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Miss Fisher And The Crypt Of Tears
''Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears'' is a 2020 Australian mystery adventure film directed by Tony Tilse and starring Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher. It is based on the ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' television series and the series of Phryne Fisher novels written by Kerry Greenwood. Plot Phryne Fisher helps to rescue a young Bedouin girl called Shirin from imprisonment in 1920s Jerusalem. While doing so she is suspected of having died. Shirin is reunited with her uncle Sheikh Kahlil Abbas and they travel to Lofthouse Manor in England where a memorial is being held for Miss Fisher by her friends Lord and Lady Lofthouse. DI Jack Robinson travels to England from Australia to attend the memorial and is just about to deliver her eulogy when Miss Fisher arrives in her biplane. Shirin discusses with Miss Fisher about how she came to be in Jerusalem. As a child, a sandstorm had wiped out her village and she was the only survivor, having been rescued by a mysterious stranger. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Tilse
Tony Tilse is an Australian television director. He won the Australian Directors' Guild Award for best direction of a TV drama series (periodical) and TV mini-series for '' Underbelly'' in 2008. Tilse also directed '' The Postcard Bandit'', and '' Murder in the Outback'', based upon the disappearance of British tourist Peter Falconio in the Australian outback in 2001 and docu-drama ''Scorched'', which was based upon the events of the 2001 Black Christmas bushfires; as well as several episodes of sci-fi series ''Farscape ''Farscape'' is an Australian-American Science fiction on television, science fiction television series conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by The Jim Henson Company and Hallmark Entertainment, originally for the Nine Network. It prem ...''. References External links * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian television directors {{Australia-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashleigh Cummings
Ashleigh Cummings (born 11 November 1992) is an Australian actress. She became known for her role as Robyn Mathers in '' Tomorrow, When the War Began''. The film, based on the book of the same name, earned Cummings a nomination for Best Young Actor at the 2010 Australian Film Institute Awards. Cummings is also known for her roles as Dorothy Williams in ABC1's ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'', as Debbie Vickers in '' Puberty Blues'', as Vic McQueen in the AMC series '' NOS4A2'', as Abby Conroy in the Prime Video spy action thriller series ''Citadel'', and as Kacey Fitzpatrick in the Peacock crime drama '' Long Bright River''. Early life Cummings was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where her Australian parents lived and worked. She moved to Australia with her family when she was 12 years old. From the age of two, Cummings trained as a ballet dancer. When she was 14 she joined the Brent Street School of Performing Arts, where she learned dance and acting. Cummings then attended W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis McMahon
Travis McMahon is an Australian actor. For his performance in '' Stingers'' he was nominated for the 2001 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Television Drama Series. After graduating from NIDA McMahon began his career in the stage play ''Kid Stakes'' for the Melbourne Theatre Company. A regular role on TV's ''Good Guys, Bad Guys'' followed, playing Reuben Zeus, a drycleaner with Tourette syndrome. He has toured internationally with ''Cloudstreet'' and played a main role in '' Last Man Standing''. He played a soldier Darko Moey in ''Kokoda'' and the lead character in ''Cactus''. In 2012 he played in stage play ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'', a sequel to ''Kid Stakes'' and appeared as a regular in ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' is an Australian detective television series. It was first broadcast on ABC on 24 February 2012. It is based on author Kerry Greenwood's historical myster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Sharpe
Anthony J Sharpe (born 24 September 1974) is an Australian actor, producer and singer, best known for his role playing the character of Cecil Yates (Cec) on ABC1's ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.'' He grew up in Melbourne and became involved in acting after a lengthy career as a professional singer. Early life Born to parents Joy and Joe as the youngest of four children, Sharpe grew up on the family's small farm in Willowmavin, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Sharpe picked up his first guitar at the age of fifteen and fell into singing by accident, after filling in singing with a high school band. After finishing an apprenticeship at Holden, Holdens Engine Company as a fitter and machinist, Sharpe left the company to pursue music full-time. His band Heavy Human Traffic recorded three albums: ''Ritafind'' (1998), ''Heavy Human Traffic'' (1999), and ''Second Skin'' (2001). The group disbanded in 2003. Sharpe began his professional acting career performing two years at Dinner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brice Bexter
Brice Bexter (born 25 July 1990) is an actor. His films include ''Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears'' (2020) and '' Redemption Day'' (2021). He was named a 2020 ''Screen International'' Arab Star of Tomorrow. Early life and education Bexter was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to a French-Moroccan mother and a British father with paternal Czech-Jewish roots. He is the grandson of painter Hassan El Glaoui, and the great grandson of Pasha Thami El Glaoui. Bexter and his brother grew up in Rabat with their grandparents. He attended the French school Lycée Descartes, where he participated in theatre. In 2007, at the age of 17, Bexter worked as stand-in on the set of Ridley Scott's '' Body of Lies''. The following year, he worked as an extra on the set of the film ''Green Zone''. After completing his baccalaureate, He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Regent's University London in 2013 and a Master of Science from University College London (UCL) in 2016, both in Management. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Bliss
Ian Bliss (born 30 June 1966) is an Australian film, television, and stage character actor, he has appeared in numerous Australian television dramas including ''Heartbreak High'', '' Wentworth'' and as several characters in the '' Underbelly universe''. Education Bliss graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art. Bliss also attained a Bachelor of Education while studying his acting degree at NIDA. Career Bliss starred in an episode of '' Halifax f.p.'' in 1996. He is best known for his role as Bane and Agent Smith in ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (2003), for which he was chosen by the Wachowskis because of his accurate impersonation of Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith's program form), and also his partial resemblance to Weaving. After the ''Matrix'' sequels, Bliss took minor roles in the feature films '' Stealth'' and ''Superman Returns''. He played the Peacekeeper scientist Drillic in the ''Farscape'' episode " Losing Time". Bliss app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stanton (actor)
John Stanton (born 28 October 1944) is an Australian actor, who has appeared in many stage, television and film productions throughout his extensive fifty-year career. Early life Stanton was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He attended Banyo State High School for his secondary education where he was a runner and swimmer. He is the brother of ecologist Peter Stanton. Despite his obvious sporting talents, Stanton was more interested in pursuing acting as a career although he also had a desire to become a veterinarian. Stanton worked various jobs including as a school teacher and as a prawner on Moreton Bay. At the age of 24, he unsuccessfully auditioned for the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Stage Stanton moved to Melbourne to further his career. He played the major supporting role of Peter Handcock (to Terence Donovan's leading role of Breaker Morant) in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's play '' Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts'', presented by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Chamoun (actor)
Nicole Chamoun (born 1 January 1984) is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Zahra in the 2018 SBS miniseries '' Safe Harbour'', and for playing a lead role as Amanda Pharrell in the 2022 ABC crime drama series '' Troppo''. Early life and education Nicole Chamoun was born in Australia, after her parents had fled civil war in Lebanon in the late 1970s. She studied acting and drama at Deakin University and Victoria University in Melbourne. Career Chamoun's first screen role was in the 2007 SBS drama series ''Kick'', as the feisty Layla, but was unable to find roles for many years afterwards, so she did a variety of jobs unrelated to acting. She worked as part-time artistic director at Rowville Secondary College in Melbourne for two and a half years. She studied at the Melbourne Actors Lab under Peter Kalos. Soon after her agent of 10 years severed the relationship, Chamoun was given roles in episodes of ''The Doctor Blake Mysteries'' and then '' Ronny Chien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waters (actor)
John Waters (born 1948) is an English-born Australian film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter, and musician. He is the son of Scottish-born British actor Russell Waters. John Waters has been in the industry for over 50 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series '' Play School'' for 18 years. Career Music Waters was born in 1948Waters enjoying his "Peter Pan existence". ''The Age'', 25 March 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2013] in London, England. He first faced a live audience as a singer and bass guitar player with 1960s London-based blues band The Riots before travelling to Australia, initially for an extended working holiday and then eventually settling there permanently. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kal Naga
Kal-El Naga, is an Egyptian American actor, director and producer. He is recognized primarily for his work in Egypt and the Middle East, but has increasingly ventured into American and British film and television roles since 2006. He started acting and directing (English and Arabic language) plays and musicals in Egypt while studying theatre at The American University in Cairo. Beginning his professional acting career in 2000, Naga starred in several movies through the next decade with roles encompassing several genres, from musicals ''None but that!'' (2007), action ''Agamista'' (2007), '' ''Eyes Of A Thief'''' (2014), thrillers ''Kashf Hesab'' (2007), art-house '' Heliopolis'' (2009), ''Villa 69'' (2013), ''Decor'' (2014), and slapstick comedy ''Habibi Naêman (Sleeping Habibi)'' (2008). Additionally, he has participated in several European film festivals, where he received a range of awards as an actor and producer. Since 2016, he has acted in several English-speaking role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline McKenzie
Jacqueline Susan McKenzie (born 24 October 1967) is an Australian film and stage actress. Early life Born in Sydney, New South Wales, McKenzie attended Wenona School in North Sydney, New South Wales, North Sydney until 1983 then moved to Pymble Ladies' College, where she graduated in 1985 with her Higher School Certificate (New South Wales), Higher School Certificate. Known at school for her fine singing voice, McKenzie was cast as Nancy in ''Oliver!'' then in ''Godspell'' (both a co-production with Shore School) and later in ''Brigadoon'' (a co-production with Knox Grammar School), sharing the stage with Hugh Jackman, who was a student at Knox at the time. Career Early years McKenzie studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of New South Wales. While at university, she began modelling. Represented by Cameron's Management, she worked in both print and television media. She also took regular singing lessons with Australian vocal coach Bob Tasman-Smith. In 1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
