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Five Daughters
''Five Daughters'' is a British television drama miniseries starring Ian Hart, Sarah Lancashire, Jaime Winstone and Juliet Aubrey. Set in 2006, it is about the five victims of the Ipswich serial murders and how the crime affected their families. It was written by Stephen Butchard and Julie Rutterford. It was shown on BBC One in three one-hour episodes from 25 to 27 April 2010. Background The BBC Press Office announced on 29 August 2009 that it had commissioned a three-part drama which would portray the events surrounding the 2006 Ipswich murders, and that it would be written by Stephen Butchard, whose credits included the 2008 mini-series '' House of Saddam''. Speaking about the drama, Butchard said; "Our hope is that this drama provides a glimpse of the real girls their families knew, and also leads to further debate on the impact of drugs and sex industries upon every town, every city in this country... and what action is, or isn't, being taken." With the advice of poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the Epic poetry, epic and the Lyric poetry, lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's ''Poetics (Aristotle), Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Ancient Greek, Greek word meaning "deed" or "Action (philosophy), act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional Genre, generic division between Comedy (drama), comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word '' play'' or ''game'' (translating the Old English, Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Wright (serial Killer)
Steven Gerald James Wright (born 24 April 1958) is an English serial killer, also known as the Suffolk Strangler and the Ipswich Ripper. He is serving life imprisonment for the murder of five women who worked in Ipswich, Suffolk. The killings took place during the final months of 2006, and Wright was found guilty in February 2008. Early life Steve Wright was born in the Norfolk village of Erpingham, the second of four children of military policeman Conrad and veterinary nurse Patricia, on 24 April 1958. He has an older brother and two younger sisters. While Wright's father was on military service, the family had lived in both Malta and Singapore. Wright's mother left the family in 1964 when he was aged 6; his father divorced his mother in 1978; both remarried. Wright and his siblings lived with their father, who fathered a son and a daughter with his second wife, Valerie. Wright left school at the age of 16 in 1974, and soon afterwards joined the Merchant Navy, becoming a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers '' The Observer'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scotsman
''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its parent company, JPIMedia, also publishes the ''Edinburgh Evening News''. It had an audited print circulation of 16,349 for July to December 2018. Its website, Scotsman.com, had an average of 138,000 unique visitors a day as of 2017. The title celebrated its bicentenary on 25 January 2017. History ''The Scotsman'' was launched in 1817 as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren in response to the "unblushing subservience" of competing newspapers to the Edinburgh establishment. The paper was pledged to "impartiality, firmness and independence". After the abolition of newspaper stamp tax in Scotland in 1855, ''The Scotsman'' was relaunched as a daily newspaper priced at 1d and a circulat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffolk Constabulary
Suffolk Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing Suffolk in East Anglia, England. The force serves a population of 761,000 in a mostly rural area of 1,466 square miles (3,796 km2), including 49 miles of coastline and the Southern part of the Broads National Park. Headquartered in Martlesham, Suffolk is responsible for Ipswich, Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe. As of September 2022, the force has a strength of approximately 1,387 police constables, and as of March 2022, 111 special constables, 880 police staff/designated officers, 36 PCSO's and 133 police support volunteers. The Acting Chief Constable is currently Rachel Kearton, and the Police and Crime Commissioner Tim Passmore (Conservative). Organisation The Constabulary is responsible for policing Suffolk's 4 major settlements, Ipswich, Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe. It is also responsible for Suffolk's 49 miles of coastline, along with many rivers, including the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Lesser
Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952) is an English actor. He is well known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', as Thomas More in ''Wolf Hall'', as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in ''The Crown'', as Prime Minister Clement Attlee in ''A United Kingdom'' and as Chief Superintendent Bright in '' Endeavour''. Early life Born in Birmingham, Anton Lesser attended Moseley Grammar School and the University of Liverpool, where he read architecture. He then went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and on graduation in 1977 he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year. He is of Jewish background. Career As an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Lesser played many of Shakespeare's great roles in the BBC Television Shakespeare productions including Troilus (''Troilus and Cressida''), Edgar (''King Lear''), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (''Julius Caesar''), Leontes ('' Winter's Tale'') an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Dickie
Kate Dickie (born 1971) is a Scottish actress who has appeared in television series, stage plays and films. She is known for her television roles as Lex in the BBC series '' Tinsel Town'' (2000–2001) and Lysa Arryn in the HBO series '' Game of Thrones'' (2011, 2014). Dickie is also known for her portrayal of the security operative Jackie in her 2006 feature-film debut '' Red Road'', directed by Andrea Arnold, for which she won several awards, including Best Actress at the British Academy Scotland Awards and the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress. She again won Best Actress at the 2016 British Academy Scotland Awards for the film ''Couple in a Hole''. Her other film appearances include '' Prometheus'' (2012), '' Filth'' (2013), '' The Witch'' (2015), and '' Star Wars: The Last Jedi'' (2017). She supports the theatre company Solar Bear, which is known for its collaborations with deaf people, in part through her role as a patron. Early life Dickie was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bradley (English Actor)
David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is known for playing Argus Filch in the ''Harry Potter'' film series, Walder Frey in the HBO fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'', Abraham Setrakian in the FX horror series ''The Strain'', and for voicing Merlin in Guillermo del Toro’s animated Netflix series ''Tales of Arcadia'' (for which he won an Annie Award for Best Voice Actor in a Television Series). A character actor, Bradley's screen roles include parts in '' Our Friends in the North'' (1996), the '' Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy and '' After Life'' (2019–2022). He has made several appearances as the First Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' (2017–2022), having portrayed the role's originator, William Hartnell, in the docudrama '' An Adventure in Space and Time'' (2013). An alumnus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bradley is also an established stage actor, with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of ''King Lear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Harris
Sean Harris (born 1965/1966) is an English actor and writer. He played Ian Curtis in ''24 Hour Party People'' (2002), Micheletto Corella in '' The Borgias'' (2011–2013), Fifield in '' Prometheus'' (2012), Solomon Lane in '' Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation'' (2015) and '' Mission: Impossible – Fallout'' (2018), Philip in '' Possum'' (2018) and William Gascoigne in '' The King'' (2019). Harris won a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his role in the miniseries ''Southcliffe'' (2013) and received three consecutive nominations for the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Early life and education Harris was born just outside Woodbridge, Suffolk, and grew up in Lowestoft, Suffolk. He attended Denes High School, now the Ormiston Denes Academy in Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 23, he moved to London to train at the Drama Centre London from 1989 to 1992. Career Stage Harris was a member of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, where he performed in stage productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky McClure
Victoria Lee McClure (born 8 May 1983) is an English actress, model and presenter. She is known for her roles as Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in the BBC series ''Line of Duty'' (2012–present) and Lol Jenkins in Shane Meadows' film ''This Is England'' (2006) and its Channel 4 sequel mini-series ''This Is England '86'' (2010), '' This Is England '88'' (2011), and '' This Is England '90'' (2015). Before ''This is England'', she appeared in another of Meadows' films, '' A Room for Romeo Brass'' (1999), where she played Ladine. She won the RTS Award and British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Lol in ''This is England '86'' in 2011. McClure is also well-known for her role as Karen White in ITV's ''Broadchurch'', and other roles such as in '' Filth and Wisdom'' (2008), ''Hummingbird'' (2013), '' Svengali'' (2013), and '' The Replacement'' (2017). Early life Vicky Lee McClure was born on 8 May 1983 in the Wollaton area of Nottingham. Her father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Fairbank
Christopher Fairbank (born 4 October 1953) is an English film, stage and television actor. Career In 2010, he appeared as a detective in ''Five Daughters ''Five Daughters'' is a British television drama miniseries starring Ian Hart, Sarah Lancashire, Jaime Winstone and Juliet Aubrey. Set in 2006, it is about the five victims of the Ipswich serial murders and how the crime affected their fam ...'', and as Alfred "Freddie" Lennon in the biopic '' Lennon Naked''. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fairbank, Christopher 1953 births English male film actors English male television actors English male video game actors English male voice actors Living people Male actors from Hertfordshire People educated at Kent College Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga ( ; born 7 January 1981) is an Ethiopian-Irish actress known for the AMC television series ''Preacher'' and the film ''Loving''. For her portrayal of Mildred Loving in the latter, Negga received several major nominations from the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards and the Golden Globe Awards, and won the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress. In 2022, Negga made her Broadway debut in a production of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' as Lady Macbeth, and earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. Negga has also appeared in the films ''Capital Letters'' (2004) (also released as ''Trafficked'' in some countries), '' Isolation'' (2005), ''Breakfast on Pluto'' (2005), ''Warcraft'' (2016), and '' Passing'' (2021). Other television projects include the BBC mini-series ''Criminal Justice'', RTÉ's '' Love/Hate'', E4's '' Misfits'', and ABC's '' Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' Early life and education Negga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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