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Joy (2024 Film)
''Joy'' is a 2024 British biographical drama film starring Bill Nighy, Thomasin McKenzie and James Norton. Directed by Ben Taylor from a screenplay by Jack Thorne, it is the true story of the world's first in vitro fertilisation baby Louise Brown. It was produced by Wildgaze and Pathé for Netflix. Based on real events in the 1960s and 1970s, nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy, visionary scientist Dr Robert Edwards and innovative surgeon Patrick Steptoe work to develop the first 'test tube baby'. The film was released on Netflix worldwide on 22 November 2024. Plot In 1968, Nurse Jean Purdy gets hired at the University of Cambridge for a lab manager post, by scientist Dr Robert Edwards. Together, they recruit innovative obstretician and surgeon Patrick Steptoe to join them in reproduction research, in an effort to combat infertility in women. Robert hopes to create a procedure which develops into in vitro fertilisation. Patrick reminds them that the government, churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne FRSL (born 6 December 1978) is a British playwright, television writer, screenwriter, and producer. A massive fan of hard science fiction, he is best known for writing the stage play '' Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'', the films '' Wonder'' (2017), '' Enola Holmes'' (2020) and the latter's sequel (2022), and the television programme ''His Dark Materials'' (2019–2022). Between 2010 and 2015, Thorne co-wrote three mini-series – '' This Is England '86'', '' This Is England '88'' and '' This Is England '90'' – with director Shane Meadows. Thorne's two 2025 mini-series, '' Toxic Town'' and ''Adolescence'', were released on Netflix to widespread critical acclaim. Early life Thorne was born in Bristol on 6 December 1978. He was educated at St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, Berkshire, and matriculated in 1998 at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was forced to "degrade" (drop out to return at a later date) due to ill health in his third year, but returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is part of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its Masthead (British publishing), masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the ''Sunday Mirror''. Unlike other major British tabloids such as ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun'' and the ''Daily Mail'', the ''Mirror'' has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the ''Daily Record (Scotland), Daily Record'' and the ''Sunday Mail (Scotland), Sunday Mail'', which incorporate certain stories from the ''Mirror'' that are of Scottish significance. The ''Mirror'' publishes an Irish edition, the ''Irish Mirror''. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Fairn
Emily Fairn (born 16 September 1998) is an English actress who has appeared on television, stage and in film. Early life From Liverpool, Fairn graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2020. Career Fairn made her debut television role as Casey in BBC One police drama ''The Responder'' starring Martin Freeman, and broadcast in January 2022. The series was well-received and a second series was commissioned with a start of filming date set for late 2023. She appeared as Frida in an episode of the BBC One dark comedy series ''Rain Dogs'' starring Daisy May Cooper. She has a role in the episode ''Demon 79'' from the sixth series of ''Black Mirror'' on Netflix. On stage, Fairn appeared in 2023 in the West End alongside Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist in a production of ''Brokeback Mountain'' at the SoHo Place Theatre, featuring a musical performance by a band led by Eddi Reader. Fairn appears as Hedges' wife Alma and Nick Curtis in the ''Evening Standard'' said she sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
