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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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Stonehenge, in
Wiltshire, was erected around 2500 BC.
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The
Bayeux Tapestry depicts the
Battle of Hastings, 1066, and the events leading to it.
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The
Treaty of Union led to a single united kingdom encompassing all Great Britain.
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom. David Lean was the founding Chairman of the Academy, the first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honouring the films The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. In 2005, it placed a cap on worldwide voting membership which now stands at approximately 6,500. BAFTA has offices in Scotland and Wales in the UK, in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and runs events in Hong Kong, amanda Berry OBE has been chief executive of the organisation since December 2000. Many of these events are free to online at BAFTA Guru. BAFTA runs a number of programmes across the UK, US. Launched in 2012, the UK programme enables talented British citizens who are in need of support to take an industry-recognised course in film. Each BAFTA Scholar receives up to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, since 2013, three students every year have received one of the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games, supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. These scholarships are awarded in the name of in his role as President of BAFTA, since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, vice versa. BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles. The BAFTA award trophy is a mask, designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe. Todays BAFTA award – including the mask and marble base – weighs 3.7 kg and measures 27 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm. BAFTAs annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, or the BAFTAs, in 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has held at the Royal Opera House in Londons Covent Garden. It had been held in the Odeon cinema on Leicester Square since 2000, the ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but since 2002 it has been held in February to precede the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards, or Oscars. They have been awarded annually since 1954, the first ever ceremony consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, from 1968 until 1997, BAFTAs Film and Television Awards were presented together, but from 1998 onwards they were presented at two separate ceremonies. The Television Craft Awards celebrate the talent behind the programmes, such as working in visual effects, production
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The BAFTA award, designed by Mitzi Cunliffe
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Tom Holland (actor)
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Thomas Stanley Holland is an English actor and dancer. Holland was born in Kingston upon Thames, London, to Nicola Elizabeth, a photographer, and Dominic Holland, who is a comedian and author. He has three brothers, twins Sam and Harry, three years younger, the latter of whom appears in the 2013 film Diana, and Patrick and his paternal grandparents were born on the Isle of Man and Ireland. As of December 2012, he was attending The BRIT School for Performing Arts, Holland began dancing at a hip hop class at Nifty Feet Dance School in Wimbledon. His potential was spotted by choreographer Lynne Page when he performed with his school as part of the 2006 Richmond Dance Festival. After eight auditions and subsequent two years of training, on 28 June 2008, Holland made his West End debut in Billy Elliot the Musical as Michael and he gave his first performance in the title role on 8 September 2008, receiving positive notices. In September 2008, Holland appeared on the programme on channel FIVE. The following year, he was featured on ITV1 show The Feel Good Factor and he trained five British schoolboys for a dance routine he front for the final The Feel Good Factor show on 28 March 2009. On 8 March 2010, to mark the anniversary of Billy Elliot the Musical, four current Billy Elliots. Holland was chosen to be a lead at the show on 31 March 2010. Holland had been appearing on a basis as Billy in Billy Elliot the Musical. In 2011, Holland was cast in the British version of the animated film Arrietty and he provided a voice for the principal character Sho. Holland starred in The Impossible, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, alongside Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2012, Holland was featured in Screen Internationals UK Stars of Tomorrow –2012 and was among the newcomers chosen for the inaugural British Academy of Film and Television Arts Breakthrough Brits in 2013. Holland played Isaac in How I Live Now, released in the U. K. on 4 October 2013, also in 2015, he appeared in BBC Twos TV series Wolf Hall, as Peer Gregory Cromwell. As of December 2016, Holland is currently in negotiations to co-star as Todd Hewitt in the adaptation of Patrick Nesss bestselling YA series Chaos Walking along with Daisy Ridley. In 2017, he star in The Current War as Samuel Insull. Billy Elliot the Musical casts Tom Holland at the Internet Movie Database Tom Holland on Twitter Tom Holland on Instagram media. gettyimages. com
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Holland in London, 31 March 2010
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Holland (center) performing at the 5th anniversary of Billy Elliot the Musical, 31 March 2010
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Casting (performing arts)
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The casting process involves a series of auditions before a casting panel, composed of individuals such as the producer, director and/or choreographer. In the early stages of the process, performers often may present prepared audition pieces such as monologues or songs and these audition pieces are usually video taped, attached with resumes, and head shots and then shared with producers, directors and studio representatives. Depending on the prestige of the role, casting calls may go out to the public at large, in the production of film and television, a similar process is followed. Character breakdowns, part of the breakdown, are often provided to auditioners. An actor may go through casting calls before receiving a part. Independent casting studios are used for casting calls so that the castings can take place in various locations. For some major productions, the process of selecting actors for sometimes hundreds of parts may require specialized staff. While the last word remains with the people in charge, artistic and production, a casting director is sometimes assisted by a casting associate, productions with large numbers of extras may have their own extras casting director. The CD remains as a liaison between director, actors and their agents/managers and the studio/network to get the characters in the script cast, at least in the early stages and for extras, casting may be decentralized geographically, often in conjunction with actual shooting planned in different locations. Another reason may be tapping into each home market in the case of an international co-production, the resulting list of actors filling the parts is called a cast list
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Casting call for
black cats, Los Angeles, 1961. The studio was seeking cats for the
Roger Corman movie
Tales of Terror.
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Orange (UK)
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Orange UK was a mobile network operator and a former internet service provider in the United Kingdom, launched in 1993. It was once a constituent of the FTSE100 Index but was purchased by France Télécom in 2000, Orange UK has since merged with Deutsche Telekoms T-Mobile UK to form a joint venture, EE. EE continued to operate the Orange brand until February 2015, when new connections, existing Orange customers who wish to upgrade must switch to an EE tariff when their contract term ends, or can choose to remain on their existing Orange tariff without renewing. The Orange brand, at the time a name for a telecommunications firm, was created by an internal team at Microtel headed by Chris Moss and supported by Martin Keogh, Rob Furness. The brand consultancy Wolff Olins was charged with designing the brand values and logo and advertising agency WCRS created the Orange slogan The futures bright, the team that launched Orange in the UK was led by Malcolm Way, and later Hans Snook who became the Chief Executive. A holding company structure was adopted in 1995 with the establishment of Orange plc, in April 1996, Orange went public and floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, majority owned by Hutchison, followed by BAe. In June 1996, it became the youngest company to enter the FTSE100, and by July 1997 Orange had gained one million customers. The stint as a company came to an end in October 1999. Mannesmanns acquisition of Orange triggered Vodafone to make a takeover bid for the German company. Shortly thereafter, in February 2000, Vodafone acquired Mannesmann for US$183 Billion, in May 2000, France Télécom announced the acquisition of the global operations of Orange from Vodafone for US$37 Billion, and the transaction was completed in August 2000. France Télécom subsequently rebranded all its mobile telecommunications as Orange, the company was initially 100% owned by France Télécom. In 2001 15% was sold in an IPO, but in 2003 the outstanding shares were bought back by France Télécom, the Orange brand was to be retained for the first eighteen months at least. On 11 May 2010 it was announced both the Orange and T-Mobile brands will remain on British high streets, although their new merged parent company will be called EE. Oranges broadband service was rebranded as EE Broadband on 30 October 2012, in 2014, Orange contracts could no longer be bought online, with the website providing news and entertainment articles only. New Orange connections were possible via EE stores and telesales. In February 2015, Orange UKs parent company EE announced that Orange tariffs were withdrawn for new, existing customers wishing to upgrade must sign up to an EE tariff. This marks the end of services under the Orange brand in the UK, starting in July 2015, Orange pay-as-you-go customers also had the ability to dial premium rate and directory enquiries numbers withdrawn. Those who need to such services being advised to transfer to an EE plan
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Orange and
T-Mobile shops in
Leeds in 2009. The two have since been re-branded as
EE stores.
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The future's bright...
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An Orange Shop in London, UK
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An Orange Arrows F1 car.
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EE Limited
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EE is a British mobile network operator, Internet service provider and a division of BT Group. It was established in 2010 as a 50,50 joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and Orange S. A. through the merger of their respective T-Mobile and Orange businesses in the UK. It is the largest mobile operator in the UK, with around 30 million customers. EE is headquartered in Hatfield in the United Kingdom and also has offices in Bristol, Darlington, Greenock, North Tyneside, Plymouth, Leeds. In addition to telephone services, EE also provides an IPTV service through its EE TV Box. As of 23 November 2016, EEs 4G & 2G networks combined coverage reaches more than 99% of the UK population, Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom announced plans to merge their respective UK ventures T-Mobile UK and Orange UK on 8 September 2009. The initial planning suggested a joint revenue of around £7.7 billion for 2008 with savings via synergies expected to total around over £445 million annually from 2014 onwards, the two companies also announced an expected investment of £600 to £800 million in integration costs. The initial press release outlined a primarily clear vision for the two brands citing that the T-Mobile UK and Orange UK brands will be maintained separately for 18 months, the merger was cleared by the European Commission on 1 March 2010. The joint venture was announced as completed on 1 April 2010, the companies network sharing plans were released to customers on 11 October 2010. The switch-on was rolled out utilising an opt-in page on each brands website, however, the rollout did not initially include automatic network roaming mid-call or the two brands 3G services. On 18 July 2011, Tom Alexander announced unexpectedly that he would step down as CEO, Alexander had joined Orange in 2008 and had led the company since its formation on 1 July 2010. Alexander said that he would remain with the company throughout the remainder of 2011, on 2 November 2011 Everything Everywhere announced plans to cut a further 550 back office staff, with its sites in Bristol, Darlington, Hatfield, and Paddington affected. In April 2012, the T-Mobile network in Northern Ireland was switched off, however, later most T-Mobile sites were turned back on as EE has a mast sharing agreement with 3. Further speculation commenced on 7 September 2012 when the company announced details of a conference on the morning of 11 September 2012. Other commentators suggested that the HTC One XL would be the first handset to launch utilising Everything Everywheres 4G network. The handsets that the initially launched on EE are the iPhone 5, HTC One XL, Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy Note II, Huawei Ascend P1, Nokia Lumia 920. The company also announced that they would be using two 4G mobile broadband devices manufactured by Huawei - the E589 Mobile Wi-Fi device and E392 mobile broadband dongle, the brand was described by EE as The Super Fast Brand. It was also confirmed that all ex-Orange and ex-T-Mobile shops would be re-branded EE overnight, the companys legal name changed to EE Limited on 2 September 2013
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An EE store in Kirkgate, Bradford
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EE Power Bar at Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts 2015
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James McAvoy
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James McAvoy is a Scottish actor. His notable television work includes the drama show State of Play, the adult comedy-drama Shameless, besides screen acting, McAvoy has performed in several West End productions, receiving three nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He has also done work for animated films including Gnomeo & Juliet. In 2003, McAvoy appeared in a role in Bollywood Queen. This was followed by a role, the faun Mr. Tumnus, in The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch. His performance in Kevin Macdonalds drama The Last King of Scotland garnered him several award nominations, the critically acclaimed romantic drama war film Atonement earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination and his second BAFTA nomination. He appeared opposite Angelina Jolie as a trained assassin in the action thriller Wanted. Since then, he is notable for playing the young Professor Charles Xavier in the 2011 superhero film X-Men, First Class, McAvoy starred in the 2013 crime comedy-drama film Filth for which he won Best Actor in the British Independent Film Awards. In 2017, he portrayed Kevin, a man with 23 personalities in his body, in M. Night Shyamalans Split, McAvoy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Elizabeth, a psychiatric nurse, and James McAvoy, Sr. a builder. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and his parents divorced when he was seven. His mother lived with them intermittently, the actor has a sister, Joy, and a younger half-brother, Donald. McAvoy has not been in contact with his father since childhood and he attended St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill, Glasgow, a Catholic school, and briefly considered joining the Catholic priesthood. In a 2006 interview, McAvoy said that he considered becoming a priest as a child because it seemed to be a way to explore the world via missionary work, during his education, he worked at a local bakery. McAvoys acting debut came at the age of 15 in The Near Room and he later admitted that he was not very interested in acting when joining the movie, but was inspired to study the craft after developing feelings for his co-star, Alana Brady. He continued to act while still a member of PACE Youth Theatre, McAvoy eventually graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2000. Throughout the early 2000s, he made guest appearances in television shows, in 2001, McAvoys performance as a gay hustler in the play Out in the Open impressed director Joe Wright so much that Wright began offering McAvoy parts in his films. McAvoy kept declining them, however, and it wasnt until six years later that the two worked together. He also starred in Privates on Parade in the Donmar Warehouse, also in 2001, the actor appeared as Private James W. Miller in Band of Brothers, an eleven-hour World War II miniseries by executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks
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McAvoy at the
2014 Cannes Film Festival
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McAvoy at the
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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Duff and McAvoy in February 2007
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John Boyega
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Boyega rose to prominence in his native United Kingdom for his role as Moses in the 2011 sci-fi comedy film Attack the Block. Some of Boyegas other credits include historical fiction drama film Half of a Yellow Sun, four episodes of the television series 24, Live Another Day, Boyega was born in Peckham, south London, to Nigerian parents, Abigail and Samson. His first role was a leopard in a play at his primary school, Boyega was a pupil at Oliver Goldsmith Primary School. While acting in a play there at the age of nine, he was noticed by Teresa Early, the director of Theatre Peckham. After obtaining financial assistance from a fund, he joined the theatre. Boyegas father, a preacher, had wanted Boyega to become a preacher too, in 2003, Boyega started his secondary education at Westminster City School, where he took part in various school productions. Between 2008 and 2010, he attended South Thames College at the colleges Wandsworth campus to study for a National Diploma in Performing Arts and his activities at the college included playing the title role in the colleges production of Othello. He then enrolled at the University of Greenwich to study BA Film Studies & Media Writing, in September 2011, HBO announced that Boyega had been cast in the boxing drama pilot Da Brick, loosely based on Mike Tysons life. Boyega was expected to play Donnie, who is released from a detention centre on his 18th birthday. The pilot was written by John Ridley, but was not picked up by HBO, also in 2011, he acted in the film Junkhearts in which he portrayed Jamal, a drug dealer who finds some guns and tries to sell them. In March 2012, Boyega was cast in the adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies book Half of a Yellow Sun. On 29 April 2014, it was confirmed that Boyega had been cast as a character in Star Wars. The film was released on 18 December 2015, both the film and Boyegas performance received acclaim from both audiences and critics. Boyega has stated in an interview that he is a fan of Marvel Comics, in January 2016, Boyega formed his own production company, Upperroom Entertainment Limited. In June 2016, Boyega announced that his company would be co-producing the sequel to the 2013 movie Pacific Rim titled Pacific Rim, Boyega will also play the lead role in the project. In June 2016, Boyega announced that he would be starring in Kathryn Bigelows upcoming project about the 1967 Detroit riots, John Boyega at the Internet Movie Database
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John Boyega at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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John Boyega (2nd from the left), together with
Josh Wiggins,
Kodi Smit-McPhee and Sharon Swart (from the left to the right)
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59th British Academy Film Awards
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The 59th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 19 February 2006 and honoured the best films of 2005. Brokeback Mountain won Best Film, Best Director for Ang Lee, Best Supporting Actor for Jake Gyllenhaal, philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor for Capote and Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress for Walk the Line. The Constant Gardener had the most nominations with 10, but only received one award, wallace & Gromit, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, directed by Nick Park and Steve Box, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2005. Most wins 4 Brokeback Mountain 3 Memoirs of a Geisha 2 The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Crash, and Walk the Line Most nominations 6 Good Night, and Good Luck
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Ang Lee, Best Director winner
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Actor winner
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Reese Witherspoon, Best Actress winner
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Best Supporting Actor winner
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor, CBE, is a British actor. Ejiofor portrayed the characters Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave, Karl Mordo in Doctor Strange, Dr. Vincent Kapoor in The Martian, Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things and The Operative in Serenity. For 12 Years a Slave he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and he was nominated for a 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his performance in Dancing on the Edge. In 2008, he was awarded an Officer of the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts and he was elevated to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Birthday Honours. Ejiofor was born in Londons Forest Gate, to Nigerian parents of Igbo origin and his father, Arinze, was a doctor, and his mother, Obiajulu, was a pharmacist. His younger sister is CNN correspondent Zain Asher and his father was killed, and Ejiofor was badly injured, and received scars that are still visible on his forehead. Ejiofor began acting in plays at the age of fourteen at Dulwich College. He got into the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art but had to leave after his first year, after being cast in Steven Spielbergs film Amistad. He played the role in Othello at the Bloomsbury Theatre in September 1995, and again at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in 1996. Ejiofor made his debut in the television film Deadly Voyage in 1996. He went on to become an actor in London. In Steven Spielbergs Amistad, he gave support to Djimon Hounsous Cinque as interpreter Ens, in 1999, he appeared in the British film G, MT – Greenwich Mean Time. In 2000, he starred in Blue/Orange at the Royal National Theatre and that same year, his performance as Romeo in William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award. Ejiofor was awarded the Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer at the Critics Circle Theatre Awards in 2000, Ejiofor had his first leading film role in 2000 playing Nicky Burkett in Jeremy Camerons It Was An Accident. In 2002 he starred in Dirty Pretty Things, for which he won a British Independent Film Award for best actor. In the following year, he was part of the ensemble cast of Love Actually, starred in a BBC adaptation of Chaucers The Knights Tale and he starred alongside Hilary Swank in 2004s Red Dust, portraying the fictional politician Alex Mpondo of post-apartheid South Africa. He played Mike Terry, in the cult film Redbelt that received favourable reviews and he also received acclaim for his performance as a complex antagonist The Operative in the 2005 film Serenity. Ejiofor played a revolutionary in the 2006 film Children of Men and his singing and acting performance in Kinky Boots received a Golden Globe Award and British Independent Film Award nomination
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Ejiofor at the
2015 Toronto International Film Festival
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Ejiofor at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival premiere of
Redbelt
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Rachel McAdams
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Rachel Anne McAdams is a Canadian actress. In 2002, she made her Hollywood film debut in the comedy The Hot Chick, McAdams rose to fame in 2004 with her roles in the comedy Mean Girls and the romantic drama The Notebook. In 2005, she starred in the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, the psychological thriller Red Eye, and she was hailed by the media as Hollywoods new it girl, and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Rising Star. After a two-year career break, McAdams starred in two limited release films in 2008, the film noir Married Life and the road trip comedy-drama The Lucky Ones, in 2010, McAdams appeared in her first star vehicle, the comedy Morning Glory. In 2015, her highest profile roles were in the season of the HBO crime drama True Detective. For her performance in Spotlight, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Rachel McAdams was born in London, Ontario, the daughter of Sandra Kay, a nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams, a driver and furniture mover. McAdams is the eldest of three children, with a sister, Kayleen, a celebrity make-up artist, and a brother and she grew up in a Protestant household. When she was four years old, she began figure skating, then skating became merely a hobby. She competed in skating until the age of eighteen, winning regional awards and she has since said that skating prepared her for physical acting, because it trained her to be in tune with her body. McAdams was educated at Myrtle Street Public School, and later Central Elgin Collegiate Institute and she did not enjoy academic work and often would pretend to be sick to avoid going to school. Nonetheless, she was active in student life, in addition to playing sports, McAdams served on the student council, participated in the Crimestoppers program, and was a member of the Peer Helping Team. She worked at a McDonalds restaurant during the holidays for three years. McAdams first developed an interest in performing when she was seven years old and she attended both Disney and Shakespeare summer camps as a child. From the age of twelve, McAdams participated in Original Kids Theatre Company, in her late teens, she directed childrens theatre productions. She also was involved in stage productions, most notably winning a performance award at the Sears Ontario Drama Festival. She was inspired by two of her teachers, who taught her English and drama, respectively, in the eleventh and twelfth grades. McAdams intended to take Cultural studies at the University of Western Ontario before being persuaded by her teacher that a professional acting career was a viable option
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McAdams at the
2012 Toronto International Film Festival
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McAdams at the
2007 Toronto International Film Festival
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McAdams at the premiere of
Sherlock Holmes in 2009
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Michelle Williams (actress)
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Michelle Ingrid Williams is an American actress. She began her career with television guest appearances, and made her film debut in Lassie. She gained wider recognition for her role as Jen Lindley on the The WB series Dawsons Creek from 1998 to 2003 and she followed this with films such as Martin Scorseses Shutter Island. Her work in Blue Valentine garnered her nominations for the Golden Globe Award and she won a Golden Globe and an Independent Spirit Award for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, which also garnered her BAFTA, SAG, and Academy Award nominations. In 2016, she received acclaim for her performance in the drama Manchester by the Sea, earning her nominations from the BAFTA, SAG. On Broadway, Williams appeared in a revival of the musical Cabaret in 2014 and she received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination for the latter. Williams was born in Kalispell, Montana, the daughter of Carla Ingrid and her parents are separated, and she has one sister, Paige, and three half-siblings. Her mother is a homemaker, and her father is an author, stock and commodities trader and she has Norwegian, and smaller amounts of English, German, Danish, Swiss, Swedish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. As a child, Williams kept to herself and was self-sufficient, as she has said, I was really secretive with my parents, I found that by keeping to myself I got on OK. When Williams was nine, her moved to San Diego. She became interested in acting at an age when she saw a local production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Williams began her career in the early 1990s by making guest appearances in programs such as Step by Step. In 1993, she appeared as Bridget Bowers in Baywatch and she debuted in the adventure film Lassie. In Species, she portrayed the younger version of Sil, an alien-human who grows up to become the character played by Natasha Henstridge. At age 15, with her parents approval, she filed for emancipation from them, after completing ninth grade at Santa Fe Christian Schools, in Solana Beach, California, she left school because of severe bullying. Subsequently, Williams was home-tutored by her father and later graduated with a GED from a correspondence school and she moved to Los Angeles and quickly secured a role in Dawsons Creek. Williams said later that she thought she knew all she needed to know since age 15 and she said in 2011 that she chose emancipation as she was influenced by other young actors doing it. In 1997, unhappy with the roles they were being offered, Williams and it was sold, but nothing happened with it
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Williams at the 2012
Comic-Con in San Diego
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Williams at the 84th Annual
Academy Awards Red Carpet 2012
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Williams at the 2010
Berlin International Film Festival for the premiere of
Shutter Island
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Naomie Harris
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Naomie Melanie Harris, OBE is an English actress. She started her career as an actress, appearing on the children television series Simon. She played voodoo witch Tia Dalma in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean films, Selena in 28 Days Later and she played Eve Moneypenny in the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre. Harris was born on 6 September 1976 in Islington, London, Harris mother, Lisselle Kayla, came to London as a child with her parents from Jamaica, and her father came there from Trinidad. They separated before she was born, and Harris was raised by her mother and has no relationship with her father and her mother later remarried and Harris has two younger half-siblings. Her mother worked as a screenwriter on EastEnders and is now a healer, Harris attended Londons St Marylebone School, before attending Woodhouse College as a 6th form student. She graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1998 with a degree in Social and Political Sciences, Harris gained her training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Harris has appeared in television and film since she was nine, in 2000, she played Susan in The Witch of Edmonton at the Southwark Playhouse. In November 2002, she starred in Danny Boyles post-apocalyptic film 28 Days Later, in the same year, she starred in the television adaptation of Zadie Smiths White Teeth. Since then, Harris has appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Mans Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean, At Worlds End and she also did a comic turn in Michael Winterbottoms indie ensemble piece, A Cock and Bull Story. She starred in Channel 4s adaptation of the novel Poppy Shakespeare and she also appeared in BBCs historical drama Small Island in December 2009. She played Elizabeth Lavenza in Danny Boyles stage production of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein for the National Theatre from 22 February to 2 May 2011. She played the role in The First Grader, directed by Justin Chadwick. Harris co-starred in the 23rd James Bond film, Skyfall, playing Eve Moneypenny and she is the first black actress to play Moneypenny, and is the first Moneypenny to be given a first name. In 2012, Harris was the voice-over for the Boss Nuit Pour Femme commercial starring actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Harris portrayed Winnie Mandela in the biopic Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, based on the book of the same name, opposite actor Idris Elba. The film was released on 29 November 2013, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on viewing the film told Harris that it seemed like she wasnt acting, but channeling her and that it was the first time she felt truly captured on film. Harris reprised her role as Eve Moneypenny in the 24th Bond film, Spectre, in 2016, Harris starred as Paula in the critically acclaimed film Moonlight. She played the abusive, drug-addicted mother of the main character
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Harris in June 2014
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Cillian Murphy
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Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor of stage and screen. A native of Cork, Murphy began his career as a rock musician. After turning down a deal, he made his professional acting debut in the play Disco Pigs in 1996. While continuing with work he also began appearing in independent films. For his performance as a woman in Breakfast on Pluto. In 2006, Murphy played the role in Ken Loachs Palme dOr-winning film The Wind That Shakes the Barley. He teamed up again with Boyle for the science-fiction film Sunshine, since 2013, Murphy has played the lead in the BBC gangster series Peaky Blinders. He has continued to work on stage, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for Misterman in 2011, Murphy lives with his wife and two children in Monkstown, Dublin. In 2011 Murphy became patron of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Galway and he is closely associated with the work of Professor Pat Dolan Director UCFRC and UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement. Murphy was born in Douglas and raised in Ballintemple, two suburbs of Cork and his father, Brendan, works for the Irish Department of Education, and his mother is a French teacher. Not only are his parents educators, but his aunts and uncles are also teachers, musicianship also runs in the family, and Murphy started playing music and writing songs at the age of 10. Not keen on sport, a part of life at PBC. Still, it was there that he got his first taste of performing, when he participated in a drama module presented by Pat Kiernan, Murphy later described the experience as a huge high and a fully alive feeling that he set out to chase. His English teacher, the poet and novelist William Wall, encouraged him to pursue acting, in his late teens and early twenties, Murphy worked towards a career as a rock musician, playing guitar in several bands alongside his brother Páidi. The Beatles-obsessed pair named their most successful band The Sons of Mr. Greengenes, after a 1969 song by another idol, Murphy sang and played guitar in the band, which he has said specialised in wacky lyrics and endless guitar solos. In 1996, The Sons of Mr. Murphy confessed that Im very glad in retrospect that we didnt sign because you kind of sign away your life to a label and the whole of your music. Also in 1996, Murphy began studying law at University College Cork, not only was he busy with his band, but he has said that he knew within days after starting at UCC that law was not what he wanted to do. After seeing Corcadorcas stage production of A Clockwork Orange, directed by Kiernan and his first major role was in the UCC Drama Societys amateur production of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, also starring Irish American comedian, Des Bishop
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Murphy in 2010
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Cillian Murphy (first on the left) with the cast of
Inception at the premiere in July 2010.
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Murphy in Berlin in 2014
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Murphy at the 2012
Odessa International Film Festival
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Ben Whishaw
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Benjamin John Ben Whishaw is an English actor. He has also played the role of Q in the James Bond films starting with Skyfall, and was the voice of Paddington Bear in the 2014 film, Paddington. Whishaw was born in Clifton, Bedfordshire, and was brought up there and in Langford, the son of Linda, who works in cosmetics, and Jose Whishaw and his father is of French, German and Russian descent, and his mother is of English background. He has a twin, James. Whishaw is not the original surname. He first rose to prominence as a member of the Bancroft Players Youth Theatre, Big Spirit and he attended Henlow Middle School and then Samuel Whitbread Community College in Shefford. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2003 and it was adapted into a physical theatre piece by the group and taken to the 1995 Edinburgh Festival, where it garnered five-star reviews and great critical acclaim. As the lead in Trevor Nunns 2004 production of Hamlet at the Old Vic, Whishaw received highly favourable reviews and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor and the Ian Charleson Award. The role was shared with Al Weaver in an arrangement that saw Whishaw playing all nights except for Mondays. Nunn is reported to have made this arrangement due to the youth of the two playing the lead, to relieve some of the pressure on each. It was Whishaw, however, who featured most prominently in the marketing materials and his film and television credits include Layer Cake and Chris Morriss 2005 sitcom Nathan Barley, in which he played a character called Pingu. He was named Most Promising Newcomer at the 2001 British Independent Film Awards for My Brother Tom and he also played Keith Richards in the Brian Jones biopic Stoned. In the spring of 2005, Whishaw received lots of attention for his role as a dealer in Philip Ridleys controversial stage play Mercury Fur. In Perfume, Whishaw played Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a perfume maker whose craft turns deadly, the film was released in Germany in September 2006 and in US theaters in December 2006. In the same year, Whishaw worked on Pawel Pawlikowskis abandoned The Restraint of Beasts. some trace of her, at the end of 2009 he starred in Cock, a new play by Mike Bartlett at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2009 he also starred as the poet John Keats in the film Bright Star, in February 2010, Whishaw made a successful off-Broadway debut at MCC Theater in the American premiere of the awarding-winning play The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell. He played Ariel in Julie Taymors 2010 film adaptation of The Tempest, and was featured in The Hour, a BBC Two drama series. In 2012 Whishaw appeared as Richard II in the television film Richard II, also in 2012, he appeared as part of the ensemble cast of the science-fiction drama film Cloud Atlas
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Whishaw with
Judi Dench in Peter and Alice, at the
Noël Coward Theatre in May 2013
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Shia LaBeouf
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Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker. He made his debut in Holes, based on the novel of the same name by Louis Sachar. In 2004, he made his debut with the short film Lets Love Hate and later directed a short film titled Maniac, starring American rappers Cage. In 2007, LaBeouf starred in the successful films Disturbia. The same year he was cast in Michael Bays science fiction film Transformers as Sam Witwicky, despite mixed reviews, Transformers was a box office success and one of the highest-grossing films of 2007. LaBeouf later appeared in its sequels Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers, Dark of the Moon, in 2008, he played Henry Mutt Williams Jones III in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones franchise. His other films include Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps, Lawless, The Company You Keep, Nymphomaniac, since 2014, LaBeouf has pursued a variety of public performance art projects with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner. LaBeouf was born in Los Angeles, California, as the child of Shayna. His mother is a dancer and ballerina turned visual artist and clothing jewelry designer and his father is a Vietnam War veteran who had numerous jobs. LaBeoufs mother is Jewish, and his father, who is of Cajun descent, is Christian, LaBeouf has described himself as Jewish, and has stated that he was raised around both sides, he had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and was also baptized in the Angelus church. One of the camps he attended was Christian and his first name is derived from the Hebrew shai Yah, meaning gift of God. During his childhood, he accompanied his father to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, LaBeouf has also said he was subjected to verbal and mental abuse by his father, who once pointed a gun at his son during a Vietnam War flashback. LaBeouf has stated that his father was on drugs during his childhood, LaBeoufs uncle was going to adopt him at one stage because his parents could not afford to have him anymore and they had too much pride to go on welfare or food stamps. As a way of dealing with his parents divorce, he would perform for his family, LaBeouf remains close to and financially supports both of his parents. He attended 32nd Street Visual and Performing Arts Magnet in Los Angeles and Alexander Hamilton High School, in an interview, LaBeouf said that, looking back on his childhood, he feels grateful and considers some of those memories scars. Prior to acting, LaBeouf practiced comedy around his neighborhood as an escape from a hostile environment, at age 10, he began performing stand-up at comedy clubs, describing his appeal as having disgustingly dirty material and a 50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old kid. He subsequently found an agent through the Yellow Pages and was taken on after pretending to be his own manager. In the early 2000s, LaBeouf became known among young audiences after playing Louis Stevens on the Disney Channel weekly program Even Stevens and he has said that grew up on that show and being cast was the best thing that happened to him
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LaBeouf at the premiere of
Fury in Washington D.C, October 2014
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LaBeouf in November 2006, promoting Bobby.
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LaBeouf promoting Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, June 2009.
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In June 2009 with co-star
Megan Fox at the
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen press conference in Paris.
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Sienna Miller
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Sienna Rose Diana Miller is a British-American actress, model, and fashion designer. Her film roles include the crime thriller Layer Cake, the comedy Alfie, the biopic Factory Girl, the drama The Edge of Love, in 2014, she starred in two biographical dramas, Foxcatcher, playing Nancy Schultz, and American Sniper, portraying Taya Renae Kyle. Born in New York City, United States, Miller moved to London with her family when she was just over a year old and her mother, Josephine, is a South African-born English former model. Her father, Edwin Miller, is an American banker turned dealer of Chinese art, Miller has a sister, Savannah, and two half-brothers, Charles and Stephen, as well as a step brother, Tanner. Miller attended Heathfield School, Ascot, a school in Ascot, Berkshire. In 2001, she made her film début with South Kensington, with Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson, in 2004 Miller had a supporting role in the remake Alfie with Jude Law and in Layer Cake. In 2007, Miller had a role in Matthew Vaughns adaptation Stardust and played a starlet to Steve Buscemis reporter in Interview. Later in 2007, she portrayed an undead bride opposite James Franco in Camille and she appeared in the 2009 live-action film adaptation of the comic book and cartoon G. I. Joe, The Rise of Cobra, playing The Baroness and she starred as Patricia in the London production of Flare Path at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2011. Then in 2012, she starred in The Girl, an HBO film about the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren, in 2014, Miller appeared in Bennett Millers Foxcatcher and Clint Eastwoods American Sniper playing Taya Renae Kyle. Her 2015 films included High-Rise and Burnt and she will take over the role after Emma Stones scheduled departure from the production on 15 February and will perform for the remaining six weeks of the shows engagement, until 29 March. She was selected to be on the jury for the competition section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. She co-starred in Ben Afflecks period crime drama Live by Night, before her professional acting career, Miller worked as a photographic model. She signed with Tandy Anderson of Select Model Management London, and modelled for Coca-Cola, Italian Vogue, and posed topless in the 2003 Pirelli Calendar. Miller has also been associated with the style of fashion that became known as boho chic. Miller signed a contract with Pepe Jeans London, the jeans ad campaign first appeared in magazines March 2006. In February 2009, Hugo Boss Fragrances announced that Miller would be the new ambassador for their womens BOSS Orange womens perfume, in 2006 it was announced that Miller would design a fashion capsule for Pepe Jeans, the project was later expanded to become a complete fashion label. Called Twenty8Twelve, it gets its name from Millers date of birth and is backed by Pepe Jeans
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Miller, jury member at the
2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Miller at the Military Fashion Show in 2008
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Ellen Page
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Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page, known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Her career began with roles in Canadian television shows including Pit Pony, Trailer Park Boys, Page starred in the 2005 drama Hard Candy, for which she won the Austin Film Critics Associations Award for Best Actress. Page portrayed Kitty Pryde in the X-Men series of films and she also provided the voice acting, motion capture, and likeness for the character Jodie Holmes in the video game Beyond, Two Souls. Page was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page and she attended the Halifax Grammar School until grade 10, spent some time at Queen Elizabeth High School, and graduated from the Shambhala School in 2005. She also spent two years in Toronto, Ontario, studying in the Interact Program at Vaughan Road Academy, along with close friend, growing up, Page enjoyed playing with action figures and climbing trees. Page first acted in front of the camera in 1997 at age ten in the CBC television movie Pit Pony and this led to more roles in a number of small Canadian films and television series, notably playing Treena Lahey in season two of Trailer Park Boys. At 16, she was cast in Mouth to Mouth, an independent film shot in Europe. Page starred in the 2005 movie Hard Candy as a girl who takes a pedophile hostage. Page appeared in X-Men, The Last Stand and X-Men, Days of Future Past as Kitty Pryde, in the previous X-Men movies, the part had been used in brief cameos played by other actresses, but never as a main character. Page was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Scene Stealer for the role, Page portrayed the title character in the 2007 film Juno. Film critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times described her as talented and Roger Ebert said. Page was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, Page also co-starred in Smart People, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Shot before Juno, but released afterwards, the saw her playing overachieving daughter to Dennis Quaids college professor character. Before his death in January 2008, Heath Ledger had discussed with Page the idea of starring in his directorial debut, in 2008, she was ranked #86 on FHMs Sexiest Women in the World list, and placed at #93 for 2009. In June 2008, Page was listed in Entertainment Weeklys future A-List stars list, Page hosted Saturday Night Live on March 1,2008. On May 3,2009, she guest starred in the episode Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-Doh of the animated series The Simpsons as a character named Alaska Nebraska, a parody of Hannah Montana. She also starred in Drew Barrymores directorial debut, Whip It, alongside Juliette Lewis, Marcia Gay Harden, Drew Barrymore, the film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and had its wide release on October 2,2009. She featured in Michael Landers film Peacock, opposite Cillian Murphy, Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman and Josh Lucas, in August 2009, Page began shooting the big-budget Christopher Nolan thriller Inception, alongside co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ken Watanabe
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Page at the
2009 Toronto Film Festival
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Page in 2007
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Page with the cast of
Inception at a premiere in 2010.
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Page at the
San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2013
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Sam Riley
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Samuel Peter W. Sam Riley is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his performance in the 2007 biographical film Control, about the life of Ian Curtis, Riley was born in Menston, West Yorkshire, the son of Amanda, a nursery school teacher, and Andrew Riley, a textile agent. He was educated at Malsis School, Cross Hills, and at Uppingham School and he was turned down by both the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His breakthrough performance came when he played the role of Ian Curtis in the film Control, rileys scenes, however, were omitted from the final cut. In September 2007, Riley was cast in Gerald McMorrows British science fiction film Franklyn and he starred as the lead role in 13, an English language remake of the French thriller 13 Tzameti that has yet to have an American and European release. He played the role of Pinkie Brown in Brighton Rock alongside Helen Mirren and he also starred in Walter Salles film adaptation of Jack Kerouacs autobiographical On the Road playing the narrator and protagonist Sal Paradise. He also has a role in the 2011 German comedy Rubbeldiekatz. His role is listed as Wagenmeister, in Byzantium, a film directed by Neil Jordan, he appears alongside Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as Darvell. In 2012, Riley was cast as Diaval in Disneys Maleficent, the film was released May 2014. Riley was also cast as Fitzwilliam Darcy in the film, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and he featured in the autumn/winter 2008 publicity campaign for the British fashion house Burberry, supervised by Christopher Bailey and shot by Mario Testino. He modeled the fall/winter 2014 Stefano Pilati-designed couture collection of Ermenegildo Zegna and he was named one of GQs 50 best dressed British men in 2015. For a few years Riley was the singer of the Leeds band 10,000 Things. After their first release on indie label Voltage Records in 2002, as of 2011, Riley lives in Berlin with his wife, German actress Alexandra Maria Lara. They married in August 2009 and have a son named Ben, Sam Riley at the Internet Movie Database
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Riley in February 2014
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Noel Clarke
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Noel Anthony Clarke is an English actor, screenwriter, director, and comic book writer from London. He is known for playing Wyman Norris in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Clarke appeared in and wrote the screenplay for Kidulthood and wrote, directed and starred in the sequel, Adulthood, which gained £1,209,319 from the opening weekend of its release. Clarke studied Media at the University of North London before going on to acting classes at Londons Actors Centre. Clarke won the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer in 2003 and was awarded a BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award in 2009, Clarke was born in London, England. His other television work includes appearances in Casualty and Metrosexuality and he has also acted on the stage, and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2003 for his performance in the play Where Do We Live at the Royal Court Theatre. Clarke starred in the film Doghouse, directed by Jake West, the film was shot primarily in Midhurst, a small town in West Sussex, on the grounds of the old King Edward VII Hospital. He also participated in Neil Marshalls film Centurion, about which Clarke said, its about the Roman Legion, Clarke began his writing career in 2005 when he wrote the screenplay for the film Kidulthood which was released in 2006. He also directed and starred in the sequel, Adulthood, which was released in 2008, on directing his first film, Clarke described his experience, Directing for the first time was definitely a challenge and tiring at times. It was a learning curve and if youre willing to do stuff and go with it. His other writing credits include Combat which is an episode of the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, and West 10 LDN, in 2008, he starred in the video for The Prodigy single Invaders Must Die. In 2009, Clarke was awarded a BAFTA award in the category of Orange Rising Star Award. As a result of the success of Kidulthood, Adulthood, and his BAFTA win, he was ranked at number 83 in the MediaGuardian 100 and he also played the role of A. J. opposite Jim Sturgess, in Philip Ridleys cult film, Heartless. Clarke has worked with BBC Blast, a project for teenagers that aims to inspire, shortly after his BAFTA win he gave a talk to inspire young people telling them to broaden your mind. His next project,4.3.2.1, the film was shot in London and New York. He has also played a role in 2012s Ghost Rider. The scene was cut from the movie, but can be seen in the Deleted Scenes in the Special Features of the DVD and he played Thomas Harewood in Star Trek Into Darkness, a family man with a wife and a young daughter. The film was released on 15 May 2013, in 2015, Clarke created the monthly superhero series The Troop for Titan Comics. The first issue of which was released in December 2015, which has received critical acclaim, in 2016, Clarke wrote, directed, and starred in Brotherhood
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Noel Clarke at the
68th British Academy Film Awards
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Michael Cera
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Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a actor, most notably portraying a young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. In 2010, he portrayed Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Cera made his Broadway debut in the 2014 installment of Kenneth Lonergans This Is Our Youth. Aside from acting, Cera is also a musician, having released his debut album True That in 2014, Cera was born in Brampton, Ontario. He is the son of Linda and Luigi Cera, a technician and his father is Sicilian, and his mother has Irish, Dutch, Scottish, and English ancestry. His parents both worked for Xerox, Cera has an older sister, Jordan, and a younger sister, Molly. He became interested in acting after viewing Ghostbusters repeatedly when sick with the chicken pox at the age of three and he memorized all the dialogue and idolized Bill Murray. He enrolled in the Second City Toronto and took improvisation classes and he attended Conestoga Public School, Robert H. Lagerquist Senior Public School and Heart Lake Secondary School until grade nine, but then completed school online through grade 12. His first role was an appearance in a Tim Hortons summer camp commercial. That eventually led to a Pillsbury commercial in which he poked the Pillsbury Doughboy, Ceras career began when he was cast as Larrabe Hicks in the Canadian television series I Was a Sixth Grade Alien in 1999. In 2002, Cera played the young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, also in 2002, he was cast in The Grubbs, a new Fox TV series. It received a critical response, including an E. Online review that called it the worst sitcom ever produced. He also voiced Josh Spitz in the cartoon Braceface and he played George Michael Bluth in the award-winning television series Arrested Development for three seasons before it was cancelled for six years. In 2005, he starred as Harold in the winning short film Darling Darling, for which he was awarded Best Actor at the San Gio Festival in Verona. In 2006, he created and starred in a parody of Impossible is Nothing, Cera, along with best friend Clark Duke, wrote and starred in a series of short videos released on their website. The idea came from Duke, who was enrolled at Loyola Marymount University, in 2007, they signed a deal with CBS Television to write, produce, direct, and act in a short-form comedy series entitled Clark and Michael. The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt, Cera starred alongside Jonah Hill in the film Superbad, which was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film opened in North America on August 17,2007, in November 2007, he hosted Saturday Night Live on strike, a live staged version of SNL not shown on television due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America Strike
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Cera in 2012
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Cera dressed as
Captain America, in promotion of
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and parody of
Captain America: The First Avenger, at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con
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Rebecca Hall
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Rebecca Maria Hall is an English-American actress. In 2003, she won the Ian Charleson Award for her stage performance in a production of Mrs. Warrens Profession. She has appeared in the films The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town, The Awakening, Frost/Nixon, Iron Man 3, Transcendence, in 2016, Hall portrayed the troubled news anchor Christine Chubbuck in the critically acclaimed drama Christine. In June 2010, Hall won the Supporting Actress BAFTA for her portrayal of Paula Garland in the 2009 Channel 4 production Red Riding, In the Year of Our Lord 1974. She was also nominated for the Leading Actress Television BAFTA in 2013 for her role as socialite Sylvia Tietjens in BBC Twos Parades End, opposite Benedict Cumberbatch. Hall was born on 3 May 1982 in London, the daughter of English stage director and Royal Shakespeare Company founder Peter Hall and her mother is of African American, Dutch, Scottish, and Sioux origin. Her parents separated when she was young, eventually divorcing in 1990. Hall has five half-siblings, stage director Edward Hall, producer Christopher Hall, Jennifer Caron Hall and actress Emma Hall, Christopher and Jennifer are Peter Halls children with his first wife, French actress Leslie Caron. Hall attended Roedean School, where she became head girl and she studied English Literature at St Catharines College, Cambridge, before dropping out in 2002 just before her final year. During her time at Cambridge, she was active in the student theatre scene and she was a member of the Marlowe Society and starred alongside housemate Dan Stevens, who was an English literature student at Emmanuel College, in several critically acclaimed productions. Halls first professional role came in 1992, when she appeared as young Sophy in her fathers television adaptation of Mary Wesleys The Camomile Lawn at the age of 10 and her feature film debut came in 2006 as Rebecca Epstein in the film adaptation of David Nichollss Starter for Ten. She got her breakthrough with the role of Sarah Borden in Christopher Nolans film The Prestige and she then appeared in Stephen Poliakoffs Joes Palace in 2007, as well as appearing in several other television films including Wide Sargasso Sea and Rubberheart. Halls Hollywood fame grew when she starred in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona as one of the title characters and she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. In 2008 she appeared in Frost/Nixon as the girlfriend of Michael Sheens David Frost, Hall was cast with Ben Barnes in the film Dorian Gray in 2009. She appeared in Please Give with Catherine Keener and Amanda Peet and The Town with Ben Affleck and she is the female lead role in the British ghost film The Awakening, released in September 2011. She played the role of Sylvia Tietjens in the BBC/HBO/VRT production of Parades End in 2012 opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and she replaced Jessica Chastain as Maya Hansen in the superhero film Iron Man 3. She also starred as Claudia Simmons Howe in the thriller Closed Circuit, in October 2013, she was engaged in promoting her latest film, the espionage thriller Closed Circuit, in which one commentator described her as good. better than Eric Bana. In 2015, Hall starred in the romantic comedy Tumbledown, opposite Jason Sudeikis, Halls professional stage debut came in 2002 when she starred as Vivie in her fathers production of Mrs Warrens Profession at the Strand Theatre in London
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Hall at the
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Hall at the
2011 Toronto International Film Festival
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Hall at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival
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Toby Kebbell
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Tobias Alistair Patrick Toby Kebbell is an English stage and film actor. He is known for his roles in such as Dead Mans Shoes, RocknRolla, War Horse, Wrath of the Titans, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Four, Warcraft, A Monster Calls. He is also known for his work in the Black Mirror episode and he most recently starred in the second film of the MonsterVerse film series, Kong, Skull Island, which was released in March,2017. Kebbell, the fourth of five children, was born in South Elmsall and he was brought up by his mother, Michelle, a cook and landscape gardener, after his parents divorced. His father, Robert Kebbell, is an engineer and he was raised Catholic, and went to a Catholic primary school. Kebbell trained in acting at the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham along with Andrew Shim, first came to notice when director Shane Meadows cast him in the role of Anthony in the film Dead Mans Shoes. He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards and was lauded for his sensitive. Kebbell then appeared in Oliver Stones Alexander and Match Point, which Woody Allen cast him in without audition after being impressed with his performance in Dead Mans Shoes. Kebbells most critically acclaimed role came in 2007 when he played Rob Gretton and he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the British Independent Film Awards, other nominees for the award included Cate Blanchett, Colin Firth and Control co-star Samantha Morton. He was also nominated for the London Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor Award alongside Albert Finney, in December 2007, Kebbell took the lead in an episode of Jimmy McGoverns BBC series The Street, which subsequently won the BAFTA for Best Drama series. C. In September 2008, Kebbell was featured in the film RocknRolla, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, alongside actors Tom Wilkinson, Gerard Butler, Kebbell played a crack-addicted musician, Johnny Quid. To play the role Toby Kebbell learned to play the piano, in January 2009, Kebbell was nominated in the Orange Rising Star Award category of the 2009 BAFTA Awards. This award is voted for by the public, Kebbell appeared in the 2009 film Cheri, directed by Stephen Frears, in which he took a small role alongside Michelle Pfeiffer. He filmed in Morocco and London with Jake Gyllenhaal for Prince of Persia, Robert Downey Jr. has since bought the rights to adapt the script for a forthcoming film. In 2014, Kebbell took over the role of Koba in the sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Koba was a badly treated experimental bonobo whose grudge against humans leads to conflict with Caesar, Andy Serkiss character from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Kebbell played the Marvel antagonist, Doctor Doom, in the 2015 Fantastic Four film, and he played Chapman in the fantasy action film Kong, Skull Island, while also providing guidance for Kongs motion capture sequences. In 2009, Kebbell was linked to British entrepreneur Ruzwana Bashir after they met at a Christmas party given by director Andrew Neil, Kebbell has stated that he is not in a hurry to marry and wishes to be established, and even own a home before settling down. He has since been reported to be single, Toby Kebbell at the Internet Movie Database
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Toby Kebbell at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Toby Kebbell, 15 July 2010.
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63rd British Academy Film Awards
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The 63rd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 21 February 2010 and honoured the best films of 2009. Fox, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, In the Loop, The Lovely Bones, Moon, A Single Man, Star Trek, British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010
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Kathryn Bigelow, Best Director winner
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Colin Firth, Best Actor winner
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Carey Mulligan, Best Actress winner
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Christoph Waltz, Best Supporting Actor winner
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Kristen Stewart
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Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an American actress and model. Born in Los Angeles to parents working in business, Stewart began her acting career in 1997 with uncredited roles. She gained notice in 2002 for playing Jodie Fosters daughter in the thriller Panic Room and she went on to star in Speak, Catch That Kid, Zathura, and Into The Wild, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received widespread recognition in 2008 for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series, Stewart has appeared in a wide variety of films, including Adventureland, The Runaways, Snow White and the Huntsman, On the Road, Camp X-Ray, Still Alice and Equals. She won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2010 and was awarded the Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2011 for Welcome to the Rileys. She starred in Personal Shopper, written for her by director Olivier Assayras, Stewart was listed as the highest-earning female actress in the Vanity Fair Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010, with an estimated earning of $28.5 million. In 2011, she was named number one on Forbes list of Hollywoods Best Actors for the Buck, Forbes also named her as the highest paid actress in 2012, with total earnings of $34.5 million. She is the face of Chanel and Balenciaga fashion brands, Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Both of her parents work in the entertainment industry and her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox and currently works on Comedy Central show @midnight. Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is originally from Maroochydore, Queensland and she is a script supervisor and has also directed a film, the 2012 prison drama K-11. She has a brother, Cameron B. Stewart, and two adopted brothers, Dana and Taylor, Stewart attended local schools until the seventh grade. As she became involved in acting, she continued her education by correspondence until completing high school. As she grew up with a family who worked behind the camera, Stewart thought she would become a screenwriter/director and she recalled, I never wanted to be the center of attention — I wasnt that I want to be famous, I want to be an actor kid. I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I love pens, Id write my name on everything. She began acting at 8, after an agent saw her perform in her elementary schools Christmas play, after auditioning for a year, Stewart gained her first role with a small, nonspeaking part in the Disney Channel TV-movie The Thirteenth Year. Her next film was The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, where she played the ring toss girl and she also appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, as the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother. Stewart also played a tomboy, diabetic daughter of a mother in the film Panic Room
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Stewart at the
2014 Cannes Film Festival
Kristen Stewart
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Stewart at the 2007 Breakthrough Awards of Hollywood Life Magazine.
Kristen Stewart
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Stewart at the Australian premiere of
Snow White and the Huntsman in June 2012
Kristen Stewart
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Stewart at the UK premiere of
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 in November 2012
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Jesse Eisenberg
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Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor, author and playwright. Born and raised in New York City, Eisenberg began acting in plays at an early age, in 2006, Eisenberg won the Vail Film Festival Rising Star Award for his role in The Living Wake. In 2009, he starred in the comedy-drama film Adventureland with Kristen Stewart and the horror comedy Zombieland with Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, and Woody Harrelson. He then played Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network, for which he received nominations for awards, including the BAFTA, Golden Globe. He also starred in Holy Rollers, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Since then, he has gone on to voice the character, Blu, a male Spixs macaw, in the animated films Rio and Rio 2. Eisenberg then starred in two films by Woody Allen, To Rome with Love and Café Society, and the magician heist film Now You See Me, Eisenberg has contributed pieces to The New Yorker and McSweeneys websites. He has written and starred in three plays for the New York stage, Asuncion, The Revisionist, and The Spoils, Eisenbergs first book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, and Other Stories, a short story collection, was released in September 2015. Eisenberg was born in Queens, New York, and grew up in East Brunswick and his mother, Amy, who now teaches cross cultural sensitivity in hospitals, previously worked as a clown at childrens parties and choreographer for a Catholic high school for 20 years. His father, Barry Eisenberg, drove a taxicab, then owned and worked at a hospital, Jesse Eisenberg is Jewish and was brought up in a secular Jewish family that originated in Poland and Ukraine. He attended the East Brunswick Public Schools at Frost School, Hammarskjold Middle School, and Churchill Junior High School, Eisenberg then transferred to the High School of Performing Arts in New York. When he was a senior, he received his role in the independent comedy-drama film Roger Dodger. His work in the film prevented Eisenberg from enrolling at New York University, Eisenberg struggled to fit in at school due to an anxiety disorder, and began acting in plays at an early age. At 13, he understudied the role of Young Scrooge in a version of A Christmas Carol starring Tony Randall. Eisenberg made his first professional role in Arje Shaws off-Broadway play, The Gathering and he stated, When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as youre given a prescribed way of behaving. Pre-fame, Eisenberg got into trouble with Woody Allens lawyers, as a teenager he penned a play about how Allen came to change his name and managed to get the script to Allens people. Instead of a seal of approval, Eisenberg received two cease and desist letters, ironically, Eisenberg went on to star in two films directed by Allen, To Rome with Love, and Café Society. Eisenberg made his debut in the series Get Real, from 1999 to 2000
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Eisenberg at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
Jesse Eisenberg
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Eisenberg at the
Madrid premiere of
The Social Network, October 2010
Jesse Eisenberg
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Eisenberg in the
Batman v Superman panel at 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Nicholas Hoult
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Nicholas Caradoc Hoult is an English actor. Hoult made his acting debut at the age of seven in the 1996 film Intimate Relations. He received recognition after landing the role of Marcus Brewer in About a Boy and he received further acclaim for his performance as Tony Stonem in the E4 teen drama Skins. He will portray inventor Nikola Tesla in The Current War, set for release in December 2017, Hoult was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, the third of four children of Glenis, a piano teacher, and Roger Hoult, a retired British Airways pilot. His siblings are James, Rosanna, and Clarista and his great-aunt was actress Dame Anna Neagle. He practiced ballet along with his sisters and was involved in productions of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker with the national ballet, Hoult attended The Coombes nursery in Arborfield, Berkshire, then the Arborfield Church of England Junior School. On The Graham Norton Show, Hoult revealed that his name is Caradoc. Hoults ability to concentrate at the age of three when he attended to see his brothers play got him his first acting job in the play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Hoult started attending auditions after that and got his first movie role at five in the drama Intimate Relations. After that he landed several guest appearances on TV shows such as Casualty, Silent Witness, The Bill and Doctors, Hoult recalls he saw acting as a hobby rather than a possible profession at that age, I wasnt in love with it, I just enjoyed it. It was like playing for a football team, when you got a part it was great. It was a new world. He was 11 when he got cast in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama film About a Boy, by the time the film was released he had already changed school, to the specialist performing arts school Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. The movies success gave him his first approach to Hollywood, Hoult himself earned some praise for his acting. To this date he gives this and his family the credit of his healthy life in contrast to many child actors. In 2005, he starred in Wah Wah and appeared in the American film The Weather Man. He was studying in the Sixth Form College Farnborough in 2006 when he got one of the roles of his career. The show ran for seven series, ending in 2013, Skins was a hit around the world thanks to casting actual teenagers for the characters, and having a very young group of writers. The great success of the show brought so much fame to Nick he thought it was unbearable at one point, just before starting the second series of Skins he quit school and decided to dedicate his attention fully to acting
Nicholas Hoult
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Nicholas Hoult at
San Diego Comic-Con International 2013
Nicholas Hoult
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Hoult at the
66th Venice Film Festival for A Single Man in 2010
Nicholas Hoult
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Hoult at 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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