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London Kills Me
''London Kills Me'' is a 1991 film written and directed by Hanif Kureshi and starred Justin Chadwick and Steven Mackintosh. Cast and roles * Justin Chadwick as Clint Eastwood * Steven Mackintosh as Muffdiver * as Sylvie * Roshan Seth as Dr. Bubba * Fiona Shaw as Headley * Brad Dourif as Hemingway * Tony Haygarth as Burns * Eleanor David as Lily * Alun Armstrong as John Stone * Nick Dunning as Faulkner * Naveen Andrews as Bike * Rowena King as Melanie * Stevan Rimkus as Tom Tom * Ben Peel as DJ at Party * Danny John-Jules as Black Man at Party * Paudge Behan as White Thug at Party * Yemi Goodman Ajibade as Tramp * Sandy McDade as Woman Diner * Tracey MacLeod as TV Interviewer * George Miller as Mr. Runcipher * Philip Glenister as Suited Man * Charlie Creed-Miles as Kid in Lift * Karl Collins as Barman * Sean Pertwee as German Tourist * Pippa Hinchley as German Tourist * Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Nanny * Garry Cooper as Mr. G * Gordon Warnecke Gordon Warnecke (born 24 Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi (born 5 December 1954) is a British playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist of South Asian and English descent. In 2008, ''The Times'' included Kureishi in its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Early life Kureishi was born in Bromley, South London to a Pakistani father, Rafiushan (Shanoo) Kureishi, and an English mother, Audrey Buss.Emily Ballou"Whims of the father" ''The Australia'', 15 November 2008. His father was from a wealthy Madras family, whose members moved to Pakistan after the Partition of British India in 1947. Rafiushan came to the UK in 1950 to study law but due to financial reasons he worked at the Pakistani embassy instead. Here he met his wife-to-be, Buss. He wanted to be a writer but his ambitions were frustrated. The couple were married, the family settled in Bromley where Kureishi was born. In an interview, Kureishi notes:My aternalgrandfather, an army doctor, was a colonel in the Indian army. Big family. Servants. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Dunning
Nick Dunning (born 1957 in London) is an English actor. He is a well known theatre actor who attended RADA (Dip Hons) 1977, where he won the Ronson Prize for Most Promising Young Actor. He has appeared on stage in the West End in London and at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. He has won two Irish Times Theatre Awards. He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre. To date, he is best known for his role as Thomas Boleyn in ''The Tudors'', a Showtime original series, for which he won an IFTA award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in numerous popular British TV shows such as Waking the Dead, Kavanagh QC, and the '' Midsomer Murders'' episode'' Death's Shadow''. Coronation Street. He is currently starring in a production of ''Dangerous Liaisons'' at the Gate Theatre. Dunning was head of development at the now defunct website www.screenwritingonthenet.com. He wrote two books on screenwriting. He also wrote th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste (born 26 April 1967) is an English actress. She is known for her role in the 1996 comedy-drama film '' Secrets & Lies'', for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award in the same category. Baptiste is also known for her role as Vivian Johnson on the television series ''Without a Trace'' from 2002 to 2009, and has since starred in television shows such as '' Blindspot'' (2015–2016) and ''Homecoming'' (2018). Early life Jean-Baptiste was born in London to a mother from Antigua and a father from Saint Lucia, growing up in Peckham.Simon Hattenstone"Marianne Jean-Baptiste: 'It's not a sob story - I could have stayed in the UK and fought it out ''The Guardian'', 15 June 2015. She attended St Saviour's and St Olave's secondary school. She was classically trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and performed at the Royal National Theatre. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Hinchley
Philippa Lucy Hinchley (born 7 April 1966) is an English actress who played Elaine Fenwick in '' Coronation Street''. She has also been in ''The Bill'', '' Bugs'', '' Doctors'', '' Holby City'' and '' EastEnders''. She appeared in the one-off drama ''Z for Zachariah'', part of the last run of the BBC's Play For Today series in 1984. Acting opposite Anthony Andrews, she took the role of teenager Ann Burden, one of apparently only two survivors of a nuclear holocaust. One of her earliest TV roles was as a teenaged holidaymaker in Michael Palin's drama ''East of Ipswich'' (1986), set in Southwold in the 1950s. She also appeared in the films ''Secret Places'' (1984), ''Dead Man's Folly'' (1986) and '' The Dressmaker'' (1988), and on TV in ''Last of the Summer Wine'', '' People Like Us'' and ''Touch''. Hinchley was born in London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Pertwee
Sean Carl Roland Pertwee''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007'' (born 4 June 1964) is an English actor, narrator and producer with an extensive career since the 1980s in television and cinema productions. He is known for the role of Sgt. Wells in the film ''Dog Soldiers'', W.F. "Smitty" Smith in ''Event Horizon'', Inspector Lestrade in CBS's ''Elementary'' and Alfred Pennyworth in Fox's '' Gotham''. He is also the narrator of '' MasterChef: The Professionals'' and '' Zero Hour''. Early life Pertwee was born on 4 June 1964 in Hammersmith, London, the son of the actor Jon Pertwee and his German second wife, Ingeborg Rhoesa. Playwright and screenwriter Roland Pertwee was his grandfather; his sister is the actress Dariel Pertwee, and ''Dad's Army'' actor Bill Pertwee was a cousin. Pertwee received his formal education at Teddington Boys' School in Richmond upon Thames and Sunbury College, Surrey. Career Pertwee trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Collins
Karl Collins is an English actor. He is known for his television roles as Danny Glaze in ''The Bill'', Louis Loveday in ''Hollyoaks'', and Shaun Temple in '' Doctor Who''. Early life and career Collins was born in Nottingham, and grew up on the Clifton housing estate. As a child, he was a member of the Central Junior Television Workshop, and appeared in the programmes ''Dramarama'' and ''Your Mother Wouldn't Like It''. He played a car thief called 'Craven' in '' EastEnders'' in the early 90s, stealing a car from Frank Butcher's car lot. He has played DC Danny Glaze in ''The Bill'', and has appeared in ''Casualty'', '' Holby City'', '' By Any Means'', '' As Time Goes By'' and ''55 Degrees North''. He also appeared in Shane Meadows' debut film, '' Twenty Four Seven''.Twenty Four: Seven BBC Two. In 2011, he appeared in " [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Creed-Miles
Charlie Creed-Miles (born 24 March 1972) is an English actor and musician. Creed-Miles was born in Nottingham, and had his first starring screen role, aged 21, in ''The Punk'' (1993). His brief relationship with actress Samantha Morton Samantha Jane Morton (born 13 May 1977) is an English actress and director. Known for her work in independent cinema, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for tw ... (with whom he co-starred in ''The Last Yellow'') produced a daughter, Esmé Creed-Miles, born in 2000. Filmography Film Television Music * ''North of Ping Pong'' * ''Fly Like an Eagle - Stereophonics *'' Kind'' (2019) References External links * Interview with Charlie Creed-Miles on Essex Boys Movie 1972 births English male film actors Living people 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors Male actors from Nottinghamshire Actors from Nottingham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Glenister
Philip Haywood Glenister (born 10 February 1963) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt in the BBC series ''Life on Mars'' (2006–2007) and its sequel '' Ashes to Ashes'' (2008–2010). He also played DCI William Bell in '' State of Play'' (2003) and Reverend Anderson in '' Outcast'' (2016–2018). Early life Glenister was born in Harrow, Middlesex, and grew up in Hatch End. He is the son of director John Glenister and Joan Glenister, and the younger brother of fellow actor Robert Glenister. He is of Welsh ancestry from his maternal side. He attended Hatch End High School, and with the encouragement of his then-sister-in-law Amanda Redman, he pursued acting and attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. Career In the early 1990s, Glenister appeared in various TV series including ''Minder'', ''The Ruth Rendell Mysteries'', '' Heartbeat'', '' The Chief'', ''Dressing for Breakfast'' and ''Silent Witness''. In 1997, he appeared in ''Sharpe's J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey MacLeod
Tracey MacLeod (born 30 October 1960 in Ipswich, Suffolk) is an English journalist and broadcaster. She has presented arts and music programming, including ''The Late Show (BBC TV series), The Late Show'' (1989–95) and its musical offshoots ''New West'' and ''Words and Music'', ''Edinburgh Nights'' (1989, 1990), the Man Booker Prize, Booker Prize (1990–95) and the Mercury Prize, Mercury Music Prize (1994–98). She hosted a Sunday night radio show on BBC London 94.9, GLR from 1990 for several years, and was one of the launch DJs on BBC Radio 6 Music. Biography MacLeod attended Ipswich High School (Suffolk), Ipswich High School and Durham University. MacLeod worked as a researcher for the BBC before making her on-screen debut in 1987 on Channel 4’s youth show ''Network 7''. Other screen credits include channel 4’s ''A Stab in the Dark (TV series), A Stab in the Dark'' with David Baddiel and Michael Gove, ''All I Want – A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright'', ''Kitche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy McDade
Sandra Isobel McDade (born in February 1964), professionally known as Sandy McDade, is a Scottish actress, known for her part as Margaret Brown (née Ellison) in the television series ''Lark Rise to Candleford'', Miss Scatcherd in the 2011 film ''Jane Eyre'', and Fay on stage at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs in ''Iron'', which won her the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress. Early life McDade grew up in Gracemount in Edinburgh, where she attended Gracemount High School. By the age of 15 she obtained a place at the Scottish Youth Theatre, where she made her stage debut at the Royal Lyceum Theatre. Professional life McDade's professional acting career has involved acting on television, film and on the stage, although most of her parts have been in supporting rôles. Where she had taken the lead role in ''Iron'', she has won both the 2002 Stage Awards for Acting Excellence and the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actress. She would later go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yemi Goodman Ajibade
Yemi Ajibade (28 July 1929''Africa Who's Who'', London: Africa Journal Ltd, for Africa Books, 1981, p. 82. – 24 January 2013), usually credited as Yemi Goodman Ajibade or Ade-Yemi Ajibade, was a Nigerian playwright, actor and director who, after settling in England in the 1950s, made significant contributions to the British theatre and the canon of Black drama. As an actor he is well-known for ''Dirty Pretty Things'' (2002), ''The Exorcist: The Beginning'' (2004) and ''Danger Man'' (1964). In a career that spanned half a century, he directed and wrote several successful plays, as well as acting in a wide range of drama for television, stage, radio and film. Biography and education Adeyemi Olanrewaju Goodman Ajibade was born a royal prince of the house of Ọ̀ràngún from Ìlá Òràngún, Osun State, in the south-west of Nigeria. He attended Abeokuta Grammar School – where his love for the theatre began – and later pursued studies in London, at Kennington College of Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paudge Behan
Paudge Rodger Behan (in Italian). ( ; born 18 January 1965) is an Irish actor and writer. The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice ffrench-Salkeld, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as a journalist for a Dublin newspaper before turning to acting. After a series of minor film and television roles in the 1990s, he was handpicked by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to appear as the male lead in a 1999 dramatisation of her book ''A Secret Affair'' (1996). Behan has also appeared in the feature films '' A Man of No Importance'' (1994), '' Conspiracy of Silence'' (2003) and '' Veronica Guerin'' (2003), and has taken leading roles in two short films, ''A Lonely Sky'' (2006) and ''Wake Up'' (2007). Family and early life Born in January 1965,Table 4 ("ffrench-Salkeld families") of . Paudge Behan is the son of Cathal Goulding (1923–1998), Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Official IRA, and Beatrice B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
