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Oliver Chris
Oliver Graham Chris (born 7 November 1978) is an English actor. He has appeared in television series, TV films, and on the stage. His work has included theatrical productions in London's West End and New York City's Broadway. Early life Chris was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 7 November 1978. He passed his eleven-plus exam and attended Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys before moving to the Michael Hall Steiner School in his fourth year. He later graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. In 2005, he completed an evening class at Birkbeck College and was subsequently accepted for a degree course in history, politics and philosophy. Career Chris has appeared in several comedy series, including ''The Office'', ''Green Wing'', ''According to Bex'', '' Nathan Barley'', ''The IT Crowd'', '' Rescue Me'' and '' Bluestone 42''. In 2004, Chris re-wrote the lyrics to the Beatles' "Let It Be" to a song about the England football player Wayne Rooney and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells (formerly, until 1909, and still commonly Tunbridge Wells) is a town in Kent, England, southeast of Central London. It lies close to the border with East Sussex on the northern edge of the Weald, High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formation High Rocks. The town was a spa in the Restoration (England), Restoration and a fashionable resort in the mid-1700s under Beau Nash when the Pantiles, and its chalybeate spring, attracted visitors who wished to take the waters. Though its popularity as a spa town waned with the advent of sea bathing, the town still derives much of its income from tourism. The prefix "List of place names with royal styles in the United Kingdom, Royal" was granted to it in 1909 by King Edward VII; it is one of only three towns in England with the title. The town had a population of 59,947 in 2016, and is the administrative centre of Tunbridge Wells (borough), Tunbridge Wells Borough and in the Constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluestone 42
''Bluestone 42'' is a British sitcom about a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan during Operation Herrick, first broadcast on 5 March 2013 on BBC Three. The third and final series began on 9 March 2015 and ended on 13 April 2015. In July 2015, writers Richard Hurst and James Cary confirmed the show would not return for a fourth series, citing BBC Three's impending move to online and the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan as contributing towards the show having run its course. While the show takes place in Helmand Province, the series was filmed in South Africa. Synopsis A mix of black comedy and action, ''Bluestone 42'' focused on the camaraderie between soldiers, situational comedy, bureaucracy, conflicts of interests and relationships, and is contrasted with the deadly situations the soldiers are required to defuse. The show's name refers to the unit's call sign and is rendered verbally as "Bluestone Four-Two". Cast and characters Overview Episodes Serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scorpia Rising
''Alex Rider'' is a series of spy novels by the English author Anthony Horowitz. The novels revolve around the teenaged spy Alex Rider and are primarily aimed towards young adults. The series comprises 14 novels, as well as seven graphic novels, seven short stories, and a supplementary book. The first novel, '' Stormbreaker'', was released in the United Kingdom in 2000 and was adapted into a film in 2006, starring Alex Pettyfer as the titular protagonist. The books '' Point Blanc'', '' Eagle Strike'', and '' Scorpia'' books were adapted into a TV series in 2020, 2021, and 2024, respectively, starring Otto Farrant. Walker Books published the first novels in the United Kingdom alongside Puffin in the United States. More recent entries in the series were published by Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Books. Novels List #'' Stormbreaker'' – released 4 September 2000. Adapted as a graphic novel, released 3 July 2000. #'' Point Blanc'' – released 3 September 2001. Ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocodile Tears (novel)
''Alex Rider'' is a series of spy novels by the English author Anthony Horowitz. The novels revolve around the teenaged spy Alex Rider and are primarily aimed towards young adults. The series comprises 14 novels, as well as seven graphic novels, seven short stories, and a supplementary book. The first novel, '' Stormbreaker'', was released in the United Kingdom in 2000 and was adapted into a film in 2006, starring Alex Pettyfer as the titular protagonist. The books '' Point Blanc'', '' Eagle Strike'', and '' Scorpia'' books were adapted into a TV series in 2020, 2021, and 2024, respectively, starring Otto Farrant. Walker Books published the first novels in the United Kingdom alongside Puffin in the United States. More recent entries in the series were published by Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Books. Novels List #'' Stormbreaker'' – released 4 September 2000. Adapted as a graphic novel, released 3 July 2000. #'' Point Blanc'' – released 3 September 2001. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snakehead (novel)
''Alex Rider'' is a series of spy novels by the English author Anthony Horowitz. The novels revolve around the teenaged spy Alex Rider and are primarily aimed towards young adults. The series comprises 14 novels, as well as seven graphic novels, seven short stories, and a supplementary book. The first novel, ''Stormbreaker'', was released in the United Kingdom in 2000 and was adapted into a film in 2006, starring Alex Pettyfer as the titular protagonist. The books ''Point Blanc'', '' Eagle Strike'', and '' Scorpia'' books were adapted into a TV series in 2020, 2021, and 2024, respectively, starring Otto Farrant. Walker Books published the first novels in the United Kingdom alongside Puffin in the United States. More recent entries in the series were published by Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Books. Novels List #''Stormbreaker'' – released 4 September 2000. Adapted as a graphic novel, released 3 July 2000. #''Point Blanc'' – released 3 September 2001. Adapted as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Stevens
Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama series ''Downton Abbey'' (2010–2012). He also starred as David in the thriller film '' The Guest'' (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film '' Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb'' (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live action adaptation of ''Beauty and the Beast'' (2017), Lorin Willis in the biographical legal drama ''Marshall'' (2017), Charles Dickens in the biographical drama '' The Man Who Invented Christmas'' (2017) and Russian Eurovision singer Alexander Lemtov in '' Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga'' (2020). From 2017 to 2019, he starred as David Haller in the FX series '' Legion''. In 2018, he starred in the Netflix horror ''Apostle'', and since 2023, he has starred as Korvo Opposites in the animated series '' Solar Opposites''. In 2024, Stevens starred as Trapper in '' Godzilla x ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Horowitz
Anthony John Horowitz (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the '' Alex Rider'' series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, '' The Power of Five'' series (known as '' The Gatekeepers'' in the US), and '' The Diamond Brothers'' series. Horowitz's works for adults include: the play '' Mindgame'' (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels, '' The House of Silk'' (2011) and '' Moriarty'' (2014); two novels featuring his own detective Susan Ryeland, '' Magpie Murders'' (2016) and '' Moonflower Murders'' (2020); five novels featuring a fictionalised version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne: '' The Word Is Murder'' (2017), '' The Sentence Is Death'' (2018), ''A Line to Kill'' (2021), ''The Twist of a Knife'' (2022), and ''Close to Death'' (2024). The estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming chose Horowitz to write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Rider
''Alex Rider'' is a series of spy novels by the English author Anthony Horowitz. The novels revolve around the teenaged spy Alex Rider and are primarily aimed towards young adults. The series comprises 14 novels, as well as seven graphic novels, seven short stories, and a supplementary book. The first novel, '' Stormbreaker'', was released in the United Kingdom in 2000 and was adapted into a film in 2006, starring Alex Pettyfer as the titular protagonist. The books '' Point Blanc'', '' Eagle Strike'', and '' Scorpia'' books were adapted into a TV series in 2020, 2021, and 2024, respectively, starring Otto Farrant. Walker Books published the first novels in the United Kingdom alongside Puffin in the United States. More recent entries in the series were published by Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Books. Novels List #'' Stormbreaker'' – released 4 September 2000. Adapted as a graphic novel, released 3 July 2000. #'' Point Blanc'' – released 3 September 2001. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Fifa World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to FIFA World Cup hosts#2006 FIFA World Cup, host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six populated continents participated in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification, qualification process which began in September 2003. Thirty-one teams qualified from this process along with hosts Germany national football team, Germany for the finals tournament. It was the second time that Germany staged the competition and the first as a German reunification, unified country along with the former East Germany with Leipzig as a host city (the other was in 1974 FIFA World Cup, 1974 in West Germany), and the 10th time that the tournament was held in Europe. Italy national football team, Italy won the tournament, claiming their fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Campbell Moore
Stephen Campbell Moore (born Stephen Moore Thorpe, 30 November 1979) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in Alan Bennett's play '' The History Boys'' and the film based on it. He has starred in the sci-fi television series'' War of the Worlds'' (2019–2021). Career Stephen Campbell Moore was born in London as Stephen Moore Thorpe. He was educated at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire (appearing locally in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival) and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, alongside Orlando Bloom, where he was awarded the gold medal in his final year. He made his screen debut in Stephen Fry's '' Bright Young Things''. He is primarily a screen actor. On stage he has performed with the RSC and the Royal National Theatre. Campbell Moore created the role of Irwin in the original West End stage production of Alan Bennett's play '' The History Boys'', and also played the character in the Broadway, Sydney, Wellington and Hong Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Rooney
Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Association football, player who was most recently the head coach of EFL Championship club Plymouth Argyle F.C., Plymouth Argyle. Widely considered one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest British players of all time, Rooney is the record goalscorer for Manchester United F.C., Manchester United, and was the record goalscorer for the England national football team, England national team from 2015 to 2023. He has also made more appearances for England than any other outfield player. Rooney spent most of his playing career as a Forward (association football), forward, but was also used in various Midfielder, midfield roles. Rooney joined the Everton F.C., Everton youth team at the age of nine and made his professional debut for the club in 2002 at the age of 16. He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club before moving to Manchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
