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Polly Alexandra Walker (born 19 May 1966) is an English actress. She has starred in the films Enchanted April (1992), Patriot Games (1992), Sliver (1993), Restoration (1995), The Gambler (1997) and Savage Messiah (2002). In 2006, she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her role in the drama series Rome (2005–07).
Walker was born in Warrington, Lancashire, England. She attended Padgate Church of England Primary School in Warrington and Silverdale Preparatory School, West Acton, London. At 16, Walker graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham and began her career as a dancer but had to abandon dancing after a leg injury at the age of 18. She then decided to become an actress. She moved from the Drama Centre in London to the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she played bit parts for six months before graduating to small roles on television.
Walker landed the title role in the television series Lorna Doone before making her feature debut in Shogun Mayeda (1991). In that same year she appeared in Les Equilibristes and in Mike Newell's Enchanted April, in which she played an aristocrat eager to escape the attentions of her persistent male admirers. Walker first garnered international attention in 1992 as a single-minded English member of an Irish terrorist group in Phillip Noyce's Patriot Games. In 2003 she had a starring role in the BBC drama series State of Play.
Actors: Richard Sale (writer), Richard Crane (actor), Edward Gargan (actor), Adele Mara (actress), Richard Sale (director), Adele Palmer (costume designer), Teddy Infuhr (actor), Boyd Irwin (actor), Edwin Maxwell (actor), Arthur Roberts (editor), Charles Smith (actor), Wilson Wood (actor), Nathan Scott (composer), Walden Boyle (actor), Stephanie Bachelor (actress),
Plot: War vets Bob Watson and Ricky Adams, and the Hughes twins, Skipper and Patricia, cannot register at Opalocka University until they find lodgings in the school's overcrowded quarters. They pretend they are married to get the last two units in the married veteran's housing project, with the girls in one unit and the boys in the other. A noisy kid, Junior Ormsbee, the nephew of the landlords, voices his suspicions and nearly gets them evicted. And a U.S. Senator, investigating veteran's projects, adds new complications.
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Pat Flaherty (actor), James Gleason (actor), Olin Howland (actor), Stanley Logan (actor), Philip Morris (actor), Randolph Scott (actor), James Seay (actor), Dean Stockwell (actor), Shepperd Strudwick (actor), Lynn Bari (actress), F. Hugh Herbert (writer), David Buttolph (composer), Lloyd Bacon (director), Louis R. Loeffler (editor), Hugh Cummings (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
Keywords: based-on-novel, writer