time) in the 1987 comedy Overboard, a critical and box office disappointment which questioned the likability and bankability of the two paired together onscreen.
Hawn returned to the screen again in 1996 as the aging, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot in the financially and critically successful The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit "You Don't Own Me" for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life. She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit. The film was critically panned and was not successful at the box office. and that her Jewish religion and heritage come before Buddhism. She has been criticized for lending out her support for Israel and for the Jewish National Fund. In 1997, she was one of a number of Hollywood stars and executives to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested the treatment of Scientologists in Germany.
Hawn founded and funds The Hawn Foundation, which teaches the Buddhist technique of Mindfulness training; where fourth through seventh graders are instructed in mindful awareness techniques and positive thinking skills, then tested for changes in behavior, social and emotional competence, and moral development. A study indicated that children who participated in the program increased significantly in the areas of optimism, positive and negative emotions; the study was not peer reviewed and paid for by the organization.
Hawn has been in negotiation with the Conservative Party to set up a school in Britain where her MindUp technique would be taught.
Hawn realizes that many parents oppose bringing Buddhist methods into public schools, and recently stated in Greater Good magazine, published by Greater Good Science Center: "There will always be people who see this as scary, or as some kind of Eastern philosophy that they don't want for their kids." Hawn adds, "Mindfulness gives kids a tool for understanding how their brain works, for having more self-control."
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| Caption | Emma Watson at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005 |
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| Birth name | Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson |
| Birth date | April 15, 1990 |
| Birth place | Paris, France |
| Occupation | Actress, model |
| Years active | 2001 – present |
| Website | http://www.emmawatson.com/ |
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and model who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger, one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter film series. Watson was cast as Hermione at the age of nine, having previously acted only in school plays. From the age of six, Watson wanted to become an actress,
The release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001 was Watson's debut screen performance. The film broke records for opening-day sales and opening-weekend takings and was the highest-grossing film of 2001.
In 2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released. Watson was appreciative of the more assertive role Hermione played, calling her character "charismatic" and "a fantastic role to play".
With Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), both Watson and the Harry Potter film series reached new milestones. The film set records for a Harry Potter opening weekend, a non-May opening weekend in the US, and an opening weekend in the UK. Critics praised the increasing maturity of Watson and her teenage co-stars; the New York Times called her performance "touchingly earnest". Later that year, Watson became the youngest person to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue, As the fame of the actress and the series continued, Watson and fellow Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint left imprints of their hands, feet and wands in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on 9 July 2007. but Watson was considerably more hesitant. Principal photography for the sixth film began in late 2007, with Watson's part being filmed from 18 December to 17 May 2008.
In April 2008, Watson was widely rumoured to have been cast as "Betsy" Bonaparte in an upcoming film titled Napoleon and Betsy, but her official website denied that any commitment had been made and the film failed to materialize.
In May 2010, Watson was reported to be in talks to star in a film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
In September 2009, Watson announced her involvement with People Tree, a Fair Trade fashion brand. but argued that "Fashion is a great way to empower people and give them skills; rather than give cash to charity you can help people by buying the clothes they make and supporting things they take pride in"; Watson continued her involvement with People Tree, resulting in a release of a 2010 Autumn/Winter collection.
After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, Watson attended The Dragon School, an independent preparatory school, until June 2003 and then moved to Headington School, an independent school for girls, also in Oxford. While on film sets, Watson and her peers were tutored for up to five hours a day; She received A grades in her 2008 A level examinations in English Literature, Geography and Art,
After leaving school, Watson took a gap year to film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows beginning in February 2009, but said she "definitely want[ed] to go to university". In July 2009, after a second storm of rumour,
As of July 2007, Watson's work in the Harry Potter series had earned her more than £10 million, and she acknowledged she would never have to work for money again. In March 2009 she was ranked 6th on the Forbes list of "Most Valuable Young Stars", and she supports the Wild Trout Trust. and admires fellow actors Johnny Depp and Julia Roberts.Nominated for Best Performance by a Young Actor Saturn AwardNominated for Best Debut at Empire AwardsNominated for Best Youth Performance PFCS AwardWon Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress Young Artist Award |- | 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Nominated for Best Youth Performance PFCS Award |- | 2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Nominated for Best Young Actress Critics Choice Award |- | 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Nominated for Best Young Actress Critics Choice AwardNominated for Best On-screen Actress MTV Movie Award |- | rowspan="2" | 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Nominated for Best Actress at Empire AwardsWon Best Performance by a Female National Movie Award |- | Ballet Shoes | Pauline Fossil | Television film shown on BBC One |- | 2008 | The Tale of Despereaux | Princess Pea | Voice part |- | 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | rowspan="2"|Hermione Granger | Nominated for Best Actress Scream Award |- | 2010/2011 | | Release Dates: Part 1: 19 November 2010 Part 2: 15 July 2011 (USA and UK) |- | 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Lucy | |}
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| Name | Sir Christopher Lee |
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| Caption | Christopher Lee in 2009 |
| Birth name | Christopher Frank Carandini Lee |
| Birth date | May 27, 1922 is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973), Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Lee considers his most important role to have been his portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998). He is also the uncle of the British actress Harriet Walter. |
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| Caption | Blanchett at the press conference for The Good German in Berlin, February 2007. |
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| Birth name | Catherine Élise Blanchett |
| Birth date | May 14, 1969 |
| Birth place | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Spouse | Andrew Upton (m. 1997-present; 3 children) |
| Occupation | Actress Theatre director |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two SAGs, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, and an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. Blanchett earned five Academy Award nominations between 1998 and 2010.
Blanchett came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 film Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur. She is also well-known for her portrayals of the elf queen Galadriel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the upcoming The Hobbit, Colonel-Doctor Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, a role which brought her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The two met while Blanchett's father's ship, USS Arneb, was in Melbourne. When Blanchett was 10, she lost her father to a heart attack. She has two siblings; her older brother, Bob, is a computer systems engineer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, worked as a theatrical designer and received her Bachelor of Design in Architecture in April 2008. She attended a primary school in Melbourne at Ivanhoe East Primary School. For her secondary education, she attended Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School and then Methodist Ladies' College, from which she graduated, where she explored her passion for acting.
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| Name | Carey Mulligan |
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| Alt | A young woman with short brown-reddish hair wearing a sleeve-less black dress. She is smiling, and holding a microphone with her right hand. |
| Caption | Mulligan at a screening of An Education at the Ryerson Theatre on 25 September 2009. |
| Birth name | Carey Hannah Mulligan |
| Birth date | May 28, 1985 |
| Birth place | Westminster, London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Carey Hannah Mulligan Her father, Stephen, was originally from Liverpool, and her mother, Nano (née Booth), a college lecturer, came from Llandeilo in West Wales. At the age of three, Mulligan moved with her family from England to Germany after her father accepted the job of managing the European arm of Intercontinental Hotels. Due to her father's job, her family lived in expensive hotels for eight years. and that, until the age of fifteen, she had been a tomboy. She also acknowledged that she was "quite straight-laced" during her childhood and that she was very academic until she was fourteen, having then become more interested in acting. and would later participate in many plays at her school. Since age fourteen, her mother would take her to Broadway plays in New York, which made her develop an interest in theatre and eventually led to her accepting a role in the Broadway play The Seagull.
Before she began acting professionally, she had once secretly applied to and been rejected by three drama schools specified on her UCAS application form. After failing yet another audition, the rejections made Mulligan question whether to pursue an acting career, and she went through what she called a "confusing time". Aside from rejection, she had also questioned an acting career due to her parents disapproval of pursuing a career in entertainment, remarking that her parents were insisting she attend university, preferably the University of Reading in England, believing that Mulligan's desire would wear off. In 2009, Mulligan stated that those negative experiences had a positive effect on her because it made her "realise just how much" she wanted to act. In November of the same year, Mulligan said that her grandmother suffers from Alzheimer's and had been a strong influence on her, and that if she ever does go to university, she would choose to study psychology to have a greater understanding of the disease.
After the success of An Education, she next starred opposite Susan Sarandon in The Greatest (2010) as the pregnant girlfriend of a boy who dies. The film's director considered Mulligan's involvement in the movie to have helped it "tremendously." after being introduced to each other by the movie's director, Oliver Stone. "You could see their chemistry right away, and it was pretty powerful. They were completely professional on the set, but there was no mistaking what was happening," recalled Stone. Mulligan said that skiing is her favorite pastime, but she chose to practice the sport less in fear of losing an acting job because of an injury. Mulligan, as well as other actresses, took part in the Safe Project by being photographed by Nick Haddow in the places they feel the safest, for a series to be auctioned off to raise awareness of sex trafficking. |- | 2010 | | Winnie Gekko | |- | 2011 | Drive | Irene | |- | 2011 | Shame | | Filming starts in January |- | 2012 | The Great Gatsby | Daisy Buchanan | |- | 2012 | My Fair Lady | Eliza Doolittle | |- | 2012 | On Chesil Beach | Florence Ponting | |- | 2012 | Stoker | | |}
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| Name | Brian Cant |
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| Caption | Brian Cant at a Playschool Reunion Event |
| Birth date | July 12, 1933 |
| Birth place | Ipswich, Suffolk, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
In 1999 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, referring to this in an interview with BBC Breakfast which was shown on 24 November 2010.
Aside from his work on children's television, Cant is also an established actor. In the 1960s he appeared in two Doctor Who stories, The Daleks' Master Plan and The Dominators. He briefly stood in for Eddie Waring in the game show It's a Knockout.
Cant is the storyteller of the UK version of Jay Jay the Jet Plane, and the narrator for the popular Canadian children's show Bruno.
In the late 1990s, Cant parodied his previous contributions as a narrator in 'The Organ Gang', a weekly segment in Lee and Herring's This Morning With Richard Not Judy, a Sunday afternoon light entertainment show.
In 2001, Cant appeared in a music video on Orbital's DVD The Altogether. The clip is similar to Play School, featuring Cant in his familiar presenter role.
In April 2007, Cant was named as the best-loved voice from UK children's television, in poll of over 1,200 people for Underground Ernie magazine. Cant beat Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine narrator Oliver Postgate into second place, with David Jason (Dangermouse) polling third.
He read the second half of Ann Jungman's Vlad the Drac books for audiobook, replacing Anthony Daniels.
In May 2008, Cant recorded a brand new audio series of children's stories for free download from 'The Great Little Traders Club'
Cant also starred in the puppetry television programme Dappledown Farm.
Cant received the special award at the Children's BAFTAs on 28 November 2010 for his work in children's television.
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