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Ice Cream Girls
''The Ice Cream Girls'' is a three-part British television crime drama, first broadcast in 2013, based on the bestselling novel by Dorothy Koomson. The story follows two vulnerable teenage girls, Serena Gorringe (Lorraine Burroughs) and Poppy Carlisle (Jodhi May), who in the summer of 1995, are accused of murdering their schoolteacher, Marcus Hansley (Martin Compston) after becoming involved in a tryst of violence and sexual abuse. Although Serena is acquitted, Poppy is convicted of murder. In the following years, the two girls lead very different lives - Poppy's family rebuff her, leaving her to serve her prison sentence alone. Serena, however, finds love with university sweetheart Evan (Nicholas Pinnock) and has a daughter, Verity (Dominique Jackson (British actress), Dominique Jackson). But seventeen years later, Poppy and Serena are unexpectedly reunited, and they are forced to confront each other and reveal the truth behind their dark, shared history.The Arts Deskwww.thearts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Bank Pictures
Left Bank Pictures Ltd. (stylised as LEFT BANK Pictures) is a British film and television production company owned by Sony Pictures Television through its International Production division. It was formed in 2007 and was the first British media company to receive investment from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. Left Bank Pictures' productions include the television series ''Wallander'', '' Strike Back'', '' DCI Banks'' and '' Outlander''. Their production ''The Crown'' is the first British-American television series produced exclusively for Netflix. The series' first season was released on 4 November 2016. History Left Bank Pictures was founded in 2007 by Andy Harries, formerly controller of drama, comedy and film at Granada Productions, Francis Hopkinson and Marigo Kehoe. The company was the first British media company to receive equity investment from BBC Worldwide, the commercial venture of the BBC. BBC Worldwide took a 25% stake, worth £1 million, in Left B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010s British Drama Television Series
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2013 British Television Series Endings
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Michael McElhatton
Michael McElhatton (born 12 September 1963) is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for playing the role of Roose Bolton in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'' from the second to the sixth season (2012–2016). Other credits include '' I Went Down'' (1997), '' Paths to Freedom'' (2000), '' Saltwater'' (2000), '' Blow Dry'' (2001), '' The Actors'' (2003), '' Spin the Bottle'' (2003), '' Perrier's Bounty'' (2009), '' Albert Nobbs'' (2011), '' Death of a Superhero'' (2011), ''Pentecost'' (2012), '' The Fall'' (2013), '' The Hallow'' (2015), '' The Zookeeper's Wife'' (2017), '' Chernobyl'' (2019), ''Das Boot'' (2020), '' The Alienist: Angel of Darkness'' (2020), ''The Wheel of Time'' (2021), '' Jack Ryan'' (2022) and '' The Long Shadow'' (2023). Early life McElhatton was born on 12 September 1963 in Terenure, a suburb in the south of Dublin. He began studying acting at Terenure College, a school known for its drama tradition, and afterward spent eight years in London where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Roe (actor)
Owen Roe (born 30 May 1959) is an Irish stage, film, and television actor. He performed as a satirist on Irish radio. He is also a playwright and has worked as a theatrical director. Early life Roe was born in Dublin in 1959. Career Roe studied at the Oscar School of Acting and the Brendan Smith Academy in the late 1970s. Roe has been a prolific stage actor for decades. He won an Irish Theatre Award for playing Claudius in ''Hamlet''. He also won a Special Tribute Award at ''The Irish Times'' Theatre Awards 2019. He also wrote one play, ''Fear of Feathers'', staged at the Andrews Lane Theatre in 1991. On TV, Roe has appeared on '' Scarlett'', '' The Ambassador'', ''Ballykissangel'', '' Rásaà na Gaillimhe'', ''Penny Dreadful'', ''Vikings'' and ''Fair City''., and as Oliver Cromwell in The History Channel Documentary "Cromwell: God's Executioner" based on the book by Professor Micheál Ó Siochrà He has appeared in several films, mostly made in Ireland, including '' Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Powell
Sara Powell (born 23 June 1968) is a British-Jamaican stage, screen and voice-over actress and audiobook narrator. Her regular television roles include crown prosecutor Rachel Barker in the BBC's police procedural drama ''HolbyBlue'' (2007–2008), driver Sally Reid in ITV's firefighting drama ''London's Burning'' (1993–1994) and psychologist Cass in Channel 4's sitcom '' Damned'' (2016–2018). She also played historical figure Mary Seacole in the thirteenth series of the BBC One long-running science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' (2021), as well as a number of other characters in its spin-off audio dramas, produced by Big Finish Productions. Early life and education Powell was born on 23 June 1968 in Jamaica. She loved acting from a very young age, making up little shows together with her brother and forcing her father and any guests at home to watch them. Sara studied Commerce (B.Com) at Birmingham University from 1986 to 1989. She studied acting at London's Royal Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doña Croll
Doña Croll (born 29 August 1953) is a Jamaican-born British actress. She is best known for her roles in soap operas, playing Pearl McHugh in Channel 5's ''Family Affairs'', Vera Corrigan in ''Doctors'', and Emerald Fox in ''EastEnders'', both on the BBC. She also played the regular role of nurse Adele Beckford in series 8 of ''Casualty'' (1993 to 1994). An experienced stage actress, Croll is known most notably as playing the first black Cleopatra on the British Stage in Talawa Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's ''Antony and Cleopatra'' in 1991. In 2013, Croll returned to the stage with Talawa Theatre Company to play the part of Kate Keller in their production of Arthur Miller's ''All My Sons'', starring alongside Don Warrington. Croll received good notices for her portrayal. ''All My Sons'' was revived by Talawa Theatre Company in 2015, and Croll reprised her role of Kate Keller, again receiving good notices for her portrayal of "a woman clutching de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Kiera Clarke
Kathy Kiera Clarke (possibly Keira) is a Northern Irish actress. She is best known for her role as Aunt Sarah in ''Derry Girls''. Career Film and television In 1993, Clarke featured prominently in the music video " For Tomorrow" for the British band Blur. Clarke's first television role was as Bernadette Brennan in '' Head over Heels'' in 1993. In 1995, she appeared in an episode of ''Chandler & Co'' as Poppy Farquhar. She appeared as Rosemary in the 1996 film '' Eskimo Day.'' In 2000, she played Rosie in the film ''The Most Fertile Man in Ireland'' and a production assistant in the film '' Wild About Harry''. She also played Anna Le Page in the television series, '' Take a Girl Like You''. In 2002, Clarke played Frances in ''Bloody Sunday''. In 2003, she played Nicola Blyth in the film ''Solid Air''. In 2004, Clarke appeared as Una in the comedy series ''Pulling Moves''. She played Elizabeth Gibson in the film ''Omagh'' and played Jenifer Gaghan in two episodes of ''Silent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
