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Agnes O’Casey
Agnes Eustacia Kenig (born 1995/1996), known professionally as Agnes O'Casey, is an English/Irish actress. On television, she is known for her role in the BBC One drama ''Ridley Road'' (2021). Her films include ''The Miracle Club'' and ''Lies We Tell'' (both 2023). She was named a 2024 ''Screen International'' Star of Tomorrow. Early life O'Casey is from Finsbury Park, the eldest of three daughters of hospitality and retail workers. She is of Irish and a quarter Jewish descent; the playwright Seán O'Casey was her great-grandfather. Her paternal grandfather was of Lithuanian-Jewish heritage. O'Casey has dyslexia and attended a Steiner School. Her family moved to Newton Abbot, Devon when she was 11. She studied art history and English literature at Edinburgh University for a year before being accepted to The Lir Academy in Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in acting in 2020. Career After appearing in the music video for "Holy Show" by the Pillow Queens in 2020 and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph and Courier''. ''The Telegraph'' is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858. In 2013, ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'', which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. It is politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. It was moderately Liberalism, liberal politically before the late 1870s.Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalismp 159 ''The Telegraph'' has had a number of news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II by rookie reporter Clare Hollingworth, desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starz
Starz (stylized in all caps as STARZ; pronounced "stars") is an American pay television network owned by Starz Entertainment, and is the flagship property of Starz Inc. Launched in 1994 as a multiplex service of what is now Starz Encore, its programming consists of theatrically released motion pictures and first-run original television series. Starz operates six 24-hour, linear multiplex channels; a traditional subscription video on demand service; and a namesake over-the-top streaming platform that both acts as a TV Everywhere offering for Starz's linear television subscribers and is sold directly to streaming-only consumers. Starz is also sold independently of traditional and over-the-top multichannel video programming distributors a la carte through Apple TV Channels and Amazon Video Channels, which feature VOD library content and live feeds of Starz's linear television services (consisting of the primary channel's East and West Coast feeds and, for Amazon Vide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mirror And The Light
''The Mirror & the Light'' is a 2020 historical novel by English writer Hilary Mantel and the final novel published in her lifetime, appearing two and a half years before her death. Following ''Wolf Hall'' (2009) and ''Bring Up the Bodies'' (2012), it is the final instalment in her trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, minister in the court of King Henry VIII. It covers the last four years of his life, from 1536 until his death by execution in 1540. Mantel's twelfth novel, her first in almost eight years, ''The Mirror & the Light'' enjoyed widespread critical acclaim and brisk sales upon its release. Emily Temple of ''Literary Hub'' reported that the novel had featured on thirteen lists of the best books of 2020. It was shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction and won the 2021 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. Filming of a BBC television adaptation was completed in early 2024, and it was broadcast in the autumn of 2024. Plot ''The Mirror & the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Herrin
Jeremy Herrin (born 19 January 1970) is an English theatre director. He is a Founding Director of Second Half Productions with Alan Stacey and Rob O’Rahilly. He was previously Artistic Director of the British touring theatre company; Headlong. For his work on the London stage, Herrin has received three Laurence Olivier Awards for ''Labour of Love, The Heretic'' and ''The Priory.'' He won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director for '' Wolf Hall Parts One & Two.'' His hit production of James Graham's '' This House'' at the Royal National Theatre received a nomination for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play. Working as a theatre director since 1999, Herrin has directed a string of award winning productions that have transferred to the West End and Broadway. Notable productions include the adaptation of Hilary Mantel's eponymous novels ''Wolf Hall & Bringing Up the Bodies'' for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ramm
John Ramm is an English comedian and actor. He plays Raymond Box in the National Theatre of Brent, and has also appeared on film and television in ''Robin Hood'' (" Will You Tolerate This?"), ''The Palace'', '' Foyle's War'' ("All Clear") and as Makepeace's neighbour in ''Shakespeare in Love''. On stage, he has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in their 2004 Lope de Vega season, at the Chicken Festival Theatre, in a 2008 production of ''Ring Round the Moon'' at the Playhouse Theatre London, as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing in 2011, in the 2013 play '' The Low Road'', and as Thomas More and Henry Norris in Mike Poulton's 2014-2015 stage adaptions of ''Wolf Hall'' and ''Bring Up The Bodies'' respectively. In 2016 he performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in Sheppey for which he received The Offie (Off West End Theatre Award ) for Best Male Performance. Ramm plays Sergeant Brunswick in the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series Inspector Steine. In March 2022, he appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory Keenan
Rory Keenan (born 9 June 1980) is an Irish actor. On film and television he has starred in '' Somewhere Boy'', '' The Duchess'', '' Birdsong, Versailles'', '' War & Peace'', '' The Guard'' and ''Peaky Blinders''. Career Keenan has performed in many National Theatre productions, as well as at BAM, New York and Wyndhams Theatre in the West End as Jamie in Long Day's Journey into Night, directed by Sir Richard Eyre. He starred at The Donmar Warehouse in ''Saint Joan'' and ''Welcome Home Captain Fox!'' Previous work at The Royal National Theatre includes ''The Kitchen'', ''Damned By Despair'' and ''Liola'', and '' Philadelphia, Here I Come!'' and '' Dublin Carol'' at the Donmar Warehouse. He has performed many leading roles in Ireland, having worked from an early age at The Abbey Theatre, as well as the title roles in ''Hamlet'' and ''Macbeth'', the latter of which landed him Best Actor at 11th The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards. In 2010, Keenan appeared in the short film '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eldridge (dramatist)
David Eldridge (born 20 September 1973) is a British dramatist and screenwriter, born in Romford, Greater London, United Kingdom. His plays have been produced in the West End and on Broadway. He has written for stage, screen and radio. Career His plays have been performed at major new writing institutions in the UK, including The Royal Court Theatre, the Bush Theatre, the Finborough Theatre and the National Theatre. His stage adaptation of the film ''Festen'' transferred from the Almeida Theatre to the West End and Broadway. His play ''Market Boy'', informed by his childhood working on a stall at Romford Market, played at the National Theatre's largest space, the Olivier in June 2006. In July 2008 his play ''Under the Blue Sky'' was revived at the Duke of York's Theatre starring Chris O'Dowd, Catherine Tate and Francesca Annis. In March 2011 his play ''The Knot of the Heart'' played at the Almeida Theatre and starred Lisa Dillon, for whom the role of Lucy was written and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( ), was a British author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, le Carré became an Irish citizen. Le Carré's third novel, ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' (1963), became an international best-seller, was adapted as an award-winning film, and remains one of his best-known works. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author. His other novels that have been adapted for film or television include '' The Looking Glass War'' (1965), '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (1974), '' Smiley's People'' (1979), '' The Little Drummer Girl'' (1983), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
