Joan Clarke
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Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Although she did not personally seek the spotlight
Clarke, c. 1940s
English Heritage blue plaque for Joan Clarke
The Imitation Game
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The Imitation Game is a 2014 American biographical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The film's
Joan Clarke
…by English Heritage at 193 Rosendale Road, West Dulwich, London, SE21 8LW, her home as a child. Clarke was portrayed by Keira Knightley in the film The Imitation Game (2014), opposite Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. Turing's surviving niece, Inagh Payne, described Clarke as "rather plain" and thought that Knightley…
Bletchley Park, "the home of the codebreakers" where parts of the film were shot
Desplat composed the film's score in under three weeks.
Cumberbatch at the premiere of the film at TIFF, September 2014
Cumberbatch signing autographs at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 2014