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Allison McKenzie
Allison McKenzie is a Scottish actress from Glasgow. As a youngster she went to The Mitchell Theatre for Youth and discovered her love of acting. She trained at Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University's School of Drama. She worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in their 2016/2017 season at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. TV credits * ''Our House'' - ITV 1 - (2022), Role - Lucy Myers * ''Crime'' by Irvine Welsh - Britbox - (2021), Role - Estelle * '' The Victim (2019 TV series) '' – BBC 1 - Director Niall MacCormick – Writer Rob Williams, Role - Cathy * ''Press (TV series)'' - (2018) - BBC 1 - Director Tom Vaughan - Writer Mike Bartlett, Role - Kelly *''Shetland (TV series)'' (Series 4 Ep 1) – BBC 1 – (2018) – Directed by Lee Haven Jones, Role - Gail Callahan * ''Armchair Detectives (TV series)'' – BBC1 – (2017), Role - Patricia Frint (1 episode) * '' Beowulf (TV series)'' – ITV 1 – (2016) – Directed by Colin Teague, Role - Arla * ''Doctors'' – ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actress
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for Hypocrisy, hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the Tragedy, tragic Greek chorus, chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Rossi
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Joanne may refer to: Music * ''Joanne'' (album), 2016 album by Lady Gaga ** "Joanne" (Lady Gaga song), a 2016 song from the album ''Joanne'' * "Joanne" (Michael Nesmith song), a 1970 song from the album ''Magnetic South'' * "Joanne", a song by Cherry Ghost from the 2014 album ''Herd Runners'' Other uses * Joanne (given name) * Joanne (''Coronation Street''), a character from the British television soap opera ''Coronation Street'' *JoAnne's Bed and Back, defunct U.S. furniture retailer See also * Jo-Ann (other) * * Joanna (other) * Joannes (died 425), western Roman emperor * Jehanne (other) * Jeanne (other) * Joan (other) Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters ** Joan of Arc Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chichester Festival Theatre
Chichester Festival Theatre is a theatre and Grade II* listed building situated in Oaklands Park in the city of Chichester, West Sussex, England. Designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, it was opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. The smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989. The inaugural Artistic Director was Sir Laurence Olivier, and it was at Chichester that the first National Theatre company was formed. Chichester's productions would transfer to the National Theatre's base at the Old Vic in London. The opening productionsFestival - The Stage is Set, 1962 in 1962 were: '' The Chances'' by John Fletcher (first production 1638) which opened on 3 July; '' The Broken Heart'' (1633), by John Ford, opened 9 July; '' Uncle Vanya'' (1896), by Anton Chekov, opened 16 July. Among the actors in the opening season were: Lewis Casson, Fay Compton, Joan Greenwood, Rosemary Harris, Kathleen Harrison, Keith Michell, André Morell, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva Theatre, Chichester
The Minerva Theatre is a studio theatre seating 310 at full capacity. It is run as part of the adjacent Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, and was opened in April 1989 with Sam Mendes as its first artistic director. The current artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogu ... is Justin Audibert. Productions University of Chichester In November 2009, The Minerva allowed the University of Chichester's Musical Theatre Degree programme to perform a run of '' Oh, What a Lovely War!'', lasting a week. The show was well received and garnered positive reviews. It was directed by Garth Bardsley, with musical direction by Julian Kelly. References External links Chichester Festival Theatre website Theatres completed in 1989 Buildings an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo ('' né'' Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as '' War Horse'' (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity. Early life Morpurgo was born in 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, as Michael Andrew Bridge, the second child of actor Tony Van Bridge and actress Kippe Cammaerts (daughter of the writer and poet Émile Cammaerts). Both RADA graduates, his parents had met when they were acting in the same repertory company in 1938. His father came from a working-class family, while his mother's family included actors, an opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Butterfly Lion
''The Butterfly Lion'' is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in Great Britain by Collins in 1996, and won the 1996 Smarties book prize. The book was adapted into a stage play by Daniel Buckroyd of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, which toured the UK in 2013. Plot A young boy named Michael runs away from a boarding school and meets an old lady living in a big cottage. She tells him about a boy named Bertie who lived in South Africa. As a boy, Bertie had found an orphaned white lion cub, but was eventually forced to send the lion away to the circus and leave South Africa to attend boarding school in Wiltshire, England. Bertie escapes from his school and meets Millie, and the two become fast friends, flying kites together. He tells Millie all about his life in South Africa, and his white lion cub. When the pair leave school, they continue to write until war breaks out, and a letter arrives from Bertie informing Millie that he has joined the army. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Le Monde
''Club le Monde'' is an independent film released in 2002 and directed by Simon Rumley. It is set in 1993 and tells the story of one Saturday night in a small London nightclub. It stars Allison McKenzie, Dawn Steele & Annette Badland Annette Badland is a British actress known for a wide range of roles on television, radio, stage, and film. She is best known for her roles as Charlotte in the BBC crime drama series '' Bergerac'', Margaret Blaine in the BBC science fiction se .... External links * * 2002 films British independent films Films set in 1993 2000s British films British romantic comedy-drama films {{2000s-UK-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Jobson (television Presenter)
Richard Jobson (born 6 October 1960) is a Scottish filmmaker (director, writer, producer) who also works as a television presenter. He is also known as the singer-songwriter of the band Skids. Early life Jobson was born in Kirkcaldy and grew up in Crosshill and Ballingry in Fife, the son of a miner and a worker at Rosyth Dockyard. He attended St Columba's Roman Catholic High School, Dunfermline. His family were of Irish Catholic descent. Skids Jobson is the lead singer with the punk rock group Skids, whose original run was from 1977-1982. Jobson's singing-style with Skids was highly distinctive, and he wrote the lyrics, while Stuart Adamson wrote most of the music. '' Scared to Dance'', the first Skids album, included the 1979 hit single " Into the Valley", the group's most successful single. Jobson appeared on BBC Television's ''Top of the Pops'' singing it. "The Saints are Coming" was also on the album. Jobson said it was about the death of a friend in the British Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16 Years Of Alcohol
''16 Years of Alcohol'' is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his semi-autobiographical 1987 novel. Kevin McKidd stars as Frankie, a violent alcoholic who is partially based on Jobson and his brother. Plot The opening scene shows Frankie being beaten by a small group of men, and the rest of the film is shown as a flashback leading up to that point. The film is split into three sections: Frankie's troubled childhood, his violent adolescence as a ska-loving skinhead who commands a small gang, and a period of change, in which Frankie tries to believe in hope and love. Frankie starts a relationship with Helen (Laura Fraser), a young woman who studies art and works in a record store. When the differences between them became too obvious, Helen breaks up with Frankie, and he joins Alcoholics Anonymous (or a similar program) and a theatre group along with Mary (Susan Lynch), a good-hearted alcoholic. This allows Frankie to exorcise some of his demons, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airborne (2012 Film)
''Airborne'' is a 2012 British horror film written by Paul Chronnell and directed by Dominic Burns, who describes it as a tongue-in-cheek film in the tradition of ''The Twilight Zone''. A first trailer was released in 2011. It was reported in the media that it presents Mark Hamill's first appearance in a British film; however, Hamill had acted previously in the 1982 British film '' Britannia Hospital''. Airborne's introduction, before sporting a voice-over by Mark Hamill, refers in writing to a so-called ''Firelight Protocol''. Plot Despite an approaching winter storm a near-empty airliner takes off from London for New York. One by one the passengers begin to disappear, while one passenger who frequents the route notices the plane has turned whereas it should be flying straight. Soon it is discovered that the pilots are dead and that the plane is on autopilot; and it is revealed that two on board are hijackers who have murdered the pilots to take control of the plane. The passeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewan Morrison
Ewan Morrison (born 1968) is a Scottish author, cultural critic, director, and screenwriter. He has published eight novels and a collection of short stories, as of 2021. His novel ''Nina X'' won the Saltire Society Literary Award for Fiction Book of the Year 2019. Irvine Welsh described Morrison as "the eminent fiction writer of our times". Life Morrison was born in Wick, Caithness, Scotland in 1968. His parents are singer Edna Morrison and the poet, painter, and librarian David Morrison. His father was a "literary figure of national significance" but was also an alcoholic. In interviews and essays, Morrison has talked about his unorthodox childhood in Caithness as a "hippie experiment". Morrison attended Pulteneytown Academy and Wick High School. He was bullied by other children because he grew up as a cultural outsider and had a stutter. As a teenager, Morrison enjoyed making figures from modeling clay and decided to attend art school. He attended Glasgow School of Art where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taggart
''Taggart'' is a Scottish detective fiction television programme created by Glenn Chandler, who wrote many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV network. It originally ran as the miniseries ''Killer'' from 6 until 20 September 1983, before a full series was commissioned that ran from 2 July 1985 until 7 November 2010. The series revolved around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines were set in other parts of Greater Glasgow and in other areas of Scotland. The team operated out of the fictional John Street police station. Mark McManus, who played the title character Jim Taggart, died in 1994. However, the series continued under the same name. ''Taggart'' is one of the UK's longest-running television dramas. History The Scottish BAFTA-winning pilot episode "Killer", directed by Laurence Moody and broadcast in 1983, introduced the character Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart (played by M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
