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2023 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 2023 Laurence Olivier Awards were held on 2 April 2023 at the Royal Albert Hall and hosted by Hannah Waddingham. Event calendar *12 October 2022: Ceremony date set for 2 April 2023 and venue confirmed as the Royal Albert Hall. *17 January: Hannah Waddingham announced as ceremony host. *28 February: Nominations announcement by Gabrielle Brooks and Amber Davies. *24 March: Society of London Theatre Special Award, Special Recognition Award recipients announced as Derek Jacobi and Arlene Phillips. *2 April: Award ceremony held Presenters *Matthew Bourne *Darcey Bussell *Liz Carr *Es Devlin *Helen George *Meera Syal *Dita Von Teese *Eddie Izzard and Sheridan Smith - presented Best Revival *Sheila Atim and Aimee Lou Wood - presented Best Actor and Best Actress *Cush Jumbo - presented Best New Play *Mark Strong - presented Best Director *Anne Reid - presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Derek Jacobi *Ronan Keating and Harriet Scott (broadcaster), Harriet Scott - presented Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is held in trust for the nation and managed by a registered charity which receives no government funding. It can seat 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. It is the venue for the BBC Proms concerts, which have been held there every summer since 1941. It is host to more than 390 shows in the main auditorium annually, including classical, rock and pop concerts, ballet, opera, film screenings with live orchestral accompaniment, sports, awards ceremonies, school and community events, and charity performances and banquets. A further 400 events are held each year in the non-auditorium spaces. Over its 151 year history the hall has hosted people from various fields, including meetings by Suffragettes, speeches from Winston Churchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Es Devlin
Esmeralda "Es" Devlin (; born 24 September 1971) is an English artist and stage designer who works in a range of media, often mapping light and projected film onto kinetic sculptural forms. Early life Devlin was born in Kingston upon Thames, London, on 24 September 1971. She studied English literature at Bristol University, followed by a Foundation Course in Fine Art at Central St. Martin's eventually specialising in theatre design. While undertaking her studies, she prepared the props for Le Cirque Invisible, the circus company founded by Victoria Chaplin and Chaplin's husband, Jean-Baptiste Thierrée. Career Her practice began in narrative theatre and experimental opera After a period working for London's Bush Theatre, she first worked for the National Theatre in 1998 when Trevor Nunn asked her to design the set for a revival of Harold Pinter's ''Betrayal''. She has since worked on sculptural designs for the theatre. "Each of her designs is an attack on the notion that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhu Vee
Sindhu Venkatanarayanan (born 19 June 1969) is an Indian actress and stand-up comedian who lives and performs in the United Kingdom under the name of Sindhu Vee. She starred as Mrs Phelps in the 2022 Netflix adaptation of ''Matilda the Musical''. Early life She was born in New Delhi, India, the daughter of a civil servant father and teacher mother. She has lived in Delhi, Lucknow and the Philippines. She studied at the University of Delhi, University of Oxford, University of Chicago and McGill University, and worked in banking as a "high-flying bonds tradeswoman" in London. She lives in London with her Danish husband, a financier, and three children. Career She started performing stand-up comedy in 2012 and has performed on stage in the UK, India, and the United States. She appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe each year between 2013 and 2017. Vee was nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award in 2016, was second in the 2017 ''Leicester Mercury'' Comedian of the Year and jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Scott (broadcaster)
Harriet Scott (born 23 January 1972) is a British radio presenter with Magic Radio, presenting the Weekday Breakfast show with Ronan Keating. Career After studying History at Hull University, Scott became a production assistant for BBC Radio Humberside. A move to GWR followed, after which she worked at a number of other stations, including Viking FM, 2-Ten FM, and BRMB in Birmingham. It was while at BRMB in 1997 that she began to move into television, becoming the travel presenter for ITV Central in the West Midlands. She went on to spend several years at Virgin Radio. In 2002, she joined Heart as a co-presenter of ''Heart Breakfast'' on Heart London alongside Jonathan Coleman. In February 2005 she was joined to co-present ''Heart Breakfast'' by Jamie Theakston who was replacing Coleman. The duo won a Sony Radio Silver Award for Best Entertainment Show and Radio Presenters of the Year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards. Between April and July 2011 she was maternity cover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronan Keating
Ronan Patrick John Keating (born 3 March 1977) is an Irish singer. He debuted in 1993 alongside Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Shane Lynch, and Stephen Gately, as the co-lead singer (with Gately) of Irish pop group Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999 and he has recorded eleven albums. He gained worldwide attention when his single "When You Say Nothing at All" was featured in the film ''Notting Hill'' and reached number one in several countries. Keating currently hosts a breakfast show on Magic Radio. As a solo artist, Keating has sold over 20 million records worldwide alongside the 25 million records with Boyzone, and in Australia, he is best known as a judge on '' All Together Now'' and ''The X Factor'' from 2010 until 2014 and a coach on ''The Voice'' in 2016. Keating is active in charity work and has been a charity campaigner for the Marie Keating Foundation, which raises awareness for breast cancer and is named after his mother, who died from the disease in 1998. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Reid
Anne Reid, MBE (born 28 May 1935) is a British stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap opera '' Coronation Street'' (1961–1971); Jean in the sitcom '' dinnerladies'' (1998–2000); and her role as Celia Dawson in ''Last Tango in Halifax'' (2012–2020) for which she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. She won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the film '' The Mother'' (2003). Early life Reid was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the daughter of Colin Norman Reid (1896–1979) and Annie Eliza (née Weetman) (1896–1980). She lived with her parents and three older brothers in Redcar, where she attended John Emmerson Batty primary school and the White House School. From the age of 11 she attended Penrhos College, a boarding school in North Wales, when her fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Strong
Mark Strong (born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia; 5 August 1963), is a British actor, best known for his film roles such as Prince Septimus in '' Stardust'' (2007), Archibald in ''RocknRolla'' (2008), Lord Henry Blackwood in ''Sherlock Holmes'' (2009), Frank D'Amico in '' Kick-Ass'' (2010), Jim Prideaux in ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (2011), Sinestro in ''Green Lantern'' (2011), George in ''Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), Major General Stewart Menzies in ''The Imitation Game'' (2014), Merlin in ''Kingsman: The Secret Service'' (2014) and ''Kingsman: The Golden Circle'' (2017), Doctor Sivana, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana in ''Shazam! (film), Shazam!'' (2019), and John in ''Cruella (film), Cruella'' (2021). Early life Strong was born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in the Islington district of London on 5 August 1963, the son of an Austrian mother and an Italian father. His father left the family soon after Strong's birth, and Strong was brought up by his mother while she worked as an au pair. He later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cush Jumbo
Cush Jumbo (born 23 September 1985) is a British actress and writer. She is best known for her leading role as attorney Lucca Quinn in the CBS drama series ''The Good Wife'' (2015–16) and the CBS All Access spin-off series ''The Good Fight'' (2017–21). Jumbo starred as DC Bethany Whelan in the ITV crime drama series '' Vera'' (2012, 2015–16) and as Lois Habiba in the third series of ''Doctor Who'' spin-off ''Torchwood'' in 2009. She has received acclaim for her work in theatre. Jumbo received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for playing Mark Antony in ''Julius Caesar'' in 2013, and also wrote and performed in the play ''Josephine and I''. She was awarded an Evening Standard Theatre Award for her one-woman show, and reprised her performance Off-Broadway in 2015. Jumbo made her Broadway debut in Jez Butterworth's ''The River'' in 2014, and received her second Olivier nomination upon her 2021 return to the London stage as ''Hamlet''. Early life Jumbo was born in King's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimee Lou Wood
Aimée Lou Wood (born 3 February 1995) is an English actress. After early stage roles in '' Mary Stuart'' (2016–2017) and ''People, Places and Things'' (2017), Wood made her screen debut on the Netflix series ''Sex Education'' (2019–present), which won her a British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance from two nominations. She earned award nominations for her starring role in the play ''Uncle Vanya'' (2020), and appeared in the films ''The Electrical Life of Louis Wain'' (2021) and ''Living'' (2022). Early life Wood is from Stockport, Greater Manchester. Her mother works for Childline and her father is a car dealer. Following her parents' divorce, she attended Cheadle Hulme School, and mostly retained her regional accent. Thereafter, she took a Foundation Course at the Oxford School of Drama, and went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 2017. Career Wood's agent is Lizzie Newell, In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Atim
Sheila Atim (born 1991) is a Ugandan-British actress, singer, composer, and playwright. She made her professional acting debut in 2013 at Shakespeare's Globe in ''The Lightning Child'', a musical written by her acting teacher Ché Walker. Following critically acclaimed stage roles in the Donmar Warehouse's all-female Shakespeare Trilogy in 2016 among others, Atim won the 2018 Laurence Olivier Awards, 2018 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role as Marianne Laine in an original production of ''Girl from the North Country (musical), Girl from the North Country''. She has composed songs for several productions and premiered her play ''Anguis'' at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She has also been cast in several television series, including the cancelled ''Game of Thrones'' successor series ''Game of Thrones#Bloodmoon, Bloodmoon'', the BBC's ''The Pale Horse (TV series), The Pale Horse'' and Amazon Studios, Amazon's ''The Underground Railroa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheridan Smith
Sheridan Caroline Sian Smith OBE (born 25 June 1981) is an English actress, singer and television personality. Smith came to prominence after playing a variety of characters on sitcoms such as ''The Royle Family'' (1999–2000), ''Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps'' (2001–2009), ''Gavin & Stacey'' (2008–2010), and '' Benidorm'' (2009). She played the role of Joey Ross on the drama series ''Jonathan Creek'' (2009–2013) and went on to receive acclaim for starring in a succession of television dramas, such as ''Mrs Biggs'' (2012), '' Cilla'' (2014), ''The C Word'' (2015), ''Black Work'' (2015), and ''The Moorside'' (2017). Her feature film credits include ''Tower Block'' (2012), ''Quartet'' (2012), and '' The Huntsman: Winter's War'' (2016). Smith has performed in the West End musicals '' Little Shop of Horrors'' (2007), ''Legally Blonde'' (2010), '' Funny Girl'' (2016), and ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat'' (2019). She released her debut album, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Izzard
Edward John Izzard (; born 7 February 1962) is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime. Izzard's stand-up comedy tours have included '' Live at the Ambassadors'' (1993), ''Definite Article'' (1996), '' Glorious'' (1997), '' Dress to Kill'' (1998), ''Circle'' (2000), ''Stripped'' (2009), '' Force Majeure'' (2013) and, most recently, ''Wunderbar'' (2022). She starred in the 2007 television series '' The Riches'', and has appeared in numerous films, including ''Ocean's Twelve'' and ''Ocean's Thirteen'', ''Shadow of the Vampire'', ''The Cat's Meow'' and ''Valkyrie''. Izzard has also worked as a voice actor on films such as ''Five Children and It'', '' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian'', '' Abominable'' and the Netflix original series ''Green Eggs and Ham''. Among various accolades, she won two Primetime Emmys for ''Dress to Kill'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
