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Richard Curtis
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Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE is an English screenwriter, producer and film director, who was born in New Zealand to Australian parents. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley and he is also the co-founder of the British charity Comic Relief along with Sir Lenny Henry. In 2007, Curtis received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest award the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker and he received the BAFTA Humanitarian Award at the 2008 Britannia Awards, for co-creating Comic Relief and contributions to other charitable causes. In 2008 he was ranked number 12 in The Telegraphs list of the 100 most powerful people in British culture. In 2012, Curtis was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles Sgt, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life. Curtis was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Australian parents Glyness S. and Anthony J. Curtis and his father was a Czechoslovakian refugee who moved to Australia when aged thirteen. Curtis and his family lived in different countries during his childhood, including Sweden. For a short period in the 1970s, Curtis lived in Warrington, where he attended Appleton Grammar School, before he won a scholarship to Harrow School and he achieved a first-class Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. At the University of Oxford, Curtis met and began working with Rowan Atkinson and he appeared in the companys After Eights at the Oxford Playhouse in May 1976. Collaborating with Rowan Atkinson in the Oxford Revue, he appeared alongside him at his breakthrough Edinburgh Fringe show, as a result of this, Curtis was commissioned to co-write the BBC Radio 3 series The Atkinson People with Atkinson in 1978, which was transmitted in 1979. He then began to write comedy for film and TV and he was a regular writer on the TV series Not the Nine OClock News, where he wrote many of the shows songs with Howard Goodall and many sketches, often with Rowan Atkinson. Curtis was the co-writer with Philip Pope of the Hee Bee Gee Bees single Meaningless Songs released in 1980 to parody the style of a series of Bee Gees disco hits. First with Atkinson, and later with Ben Elton, Curtis then wrote the Blackadder series from 1983 to 1989, Atkinson played the lead throughout, but Curtis remains the only person to have been a writer for every episode of Blackadder. The pair continued their collaboration with the comedy series Mr. Bean, Curtis had by then already begun writing feature films. His first was The Tall Guy in 1989, the romantic comedy starred Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson and was produced by Working Title films. The TV movie Bernard and the Genie followed in 1991, in 1994, Curtis created and co-wrote The Vicar of Dibley for comedian Dawn French, which was a great success. Curtis achieved his success with the romantic comedy Four Weddings. The 1994 film, starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, was produced on a budget by the British production company Working Title Films
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Dawn French
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Dawn Roma French is a British actress, writer, and comedian. French has been nominated for seven British Academy Television Awards and also won a BAFTA Fellowship with Jennifer Saunders, French was born in Holyhead, Wales to English parents Denys Vernon French and Felicity Roma French, who married in their hometown of Plymouth in 1953. She was educated at the independent St Dunstans Abbey School and her father served in the Royal Air Force, stationed at RAF Valley. The RAF partly funded her private education, when her father was stationed at the former RAF Faldingworth, she attended Caistor Grammar School in Caistor, boarding in the schools Lindsey house. She later won a scholarship that brought her to study at the Spence School in New York. French has claimed that her self-confidence and self-belief stem from her father and she stated, He taught me to value myself. He told me that I was beautiful and the most precious thing in his life and he had a history of severe depression and attempted suicides but managed to conceal his illness from Dawn and her brother. She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1977 and they had grown up on the same base, even having had the same best friend, although never meeting. At first, as far as Saunders was concerned, French was a cocky little upstart, French considered Saunders snooty and aloof. French and Saunders shared a flat whilst at college and were influenced to do comedy by their flatmates as part of their projects for college, after talking in depth for the first time, they came to be friends. While at college she broke up with her fiancé, a former Royal Navy officer, after they graduated, they formed a double-act called the Menopause Sisters. Saunders has described the act, which involved wearing tampons in their ears, the manager of the club recalled, They didnt seem to give a damn. There was no star quality about them at all, French and Saunders came to public attention as members of the Comic Strip, part of the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s. French has also written a best-selling epistolary autobiography, which she has titled Dear Fatty, French was paid a £1.5 million advance for the book, which was released in 2008. On an appearance on The Paul OGrady Show on 6 October 2008, French said that Fatty is her nickname for Jennifer Saunders, French said that she became great friends with Saunders well before they started working together, which was over 30 years ago. The book consists of letters to the different people who have been in her life, French has had an extensive career on television, debuting on Channel 4s The Comic Strip Presents series in an episode called Five Go Mad in Dorset in 1982. Each episode presented a story and, in addition to French and Saunders, showcased Comic Strip performers Peter Richardson, Rik Mayall, Robbie Coltrane. She acted in 27 of the 37 episodes and wrote two of them, One episode featured a parody of spaghetti westerns and another a black and white film about a hopelessly goofy boy
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Roger Lloyd-Pack
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Roger Lloyd-Pack was an English actor. He was best known for the role of Trigger in Only Fools and he had a supporting role of Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley from 1994 to 2007, and as Tom in The Old Guys with Clive Swift. He was sometimes credited without the hyphen in his surname and he died early in 2014 from pancreatic cancer. Lloyd-Pack was born in Islington, London, the son of Ulrike Elizabeth, an Austrian Jewish refugee who worked as an agent, and Charles Lloyd-Pack. He attended Bedales School near Petersfield in Hampshire, where he achieved A Level passes in English, French and he subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he worked with actors including Kenneth Cranham and Richard Wilson. On British television he was best known for portraying Trigger in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He was also known for his role in The Vicar of Dibley as Owen Newitt, and to international audiences his greatest fame was as Barty Crouch, Sr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In 2005, he appeared in the series of ITVs Doc Martin as a farmer who held a grudge against Doctor Ellingham for what he believed was the malpractice-related death of his wife. Lloyd Packs final TV appearance was in Law & Order, UK as Alex Greene, Lloyd-Pack was married twice, first to Sheila Ball, from whom he was divorced in 1972, and secondly to the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham, whom he married in 2000. He had one daughter, actress Emily Lloyd, and three sons, Spencer, Hartley and Louis and he lived most latterly in Kentish Town, North London, but also had a home near Fakenham in Norfolk. In June 2008, he appeared as a guest on the BBCs The Politics Show and he was an honorary patron of the London childrens charity Scene & Heard. Lloyd-Pack supported the Labour Party and campaigned for Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral election,2012, however, in 2013, he signed a letter in The Guardian stating he had withdrawn his support from the Labour Party, in favour of a new party of the left. Or I might have been a photographer, I also would have loved to have been a musician. In January 2012, he and fellow actor Sarah Parish supported a campaign to raise £1million for The Bridge School in Islington, on 15 January 2014, Lloyd-Pack died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Kentish Town at the age of 69. He is survived by his four children, one of whom is the actress Emily Lloyd and his funeral was held at the church of St. Pauls, Covent Garden. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery, northwest London, the Last Laugh – by Koki Mitani. He played The Censor, Japan,2007, the Trojan Women - Caroline Birds adaptation of the tragedy by Euripides at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London – He played Poseidon. Richard III by William Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre, South Bank, twelfth Night by William Shakespeare – He played Sir Andrew Aguecheek
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Howard Goodall
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Howard Lindsay Goodall CBE is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programming for television and radio, for which he has won many awards. In May 2008 he was named as a presenter and Composer-in-Residence with the UK radio channel Classic FM, born in Bromley, Kent, Goodall was educated at New College School, Stowe School and Lord Williamss School and read music at Christ Church, Oxford. He is married to Val Fancourt, who is a music agent. Goodalls 1984 musical The Hired Man, an adaptation of the novel by Melvyn Bragg, won an Ivor Novello award, a Winters Tale, commissioned for the opening of The Sage, Gateshead in December 2005 was presented during 2009–10 by Youth Music Theatre, UK. In 2011 its London professional premiere at the Landor Theatre won the Off west end award for Best New Musical, Love Story, based on the novella by Erich Segal, premiered in 2010 at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. Bend It Like Beckham The Musical, written with Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges and Charles Hart began previewing at the Phoenix Theatre, other musicals include Girlfriends, Days of Hope, Silas Marner, The Kissing-Dance, the dreaming, A Winters Tale and Two Cities. Goodall has a body of music to his name, including In Memoriam Anne Frank, O Lord God of Time and Eternity and settings of Psalm 23. In September 2008, his Eternal Light, A Requiem was premiered by Rambert Dance Company to choreography by Rambert Dance Companys Artistic Director, Mark Baldwin. The result of a commission from London Musici to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Eternal Light, Eternal Light, A Requiem has now had over 400 live performances across the world. In March 2009, Classic FM released Howard Goodalls Enchanted Voices, the disc marks Goodalls position as Classic FMs Composer-in-Residence for 2009. A month after its UK release, it became the best-selling specialist choral CD of 2009 and it subsequently earned a nomination for Classical Brit Album of the Year. Howard Goodalls Enchanted Voices was followed by Howard Goodalls Enchanted Carols, Goodall arranged an orchestral and choir score for Psalm 122 for Tonbridge School to commemorate their chapel which burnt down in the 1980s. Goodall was also commissioned by Truro Cathedral to write a new work for all four of the Cathedrals choirs, Truro Cathedral Choir, St Marys Singers, Cornwall Youth Choir and Cornwall Junior Choir. The piece, entitled A New Heart, A New Spirit, sets a text from Wisdom, the 45-minute oratorio, Every Purpose Under the Heaven, was premiered in Westminster Abbey in November 2011. It was commissioned as a gift to the United Church Schools Trust and United Learning Trust from Sir Ewan and Lady Harper, Every Purpose Under the Heaven was recorded and released on the Decca Classics/Classics fm CD Inspired in 2012. I am Christmas Day premiered at Southwark Cathedral as part of the Mercy Ships Charity annual Carol Service on Wednesday 5 December 2012, commissioned by Mercy Ships UK the work was performed by Southwark Cathedral Girls Choir, conducted by the composer. Present at the event, alongside members of the UK Government, were the Presidents of Germany and Eire, the King and Queen of the Belgians and Prince William and Catherine and Prince Harry
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Sue Vertue
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Susan Sue Nicola Vertue is an English television producer, mainly of comedy shows, including Mr. Bean and Coupling. She is the daughter of producer Beryl Vertue, Vertue worked for Tiger Aspect, a production company run by Peter Bennett-Jones, where Jones produced episodes of Mr. Bean, The Vicar of Dibley and Gimme Gimme Gimme. Vertue met writer Steven Moffat at the Edinburgh Television Festival in 1996, a relationship blossomed and they left their respective production companies to join Hartswood Films, run by Beryl Vertue, Sues mother. When Vertue asked Moffat to write a sitcom for Hartswood, he decided to base it around the evolution of their own relationship, the series became Coupling, which was first broadcast on BBC2 in 2000. The main two characters in the show were even named Steve and Susan, played by Jack Davenport, in 1999 Vertue produced Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death, a two-episode special of Doctor Who, written by Steven Moffat, for the Red Nose Day charity telethon. Her other work includes Carrie and Barry, Supernova, Fear, Stress & Anger, The Cup, Sue Vertue on Twitter Sue Vertue at the Internet Movie Database Sue Vertue at Hartswood Films
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Endemol UK
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Endemol UK Ltd is one of the largest independent producers in the country. The UK group is part of Endemol, a network of production companies spanning 24 countries. With the advent of a joint venture with 21st Century Fox, additional companies under the new Endemol Shine UK umbrella include Dragonfly, Kudos, the company originated from Peter Bazalgettes sale of his television company to the Guardian Media Group in 1990. In 1998, Endemol acquired a 50% stake and the division was named GMG Endemol, Endemol bought the company outright from GMG in 2000. 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow 8 Out of 10 Cats Big Brother Black Mirror Cell Deal or No Deal Fear Factor Gala TV Golden Balls L. A
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BBC One
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BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service and it was renamed BBC TV in 1960, using this name until the launch of sister channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon the BBC TV channel became known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted in 1997. The channels annual budget for 2012–13 is £1.14 billion, the channel is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBCs other domestic television stations, and therefore shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. It is currently the most watched channel in the United Kingdom, ahead of its traditional rival for ratings leadership. As of June 2013 the channel controller for BBC One is Charlotte Moore, the BBC began its own regular television programming from the basement of Broadcasting House, London, on 22 August 1932. BBC Television returned on 7 June 1946 at 15,00, Jasmine Bligh, one of the original announcers, made the first announcement, saying, Good afternoon everybody. Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh, the Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939 was repeated twenty minutes later. The competition quickly forced the channel to change its identity and priorities following a reduction in its audience. The 1962 Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and it therefore decided that Britains third television station should be awarded to the BBC. The station, renamed BBC TV in 1960, became BBC1 when BBC2 was launched on 20 April 1964 transmitting an incompatible 625-line image on UHF. The only way to all channels was to use a complex dual-standard 405- and 625-line, VHF and UHF, receiver. Old 405-line-only sets became obsolete in 1985, when transmission in the standard ended, although standards converters have become available for enthusiasts who collect, BBC1 was based at the purpose-built BBC Television Centre at White City, London between 1960 and 2013. In the weeks leading up to 15 November 1969, BBC1 unofficially transmitted the occasional programme in its new colour system, to test it. At midnight on 15 November, simultaneously with ITV and two years after BBC2, BBC1 officially began 625-line PAL colour programming on UHF with a broadcast of a concert by Petula Clark, colour transmissions could be received on monochrome 625-line sets until the end of analogue broadcasting. In terms of share, the most successful period for BBC1 was under Bryan Cowgill between 1973 and 1977, when the channel achieved an average audience share of 45%. On 30 December 1980, the BBC announced their intention to introduce a new breakfast television service to compete with TV-am. On 17 January 1983, the first edition of Breakfast Time was shown on BBC One, becoming the first UK wide breakfast television service and continued to lead in the rating until 1984. The first major overhaul was to axe the deeply unpopular Sixty Minutes current affairs programme and its replacement was the BBC Six OClock News, a straight new programme in a bid to shore up its failing early evening slot
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Television sitcom
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A situation comedy, or sitcom, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. This form can also include mockumentaries, a situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the programs production format. The effect of a studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. The terms situational comedy or sitcom werent commonly used until the 1950s, there were prior examples on radio, but the first television sitcom is said to be Pinwrights Progress, ten episodes being broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom between 1946 and 1947. There have been few long-running Australian-made sitcoms, but many U. S. UK sitcoms are a staple of government broadcaster Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in the 1970s and 1980s many UK sitcoms also screened on the Seven Network. By 1986, UK comedies Bless This House and Are You Being Served, had been repeated by ABC Television several times, and were then acquired and screened by the Seven Network, in prime time. In 1981, Daily at Dawn was the first Australian comedy series to feature a gay character. In 1987, Mother and Son was winner of the Television Drama Award presented by the Australian Human Rights Commission, in 2013, Please Like Me was praised by the critics, receiving an invitation to screen at the Series Mania Television Festival in Paris. And has garnered three awards and numerous nominations, nominated to the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards for Best Television Comedy Series. Conversely, however, Canadian television has had greater success with sketch comedy and dramedy series. The popular show King of Kensington, aired from 1975 to 1980, corner Gas, which ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009, became an instant hit, averaging a million viewers per episode. It has been the recipient of six Gemini Awards, and has been nominated almost 70 times for various awards, other noteworthy recent sitcoms have included Call Me Fitz and Schitts Creek, Letterkenny and Kims Convenience. Sitcoms started appearing on Indian television in the 1980s, with serials like Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, since it ceased production in 1992, the show has earned an estimated billion in syndication fees alone for Televisa. Gliding On, a popular sit-com in New Zealand in the early 1980s, won awards over the course of its run, including Best Comedy, Best Drama. The first Russian sitcom series was Strawberry, which was aired in 1996-1997 on the RTR channel, however, the boom of Russian sitcoms began only in the 2000s - when in 2004 the STS started very successful sitcom My Fair Nanny. Since that time sitcoms in Russia were produced by the two largest entertainment channels of the country - STS and TNT, in 2007 the STS released the first original domestic sitcom - Daddys Daughters, and in 2010 TNT released Interns - the first sitcom, filmed as a comedy. Most American sitcoms generally include episodes of 20 to 30 minutes in length, some popular British shows have been successfully adapted for the U. S
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Oxfordshire
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Oxfordshire is a county in South East England bordering on Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. The county has major education and tourist industries and is noted for the concentration of performance companies and facilities. Oxford University Press is the largest firm among a concentration of print and publishing firms, the main centre of population is the city of Oxford. The highest point is White Horse Hill, in the Vale of White Horse, oxfordshires county flower is the Snakes-head Fritillary. Historically the area has always had some importance, since it contains valuable agricultural land in the centre of the county, largely ignored by the Romans, it was not until the formation of a settlement at Oxford in the eighth century that the area grew in importance. Alfred the Great was born across the Thames in Wantage, Vale of White Horse, the University of Oxford was founded in 1096, though its collegiate structure did not develop until later on. The university in the county town of Oxford grew in importance during the Middle Ages, the area was part of the Cotswolds wool trade from the 13th century, generating much wealth, particularly in the western portions of the county in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds. Morris Motors was founded in Oxford in 1912, bringing industry to an otherwise agricultural county. The importance of agriculture as an employer has declined rapidly in the 20th century though, nonetheless, Oxfordshire remains a very agricultural county by land use, with a lower population than neighbouring Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, which are both smaller. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, the army unit in the area, was based at Cowley Barracks on Bullingdon Green. Conversely, the Caversham area of Reading, now administratively in Berkshire, was part of Oxfordshire as was the parish of Stokenchurch. This is a chart of trend of gross value added of Oxfordshire at current basic prices published by the Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling. Oxfordshire has a comprehensive education system with 23 independent schools and 35 state secondary schools. Only eight schools do not have a form, these are mostly in South Oxfordshire. The county has two universities, the ancient University of Oxford and the modern Oxford Brookes University, both located in Oxford, in addition, Wroxton College, located in Banbury, is affiliated with Fairleigh Dickinson University of New Jersey. The dreaming spires of the buildings of the University of Oxford are among the reasons for Oxford being the sixth most visited city in the United Kingdom for international visitors. Among many notable University buildings are the Sheldonian Theatre, built 1664–68 to the design of Sir Christopher Wren, Blenheim Palace close to Woodstock was built by the great architect John Vanbrugh for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, after he had won the battle of Blenheim. The gardens, which can be visited, were designed by the landscape gardener Capability Brown, in the palace, which can also be visited by the public, Sir Winston Churchill was born in 1874
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Church of England
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The Church of England is the state church of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the most senior cleric, although the monarch is the supreme governor, the Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It dates its establishment as a church to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury. The English church renounced papal authority when Henry VIII sought to secure an annulment from Catherine of Aragon in the 1530s, the English Reformation accelerated under Edward VIs regents before a brief restoration of papal authority under Queen Mary I and King Philip. This is expressed in its emphasis on the teachings of the early Church Fathers, as formalised in the Apostles, Nicene, in the earlier phase of the English Reformation there were both Catholic martyrs and radical Protestant martyrs. The later phases saw the Penal Laws punish Roman Catholic and nonconforming Protestants, in the 17th century, political and religious disputes raised the Puritan and Presbyterian faction to control of the church, but this ended with the Restoration. Papal recognition of George III in 1766 led to religious tolerance. Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has used a liturgy in English, the church contains several doctrinal strands, the main three known as Anglo-Catholic, Evangelical and Broad Church. Tensions between theological conservatives and progressives find expression in debates over the ordination of women and homosexuality, the church includes both liberal and conservative clergy and members. The governing structure of the church is based on dioceses, each presided over by a bishop, within each diocese are local parishes. The General Synod of the Church of England is the body for the church and comprises bishops, other clergy. Its measures must be approved by both Houses of Parliament, according to tradition, Christianity arrived in Britain in the 1st or 2nd century, during which time southern Britain became part of the Roman Empire. The earliest historical evidence of Christianity among the native Britons is found in the writings of such early Christian Fathers as Tertullian, three Romano-British bishops, including Restitutus, are known to have been present at the Council of Arles in 314. Others attended the Council of Sardica in 347 and that of Ariminum in 360, Britain was the home of Pelagius, who opposed Augustine of Hippos doctrine of original sin. Consequently, in 597, Pope Gregory I sent the prior of the Abbey of St Andrews from Rome to evangelise the Angles and this event is known as the Gregorian mission and is the date the Church of England generally marks as the beginning of its formal history. A later archbishop, the Greek Theodore of Tarsus, also contributed to the organisation of Christianity in England, the Church of England has been in continuous existence since the days of St Augustine, with the Archbishop of Canterbury as its episcopal head. Despite the various disruptions of the Reformation and the English Civil War, while some Celtic Christian practices were changed at the Synod of Whitby, the Christian Church in the British Isles was under papal authority from earliest times. The Synod of Whitby established the Roman date for Easter and the Roman style of monastic tonsure in Britain and this meeting of the ecclesiastics with Roman customs with local bishops was summoned in 664 at Saint Hildas double monastery of Streonshalh, later called Whitby Abbey
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Richard Hooker (1554–1600), one of the most influential figures in shaping Anglican theology and self-identity
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Ordination of women
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It remains a controversial issue in certain Christian denominations where ordination has for almost 2000 years been limited only to men. In some cases women have been permitted to be ordained, but not to higher positions. Where laws prohibit sex discrimination in employment, exceptions are made for clergy. Sumerian and Akkadian EN were top-ranking priestesses distinguished by special ceremonial attire and they owned property, transacted business, and initiated the hieros gamos ceremony with priests and kings. Enheduanna, an Akkadian princess, was the first known holder of the title EN Priestess, ishtaritu were temple prostitutes who specialized in the arts of dancing, music, and singing and served in the temples of Ishtar. Puabi was a NIN, an Akkadian priestess of Ur in the 26th century BCE, nadītu served as priestesses in the temples of Inanna in the ancient city of Uruk. They were recruited from the highest families in the land and were supposed to remain childless, they owned property and transacted business. In Sumerian epic texts such as Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Nu-Gig were priestesses in temples dedicated to Inanna, qadishtu, Hebrew Qedesha or Kedeshah, derived from the root Q-D-Š, are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as sacred prostitutes usually associated with the goddess Asherah. Later, Divine Adoratrice of Amun was a title created for the chief priestess of Amun, the Divine Adoratrice ruled over the extensive temple duties and domains, controlling a significant part of the ancient Egyptian economy. Ancient Egyptian priestesses, Gautseshen Henutmehyt Henuttawy Hui Iset Karomama Meritmut Maatkare Mutemhat Meritamen Neferhetepes is the earliest attested priestess of Hathor, neferure Tabekenamun a priestess of Hathor as well as a priestess of Neith. In ancient Greek religion, some important observances, such as the Thesmophoria, were made by women, Priestesses played a major role in the Eleusinian Mysteries. The Gerarai were priestesses of Dionysus who presided over festivals and rituals associated with the god, a body of priestesses might also maintain the cult at a particular holy site, such as the Peleiades at the oracle of Dodona. The Arrephoroi were young girls ages seven to twelve who worked as servants of Athena Polias on the Athenian Acropolis and were charged with conducting unique rituals, at several sites women priestesses served as oracles, the most famous of which is the Oracle of Delphi. The Phrygian Sibyl presided over an oracle of Apollo in Anatolian Phrygia, see also Women in ancient Rome, Religious life The Latin word sacerdos, priest, is the same for both the grammatical genders. In Roman state religion, the priesthood of the Vestals was responsible for the continuance, the Vestals were a college of six sacerdotes devoted to Vesta, goddess of the hearth, both the focus of a private home and the state hearth that was the center of communal religion. They retained their religious authority until the Christian emperor Gratian confiscated their revenues, the Romans also had at least two priesthoods that were each held jointly by a married couple, the rex and regina sacrorum, and the flamen and flaminica Dialis. The regina sacrorum and the flaminica Dialis each had her own duties and presided over public sacrifices, the regina on the first day of every month. The highly public nature of sacrifices, like the role of the Vestals
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British Comedy Awards
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The British Comedy Awards was an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year. Jonathan Ross announced that he would not be presenting the 2008 awards, the 2007 show occurred on 6 December 2007, but was not televised due to the 2005 controversy and subsequent investigations. The following years ceremony was shown live on 6 December 2008, Compliance for the show was the responsibility of the ITV Compliance Unit of ITV Network Limited. In June 2010, it was announced that awards were to be broadcast on Channel 4 for three years, which was extended for one more year. Shortly afterwards, the 2010 ceremony was postponed until the 2010 ceremony finally aired in January 2011, in June 2015 Channel 4 announced they would be dropping the ceremony. The 2015 ceremony was cancelled due to a lack of a suitable broadcast partner. A new broadcast partner is being lined up for the 2016 ceremony, at the 2005 British Comedy Awards show, the wrong show received the Peoples Choice Award. Charged by the show with investigating the allegations of irregularities. It was understood that he would be if the recipients were Anthony McPartlin. In order to ensure his attendance, this assurance was given, but it could not be definitively established that Williams involvement led to the wrong winner being announced. Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway did however receive the Peoples Choice Award at the British Comedy Awards 2006, beginning on 26 July 2007, British tabloid newspapers reported the alleged involvement of the British Comedy Awards in the 2007 British television phone-in scandal. ITV announced that they postponed the British Comedy Awards 2007 due to the voting irregularities, in a statement, the company said, Pending conclusion of the investigation, broadcast of the British Comedy Awards 2007 will be postponed. ITV will not make any comment regarding this matter until the conclusion of the investigation. The 2007 awards did take place on 5 December 2007, in early May 2008 Ofcom announced its fining and sanctioning ITV plc in a press release. On 15 August 2008, it was announced that a scandal could have been committed in the award ceremony at the 2004 Awards. Angus Deayton replaced Jonathan Ross as the host of the British Comedy Awards, Ross returned to presenting the awards in 2009. Best Comedy Panel Show, Would I Lie to You, British Comedy Awards at British Comedy Guide
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British Academy Television Awards
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The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. They have been awarded annually since 1955 and it is the British equivalent to the Emmy Awards in the United States. The first ever Awards, given in 1955, consisted of six categories, until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors. From 1958 onwards, after the Guild had merged with the British Film Academy, in 1976, this became the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The Television Awards are usually presented in April, with a ceremony for the Television Craft Awards on a different date. The Craft Awards are presented for more technical areas of the industry, such as effects, production design. Individual performances, such as actors, can either be entered by the performers themselves or by the broadcasters. The programmes being entered must have been broadcast on or between March and February of the year to be eligible for the years awards. Entry is free, and entry forms are available between November and January each year. After all the entries have been received, they are voted for online by all members of the Academy. The programmes and performances attracting the most votes, usually four in each category, are shortlisted as the nominees for each award. The winner is chosen from the four nominees by a jury of nine academy members for each award. These Awards are suggested by the Television Committee and awarded by the Academys Council and they are not necessarily always given every year, but as and when appropriate. The Awards ceremony is broadcast on British television, usually the day after it has taken place, between 1998 and 2006, it was alternated between ITV and BBC One. But since 2007, it has been broadcast by BBC One, in 1991, a controversial selection was made in the Best Drama Serial category, when Prime Suspect beat G. B. H. to win the award. Following the ceremony, four of the seven voting members of the signed a public statement declaring that they had voted for G. B. H. to win. B. H. Price claimed that the papers could not be recounted as they had subsequently been destroyed. No blame was attached to Shubik by the four judges
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Richard Armitage attending the British Academy Television Awards in 2007.
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Comic Relief
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Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia. The highlight of Comic Reliefs appeal is Red Nose Day, a telethon held in March. Comic Relief was launched live on Noel Edmonds Late, Late Breakfast Show on BBC1, the idea for Comic Relief came from the charity worker Jane Tewson, who established it as the operating name of Charity Projects, a registered charity in England and Scotland. On 4 April 1986 the inaugural live fund-raising show, Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Live, was staged at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London featuring popular alternative comedians and pop stars. An audio recording was released on WEA which included a performance of the charity single Living Doll by Cliff Richard. On 8 February 1988, Lenny Henry went to Ethiopia and celebrated the very first Red Nose Day Telethon, over 150 celebrities and comedians participated. The event raised 15 million British pounds sterling and attracted 30 million television viewers on BBC1, the highlight of Comic Relief is Red Nose Day. One of the principles behind working at Comic Relief is the Golden Pound Principle where every single donated pound is spent on charitable projects. All operating costs, such as salaries, are covered by corporate sponsors. Currently, its supporters are the BBC, BT, Sainsburys supermarket chain. The BBC is responsible for the live television extravaganza on Red Nose Day, BT provides the telephony, and Sainsburys sells merchandise on behalf of the charity. The average full-time staff was 214, with 14 staff paid over £60,000 with remuneration for the year, excluding pensions, for Kevin Cahill, Sport Relief is a biennial charity event, and the campaign deliberately alternates years with Red Nose Day, Comic Reliefs flagship event. Red Nose Day occurs in odd-numbered years, and Sport Relief in even-numbered years, in 2009, Comic Relief launched a website calling for a financial transaction tax, the Robin Hood tax. At the end of the 2015 Red Nose Day telethon on 14 March it was announced that in the 30-year history of Comic Relief the Red Nose Day, the television programming begins in the afternoon, with CBBC having various related reports, money raising events and celebrity gunging. Whilst the BBC News at Ten is aired on BBC One, Comic Relief continues on BBC Two and these celebrities do the work for free, as do the crew, with studio space and production facilities donated by the BBC. Regular themes throughout the shows parodies of recent popular shows, films and clips, events. Smith and Jones, and a sketch starring Rowan Atkinson are both regularly featured. The First Red Nose Day was held on Friday 5 February 1988 with the slogan, The Plain Red Nose, the Second Red Nose Day was held on Friday 10 March 1989 with the slogan, Red Nose Day 2, and raised £27 million
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Comic Relief
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The Reverend
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The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers. There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries, the Reverend is correctly called a style but is often and in some dictionaries called a title, form of address or title of respect. The style is sometimes used by leaders in non-Christian religions such as Judaism and Buddhism. The term is an anglicisation of the Latin reverendus, the originally used in Latin documents in medieval Europe. It is the gerundive or future passive participle of the verb revereri, the Reverend is therefore equivalent to The Honourable or The Venerable. In traditional and formal English usage, both British and American, it is considered incorrect to drop the definite article, the. In practice, however, the is not used in both written and spoken English. When the style is used within a sentence, the is correctly in lower-case, the usual abbreviations for Reverend are Rev. Revd and Revd. The Reverend is traditionally used as a form with first names and surname. Use of the prefix with the surname alone is considered a solecism in traditional usage, in some countries, especially Britain, Anglican clergy are acceptably addressed by the title of their office, such as Vicar, Rector, or Archdeacon. This has traditionally been considered grammatically incorrect on the basis that it is equivalent to referring to a judge as being an honourable or a man as being a mister. It is likewise incorrect to form the plural Reverends, in some churches, especially Protestant churches in the United States, ordained ministers are often addressed as Pastor. Pastor, however, is considered correct in some churches when the minister in question is the head of a church or congregation. Male Christian priests are addressed as Father or, for example. However, in correspondence, such priests are not normally referred to as Father John, Father Smith, or Father John Smith. Father as a title is used for Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Old Catholic priests. In England, however, even Roman Catholic priests were often referred to as Mr until the 20th century except when members of a religious order, Mr is still not incorrect for priests of the Church of England. Some female Anglican or Old Catholic priests use the style The Reverend Mother and are addressed as Mother, the Reverend may be modified to reflect ecclesiastical standing and rank
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Portrait of the Reverend Richard Brown by
John Hesselius
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Geraldine Granger
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Boadicea Geraldine Kennedy is a fictional female vicar, the central character to the successful British BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She is portrayed by Dawn French, described by the British Comedy Guide as the jolly, down-to-earth female vicar of Dibley, after overcoming the towns initial shock at her gender Geraldine helps to improve the village. The character made a debut in 1994, and on 15 March 2013, French reprised her role as Granger as part of her French and Saunders marathon on BBC Radio 2. Granger arrived at the church to a shocked congregation, leading her to remark, You were expecting a bloke - beard, bible. And instead, you got a babe with a bob cut and she is a bonne vivante and a liberal woman who enjoys nothing more than a good laugh, much to the consternation of her love interest David Horton. Despite her fun-loving and sometimes outrageous behaviour, she is deeply caring and she is well aware of her obesity but seems to take a relatively laid-back attitude toward it. On one occasion, she gives up chocolate for Lent and nearly goes mad and she has an enormous crush on actor Sean Bean. Despite her kind-hearted nature, Geraldine is not above occasional arrogance and she was later humbled after the tabloids printed several offensive articles about the members of the village council, and she struggled to regain their trust. Her best friend is Alice Tinker, at the end of episode she tells a joke to Alice. Geraldine was once going to marry David Horton but decided not to after all, in 2006, she receives a proposal from accountant Harry Jasper Kennedy and accepts by running around the village, screaming. In the final episode she marries him in a wedding with touches of Doctor Who. She ends up getting married in her pyjamas because her dress has been accidentally covered with mud by Owen Newitt. Geraldine Granger at the Internet Movie Database
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Geraldine Granger
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Order of the British Empire
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There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order. Recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire were at first made on the nomination of the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions of the Empire, nominations continue today from Commonwealth countries that participate in recommending British honours. Most members are citizens of the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth realms that use the Imperial system of honours and awards. Honorary knighthoods are appointed to citizens of nations where the Queen is not head of state, occasionally, honorary appointees are, incorrectly, referred to as Sir or Dame – Bill Gates or Bob Geldof, for example. In particular, King George V wished to create an Order to honour many thousands of those who had served in a variety of non-combatant roles during the First World War, when first established, the Order had only one division. However, in 1918, soon after its foundation, it was divided into Military. The Orders motto is For God and the Empire, at the foundation of the Order, the Medal of the Order of the British Empire was instituted, to serve as a lower award granting recipients affiliation but not membership. In 1922, this was renamed the British Empire Medal, in addition, the BEM is awarded by the Cook Islands and by some other Commonwealth nations. The British monarch is Sovereign of the Order, and appoints all members of the Order. The next most senior member is the Grand Master, of whom there have been three, Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mary, and the current Grand Master, the Duke of Edinburgh. The Order is limited to 300 Knights and Dames Grand Cross,845 Knights and Dames Commander, and 8,960 Commanders. There are no limits applied to the number of members of the fourth and fifth classes. Foreign recipients, as members, do not contribute to the numbers restricted to the Order as full members do. Though men can be knighted separately from an order of chivalry, women cannot, and so the rank of Knight/Dame Commander of the Order is the lowest rank of damehood, and second-lowest of knighthood. Because of this, Dame Commander is awarded in circumstances in which a man would be created a Knight Bachelor, for example, by convention, female judges of the High Court of Justice are created Dames Commander after appointment, while male judges become Knights Bachelor. The Order has six officials, the Prelate, the Dean, the Secretary, the Registrar, the King of Arms, the Bishop of London, a senior bishop in the Church of England, serves as the Orders Prelate. The Dean of St Pauls is ex officio the Dean of the Order, the Orders King of Arms is not a member of the College of Arms, as are many other heraldic officers. From time to time, individuals are appointed to a higher grade within the Order, thereby ceasing usage of the junior post-nominal letters
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Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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MBE as awarded in 1918
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Close up of an MBE from 1945 showing the "For God and the Empire"
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Lieutenant General Sir
Robert Fulton, KBE
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Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
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The Royal College is an association of physicians concerned with setting national standards for medical education and continuing professional development in Canada for 80 medical specialties. As such, the Royal College is neither a licensing nor a disciplinary body, instead, it is a regulatory authority that helps ensure that the training and evaluation of medical and surgical specialists and three special programs maintain certain standards of quality. All specialists in Canada except family physicians must be certified by the Royal College before they obtain a provincial or territorial licence to practice. The only exception is in the Province of Quebec, where the Royal College shares the responsibility for certifying physicians with the Collège des médecins du Québec, to become certified, a physician must pass Royal College examinations. Access to these examinations is usually gained by completing a Royal College-accredited residency program at a Canadian university, access is also available for medical residents who complete a Royal College-recognized residency program in the United States. Certain international training programs approved by the Royal College provide limited access to Royal College examinations, since its founding, the Royal College has been granted the patronage of the Canadian monarch, currently Elizabeth II. In June 1929, a special Act of Parliament established the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to oversee postgraduate medical education in Canada, at first, the Royal College offered just two specialty qualifications, Fellowship in general medicine and Fellowship in general surgery. From the 1940s to the 1970s, the Royal College conducted examinations at two levels in most specialties, Fellowship, the qualification, or Certification, a lesser designation. In 1972, the Royal College abolished this dual standard and began to offer a certification that continues today. In 1987, the Royal College merged the centre into a bilingual McLaughlin Centre based in Ottawa, since the mid-1980s, the Royal College has broadened its activities to study areas of special interest in Canadian healthcare, including injury prevention and patient safety. In 2005, the Royal College set a goal to improve the health of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Today, the headquarters for the Royal College is located at 774 Echo Drive in Ottawa, the building, constructed in 1921, was formerly the monastery of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood. The work of the Royal College centres around its prime objective — to ensure the highest possible standards of specialist training, in 2014 the Royal College had more than 44,000 members worldwide, including Fellows, residents, and honorary, retired, and emeritus members. However, about 90% of certified physicians decide to become Fellows within two years of their certification, Fellows of the Royal College use the designation FRCPC or FRCSC depending on their qualifications. Since 1997, the Royal College has also offered category of resident membership called resident affiliate” in an attempt to engage residents at a stage of their careers. Those who choose to join the Royal College receive complimentary membership during the time they are registered in a Royal College-accredited residency program, approximately 2,000 members are designated as resident members. The Royal College website includes a directory of all current and retired Fellows, there are 29 international jurisdictions that the Royal College has assessed and deemed as having met Royal College criteria. When the training is deemed comparable and acceptable, the IMGs are ruled eligible to take the Royal College certification examination, success at the certification examination will lead to Royal College certification
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Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
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The Royal College headquarters at 774 Echo Drive in Ottawa, Canada
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Coat of Arms
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Verger
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A verger is a person, usually a layperson, who assists in the ordering of religious services, particularly in Anglican churches. The office of verger has its roots in the days of the Church of Englands history. The Order shares certain similarities with the former Minor Orders of Porter, koster is the Dutch word for sexton or verger, derived from the Latin custos. The symbol of a guild of cathedral vergers is the crossed keys, perhaps the best-known portrait of an Anglican verger in fiction is in Somerset Maughams short story, The Verger. In UK popular culture, the BBC sitcom Dads Army featured a caricature of a verger named Maurice Yeatman. The sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, whose character is among the Church of Englands first female vicars, also featured a female verger. The offices title comes from the rod which a verger carries. The Maces of State used in the House of Lords and the House of Commons of the British Parliament are examples of modern use of the medieval virge. In former times, a verger might have needed to use his virge to keep animals or an overenthusiastic crowd from the personage he was escorting or even to discipline unruly choristers. The typical vestments of a verger are a black cassock with Fascia, purple or violet chimere, today many modern vergers wear a scapular instead of a chimere
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A traditional verger gown.
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This is a traditional
virge. Note the brass ball at the end with a small cross on top.
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Richard Armitage (actor)
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Richard Crispin Armitage is an English film, television, theatre and voice actor. He received notice in the UK with his first leading role as John Thornton in the British television programme North & South, but it was his role as dwarf prince and leader Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jacksons film trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit that first brought him international recognition. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and he turned to film and television roles when he noticed that leading stage roles went to actors with name recognition who could bring in patrons to fill venues. After twelve years away and having earned that recognition, Armitage returned to the stage in 2014 taking his first leading role in a major production. He played John Proctor in the successful and critically acclaimed production of The Crucible at The Old Vic. One of Armitages trademarks is his voice, which he has employed as a voice actor since 2006. While working on the TV series Robin Hood, he was asked to record audiobooks for the first season of that series, since then, Armitage has recorded many notable audiobooks and has worked as a narrator on many TV and radio shows and adverts. Armitage was born in Leicester, England, the son of Margaret, a secretary, and John Armitage. Richard has a brother named Chris. He attended Huncote Community Primary School in Huncote, Blaby District, Leicestershire and began school at the local comprehensive school. At Brockington, Armitage pursued his interest in music - playing the cello in school and local orchestras, Armitage was also pursuing acting in dramatic theatre productions, including The Real Thing, Six Degrees of Separation and Death of a Salesman. By 1992, he began to doubt if musical theatre was the career path. I needed to do something a bit more truthful than musical theatre, for me it was a bit too theatrical and all about standing on stage and showing off. I was looking for something else, so that’s why I went back to drama school, in 2002 he starred in the Charm Offensives production of Use Me As Your Cardigan. That same year Armitage appeared in his first major television role and it was the first time I went to an audition in character. It was a role but it was something I really got my teeth into. I knew I had to approach everything the same way, after this he took supporting roles in the TV productions of Between the Sheets, Cold Feet, and Ultimate Force. In Spring 2004, Armitage landed his first leading role as textile mill owner John Thornton in the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskells North & South, the director and producers took a chance casting a little-known actor for their leading man, but their instincts proved correct
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Richard Armitage at the 2010 BAFTA TV Awards
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Simon McBurney
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Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE is an English actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité, McBurney was born in Cambridge, England. His father, Charles McBurney, was an American archaeologist and academic, Charles McBurney was the grandson of the American surgeon Charles McBurney. Simon McBurneys mother, Anne Francis Edmondstone, was a secretary, she was British and his parents were distant cousins who met during World War II. He studied English literature at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating in 1980, after his father died, he moved to Paris and trained for the theatre at the Jacques Lecoq Institute. McBurney is a founder and artistic director of the UK-based theatre company Complicite and it played at the Barbican in autumn 2008 and toured internationally. In February 2009, McBurney directed the Complicite production Shun-kin, based on two texts by Junichiro Tanizaki and it was produced in London and Tokyo in 2010. McBurney is a screen actor. He played the role of Cecil the choirmaster in The Vicar of Dibley, CIA computer whiz Garland in Body of Lies. He also wrote the story and was a producer for Mr. Beans Holiday. From 2010 to 2014, he appeared in the BBC comedy television series Rev. portraying the role of Archdeacon Robert, McBurney provided the voice of Kreacher in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. In the series The Borgias, he portrayed the canon law expert Johannes Burchart and he is the Artiste Associé of the 66th Festival dAvignon. He lives in London with his wife, the concert pianist Cassie Yukawa, in the 2005 New Year Honours, McBurney was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to Drama. 1998, Laurence Olivier Award 1999, Critics Circle Theatre Award 2005, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, „New Years Honours List“ of Queen Elisabeth II
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McBurney in August 2015
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McBurney at the
Edinburgh International Festival on 6 August 2015
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Clive Mantle
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Clive Andrew Mantle is an English actor. He returned to Casualty in 2016 as Mike Barratt for the 30th anniversary, Mantle was educated at Kimbolton School, Cambridgeshire between 1970 and 1975 and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art between 1978 and 1980. In 1984 he was nominated for an Olivier Award and was joint Best Newcomer in the Plays and Players Awards for his performance as Lennie in Of Mice and he became one of its most popular characters, renowned for his convincing and authoritative portrayal and dishy doc persona. On stage, Mantle has appeared in such as Coming Clean, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Educating Rita. In 2010 he portrayed comedian Tommy Cooper in the entertainment show Jus Like That. A Night Out with Tommy Cooper, it was one of his most challenging roles, more recently, Mantle has become known for his roles on television as Lord Greatjon Umber in HBOs Game of Thrones and as Tony Curry, Ollies father, in the BBCs White Van Man. Mantle was born in Barnet, then in Hertfordshire, in 1957 and he was the cousin of John Hallam and was a keen supporter of Chelsea Football Club from a young age. Mantle studied at the boarding school Kimbolton School in Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire between 1970 and 1975, and was a chorister in the Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge for four years and he first worked on a farm in Cambridgeshire during his studies and soon became interested in theatre. He appeared in 11 productions of the National Youth Theatre in five seasons between 1974 and 1978, as a student, Mantle lived in a basement flat in Islington. He said that he was discouraged early on by people who said, Youll never work and he later said about his height, Height is a very strange thing. If youre literally playing the milkman or the butler or something like that, theyll all think, there must be a reason – ah, hes gonna come back later and kill somebody. It worries an audience in a strange way if someone my height is playing a small part, I was an actor who needed drama school. I used to be so excited about being on stage that I would just run down to the front and shout, physically, just being six-foot-five-and-a-half, Im not one of lifes gazelles. But having said that, I was made aware that I can be gazelle-like if I so choose, if I hadnt been to drama school, I would have just slouched around and bent over double and apologized for my height. In 1980, Mantle debuted on the screen with a role as Ewen in Christian Marnhams short thriller feature The Orchard End Murder. In 1982, he appeared in an episode of the TV series Minder, the waterfall scene for the quarterstaff battle between Robin and Little John in the first episode Robin Hood and the Sorcerer was shot at Bowood House. Helen Phillips said of his performance as Little John, excellently played by Clive Mantle, Mantle has said of his role, It is the job Ive enjoyed doing more than anything else on TV. I have the greatest memories of beautiful, halcyon days-out filming on location and we had such a great and we still get together once a year
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Artist's portrait of Clive Mantle
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Castle Combe, a setting for the cult fantasy series
Robin of Sherwood, in which Mantle played "
Little John "
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Mantle as Dr Mike Barrett in Casualty in the 1990s
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Mantle as Tommy Cooper
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Peter Capaldi
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For reprising the role in the spinoff film In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He further took on the role of Paddington Bears irascible neighbour Mr. Curry in the comedy film Paddington. As a director, Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and he went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and helmed two series of sitcom Getting On. Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Nancy and his paternal grandfather was Italian while the rest of his ancestry is Scottish and Irish. His parents ran an ice cream business and he was educated at St Teresas Primary School in Possilpark, St Matthews Primary School in Bishopbriggs, and St Ninians High School, Kirkintilloch, before attending the Glasgow School of Art. Capaldi displayed a talent for performance by putting on a puppet show in primary school. While at high school, he was a member of the Antonine Players, as an art student, he was the lead singer and guitarist in a punk rock band called The Dreamboys, whose drummer was future comedian Craig Ferguson. Capaldi has appeared in over 40 films and television shows since his appearance as Danny Oldsen in Local Hero and he voiced Chief Petty Officer Grieves in the BBC Radio Ministry of Defence comedy Our Brave Boys. Capaldis first starring role on television was as Luke Wakefield, a gay man who imagines he has witnessed a crime. He played fictional Songs of Praise producer Tristan Campbell in two episodes of the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, and a transvestite in ITVs Prime Suspect, in Neil Gaimans gothic fantasy Neverwhere, he portrayed the angel Islington. Capaldi is also a narrator, and his many titles include several of the works of Iain Banks. He starred as Rory in the 1996 television version of Bankss The Crow Road, in the 1999 Channel 4 series Psychos, he played a mathematician with bipolar disorder. Capaldi made an appearance as a university professor in the sitcom Peep Show, in 2007, Capaldi appeared as Mark Jenkins in the E4 teen comedy drama series Skins. He returned for a series in 2008, only to be killed off in the third episode. He appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode Death in Chorus and ITV1s Fallen Angel and he also appeared in the 2007 British comedy film Magicians. He appeared as King Charles I in the Channel 4 series The Devils Whore, Capaldi provided his voice for the animated film Haunted Hogmanay in 2006. He played Balthazar, one of the Biblical Magi, in the 2010 BBC adaptation of The Nativity, in November 2011, he began playing Professor Marcus in The Ladykillers at the Liverpool Playhouse, then transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London. The original run closed at the Gielgud on 14 April 2012 and he appeared in The Field of Blood as Dr. Pete, for which he received a BAFTA Scotland nomination in the TV actor/actress category, he was beaten by his co-star Jayd Johnson
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Capaldi at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Peter Capaldi in 2009
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Capaldi filming for
Doctor Who in
Cardiff,
Wales in June 2014.
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Keeley Hawes
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Clare Julia Keeley Hawes is an English actress and model. She starred in the version of The Last September and has voiced roles in video games. Hawes was born in Marylebone, London, the daughter of a cab driver and she was trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, which included ten years of elocution lessons. She left home at age 17 and worked in a casino until she was spotted by a scout on Oxford Street. Hawes appeared in adaptations of classic and modern literature, Our Mutual Friend, Wives and Daughters, Tipping the Velvet. From 2002 to 2004, she appeared as Zoe Reynolds in the spy drama series Spooks, among the co-stars was her future husband Matthew Macfadyen. In 2003, she appeared in the BBCs re-telling of The Canterbury Tales, from 2006 to 2007, she appeared as Rosie in the British comedy The Vicar of Dibley. She was also cast as Jane in the 2007 comedy Death at a Funeral, in February 2006, it was revealed that Hawes had replaced Jonell Elliott as the voice of Lara Croft. She voiced the role in Tomb Raider, Legend, reprising her role in the 2007 remake of the original Tomb Raider game, Tomb Raider, Anniversary, and again in 2008s Tomb Raider, Underworld. She has also recorded her lines for the arcade-style Tomb Raider game Lara Croft and she returned to voice Lara again in Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light sequel Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, released in 2014. In 2007, Hawes was cast as Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes, the series, broadcast in 2008, follows her fighting to wake up from the world of 1983 so she can get back to the present day and save her daughter. She was awarded the Best UK Television Actress Award in 2008 by the Glamour Awards for her role, in September 2009, Hawes filmed the final series. The finale aired in May and gained seven million viewers. In April 2008, Hawes began filming the BBC drama Mutual Friends and she appeared in the BAFTA award winning That Mitchell and Webb Look, and in 2010, was a guest on the comedy panel show Would I Lie to You. In 2009, she portrayed Det Supt Martha Lawson in a six episode ITV series, in December 2010, she starred as Lady Agnes Holland in the three episode relaunch of Upstairs, Downstairs. On 25 April 2011, Hawes narrated the documentary Kate and William, A Royal Love Story on BBC One, prior to the wedding of Prince William, on 20 June 2011, she narrated the ITV1 documentary Four of a Kind as part of ITVs Extraordinary Families season. She appeared as Catherine Mundi in the adventure film Mariah Mundi. In 2014, she starred as Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton on the series of the BBC Two drama Line of Duty
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Hawes at the 2014
British Academy Television Awards
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Hugh Bonneville
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Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is a British stage, television and film actor. He is best known for playing Robert Crawley in the ITV period drama series Downton Abbey from 2010 until 2015, Bonneville was born in Paddington, in west London, to a mother who was a nurse and a urological surgeon father. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and at Sherborne School, following secondary education, Bonneville read theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He left Cambridge with a 2,2 in theology and has said that he tended to do more acting than academic work. Bonneville is also an alumnus of the National Youth Theatre, bonnevilles first professional stage appearance was at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park. In 1987, he joined the National Theatre where he appeared in plays, then the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1991. He played Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Bergetto in Tis Pity Shes a Whore, Kastril, in 1991, Bonneville made his television debut, billed as Richard Bonneville. His debut film was 1994s Mary Shelleys Frankenstein with Robert De Niro and his early roles were usually good-natured bumbling characters like Bernie in Notting Hill and Mr Rushworth in Mansfield Park. In Love Again, he played the poet Philip Larkin, in Iris, he played the young John Bayley opposite Kate Winslet, with his performance lauded by critics and receiving a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 2004, Bonneville played Sir Christopher Wren in the docudrama Wren – The Man Who Built Britain, Bonneville also works extensively in radio. He played the role of Jerry Westerby in the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the John le Carré novel The Honourable Schoolboy, earlier, he appeared in the surreal parallel universe comedy Married. From 2010 until 2015, he appeared in the ITV period drama Downton Abbey, as Robert, in early 2010, he appeared in the comedy film Burke and Hare. In 2011 and 2012, he starred as Ian Fletcher in the award-winning BBC comedy series Twenty Twelve, in December 2012, he appeared on BBC Two with co-star Jessica Hynes in Worlds Most Dangerous Roads, travelling through Georgia. He will also appear in the much-delayed film Hippie Hippie Shake with Cillian Murphy, since 2011, Bonneville has been the narrator of the Channel 4 show The Hotel. In 2014, Bonneville played Mr. Brown in the film Paddington and he will also star in the films sequel to be released in 2017. He has also appeared in the comedic role of The Pirate King in the ABC fairy tale-themed musical comedy extravaganza series Galavant during its 2015 and 2016 seasons. He has narrated two series of The Cruise, Bonneville married Lulu Evans in 1998. In 2009, Bonneville was the voice of Justice Fosse in Joseph Crillys British premiere of Kitty, shortly thereafter he became Giant Olives first patron
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Bonneville at the 2011 Minghella Film Festival
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Mel Giedroyc
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In early 2017, Giedroyc took on the role of co-presenter on the BBC show Let It Shine. Giedroyc was born in Epsom, Surrey, and grew up in Leatherhead and her father, a historian of Polish-Lithuanian descent from the Giedroyć family, came to Britain in 1947. She attended the independent Oxford High School, Oxford, and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a 2,2 degree in Italian language, Giedroyc has appeared in one episode of Gimme Gimme Gimme, playing a receptionist at a hotel. She was also a presenter on Channel 4s RI, SE and she narrated Celebrity Driving School in 2003. Some other ventures include being a contestant on the 2005 series of The Games, co-starring in the 2005 BBC One sitcom Blessed, Giedroyc was in one episode of The Vicar of Dibley. Giedroyc is best known for presenting comedy items with Sue Perkins, the two women met while students at the University of Cambridge and were members of the Footlights comedy club. Mel and Sue, the duo were short-listed for the Daily Express Best Newcomers Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993 and their first presenting roles saw them host a lunchtime show on Channel 4 called Light Lunch. Giedroyc was the student to be voted out of Comic Relief Does Fame Academy and was a celebrity judge on the 2007 edition of Making Your Mind Up along with John Barrowman. She starred as one of the presenters in the show Eurobeat, at the Edinburgh Fringe and subsequently in the West End at the Novello Theatre. Giedroyc played the Fairy Liquid in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk at Londons Barbican theatre in December 2007 and she appeared in a childrens sketch show for the BBC Sorry, Ive Got No Head. Giedroyc was a panellist on the Channel 5 programme The Wright Stuff in 2007,2008 and in February 2010. She plays Mrs V, the owner of the Y café, in CBBC programme Sadie J and is also the voice of Mist in Mist, Sheepdog Tales, shown on Channel 5s morning show Milkshake. Giedroyc was reunited with Sue Perkins in 2010 to host the cookery competition The Great British Bake Off, later, in an apparently syndicated newspaper interview, Giedroyc admitted that she did the show just for the money, informing readers as to how she had nearly gone bankrupt. The show moved to BBC One for its series and has won numerous awards. In September 2016, Love Productions announced that a deal had been agreed to broadcast The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4, instead of the BBC. Giedroyc and Perkins announced that they would not be continuing with the show on its new network, mary Berry later announced she was also leaving the Bake Off on the same day that fellow-judge Paul Hollywood separately announced he would be staying with the show. In 2012 and 2013, Giedroyc hosted two special charity series for Sport Relief and Comic Relief featuring celebrities who took part for charity. In 2014, she guest hosted an episode of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off and in 2015, in 2016, she presented the first episode of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
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Giedroyc in 2009
27.
Richard Griffiths
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Richard Thomas Griffiths, OBE was an English actor of film, television, and stage. For the 2006 film adaptation, Griffiths was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, earlier in his career, he had a prominent supporting role as British journalist Collins in Richard Attenboroughs Academy Award-winning film Gandhi. Griffiths was born in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Jane and his father was a steelworker who also fought in pubs for money, while his mothers occupation was described as bagger. He and his brother John were raised in the Roman Catholic faith and his parents were both deaf, and he learned sign language at an early age in order to communicate with them. During his childhood he attempted to run away from many times. He dropped out of Our Lady & St Bede School in Stockton-On-Tees at age 15 and worked as a porter for Littlewoods for a while and he decided to attend a drama class at Stockton & Billingham College. He continued his education in drama at Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama, after graduating, Griffiths earned a spot on BBC Radio. He also worked in theatres, sometimes acting and sometimes managing. He eventually settled in Manchester and began to get roles in plays. From there, he began to appear on television and then got his big break in film in It Shouldnt Happen to a Vet, by the early 1980s, he was selected for the lead role in Bird of Prey, an early computer-conspiracy thriller. His character Henry Jay was reprised in Bird of Prey 2, in 1981, he also gave a memorable performance as Chilean secret police victim William Beausire in an edition of the BBC Prisoners of Conscience series. Griffiths went on to supporting roles in a number of films, including The French Lieutenants Woman, Chariots of Fire. On stage, in 1985–86, he performed the role of Verdi in Julian Mitchells After Aida, in Wales and he appeared in The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. Griffiths film roles were in contemporary and period pieces, such as Gorky Park, Withnail and I, King Ralph, The Naked Gun 2½, The Smell of Fear, Guarding Tess. He appeared as Inspector Henry Crabbe, disillusioned policeman and pie chef extraordinaire, in Pie in the Sky and he also made an extended appearance in the 2005 version of Charles Dickens Bleak House. In 2004, he originated the role of Hector in Alan Bennetts play The History Boys, directed by Nicholas Hytner, during the plays subsequent United States run, he added a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Tony Award. He reprised his role in the version, which was released in October 2006. Later, in 2009, he replaced Michael Gambon as W. H. Auden prior to the premiere of The Habit of Art at the National Theatre, once again directed by Hytner
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Griffiths at the 2007
BAFTA Awards ceremony
28.
Miranda Hart
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Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke, known professionally as Miranda Hart or sometimes referred to as Miranda, is an English actress and comedian. Hart reached an audience with her self-driven semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Miranda. The television sitcom ran for three series and several Christmas specials from 2009 to 2015 and earned its star 3 Royal Television Society awards,4 British Comedy Awards and 4 BAFTA nominations, in 2012, she began appearing in the BBC drama Call the Midwife as Camilla Chummy Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne. She made her Hollywood debut in Paul Feigs film Spy as Melissa McCarthys sidekick Nancy B, Hart has also written three books, Is It Just Me. A semi-autobiographical book, The Best of Miranda, a compilation of scripts from the TV series and her father was commanding officer of HMS Coventry when it was sunk by the Argentinians in the 1982 Falklands conflict, and he was badly burned in trying to escape the stricken warship. Hart added that her genealogy can be traced back to the 12th century and her paternal family can be traced through her grandfather, the Reverend Eric Hart Dyke. Her paternal great-great-great-grandfather was cricketer and Rector Thomas Dyke, Harts patrilineal great-great-great-great-grandfather was Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 5th Baronet. Her distant cousin, the 10th and present baronet, Sir David Hart Dyke, One of her first cousins is plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke, creator of the World of Gardens at Lullingstone Castle. Her maternal grandfather was Sir William Luce, who was Commander-in-Chief and her mothers only sibling is The Rt Hon The Lord Luce, a former Conservative MP and Minister, later HM Governor and Commander in Chief of Gibraltar and Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household. Richards son, the journalist and author Edward Luce, is one of Miranda Harts first cousins and her great-uncle, the brother of her maternal grandfather, was Admiral Sir David Luce, who served as First Sea Lord. The father of David and William, Miranda Harts great-grandfather, was Rear Admiral John Luce, johns brother, her great-great-uncle, was Major General Sir Richard Harman Luce, who served as Member of Parliament for Derby from 1924–29. Her other maternal great-grandfather was Vice Admiral Sir Trevylyan Napier, who was the Commander-in-Chief, America and his wife, Mirandas great-grandmother, was Mary Elizabeth Culme-Seymour, daughter of Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet, Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom. Both the Culme-Seymours were implicated in the Mylius affair, Hart was a fourth cousin, twice removed, of Diana, Princess of Wales. Their common ancestors were George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer and his wife Lavinia Spencer and she attended the University of the West of England in Bristol, graduating with a 2,1 degree in political science. Hart then completed a course in Acting at the Academy of Live. In 2002, she performed a show in Edinburgh and in 2004 she pitched a comedy show to the BBC. At her read-through for BBC executives, Ab Fab writer and star Jennifer Saunders was present, before her own series was commissioned, Hart made appearances in various British sitcoms. In Not Going Out she initially appeared as an acupuncturist, however, her performance impressed producers so much that they wrote a regular role for her as Barbara, a clumsy cleaner
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Hart in 2011
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Hart at the London premiere of
I Want Candy in March 2007
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Kylie Minogue
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Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE, often known simply as Kylie, is an Australian singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. She achieved recognition starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, where she played tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson, since then, Minogue has been a recording artist and has achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the entertainment industry. Minogue has been recognised with several nicknames including Princess of Pop. She is recognised as the highest-selling Australian artist of all time by the Australian Recording Industry Association, born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Minogue has for many years worked and lived in London. She signed to PWL in 1987 and released her first studio album Kylie the next year, in 1992, she left PWL and signed with Deconstruction Records and where she created her self-titled studio album and Impossible Princess, both of which received positive reviews from critics. Returning to more mainstream dance-oriented music, Minogue signed to Parlophone and her 2001 single Cant Get You Out of My Head became one of the most successful singles during the 2000s, selling over ten million units. It is recognised as her song and was named the catchiest song ever by Yahoo. Her album Fever was a hit in countries, including the United States. In 2005, while Minogue was on her Showgirl, The Greatest Hits Tour, after treatment, she resumed the tour under the title Showgirl, The Homecoming Tour, which critics viewed as a triumph. Minogue resumed work as an actress and appeared in the films Moulin Rouge, Jack & Diane, and Holy Motors. In 2014, she appeared as a judge on the series of The Voice UK. Her other ventures include product endorsements, children books and fashion, as of 2015, Minogue has had worldwide record sales of more than 80 million. She has mounted several successful and critically acclaimed concert world tours and she was appointed OBE by Charles, Prince of Wales in 2008. She was appointed by the French government as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture, Minogue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Health Science degree by Anglia Ruskin University for her work in raising awareness for breast cancer. In November 2011, on the 25th anniversary of the ARIA Music Awards, in December 2016, Billboard ranked her as the 18th most successful dance artist of all-time. Kylie was born to Ronald Charles Minogue and Carol Ann Jones in Melbourne, Australia and her father is a fifth generation Australian, and has Irish ancestry, while her mother came from Maesteg, Wales. Jones had lived in Wales until age ten when her mother and father, Millie and Denis Jones, just before Kylies birth, Ron qualified as an accountant and worked through several jobs while Carol worked as a professional dancer. Kylies younger brother, Brendan, is a cameraman in Australia, while her younger sister Dannii Minogue is also a singer
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Minogue at an
amfAR event, 2015
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The music video for "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1995) (left) was inspired by
John Everett Millais '
Ophelia (1851/52) (right).
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William Baker has cited the 1940s "
Vargas Girl " pinups of
Alberto Vargas as an influence, as demonstrated in the music video for "
Spinning Around " (2000)
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Terry Wogan
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Sir Michael Terence Terry Wogan, KBE, DL, was an Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in the UK for most of his career. Before he retired in 2009, his BBC Radio 2 weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan had eight million regular listeners, Wogan was a leading media personality in Britain and Ireland from the late 1960s and was often referred to as a national treasure. In addition to his radio show, he was known for his work on television, including the BBC One chat show Wogan, presenting Children in Need. He was the BBCs commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest from 1971 to 2008, from 2010 to 2015 he presented Weekend Wogan, a two-hour Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 2. In 2005, Wogan acquired British citizenship in addition to his Irish nationality and was entitled to use the title Sir in front of his name when he was awarded a knighthood in the same year. He died from cancer at his home in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, on 31 January 2016, aged 77. Wogan, the son of the manager of Leverett & Frye, a high class grocery store in Limerick, Ireland, was educated at Crescent College and he experienced a strongly religious upbringing, later commenting that he had been brainwashed into believing by the threat of going to hell. Despite this, he expressed his fondness for the city of his birth, commenting on one occasion that Limerick never left me, whatever it is. At the age of 15, after his father was promoted to general manager, while living there, he attended Crescent Colleges sister school, Belvedere College. He participated in dramatics and discovered a love of rock. After leaving Belvedere in 1956, Wogan had a career in the banking profession. While in his twenties, he joined the broadcaster of Ireland. When the show was dropped by RTÉ TV in 1967, Wogan approached the BBC for extra work, David Attenborough rebuffed Wogans job application to be a BBC presenter as to have two Irishmen presenting on BBC Two would have looked ridiculous. He began working for BBC Radio, initially down the line from Dublin and he presented the Tuesday edition of Late Night Extra for two years on BBC Radio 1, commuting weekly from Dublin to London. Wogan achieved record audiences of up to 7.9 million and his seemingly ubiquitous presence across the media meant that he frequently became the butt of jokes by comedians of the time, among them The Goodies and The Barron Knights. His version reached number 21 in the UK Singles Chart, in December 1984, Wogan left his breakfast show to pursue a full-time career in television and was replaced by Ken Bruce. His first chat show Wogans World, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 6 June 1974 to 21 September 1975, in January 1993, he returned to BBC Radio 2, replacing Brian Hayes to present the breakfast show, then called Wake Up to Wogan. His tendency to go off on rambling, esoteric tangents, often including banter with his producer, Paul Walters
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Wogan at his
Investiture in December 2005
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Terry Wogan at
MasterChef Live, London, 2009.
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Jeremy Paxman
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Jeremy Dickson Paxman is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He has worked for the BBC since 1972 and is known for his forthright and abrasive interviewing style and his regular appearances on the BBC Two programme Newsnight were sometimes criticised as aggressive, intimidating and condescending, yet also applauded as tough and incisive. He is the master of University Challenge, having succeeded Bamber Gascoigne when the programme was revived in 1994. At the end of April 2014, Paxman announced that he was to leave Newsnight in June after 25 years of presenting the programme, Paxman was born in Leeds, the son of Arthur Keith Paxman, who worked in industry, and Joan McKay. He is the eldest of four children, one of his brothers, Giles, was the British Ambassador to Spain, and his sister, Jenny, is a producer at BBC Radio. Paxman was brought up in Hampshire, Bromsgrove, and Peopleton near Pershore in Worcestershire and he went to Malvern College in 1964, and later read English at St Catharines College, Cambridge where he edited the undergraduate newspaper Varsity. While at Cambridge, Paxman was briefly a member of the Labour Club, in January 2006, Paxman was the subject of an episode of the BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are. The documentary concluded that he was descended from Roger Packsman, a 14th-century politician from Suffolk who had changed his name to Paxman in order to impress the electorate, Paxmans maternal grandmother was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Paxman joined the BBCs graduate trainee programme in 1972 and he started in local radio, at BBC Radio Brighton. He moved to Belfast, where he reported the Troubles and he moved to London in 1977. Two years later he transferred from the Tonight programme to Panorama, after five years reporting from places such as Beirut, Uganda and Central America, he read the Six OClock News for two years, before moving to BBC1s Breakfast Time programme. Paxman became a presenter of Newsnight in 1989, Howard was asked by Paxman the same question – Did you threaten to overrule him. – a total of twelve times in succession, later, during a 20th anniversary edition of Newsnight, Paxman told Howard that he had simply been trying to prolong the interview since the next item in the running order wasnt ready. In 1998, Denis Halliday, a United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, resigned his post in Iraq, Paxman asked Halliday in a Newsnight interview, Arent you just an apologist for Saddam Hussein. In February 2003, Paxman was criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Commission over a Newsnight interview in which he questioned the then Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy about his drinking, the commission said that the questioning was overly intrusive in nature and tone and had exceeded acceptable boundaries for broadcast. In 2003, Prime Minister Tony Blair opted to make the case for the invasion of Iraq via questions from a TV studio audience, the programme is chiefly remembered for the fact that Paxman asked Blair if he and U. S. President Bush prayed together. To which Paxman replied, But why not, during the 2005 general election some viewers complained to the BBC that Paxmans questioning of party leaders had been rude and aggressive. He was criticised for his 5am interview with George Galloway after his election as the Respect MP for Bethnal Green, Paxman asked Galloway more than once whether he was proud of having got rid of one of the very few black women in Parliament
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Paxman in September 2009
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Malvern College
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Paxman in 2007
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Darcey Bussell
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Darcey Andrea Bussell CBE is a retired English ballerina, and is currently one of the four judges on the BBC reality show Strictly Come Dancing. Bussell is widely acclaimed as one of the great British ballerinas, during her twenty years as a dancer she won renown for her combination of a tall and athletic physique while dancing with soft lyricism. She retired from ballet in 2007 but remains committed to the dance world. Bussell is also pursuing parallel careers in television, books and modelling, Bussell was born in London to Australian businessman John Crittle and his English wife Andrea Williams. After the couple divorced when Bussell was three, her mother remarried and Bussell was adopted by her mothers new husband, Australian dentist Philip Bussell. The family spent some time in Australia, where Bussell attended school before they returned to London for Bussell to be educated at Fox Primary School, Bussell began her professional training at the Charlotte School, a specialist dance and musical theatre school in London. At the age of 13, she moved to continue her studies at the Royal Ballet Lower School, at 16, she progressed to the Royal Ballet Upper School in Barons Court, before joining the Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet in 1987. Whilst studying at the Royal Ballet School, she appeared in a number of school productions, a year later, in December 1989 on the opening night of the show, she was promoted to principal dancer at just 20 years old. In total, she performed more than 80 different roles and 17 roles were created for her, in Sleeping Beauty alone, she performed Aurora in four different productions, one of which was Sir Anthony Dowells production which she opened in Washington in front of President Clinton. Bussell made several guest appearances with the New York City Ballet, starting in June 1993, Bussell also guested with the Balletto Della Scala, Kirov Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and the Australian Ballet. She danced the première of Sylvia by Léo Delibes choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton at the Royal Opera House, in 2006, she announced her retirement as a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, though stayed with the company as guest principal artist. She retired from ballet on 8 June 2007 with a performance of MacMillans Song of the Earth and it was performed at the Royal Opera House in London, and broadcast live on BBC Two. In 2012, Bussell participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, the performance was known as the Spirt of the Flame and preceded the official dousing of the Olympic flame. In 2016, Bussell introduced along with choreographer and dancer, Nathan Clarke, DDMIX was designed to be a new, enjoyable way to exercise and experience different dance styles from around the world without getting too technically into any specific style. It features dance apects from styles, Irish, tango, waltz, jive, Bollywood, disco, flamenco, salsa and 1960s Twist, classes also feature a ballet themed warm up and each dance is approximately 2.5 minutes long with customized music for each dance. Bussell has modelled clothes for Mulberry, Bruce Oldfield and Marks & Spencer and she has also been photographed for Tatler, Vogue and Vanity Fair. She was famously photographed with a diamond in her mouth in a promotion for De Beers, Bussell modelled the first ever jewellery collection for the World Gold Council. She has modelled for American Express and featured in a TV commercial for Lloyds Bank, from 2009-2013 she was the face of The Sanctuary Spa
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Bussell at a curtain call after a performance of
Theme and Variations
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Darcey Bussell, Carlos Acosta and Gary Avis curtain call for "Song of the Earth", 8 June 2007
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Sean Bean
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Shaun Mark Bean, known professionally as Sean Bean, is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he made his debut in a theatre production of Romeo. Retaining his distinctive Yorkshire accent, he first found success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series Sharpe. His most prominent film role was Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, as a voice actor, Bean has been featured in the video games The Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion, Sid Meiers Civilization VI, and the drama The Canterbury Tales, among several others. He has received awards during his career and won an International Emmy for Best Actor. He has also nominated for a BAFTA and Saturn Award. Bean was born in Handsworth, a suburb of Sheffield, which was part of West Riding of Yorkshire. He is the son of Rita and Brian Bean and he has a younger sister named Lorraine. His father owned a shop that employed 50 people, including Beans mother. Despite becoming relatively wealthy, the family never moved away from the estate as they preferred to remain close to friends. As a child, Bean smashed a door during an argument. This prevented him pursuing his dream of playing football professionally. In 1975, Bean left Brook Comprehensive School with O Levels in Art, after a job at a supermarket and another for the local council, he started working for his fathers firm with a day release at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology to take a welding course. While there, he stumbled into an art class and decided to pursue his interest in art. After attending courses at two colleges, one for half a day and the other for less than a week, he returned to Rotherham College. After some college plays and one at Rotherham Civic Theatre, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean graduated from RADA in 1983, making his professional acting debut later that year as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury. His early career involved a mixture of stage and screen work, as an actor, he adopted the Irish spelling of his first name. His first national exposure came in an advert for non-alcoholic lager, between 1986 and 1988, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in productions of Romeo and Juliet, The Fair Maid of the West, and A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Bean at the 2015
Toronto Film Festival.
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At the premiere of
North Country at the 2005
Toronto International Film Festival
34.
Sarah, Duchess of York
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Sarah, Duchess of York is a British writer, charity patron, public speaker, film producer and television personality. She is the wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York. She is the daughter of Major Ronald Ferguson and Susan Barrantes. Sarah has two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York, who are seventh and eighth in the line of succession to the British throne. Sarah Margaret Ferguson is the daughter of Major Ronald Ferguson and his first wife. Sarahs older sister is Jane Ferguson Luedecke, a public relations executive now living and working in Australia, after Sarahs parents divorced in 1974, her mother married polo player Hector Barrantes and moved to Trenque Lauquen in the Argentine pampas. Sarah stayed at the 480-acre Dummer Down Farm at Dummer, Hampshire, Major Ferguson married Susan Deptford and had three more children. Sarah attended Daneshill School, Stratfield Turgis and then Hurst Lodge School, after finishing a course at Queens Secretarial College at the age of eighteen, Sarah went to work in a public relations firm in London. Later she worked for an art gallery, and then a publishing company, on 19 March 1986, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson announced their engagement. Prince Andrew had known Ferguson since childhood, and they had met occasionally at polo matches, Prince Andrew designed the engagement ring himself. It consists of ten diamonds surrounding a Burmese ruby and he chose the Burmese ruby to complement Sarahs fiery red hair. After securing the Queens permission, Andrew and Sarah were married in Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986. The Queen bestowed the title Duke of York upon Prince Andrew, in January 1988, during a formal trip to New York to attend a fundraising event, the Duchess was attacked by a young man at the entrance of her hotel. The man, who was screaming murderers 3/8 and had the Irish Republican Army flag in his hands when he rushed at Sarah, was charged with attempted assault on the Duchess, later a State Department press officer stated that she was unharmed in the incident. In March 1988, the Duke and Duchess of York visited California, the trip was described by two British newspapers as a brash, vulgar, excessive, weak-humored exhibition by two royals. The couple became parents on 8 August 1988, with the birth of their daughter and their second child, another daughter, Eugenie Victoria Helena, was born on 23 March 1990. During her marriage, the press ridiculed the Duchess after her weight climbed to 15 stone 10 pounds labelling her unflatteringly as the Duchess of Pork. By 1991, the marriage was in trouble, and the couple had drifted apart, while her husband was away on naval or royal duties, the Duchess was frequently seen in the company of other men, notably Texan multimillionaire Steve Wyatt
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The Duchess in 2008
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Signature
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The Duke and Duchess of York on their wedding day.
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The Duchess of York at the
Royal Welsh Show, 1991
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Richard Ayoade
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Richard Ellef Ayoade is a British actor, comedian, writer, director and television presenter. Ayoade was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of Nigerian father Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade, the family moved to Ipswich, Suffolk when he was young. His name Ayoade means The Blessed Crown or Joy of the Crown in the Yoruba language and he says that his parents would not approve of studies considered to be of the Regency era, adding that a non-vocational degree seemed such an outlandish indulgence. Ayoade states that the law is no longer a viable fallback for him, while in Footlights, Ayoade acted in and wrote many shows. He and Footlights vice-president John Oliver wrote two pantomimes together, Sleeping Beauty, and Grimm Fairy Tales, Ayoade acted in both Footlights 1997 and 1998 touring shows, Emotional Baggage and Between a Rock and a Hard Place. In 2001, he won the Perrier Comedy Award for co-writing and performing in Garth Marenghis Netherhead, in 2004, Ayoade and Holness took the Marenghi character to Channel 4, creating the spoof horror comedy series Garth Marenghis Darkplace. He directed and also appeared as Dean Learner, Garths publisher, who plays Thornton Reed, ayoades Darkplace character, Dean Learner, was resurrected in 2006 to host a comedy chat show, Man to Man with Dean Learner, on Channel 4. The different guests were played each week by Holness, in The Boosh radio series Richard played the part of Tommy Nookah in the second episode, Jungle, originally aired on 23 October 2001. Ayoade was part of the original cast of Julian Barratt and Noel Fieldings The Mighty Boosh, however, by the time the radio series transferred to television he was under contract by Channel 4 and was only able to act in the pilot before leaving The Boosh. The part was taken by fellow Darkplace actor and eventual IT Crowd co-star Matt Berry, Ayoade is now a recognisable face in Britain owing to his role as the technically brilliant but socially awkward Maurice Moss in Channel 4s The IT Crowd. In 2008, he won the award for an actor in a television comedy series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for his performance. In 2009, Ayoade co-starred with Joel McHale in the pilot for an American remake, reprising his role with the appearance and personality, no series was commissioned. In May 2014, Ayoade won a BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance for his performance in the shows 2013 special, Ayoade was a team captain on the Channel 4 panel show Was It Something I Said. Which began airing on 6 October 2013 and co-starred David Mitchell as host, in 2010, Ayoade released his debut directorial feature, Submarine, a coming-of-age comedy-drama film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. The film stars newcomers Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige with Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, the film was produced by Warp Films and Film4 and musician Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys contributed five original songs to the soundtrack. The film premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, following a generally positive reception it was picked up by the Weinstein Company for a North American release. The film also played at the 54th London Film Festival in October 2010 and was played out of competition at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and it was also screened along with 400 other films at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival the next month. It went on release in the UK on 18 March and was released on 3 June in the US
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Ayoade at the Soho Hotel, London, 7 March 2011
36.
Orla Brady
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Orla Brady is an Irish actress. Orla Brady is the second of four born to Patrick. She lived in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, from birth until the age of seven and she was educated at a Loreto Convent in Wicklow and an Ursuline Convent in Dublin. At 25 years of age she moved to Paris where she studied at the LÉcole Philippe Gaulier, Brady began her career with Balloonatics Theatre Company, touring productions of Hamlet and Finnegans Wake. She then returned to Dublin to perform at the Gate Theatre where she played Adele in House of Bernarda Alba, after moving to London she played Kate in Brian Friels Philadelphia, Here I Come. Which later transferred from the Kings Head Theatre to the West End and these have included the RTÉ/BBC co-production A Love Divided where she portrayed Sheila Cloney, for which she won the 1999 Golden Nymph Best Actress Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. As well as that, she has appeared in RTÉs Proof, since moving to California in 2001, Brady has also appeared in Family Law where she played Naoise ONiell. The series ran for 3 years on CBS and she has also starred in Nip/Tuck, a US drama about plastic surgeons where she played Dr. Jordan. She later starred in Shark as Claire Stark, the divorced ex-wife of James Woods, in 2008 she appeared in Firewall, and the second episode of the BBC series Wallander. She also appeared as Meredith Gates, an art collector who herself is conned in the first series of the British series Hustle. Commencing in 2009, Brady portrayed Elizabeth Bishop, the wife of Walter Bishop, in 2010, she appeared in the TV series The Deep alongside James Nesbitt where she played Catherine. She also starred in the TV series Strike Back as Katie Dartmouth, in 2012 she appeared in the ITV series Eternal Law as Mrs Sheringham, an angel who fell in love with a human and became mortal. She also appeared in the Sky1 series Sinbad where she played Taryn, in late 2013 she appeared as the Countess Vera Rossakoff in the television adaptation of The Labours of Hercules, part of the final series of Agatha Christies Poirot alongside David Suchet. On 25 December 2013 Brady starred in the 2013 Christmas special episode The Time of the Doctor of the hit BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who as the pivotal character Tasha Lem, in 2014, she filmed Banished, playing Anne Meredith. She is currently appearing in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands as Lydia, in 2001 Brady moved to Los Angeles where she met English photographer, Nick Brandt, whom she married in December 2002 in the Chyulu Hills of Kenya. She currently lives in the mountains of southern California, orla Brady at the Internet Movie Database
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Jack Vettriano, The Singing Butler, 1992
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Fiona Bruce
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Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British television journalist, newsreader and television presenter. From 2003 until 2007, she anchored her own current affairs series. Fiona Bruce was born in Singapore, to an English mother and a Scottish father and she was educated at Gayton Primary School in Heswall on the Wirral, the International School of Milan, and then the sixth form of Haberdashers Askes Hatcham College in New Cross, London. It was during this period that she modelled for the stories in the teenage girls magazine Jackie. Bruce studied French and Italian at Hertford College, Oxford, during which period she was a punk, and for one week had blue hair. She then went on to meet Tim Gardam – at that time the editor of the BBCs Panorama – at a wedding and pestered him until, in 1989, after becoming assistant producer on Panorama, she made the change to reporting in 1992 on Breakfast News. She then moved to BBC South East, appearing as a presenter and reporter on Newsroom South East. From 1994 to 1995 she was a reporter on the BBC2 current affairs programme Public Eye and she then reported for Panorama and Newsnight. In 1999, as part of a relaunch of the BBCs news output. Both Edwards and Bruce moved to the BBC Ten OClock News, Bruce was the first woman presenter of the bulletin. More recently, Bruce has returned to presenting the BBC News at Six. From 2003 to 2007, Bruce presented and reported in the BBC One award-winning current affairs series, after the murder of Jill Dando, Bruce took over the position of co-presenter on Crimewatch alongside Nick Ross, until both were replaced by Kirsty Young towards the end of 2007. In 2001, Bruce became the first female presenter to be part of the BBC general election results programme, in September 1998, Bruce became the presenter for BBC Twos Antiques Show, which was in its fourth series. She presented it for a two series, showing her interest in presenting antiques programmes nearly a decade before presenting the Antiques Roadshow. On 22 June 2007 it was announced that Bruce was to replace the retiring Michael Aspel as presenter of Antiques Roadshow in Spring 2008, in 2007, Bruce wrote and presented a BBC documentary about Cherie Blair as Tony Blair left office. Bruce also occasionally presented special editions of The Money Programme, in one, she profiled the entrepreneur, Lord Alan Sugar. She said of the experience, It was a bit like being in front of a hair dryer at very close quarters, hes not backwards in coming forward in his opinions. Her belief was that if men were not required to declare their ability to meet the demands of their job, Bruce was featured in an episode of Top Gear, sharing a lift with one of its presenters, Jeremy Clarkson and then having to push him out
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Fiona Bruce in 2010
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Johnny Depp
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John Christopher Johnny Depp II is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor and he rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. He has collaborated on nine films with director, producer, Depp is regarded as one of the worlds biggest film stars. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.2 billion at the United States box office, Depp has been nominated for major acting awards, including three nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the highest paid actor, Depp was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2015. Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the youngest of four children of Betty Sue Palmer, a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, Depp is of mostly English ancestry, with some ancestors from elsewhere in Europe. He is descended from a French Huguenot immigrant, Pierre Deppe or Dieppe, Depp is a 20th cousin of Elizabeth II. Depp moved frequently during his childhood and he and his siblings lived in more than 20 different places, eventually settling in Miramar, Florida in 1970. Depps parents divorced in 1978 when he was 15 and his mother married Robert Palmer, whom Depp has called an inspiration to me. With the gift of a guitar from his mother when he was 12, a year after his parents divorce, he dropped out of high school to become a rock musician. He attempted to go back to two weeks later, but the principal told him to follow his dream of being a musician. He played with The Kids, a band that enjoyed modest local success, the Kids set out together for Los Angeles in pursuit of a record deal, changing their name to Six Gun Method, but the group split up before signing a record deal. Depp subsequently collaborated with the band Rock City Angels and co-wrote their song Mary, on December 20,1983, Depp married Lori Anne Allison, the sister of his bands bass player and singer. During their marriage she worked as a makeup artist while he worked a variety of odd jobs and his wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to pursue an acting career. Depp and his wife divorced in 1985, Depps first film role was in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, in which he played the boyfriend of heroine Nancy Thompson and one of Freddy Kruegers victims. After a starring role in the comedy Private Resort, Depp was cast in the role of the skating drama Thrashin by the films director. Instead, Depp appeared in a supporting role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stones Vietnam War drama Platoon. He accepted this role to work with actor Frederic Forrest, who inspired him, despite his success, Depp felt that the series forced into the role of product
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Depp in 2013
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Depp at the
1992 Cannes Film Festival
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Depp wearing a
mustache and
goatee similar to the style used in
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Johnny Depp at the
64th Venice Film Festival
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Ruth Jones
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Ruth Alexandra Elizabeth Jones, MBE is a Welsh television actress and writer. She takes the role in the comedy drama series Stella for Sky 1 in which the series is produced by Tidy, the company she co-founded in 2008 with her husband David Peet. Ruth Jones was born on 22 September 1966 in Bridgend in South Wales, Ruth went to Porthcawl Comprehensive School. Her father was an executive for British Steel, Port Talbot. She has two brothers and a younger sister. Jones was brought up in Porthcawl where she attended the school as Rob Brydon. After graduating from Warwick University with a degree in English and Theatre, after graduation Jones found it difficult to get acting work, and considered training as a solicitor. However she then received her first professional role in pantomime in Cardiff. She was also helped by Rob Brydon, who invited her to join a group in Bath. She first worked in TV and radio comedy for BBC Wales in 1991, Theatre roles with the RSC and The National Theatre were followed by her performance in the hit British film, East Is East. After this Jones appeared on television as Kelly in four series of ITVs comedy Fat Friends and she also appeared in several BBC comedies, playing Myfanwy in Little Britain, Magz in Saxondale and Linda in Nighty Night. Jones achieved prominence in 2008 with the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, which she co-wrote with James Corden, the programme became a hit for BBC3 and moved to BBC1. Jones has said of it, It wasnt as deliberate as us saying and we just wrote what we wanted. And it just so happens that the show does generate a lot of warmth, people seem to like that, especially when things arent terribly jolly. Its nice to have your cockles warmed, the series won a number of awards, including two BAFTAs and four British Comedy Awards. Jones and co-star Rob Brydon recorded Islands in the Stream as a single for Comic Relief in 2009, in 2008 Jones narrated the 2008 TV film Chaos at the Zoo about Anna Ryder Richardsons Manor House Wildlife Park. The same year she featured in the two BBC One television period dramas, Tess of the dUrbervilles and Little Dorrit, as well as two episodes of The Street. In December 2009 Jones starred in A Childs Christmases In Wales, in 2010 she starred in the BBC Four comedy The Great Outdoors alongside Mark Heap, and in December presented a one-off chat show on BBC Two, Ruth Jones Christmas Cracker
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Jones in 2007
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Damian Lewis
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Damian Watcyn Lewis, OBE is an English actor and producer. His performance as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall earned him his third Primetime Emmy nomination, Lewis was born in St Johns Wood, London, the elder son of Charlotte Mary and John Watcyn Lewis, a City insurance broker with Lloyds. His maternal grandfather was Lord Mayor of London Sir Ian Bowater and his maternal grandmothers ancestors include Lord Dawson of Penn and he has stated that he went to English boarding schools and grew up around people very much like Soames and in a milieu very much like the Forsytes. As a child, Lewis made several visits to the U. S. to visit relatives during his summers and he first decided to become an actor at age 16. He was educated at the independent Ashdown House School in Forest Row, East Sussex and he graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, after which he served as a stage actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company. During his time with the RSC, he played Borgheim in Adrian Nobles production of Henrik Ibsens Little Eyolf and he also starred in another of Ibsens plays, as Karsten Bernick in Pillars of the Community at the National Theatre in November 2005. Lewis once worked as a telemarketer selling car alarms, a job he detested and he appeared in Robinson Crusoe as Patrick Conner. He appeared in Jonathan Kents production of Hamlet, playing Laertes and this production was seen by Steven Spielberg, who later cast Lewis as Richard Winters in Band of Brothers, the first role of several that required him to have a credible American accent. Subsequently, Lewis portrayed Soames Forsyte in the ITV series The Forsyte Saga and he returned to the US to star in Dreamcatcher, a Stephen King film about a man who becomes possessed by an evil alien. The character is American but when possessed he takes on a British accent, on the heels of this role, he starred in Keane as a Manhattanite with a fragile mental state who is searching for his missing daughter. Despite the films poor performance, the role won Lewis rave reviews. He played Jeffrey Archer in the TV special Jeffrey Archer, The Truth, since 2004, he has appeared in a number of films, as well as the 2005 BBC TV adaptation of Shakespeares comedy Much Ado About Nothing, as part of the ShakespeaRe-Told season. Lewis played the role of Yassen Gregorovich in the film Stormbreaker, in 2006, he appeared in Stephen Poliakoffs BBC drama Friends and Crocodiles. He has appeared on BBCs Have I Got News for You as guest host several times, in 2008, Lewis starred as the main character Charlie Crews in the US television series Life on NBC. The show premiered in the U. S. on 26 September 2007 and was affected by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, only half of the first seasons shows were produced. Regardless, the show won a 2008 AFI Award for best television series, Lewis appeared, the following year, in the lead role in The Baker, a film directed by his brother, Gareth. Damian took a role of Rizza in The Escapist, which he also helped produce. He led the cast in Martin Crimps version of Molières comedy, The Misanthrope, other cast members included Tara Fitzgerald, Keira Knightley and Dominic Rowan
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Lewis at the
65th Berlin International Film Festival, February 2015
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Jennifer Saunders
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Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actress. She has won three BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose dOr Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award. She first found widespread attention in the 1980s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. With her comedy partner Dawn French, she wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders, for which she and she received worldwide acclaim through the early to mid-1990s for writing and playing the lead role of Edina Monsoon in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She has guest-starred in the American sitcoms Roseanne and Friends and won the Peoples Choice Awards for voicing the evil Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks animated Shrek 2, in 2015, she voiced Queen Elizabeth II in the animated comedy film Minions. Jennifer Saunders was born on 6 July 1958 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England. Her mother, Jane, was a teacher, and her father, Robert Thomas Saunders, served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, reached the rank of Air Marshal. Because her father was in the forces, Saunders moved to different schools many times. She was educated from the age of five to 18 in boarding schools and then at St Pauls Girls School, after school, she worked for a year in Italy as an au pair. She later received a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London on a teachers course in 1977. They had grown up on the base, even having had the same best friend. The comic duo originally did not get on well, and as far as Saunders was concerned, the distrust was mutual, French considered Saunders snooty and uptight. Saunders was shocked to find that she was taking courses to become a teacher. Her mother, however, was saddened when Saunders chose not to apply for an Oxbridge university education, after the initial friction while at college, Saunders and French shared a flat together. French has remarked on Saunderss messy habits when sharing the house, stating, When we lived together in Chalk Farm and we got broken into and the police said, Well, it is quite bad, but the worst is that room at the top. And, of course, nobody had been in there, the two performed together after graduation, working the festival, cabaret, and stand-up circuits. They formed a double-act called The Menopause Sisters, Saunders described the act, which involved wearing tampons in their ears, as cringeworthy. The manager of the club where they performed recalled, They didnt seem to give a damn, there was no star quality about them at all
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Saunders in Melbourne, Australia on 23 April 2014
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Sting (musician)
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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE, better known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He was the songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band The Police from 1977 to 1984. He has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age and he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Police in 2003. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording, in 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music, and was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014. He was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017, with The Police, Sting became one of the worlds best-selling music artists. Solo and with The Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records, in 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters. He was 63rd of VH1s 100 greatest artists of rock, and he grew up near Wallsends shipyards, which made an impression on him. At eight or ten years old, he was inspired by the Queen Mother waving at him from a Rolls-Royce to divert from the shipyard prospect towards a more glamorous life. He helped his father deliver milk and by ten was obsessed with an old Spanish guitar left by a friend of his father. He attended St Cuthberts Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne and he visited nightclubs such as Club AGogo to see Cream and Manfred Mann, who influenced his music. After being a bus conductor, building labourer and tax officer, he attended Northern Counties College of Education from 1971 to 1974 and he taught at St Pauls First School in Cramlington for two years. Sting performed jazz in the evening, weekends and during breaks from college and he played with the Phoenix Jazzmen, Newcastle Big Band, and Last Exit. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black, bandleader Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a bee, which prompted the name Sting. In the 1985 documentary Bring on the Night a journalist called him Gordon, to which he replied, My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting, in Time in 2011 he said, I was never called Gordon. You could shout Gordon in the street and I would just move out of your way, in January 1977, Sting moved from Newcastle to London and joined Stewart Copeland and Henry Padovani to form The Police. From 1978 to 1983 they had five UK chart-topping albums, won six Grammy Awards and their initial sound was punk-inspired, but they switched to reggae rock and minimalist pop. Their final album, Synchronicity, was nominated for five Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and it included their most successful song, Every Breath You Take, written by Sting, in 1983. While never formally breaking up, after Synchronicity the group agreed to concentrate on solo projects, as the years went by, the band members, particularly Sting, dismissed the possibility of reforming
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Sting performing at
Madison Square Garden, New York on 1 August 2007
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Sting performing in
Norway during 1985
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Sting and
Bono at the
Conspiracy of Hope concert in
New Jersey, 1986
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Sting with the Police at
Madison Square Garden, New York, 1 August 2007
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Stephen Tompkinson
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He won the 1994 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor. He also starred in the films Brassed Off and Hotel Splendide, Tompkinson was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. Tompkinsons first lead was as a red admiral butterfly in The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner and he went on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, alongside James Nesbitt and Rufus Sewell, and graduated in 1988. Tompkinsons acting career began straight out of drama school, during his last year at the London School of Speech and Drama he won the 1987 Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award and had roles in radio dramas. Along with Ewan Bailey, he performed a radio drama titled Say What You Want to Hear, written by Tim Wright. His narrated radio documentaries include Brass Britain, which aired in 2008 and was reprised in 2010 on BBC Radio 2, in 1988, Tompkinson appeared with Ken Goodwin and Freddie Davies in a Channel 4 short titled Treacle. It received a 1988 BAFTA nomination in the category of Best Short Film, during the next few years he was cast in several single-episode parts on All at No 20, Shelley, After Henry, Casualty, Made in Heaven, and Boon. He also played in three episodes of The Manageress, three episodes of Tales of Sherwood Forest, nine episodes of Chancer, and nine episodes of Minder, also in 1989 he appeared in his first full-length made-for-TV movie. Based on a 1977 play by C. P, Taylor, And a Nightingale Sang was a romantic comedy-drama adapted for television by Jack Rosenthal. It received the 1990 Prix Europa Special award for the film in the category TV Fiction, between 1990 and 1998, Tompkinson starred in 66 episodes of the satirical comedy Drop The Dead Donkey. He played the ambitious but unethical reporter Damien Day, and won the 1994 British Comedy Awards Best TV Comedy Actor award. In 1994, he was Private Simon Spock Matlock, a teacher and intellectual in BBC comedy drama All Quiet on the Preston Front, written by Tim Firth. Alistair McGowan replaced him after the first series because Tompkinson had other commitments and that same year he was in Downwardly Mobile – a Yorkshire Television sitcom about a group of Yuppies – aired for one season but failed to make an impression and was not recommissioned. From 1996 to 1998 he portrayed, in the popular Ballykissangel, in 1998 he starred as Jim Harper in the three-part ITV psychological thriller Oktober, about a naive English teacher at a posh school in Switzerland. His character becomes a guinea pig in the trials of a new mind-altering drug and he says that I grabbed this project because Id never been asked to do anything like this before. And the chance to do stunts was one reason it was so appealing, Tompkinsons performance was praised by James Rampton of The Independent, It is Tompkinson who – despite having the less showy part – really catches the eye. In the shadow of a more successful brother and a wife, he precisely captures an air of despondent. Like Eeyore, he seems to be pursued by his own personal raincloud, Tompkinson is an actor whos become a winner by playing the loser. Trevor can be added to the actors growing gallery of characters whom viewers watch and think, I know that bloke
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Stephen Tompkinson
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Emma Watson
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Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is a British actress, model, and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and she rose to prominence after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having acted only in school plays previously. Watson appeared in all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, earning fame, critical accolades. Watson continued to work outside of the Harry Potter films, lending her voice to The Tale of Despereaux, in 2017, she portrayed Belle in a live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme, as a fashion consultant, she helped create a line of clothing for People Tree. She was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014 and that same year, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate gender equality. Watson was born in Paris, France, the daughter of English lawyers Jacqueline Luesby, Watson lived in Paris until the age of five. Her parents separated when she was young, following their divorce, Watson has stated that she speaks some French, though not as well as she used to. After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, she attended the Dragon School in Oxford, remaining there until 2003. From the age of six, she wanted to become an actress, and trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a theatre school where she studied singing, dancing. Following the Dragon School, Watson moved on to Headington School, while on film sets, she and her peers were tutored for up to five hours a day. In June 2006, she took GCSE school examinations in ten subjects, achieving eight A*, in 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, the film adaptation of British author J. K. Rowlings best-selling novel. Casting agents found Watson through her Oxford theatre teacher, and producers were impressed by her confidence, rowling supported Watson from her first screen test. The release of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in 2001 was Watsons debut screen performance, the film broke records for opening-day sales and opening-weekend takings and was the highest-grossing film of 2001. Critics praised the performances of the three leads, often singling out Watson for particular acclaim, The Daily Telegraph called her performance admirable, Watson was nominated for five awards for her performance in Philosophers Stone, winning the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress. A year later, Watson again starred as Hermione in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, reviewers praised the lead actors performances. The Los Angeles Times said Watson and her peers had matured between films, while The Times criticised director Chris Columbus for under-employing Watsons hugely popular character, Watson received an Otto Award from the German magazine Bravo for her performance. In 2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released, Watson was appreciative of the more assertive role Hermione played, calling her character charismatic and a fantastic role to play
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Watson at the
2013 Cannes Film Festival
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Handprints, footprints and
wand prints of (from left to right) Watson, Radcliffe, Grint, 2007
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Watson at the premiere of
Goblet of Fire in November 2005
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Watson at the premiere of
Half-Blood Prince in July 2009
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Kit Hesketh-Harvey
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Christopher John Kit Hesketh Harvey is a British musical performer, translator, composer and screenwriter. Born in Nyasaland, into a Foreign Office family, he was educated as senior chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and he gained an Exhibition in English Literature as well as a choral scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied under John Rutter and joined the Footlights. Hesketh Harvey worked for six years as a producer for the BBC-TV Music and Arts Department. He won the 1988 Vivian Ellis Award for musical theatre writers and subsequently studied with Stephen Sondheim at St Catherines College and he worked on the Vicar of Dibley series for the BBC. He wrote Full Throttle, starring Rowan Atkinson, and Hans Andersen and he co-wrote the screenplay for Tim Walkers film The Lost Explorer. They had their own series on BBC Radios 3 and 4 and he starred in the 1996 production of Salad Days at the Vaudeville Theatre, and in Tom Foolery. He co-devised and starred in the production of the Sondheim revue Putting It Together. In 2011, he starred in Cowardy Custard with Dillie Keane and he co-starred with Tim Minchin in the first BBC Comedy Prom at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011, the last time that Kit and the Widow appeared on stage together. He stars annually in pantomime at Guildford, always playing the baddie and he makes occasional appearances on the many BBC Radio 4 series such as Just a Minute and Quote Unquote. He presents one-off documentaries on off-beat subjects for Radio 4 and his musicals written with composer James McConnel include Writing Orlando and Yusupov. He adapted the English version of Jacques Offenbachs La Belle Hélène directed by Laurent Pelly for English National Opera and his translation of The Bartered Bride for Charles Mackerras at the Royal Opera House was Grammy-nominated, and he has translated many other operas. He adapted and produced The Caribbean Tempest, starring Kylie Minogue, in Barbados and he co-produced Shadwell Operas Magic Flute at the Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh. He collaborated in 2011 with Giffords Circus, writing the lyrics to War And Peace and his plays include Five OClock Angel at the Hampstead Theatre. He writes regularly for Country Life magazine and his radio play A La Villa Bab Azzoun, produced by Moving Theatre, won the 2009 Prix Europa. His work for military charities has taken him to the conflict in Kabul, as well as to Saudi, Africa and his translation of The Merry Widow was in Opera Norths 2010/11 season, transferring in July 2011 to the Sydney Opera House. Armonico Consort staged his Monteverdis Flying Circus, in 2011 he directed for Merry Opera his own adaptation of La belle Hélène, Troy Boy, and in 2012, his adaptation of La Traviata. He wrote and co-directed their production of The Magic Flute at the Riverside Studios, London and his translation of The Magic Flute was revived in 2012-13 in the Scottish Operas production, directed by Sir Thomas Allen. In 2013, he translated Salvatore Sciarrinos The Killing Flower for Music Theatre Wales and his sister is Sarah Sands, editor of the London Evening Standard
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Hesketh Harvey on
Just a Minute in 2010
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French and Saunders
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French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act, the duo continue to film holiday specials for the BBC, and both have been successful starring in their own shows. Her other work includes being the face of Barclays Bank and BBC America, meanwhile, French starred in the highly successful sitcom The Vicar of Dibley which received great critical acclaim as well as numerous holiday specials and future airplay, achieving cult status. She also starred in three series of the comedy show Murder Most Horrid, for many years she became popular for her appearances in the Terrys Chocolate Orange adverts saying the famous line Its not Terrys, its mine. And is currently the voice of W H Smith and Tesco adverts and she recently released her autobiography Dear Fatty, referring to Saunders, to whom she gave the nickname Fatty. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedians Comedian, the duo were voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and their last special, 2005s French and Saunders Christmas Celebrity Special, aired on 27 December 2005 on BBC One. In 2006, both Saunders and French announced that their show was now dead, and that they had moved on to more age appropriate material. Their last ever concert, and last ever performing as a duo act, Still Alive tour ran until the end of 2008, in 2009, they were jointly awarded the BAFTA Fellowship. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders met in 1978 while attending the Central School of Speech and Drama, French and Saunders were featured on the live comedy album of The Comic Strip recorded by comedy entrepreneur Martin Lewis for his Springtime. Label and was released in 1981, the duo made their first mainstream television appearance in the sketch comedy show The Comic Strip Presents. Where they appeared in approximately 30 episodes each as well as writing material for the show, in 1985, French and Saunders collaborated on their programme Girls on Top, which they once again wrote and starred in. Co-stars Tracey Ullman and Ruby Wax rounded out a set of four oddball roommates, in 1986, French and Saunders made their first of many appearances on Comic Relief, and they signed a long-term contract with the BBC. In 1987, French and Saunders created their eponymous sketch show and their show began humbly, but immediately established its own niche as a spoof on other types of shows. In the first season, it was set up to look like a low-budget variety show in which the duo were constantly attempting grandiose stunts. Often a famous guest star would be brought on then treated badly, as their show progressed and ratings skyrocketed, French and Saunders received higher and higher budgets with which to create elaborate parodies of mainstream culture. These ranged anywhere from recreations of films to spoofs on popular music artists, certain spoken phrases and sight gags that referenced previously performed sketches were incorporated for loyal fans. Saunders goads French to try the accent by saying, How are you, and French responds with an interpretation sounding more like a strong Northern Irish accent. Since then, the duo often break character in the middle of elaborate sketches to do an accent check, the show also contained numerous meta references, an awareness that the viewer was actually watching a parody
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French and Saunders
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French and Saunders parodying
James Cameron 's blockbuster film
Titanic
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BBC Radio 2
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BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as contemporary or AOR. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2 MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat. The station was launched at 05,30 on 30 September 1967, the first show had started at 05,30 am but continued with Breakfast Special from Paul Hollingdale as Radio 1 split. In early years, much programming and music was common to stations, particularly on the shared FM frequency. Radio 2 became the first national 24-hour radio station in the UK in 1979, the stations policy remained stable with only minor changes until April 1986 when Frances Line, head of music, repositioned the station. She would become Controller in 1990, although popular with its target audience, the policy alienated many younger listeners who had listened to both Radio 1 and Radio 2 and the stations audience fell. It took another hit in 1990 when it lost its medium wave frequencies to a new network, BBC Radio 5, further blows were struck by the rise of album-rock commercial stations and gold spinoffs from Independent Local Radio stations playing classic pop and rock. With the stations audience in decline a change of emphasis was needed, Line was replaced by James Moir in 1996. Unlike the early-1990s repositioning of Radio 1 in which the BBC lost many well-known names, many former Radio 1 presenters stayed with the BBC, Radio 2 is now termed the nations favourite, a title the BBC formerly used for BBC Radio 1. As well as having most listeners nationally, it ranks first in regions above local radio stations. BBC Radio 2 played to 27% of the audience in 2006. In February 2007, Radio 2 recruited Jeff Smith, director of UK and International programming at Napster, Smith joined the network on 26 March. The licence fee funding of Radio 2, alongside Radio 1, is criticised by the commercial sector. In the first quarter of 2011, Radio 2 was part of a review conducted by John Myers. His role, according to Andrew Harrison, the executive of RadioCentre, was to identify both areas of best practice and possible savings. This coincided with the launch of a new jingle package produced by Godfrey in association with Wise Buddah Productions, Radio 2 has recently been running several pop-up DAB services to cover special events, the first being BBC Radio 2 Eurovision, providing coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014
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BBC Radio 2
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Chris Evans (presenter)
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Christopher James Chris Evans is an English presenter, businessman and producer for radio and television. Soon he was able to dictate highly favourable terms, allowing him to broadcast on competing radio, by 2000 he was the UKs highest paid entertainer, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. In 2005, he started a new career on BBC Radio 2, hosting the long-running Drivetime programme and he previously presented The One Show on Fridays between 2010 and 2015. In 2015, he signed a deal to lead a new Top Gear line-up. On 23 June 2015 it was confirmed that TFI Friday would return for its series with eight episodes in December 2015. Evans confirmed that he would return to present it. It was then revealed that the BBC Top Gear team told Evans he would have to leave TFI Friday after the series if he intended to stay with Top Gear. On 4 July 2016 Evans announced that he would be stepping down as presenter of Top Gear, as of 2017 he continues to present the popular BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. Evans was born in Warrington, Lancashire, England, the youngest child of bookmaker and health authority wages clerk Martin Joseph Evans, and Minnie Beardsall and his siblings are brother David and sister Diane. He started his schooling at St Margarets Church of England Infants and Junior School, Evans father and both paternal uncles died of colorectal cancer. Evans mother is a breast cancer survivor, Evans passed the Eleven-Plus exam and started at Boteler Grammar School, Warrington. Evans switched to a position at the station in 1984. In addition he was producer to presenter James H. Reeve, following this he presented a weekday graveyard slot with competitions and segments where listeners had opportunities to sell their belongings on air. Evans became a GLR presenter in early 1990, taking over a Saturday afternoon show, three months later, he started presenting The Greenhouse, a Monday to Thursday evening show, he remained on this slot until the end of 1990. In addition to his Saturday morning show on GLR, in March 1992 Evans began presenting a Sunday afternoon show on BBC Radio 1 and his show, Too Much Gravy, was broadcast from 14,30 to 16,00 and ended in September 1992. His move to Radio 1 was short-lived but seen as a success, with controller Johnny Beerling later admitting he wished hed offered Evans a full-time show there. At the time, however, Evans objected that Radio 1 had attempted to constrain his style, preventing him from using the zoo format, in April 1993, Evans left GLR and joined the new Virgin Radio, to host a Saturday morning show. Evans departure from radio was in part so he could devote his time to the new Channel 4 breakfast television show, The Big Breakfast, Evans co-hosted the show with Gaby Roslin
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Evans in 2010
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Evans and
Joss Stone in 2005
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Make Poverty History
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Make Poverty History is the name of organizations in a number of countries, which focus on issues relating to 8th Millennium Development Goal such as aid, trade and justice. They generally form a coalition of aid and development agencies which work together to raise awareness of global poverty, the various national campaigns are part of the international Global Call to Action Against Poverty campaign. The symbol of the campaign is a white awareness bracelet made of cotton or silicone, usually, on the band the words would be written in black, with the Poverty word a lighter shade. A virtual white band was also available to be displayed on websites, television advertisements ran for many months, urging people to speak to their representatives about stopping poverty. However, the Office of Communications banned the ads, deciding that the ads were wholly or mainly political in nature, since they aimed to achieve important changes. The three demands of the campaign were, Trade Justice Drop the debt More and better aid None of these aims were new, approximately forty groups argued against the dissolution. On January 23,2013, the Enough Food For Everyone IF campaign was launched, by a group of over 100 aid organisations and religious groups. Sometimes called Make Poverty History 2, or simply the IF campaign and it coincides with Britain once again assuming presidency of the G8. The central theme of the campaign concerns ending hunger, with four strands aimed at tackling the root causes, the need to combat tax avoidance. The need to land grabs the need for greater transparency from governments and large corporations. The launch of the campaign was welcomed by Britains prime minister David Cameron, and supported by international figures such as Bill Gates and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. On 8 June, the IF campaign mobilized about 45,000 people to demonstrate in Hyde Park, the IF campaign coalition commissioned an external evaluation of the campaign. The evaluation report assesses progress against objectives and captures learnings for future work, Make Poverty History set out a timescale revolving around the 31st G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland on July 6,2005. Britain assumed presidency of the G8 on January 1,2005 and hosted the summit with poverty in Africa being, at least nominally, the Commission for Africa, launched by Tony Blair in February 2004, aimed to help create a strong and prosperous Africa. Their report, published in March 2005, was a point for the British presidency of the G8. In the second half of 2005, Britain held the EU presidency, July 1,2005 was the first international White Band Day, a worldwide day of action. July 2 - Over 225,000 protesters demonstrated in Edinburgh to promote the campaigns demands. On the same day, the Live 8 concerts took place before the G8 summit to encourage activism and debate within the G8 member countries, demonstrators walked overnight up to 20 miles to reach Gleneagles as the A8 had been closed
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An estimated 225,000 (
BBC News) campaigners marched in Edinburgh on 2 July 2005
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Plastic version of the "white band"
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Police at the
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National Television Awards
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The National Television Awards is a British television awards ceremony, broadcast by the ITV network and initiated in 1995. The National Television Awards are the most prominent ceremony for which the results are voted on by the general public, the first ceremony was held in August 1995 and was hosted by Eamonn Holmes. From 1996 onwards it was held annually in October and hosted by Sir Trevor McDonald. McDonald retired from the role after 13 years in 2008, in 2009 the NTAs changed the timing of the event from October to January so there was no event in that year. For the 2010 ceremony Dermot OLeary took over as host, the ceremony was hosted at the London O2 for the first time. Scarlett Moffatt became a presenter for the 2017 ceremony. The public vote in a poll via post, telephone and online with the process verified by an independent adjudicator. The results are reported in the British media with worldwide media coverage of some categories. British Academy Television Awards National Movie Awards Official website Official Twitter
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National Television Awards
