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Bill Murphy (Irish Actor)
William A. Murphy (born 14 February 1963), better known as Bill Murphy, is an Irish theatre and screen actor, writer and producer. He is known in 2022 for his role as Øgda in '' Vikings: Valhalla''. He has appeared in films such as ''Ordinary Decent Criminal'' (2000), '' My Brother's War'' (1997), '' Criminal Affairs'' (1997) and '' Moving Target'' (2000). He has also had roles in TV series such as ''Jack Taylor'' (2010) and '' Titanic: Blood and Steel'' (2012), and he also portrayed Nick Barret on the RTÉ One soap opera ''Fair City'' in 2003. He has had roles in theatre productions of ''Once'' (2015–2017), ''The Country Girls'' (2019), and ''Joyce's Women'' (2022). In 2022 he wrote, produced and starred in the short film ''Lily's Theme.'' Early life and education Murphy was born William A. Murphy in Cork City, County Cork. He began his career in Cork while training with the Irish Opera Repertory Company before moving to Dublin to continue his training with the Focus Thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork City
Cork ( , from , meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in Ireland and third largest city by population on the island of Ireland. It is located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster. Following an extension to the city's boundary in 2019, its population is over 222,000. The city centre is an island positioned between two channels of the River Lee which meet downstream at the eastern end of the city centre, where the quays and docks along the river lead outwards towards Lough Mahon and Cork Harbour, one of the largest natural harbours in the world. Originally a monastic settlement, Cork was expanded by Viking invaders around 915. Its charter was granted by Prince John in 1185. Cork city was once fully walled, and the remnants of the old medieval town centre can be found around South and North Main streets. The city's cognomen of "the rebel city" originates in its support for the Yorkist cause in the Wars of the Roses. Corkonians sometimes refer to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Brolin
Joshua James Brolin (; born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as ''The Goonies'' (1985), '' Mimic'' (1997), '' Hollow Man'' (2000), '' Grindhouse'' (2007), '' No Country for Old Men'' (2007), '' American Gangster'' (2007), '' W.'' (2008), ''Milk'' (2008), ''True Grit'' (2010), and '' Men in Black 3'' (2012). He has also appeared in films such as '' Oldboy'' (2013), ''Inherent Vice'' (2014), ''Everest'' (2015), ''Sicario'' (2015), ''Hail, Caesar!'' (2016), and ''Deadpool 2'' (2018) in addition to playing Marvel Comics supervillain Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the MCU, he appeared as Thanos in '' Guardians of the Galaxy'' (2014), '' Avengers: Age of Ultron'' (2015) and later starring in '' Avengers: Infinity War'' (2018) and '' Avengers: Endgame'' (2019). In 2021, he returned to provide the voice for an alternate timeline version of Thanos in the animated series '' What If...?'' and portrayed Gurney Halleck in Denis Villeneu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hirst (writer)
Michael Hirst (born 21 September 1952) is an English screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his films '' Elizabeth'' (1998) and '' Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' (2007), as well as the Emmy Award-winning television series ''The Tudors'' (2007-2010) and ''Vikings'' (2013-2020). Hirst owns Green Pavilion Entertainment, a production company he launched in December 2017. Early life Hirst was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire and grew up in Ilkley. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and attended the London School of Economics. He received a First Class Joint-Honours Degree in English and American Literature from the University of Nottingham and studied Henry James' writings at Trinity College, Oxford. Hirst was originally going to be an academic, but decided to become a screenwriter after Nicolas Roeg read one of his short stories and asked Hirst to write screenplays for him. Career Hirst was head writer, creator, and executive producer of the Showtime television dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikings (TV Series)
''Vikings'' is a historical drama television series created and written by Michael Hirst for the History channel, a Canadian network. Filmed in Ireland, it premiered on March 3, 2013, in Canada. The series concluded on December 30, 2020, when the second half of the sixth season was released in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video in Ireland, ahead of its broadcast on History in Canada from January 1 to March 3, 2021. A sequel series, titled '' Vikings: Valhalla'', premiered on Netflix on February 25, 2022. ''Vikings'' is inspired by the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok, a Viking who is one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of Anglo-Saxon England and West Francia. The show portrays Ragnar as a farmer who rises to fame by raiding England and eventually becomes a Scandinavian king, with the support of his family and fellow warriors. In the later seasons, the series follows the fortunes of his sons and their adventures in England, Scandinavia, Kievan Rus' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek George Jacobi (; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. He has appeared in various stage productions of William Shakespeare such as ''Hamlet'', ''Much Ado About Nothing'', '' Macbeth'', ''Twelfth Night'', '' The Tempest'', ''King Lear'', and '' Romeo and Juliet''. He has also performed in Anton Chekhov's ''Uncle Vanya'' and Edmond Rostand's ''Cyrano de Bergerac''. He was given a knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and is a member of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog. In addition to being a founder member of the Royal National Theatre and winning several prestigious theatre awards, Jacobi has also made numerous television appearances, starring in the 1976 adaptation of Robert Graves's ''I, Claudius'', for which he won a BAFTA; in the titular role in the medieval drama series ''Cadfael'' (1994–1998), as Stanley Baldwin in '' The Gathering Storm'' (2002), as the Master in '' Doctor Who'' (2007), as Stuart Bixby in the ITV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Zegers
Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant '' Kevan'' is anglicized from , an Irish diminutive form.''A Dictionary of First Names''. Oxford University Press (2007) s.v. "Kevin". The feminine version of the name is (anglicised as ''Keeva'' or ''Kweeva''). History Saint Kevin (d. 618) founded Glendalough abbey in the Kingdom of Leinster in 6th-century Ireland. Canonized in 1903, he is one of the patron saints of the Archdiocese of Dublin. Caomhán of Inisheer, the patron saint of Inisheer, Aran Islands, is properly anglicized ''Cavan'' or ''Kevan'', but often also referred to as "Kevin". The name was rarely given before the 20th century. In Ireland an early bearer of the anglicised name was Kevin Izod O'Doherty (1823–1905) a Young Irelander and politician; it gained popularity from the Gaelic revival of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Glen
Iain Alan Sutherland Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish actor. Glen is best known for his roles as Dr. Alexander Isaacs/Tyrant in three films of the ''Resident Evil'' film series (2004–2016) and as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2019). Other notable roles include John Hanning Speke in '' Mountains of the Moon'' (1990), Larry Winters in '' Silent Scream'' (1990) for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor from the Berlin International Film Festival, Manfred Powell in '' Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' (2001), Brother John in ''Song for a Raggy Boy'' (2003), the title role in '' Jack Taylor'' (2010–2016), Sir Richard Carlisle in ''Downton Abbey'' (2011), James Willett in '' Eye in the Sky'' (2015), and Bruce Wayne in ''Titans'' (2019–present). Early life and education Glen was born on 24 June 1961 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Thompson
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the ''Back to the Future'' film trilogy (1985–1990) and Beverly Switzler in '' Howard the Duck'' (1986). Other films for which she is known include '' All the Right Moves'' (1983), '' Red Dawn'' (1984), '' Some Kind of Wonderful'' (1987), '' Dennis the Menace'' (1993) and ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (1993). In the 1990s, she played the title character in the NBC sitcom '' Caroline in the City''. From 2011 to 2017, she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned- Freeform series '' Switched at Birth''. Early life Thompson was born on May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota, one of five children of Clifford and Barbara Barry Thompson, a musician. She has two sisters, Coleen Goodrich and Shannon Katona, and two brothers, Andrew and Barry She studied ballet as a girl and danced professionally by the age of 14, winning scholarsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Brand
Steven Brand (born 26 June 1969) is a Scottish actor. His feature debut was ''The Scorpion King'' (2002), where he portrayed Memnon. He has had many guest appearances on television series, and in 2015, Brand was nominated Best Guest Starring Role on Television at the Saturn Awards for his performance in ''Teen Wolf''. The upcoming ''Joe Baby'' (2023) is set to be Brand's feature directorial debut. He previously directed a television film. Career Steven Brand was born on 26 June 1969 in Dundee, Scotland. After several minor roles in television series, Brand made his feature film debut in ''The Scorpion King'' (2002). He starred as Memnon, the main antagonist, alongside Mathayus (Dwayne Johnson). Brand also voiced Alexander Anderson and Richard Hellsing in the English dubs of ''Hellsing'' and ''Hellsing Ultimate''. Brand played lawyer Ned Baker in '' Saving Lincoln'' (2013), before starring in the horror film ''Echoes'' the following year. In 2015, Brand was nominated Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Wilson (kickboxer)
Donald Glen Wilson (born September 10, 1954), nicknamed "The Dragon", is an American martial artist, film actor, and former professional kickboxer. An 11-time world champion who scored 47 knockouts in four decades, he has been called by the STAR System Ratings as "perhaps the greatest kickboxer in American history. He has disposed of more quality competition than anyone we've ever ranked". Biography Early life Wilson was born to a Japanese mother and American father in Alton, Illinois. He utilized his mother's family name, Hoshino (星野), as a ring name while competing in Japan. He attended Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton, where he was an MVP in football and basketball. Wilson also tried his hand at wrestling, in which he excelled enough to score a 4th place in the Florida State Collegiate Wrestling competition. After high school, Wilson was accepted into the prestigious Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut in the fall of 1972. Wilson has stated that his brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell (; born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor. A leading man in projects across various genres in both blockbuster and independent films since the 2000s, he has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award. ''The Irish Times'' named him Ireland's fifth greatest film actor in 2020. Farrel began acting in the BBC drama series '' Ballykissangel'' (1998) and had his film debut in the drama '' The War Zone'' (1999). His first lead film role was in the war drama '' Tigerland'' (2000), and he had his breakthrough with Steven Spielberg's science fiction film '' Minority Report'' (2002). His took on high-profile roles as Bullseye in ''Daredevil'' (2003) and Alexander the Great in ''Alexander'' (2004), and further starring roles in Michael Mann's ''Miami Vice'' (2006) and Woody Allen's '' Cassandra's Dream'' (2007). Farrell earned acclaim for playing a rookie hitman in Martin McDonagh's comedy '' In Bruges'' (2008), winning a Golden Globe Award for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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