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All Or Nothing (film)
''All or Nothing'' is a 2002 British Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville. Like much of Leigh's work, the film is set in present-day London, and depicts three working-class families and their everyday lives. Synopsis The film begins with a day nearing its end. Rachel, the daughter in the first family, is shown working in a nursing home. Phil, her father, is seen driving people around in his Taxicabs of the United Kingdom#Private hire .28.27minicabs.27.29, minicab. Penny, Rachel's mother, is shown working as a cashier at a Safeway (UK), Safeway store alongside Maureen, the mother in the second family. When Penny leaves work, she cycles home to find her 18-year-old son Rory in a fight with a local boy for taking his football. Rory is a lazy, obese, ill-mannered teenager who neither goes to school nor has a job. Complications with his obesity arise when after an altercation with a gang of youths pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English screenwriter, producer, director and former actor with a film, theatre, and television career spanning more than 60 years. His accolades include prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Venice International Film Festival, three BAFTA Awards, and nominations for seven Academy Awards. He also received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014, and was appointed an Order of the British Empire, Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1993 Birthday Honours for services to the film industry. Leigh studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London Film School, London School of Film Technique. His short-lived acting career included the role of a mute in the 1963 ''Maigret (1960 TV series), Maigret'' episode "The Flemish Shop". He began working as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s, before tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Jesson
Paul Jesson is an English stage, television and film actor and an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has played leading roles at the National Theatre and the RSC and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1986 for his role in '' The Normal Heart'' at the Royal Court Theatre. He was nominated for a Scottish Critics' Award 2004 for his portrayal of Willy Loman in ''Death of a Salesman'' at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. He played the Earl of Gloucester in the Donmar Theatre production of ''King Lear'' with Derek Jacobi, Maurice Montgomery in Nicholas Wright's ''Travelling Light'' at the National Theatre and appeared in Caryl Churchill's ''Love and Information'' at the Royal Court (2012). His recent films include Brutus in ''Coriolanus'' directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, Nae Caranfil's '' Closer to the Moon'' and Sir David Hare's ''Wall''. He played William Turner, father of J. M. W. Turner in Mike Leigh's 2014 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo!
Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon. Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google. Etymology The word "yahoo" is a backronym for "Yet another, Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "sourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent
Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Greater London to the north-west. The county town is Maidstone. The county has an area of and had population of 1,875,893 in 2022, making it the Ceremonial counties of England#Lieutenancy areas since 1997, fifth most populous county in England. The north of the county contains a conurbation which includes the towns of Chatham, Kent, Chatham, Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham, and Rochester, Kent, Rochester. Other large towns are Maidstone and Ashford, Kent, Ashford, and the City of Canterbury, borough of Canterbury holds City status in the United Kingdom, city status. For local government purposes Kent consists of a non-metropolitan county, with twelve districts, and the unitary authority area of Medway. The county historically included south-ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeness (headland)
Dungeness (, ) is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness spans Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, the hamlet of Dungeness, and an ecological site at the same location. It lies within the civil parish of Lydd. Etymology Dungeness's name means "the headland at Denge", referring to nearby Denge Marsh. The marsh is first mentioned in 774 as ''Dengemersc''. Its name may mean "marsh of the pasture district", from Old English ''denn *gē mersc'', or else "marsh with manured land", from Old English ''dyncge mersc''. Nature Ecology Dungeness is one of the largest expanses of shingle in Europe. It is of international conservation importance for its geomorphology, plant and invertebrate communities and bird life. This is recognised and protected mostly through its conservation designations as a national nature reserve (NNR), a Special Protection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Austin
Michele Austin is a British actress. She best known for her role as Yvonne Hemmingway on ITV's ''The Bill'', for which she won the Screen Nation Award for Best Television Actress, and for her portrayal of Chantelle in '' Hard Truths'', for which she won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actress. Career Austin studied acting at Rose Bruford College in Sidcup. As well as her role as PC Hemmingway in the ITV series ''The Bill'', she played the character Marsha Harris twice in 2001. Austin had roles in Mike Leigh's films '' Secrets & Lies'' (1996) and '' Another Year'' (2010). She also has a small role in ITV's 2008 teen drama ''Britannia High'' as Mrs Doris Troy, the landlady of the main characters, in the comedy ''Never Better'' and as a nurse in BBC's '' Outnumbered'' that aired on 30 August 2009. In December 2010, Austin appeared in the British BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' as Gloria MacDonald, a role which she reprised in February 2016. Prio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Williams (actor)
Alan Williams (born 1954) is a British actor and playwright, who has performed in film, television and theatre in both the United Kingdom and Canada."Success, Failure All Part of the Plan for Playwright". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 6 January 2015. Life and career Originally from Manchester and educated at The Manchester Grammar School, he took some classes in theatre school but received the bulk of his training as an apprentice with the Hull Truck Theatre."Tall tales from outsiders; Performer-playwright brings acclaimed trilogy to Ottawa". ''Ottawa Citizen'', 4 May 1988. He performed his Cockroach trilogy of one-man plays (''The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati'', ''The Return of the Cockroach'' and ''The Cockroach Has Landed'') at the influential London fringe venue The Bush Theatre and subsequently at the International Theatre Festival in Toronto, Ontario in 1981, and then decided to remain in the city, becoming playwright in residence at the Tarragon Theatre."From Cockroach Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Atkinson
Dorothy Caroline Atkinson (born 1966) is an English actress and singer. She has appeared in several plays by playwright Alan Ayckbourn and in films by Mike Leigh, including ''Topsy-Turvy'', '' All or Nothing'', and '' Mr. Turner'', which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and for which she was nominated for the BIFA for Best Supporting Actress. In television, she has appeared as Zoe Parrish on ITV drama '' London's Burning'', Jane Sutton in the BBC One drama ''Call the Midwife'', Pauline in the BBC Two sitcom '' Mum'', Florence Scanwell in the ITV Encore drama '' Harlots'', and Mary Pennyworth in the Epix/HBO Max drama '' Pennyworth''. An April 2021 announcement stated that Atkinson would be joining the cast of the second series of '' All Creatures Great and Small'' as Diana Brompton. Personal life Atkinson is from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Her father was a bursar for a school in Nottinghamshire and she has one sister. Her nickname is "Dot". She is married to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary McDonald (actor)
Gary McDonald (born 1961, London) is an English actor of Jamaican descent. A student at Elliott School (London), Elliott school in Putney, McDonald played football for Wimbledon FC under Dario Gradi. He was a member of the Royal Court Theatre from 1979 to 1980, appearing in various plays at the Court such as ''Hard time Pressure'', ''Hero's Welcome'', and Che Walker's ''Been so Long''. In the 1980s he performed with the Talawa Theatre company in ''The Black Jacobins'', ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', and ''A Raisin in the Sun'' with the Black Theatre (England), Black Theatre. He appeared at the Royal National Theatre in ''Macbeth'', ''Black Poppies'', and ''Rhapsody in Black & White'' and at The Cottlesloe in ''Blood Wedding''. Other theatre credits include ''Scrape of the Black'' and Mike Leigh's ''It's a Great Big Shame'' at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. His first notable television role came in 1987 when he was cast as Darren Roberts (EastEnders), Darren Roberts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wilfort
Robert Kenneth Wilfort (born 20 April 1977) is a Welsh actor from Porthcawl, who has made many appearances on British television and film. He is best known for his role as Jason West in BBC's ''Gavin & Stacey''. His other television appearances have included roles in series such as ''Wolf Hall'' and ''Bridgerton''. Early life Wilfort was born in Porthcawl, Wales and now lives in South England with his long-term partner. Career Wilfort's film roles have included Dr Simon Griffith in Mike Leigh's '' All or Nothing'' (2002) and Rita Skeeter's photographer in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' (2005). He also had a minor role in '' The Libertine'' (2004) and co-starred in '' Man Up'' (2015). Wilfort played the history teacher Tom Barkley in the E4 teen drama series '' Skins'' and Mr Fisher in BBC's '' White Van Man''. He also has a recurring role as Jason West in the BAFTA award-winning TV show ''Gavin & Stacey'', the role for which he is best known. In 2008, he appeared i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Crompton
Benjamin Lorton Crompton (born 1974) is an English actor and stand-up comedian, has appeared on the BBC sketch show '' Man Stroke Woman'' and as Colin in the BBC Three sitcom '' Ideal'' from 2005 to 2011). Crompton portrayed Eddison Tollett on the HBO high-fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'' from 2012 to 2019. Other credits include '' All or Nothing'' (2002), '' Clocking Off'' (2001-2003), ''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' (2003), '' Housewife, 49'', '' Pramface'' (2012-2014), '' The Great Fire'' (2014), '' The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'', ''Blood'' (2012), '' Zapped'' (2017), ''Motherland'' (2017), ''Vera'' (2018), '' Marcella'' (2018), '' Peterloo'' (2018), and ''Rebecca'' (2020). Career Crompton appeared in the 2002 film '' All or Nothing'' (2002), the TV series '' Clocking Off'' (2001-2003), he worked alongside Ciarán Hinds in ''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' (2003), and with Victoria Wood in the Television movie '' Housewife, 49''. He played Ewan in ''102 Dalmatians'', and appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Mays
Daniel Mays (born 31 March 1978) is an English actor having had television roles in ''EastEnders'' (2000), ''Rehab'' (2005), '' Red Riding'' (2008), '' Ashes to Ashes'' (2010), '' Outcasts'' (2011), '' Mrs Biggs'', ''Line of Duty'', '' Des'' and '' White Lines'' (2020), and film roles in ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001), '' All or Nothing'' (2002), ''Vera Drake'' (2004), '' Shifty'', ''Made in Dagenham'', ''Byzantium'' (2012), and '' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' (2016). Mays has been nominated for best supporting actor at both the BIFAs (2008), and the BAFTAs (2017), as well as having extensive experience in theatre. In 2024, he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in ''Guys and Dolls'' at the Bridge Theatre. Early life Born in Epping, Essex, the third of four boys, Mays was brought up in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, by his electrician father and bank cashier mother. He attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, before g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
