name	Peter Pan
director	P. J. Hogan
producer	Patrick McCormickLucy FisherDouglas Wick
screenplay	P. J. HoganMichael Goldenberg
based on
starring	Jeremy SumpterLudivine SagnierRachel Hurd-WoodJason Isaacs
narrated by	Saffron Burrows
music	James Newton Howard
cinematography	Donald McAlpine
editing	Garth CravenMichael Kahn
studio	Revolution Studios
distributor	Universal StudiosColumbia Pictures
released
runtime	113 minutes
country
language	English
budget	$100 million
gross	$121,975,011 }}

''Peter Pan'' is a 2003 film released as a joint venture of Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios. P. J. Hogan directed a screenplay co-written with Michael Goldenberg which is based on the classic play and novel by J. M. Barrie. Jason Isaacs plays the roles of Captain Hook and George Darling, Olivia Williams plays Mrs. Darling, while Jeremy Sumpter plays Peter Pan, Rachel Hurd-Wood portrays Wendy Darling, and Ludivine Sagnier plays Tinker Bell. Noted actress Lynn Redgrave plays a supporting role as Aunt Millicent, a new character created for the film. Contrary to the traditional stage casting, it featured a boy in the title role.

Plot

This story is a fairly faithful adaptation of the play and novel by J. M. Barrie. In it, the perpetually young Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter) from time to time visits London in the early 1900s, where he becomes enthralled by the stories that Wendy Darling (Rachel Hurd-Wood) tells to her brothers. Wendy asks to visit Never Land and Peter invites her to be the "mother" to his gang of Lost Boys (most of whom are English accented). Before leaving, she asks to bring her brothers John (Harry Newell) and Michael (Freddie Popplewell), and Peter teaches them all to fly with him.

Out of jealousy, Tinker Bell (Ludivine Sagnier) tricks the Lost Boys into shooting Wendy as she approaches the island, but Wendy survives and the boys ask her to be their mother and tell them stories. Meanwhile the princess Tiger Lily captures John and Michael just before Captain Hook (Jason Isaacs) comes through the forest looking for the boys. Captain Hook captures Tiger Lily, John and Michael and holds them as bait for Peter. All three of them are gagged and left hanging from a rock to drown as the tide rises. Wendy and Peter free them, with help from the Native American princess Tiger Lily (Carsen Gray) and the timely arrival of the crocodile that ate Hook's hand. The Crocodile desperately tries to eat Hook by snapping his jaws around him, but he makes a narrow escape before the Crocodile can swallow him alive.

That night, Peter and Wendy share a romantic "fairy dance," while Hook spies on them, distressed that Peter has "found himself a Wendy." Peter reminds Wendy that they are just pretending to be a couple, and Wendy confronts Peter about his feelings about love. Peter becomes upset with her, and tells her to go home if she's not happy. Wendy, hurt, escapes to her little house. Peter returns to the Darling house, and seeing that Wendy's mother is still waiting for her children to come home, he attempts to shut the window to prevent her return to them. But, after a struggle, Wendy's parents manage to reopen the window, refusing to let it be closed.

Hook later finds Wendy and has her carried to his ship, the ''Jolly Roger''. There, he entices her with a job telling stories to the crew, then sends a spy to follow her to the Lost Boys' underground lair. The next day, after Peter hears of a new pirate, Wendy admits she was asked to serve as a crewman, which brings her to realize that they have forgotten their parents and must return home. Later, the pirates kidnap the boys as they are escorting the Darlings home, binding and gagging them as they leave the tree. Wendy finds out, but is gagged before she can cry out. Since Hook is unable to reach Peter, he leaves poison for him to drink when he wakes up. Tink stops him, poisoning herself in the process; Peter reaches out to children sleeping around the world, the Darlings, and even the pirates to sustain her with their belief in fairies.

Peter and Tink save Wendy and the boys from walking the plank, and they all fight against the pirates. Hook gets sprinkled with Tink's fairy dust, and duels Peter in the air, weakening him with taunts about Wendy abandoning him and eventually forgetting about him when she grows up. Peter falls, unable to fight with those thoughts and gives in to inevitable death. But with a "thimble" (kiss) from Wendy, Peter recovers and re-engages Hook, who loses his confidence and his altitude above the water, and is swallowed by the crocodile much to his enjoyment as he has finally eaten Hook and got the full taste of him. Wendy decides that she belongs back home, and returns to London with her brothers and the Lost Boys. Peter, now with more respect for Wendy heads back home.

In an alternate ending based on Barrie's epilogue, included on the DVD release with unfinished special effects and no music, Peter returns to the London house 20 years later, finding Wendy as a grown mother. He is deeply hurt when she tells him she has grown up, and walks over to Wendy's daughter who is asleep in bed. His sobbing awakes the little girl, and she introduces herself as Jane. Peter grins excitedly at Wendy, and with her mother's permission, Jane flies away with Peter to Neverland.

Cast

Since the first stage production of the story, the title role has usually been played by a woman, a tradition followed in the first film adaptation of the story. Two animated adaptations have featured a male voice actor as Peter Pan, and a Soviet live-action film adaptation for television cast a boy to play the role. This film was the first live-action theatrical release with a boy playing the part.

Jeremy Sumpter as Peter Pan

Rachel Hurd-Wood as Wendy Darling

Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook/Mister Darling

Lynn Redgrave as Aunt Millicent

Richard Briers as Smee

Olivia Williams as Mrs. Darling

Harry Newell as John Darling

Freddie Popplewell as Michael Darling

Ludivine Sagnier as Tink

Carsen Gray as Tiger Lily

Saffron Burrows as Story Narrator/Adult Wendy

Rebel as Nana

Production

After the script was written, Stephen Cox, Chief Press Officer for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and the Institute for Child Health, gave the hospital's approval, saying, "We have read the script by P. J. Hogan and Michael Goldenberg and are delighted to report that we feel that it is in keeping with the original work whilst communicating to an audience with modern sensibilities."

The visual effects in the film are a mixture of practical and digital. The fairies that appear in the film are actors composited into the film with some digital enhancements. According to actor Jason Isaacs, the filmmakers were impressed with actress Ludivine Sagnier's performance and decided to abandon their plans to make Tinker Bell entirely computer animated. The film also features a large, computer-generated crocodile. Another character, an animatronic parrot, appears in some scenes on the pirate ship.

A complex harness was built to send the live-action actors rotating and gliding through the air for the flight sequences. They were then composited into the shots of London and Never Land, although they are sometimes replaced with computer-generated figures. One other aspect of bringing the story to life was the complex sword-fighting sequences, for which the actors were trained. Sumpter said that, "I had to train for five months before the shoot. I had to do harness training to learn how to fly and learn how to swordfight," and that, "I got stabbed a couple of times with a sword." Hogan says that the flying scenes were very difficult to accomplish, but that, "it was tougher on the kids than it was for me. They were up there on the harness 12' off the ground, having to make it look like flying is easy and fun."

Sumpter grew several inches over the course of the film's production, requiring staging tricks to retain Hook's height advantage over Peter in face-to-face scenes late in the process. Hollywood-based producer Lucy Fisher also said that, ""The window he flies out of had to be enlarged twice."

The film is dedicated to Dodi Al-Fayed, who was executive producer of the 1991 film ''Hook''. Al-Fayed planned to produce a live action version of Peter Pan, and shared his ideas with Princess Diana (who was President of Great Ormond St Hospital), who said she "could not wait to see the production once it was underway." Al-Fayed's father, Mohammed Al-Fayed, co-produced the 2003 adaptation of the classic tale after his son died in the car crash which also killed Princess Diana.

''Finding Neverland'', a film about J. M. Barrie and the creation of Peter Pan, was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, but the producers of this film – who held the screen rights to the story – refused permission for that film to use scenes from the play unless its release was delayed until the following year.

Filming, which lasted about twelve months and ended in June 2003, took place entirely inside sound stages on Australia's Gold Coast and New Zealand. According to Fisher, the decision to shoot in Australia was based on the low value of the Australian dollar at that time. Hogan had originally planned on filming in a variety of locations such as Tahiti, New Zealand, and London but abandoned this idea after scouting some of the locations. Filming on sound stages did help "retain some of the theatricality of the original play", something which Hogan thought was important.

Universal distributed in France and in all countries where English was the primary language (including the US and Canada), while Columbia/Revolution released the film in the rest of the world. The US TV rights are owned by Debmar-Mercury/Lions Gate Entertainment under license from Revolution, and co-distributed by 20th Television.

Merchandise

For the promotion of the film, the original novel of ''Peter Pan'' by J.M Barrie was released with the cover that was the same look as the teaser poster. A video game was also released only for the Game Boy Advance on December 10, 2003. In it players can fly, fight, and solve various puzzles and collect special objects for special prizes and bonus points. The game received mixed reviews overall with Gamezone giving it a 6.4/10, Cubed3 giving it a 5.2/10, and Nintendo Power giving it a 2.2/5. Cubed3 criticized the game for the bad dialogue and repetitive and rushed gameplay, but praising the graphics and sound.

Reception

The film was generally well received by critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 75% based on 130 reviews.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half out of four stars. MovieGuide has also favorably reviewed the film, strongly praising its quality with four out of four stars, and calling it "a wonderfully crafted, morally uplifting movie that intentionally emphasizes the fantasy elements of the story both in dialogue and design of the film."

The film earned $48.4 million at the box office in the United States and another $73.5 million outside of the US. It faced competition from the highly-anticipated ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' released the week before, and ''Cheaper by the Dozen'' which opened on the same day.

Jeremy Sumpter won a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a younger actor, for which Rachel Hurd-Wood was also nominated. The film was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film. Sumpter also won a 2004 Young Artist Award; Harry Newell, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Carsen Gray were all nominated.

References

External links

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name	Jeremy Sumpter
birth name	Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter
birth date	February 05, 1989
birth place	Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States
occupation	Actor
years active	2001—present
website	www.jeremysumpter.com }}

Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter (born February 5, 1989) is an American actor. His prominent roles include the title role in the 2003 live action film ''Peter Pan'' and the recurring role of J. D. McCoy in the NBC television series ''Friday Night Lights'' (2008–2010). He most recently co-starred alongside AnnaSophia Robb and Helen Hunt in ''Soul Surfer''.

Life and career

Sumpter was born in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California to Sandy and Gary Sumpter. He has a twin sister, Jessica, and two other siblings, Travis and Jennifer. His family moved to Mount Sterling, Kentucky when he was ten months old.

Sumpter's first movie role was in the 2001 film ''Frailty'' as the young Adam Mieks seen in flashbacks (played as an adult by the film's star Matthew McConaughey). Sumpter received a Saturn Award nomination for "Best Performance by a Younger Actor" for his performance. Following that, he appeared with Danny Glover in the Showtime film ''Just A Dream'', for which he received a Young Artist Award for "Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-Series or Special - Leading Young Actor". His next film was ''Local Boys'', a family surfing drama, with Mark Harmon and Eric Christian Olsen.

In July 2002, at age 13, Sumpter was selected for the role of Peter Pan, a role traditionally played on stage by women. Sumpter did nearly all of his stunts for the film himself. To prepare, he says he practiced sword fighting as much as five hours a day, as well as training in gymnastics and lifting weights. While filming in Australia, he supplemented his training with cricket and surfing. Sumpter grew several inches while in the film's production, requiring staging tricks to retain Captain Hook's height advantage over Peter in face-to-face scenes late in the process. Producer Lucy Fisher also said that, "The window he flies out of had to be enlarged twice." Sumpter won both a Saturn and Young Artist Award for the film.

In the fall of 2004 he starred in the TV series ''Clubhouse'' as a boy who gets his dream job of working at a batboy for a New York City major league baseball team. The series was canceled by CBS after five episodes; all 11 episodes made have since been broadcast on cable/satellite channels. He then starred in ''Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life'', a Lifetime Channel movie about a popular teenager whose life is ruined by an addiction to internet pornography.

Sumpter spent the summer of 2005 in Oregon filming the teen comedy ''The Sasquatch Gang'' (a.k.a. ''The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang''), released in November 2006. He had a small role in the film ''An American Crime'', which played on Showtime in 2008 before going to DVD. He appeared in an episode of ''CSI: Miami'' as the boyfriend of a girl whose parents are murdered.

He completed filming roles in the coming-of-age comedy ''Calvin Marshall'', the family comedy ''You're So Cupid'', ''Soul Surfer'' and ''Death And Cremation''.

Sumpter has been co-hosting ''The YOBI Show'', an online reality contest show, with Danielle Ryan.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	! Notes
	''Frailty''	Young Adam
	''Local Boys''	Skeeter Dobson
''Just A Dream''	Henry Sturbuck
2003
2006	''The Sasquatch Gang''	Gavin Gore
	''An American Crime''	Coy Hubbard
2009	''Calvin Marshall''	Caselli
	''You're So Cupid''	Connor Miller
''Death and Cremation''	Jarod Leary
		Byron Blanchard
Television Films
! Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
2005	''Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life''	Justin Petersen
Television
! Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
2001	''Murphy's Dozen''	Sean
2001	''Raising Dad''	Henry	1 Episode
2002		Nathan	1 Episode
2002	''Strong Medicine''	Randy	1 Episode
2004		Pete Young	11 Episodes
2007	''CSI: Miami''	Zach Griffith	1 Episode
2008–2010		J.D. McCoy

Awards and nominations

Young Artist Awards Saturn Award Young Artist Awards Saturn Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Young Artist Awards Youth for Humanity Award (Male)

Year !! Award !! For !! Result
2000	IMTA's Pre-Teen Male Model of the Year Award
2002	|	Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-series or Special - Leading Young Actor for ''Just A Dream''
2003	|	Best Performance by a Younger Actor for ''Frailty''
2004	|	Best Performance by a Younger Actor for ''Peter Pan''
2004	|	Best Performance by a Younger Actor for ''Peter Pan''
2004	|	Best Performance by a Younger Actor for ''Peter Pan'' (Male)
2006	|	Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-series or Special (Comedy or Drama) – Leading Young Actor for ''Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life''
2009	|

References

External links

Official website

Category:1989 births Category:American child actors Category:American film actors Category:American male models Category:American television actors Category:Living people Category:People from Monterey County, California

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birth date	June 06, 1963
birth place	Liverpool, Merseyside, England
years active	Since 1988
occupation	Actor
partner	Emma Hewitt (from 1988) }}

Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor born in Liverpool, known for his performance as the villain Lucius Malfoy in the ''Harry Potter'' films, the brutal Colonel William Tavington in ''The Patriot'' and as lifelong criminal Michael Caffee in the American television series ''Brotherhood''. Though most of his work has been in film and television, it also includes stage performances; most notably as Louis Ironson in Declan Donnellan's 1992 and 1993 Royal National Theatre London premières of Parts One (''Millennium Approaches'') and Two (''Perestroika'') of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes'', and as Ben, one of two hitmen, playing opposite Lee Evans as Gus, in Harry Burton's 2007 critically acclaimed 50th-anniversary revival of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's 1957 two-hander ''The Dumb Waiter'' at Trafalgar Studios.

Early life and education

Jason Isaacs was born on 6 June 1963, in Liverpool, Merseyside, to Jewish parents. He spent his earliest childhood years in an "insular" and "closely-knit" Jewish community of Liverpudlians, of which his Eastern European great-grandparents were founder-members. The third of four sons, Isaacs attended a Jewish school and a cheder twice a week as a young adult. When he was 11, he moved with his family to Northwest London, attending the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, in Elstree, Hertsmere, Hertfordshire, where he was in the same year as film reviewer Mark Kermode. He describes his childhood as "preparation" for portraying the "unattractive", villainous characters whom he has most often played. National Front members frequently harassed Isaacs and his friends throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Following his more traditionally inclined brothers, who became respectively a doctor, a lawyer, and an accountant, Isaacs studied law at Bristol University (1982–85), but he became more actively involved in the drama society, eventually performing in over 30 plays and performing each summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, first with Bristol University and then, twice, with the National Student Drama Company. After graduating from Bristol he went immediately to train at London's Central School of Speech and Drama (1985–88).

Isaacs' parents eventually emigrated to Israel.

Career

After completing his training as an actor, Isaacs almost immediately began appearing on the stage and on television; his film debut was in a minor role as a doctor in Mel Smith's ''The Tall Guy'' (1989). He was initially known as a TV actor in the UK, with starring roles in the ITV drama ''Capital City'' (1989) and the BBC drama ''Civvies'' (1992) and guest roles in series such as ''Taggart'' and ''Inspector Morse'' in 1992. He also played Michael Ryan in ITV1's adaptation of Martina Cole's novel ''Dangerous Lady'', directed by Jack Woods and produced by Lavinia Warner, in 1995.

On stage he portrayed the "emotionally waffling" gay Jewish office temp Louis Ironson in Tony Kushner's Pulitzer-Prize-winning ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes'', at the Royal National Theatre, in its London première, performing the role in both parts, ''Part One: Millennium Approaches'', in 1992, and ''Part Two: Perestroika'', in 1993. When auditioning for that role, he told the producers, "Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?"

His first Hollywood role was alongside Laurence Fishburne in the film ''Event Horizon'' in 1997, in which he played a crew member ultimately killed by the protagonist-turned-antagonist acted by Sam Neill. Subsequently, he appeared in the Bruce Willis blockbuster ''Armageddon'' (1998). Initially called upon to take a fairly substantial role, Isaacs was eventually cast in a much smaller capacity as a planet-saving scientist so that he could accommodate his commitment to ''Divorcing Jack'' (1998), a comedy thriller he was making with future fellow Harry Potter cast member David Thewlis.

After portraying a priest opposite Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes in Neil Jordan's acclaimed adaptation of Graham Greene's ''The End of the Affair'' (1999), Isaacs played the charismatic honorable priest opposite Kirsty Alley in the mini series ''The Last Don''. Their relationship, and subsequent breakup due to his commitment and loyalty to the cloth, (although it ultimately seemed to affect her positively) was the last straw Kirsty Alley's character, Rosemary, was able to handle. He then shone as "memorable" villain, Colonel William Tavington, in Roland Emmerich's Revolutionary War fictional film epic ''The Patriot'' (2000). Starring opposite Mel Gibson as the film's hero, and Heath Ledger as Gibson's screen son, Isaacs portrays a sadistic British army officer who kills Ledger's character, among many other soldiers. Although his work in the film earned him comparisons to Ralph Fiennes' portrayal of Nazi Amon Göth in ''Schindler's List'' (1993) and mention of a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, reaching beyond being typecast as an historical villain, Isaacs chose to play a drag queen in his next project, ''Sweet November'' (2001), a romantic comedy-drama starring Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves.

Isaacs has appeared in many other films, most notably as Lucius Malfoy in the ''Harry Potter'' series of films (2002–present). Regarding the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, Isaacs has said: "I went off and read the books after the audition and I read the first four books in one sitting – you know – didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought were slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack." In "The Naked and the Dead", an article published in the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', on 26 November 2006, Neva Chonin names the character Lucius Malfoy one of the 12 "Sexiest Men Who Were Never Alive" and Isaacs one of the 13 "Sexiest Men Who Are Real and Alive".

Prior to the making of the film, when asked whether or not he would be in ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' (2007), Isaacs replied, "I hope so – you'll have to ask David (producer David Heyman). I can't bear the idea that somebody else would get to wear my Paris Hilton wig, but you never know." Isaacs also talked to J. K. Rowling on the inclusion of Lucius Malfoy in the then unpublished ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'', so that he would have a part in the seventh and final film: "The character does not appear in the sixth book, ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince''; but ... [Isaacs joked], 'I fell to my knees and begged ... It didn't do any good. I'm sure she doesn't need plot ideas from me. But I made my point. We'll see. Like everybody else, I'm holding my breath to July to see what's in there. I just want to bust out of prison, that's all. I don't want to stay in Azkaban most of my life.' " However, on 12 September 2008, AceShowBiz.com revealed that Isaacs is indeed reprising his role of Lucius Malfoy as a cameo appearance in ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' (2009), where he is seen in a moving portrait. Afterwards, Isaacs reprised the role again in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' (2010) and ''Part 2'' (2011).

He has appeared in ''Dragonheart'' (1996), ''Event Horizon'' (1997), ''Black Hawk Down'' (2001), Jackie Chan's ''The Tuxedo'' (2002), and as George Darling and Captain Hook in P. J. Hogan's adaptation of ''Peter Pan'' (2003), and as the voice of Admiral Zhao in the animated Nickelodeon series ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' (2005).

Isaacs played the leading role of Sir Mark Brydon, the British Ambassador to the US in the BBC Four miniseries ''The State Within'' (2006), for which he was nominated for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for the 65th Golden Globe Awards. On British television, he also portrayed actor Harry H. Corbett in ''The Curse of Steptoe'', part of "a season of new one-off dramas for BBC Four revealing the stories behind some of Britain's best loved television entertainers, and their achievements," first broadcast in March 2008. On American television, Isaacs appeared in three episodes of ''The West Wing'' in 2004, prior to developing his most notable TV serial role, as Michael Caffee in ''Brotherhood'' (2006–08).

Between 2 February and 24 March 2007, Isaacs played Ben, opposite Lee Evans (Gus), in the critically acclaimed 50th-anniversary production of Harold Pinter's ''The Dumb Waiter'', at Trafalgar Studios, in London, his first theatre performance since appearing in ''The Force of Change'' (2000). He posed for photographs after his performance on 3 March 2007.

Isaacs played Major Briggs, an American military officer, opposite Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear, in Paul Greengrass's thriller ''Green Zone'' (2010), a fictionalised drama set in Iraq after the defeat of Saddam Hussein based on the book ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone'' (2006), by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, for which production began in Morocco, in January 2008.

In 2007, he was cast in Jan de Bont's then-still-upcoming film ''Stopping Power'', to play its star John Cusack's "nemesis", but, on 31 August 2007, ''Variety'' reported that the film, also planned for release in 2009, had been cancelled after a financial backer pulled out. Isaacs appeared in one episode of the TV show ''Entourage'' in the fall of 2008 as Fredrick Line. In 2009, he was nominated at the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor for his role as Harry H. Corbett in ''The Curse of Steptoe''.

On the evening of 2 May 2009, Isaacs performed the role of Ben again, opposite his ''Brotherhood'' co-star (and Tony Award winner) Brian F. O'Byrne (as Gus), in a "rehearsed reading" of ''The Dumb Waiter''. Their reading capped off the Harold Pinter Memorial Celebration being curated by Harry Burton (who had directed him and Evans at Trafalgar Studios). This Tribute to Harold Pinter co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC), of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY), was part of the Fifth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, held in New York City, from 27 April to 3 May 2009.

More recently, he provided the voice of Ra's al Ghul in the DC animated film, ''Batman: Under the Red Hood''.

"Hello to Jason Isaacs" has become a much-mentioned phrase on Simon Mayo's and Mark Kermode's BBC Radio Five Film Review. Fans of the show have started trying to insert the phrase into other programmes. Notable mentions to date include Swedish radio, a sign at the Rally to Restore Sanity and The Jay Leno Show. Since the 12th February 2012 Google.co.uk searches for "Jason Isaacs" return the message "Hello to Jason Isaacs".

Personal life

Isaacs and his partner, BBC documentary filmmaker Emma Hewitt, whom he began dating at the Central School, have lived together since 1988 and have two daughters: Lily (born 23 March 2002) and Ruby (26 August 2005). Although unmarried, he refers to Hewitt as his wife.

Despite Isaacs' screen celebrity as Lucius Malfoy, he maintains a relatively modest, "calm, sedate and suburban" life, which he prefers to the "hideously compromised lives" of the more rich and famous: "I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives...." Described as an "invisible star" who can still travel by the London Underground to film premières unrecognised, he has observed: "They just think, who's that t*** in black tie? As soon as I get on the red carpet they start screaming and screaming. ... It's laughable because when it's all over I go home on the Tube as well." "I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. I can go on the tube and bus and wander through the streets."

As a non-religious Jew, Isaacs has semi-jokingly called himself a "Jewish man who does almost nothing Jewish in his life".

Selected work

Film

Year	Title	Role	!Notes
1989	''''	Doctor No. 2
1994		Market Trader
1995	''Loved Up''	Dez 2
1995	''Solitaire for Two''	Harry
1996	''Dragonheart''	Lord Felton
1997		D.J.
1998		Dr. Ronald Quincy, Research
1998		Cow Pat Keegan
1998		Colonel Mekum
1998		Alain de Keroual de Saint-Yves
1999	''''	Father Richard Smythe
2000	''''	Colonel William Tavington
2001		Chaz Watley
2001		US Army Ranger Captain Mike Steele	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Acting Ensemble
2002			Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Acting Ensemble
2002	''Passionada''	Charles Beck
2002		Dr. William Birkin	Uncredited
2002	''''	Clark Devlin
2002	''Windtalkers''	Major Mellitz
2003
2003	''Nouvelle-France''	Général James Wolfe
2005	''''	Mr. Parker
2005		DeMarco (uncredited)
2005		Lucius Malfoy
2005		Damian	Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Acting Award
2005	''Tennis, Anyone...?''	Johnny Green
2006	''Friends with Money''	David
2007	''Grindhouse (film)	Bearded Man
2007		Lucius Malfoy	[[Scream Award for Best Ensemble
2008		Maurice
2008	''''	Antonio Pérez
2009		Lucius Malfoy	Appears as a moving portrait
2010		Major Briggs
2010	''Batman: Under The Red Hood''	Ra's al Ghul	Voice role
2010	''Skeletons''	The Colonel
2010	''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1''	Lucius Malfoy
2011	''Green Lantern: Emerald Knights''	Sinestro	Voice role
2011	''Cars 2''	Siddeley and Leland Turbo	Voice roles
2011	''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2''	Lucius Malfoy
2011		Kevin

Television

Year(s)	Title	Role	!Notes
1989	''''
1989	''This Is David Lander''	French Doctor
1989–90		Chas Ewell
1989	''Boon''	Mike Puckett
1990	''TECX''	Edward Latham
1991	''Ashenden''	Andrew Lehman
1991	''Eye Contact''	Michael
1992	''Civvies''	Frank Dillon
1992		Dr. Desmond Collier	Episode: "Cherubim and Seraphim"
1992	''Taggart''	Barr	Episode: "Double Exposure"
1993	''Highlander: The Series''	Immortal Zachary Blaine	Episode: "The Lady and the Tiger"
1995	''''	Peter Fairman
1995	''Dangerous Lady''	Michael Ryan
1995	''Loved Up''	Des	Television film
1996	''Guardians''	Jim Reid	Television film
1996	''Burn Your Phone''	The Killer	Television film
1997	''''	Tony Kay	Television film
1998	''''	Father Luca Tonarini
2004	''''	Colin Ayres	Episodes: "Gaza", "Memorial Day" and "N.S.F. Thurmont"
2005	''Adventure time''	Sir Slicer	Voice role
2005–06	''Avatar: The Last Airbender''	Admiral Zhao	Voice role
2006		Chris
2006	''''	Sir Mark Brydon, British Ambassador to the USA	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
2006–08		Michael Caffee
2008	''''	Harry H. Corbett	Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
2008		Fredrick Line	Episode:"#5.7 Gotta Look Up to Get Down"
2011		Jackson Brodie
2012		Michael Britten

Some of the information in this table was obtained from

Theatre

Year(s)	Title	Role	!Notes
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1992	''{sortname	Cyril	The King's Head Theatre, London
1992–93	''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes''	Louis Ironson	Royal National Theatre, London
1993	''1953''	Benito Mussolini	Almeida Theatre, London
2000	''''		Royal Court Theatre, London
2007	''''	Ben	Trafalgar Studios, London

Video games

Year(s)	Title	Role	!Notes
1994	''Beneath a Steel Sky''		Voice role
2009	''Napoleon: Total War''	Story Teller	Voice role
2010	''Castlevania: Lords of Shadow''	Satan	Voice role
2011	''El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron''	Lucifel	Voice role

Some of the information in this table was obtained from Napoleon: Total War story teller from http://www.totalwar.com/napoleon/gallery/videos.php (Napoleon: Total War – Story Trailer).

References

External links

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birth name	Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood
birth date	August 17, 1990
birth place	London, England, UK
yearsactive	2003–present
occupation	Actress
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Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood (born 17 August 1990) is an English actress. Her break-out role was as Wendy Darling in the 2003 movie ''Peter Pan''.

Personal life

Rachel Hurd-Wood was born in London, England, the daughter of Philip and Sarah Hurd-Wood. She has a younger brother, Patrick who appeared with her in ''Peter Pan'' as one of the sleeping children in the "I Do Believe In Fairies" scene. He also plays the role of Samuel Crowthorn alongside his sister in her later film, ''Solomon Kane'' in which she plays Meredith Crowthorn. She currently resides in a Victorian cottage at the edge of a forest in Godalming, Surrey, along with her parents and brother. Her father's work involves performing, writing scripts and doing voice-overs for commercials. She joined a drama club in her school and took part in its stage production during her second year.

In a 2010 live Myspace web chat for the film ''Tomorrow, When the War Began'', Hurd-Wood dispelled the false rumour that her uncle is Hugh Laurie.

Hurd-Wood had considered becoming a marine biologist, until she became interested in working with children who have special needs or disabilities. She studied Linguistics at University College London, having completed her first year in 2009.

Career

She went to an open casting call for the role of Wendy Darling in director P. J. Hogan's 2003 feature film ''Peter Pan'', based on J. M. Barrie's ''Peter and Wendy'', and went to Australia for filming. Her performance received good reviews and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor, and a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress.

She joined Rupert Everett on the BBC TV movie ''Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking'' in 2004, which follows Sherlock Holmes tracking down a serial killer who stalks teenaged daughters of the aristocracy.

She joined Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek in the 2006 thriller, ''An American Haunting''. In the Courtney Solomon-directed film, based on events that took place in Tennessee during the 1800s, Hurd-Wood plays Sutherland and Spacek's youngest daughter Betsy, who is haunted and tormented by an unrelenting demon.

She next appeared with Alan Rickman and Dustin Hoffman in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of the bestselling novel by German writer Patrick Süskind, ''Perfume: The Story of a Murderer''. In the drama, set in 18th century France, Hurd-Wood portrays Laura, Alan Rickman's character's daughter, a red-headed virgin who would be the crown 13th note of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille's (played by British actor Ben Whishaw) perfume. It was released to theaters on 27 December 2006.

In 2007 she appeared alongside L.S.C. Oakeshott in the music video for "Fatherhood/Motherhood" by Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man.

In 2009 she played Meredith Crowthorne, a girl whose fate is entwined with that of James Purefoy's title role in the film adaption of ''Solomon Kane''. The same year she was also seen in ''Dorian Gray'' alongside Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. She portrayed the role of Sibyl Vane.

She was cast to play Corrie in the film ''Tomorrow, When the War Began'', which was filmed in Australia and released on 2 September 2010.

In May 2010 she began filming ''The Last Furlong'' in Ireland, and in November of that year, she was ranked #54 in TC Candler's list of "Most Beautiful Faces", along with Jessica Alba as #53 and Kerry Washington as #55.

Filmography

''Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking'' ''An American Haunting'' ''Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film) ''Solomon Kane (film) ''Dorian Gray (2009 film) ''Tomorrow, When the War Began (film) ''The Last Furlong (film)

Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
2003	Peter Pan (2003 film)>Peter Pan''	Wendy Darling
2004	|	Imogen Helhoughton
2005	|	Betsy Bell	Nominated- Teen Choice Awards: Choice Movie Scream Award Movie
2006	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'' ||	Laure Richis	Nominated- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA: Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
2008	Solomon Kane'' ||	Meredith Crowthorn
2009	Dorian Gray'' ||	Sibyl Vane
2010	Tomorrow, When the War Began'' ||	Corrie Mackenzie
2011	The Last Furlong'' ||	Mae-West O'Mara	Post-production

Music video appearance

"Fatherhood/Motherhood" "Revolver"

Year !! Title !! Artist!! Notes
2006	All I Need is a Little Bit>A Little Bit"	Madeleine Peyroux
2007	|	Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man	Appeared with L.S.C. Oakeshott
2010	|	Warehouse Republic	Appeared with Henry Leroy-Salta

References

External links

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