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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] |
Miles Jupp
Miles Hugh Barrett Jupp (born 8 September 1979) is an English actor and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian before playing the role of the inventor Archie in the children's television series ''Balamory''. He also played John Duggan in ''The Thick of It,'' Nigel in the sitcom '' Rev'', and appeared on many comedy panel shows. Between 2015 and 2019, Jupp was the host of '' The News Quiz'' on BBC Radio 4, replacing Sandi Toksvig. Early life Jupp was born in 1979 in London and spent his early childhood in West Hampstead. He is the son of a minister in the United Reformed Church. For much of his life, Jupp believed he was of Belgian stock, descended from 16th-century Huguenot immigrants. However, while creating a programme for BBC Radio 4 in 2015, he discovered his roots are actually in Sussex. Jupp attended three independent schools: The Hall School in Hampstead, North London; St George's School in Windsor; and Oakham School in Rutland. He studied Divinity at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemima Rooper
Jemima Rooper (born 24 October 1981) is an English actress. Having started as a child actress in television series, she has appeared in numerous film and theatre roles. Early life Born in Hammersmith, London, Rooper is the daughter of TV journalist Alison Rooper. She attended Redcliffe Gardens School in Chelsea and the Godolphin and Latymer School. While working on '' The Famous Five'', she passed eight GCSEs with A* and A grades. From there she went to MPW sixth form college where she got three A-grade A levels. Rooper bought her first home at the age of 19. Career Rooper expressed a wish to be an actress at the age of nine and contacted an agent. Her first professional roles were in the 1993 film '' The Higher Mortals'' and the 1994 film '' Willie's War''. In 1996, she appeared in all episodes as George in Enid Blyton's ''The Famous Five''. She said: After several small roles in British TV series, Jemima took the role of Nicki Sutton in the popular Channel 4 teenage s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Madeley
Ruth Madeley (born 4 August 1987) is a British actress known for her roles in '' Years and Years'', '' The Rook'' and ''Doctor Who''. She was born with spina bifida and has worked with the charity Whizz-Kidz for much of her life. She was nominated for a television BAFTA in 2016 for her work in ''Don't Take My Baby''. Early life Madeley was born in Westhoughton, and was diagnosed with spina bifida six weeks before she was born. She has an older sister named Liz. Her father worked in customer services and her mother was a nurse. When Madeley was 5 years old, the charity Whizz-Kidz provided funding for a custom wheelchair for her. Madeley actively volunteered for Whizz-Kidz throughout her childhood and was part of the Kidz Board youth panel. As part of her work with Whizz-Kidz, at age 13, she visited Cherie Blair at 10 Downing Street to discuss fundraising and awareness. At age 14, she received another wheelchair from the charity. At age 13, while a student at Mount St. Joseph, Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rish Shah
Rishabh Rish Shah (born 17 December 1997) is an English actor. He had his breakout role as Kamran in the Disney+ series '' Ms. Marvel'' (2022). He has also appeared in the short film '' The Long Goodbye'' (2020), the feature films '' The Sweet East'' (2023) and '' Do Revenge'' (2022), the Netflix thriller series '' Obsession'' (2023) and the Amazon Prime Video comedy-drama series '' Overcompensating'' (2025). Early life Rish Shah was born and raised in Enfield, North London. His parents are from Mumbai and Vadodara. He attended Grange Park Primary School and then Haberdashers' Boys' School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ... in English and Linguistics from King's College London. Career In 2017, Shah appeared in the Merd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douggie McMeekin
Douggie McMeekin is an English stage, television and film actor. Early life He graduated with a physics degree from the University of Nottingham. As a student he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the National Student Drama Festival where he won the Judges Award for Acting in 2011. He later trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Career Theatre He made his professional stage debut as one of the Lost Boys in Ella Hickson’s ''Wendy & Peter Pan'' at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2015. His theatre roles have also included Nina Raine’s ''Bach & Sons'' at The Bridge Theatre in 2021. In April 2018, he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Awards for his performance as Snug the Joiner in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at the Young Vic. Film & Television In 2017, he played Sunny Blandford in ''The Crown''. The following year he played Charles Quigley in historical drama '' Harlots''. He later played Aleksandr Yuvchenko in historical drama ''Chernobyl''. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Bruccoleri
Ella May Bruccoleri is a British actress. On television, she is known for her role as Sister Frances in the ''BBC One'' drama ''Call the Midwife'' (2018–2022). Early life Bruccoleri was born to an Italian family and grew up in Scarborough. She graduated from the Oxford School of Drama in 2017. Career Her television roles have included ''Call the Midwife'', in which she played Sister Frances between 2018 and 2022 and Winifred Barragan in ''Bridgerton''. She also had roles in television series '' Back to Life'', '' The Chelsea Detective'', and '' Hotel Portofino''. In 2023, she appeared as Rebecca in comedy super power series ''Extraordinary'' for ''Disney+''. Later that year she was cast in ''Channel 4'' romantic drama series ''Alice & Jack''. In 2024, she appeared in ITV drama ''Passenger'', BBC One mystery crime series ''Ludwig'', and ''Bookish''. Her film roles have included '' Polite Society'', ''Joy'', and '' The Strangers: Chapter 1''. In 2024, she was cast in a lead ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Moodie
Tanya Moodie (born 16 April 1972) is a British-Canadian actor and producer, best known for her work on ''Motherland'', ''Silo'', and her many stage credits, which include productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, the National Theatre and the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris. Early life and education Tanya Moodie was born on 16 April 1972 in Ottawa, Canada, to Jamaican parents. She moved to England at the age of 17, when she was offered a place at RADA, where she was later employed as an associate teacher and council member. Career Moodie's first television role was in the comedy '' So Haunt Me'' in 1994, followed by a starring role as Hunter in Neil Gaiman's 1996 fantasy mini-series ''Neverwhere'' (1996). She featured in guest roles in various series in the 2000s, and in 2008–9 had a regular role in Irish medical drama '' The Clinic''. She also played the role of John Watson's therapist Ella Thompson in '' Sherlock''. In 2016 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Murphy (actress)
Charlotte Murphy (born ) is an Irish actress, best known for her role as Ann Gallagher in the BBC series '' Happy Valley'' (2014–2023). Early life Murphy was born in Enniscorthy, the daughter of hair salon owners Brenda and Pat Murphy. She has five siblings. The family moved to Wexford when she was 12 years old. She trained at the Gaiety School of Acting from 2006 to 2008. Career Murphy has worked across theatre, television and film. She performed the role of Siobhán Delaney in the RTÉ drama series '' Love/Hate'', for which she won Best TV Actress at the 2013 Irish Film and Television Award, and Best Actress in a Lead Role at the 2015 Irish Film and Television Awards. She won a further two IFTA Awards in 2017, for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Ann Gallagher in the BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's oldest and flagship channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Scanlan
Joanna Marion Scanlan (born 27 October 1961) is a British actress and writer. On television, she is known for her roles in ''The Thick of It'' (2005–2012), ''Big School'' (2013–2014), ''Puppy Love'' (2014), '' No Offence'' (2015–2018), ''Requiem'' (2018), and ''The Larkins'' (2021). She was nominated for three BAFTA TV Awards for ''Getting On'' (2009–2012), including two for Best Writing. Scanlan's film appearances include '' Girl with a Pearl Earring'' (2003), '' Notes on a Scandal'' (2006), '' The Invisible Woman'' (2013), and '' Bridget Jones's Baby'' (2016). Her performance in the film '' After Love'' (2020) won her the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, making her the first performer since 2003 to win such award without being nominated for the corresponding Oscar. Early life Scanlan was born on 27 October 1961 in West Kirby, then in Cheshire, the daughter of hoteliers Michael and Patricia Scanlan. Although born in England, her family comes from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
