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Life In Squares
''Life in Squares'' is a British television mini-series that was broadcast on BBC Two from 27 July to 10 August 2015. The title comes from Dorothy Parker's witticism that the Bloomsbury Group, whose lives it portrays, had "lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles". Plot The three-part serial centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century. Production The series was commissioned by Ben Stephenson and Lucy Richer, and produced by Ecosse Films in association with Tiger Aspect Productions. The executive producers are Lucy Bedford, Amanda Coe, Douglas Rae and Lucy Richer. Filming began in August 2014 in London and Charleston Farmhouse. Cast The main roles were played by: * Eve Best as Older ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Coe
Amanda Coe (born 1965) is an English screenwriter and novelist. Early life Coe was born in Yorkshire in 1965. Anita SethiAmanda Coe: ‘The older I get, the more confident I am about exploring class in my writing’ The Guardian, 23 November 2014. She gained an MA in English from the University of Oxford.Amanda Coe Biography United Agents Career Coe's scriptwriting began in the 1990s, working on ''Dangerfield'', ''The Vet'', the series ''As If'', and episodes of '' Shameless''. ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and BBC Sport, Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize and BBC Own It, Own It. The BBC has had an online presence supporting its TV and radio programmes and web-only initiatives since April 1994, but did not launch officially until 28 April 1997, following government approval to fund it by Television licensing in the United Kingdom, TV licence fee revenue as a service in its own right. Throughout its history, the online plans of the BBC have been subject to competition and complaint from its commercial rivals, which has resulted in various public consultations and government reviews to investigate their claims that its large presence and public funding distorts the UK market. The website has gone through several bran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Hoare (actor)
Simon Patrick Douro Hoare (born 27 June 1981), known by the stage-name Sam Hoare, is a British actor and director known for his role as rower Dickie Burnell, alongside Matt Smith, in the BBC One Olympic drama '' Bert and Dickie'' (2012). Hoare wrote and directed his début feature film, '' Having You'', which premièred in May 2013 on Sky Movies. Early life and education Born Simon Patrick Douro Hoare, he is the son of the late Timothy James Douro Hoare and his former wife "Linda" Kinvara Cayzer, the granddaughter of Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick. Hoare was educated at Eton College, and then read Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, where he performed in a number of plays at the student theatre. Acting career Hoare went on to perform on stage, including productions at the Chichester Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe and The Theatre Royal Haymarket, for a 6-month run of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' directed by Sean Mathias. Alongside his theatrical and TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Woolf
Leonard Sidney Woolf (; – ) was a British List of political theorists, political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. A writer himself, Woolf created nineteen individual works and wrote six autobiographies. Leonard and Virginia did not have any children. Early life Woolf was born in London in 1880 the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and Marie (née de Jongh). His family was Jewish. After his father died in 1892, Woolf was sent to board at Arlington House School near Brighton, Sussex. From 1894 to 1899, he attended St Paul's School (London), St Paul's School, and in 1899 he won a classical scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to the Cambridge Apostles. Other contemporary members in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Henry (actor)
Guy Henry (born 17 October 1960) is an English actor whose roles include Henrik Hanssen in ''Holby City'', Pius Thicknesse in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' and '' Part 2'', Cassius in ''Rome'' and Grand Moff Tarkin in '' Rogue One''. Early life and career Henry was born on 17 October 1960 in London. He attended Homefield School and then Brockenhurst College in Hampshire where he took A levels. He trained at RADA (1979–81). In 1982, he took the title role in ITV's ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' series, playing Holmes as a teenager (though Henry was by then nearly 22). In February 2015, Henry was announced as a public supporter of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Stage work Highcliffe Charity Players Henry first appeared on stage as a footman in amateur dramatic society Highcliffe Charity Players' production of Cinderella at age 11. He is now the president of HCP and continues to support their productions. RSC work Henry's main wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Bell
Arthur Clive Heward Bell (16 September 1881 – 17 September 1964) was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. He developed the art theory known as significant form. Biography Early life and education Bell was born in East Shefford, Berkshire, in 1881, the third of four children of William Heward Bell (1849–1927) and Hannah Taylor Cory (1850–1942). He had an elder brother ( Cory), an elder sister (Lorna, Mrs Acton), and a younger sister (Dorothy, Mrs Hony). His father was a civil engineer who built his fortune in the family coal mines at Merthyr Tydfil in Wales – "a family which drew its wealth from Welsh mines and expended it on the destruction of wild animals." They lived at Cleeve House, Seend, near Devizes, Wiltshire, where Squire Bell's many hunting trophies were displayed. Bell was educated at Marlborough College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, studying history. In 1902 he gained an Earl of Derby scholarship to study in Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Havill
Andrew Havill (born 1 June 1965) is a British actor. Havill has appeared in more than 40 films and 50 plays beginning in the late 1980s. After training in Oxford and London, he began his career in repertory theatre in 1989 and made his screen debut in 1993. As a character actor, Havill has appeared in many British costume dramas. Education Havill attended the University of Exeter, where he read English and drama. He spent four years with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain with roles in London theatre productions including ''For Those in Peril'' at the Shaw Theatre, ''As You Like It'' at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, and '' Reynard the Fox'' on the Drum Theatre Plymouth and south-west tour. At the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, Havill appeared in ''Henry V'', ''Twelfth Night'', and ''A Proper Place''. He spent a further four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Havill is also an alumnus of the Oxford University Dramatic Society with roles in Oxford theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Fox
Phoebe Fox (born 16 April 1987) is an English actress, who was nominated for Olivier and Evening Standard awards for work in theatre. She has appeared in the ''Black Mirror'' episode " The Entire History of You" (2011), '' The Woman in Black: Angel of Death'' (2015), '' The Hollow Crown: Wars of the Roses'' (2016), and '' The Great'' (2020–2023). Early life Fox is the daughter of "jobbing actors" Stuart Fox and Prue Clarke. Despite their profession and surname, there is no relation to the Fox acting dynasty. Phoebe Fox grew up in West London. Fox was educated at Chiswick School, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Career In 2010, Fox made her debut acting appearance in the play '' A Month in the Country'' at the Chichester Festival Theatre. The following year she starred in ''As You Like It'' at the Rose Theatre, ''The Acid Test'' at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs and ''There Is A War'' at the National Theatre as part of their Double Feature in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxon Sydney-Turner
Saxon Arnoll Sydney-TurnerMiddle name sometimes mistakenly spelled Arnold, but see A Cambridge Alumni Database: https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=sydney-turner&suro=w&fir=saxon&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=1898&eye=1903&col=all&maxcount=50 (28 October 1880 – 4 November 1962) was a member of the Bloomsbury Group who worked as a British civil servant throughout his life. Early life Sydney-Turner was the son of a Gloucester surgeon who moved to Brighton in 1893. He attended Westminster School and then read classics at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was a contemporary of Leonard Woolf, Thoby Stephen and Clive Bell. He was very well-read and fiercely intellectual. Lytton Strachey wrote of him: When I first knew him he was a wild and unrestrained freshman who wrote poems, never went to bed, and declaimed Swinburne and Sir Thomas Browne till four o’clock in the morning in the Great Court at Trinity. He is now... quite pale and inanimate, hardly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Garnett
David Garnett (9 March 1892 – 17 February 1981) was an English writer and publisher. As a child, he had a cloak made of rabbit skin and thus received the nickname "Bunny", by which he was known to friends and intimates all his life. Early life Garnett was born in Brighton, East Sussex, the only child of writer, critic and publisher Edward Garnett and his wife Constance Clara Black, a translator of Russian. His paternal grandfather and great-grandfather both worked at what is now the British Library, then within the British Museum. Encouraged by his father, he gained his first paid work at the age of eleven, drawing a map entitled "NEW SEA and the BEVIS COUNTRY", signed "D. G. fecit", to illustrate a new edition of ''Bevis'', a boy's adventure story by Richard Jefferies. For this he received five shillings from the publisher Gerald Duckworth, for whom his father was a reader. He was then sent as a day boy to a prep school called Westerham, five miles from the Cearne, bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Davenport
Jack Arthur Davenport (born 1 March 1973) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series '' This Life'' and ''Coupling'', and as James Norrington in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series. He has also appeared in other Hollywood films, such as ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' and '' Kingsman: The Secret Service''. On television, Davenport is known for his roles in the ensemble drama series ''FlashForward,'' '' Smash'', and ''The Morning Show'' as well as his leading role in the 2013 ITV drama series '' Breathless''. Early life and education Davenport, the son of actor Nigel Davenport and actress Maria Aitken, was born in Wimbledon, London, and lived in Ibiza, Spain, for the first seven years of his life. His uncle is writer and former Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken, his maternal grandmother was socialite Penelope Aitken, his maternal grandfather was politician William Aitken, and one of his maternal great-grandfathers was John Maffey, 1st Baro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelica Garnett
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell; 25 December 1918 – 4 May 2012), was a British writer, painter and artist. She was the author of the memoir ''Deceived with Kindness'' (1984), an account of her experience growing up at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group. Family background Angelica Garnett was born at Charleston Farmhouse in East Sussex on Christmas Day 1918."Angelica Garnett: 25th December 1918 – 4th May 2012" , The Charleston Trust, 4 May 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-24. She was the biological daughter of the painter Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell; her aunt was Virginia Woolf. Until the summer of 1937, when Garnett was 18, she believed her biological father was Clive Bell, Vanessa's husband, rather than the mostly homosexual Grant, alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
