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Britz (film)
''Britz'' is a two-part television drama film written and directed by Peter Kosminsky and first screened by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in October and November 2007. ''Britz'' attempts to understand what would lead a second generation Muslim to turn against the country of their birth. The film makes references to the July 2005 London bombings, and the 2006 Forest Gate raid. The DVD was released in the UK on 5 November 2007. Plot The story concerns two siblings, Sohail and Nasima Wahid, who have been brought up in Bradford, West Yorkshire, a city with a large British Pakistani population. Both are now students, Sohail studying law in London and Nasima studying medicine in Leeds. With new government anti-terrorism legislation being used against Muslims in the UK in the wake of the September 11 attacks in New York, Sohail and Nasima are drawn in radically different directions. Without telling any of his family or friends, Sohail becomes a member of MI5, while continuing his stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kosminsky
Peter Kosminsky (born 21 April 1956) is a British writer, director and producer. He has directed Hollywood movies such as '' White Oleander'' and television films like ''Warriors'', ''The Government Inspector'', '' The Promise'', ''Wolf Hall'' and ''The State''. Biography Kosminsky was born in London in 1956 to Jewish parents. He was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and the University of Oxford, where he studied chemistry under John Danby of Worcester College, Oxford and was elected JCR President. He spent much of his time at the university involved in student theatre, where he was treasurer of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He produced ''Twelfth Night'' for the OUDS which toured to northern France and starred a young Hugh Grant. On graduation in 1980, he joined the staff of the BBC in London as a general trainee, alongside Kevin Lygo (now head of studios at ITV), Dominic Cameron (former managing director of ITV.com) and Peter Salmon (former Control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcasting Press Guild
The Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) is a British association of journalists dedicated to the topic of general media issues. History The Guild was established in 1974 as a breakaway of The Critics' Circle and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2024. Its membership includes more than 100 staff and freelance journalists who write and broadcast about TV, radio, streaming and the media for UK national newspapers, specialist journals and online outlets. One of the Guild's most recognized activities is the hosting of luncheons where leading industry figures are engaged in dialogue. The Guild has entertained most BBC director-generals and chairs and government ministers responsible for broadcasting along with a wide range of top executives from TV and radio channels in the UK and overseas. Previous lunch speakers include Sally Wainwright, Peter Fincham, David Abraham, Charlotte Moore, John Whittingdale, Chris Patten, Jeremy Hunt, Greg Dyke, Kevin Lygo, Carolyn McCall, Michael Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bown
Paul Bown (born 11 October 1957) is an English actor. Bown is best known for playing Malcolm Stoneway in the Granada Television sitcom '' Watching'' (1987–1993). He also had major roles in other comedy series, including as Roger Bones in the CBBC comedy series '' Pirates'' (1994–1997) and Harry Thorpe in the BBC comedy series '' The Last Salute'' (1998–1999). Acting career Bown took a foundation course in art at Stoke Polytechnic before going on to do a BA degree course in Drama and Theatre Studies at Crewe and Alsager College. In 1980, Bown began his professional acting career, when he joined the Rat Theatre Company, which subsequently toured all over the UK. Later he co-founded the Optik Theatre Company with some former colleagues from his college, through the group they subsequently performed a showcase at the Cockpit Theatre in London, which helped launch his career. In 1985, he appeared in the comedy film '' Morons from Outer Space'' as Julian Tope, one of three dim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Bonnar
Richard Mark Bonnar (born 19 November 1968) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Max in ''Guilt (British TV series), Guilt'', Duncan Hunter in ''Shetland (TV series), Shetland'', Bruno Jenkins in ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty'', Detective Finney in ''Psychoville'', DCC Mike Dryden in ''Line of Duty'', Colin Osborne in ''Unforgotten'', Blackbeard in ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'', Townsend in ''Battlefield 1, ''Field in ''Summer of Rockets'' and Stephen Burns, the Lord Advocate, in Dept. Q. Career On television, Bonnar has appeared as Peter Mayhew in BBC One's ''New Blood (TV series), New Blood'' and Chris in the Channel 4 comedy ''Catastrophe (2015 TV series), Catastrophe'', a role which he reprised in the following series. He also portrays the Rev. Adam Collingbourne in ITV (TV network), ITV's ''Home Fires (British TV series), Home Fires'', John Halliday in ''Undercover (2016 TV series), Undercover'', as well as regular Duncan Hunter in ''Shetland (TV ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raquel Cassidy
Raquel Cassidy is an English actress. She played the role of Phyllis Baxter in the television series ''Downton Abbey'' (2013–2015), winning a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. She has reprised the role for both the 2019 feature film of the same name and its 2022 sequel. She has played leading roles in other television series including ''Teachers'', '' Party Animals'', ''Moving Wallpaper'', '' Lead Balloon'', ''The Worst Witch'' and '' The Good Karma Hospital''. Early life and education Born to a Spanish mother and an English father, she was the third child and only daughter born to the couple. Born and brought up in Fleet, Hampshire, she was educated at Farnborough Hill Convent, and then Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied modern languages. She later pursued a PhD in biological anthropology, but abandoned it to pursue a career in acting. Career In an early role, Cassidy played Lola Chaves in an episode of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsher Ali
Arsher Ali (born 9 April 1984) is a British actor. He has played various TV and film roles, and is a regular lead performer at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Personal life Ali is of Pakistani descent. He is a graduate of East 15 Acting School. He married British-Iranian actress Roxy Shahidi in 2010. The couple had their first child, a daughter, in January 2018. Ali has been vocal throughout his career about the challenges faced by British Asian actors in the industry and his continual fight against racial typecasting. Ali is a keen Nottingham Forest Nottingham Forest Football Club is a professional association football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Founde ... fan. Filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ali, Arsher Living people 1984 births 21st-century English male actors Male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preeya Kalidas
Preeya Kalidas (born 21 June 1980) is an English singer and actress. She played Amira Masood in the soap opera ''EastEnders'', from 2009 to 2012. She released the single "Shimmy" in July 2010, taken from her proposed debut album ''(I'm Over It) Constant Craving''; however, the album was never released. Early life Preeya Kalidas was born to Indian Gujarati parents in Isleworth, London and was raised in Twickenham, South-West London. Her father is an independent financial adviser, and her mother works for British Airways. She started ballet classes at the age of three, and tap at five. She then trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. She also trained at Songtime Theatre Arts. Career 1998–2010 Kalidas first appeared on screen in the drama ''Googleyes''. She went on to play Usha in a short film called ''Jump Boy'' in 1998, directed by Menhaj Huda and written by Harsha Patel. After a number of parts in films and on television, including '' East is East'', ''Bollywo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagar Radia
Sagar Radia is an English television and film actor. Since 2020, he has portrayed Rishi Ramdani in the HBO series ''Industry''. Early life He was brought up in Harrow, London. His mother was a teacher at a primary school and his father worked in the post office. His sister works in finance. He studied at City, University of London and worked in marketing before focusing in acting. Career He had an early role in ''Casualty''. He appeared in Peter Kosminsky’s ''Britz'' alongside Riz Ahmed, playing brothers, and had a recurring role in ITV series ''The Good Karma Hospital''. He was also understudy to Jesse Eisenberg in the theatre production ''The Spoils'' at Trafalgar Studios in London in 2016. In 2020, he could be seen as Rishi Ramdani in the HBO series ''Industry'', with the character gaining more screen time in the sophomore season and a series regular in season three in 2024 with the character described as a "fan favourite". The episode ''White Mischief'' in the third series f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bhattacharjee
Gautam Paul Bhattacharjee (4 May 1960 – c. 10 July 2013) was a British actor who worked on stage, film and television. Early life and career The son of Gautam Bhattacharjee, a member of the Indian Communist Party who had to flee from the country in 1942, and Anne, a woman from a family of Russian descent, he was educated at state schools in Harrow. In the 1970s, Paul was a member of "The Young Theatre" at North Harrow where he was very involved in their productions (including an early role in ''The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew'' in 1974) and began to learn his trade as an actor. An association with Jatinder Verma and his theatre company Tara Arts began in 1979,Suman Bhuchar, "Bhattacharjee, Paul" in Alison Donnell (ed.), ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2002, p. 32. when he was, according to Verma "passionately idealistic, both artistically and politically" and had the desire "to use theatre to change the world". Bhattacha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaheen Khan (British Actress)
Shaheen Khan (born 1960 in Moshi, Tanganyika) is a British film, television and stage actress and playwright of Indian descent, based in London. Career Film and television Khan is best known for her role as Mrs Bhamra in the 2002 film ''Bend It Like Beckham''. Other films in which she has performed include '' Bhaji on the Beach'' (1993) and '' It's a Wonderful Afterlife'' (2010). On television, she has had a recurring role in ''Casualty'' and a guest role in the ''Doctor Who'' episode '' Demons of the Punjab''. Theatre As a playwright, Khan has written several performances for BBC Radio 4 with Sudha Bhuchar, the most successful of which was ''Girlies'' (1997). Also with Bhuchar, she wrote the stage play ''Balti Kings'', which debuted in 1999 and was produced by Tamasha Theatre Company. ''Balti Kings'' was also rewritten by both for its appearance in Sydney, Australia, where it was renamed to ''The Curry Kings of Parrammatta''. Another production involving Tamasha and Bhuchar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Lukis
Adrian Leonard Fellowes Lukis (born 28 March 1957) is an English actor who has appeared regularly in British television drama since the late 1980s. Some of his most notable appearances have been as Sergeant Doug Wright in the police drama series ''The Bill'' and as Marc Thompson in the BBC legal drama '' Judge John Deed''. Background Lukis is descended from the Channel Islands archaeologist Frederick Lukis. Lukis was educated at Mount House School (now known as Mount Kelly), in Tavistock, Devon and Wellington College. Career Lukis had roles as a regular in the second series of ''Chandler & Co'' (1995), playing Mark Judd, and in ''Peak Practice'' (1997–1999), playing Dr. David Shearer. He played Mr. George Wickham in the BBC's 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice''. He also appeared in ITV's one-off drama '' Back Home'' and in the BBC rural drama series '' Down to Earth''. He had previously appeared in '' The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'' (as Bennett i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Ahmadi
Zahra Ahmadi (; born 1982) is a British actress from Plymouth, England of Persian descent. She is best known for playing the original Shabnam Masood in ''EastEnders''. Career She is known for her role as Shabnam Masood in the British television series ''EastEnders'' from 2007–2008. In 2008, she appeared on an EastEnders-themed episode of ''The Weakest Link'' where she was voted off in the seventh round. She played Sabia in '' Britz'' following which she played Nasreen in ''King of Hearts'' at the Hampstead Theatre. She appears in the IFC series '' The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret'' and also appeared in the 2010 film '' Tamara Drewe''. In 2013 she appeared in a small role in ''Doctor Who'' episode " Nightmare in Silver", and in 2014 she portrayed the role of Gita in the feature-length Christmas special of '' Black Mirror'' entitled " White Christmas". From 2013 to 2017, she played Sinem in all three series of the BBC Two BBC Two is a British free-to-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |