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Tim Roth
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Timothy Simon Tim Roth is an English actor and director. He made his role in the 1982 television film Made in Britain. He garnered critical acclaim for his role as Myron in the 1984 film The Hit, Roth gained more attention for his performances in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. He later earned international recognition for appearing in Quentin Tarantinos films, such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms and The Hateful Eight. For the historical drama Rob Roy, Roth won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and he made his directorial debut with The War Zone, for which he received numerous accolades. Roth attended the Strand School in Tulse Hill, as a young man, he wanted to be a sculptor and studied at Londons Camberwell College of Art. Roth made his acting début at the age of 21, playing a white power skinhead named Trevor in a 1982 TV film titled Made in Britain. He played an East End character in King of the Ghetto and he played a shy young man in the 1984 Mike Leigh film Meantime. In 1985, he appeared in the television film Murder with Mirrors and he played an apprentice hitman in Stephen Frears The Hit, earning an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 1989 he had a role as the buffoonish lackey Mitchell in Peter Greenaways The Cook. In 1990, he starred as Vincent van Gogh in Robert Altmans Vincent & Theo, Roth and other young British actors of the time, such as Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bruce Payne, and Paul McGann, were dubbed the Brit Pack. Roth was cast as Mr. Orange in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film Reservoir Dogs, in 1994, Tarantino cast him as a robber in Pulp Fiction. They also collaborated in the 1995 film Four Rooms, where he played Ted and his role as Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe nomination. In 1996, he starred in Woody Allens musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You and he also starred as Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900 in The Legend of 1900, and in the same year and he made his directorial debut in 1999 with The War Zone, a film version of Alexander Stuarts novel. In 2001, he portrayed General Thade in Tim Burtons Planet of the Apes, Roth was the original choice for the role of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, but he turned it down for Planet of the Apes. He was considered for the part of Hannibal Lecter in the 2001 film Hannibal before Anthony Hopkins returned to reclaim the role and he appeared in Francis Ford Coppolas Youth Without Youth and Michael Hanekes Funny Games, then starred as Emil Blonsky / Abomination in The Incredible Hulk. From 2009 to 2011, he starred in a series on Fox called Lie To Me and he played Dr. Cal Lightman, an expert on body language who assists local and federal law organisations in the investigations of crimes
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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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Rory Kinnear
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Rory Kinnear is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre and he is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, in 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeares villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello. Kinnear was born in London, England, the son of the actor Roy Kinnear and he has two sisters, Kirsty and Karina. Through his father, a well-known British comedy actor, he is the grandson of the rugby union and rugby league player Roy Kinnear. Educated at Tower House School and St Pauls School, London, he read English at Balliol College, Oxford, Kinnears performances in Phyllida Lloyds production of Mary Stuart and Trevor Nunns Hamlet, in which he played Laertes, met with acclaim. He also achieved recognition as the outrageous Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode at the National Theatre, winning a Laurence Olivier Award, in 2010, he played Angelo in Measure for Measure at the Almeida Theatre. Later in 2010 he played the role in Hamlet at the National Theatre. The two portrayals won him the best actor award in the Evening Standard drama awards for 2010, Kinnear appeared in The Last of the Haussmans by Stephen Beresford at the Royal National Theatre during the summer of 2012. The production was broadcast to cinemas around the world on 11 October 2012 through the National Theatre Live programme and he starred as Iago opposite Adrian Lester in the title role of Othello in 2013 at the National Theatre throughout the summer of 2013. Both actors won the Best Actor award in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for their roles, the award is given to only one actor. From September 2013 the Bush Theatre in London staged Kinnears debut play The Herd, the play ran at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago beginning 2 April 2015. For The Threepenny Opera at the Olivier Theatre in May 2016 Kinnear found his dormant singing voice for the role of Macheath. In February 2017 he made his debut with The Winters Tale. He currently portrays Bill Tanner in the Daniel Craig era James Bond film series taking over from Michael Kitchen. He is the person to play the character. He has appeared in Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre, as well as the films, Kinnear also lends his voice and likeness to the Bond video games, GoldenEye 007, James Bond 007, Blood Stone and 007 Legends. In 2014, he played the character, Detective Nock, in the The Imitation Game based loosely on the biography Alan Turing
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Denis Lawson
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Denis Stamper Lawson is a Scottish actor and director. He is the uncle of actor Ewan McGregor, Lawson was born in Crieff, Perthshire, the son of Phyllis Neno, a merchant, and Laurence Lawson, a watchmaker. Lawson was educated at Crieff Primary School and he then sold carpets and did amateur theatre work for a year in Dundee before auditioning again at RADA in London and successfully at RSAMD in Glasgow. In 2001, he reprised the role, in form, for the Nintendo GameCube game Star Wars Rogue Squadron II. He has appeared often on the West End stage, notably in the musical Mr. Cinders at the Fortune Theatre from 1983–84 and he appeared on an episode of Loose Ends hosted by Ned Sherrin on BBC Radio 4 on 10 December 2005. In 2005, he played the role of John Jarndyce in the critically acclaimed BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens Bleak House. Two years later he played Peter Syme in the BBC One drama serial Jekyll, Lawson also appeared as Captain Dreadnought Foster in ITVs dramatisations of C. S. Foresters Hornblower. He appeared in Robin Hood in which he played the Sheriff of Winchester and he also appeared in the West End playing the character of Georges in the revival of the musical hit La Cage Aux Folles. In July 2009 Lawson appeared as Alexander Fleming in a BBC Four drama called Breaking the Mould, Lawson played the part of Alices grandfather in ITV1s supernatural crime thriller Marchlands which was shown in February 2011. Lawson appeared at the Royal Court Theatre once more in The Acid Test by Anya Reiss in 2011, Lawson replaced James Bolam in the BBC One series New Tricks in its ninth series in 2012. Lawson has said that he was asked to reprise his role as Wedge in Star Wars, The Force Awakens but turned down the role because he believed it would have bored him. His sister, Carol Diane McGregor, a teacher who still lives in Perthshire, is the mother of actor Ewan McGregor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. In 1979, Lawson fathered a child, Jamie Lawson, with actress Diane Fletcher and he met his wife, actress Sheila Gish, on the set of the 1985 film That Uncertain Feeling. They lived together for nearly 20 years before marrying in March 2004 in Antigua, Star Wars Rogue Squadron II, Rogue Leader Wedge Antilles Denis Lawson at the Internet Movie Database Denis Lawson Obsession – A large repository of information on his career and personal life
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Wild Bunch (company)
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Wild Bunch AG is a film distribution and international sales company, originally created in 1979 as Senator Film Verleih GmbH, which later became Senator Entertainment AG. The name Wild Bunch comes from the French company Wild Bunch S. A. created in 2002, Senator Entertainment AG renamed itself Wild Bunch AG in July 2015. Wild Bunch is also the international seller of Studio Ghiblis works, originally a division of StudioCanal, Wild Bunch S. A. was established as an independent company in 2002 by former employees of StudioCanal. In July 2014, the German film distributor Senator Entertainment and Wild Bunch announced their intention to join forces to launch an independent film distribution and production group, in February 2015, Senator Entertainment and Wild Bunch completed their merger. Senator Entertainment AG subsequently renamed themselves to Wild Bunch AG and will use Senator as a brand, in May 2015, Wild Bunch announce the founding of a new LA-based company, Insiders, to handle international sales of independent films. In February 2016, The Hollywood Reporter reported that a majority stake in this outfit has since sold to Bliss Media. Wild Bunch is a sales company and also a pan-European film distributor. In France, Wild Bunch is a distributor and also a video distributor through its subsidiary Wild Side. Wild Bunch also positioned itself on the distribution market through its VoD/SVoD subsidiary Filmo TV. Apart from its international activities, Wild Bunch is also a direct distributor in Italy, in Germany. Wild Bunch manages more than 1700 titles, the Kings Speech by Tom Hooper in 2011, Best Feature, Best Director for Tom Hooper, Best Actor in a leading role for Colin Firth and Best Original Screenplay. Pans Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro in 2007, Best Art Direction, march of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet in 2006, Best Documentary. Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki in 2003, Best Animated Feature, the Kid with a Bike by Dardenne brothers in 2011, Grand Prix The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius en 2011, Best Actor for Jean Dujardin Poliss by Maïwenn in 2011, Prix du Jury. Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael in 2009, Golden Osella The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky in 2008, Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese in 2006, Silver Lion. Mary by Abel Ferrara in 2005, Special Jury Prize, the Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan in 2002, Golden Lion. The Wayward Cloud by Tsai Ming-liang in 2005, Siver Bear of Outstanding Artistic Achievement, spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki in 2002, Golden Bear. Official website Wild Bunch at the Internet Movie Database
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