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Peter Macintosh Firth (born 27 October 1953) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC One show Spooks; he is the only actor to have appeared in every episode of the show's ten-series lifespan. He is also known for playing a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to present day, most notably that of Alan Strang in Equus.
Firth was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of publicans Mavis (née Hudson) and Eric Macintosh Firth, who also had a daughter (Shiela).
Firth was a leading child actor by mid-1970, starring in The Flaxton Boys as Archie Weekes and the Here Come the Double Deckers series, which featured child actors in the leading roles. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang.
In July 1973, he appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, starring in the stage version of Peter Shaffer's play Equus, as a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist, and in October 1974 repeated the role in the Broadway production, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Alan Strang.
David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is a BAFTA award-winning English actor, known for his roles as MI5 Intelligence Officer Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks, Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2005 film of Pride & Prejudice and Daniel in the Frank Oz comedy Death at a Funeral. He is also known for portraying John Birt in the political drama Frost/Nixon, as well as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in the BBC series Ripper Street. In 2015 he starred in the Sky Living series The Enfield Haunting as Guy Lyon Playfair.
Macfadyen was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Meinir (née Owen), a drama teacher and former actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil executive. His paternal grandparents were Scottish and his maternal grandparents were Welsh. Macfadyen was brought up in a number of places, including Jakarta, Indonesia, as a result of his father's occupation. He attended schools in England (including in Louth, Lincolnshire), Scotland and Indonesia, and went to Oakham School in Rutland, before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at 17.
Keeley Hawes (born Clare Julia Hawes; 10 February 1976) is an English actress and former model. She starred in The Last September (1999) and has voiced roles in video games, such as Lara Croft in several of the Tomb Raider games. She is also known for her roles as Kitty Butler in Tipping the Velvet, Zoe Reynolds in Spooks (2002–04), Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–10), and Lady Agnes in the 2010–12 remake of Upstairs, Downstairs. She starred in the second series of the BBC Two police drama Line of Duty as Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton.
Hawes was born in Marylebone, London, the daughter of a cab driver. She was trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, which included ten years of elocution lessons. She left home at age 17 and worked in a casino until she was spotted by a modelling scout on Oxford Street and signed up by Select.
Early on in her career, Hawes starred in at least four music videos, for the singles "Saturday Night" by Suede, "Marvellous" by The Lightning Seeds, "Come Around" by The Mutton Birds, and "She's a Star" by James. She first came into the public eye in the 1990s, having supporting roles in Troublemakers, Dennis Potter's Karaoke (1995),Heartbeat (1995), The Beggar Bride (1997), and as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell (1999).
Spooks (known as MI-5 in some countries) is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 to 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid. It is notable for various stylistic touches, and its use of popular guest actors. In the United States, the show is broadcast under the title MI-5. In Canada, the programme originally aired as MI5 but now airs on BBC Canada as Spooks.
The series continued with a film, Spooks: The Greater Good, which was released on 8 May 2015.
Starring Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Jenny Agutter, and Peter Firth, the initial series of six one-hour episodes premiered 13 May 2002.
Due to its combination of stylistic photography with fast-paced action/adventure and spy intrigue storylines the series was a critical and popular success, averaging 7.5 million viewers over its six episodes.
Spooks (known as MI-5 in certain countries) is a BAFTA-winning British spy drama television series, created by David Wolstencroft. It debuted on BBC One on 13 May 2002. The series follows the activities of the intelligence officers of Section D in MI5.
From its debut until its finale on 23 October 2011, 86 episodes were aired across ten complete series. The first series has six episodes, and series two through six have 10 episodes each. Series seven through nine have eight episodes each. The ninth series aired between September and November 2010. The tenth and final series, which began airing on 18 September 2011, consists of six episodes. The individual episodes have no official titles, though there are internal working titles. The USA versions air with titles, which sometimes, but not always, match the working titles.
Actors: Vinnie Hogan (producer), Vinnie Hogan (actor), Vinnie Hogan (director), Vinnie Hogan (writer), Vinnie Hogan (editor), Vinnie Hogan (actor), Kristin Phillips (actress), Graham Carroll (actor), Graham Carroll (actor), Crystal Ecker (actress), Zane LaRue (actor), Nikhil Bhoplay (editor), Maddie Perry (actress), Bradchad Porter (actor), Robyn Bondeson (actor),
Plot: Shannon Cable looks after a weird old house that is haunted by a trio of singing ghosts known as the Funky Soul Retrievers. Joined by this supernatural trio, Shannon must confront the real threat that haunts the house.
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Musical,Actors: Franklin Ojeda Smith (actor), Atif Lanier (actor), Dan Eason (producer), Nakia Dillard (actor), Stacey Ann Shevlin (actress), Kevin Martin (miscellaneous crew), Kristoffe Brodeur (actor), Larry Bryant (producer), Chanee Davis (actress), Michael Johnson (writer), Michael Johnson (editor), Michael Johnson (producer), Michael Johnson (director), Brandon Jones (actor), Garrett Sergeant (editor),
Plot: Brothers Incorporated takes place in Philadelphia 1963, a dynamic time period shaken by the Civil Rights movement. A young man Marcus Christianson finds himself at a crossroads. He has to choose between taking over his father's newly formed Black Mafia or leave town with his love of his life May and purse his up and coming music career.
Keywords: black-man, mafia, philadelphia-pennsylvaniaActors: George Coulouris (actor), Nigel Davenport (actor), Cornel Wilde (actor), Patrick Holt (actor), Cornel Wilde (director), Cornel Wilde (producer), Cornel Wilde (writer), James Payne (actor), Wendy Richard (actress), Kay Rawlings (miscellaneous crew), Eric Boyd-Perkins (editor), Christopher Neame (actor), Anthony Sharp (actor), Bruce Myers (actor), Frank Clarke (editor),
Plot: A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them. Along the way, they encounter hostile soldiers, biker gangs, and all manner of people who are all too willing to take advantage of travelers for a mouthful of food.
Keywords: ambush, anarchy, apocalypse, army, attack, attempted-rape, automobile, baby, barbarism, bare-breastsFool, your word means shit.
My eyes, they wonder.
Not alotta shit left to break inside the mind of acid whore
Swallowing your sister's nightstand might cover up the clogging pores
The sound of master blaster's tank weapon gun addon I believe
Every single little child can benefit from smoking weed
You're filling your pockets with my bones
You're filling your pockets
Slow plans, stuck in my bladder, turn yourself sideways [x2]
I don't know much about computers, but I know that you look like a child abuser
Slow plans, stuck in my bladder, turn yourself sideways [x2]
Sideways, sideways
Move in, take what's not yours, take what I worked for
Slow down, stop me now, you're tearing apart my soul
And lately we should be making me
The best type of record for wasting please
Amazing bark is getting dark
You know that I know can ride the arc
And lately we should be making me
The present elect is a burning tree
And you know that I know that I cant be me
So I can be you and well you can be me
I'm a t.o.y.f.o.r you, on pleasure principle,
We keep it on the downlow because public eyes are sensible
There ain't no outcome without illusion
But I let you in the first place, girl you know what you're doin'
This is dirty sex, backseats, over tables, under sheets,
At the workplace, on the beach, in the hammock where I sleep
I know it's your birthday, you told me at 3:30
Damn ok, where do you wanna meet?
Cause I know the lonely road it took to get there,
And I ... I believed it at your lonely word,
Well I knew the lonely road it took to get there,
And I... I believe it in your lost words,
Well I know the only road it takes to get there,
And I only feel it now because I've been there.
And I know the lonely road it takes to get there,
And I only feel it now because I've been there.
...Stop me now, you're tearing apart my soul,
Move in, take what's not yours, take what I worked for
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Lame, as well, as boring
A thinly veiled guise elected for another new sound, capitalize when you dumb it down
You defect and I'll be raging on top of my car
You defect and I'll be passed out, covered in tar