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Ben Addis
Ben Addis is a Welsh actor known for his work in theatre and television. Early life and education Addis was born in Blaenavon. He was part of Gwent Young People's Theatre (GYPT) in Abergavenny and The National Youth Theatre of Wales. He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Career Theatre credits include: ''Rock and Roll'' (Duke of York's Theatre), ''King Lear'' (RSC), ''Never So Good'' (National Theatre), Antigone and Widower's Houses (Manchester Royal Exchange), Cinderella (Warwick Arts Centre / Lyric Hammersmith) and Eurydice (ATC/Plymouth Drum/Young Vic). Film and TV credits include: Lewis (ITV) and Martin Scorsese's '' Hugo''. In February 2020, Addis played the role of Dr. Parker in Channel 4 soap ''Hollyoaks''. In August 2023, Addis joined the cast of ITV1 soap Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British television soap opera that is broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Blaenavon
Blaenavon () is a town and community (Wales), community in Torfaen county borough, Wales, high on a hillside on the source of the Afon Lwyd. It is within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire and the Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county of Gwent (county), Gwent. The population is 6,055. Parts of the town and surrounding country form the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, selected as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. History ''Blaenavon'' literally means "head of the river" or loosely "river's source" in the Welsh language. Blaenavon grew around an ironworks opened in 1788 by the West Midlands (region), West Midlands industrialist Thomas Hill of Dennis, Thomas Hill and his partners, Thomas Hopkins and Benjamin Pratt. The businessmen invested £40,000 into the ironworks project and erected three blast furnaces. Hopkins, as a result of operating the Cannock Wood Forge, Staffordshire, was in contact with skilled and ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial being called the Doctor, part of a humanoid species called Time Lords. The Doctor travels in the universe and in time using a time travelling Spacecraft, spaceship called the TARDIS, which externally appears as a British police box. While travelling, the Doctor works to save lives and liberate oppressed peoples by combating List of Doctor Who villains, foes. The Doctor usually travels with Companion (Doctor Who), companions. Beginning with William Hartnell, List of actors who have played the Doctor, fourteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; the most recent being Ncuti Gatwa, who portrayed the Fifteenth Doctor from 2023 to 2025. The transition between actors is written into the plot of the series with the Regeneration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Welsh Male Television Actors
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Living People
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Maryland (TV Series)
''Maryland'' (also called MaryLand) is a British television drama series. The series premiered on 22 May 2023, on ITV and the new streaming platform ITVX. The series aired in Australia on BritBox on 25 January 2024. The series aired on PBS in the US in May 2024. Synopsis The series follows two estranged sisters who regain contact following the sudden death of their mother on the Isle of Man. Cast * Suranne Jones as Becca * Eve Best as Rosaline * Hugh Quarshie as Pete * George Costigan as Richard * Dean Lennox Kelly as Jacob * Andrew Knott as Jim * Rhiannon Clements as Lauren * Yasmin Davies as Molly * Stockard Channing as Cathy * Judy Clifton as Mary * Ben Addis as DT Ian Quayle * Steph Lacey as Solicitor * Geraldine McAlinden as Mallory * Ed White as Nick Development The series was filmed in Ireland. Reception Nick Hilton in ''The Independent'' called the series "a chill-inducing, moving portrait of sisterhood". Lucy Mangan in ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Girl Before
''The Girl Before'' is a British four-part thriller television series created by J.P. Delaney for BBC One and HBO Max, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Delaney. Premise A traumatised woman falls in love with an extraordinary minimalist house, which remains under the spell of the architect who originally designed it, but not everything may be as it seems. Cast * Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Jane Cavendish, a single woman who moves into the minimalist house Edward built, three years after Emma and Simon. * David Oyelowo as Edward, the architect of the minimalist house with many rules. * Jessica Plummer as Emma Matthews, partner of Simon. They move into the minimalist house that Edward designed three years prior to Jane and is revealed to have died in the minimalist house * Ben Hardy as Simon, partner of Emma, who reluctantly moves into the minimalist house designed by Edward. Recurring * Ian Conningham as DI James Clarke * Amanda Drew as Carol * Mark Stanley as Saul * Rakhee Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Musketeers
''The Musketeers'' is a British period action-drama TV series based on the characters from Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel ''The Three Musketeers'' and co-produced by BBC America and BBC Worldwide. The series follows the musketeers Athos, Aramis, and Porthos as they serve King Louis XIII and citizens of 17th-century Paris. The first episode was shown on BBC One on 19 January 2014. It stars Tom Burke as Athos, Santiago Cabrera as Aramis, Howard Charles as Porthos, Luke Pasqualino as D'Artagnan, Tamla Kari as Constance Bonacieux, Maimie McCoy as Milady de Winter, Ryan Gage as Louis XIII and Alexandra Dowling as Queen Anne. It also features Peter Capaldi as Cardinal Richelieu in Series One, Marc Warren as Comte de Rochefort in Series Two, and Rupert Everett as the Marquis de Feron in Series Three. Jessica Pope and Adrian Hodges produced the show for the BBC. The series was largely filmed in the Czech Republic. In February 2015, it was announced that the show had been ren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Eichmann Show
''The Eichmann Show'' is a 2015 British BBC Television, BBC TV drama film produced by Laurence Bowen and Ken Marshall and directed by Paul Andrew Williams. It is based on the true story of how American TV producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz came to broadcast the Adolf Eichmann#Trial, trial of one of World War II's most notorious Nazism, Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, in 1961. Plot In 1961, former Nazi Adolf Eichmann is captured by Mossad, Israeli agents and put on trial. American television producer Milton Fruchtman fervently believes that the trial, with its witness accounts of Nazi atrocities, should be televised to show the world the evils of the Holocaust, and to combat any resurgence of Nazism, and joins forces with Blacklisting, blacklisted director Leo Hurwitz. Despite death threats, reluctance to cooperate from several networks, and even resistance from the Prime Minister of Israel, Israeli prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, who fears a 'show tria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vera (TV Series)
''Vera'' is a British crime drama television series based on the Vera Stanhope novels by Ann Cleeves. It ran on ITV for 14 years from 1 May 2011 to 2 January 2025 and starred Brenda Blethyn as the principal character, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Premise Vera is a nearly retired detective chief inspector of the fictional Northumberland & City Police, who is obsessive about her work. She plods along in a dishevelled state but has a calculating mind and despite her irascible personality, she cares deeply about her work and colleagues. She often proves her superior skills by picking up small errors in her team members' thought processes. Vera forms a close relationship with sergeants Joe Ashworth and Aiden Healy. Production The series is filmed in Newcastle upon Tyne and throughout Northumberland, County Durham and North Yorkshire in North East England. Locations include Gateshead, South Shields, North Shields, Whitley Bay, Amble, Warkworth, Alnmouth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Snowmen
"The Snowmen" is an episode of the British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', first broadcast on Christmas Day 2012 on BBC One. It is the eighth List of Doctor Who Christmas specials, ''Doctor Who'' Christmas special since the show's 2005 revival and the first to be within a series. It was written by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat and directed by Saul Metzstein, with the special produced in August 2012, and filmed on location in Newport, Wales, Newport, Wales and Bristol. Set in the Victorian era, the story sees Eleventh Doctor, the Doctor (Matt Smith), an alien time traveller, retired and in hiding. He is soon forced out of hiding to investigate mysterious, sentient snowmen that are building themselves and meets Clara Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman), a governess also investigating the snowmen. With the help of allies – Silurian (Doctor Who), Silurian Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), her human wife Jenny Flint (Catrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Twisted But True
Twisted may refer to: Film and television * ''Twisted'' (1986 film), a horror film by Adam Holender starring Christian Slater * ''Twisted'' (1996 film), a modern retelling of ''Oliver Twist'' * ''Twisted'', a 2011 Singapore Chinese film directed by Chai Yee Wei * ''Twisted'' (2004 film), a thriller starring Ashley Judd and Andy Garcia * ''Twisted'' (TV series), 2013 * "Twisted" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), a television episode Software and games * '' Twisted: The Game Show'', a 1994 3DO game * Twisted (software), an event-driven networking framework * '' WarioWare: Twisted!'', a 2004 game for the Game Boy Advance Books * ''Twisted'' (short story collection), a short story collection by crime writer Jeffery Deaver ** ''More Twisted'', a second short story collection by Deaver * Twisted (Anderson novel), a novel by Laurie Halse Anderson * ''Twisted'', a ''Pretty Little Liars'' novel by Sara Shepard Brands * Creme Egg Twisted, a chocolate bar Music * Twisted (musical)">''Twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
