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Ben Miles (born 1967) is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Patrick Maitland in the British TV comedy Coupling, from 2000 to 2004.

Life and career[link]

Miles was born in Wimbledon, London, but lived as a young man in Ashover Derbyshire, attending Tupton Hall School. He began acting in school productions, which he pursued mainly because it allowed him to miss classes.^[1] He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which also boasts such alumni as Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig and Joseph Fiennes. He moved into television roles in the 1990s, playing supporting roles in such series as The Bill and Peak Practice.

In 2000, he was cast as the womanising Patrick Maitland in the comedy series Coupling, a role which he played until the series ended in 2004. He continued other television work during his tenure in Coupling, appearing in The Forsyte Saga as the rakish Montague Dartie, and in Prime Suspect. In 2004, Miles portrayed Charles Ryder in the BBC Radio 4 production of Brideshead Revisited. Miles appeared in the 2005 BBC television drama Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle, playing the part of a teacher taking an unruly party of pupils on a daytrip to Salisbury Cathedral. In 2006, he appeared in the TV drama After Thomas as the father of a son with autism.^[2] He worked alongside actors such as Clive Mantle. In 2008 he appeared as the squire Sir Timothy in the British production Lark Rise to Candleford, and in 2009 appeared as the head of a stock market trading firm in the BBC city-based drama Sex, the City and Me (January 2009). He played the lead in Pulse opposite Claire Foy,^[3] who he also co-starred with in The Promise in early 2011, just after also appearing in BBC 1's Zen.

Miles often works with director James McTeigue: he appeared in McTeigue's 2006 film V for Vendetta as Dascombe, in Ninja Assassin and in Speed Racer.^[4] On stage he played Bolingbroke in the Old Vic's production of Richard II in 2005 alongside his father-in-law Gary Raymond, well known for Rat Patrol, El Cid and Suddenly Last Summer. Miles most recently appeared in the play The Norman Conquests as Tom in 2009. The Norman Conquests won a Tony Award during his tenure in the play for Best Revival of a Play.^[5]

In summer 2011 Miles starred in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End as Robert with his wife played by Kristin Scott Thomas. The love triangle was completed by his best friend and her lover Jerry, Douglas Henshall. The revival was brought to life by director Ian Rickson.

Personal life[link]

He can play bass, drums and guitar and is left-handed. Miles is married to the actress Emily Raymond who starred in the film Love Lies Bleeding alongside Faye Dunaway. They have three children.^[6] The two also appeared together in the episode of Peak Practice, "Before The Lights Go Out" in 1999.

References[link]

1. ^ The Big Interview:Ben Miles
2. ^ Daddy dearest
3. ^ Ben Miles: 'BBC Three show defies genre'
4. ^ Interview: James McTeigue, 'Ninja Assassin'
5. ^ Exit, Laughing: Tony-Winning Norman Conquests Ends Broadway Run
6. ^ Daddy dearest

External links[link]

• Ben Miles at the Internet Movie Database
• Ben Miles profile from BBC
• Lark Rise to Candleford from BBC
• Betrayal, "Comedy Theatre Review", The Telegraph, 17 June 2011
• Betrayal - Review, "Comedy Theatre London", The Guardian, 17 June 2011
• First Night: Betrayal, "Comedy Theatre London", The Independent', 17 June 2011

Kristin Scott Thomas
Scott Thomas at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Kristin A. Scott Thomas (1960-05-24) 24 May 1960 (age 52) Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
Nationality	British, French
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1984–present
Spouse	François Olivennes (1987–2005)

Kristin A. Scott Thomas,^[1] OBE (born 24 May 1960) is an English actress who has also acquired French nationality. She gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Bitter Moon, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient.

Since the 1980s, she has also worked in French cinema in films such as the thriller Tell No One and Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long. She has lived in France since she was 19, has brought up her three children in Paris, and says she considers herself more French than British.^[2] She was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2005.

Early life[link]

Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Scott Thomas's father.^[3] Her father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, was a pilot for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm who died in a flying accident in 1964.^[4][5][6] She is the elder sister of actress Serena Scott Thomas, the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (who was a Black Rod in the House of Lords), and a more distant great-great-niece of Captain Scott, the ill-fated explorer who lost the race to the South Pole.

Scott Thomas was brought up as a Roman Catholic.^[7][8] Her childhood home was in Trent, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried, to another Royal Navy pilot, who also died in a flying accident, six years after the death of her father. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St. Antony's Leweston School for Girls in Sherborne, Dorset, both independent schools. On leaving school she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She then began training to be a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama. On being told she would never be a good enough actress, she left at the age of 19 to work as an au pair in Paris.^[9] Speaking French fluently, she studied acting at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT) in Paris, and at age 25 on graduation, was cast opposite pop star Prince as Mary Sharon, a French heiress, in the 1986 film Under The Cherry Moon.

Career[link]

Scott Thomas played the central role of an unfaithful wife in the 1996 film The English Patient. During the 1990s, she appeared opposite Hugh Grant in Bitter Moon and Four Weddings and a Funeral and in 2001 she played the role of Lady Sylvia McCordle in Gosford Park. She has also appeared in the theatre and on TV in the 2003 Book Clubbin' episode of Absolutely Fabulous, where she played a character called Plum Berkeley.

She was awarded an OBE in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours list, and was also made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005.^[10][11]

Scott Thomas is a frequent subject on the British motoring programme Top Gear. She was used as a standard of reference for "good taste," such as during the "Cool Wall" segment of the programme. Presenter Jeremy Clarkson would rate a car's coolness based mostly on what he thought Scott Thomas's level of distaste for it would be. She appeared as the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" on the episode broadcast on 25 February 2007 (Series 9, Episode 5) and, proceeded to rubbish most of the decisions Clarkson had made over the past years of the Cool Wall. She also ridiculed the car that he had just ordered, a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. She completed her lap in a time of 1min 54secs, placing her just above Philip Glenister, although still near the bottom of the leaderboard.

In early 2007, she played Arkadina in a London West End production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, for which she won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress on 9 March 2008.^[12] She reprised the role in New York in September 2008.^[13]

In 2006, she played the role of Hélène, in French, in Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One), by French director Guillaume Canet. In 2008, Scott Thomas received many accolades for her performance in another French film, Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You So Long), including BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress.

In 2008, Scott Thomas took the role of Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond, mother of Henry VIII's second wife Anne, in The Other Boleyn Girl.

In 2009, she played the role of a fashion magazine creator and editor in the film Confessions of a Shopaholic.

In Sarah's Key (2010), Scott Thomas starred as an American journalist living in Paris who discovers that the apartment her husband is renovating for them was once the home of a Jewish family who were taken away in the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup; she becomes obsessed with learning what happened to the family's daughter, Sarah.

In 2011, she starred in the film adaption of Douglas Kennedy's novel The Woman in the Fifth.

In summer 2011 Scott Thomas returned to London's West End to star as Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre. The revival was directed by Ian Rickson. Her husband was played by Ben Miles and the love triangle was completed by Douglas Henshall.

Scott Thomas stars in the 2012 film Bel Ami, based on the 1885 Maupassant novel, as a love interest of George Duroy (played by Robert Pattinson).^[14]

Personal life[link]

Scott Thomas is divorced from French gynaecologist François Olivennes, with whom she has three children: Hannah (born in 1988), Joseph (1991) and George (2000).

The separation was reportedly precipitated by her romantic involvement with English actor Tobias Menzies, whom she met while appearing in Chekhov's play Three Sisters in London's West End around 2003.^[15] Menzies was also her co-star in a London production of Pirandello's As You Desire Me in 2006.^[16]

Filmography[link]

Theatre[link]

• La Lune déclinante sur 4 ou 5 personnes qui dansent (1983, Festival de Semur en Auxois)
• Terre étrangère (1984, Théâtre des Amandiers de Nanterre)
• Naïves Hirondelles (1984, Festival d'Avignon)
• Yes, peut-être (1985, in a field in Burgundy)
• Bérénice (2001, Festival de Perpignan and Festival d'Avignon + national tour)
• Three Sisters (2003, Playhouse Theatre, London) ... Masha
• As You Desire Me (2005–06, Playhouse Theatre, London) ... Elma
• The Seagull (2007, Royal Court Theatre, London) ... Arkadina

• Laurence Olivier Awards Best Actress – The Seagull

• A Little Night Music (Planned February 2010, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris)... Désirée
• Harold Pinter's Betrayal (2011, Comedy Theatre, London) ... Emma^[17]

Quotes[link]

• I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? – (Graham Fuller, The Cover Interview: Kristin Scott Thomas, originally published in Interview Magazine, November 1996)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kristin Scott Thomas

• Kristin Scott Thomas at the Internet Movie Database
• Ryan Gilbey, "The three stages of Kristin", interview, The Guardian, 27 July 2007
• Mark Anstead, "Kristin Scott Thomas: The Ice Maiden thaws", interview, Daily Mail, 8 June 2007
• Louise France, "I'm 47. Unlike most actresses I don't lie about my age" Interview, The Guardian, 3 February 2008
• Betrayal, "Comedy Theatre Review", The Telegraph, 17 June 2011
• Betrayal - Review, "Comedy Theatre London", The Guardian, 17 June 2011
• First Night: Betrayal, "Comedy Theatre London", The Independent', 17 June 2011

Douglas James Henshall (born 19 November 1965) is a Scottish actor probably best known for his role as Professor Nick Cutter in the British science fiction series Primeval.

Early life[link]

Douglas Henshall was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His mother is a nurse whilst his father is a salesman, and he has two elder sisters. He grew up in Barrhead and attended Barrhead High School. While at school he joined the Scottish Youth Theatre based in Glasgow. After leaving school, he moved to London to train at Mountview Theatre School. While in London he received critical acclaim for his theatre work, notably Life of Stuff at the Donmar Warehouse (1993) and American Buffalo at the Young Vic (1997). He returned to Glasgow and joined the 7:84 theatre company. Henshall is a fan of St Mirren Football Club.^[1] He is married to Croatian writer Tena Štivičić.^[2]

Career[link]

In 1993 he appeared in Dennis Potter's television adaptation of Lipstick On Your Collar. He also portrayed T.E. Lawrence in a reoccurring role in the American television series Young Indiana Jones (1992-1996}. One of his first successful film roles was as Edgar in Angels and Insects (1995) before going on to star in Sharpe's Justice (1997), Orphans (1998), The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998), The Lawless Heart (2001) and Silent Cry (2002). He has also starred in many television series and is known for his roles in Psychos (1999), Kid in the Corner (1999) (for which he won a gold nymph as best actor in a mini-series at the Monte-Carlo TV festival in 2000), and Loving You (2003). He has also performed in plays for BBC radio, including the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (1999) and David in The Long Farewell (2002). In the summer of 2002, Douglas returned to the London stage where he performed the role of Michael Bakunin in Tom Stoppard's new trilogy of plays, The Coast of Utopia, at the National Theatre.

He played Marcus in the post-production British comedy film French Film, alongside Hugh Bonneville and Anne-Marie Duff.

He went on to appear in another ITV1 show, Collision, in which he played the investigating officer of a multiple car crash. In 2010, Douglas starred in a BBC1 drama called The Silence.^[3] He has most recently appeared in Series 5 of Lewis in the episode "The Mind Has Mountains" and as Cradoc in The Eagle (2011).

In summer 2011 Henshall starred in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End playing the lover of Emma, played by Kristin Scott Thomas. Her husband was played by Ben Miles and the revival was brought to life by director Ian Rickson.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Douglas Henshall website
• Douglas Henshall at the Internet Movie Database
• Betrayal, "Comedy Theatre Review", The Telegraph, 17 June 2011
• Betrayal - Review, "Comedy Theatre London", The Guardian, 17 June 2011
• First Night: Betrayal, "Comedy Theatre London", The Independent', 17 June 2011