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Dodger (TV Series)
''Dodger'' is a British family comedy drama series, inspired by the Artful Dodger from the novel ''Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. The series serves as a prequel to the events of ''Oliver Twist''. The first 10 episodes launched on 9 February 2022, on BBC iPlayer and were repeated on BBC One. Series One was followed by three specials, ‘Train’ in November 2022, ‘Christmas’ in December 2022 and ‘Bad Egg’ on Easter Saturday 2023 on BBC One. The series cast was led by Christopher Eccleston as Fagin and Billy Jenkins as Dodger. Following a BAFTA, RTS and Writer's Guild Award, a Christmas Special for 2023 was commissioned by the BBC. Premise Set in 1830s Victorian London, the series revolves around Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, and his exploits as part of Fagin's gang, prior to his introduction in ''Oliver Twist''. Cast Main * Billy Jenkins as Jack Dawkins/Dodger * Christopher Eccleston as Fagin * Aabay Ali as Charley Bates * Ellie-May Sheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Threlfall
David John Threlfall (born 12 October 1953) is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series '' Shameless''. He has also directed several episodes of the show. In April 2014, he portrayed comedian Tommy Cooper in a television film entitled '' Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This''. In 2014, he starred alongside Jude Law in the thriller ''Black Sea''. In 2024 he played Paul Peveril in the six-part BBC drama '' Nightsleeper''. For his role in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1980, which was followed by a second nomination in the Best Actor category in 2006 for ''Someone Who'll Watch Over Me''. His role in ''Paradise Postponed'' (1986) earned Threlfall a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. In 2022, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance in the Martin M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren ( ; ; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as Attorney General of New York, New York's attorney general and United States Senator, U.S. senator, then briefly as the ninth governor of New York before joining Andrew Jackson's administration as the tenth United States secretary of state, minister to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, and ultimately the eighth vice president of the United States, vice president from 1833 to 1837, after being elected on Jackson's ticket in 1832 United States presidential election, 1832. Van Buren won the presidency in 1836 United States presidential election, 1836 against divided Whig opponents. He lost re-election in 1840 United States presidential election, 1840, and failed to win the Democratic nomination in 1844 United States presidential el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Stephens
Toby Stephens (born 21 April 1969) is an English actor who has appeared in films in the United Kingdom, United States, and India. He is known for the roles of Bond villain Gustav Graves in the 2002 James Bond film '' Die Another Day'', for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor; William Gordon in the 2005 '' Mangal Pandey: The Rising'' film; and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the 2006 BBC television adaptation of '' Jane Eyre''. From 2014 to 2017, he starred as Captain Flint in the Starz television series '' Black Sails'', followed by one of the lead roles in the Netflix science fiction series '' Lost in Space'' from 2018 to 2021. He has starred as the Greek God Poseidon in '' Percy Jackson and the Olympians''. Early life and education Stephens, the younger son of actors Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Robert Stephens, was born on 21 April 1969 in London. He was educated at Aldro School and Seaford College in West Sussex. He then trained at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Coughlan
Nicola Mary Coughlan (; born 9 January 1987) is an Irish actress. She is known for her roles as Clare Devlin in Channel 4's sitcom '' Derry Girls'' (2018–2022) and Penelope Featherington in Netflix's ''Bridgerton'' (2020–present). She earned a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for playing the lead role of Penelope Featherington in the third season of ''Bridgerton''. Coughlan earned a British Academy Television Awards nomination for her role as Maggie Donovan in ''Big Mood'' (2024–present). Early life Coughlan was born on 9 January 1987 in Galway, Ireland, and grew up in nearby Oranmore. The youngest of four siblings, her father served in the Irish Army before passing away in 2017, and her mother was a stay-at-home parent. At the age of five, while watching her sister perform in a school play, Coughlan decided she wanted to become an actress. She attended Scoil Mhuire Primary School and Calasanctius College. She graduated with a degree in English and Classical Civi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Way
Tony Paul Way (born 7 October 1978) is an English actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for playing characters in a number of British comedy TV series including '' Extras'', '' After Life'', ''Black Books'' and ''Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer'', as well as comedy movies including ''Sightseers'' and ''Ali G Indahouse''. He has since moved into drama, appearing as Plague in ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', Dontos Hollard in HBO's ''Game of Thrones'', and Thomas Nashe in ''Anonymous''. Early life Way was born in Rochford, Essex and grew up in Wickford, Essex. Career Way started his career in comedy and acting at the age of 17 when he, Rhys Thomas, Stephen Burge, and Glynne Wiley started making comedy videos as sketch group Stay Alive Pepi while at college. The videos were noticed by Bob Mortimer and Charlie Higson, who gave Way his first television appearances in a sketch on ''The Fast Show'' and in several sketches in ''Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fleet
James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is an English actor of theatre, radio and screen. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' and the dim-witted but kind-hearted Hugo Horton in the BBC sitcom television series ''The Vicar of Dibley''. Since 2020, he has played King George III in the Netflix series ''Bridgerton''. Early life Fleet was born in Bilston, West Midlands, to a Scottish mother, Christine, and an English father, Jim. He lived in Bilston, West Midlands until he was 10 but, when his father died, James moved to Aberdeenshire with his mother.James Fleet 'in his own words' http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2008/05/15/james_fleet_interview_feature.shtml He studied engineering at university in Aberdeen, where he joined the university dramatic society. Afterwards, he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Career Stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Kingston
Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston (born 11 March 1963) is an English actress. Active from the early 1980s, Kingston became noted for her television work in both Britain and the US in the 1990s, including her regular role as Elizabeth Corday, Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the NBC medical drama ''ER (TV series), ER'' (1997–2004) and her title role in the ITV (TV network), ITV miniseries ''The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders'' (1996), which earned her a British Academy Television Awards, BAFTA nomination for British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, Best Actress. Kingston's later credits include the recurring role of River Song (Doctor Who), River Song in the BBC science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' (2008–2015), Bennet family#Mrs. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet in the ITV period-drama fantasy ''Lost in Austen'' (2008), List of supporting Arrow characters#Dinah Lance, Dinah Lance in The CW's superhero fiction drama series ''Arrow (TV series), Arrow'' (2013–2016), and Sarah Bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Bruce
Lorraine Bruce is a British television, film and stage actress, best known for her portrayal of Denise Simpson in all four series of the Kay Mellor BBC One series ''The Syndicate'' In 2013, she was cast in '' Lucky 7'', the U.S. version of ''The Syndicate''. Bruce trained at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. Filmography Television Film Theatre * '' Piaf'', as Toine; Donmar Warehouse/ West End transfer * ''Les Miserables'', as Madame Thenardier; West End * '' Vernon God Little'', as End Pam/Judge/Other Roles; Young Vic * ''That Day We Sang'', as Dorothy/Pauline; Manchester International Festival * ''The Rise and Fall Of Little Voice'', as Sadie Mae * ''Teechers'', as Hobby * ''Romeo & Juliet'', as Nurse; Hull Truck * '' Saucy Jack & The Space Vixens'', as Chesty Prospects; London Cast * ''Mail Order Bride'', as June * ''Get Ken Barlow'', as Leslie * ''Scuffer'', as Cathy; West Yorkshire Playhouse Video games * ''Final Fantasy XVI is a 2023 action role-pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was Kensington System, raised under close supervision by her mother and her Comptrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Reynolds
Tanya Louise Reynolds (born 4 November 1991) is an English actress. She landed her first major role as a series regular on the Sky 1 comedy-drama '' Delicious'' (2016–2019). Reynolds portrayed Lily Iglehart on the Netflix comedy-drama ''Sex Education'' (2019–2023), where she was a part of the main cast in the first three seasons. Other credits include '' Outlander'' (2017), ''Death in Paradise'' (2017), '' Emma'' (2020), '' Dodger'' (2022), '' The Baby'' (2022), '' I Hate You'' (2022), and ''The Decameron'' (2024). In 2024, she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, for her performance in the play ''A Mirror'' at the Trafalgar Theatre. Early life Reynolds was born and raised in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Her father was a builder and her mother was a sign writer. She is of half English and half Italian descent. Her first experience in acting was at the age of four in the school nativity. Reynolds attended Royal Holloway, Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert, Prince Consort
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857. Albert was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of 20, he married Victoria, his first cousin, with whom he had nine children. Initially, he felt constrained by his role as consort, which did not afford him power or responsibilities. He gradually developed a reputation for supporting public causes, such as educational reform and the abolition of slavery worldwide, and he was entrusted with running the Queen's household, office and estates. He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was a resounding success. Victoria came to depend more and mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
