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Deep Cover (2025 Film)
''Deep Cover'' is a 2025 British action comedy film starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed as improv actors recruited by the police for undercover operations in the London criminal underworld, where they must use their skills to infiltrate a gang. Paddy Considine, Ian McShane and Sean Bean appear in supporting roles. The film was directed by Tom Kingsley and written by Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly, Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen. ''Deep Cover'' was released worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on 12 June 2025. Plot Kat Boyles, a struggling stand-up comedian and improv teacher in London, is approached by Detective Sergeant Graham Billings of the Metropolitan Police to recruit actors for low-level sting operations. She enlists two students—Marlon Swift, an aspiring actor, and Hugh, a socially awkward IT worker—to form a trio. The group is sent to investigate a shop selling counterfeit cigarettes, which leads them to Fly, a mid-level criminal dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Kingsley
Tom Kingsley is an English television and film director. He is best known for directing the three-time BAFTA-winning Channel 4 sitcom ''Stath Lets Flats'' (2018-2021), and the comedy series ''Ghosts'' (2019-2023). His debut feature film, '' Black Pond'' (2011), co-directed with Will Sharpe, was nominated for several awards. Including a BAFTA for Best British Debut. Early life and education Tom Kingsley was educated at Eton College, a boarding independent school for boys in Eton in Berkshire, followed by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied English. He was a member of the comedy group Footlights at Cambridge, directing the Footlights Revue "Wham Bam" at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe. Career In 2008, Kingsley worked as a runner at Blink, the Soho-based production company, after sending them a DVD containing several of his short films. Over the next year, he began directing music videos and commercials. In 2011 Kingsley and Will Sharpe released their low-budget f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Improvisational Theatre
Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv or impro in British English, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers. In its purest form, the dialogue, action, story, and characters are created collaboratively by the players as the improvisation unfolds in present time, without use of an already prepared, written Play (theatre), script. Improvisational theatre exists in performance as a range of styles of improvisational comedy as well as some non-comedic theatrical performances. It is sometimes used in film and television, both to develop characters and scripts and occasionally as part of the final product. Improvisational techniques are often used extensively in drama programs to train actors for stage, film, and television and can be an important part of the rehearsal process. However, the skills and processes of improvisation are also used outside the conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Photography
Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as the actors, director, cinematographer(s) or sound engineer(s) and their respective assistants ( assistant director, camera assistant, boom operator), the unit production manager plays a decisive role in principal photography. They are responsible for the daily implementation of the shoot, managing the daily call sheet, the location barriers, transportation, and catering. Additional typical roles during filming include the script supervisor to record changes to the script and the still photographer to produce images for advertising and documentation. Several reports are prepared each day to track the progress of a film production, including the daily production report, the daily progress report, and the sound report. Process Prepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Rufus Green
Ben Rufus Green is an actor and comedian from Canterbury, Kent, England, known for playing David in '' The Cockfields'', Shane in ''Dinosaur,'' and his own sketch comedy videos online, under the alias ''greensville''. Green has been writing and acting in sketches since 2006. He has also appeared in a number of television programmes including regular or recurring roles on ''EastEnders'', '' Small World'' and ''Deaf Funny''. He hosts a weekly live stream on his Twitch and YouTube channels called "Washing Up Club" where he chats and jokes with his audience whilst doing the washing up. Early life Green received his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Media Drama in 1998 with Honours from the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales). He served in the British Territorial Army for one year. Career In 2009, Green won the YOBI Laugh contest from YOBI.tv's first season for his entry "Punch Me I Won't Sue". He won $10,000 USD and tickets for two to the premiere of ''The Informa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Wix
Katy Victoria J Wix (born 28 February 1980) is a Welsh actress, writer, author and artist. Her television roles include Carole in '' Stath Lets Flats,'' Mary in ''Ghosts'', Barbara in ''Ted Lasso'', and Jules in '' Big Boys''. She has also appeared as a series contestant on '' Taskmaster'' and as a recurring character in the science fiction mini-series '' Torchwood: Children of Earth'' in 2009. She has written two series of her own: a sitcom for BBC Radio 4, '' Bird Island'' and a sketch show for Channel 4, '' Anna & Katy''. In 2017, her painting was chosen for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. She has written two books of monologues and in 2021 she published her first memoir, ''Delicacy''. Early life Wix was born in Pontypridd and raised in Peterston-super-Ely, near Cardiff. Her mother and father both went to drama school and worked as actors before transitioning into careers in, respectively, arts administration and stage management. Her brother is a musician. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susannah Fielding
Susannah Glanville-Hearson,"Drama: High profile OB actors" ''The Blue'' ( Christ's Hospital). 2011. p. 55. Retrieved 19 July 2014. known professionally as Susannah Fielding, is an English . She won the 2014 Ian Charleson Award for her portrayal of Portia in '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Duker
Sophie Duker (born 1989/1990) is a British stand-up comedian and writer. Early life Duker was born in London to first-generation immigrants from West Africa. Her mother is from Cameroon and her father is from Ghana. She attended North London Collegiate School until 2008 before studying French and English at Wadham College, Oxford. She joined the Oxford Imps in her first year at university. Career An alumna of the Pleasance Comedy Reserve, Duker was shortlisted for the Funny Women award in 2015. She founded and hosted the "Manic Pixie Dream Girls" show as part of Edinburgh's Free Festival in 2016 and 2017. She has written for the ''Huffington Post'' and she was an assistant producer for '' Frankie Boyle's New World Order'' and a researcher for ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown''. In 2019, she appeared on ''8 Out of 10 Cats'', '' Frankie Boyle's New World Order'', '' Dave Gorman: Terms and Conditions Apply'', and ''Mock the Week'', and in 2020 in ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omid Djalili
Omid Djalili (; born 30 September 1965) is a British comedian, actor, and writer. Early life and education Djalili was born on 30 September 1965 in St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington, London, to Iranian Baháʼí parents Ahmad and Parvaneh Djalili. His parents emigrated from Tehran to London in 1958. He has a brother and sister. His mother was a dressmaker who at one point assisted Iranian singer Googoosh. His father was a liaison officer at the Iranian embassy in which he would provide medical assistance. He was also a photographer whose pictures ended up in the newspaper '' Kayhan''. He attended Holland Park School where he failed A-level exams a record six times and faked his results to gain entry to Ulster University in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, studying English and theatre studies having been turned down by 16 drama schools. Djalili cited Jack Lemmon, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Julia Roberts as influences. Comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pin (comedy Act)
The Pin is the comedy writing and acting partnership of Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen. They co-wrote and performed in the Amazon MGM Studios film, ''Deep Cover,'' which played at SXSW London and Tribeca Festival 2025 before being released on Amazon Prime. They also wrote and starred in ''The Comeback'' in London’s West End, and recorded multi award winning BBC Radio 4 sketch show ''The Pin'' from 2015 to 2019. Background The double act met at the University of Cambridge, where they joined the Cambridge Footlights. Whilst members, they co-wrote and performed the sketch show ‘Good Clean Men’ with Joey Batey, Joe Bannister, Mark Fiddaman and Simon Haines, and they co-wrote and performed in two Footlights international tour shows: 2010's 'Good For You,' directed by Liam Williams and Daran Johnson, and 2011's 'Pretty Little Panic' directed by Keith Akushie and James Moran. They were also the satire editors of Varsity newspaper. 'The Pin' was originally the title of a sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector
Inspector, also police inspector or inspector of police, is a police rank. The rank or position varies in seniority depending on the organization that uses it. Australia The rank of Inspector is present in all Australian police forces except for the Northern Territory. Where it exists, it is generally the next senior rank from Senior Sergeant, and is the lowest commissioned rank. Uniformed officers of this rank wear epaulettes with three pips, matching a Captain in the army. In addition to the general rank of inspector, some police forces use other ranks such as detective inspector and district inspector. Austria In Austria a similar scheme was used as in Germany. At some point the police inspector was completely removed from the list of service ranks. The current police service has an inspectors service track with ''Inspektor'' being the entry level – it is followed by ''Revierinspektor'' (precinct inspector), ''Gruppeninspektor'' (group inspector), ''Bezirksinspektor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergeant
Sergeant (Sgt) is a Military rank, rank in use by the armed forces of many countries. It is also a police rank in some police services. The alternative spelling, ''serjeant'', is used in The Rifles and in other units that draw their heritage from the British light infantry. The word "sergeant" derives from the Latin , 'one who serves', through the Old French term . In modern hierarchies the term ''sergeant'' refers to a non-commissioned officer positioned above the rank of a corporal, and to a police officer immediately below a lieutenant in the US, and below an inspector in the UK. In most armies, the rank of sergeant corresponds to command of a team/section (military unit), section, or squad. In Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth armies, it is a more senior rank, corresponding roughly to a platoon second-in-command. In the United States Army, sergeant is a more junior rank corresponding to a fireteam leader or assistant squad-leader; while in the United States Marine Corps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonoya Mizuno
Sonoya Mizuno (born 1 July 1986) is a Japanese-born English actress. She is known for her roles in the Netflix series ''Maniac (miniseries), Maniac'' (2018), the HBO series ''House of the Dragon'' (2022–present), the FX on Hulu, FX miniseries ''Devs (TV series), Devs'' (2020) and the film ''Crazy Rich Asians (film), Crazy Rich Asians'' (2018). Early life Sonoya Mizuno was born in Tokyo on 1 July 1986, the daughter of an mother and Japanese father. The family later moved to England, where she grew up in Somerset. She graduated from the Royal Ballet School before dancing with several ballet companies, including Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Ballet Ireland, New English Ballet Theatre, and Scottish Ballet. Career Mizuno took up professional modelling at age 20 with Profile Models in London. She has modelled for Chanel, Alexander McQueen (brand), Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent (brand), Saint Laurent, and Louis Vuitton. In 2014, she appeared in Arthur Pita's work of dance th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
