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End Of The Road (Torchwood)
"End of the Road" is the eighth episode of '' Torchwood: Miracle Day'', the fourth series of the British science fiction television series ''Torchwood''. It was first broadcast in the United States on Starz on 26 August 2011, and in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 1 September 2011. ''Torchwood: Miracle Day'' follows the aftermath of a day where humanity has stopped being able to die. In the episode, a team called Torchwood discovers a conspiracy by three families to use its leader Jack Harkness' (John Barrowman) blood to start the "Miracle" where no humans died. The Torchwood team also attempts to get rid of a piece of powerful alien technology to avoid it getting into the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency. Plot summary The Torchwood team arrives at the Colasanto estate led by Olivia Colasanto, Angelo's granddaughter. At the estate, Jack finds Angelo, now an old man and in a coma, having lived that long trying to find out about the secrets of immortality. Olivia reveals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Barrowman
John Scot Barrowman (born 11 March 1967) is a Scottish-American actor, author, presenter, singer and comic book writer. He is known for his role as Captain Jack Harkness in '' Doctor Who'' and ''Torchwood'', and as Malcolm Merlyn in the Arrowverse. Born in Glasgow, Barrowman moved to the US state of Illinois with his family at the age of eight. Encouraged by his high school teachers there, he studied performing arts at the United States International University in San Diego before landing the role of Billy Crocker in Cole Porter's ''Anything Goes'' in London's West End. Since his debut, he has played lead roles in various musicals both in the West End and on Broadway, including ''Miss Saigon'', ''The Phantom of the Opera'', ''Sunset Boulevard'', and ''Matador''. After appearing in Sam Mendes' production of '' The Fix'', he was nominated for the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical and, in the early 2000s, returned to the role of Billy Crocker in the reviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Benedict
Marina Benedict is an American actress best known for her role in the Golden Globe nominated series ''Flesh and Bone'' as Toni Cannava; '' Prison Break: Resurrection'' as Emily "A&W" Blake; '' Gotham'' as Cherry; '' ER'' as Lois Landry; '' Torchwood: Miracle Day'' as Charlotte Wills; and ''Burn Notice'' as Col. Oksana Zhirkov. Career Benedict was the lead singer in BMG's pop group 5 NY that toured throughout Europe and received a Billboard Top 40 hit in Germany. Personal life Benedict attended the Cornish College of the Arts. Benedict became an instructor at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) is a private conservatory for the performing arts located in New York City and Los Angeles, California. The conservatory offers both Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees and two-year certificates in prof ... in 2003. She is the Co-Chair of the Dance Department. Filmography Film Television References External links * * {{DEFAULTS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Gold
Murray Jonathan Gold (born 28 February 1969) is an English composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio. He is best known as the musical director and composer of the music for ''Doctor Who'' from 2005, until he stepped down in 2018 after the tenth series aired in 2017. He has been nominated for five BAFTAs. Born in Portsmouth to a Jewish family, Gold initially pursued drama as a vocation, writing and playing music as a hobby, but switched to music when he became musical director for the University of Cambridge's Footlights society. Television Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA five times in the category Best Original Television Music, for '' Vanity Fair'' (1999), '' Queer as Folk'' (2000), ''Casanova'' (2006) and twice for ''Doctor Who'' (2009 and 2014). His score for the BAFTA winning film '' Kiss of Life'' was awarded the 'Mozart Prize of the 7th Art' by a French jury at Aubagne in 2003. He has also been nominated four times by the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Tranter
Jane Tranter (born 17 March 1963) is an English television executive who was the executive vice-president of programming and production at BBC Worldwide's Los Angeles base from 2009 until 2015. From 2006 to 2008, she was the BBC's controller of fiction; in this capacity she oversaw the corporation's output in drama and comedy, as well as films and programmes acquired from overseas, across all BBC TV channels. Critics were concerned that the BBC had invested too much creative power in one person, and following Tranter's move to the United States, the position of controller of fiction was abolished and the responsibilities divided up among four other executives. Early career After studying English Literature at King's College London and taking a secretarial course back in Oxford, she joined the staff of the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Gardner
Julie Ann Gardner (born 4 June 1969) is a Welsh television producer. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of '' Doctor Who'' and its spin-off shows ''Torchwood'' and ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. She worked on ''Doctor Who'' from 2003 to 2009 before moving to Los Angeles to work at BBC Worldwide. In 2015, Gardner co-founded the production company Bad Wolf, best known for the BBC TV series ''His Dark Materials'', on which Gardner also serves as an executive producer. Early life Gardner was born in Neath and grew up in the Pont Walby area of Glynneath, where her parents ran a local shop. She attended Llangatwg Comprehensive and Neath Port Talbot College, where she was an outstanding student of A Level English, History and Drama. She read English at Queen Mary University of London and initially worked as a teacher at Rhondda College, now part of Coleg Morgannwg, teaching English at GCSE and A Level, before in the mid-1990s she dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell T Davies
Stephen Russell Davies (born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include '' Queer as Folk'', '' The Second Coming'', ''Casanova'', the 2005 revival of the BBC One science fiction franchise ''Doctor Who'', ''Cucumber'', ''A Very English Scandal'', '' Years and Years'' and ''It's a Sin''. Born in Swansea, Davies had aspirations as a comic artist before focusing on being a playwright and screenwriter. After graduating from Oxford University, he joined the BBC's children's department, CBBC, in 1985 on a part-time basis and held various positions, which included creating two series, '' Dark Season'' and ''Century Falls''. He eventually left the BBC for Granada Television, and in 1994 began writing adult television drama. His early scripts generally explored concepts of religion and sexuality among various backdrops: '' Revelations'' was a soap opera about organised religion and featured a lesbian vicar; '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson (born July 14, 1964) is an American television writer and producer. Espenson has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and shared a Hugo Award with Drew Goddard for her writing on the episode "Conversations with Dead People". After her work on ''Buffy'', she wrote and produced episodes of ''The O.C.'' and ''Gilmore Girls'' among other series. From 2006 to 2010, Espenson worked on '' Battlestar Galactica'' and many of its supplementary works. Between 2009 and 2010, she served on '' Caprica'', as co-executive and executive producer and co-showrunner. In 2010, she wrote an episode of HBO's '' Game of Thrones'', eventually earning a Writers' Guild Award for her involvement with the show. In 2011 she joined the writing staff for the fourth season of the British television program ''Torchwood'', which aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom and Starz in the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nayo Wallace
Nayo Kamilah Wallace is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on ''Speed Racer'' as Minx, scientist and girlfriend to Racer X and on the Hub Network's '' Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot'' as the voice of '' Harmony Bear'' from its premiere on June 2, 2012 until December 8, 2012. She also portrayed the character of Sarabi in ''The Lion King'' on Broadway. Personal life Nayo Kamilah Wallace was born in Detroit, Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the .... Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Nayo Living people Actresses from Detroit 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses American film actresses American television actresses American stage actresses American video game actresses Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Wu
Constance Wu (born March 22, 1982) is an American actress. Wu was included on ''Time'' magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. She has earned several accolades, including nominations for a Golden Globe Award, four Critics' Choice Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two TCA Awards. Wu starred as Jessica Huang in the ABC television comedy ''Fresh Off the Boat'' (2015–2020), which was her breakthrough role and earned her four nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. She was further lauded for her role as Rachel Chu in the romantic comedy-drama film ''Crazy Rich Asians'' (2018) for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, among others; she became the first actress of Asian descent in over 40 years and the fourth overall to be nominated for the former ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan M
Megan is a Welsh feminine given name, originally a diminutive form of Margaret. Margaret is from the Greek μαργαρίτης (''margarítēs''), Latin ''margarīta'', "pearl". Megan is one of the most popular Welsh-language names for women in Wales and England, and is commonly truncated to Meg. Megan was one of the most popular feminine names in the English-speaking world in the 1990s, peaking in 1990 in the United States and 1999 in the United Kingdom. Approximately 54% of people named Megan born in the US were born in 1990 or later. Megan is also frequently spelled Meagan, Meaghan, or Meghan outside of Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom due to spelling influence from Irish-language names. People * Meagan Best (born 2002), Barbadian squash player * Megan Bonnell, Canadian musician * Meghan Boody (born 1964), American surrealist photographer * Megan Boone (born 1983), American actress * Megan Cunningham (born 1995), Scottish footballer * Megan Danso (born 1990), Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Visitor
Nana Tucker ( ; born July 26, 1957), known professionally as Nana Visitor, is an American actress, best known for playing Kira Nerys in the television series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and Jean Ritter in the television series ''Wildfire''. Early life Nana Tucker was born July 26, 1957, in New York City, the daughter of Nenette Charisse, a ballet teacher, and Robert Tucker, a choreographer; she is a niece of actress/dancer Cyd Charisse. Career Visitor began her acting career in the 1970s on the Broadway stage in such productions as '' My One and Only''. Her film debut (billed by her birth name, Nana Tucker) came in the 1977 horror film '' The Sentinel.'' On television, Visitor co-starred in the short-lived 1976 sitcom ''Ivan the Terrible'' and from 1978 to 1982, had short-lived regular roles on three soap operas: ''Ryan's Hope,'' '' The Doctors,'' and ''One Life to Live.'' She adopted the stage name "Nana Visitor" in the early 1980s. In 1984, she appeared in a season-two ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Sears
Edward M. Sears (born April 6, 1977) is an American actor, known for his roles as Richard Patrick Woolsley on the TNT legal drama series '' Raising the Bar'', Patrick on the first season of FX anthology horror drama ''American Horror Story'' (retroactively titled '' Murder House''), Dr. Austin Langham on the ''Showtime'' period drama series ''Masters of Sex'', and DC Comics supervillain Hunter Zolomon / Zoom on ''The Flash''. Early life and education Sears was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He attended high school at the Landon School in Bethesda, MD. Sears played varsity football for the University of Maryland, but transferred and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in business management in 1999. Career Sears' business career in New York was put on hold as he won a role on his first audition, with a two-year contract role on the daytime series ''One Life to Live''. Then, after several appearances on the ''Law & Order'' fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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