Henry Goodman (born 23 April 1950) is a British theatre actor. He trained at RADA in London alongside Jonathan Pryce.

In 1988, he played George Green's brother-in-law Cyril in London's Burning. He played character roles in episodes of the popular UK police drama The Bill. He won the Olivier award for Best Actor in 1993 for his role in Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins and in 2000 for his role as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice directed by Trevor Nunn.

Other roles include: Wintergreen in Of Thee I Sing (London 1996 - concert staging), Billy Flynn in Chicago (London 1997) and Buddy in Follies (London 2002). He took over for Nathan Lane in the Broadway production of The Producers in 2001, but his interpretation of Max Bialystock met with the disfavour of the producers of the show and he was replaced by Lane's understudy Brad Oscar in the role before he could be seen by reviewers.

He played the lead role of Tevye in Lindsay Posner's 2007 revival of Joseph Stein's Fiddler on the Roof, and in 2008 played the lead character in the radio serial The Way We Live Right Now. He took part in the 2009 London revival of Duet for One with Juliet Stevenson.

In the 2009 film, The Damned United, he played the suave Jewish businessman Manny Cussins, chairman of Leeds United.

In 2010 he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister^[3] at the Chichester Festival^[4] Gielgud Theatre, in London's West End from 17 September 2010.^[5]

In the 15th April 2011 issue of Private Eye Goodman was categorised as a 'Luvvie' for his comments on acting.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Henry Goodman at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Henry Goodman on SomethingJewish

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David Haig (born 20 September 1955) is an Olivier Award-winning English actor and FIPA Award-winning writer. He is known for his versatility, having played dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes. He has appeared in top roles in stage productions all over the West End and has done numerous TV and film roles over the past 25 years.

Career[link]

Film and television[link]

He appeared in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral and had a secondary lead in the BBC television sitcom The Thin Blue Line playing Inspector Grim, the inept foil to Rowan Atkinson's Inspector Fowler. In 2002 he played the brother of Four Weddings' co-star Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice, alongside Sandra Bullock. In 2007, He appeared in a Comic Relief sketch called "Mr. Bean's Wedding" as the bride's father, reuniting with his Thin Blue Line co-star Rowan Atkinson.

He is one of only two male actors to have performed an Alan Bennett Talking Heads monologue on television, the other being Bennett himself.

Other TV work includes Doctor Who story "The Leisure Hive" (1980); Blake's 7 episode "Rumours of Death" (1980); Campion story "Sweet Danger" (1990); Inspector Morse episode "Dead On Time" (1992); and Cracker. In the 90s he appeared in the successful TV series Soldier Soldier.

He appears in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda, on the UK digital television station BBC Four. Haig appeared in a television-film adaptation of his own play My Boy Jack which was shown on ITV on 11 November 2007. It starred himself as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as his son, John. In 2008, he appeared in the BBC film Dustbin Baby and The 39 Steps, an adaptation of the 1915 novel by John Buchan. He also appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "The Glitch". In 2009 he appeared as 'Steve Fleming' in BBC TV's The Thick Of It and as 'Jon', husband to former MP Mo Mowlam in the hugely successful drama Mo opposite Julie Walters.

Radio[link]

In 2008, he played Maurice Haigh-Wood in the BBC Radio adaptation of Michael Hasting's play, "Tom and Viv". The programme was repeated in January 2012.

Stage[link]

He also won an Olivier Award in 1988 for Actor of the Year in a New Play, for his performance in Our Country's Good at the Royal Court in Sloane Square. He toured England with the stage version of My Boy Jack, in which he played Rudyard Kipling and directed a production of Private Lives by Noël Coward which made a successful national tour in 2005.

Haig has appeared in several stage productions in London's West End, including Hitchcock Blonde at the Royal Court, Life X 3 at the Savoy Theatre, as the character "Osborne" in R. C. Sherriff's play Journey's End at the Comedy Theatre, and as Mr George Banks in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre for which he received an Olivier Award nomination. He was also nominated for playing Christopher Headingley in a revival of Michael Frayn's comedy Donkeys' Years at the Comedy Theatre. Having appeared in the role of 'Pinchwife' in the comedy The Country Wife at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London, he appeared in The Sea at the same theatre. Haig's next role was 'Truscott' in the Joe Orton black farce Loot at London's Tricycle Theatre from 11 December 2008 to 31 January 2009 and at Theatre Royal, Newcastle, 2 to 7 February 2009.

In 2010 he played the role of Jim Hacker in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister^[1] at the Chichester Festival^[2] Gielgud Theatre, in London's West End from 17 September 2010.^[3]

Personal life[link]

Haig was born in Aldershot in Hampshire. He currently lives in South London. He is father to five children and is a patron of SANDS, a charity which deals with stillbirth and neonatal death.

Recent theatre work[link]

Filmography[link]

• Doctor Who - The Leisure Hive (1980)
• Dark Enemy (1984)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
• The Four Corners of Nowhere (1995)
• Rachel's Attic (2002)
• Two Weeks Notice (2002)
• My Boy Jack (2007)
• The 39 Steps (2008)
• Dustbin Baby (2008)
• Dickens' Secret Lover (2009)
• Doc Martin – Series 4, Episodes 1 & 2 (2009)
• Mo (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

• David Haig at the Internet Movie Database
• SANDS website

Linda Henry (born 1 January 1963)^[1] is an English actress, best known for her roles as Yvonne Atkins in the ITV television drama Bad Girls and Shirley Carter in the BBC's soap opera EastEnders.

Early life[link]

Henry was brought up in Peckham, London.^[2] She spent some time with the 'Old Vic Youth Theatre', and at sixteen was in the same acting group as Rowan Atkinson at Edinburgh. At seventeen she went to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.^[3] Henry later set up a production company, Buster, which still exists although she is no longer involved with it.

Career[link]

As well as her role in Bad Girls she is also remembered for her role as Sandra in the film Beautiful Thing,^[4] and has appeared in the British television programmes The Bill, Birds of a Feather, Touching Evil, Cracker, A Touch of Frost,^[5] Trial and Retribution as Marilyn Spark and EastEnders, where she played Lorraine Salter, the prostitute mother of the teenage tearaway Mandy Salter (Nicola Stapleton). (Henry and Stapleton both appeared in Bad Girls, although not at the same time, as Henry's character had been killed off by the time Stapleton arrived.)

She had a minor role in British film The Business as the character Shirley, which also starred Danny Dyer as the main character.

On 8 September 2006 it was announced Henry would be returning to EastEnders in a different role, this time playing Shirley Carter, mother to Carly and Deano and ex-wife of Kevin.^[6] Shirley arrived in Walford in December 2006. Henry took part in the 2008 "WestEnders" Children in Need appeal where she sang alongside other EastEnders cast members. She is close friends with co-star Cheryl Fergison. She also took part in a 2008 EastEnders edition of The Weakest Link and appears in the 2010 spin-off series EastEnders: E20. In 2009, her co-star in Beautiful Thing, Tameka Empson (she played next-door neighbor Leah Russell to Henry's Sandra) would join EastEnders herself, as Kim Fox.

Filmography[link]

• 2010: EastEnders: E20 — Shirley Carter (5 episodes)
• 2006: EastEnders — Shirley Carter (2006–present)
• 2005: The Business — Shirley
• 1999: Bad Girls — Yvonne Atkins (1999–2003)
• 1998: Trial & Retribution — Marilyn Spark (2 episodes)
• 1997: Born to Run — Judith (1 episode)
• 1997: Touching Evil TV series .... Justine Barber
• 1996: Beautiful Thing — Sandra Gangel
• 1996: A Touch of Frost — Sue Venables (1 episode)
• 1993: The Bill — Anne Riley / ... (2 episodes, 1993–1995)
• 1995: An Independent Man — Julie Read (1 episode)
• 1995: Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness — Forensic Scientist
• 1994: Casualty — Diane Daw (1 episode)
• 1994: Moving Story — Sheila Roebuck (1 episode)
• 1993: Cracker — Mrs. Perry (1 episode)
• 1993: Don't Leave Me This Way — Janet Weir
• 1992: EastEnders — Lorraine Salter
• 1990: Birds of a Feather — Viv McCarthy (1 episode)
• 1990: The Play on One — Carol Fairwater (1 episode)
• 1989: The Nineteenth Hole — Council tenant (1 episode, 1989)
• 1989: Forever Green — Doc (1 episode, 1989)
• 19??: Eurocops — Linda Jackson (3 episodes)
• 1988: For Queen & Country — Kim
• 1988: The Comic Strip Presents... — Jackie (1 episode, 1988)
• 1988: Screen Two (1 episode, 1988)
• 1988: Rockliffe's Babies — Sharon Hagerty (1 episode, 1988)
• 1982: The Young Ones — Girl at party (1 episode, 1982)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Linda Henry at the Internet Movie Database

Edward Hibbert
Edward Hibbert, June 2007
Born	(1955-09-09) September 9, 1955 (age 56) Long Island, New York
Education	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor, Literary agent
Years active	1977–Present
Parents	Geoffrey Hibbert
Website
www.EdwardHibbert.com

Edward Hibbert (born September 9, 1955) is an American born English actor and literary agent.

Biography[link]

Hibbert was born in Long Island, New York, the son of Geoffrey Hibbert. He has one sister.^[1] He was raised in England, where he attended London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He returned to the U.S in the mid-1980s.

Acting career[link]

Hibbert has appeared on Broadway and in major regional theatre productions,^[2] worked in television as a series regular and guest star and also had roles in major motion pictures.^[2] In 1993 he won an Obie Award for his co-starring role of "Sterling" in Paul Rudnick's "Jeffrey".^[3] His 'Frederick Fellows/Philip Brent' in the National Theatre revival of "Noises Off" (presented at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre) was called 'delightfully discombobulated' by one reviewer.^[4] Hibbert was in the Broadway musicals The Drowsy Chaperone and the 2007 premiere of Curtains (which reunited him with his Frasier co-star David Hyde Pierce). His most recent role on Broadway is as 'Mr Praed' (the architect) in Roundabout Theatre's 2010 production of Mrs. Warren's Profession starring Cherry Jones.^[5] He guest-starred on TV shows including Cosby, Murder, She Wrote and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.^[6] but is probably best known for his recurring role on Frasier as Gil Chesterton, KACL's pompous, effeminate restaurant critic. (Hibbert himself is openly gay.)^[7]

As a voice actor, Hibbert has been the voice of Evil the Cat on the Earthworm Jim TV series, and the voice of Zazu in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, The Lion King 1½ and the Timon and Pumbaa show. His appearances in motion pictures include The Prestige, Taking Woodstock and The First Wives Club.^[2]

Literary work[link]

He is also a literary agent and a partner in the literary agency Donadio & Olsen, Inc. He has authors Chuck Palahniuk, Christopher Bram, Steven DeRosa and Ed Sikov among his clients^[5] and has also represented film rights for Fight Club, Gods and Monsters plus others.^[8]

See also[link]

• Frasier
• List of Frasier episodes
• Minor characters on Frasier

References[link]