She's So Lovely is a 1997 film directed by Nick Cassavetes, written by John Cassavetes. At the time of its release, it received special attention because, eight years after his death, it was the first (and still only) film to posthumously feature new material from John Cassavetes.

The film stars Sean Penn and John Travolta as the respective men who bid for the affection of Maureen Murphy Quinn (Robin Wright Penn). Harry Dean Stanton costars as a friend of Penn's character, and James Gandolfini plays the lusty neighbor.

Cast[link]

• Sean Penn - Eddie Quinn
• Robin Wright Penn - Maureen Murphy Quinn
• John Travolta - Joey Germoni
• James Gandolfini - Kiefer
• Harry Dean Stanton - Tony 'Shorty' Russo
• Neill Barry - Michael
• Susan Traylor - Lucinda
• Debi Mazar - Georgie
• Bobby Cooper - Cooper
• John Marshall Jones - Leonard
• Chloe Webb - Nancy Swearingen
• James Soravilla - Avi
• Jamie Bozian - Intern #1 (as James Bozian)
• Paul Johansson - Intern #2
• Justina Machado - Carmen Rodriguez - Lady Ticket Taker
• Tito Larriva - Lead Singer

Awards[link]

Sean Penn won the award for Best Actor at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

• She's So Lovely at the Internet Movie Database
• She's So Lovely at AllRovi
• She's So Lovely at Rotten Tomatoes
• She's So Lovely at Box Office Mojo

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Alastair ("Ally") Dawson (born 25 February 1958 in Johnstone, Scotland) is a retired Scottish professional football defender who spent most of his career at Rangers.

Playing career[link]

Dawson was signed as a sixteen year old in 1975 by manager Jock Wallace and made his debut in a pre-season tour in Canada. He was a full back who could play on either side of the pitch, and soon became the club captain.

He never went on to fulfill his potential, partly because of a serious injury sustained during another club tour of Canada, when he fractured his skull. He recovered, and became a centre back. He made a total of 316 appearances for Rangers, scoring 8 goals. He received two Scottish Cup winner's medals, in 1979 and 1981, and four League Cup winner's medals – in 1979, 1984, 1985 and 1987. He was capped 5 times for Scotland, all while at Rangers.

After 12 years at the club, Dawson left Rangers for Blackburn Rovers in 1987 for £25,000. He signed for Limerick F.C. in 1990 and returned to Scotland later that season with Airdrie, before becoming Player/Manager of Maltese league club Luxol St. Andrews. He went on to manage Hamilton Accies for a three year spell between 1999 and 2003 where he won the Scottish Third Division title.

In 2011, Ally Dawson was inducted into Rangers FC's Hall of Fame.^{[citation needed]}

External links[link]

• Ally Dawson at scottishfa.co.uk
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Michelle Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress of stage and screen, and a singer. She is known for her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV/PBS drama series Downton Abbey. She made her television debut in Fingersmith in 2005.

Early life[link]

Dockery is the youngest of three daughters of Michael Dockery, a native of Athlone, Ireland,^[1] who worked his way up from driving a van to becoming a surveyor, and his wife Lorraine, is from Stepney, East London. After working as a driver, in his 50s, her father graduated in occupational hygiene and qualified as an environmental analyst, becoming the first person to survey the British bases in Antarctica. ^[2] Dockery's great-grandmother Maud Malyon was born in 1910 in Newham, East London, and was a domestic servant.^[3] She was just 17 when she married grocer’s assistant William Henry Oakman, 18, at West Ham Register Office.

Dockery was born and brought up in Romford, East London. ^[4] She was educated first at the Chadwell Heath Foundation School in Chadwell Heath, later known as Chadwell Heath Academy. She was then trained at the Finch Stage School^[5]. At the age of 18, with two A-levels, she won a place at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Guildhall School of Music & Drama). ^[6] She graduated from London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2004.^[7].

Personal life[link]

Dockery lives in London with her boyfriend, who is an architect.^[8]

Acting career[link]

Theatre[link]

Dockery was a member of the National Youth Theatre, studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she won the Gold Medal for drama and made her professional debut in His Dark Materials at the Royal National Theatre in 2004.^[9] In 2006, she was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for her performance as Dina Dorf in Pillars of the Community at the National Theatre.^[10]

Dockery appeared in Burnt by the Sun at the National Theatre for which she received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.^[11] She won second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance as Eliza Doolittle in Peter Hall's production of Pygmalion at the Theatre Royal, Bath, which toured the UK and transferred to The Old Vic in 2008,^[12] and for the same production was nominated Best Newcomer at the Evening Standard Awards 2008.^[13]

In 2010, she played Ophelia in Hamlet at the Crucible Theatre alongside John Simm.^[14]

Television[link]

Dockery made her television debut as Betty in Fingersmith in 2005.^[15]

In 2006, she starred as Susan Sto Helit in a two-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel Hogfather.^[16]

In 2008, Dockery played Kathryn in Channel 4's The Red Riding Trilogy and played the guest lead of tormented rape victim Gemma Morrison in BBC`s Waking the Dead. In 2009, she appeared in the two-part Cranford Christmas special for the BBC, and starred as the lead character in a modernised BBC adaptation of The Turn of the Screw.

Dockery came to public prominence in 2010 when she played Lady Mary Crawley in Julian Fellowes' series Downton Abbey, the first season of which was screened on ITV between September and November 2010. She was nominated for a Southbank Award in January for Best Breakthrough Performance in a TV drama. A second series of Downton Abbey was shown in 2011, followed by a special Christmas Day episode, and a third series has been commissioned for broadcast in September 2012.^[17]

Music[link]

Dockery is also a jazz singer. She sang at the 50th Anniversary of Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in London and has occasionally sung with Sadie and the Hotheads, a band formed by Elizabeth McGovern, who plays her mother in Downton Abbey.^[18][19] Dockery cites her musical influences as Peggy Lee, Melody Gardot and Billie Holiday in her more melancholy moods.^[19] Dockery’s passion for music is shared by McGovern.^[19]

Filmography[link]

Theatre[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Michelle Dockery

• Michelle Dockery at the Internet Movie Database