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Jack Bannon (English Actor)
Jack Bannon is an English actor, known for his roles as Sam Thursday on the ITV drama series '' Endeavour'' (from 2013) and as Alfred Pennyworth on the Epix crime drama series '' Pennyworth'' (2019–2022). Early life and education Jack Bannon grew up in Norwich. He completed high school at Notre Dame High School before attending the arts course at the Theatre Royal. Career In 2014 Bannon played Christopher Morcom, the best friend of Alan Turing (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), in the feature film ''The Imitation Game''. In the same year, he featured in the American-British war film '' Fury''. He became widely known after he took the role of Sam Thursday on the ITV drama series '' Endeavour'' in 2013. He has also featured in the TV series ''Ripper Street'' (2012), '' The Loch'' (2017), and ''Clique'' (2017). Bannon plays Alfred Pennyworth on the Epix crime drama series '' Pennyworth'' (2019–2022). He plays Lukas, the new partner to Lena Olin's Detective Hulda Herm ...
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Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019. The wider Norwich List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, built-up area had a population of 213,166 at the 2011 census. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of Norwich, the city has one of the country's largest medieval cathedrals. For much of the second millennium, from medieval to just before Industrial Revolution, industrial times, Norwich was one of the most prosperous and largest towns of England; at one point, it was List of towns and cities in England by historical population, second only to London. Today, it is the largest settlement in East Anglia. Heritage and status Norwich claims to be the most complete medie ...
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The Darkness (TV Series)
''The Darkness'' is a 2024 Nordic noir television series. The Icelandic / American co-production is based on the Ragnar Jónasson novel of the same name. It is directed by Lasse Hallström and stars Lena Olin. Plot Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is given a shocking new murder case, on the cusp of early retirement. Some hikers have discovered the frozen body of a young woman in a glacier. Her new partner assigned to the case, Lukas, has recently arrived from England. Hermannsdóttir is haunted by the suicide of her daughter a year previously, which has also caused tensions in her marriage to Jon, as she is unable or unwilling to talk about it. There is also reference to her own childhood trauma. Her neighbour, Petur, is a widower whose dog regularly wanders over to her house, and she strikes up a friendship with him. Cast * Lena Olin as Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir * Jack Bannon as Lukas, Hermannsdóttir new partner * Douglas Henshall as Petur, Herman ...
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Hampstead Theatre
Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in South Hampstead, in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. History The original ''Hampstead Theatre Club'' was created in 1959, in Moreland Hall, a parish church school hall in Holly Bush Vale, Hampstead Village. James Roose-Evans was the founder and first Artistic Director, and the 1959–1960 season included ''The Dumb Waiter'' and '' The Room'' by Harold Pinter, Eugène Ionesco's ''Jacques'' and ''The Sport of My Mad Mother'' by Ann Jellicoe. In 1962, the company moved to a portable cabin in Swiss Cottage where it remained for nearly 40 years, before, in 2003, the new purpose-built Hampstead Theatre opened in Swiss Cottage. The main auditorium seats 373 people. The studio theatre, Hampstead Downstairs, seats up to 100 people and was turned into a laboratory for new writing in 2010. In 2022, Arts Council England removed the theatre's ...
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Finborough Theatre
The Finborough Theatre is a fifty-seat theatre in the West Brompton area of London (part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) under artistic director Neil McPherson. The theatre presents new British writing, as well as UK and world premieres of new plays primarily from the English speaking world including North America, Canada, Ireland, and Scotland including work in the Scots language, alongside rarely seen rediscovered 19th and 20th century plays. The venue also presents new and rediscovered music theatre. The Finborough Arms The Finborough Arms was built in 1868 to a design by George Godwin and his younger brother Henry. It was one of five public houses built by Corbett and McClymont in the Earls Court area during the West London development boom of the 1860s. The pub opened in 1871. The ground floor and basement of the building was converted into The Finborough Road Brasserie from 2008 to 2010 and The Finborough Wine Cafe from 2010 to 2012. The pub reopened u ...
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Majorna
Majorna () is a residential area in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is a part of the borough Majorna-Linné. It is located west of the city just outside the city centre, with Göta älv in the north, Masthugget and Slottsskogen in the east, Högsbo in the south and Älvsborg in the west. History Majorna is an old area, originating from the times of the Älvsborg fortress before the foundation of Gothenburg in 1621. After the foundation of the city of Gothenburg, Majorna housed wharfs and other harbour-related business. It became a part of the city in 1868, prior to this it had been owned by the city's police authority, but it belonged to Örgryte parish. After including Majornas in Gothenburg, the population of the city exceeded 50,000. In the beginning of the 1900s, Majorna got its first tram line. It went over a hill known as Stigbergsliden, continued along Karl Johansgatan, all the way to the end station at Slottskogsgatan. This meant that the population of Majorna became less i ...
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Gothenburg English Studio Theatre
The Gothenburg English Studio Theatre (GEST) is a professional English-language theatre company in Gothenburg, Sweden. Overview The GEST was created in 2005 by Swedish actress Kristina Brändén Whitaker and English actor Gary Whitaker, a married couple who previously lived and worked in London, where they worked in theatre; they also write and direct with the GEST. The company has been headquartered in Gothenburg's Majorna district since 2012. It works with actors and directors from Sweden and Britain to stage English-language productions, and is currently the only one of its kind in west Sweden. It is a non-profit theatre working both in Sweden and abroad. In 2010, the GEST participated in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was awarded the Fringe Review Award for Outstanding Theatre for its production of Kristina's play ''Expectations''. In 2015, Scenkonstgalan awarded the GEST with the Årets Katharsis prize for its production of Nick Payne's play ''Constellations''. In 2020, ...
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Pulse (2025 TV Series)
''Pulse'' is an American medical drama television series created by Zoe Robyn. It premiered on Netflix on April 3, 2025, as the first Netflix original English-language medical drama. The series received mixed reviews. Synopsis ''Pulse'' is a hospital drama series that follows the personal and professional lives of emergency and surgical residents at Maguire Hospital, a level-one trauma center in Miami during the race for Emergency Medicine Chief Resident. It shows the aftermath of a sexual harassment complaint while the city is hit with a hurricane and an influx of patients. Cast * Willa Fitzgerald as Danielle “Danny” Simms, a third-year resident in Emergency Medicine at Maguire Hospital in Miami, Harper's older sister. She has deep empathy but can be brash and impulsive. She had a romantic relationship with Xander, however, after a series of circumstances, they broke up, and she reported him to HR for sexual harassment * Colin Woodell as Xander Phillips, Chief Resident of ...
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Lukas
Lukas is an English form of the Greek name Λουκάς, which is Romanized as Loukas. Popularity In 2013, with the alternative spelling of Lucas, it was the ninth most popular name for boys in Australia. Meaning and different spellings *Amharic - Luqas (ሉቃስ) *Arabic - Luqa () / Luqas () *Armenian - Ղուկաս, Ghukas * Croatian / Serbian / Slovenian - Luka (Лука) *Czech - Lukáš *Dutch - Lucas / Lukas / Luca * English - Luke / Lucas / Lukas *Estonian - Luukas * Finnish - Luukas * French - Luc / Lukas * Georgian - ლუკა *German - Lukas *Greek - Loukas (Λουκάς) - Ancient Greek (Λουκᾶς) * Hungarian - Lukács / Lúkas / Lúkasz * Icelandic - Lúkas * Indonesian - Lukas, Lucas * Irish: Lúc, Lúcás *Italian - Luca *Latin - Lucas (from the verb "lucere") * Latvian - Lūkass * Lithuanian - Lukas * Norwegian / Swedish / Danish - Lucas / Lukas *Anglo-Saxon - Lukas *Polish - Łukasz * Portuguese - Lucas *Russian - Лукьян / Лука * Slovak - Luk ...
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Medici (TV Series)
''Medici'' () is a historical drama television series created by Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer. The series was produced by Italian companies Lux Vide and Rai Fiction, in collaboration with Spotnitz's Big light productions, Big Light Productions. The series follows the House of Medici, bankers of the Pope, in History_of_Florence#Renaissance, 15th-century Florence. Each season follows the events of a particular moment of the family's history exploring the political and artistic landscape of Italian Renaissance, Renaissance Italy. The first season of the series, titled ''Medici: Masters of Florence'', premiered in Italy on Rai 1 on 18 October 2016. It takes place in 1429, the year Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Giovanni de' Medici, head of the family, died. His son Cosimo de' Medici, Cosimo succeeds him as head of the family bank, the richest in Europe at the time, and fights to preserve his power in Florence. The series reached between four and eight million viewers on original ...
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