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Bryony (given Name)
Bryony or Briony is a feminine given name derived from the name of the plant. It may refer to: * Bryony Afferson (born 1983), British actress and musician * Briony Akle (born c. 1977), Australian netball player and coach * Bryony Botha (born 1997), New Zealand cyclist * Bryony Brind (1960–2015), British ballerina * Briony Cole (born 1983), Australian diver * Bryony Coles (born 1946), British archaeologist * Bryony Frost (born 1995), British jockey * Bryony Gordon (born 1980), British journalist * Bryony Griffith (born 1977), British musician * Bryony Hannah (born 1984), British actress * Bryony Kimmings (born 1981), British artist * Bryony Lavery (born 1947), British dramatist * Briony McRoberts (1957–2013), English actress * Bryony Marks (born c.1971), Australian screen composer * Bryony Page (born 1990), British gymnast * Briony Penn (born 1960), Canadian author and environmental activist * Briony Scott (born 1963), Australian educator and columnist * Bryony Shaw (born 1983 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryony Hannah
Bryony Hannah (born 1984) is a British actress, best known as Cynthia Miller in BBC One's ''Call the Midwife''. Personal life The daughter of a teacher and a retired Royal Navy lieutenant-commander, Hannah comes from Portsmouth, and after leaving school worked in a pub in Southampton. She was then accepted to RADA, having won a Laurence Olivier Bursary. In 2014, Hannah gave birth to her first child. Career Hannah received an Olivier Award Nomination for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her role as Mary Tilford in '' The Children's Hour''. Several reviews of that production mentioned that Hannah was a "virtual unknown" and "stole the show." Her other stage roles include performances in ''Earthquakes in London'', ''Every Good Boy Deserves Favour'', ''The Pillowman'', ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' and ''War Horse''. In 2017, she appeared in the posthumous premiere of Olivier Award winner Kevin Elyot's final play ''Twilight Song'', alongside Adam Garcia and Paul Higgins. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington
Bryony Katherine Worthington, Baroness Worthington, (born 19 September 1971), is a British environmental campaigner and life peer in the House of Lords. She has promoted change in attitudes to the environment, and action to tackle climate change. In 2008 she founded Sandbag, a non-profit campaign group designed to increase public awareness of emissions trading. Biography Worthington was born and grew up in Wales. She attended Queens' College, Cambridge, where she read English literature. Upon graduation she joined Operation Raleigh as a fundraiser. In the mid 1990s, she worked for an environmental charity, and by 2000 had moved to work for Friends of the Earth as a climate change campaigner. She then worked for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, implementing public awareness campaigns and helping draft the Climate Change Bill, before becoming head of government relations for the energy company, Scottish and Southern Energy. She left to form Sandbag in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryony Van Velzen
Bryony van Velzen (born 14 May 1996) is a former Dutch professional racing cyclist, who rode four years for UCI Women's Continental Team and one year for . See also * List of 2016 UCI Women's Teams and riders Listed below are the UCI Women's Teams that compete in 2016 women's road cycling events organized by the International Cycling Union ( UCI), including the 2016 UCI Women's World Tour. Teams overview The country designation of each team is deter ... References External links * 1996 births Living people Dutch female cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) People from Sittard-Geleen Cyclists from Limburg (Netherlands) {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryony Shaw
Bryony Elisabeth Shaw (born 28 April 1983, Wandsworth) is a British Olympic windsurfer. Early life She first began windsurfing in the south of France in 1992. She attended Cheney Upper School near Headington in Oxford (where her father had been teaching at Oxford Brookes University), gaining A levels in art, maths, and biology. She had windsurfed on Farmoor Reservoir to the west of Oxford. She went to Cardiff University to study architecture, and she stayed for a year before committing to windsurfing full time in 2005. Windsurfing She won the bronze medal in the women's RS:X class at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the first ever women's windsurfing medal for the British Olympic team. She trains at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Shaw won silver at the 2013, 2015, and 2016 RS:X World Championships, and 5th at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships. ;2008 Summer Olympic regatta See also * Nick Dempsey Nicholas Charles Dempsey (born 13 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briony Scott
Briony Scott (born 28 September 1963) is an Australian educator and columnist, who is currently principal of Wenona School, an independent school for girls that is located in the lower north shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Early life and education Scott is the daughter of Dr Carl Edmonds and his wife Cindy (Cynthia). She was born in the United Kingdom when Dr Edmonds was working there. Dr Edmonds was the Officer in Charge, Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine and is considered to be one of the world's leading diving medical experts. He was the lead author of the diving medicine "bible"Diving Medicine for Scuba Divers Scott attended the University of Sydney, and holds Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Master of Education and Doctor of Education degrees, with research focussing on girls' education, the utilisation of educational technology, and non-government school funding policy. Career She is well known for her fortnightly column in the ''North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briony Penn
Briony Penn (born October 16, 1960, Saanich, British Columbia) is a Canadian author and environmental activist who received international attention when she protested logging on Salt Spring Island by riding horseback through downtown Vancouver while nearly nude and dressed as Lady Godiva. She won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2016 for her book ''The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan'' (Rocky Mountain Books). Early life and career A fifth-generation islander, Penn was born and raised in Saanich, British Columbia. She graduated from the international baccalaureate program in Victoria (Norfolk House) in 1977. In 1981, she received her BA in Geography/Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. She then studied in Scotland, and in 1988 received her Ph.D in geography from the University of Edinburgh. Penn is an adjunct professor of environmental studies at the University of Victoria and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryony Page
Bryony Kate Frances Page (born 10 December 1990) is a British individual trampoline gymnast. She is the 2021 women's individual trampoline world champion, and part of the British team that won team gold at the 2013 world championships. Page became the first British trampolinist to win an Olympic medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, when she won the silver medal. Five years later, at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she once more reached the podium winning a bronze medal. In doing so she became the first British female gymnast in any gymnastic discipline to win medals across two or more Games. Early life and education Page was born in Crewe and brought up in Wrenbury, near Nantwich. She attended Brine Leas School and Malbank School and Sixth Form College. She took up trampolining at the age of nine. Page studied biology at the University of Sheffield, where she received a sports scholarship. She graduated in 2015 with a first-class honours degree, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryony Marks
Bryony Marks is an Australian composer of film scores and theatre music, for which she has won several awards and been nominated for many others. Among her television credits is ''Please Like Me'' and ''Barracuda'', and films include '' Berlin Syndrome'' and '' 2040''. She has also composed the music for many of the films directed by her husband, Matthew Saville. Early life and education Marks' parents own(ed) a vineyard in Gembrook, in the Dandenongs, near Melbourne in Victoria. She was born in around 1971. She completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Music Composition for Film and Television at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, part of University of Melbourne, achieving first class honours. In 2001 she attended the inaugural program for composers at the Australian National Academy of Music, where she studied under Simon Bainbridge and Karen Tanaka. She first met her future husband, filmmaker Matt Saville, at the Victorian College of the Arts. Career Marks composed music for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briony McRoberts
Briony McRoberts (10 February 1957 – 17 July 2013) was an English actress. Career On television, she played Tessa Kilpin in "No Stone", the 57th episode of '' The Professionals'', and appeared in television programmes including ''The Bill'', ''EastEnders'', ''Taggart'', ''The Crezz'' and ''Diamonds''. She had a regular role as Lady Laird Sam Hagan in the Scottish soap ''Take the High Road'' for STV from 1990 to 1999. In 1976, she played Wendy Darling in a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'' starring Mia Farrow and Danny Kaye on NBC's ''Hallmark Hall of Fame''. In film, she played Margo Fassbender in ''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'' (1976) and Ann Underwood in the horror film ''Edge of Sanity'' (1989). On stage, she made many appearances in the West End and the regions including playing Wendy Darling in J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'' at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1980, the musical 'Maggie', also at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1978 and Charley's Aunt at the Aldw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryony Lavery
Bryony Lavery (born 1947) is a British dramatist, known for her successful and award-winning 1998 play '' Frozen''. In addition to her work in theatre, she has also written for television and radio. She has written books including the biography ''Tallulah Bankhead'' and ''The Woman Writer's Handbook'', and taught playwriting at Birmingham University. Biography Lavery grew up in Dewsbury. Having begun her career as an actress, she decided that she was fed up with playing poor parts in plays, such as the left arm of a sofa, and decided to write plays with better parts for women. Early in her career she founded a theatre company called Les Oeufs Malades with actors Gerard Bell and Jessica Higgs, she also founded Female Trouble, More Female Trouble and served as artistic director of Gay Sweatshop. Her plays have a feminist undertone in them [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryony Kimmings
Bryony Kimmings (born 30 March 1981) is a British live artist based in London and Cambridgeshire. She is an associate artist of the Soho Theatre, and, in 2016, was commissioned to write ''The Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer'' for Complicite Associates. She creates multi-platform art works to provoke change. Her work centres mostly around "social experiments", which in the past have included the artist retracing an STI to its source, spending seven days in a controlled environment in a constant state of intoxication and becoming a pop star invented by a nine-year-old. She has performed at the Soho Theatre, London, Kimmings' work has toured across the world including: The Southbank Centre, London, BAC Grandhall, Antifest (Finland), Culturgest (Portugal), Fusebox Festival (Texas), Melbourne International Comedy Festival (Australia), and Lisinski Operahouse (Croatia). Early career Kimmings graduated with a degree in Modern Drama from Brunel University in 2003. In a 2011 inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
