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Sophie Skelton
Sophie Alexandra Skelton (born 7 March 1994) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Brianna Fraser in the Starz drama series '' Outlander''. Early life Skelton was born and raised in Woodford, Stockport, the daughter of entrepreneurial children's toy inventors. She began dancing at the age of three, eventually training in ballet at the Royal Academy in London, before moving into musical theater and stage productions. Her first professional television role, in series two of the British crime drama ''DCI Banks'' (2012), was a two-episode stint as schoolgirl Becca Smith. Skelton attended Stockport Grammar School, completing her A-levels in 2012. She was going to study English Literature at King's College London the following year but ended up turning down her offer to pursue acting instead. Career In 2013, Skelton guest-starred as Esme Vasquez-Jones in series one of CBBC's award-winning children's drama ''The Dumping Ground''. That same year, she went on to por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodford, Greater Manchester
Woodford is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It lies in the historic county of Cheshire, south of Stockport, north-west of Macclesfield and south-east of Manchester. Woodford was a hamlet in the parish of Prestbury throughout the Middle Ages. It was incorporated into the Urban District of Hazel Grove and Bramhall in 1939 and then the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in 1974. Woodford Aerodrome was opened in 1924 by Avro and produced aircraft such as the Avro Lancaster in World War II; it closed in 2011 and was demolished in 2015. A new housing development has been built on the site. Its historic properties include New Hall, a 17th-century cottage and Grade II* listed building. History In 1248, the manor of Woodford was one of several in the Barony of Stockport. Land was cleared and improved for agriculture in the late 13th century and a cornmill existed by 1296. The barony shrank during the 14th century, and in 1355 land a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, primetime drama and entertainment, and live BBC Sport events. The channel was launched on 2 November 1936 under the name BBC Television Service, which was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960 and used this name until the launch of the second BBC channel, BBC2, in 1964. The main channel then became known as BBC1. The channel adopted the current spelling of BBC One in 1997. The channel's annual budget for 2012–2013 was £1.14 billion. It is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBC's other domestic television stations and shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. The television channel had the highest reach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Gould
Louisa Mary Gould (, 7 October 1891 – 13 February 1945)In ''Another Mother's Son'', between the end of the story and the start of the cast list, there are a few frames with photos and details of the main characters and what happened to them after the point at which the story in the film ends. The details for Louisa Gould give her precise date of death: 13 February 1945. (Viewed on DVD, where there was time to note this.) was a Jersey shopkeeper and a member of the Resistance in the German-occupied Channel Islands, resistance in the Channel Islands during World War II. From 1942 until her arrest in 1944, Gould sheltered an escaped Soviet forced labourer known as on the island of Jersey. Following a trial, she was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was killed in 1945. Gould was posthumously named a British Hero of the Holocaust in 2010. Life Gould was born Louisa Eva Le Druillenec in St Ouen, Jersey, St Ouen, Jersey, on 7 October 1891. She was one of ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another Mother's Son
''Another Mother's Son'' is a 2017 British war drama film directed by Christopher Menaul, written by Jenny Lecoat, and starring Jenny Seagrove, Julian Kostov, Ronan Keating, John Hannah, and Amanda Abbington. The film is based on a true story from the German occupation of the Channel Islands, about a Jersey woman named Louisa Gould (played by Seagrove), who takes in an escaped young Russian war prisoner (played by Kostov). Premise Louisa Gould (Jenny Seagrove) hides an escaped young Russian forced labourer, Fyodor Buriy, played by Julian Kostov, from the German forces occupying Jersey during World War II, assisted by her sister Ivy Forster (Amanda Abbington) and her brother Harold Le Druillenec (Ronan Keating). Cast * Jenny Seagrove as Louisa Gould * Julian Kostov as Fyodor "Bill" Buriy * Ronan Keating as Harold Le Druillenec * John Hannah as Arthur Forster * Amanda Abbington as Ivy Forster * Brenock O'Connor as Rex Forster * Peter Wight as René Le Mottée * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Menaul
Christopher Menaul (born 25 July 1944) is a British film, television director and television writer. Since the late 1970s, Menaul has amassed credits in episodic television and by directing television films. Filmography Film *'' Feast of July'' (1995) *'' First Night'' (2010) *'' Summer in February'' (2013) *'' Another Mother's Son'' (2017) TV *2015 Killing Jesus (TV film) *2013 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher II *2011 Combat Hospital (TV series) *2011 Zen (TV mini-series) *2009 Above Suspicion (TV film) *2007 Saddam's Tribe (TV film) *2006 See No Evil: The Moors Murders (TV film) *2005 Secret Smile (TV film) *2005 Planespotting (TV film) *2004 Belonging (TV film) *2004 Wall of Silence (TV film) *2003 State of Mind (TV film) *2002 The Forsyte Saga (TV mini-series) *2000 One Kill (TV film) *1999 The Passion of Ayn Rand (TV film) *1997 Bright Hair (TV film) *1994 Fatherland (TV film) *1994 Homicide: Life on the Street (TV series) *1992 Great Performances (TV series) *199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parade (magazine)
''Parade'' was an American nationwide Sunday newspaper magazine, distributed in more than 700 newspapers nationwide in the United States until 2022. The most widely read magazine in the U.S., ''Parade'' had a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 54.1 million. Anne Krueger had been the magazine's editor since 2015. The November 13, 2022, issue was the final edition printed and inserted in newspapers nationwide, but ''Parade'' continued as an e-magazine on newspaper websites. The December 31, 2023, edition was the final e-magazine edition. ''Parade'' now exists as a website and emailed newsletter for those who sign up for it. Company history The magazine was founded by Marshall Field department store heir Marshall Field III in 1941, with the first issue published May 31 as ''Parade: The Weekly Picture Newspaper'' for 5 cents per copy. It sold 125,000 copies that year. In early 1946, Field recruited Arthur Harrison Motley, then-publisher of '' The American Magazine'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Gabaldon
Diana J. Gabaldon (; born January 11, 1952) is an American author and television writer. She is best known for the book series ''Outlander''. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, romance, mystery, adventure and science fiction/fantasy. A television adaptation of the ''Outlander'' novels premiered on Starz in 2014. Early life and education Gabaldon was born on January 11, 1952, in Williams, Arizona, United States, the daughter of Jacqueline Sykes and Tony Gabaldon (1930–1998), an Arizona state senator from Flagstaff for sixteen years and later a supervisor of Coconino County. Her father was of Mexican ancestry, and her mother was of English descent. Gabaldon grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona. She earned a bachelor of science in zoology from Northern Arizona University, 1970–1973; a master of science in marine biology from the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1973–1975; and a PhD in behaviora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger MacKenzie
The following is a partial list of characters from Diana Gabaldon's ''Outlander'' series as first introduced, beginning with the 1991 novel '' Outlander''. The story focuses on 20th century nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Jamie Fraser. A mix of several genres, the series features elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure, mystery and science fiction/fantasy. In August 2014, the US-based cable channel Starz debuted a TV series adaptation based on the novels. Main characters Supporting characters Introduced in ''Outlander'' (1991) Introduced in ''Dragonfly in Amber'' (1992) Introduced in ''Voyager'' (1993) Introduced in ''Drums of Autumn'' (1996) Introduced in ''The Fiery Cross'' (2001) Introduced in ''A Breath of Snow and Ashes'' (2005) Introduced in ''An Echo in the Bone'' (2009) Introduced in ''Written in My Own Heart's Blood'' (2014) Appearances (TV series) : = M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rankin
Richard Rankin (born Richard Harris on 4 January 1983) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for the Scottish sketch show '' Burnistoun'', for playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in the Starz drama '' Outlander'' and for playing the lead role in the 2024 TV series ''Rebus'', adapted from the Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin. Early life and education Rankin was born as Richard Harris on 4 January 1983 in Rutherglen, Scotland, and spent part of his childhood in the East End of Glasgow. He moved to King's Park when he was ten, eventually attending Stonelaw High School. One of four boys born to a father on the police force and a mother in the hotel industry, he originally planned a career in the sciences or Information Technology. Rankin initially attended Glasgow Caledonian University as an IT major, but changed course after a chance encounter at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel during a holiday in Los Angeles. A local film producer told the then 22-year-old that he had the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo! News
Yahoo News (stylized as Yahoo! News) is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo. The site was created by Yahoo software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, ''USA Today'', CNN and BBC News. In 2000, Yahoo News launched pages tracking the content on the site that was most viewed and most shared by email. The "most emailed" page in particular was noted as an innovation in online news aggregation. Yahoo News allows users to comment on articles. Between late 2006 and early 2010, comments were disabled in part due to moderation challenges. By 2011, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization. Veteran journalists (including Walter Shapiro and Virginia Heffernan) were hired, while the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps for the first ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casualty (TV Series)
''Casualty'' (stylised as ''CASUAL+Y'' since 1997) is a British medical drama series broadcast on BBC One. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it first aired in the United Kingdom on 6 September 1986. The show was originally produced by Geraint Morris and has been a staple of British television ever since. ''Casualty'' is recognised as the longest-running primetime medical drama series in the world. Initially, ''Casualty'' aired during the autumn for its first six series, before increasing to 24 episodes annually by 1992. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the episode count expanded further, and by 2004, the series was running 48 episodes a year, with breaks around Christmas and major events like sporting competitions and the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2020, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television led to a temporary autumn break, but the series resumed its year-round schedule in the following two years. From 2023, ''Casualty'' introduced a regular autumn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Awkward
''So Awkward'' is a sitcom series on CBBC following the lives of a group of friends in secondary school. It stars Cleo Demetriou as Lily Hampton, Ameerah Falzon-Ojo and Emily Burnett (in series 6) as Jas (Jasmine) Salford, Sophia Dall'aglio as Martha Fitzgerald, Archie Lyndhurst as Ollie Coulton, Jamie Flatters as Matt (Matthew) Furnish, Samuel Small as Rob Edwards and Raif Clarke as Sid Bevan . The thirteen-episode first series began on 21 May 2015, and finished on 6 August 2015. Another thirteen-episode series began on 25 August 2016 and ended on 17 November 2016, followed by a thirteen-episode third series, which began on 31 August 2017, and ended on 23 November 2017. Series 4 was first broadcast in August 2018 and Series 5 began airing September 2019, with Series 6 first shown on 6 August 2020. Episodes are typically available on BBC iPlayer ahead of the scheduled air date. On 22 September 2020, Lyndhurst died from a brain haemorrhage, aged 19. He was the only child of the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
