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Richard Holmes (producer)
Richard Holmes (born 1 January 1963) is a British film producer. Career Holmes began his career in a comedy double-act, The Gruber Brothers, with Stefan Schwartz. He produced Schwartz's debut feature film, the award-winning ''Soft Top Hard Shoulder'' (1993), winner of a BAFTA Scotland for Best Film and Best Actor. He went on to co-write and produce ''Shooting Fish'' (1997) starring Kate Beckinsale, Stuart Townsend and Dan Futterman. He then produced the multi-award-winning ''Waking Ned'' (1998) written and directed by Kirk Jones (director), Kirk Jones. He was nominated, alongside his producing partner Glynis Murray, for a Producers Guild of America Award for the film. From 1999 - 2002 he was Managing Director of Civilian Content Plc. In 2008 he produced, alongside Christian Colson, the critically acclaimed feature film ''Eden Lake'' (2008), written and directed by James Watkins (director), James Watkins. In 2011 he produced the film adaptation of the novel ''Resistance (Owen She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Schwartz
Stefan Schwartz (born 1 May 1963) is an English and Canadian film and television director, writer and actor, most known for the feature film ''Shooting Fish'' and his work on the BBC's '' Spooks'' and ''Luther'', AMC's '' The Walking Dead'' and Fear The Walking Dead as well as ''The Americans'' and '' The Boys''. Career 1992–2007 Stefan Schwartz teamed up with Richard Holmes at The University of York and formed The Gruber Brothers. The duo made a number of films together including their feature film debut ''Soft Top Hard Shoulder'' (1992) starring Peter Capaldi and Phyllis Logan, which won two BAFTAs in Scotland and the London Film Festival's prestigious audience award. Building on this success in 1995 he directed ''Giving Tongue'', shown as part of BBC2′s Wicked Women series and in 1997 wrote and directed ''Shooting Fish'', a crime-caper comedy starring Kate Beckinsale which won several awards and made over twenty million dollars worldwide. He then signed a thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sheen
Michael Christopher Sheen OBE (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor, television producer and political activist. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s with stage roles in ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1992), ''Don't Fool with Love'' (1993), ''Peer Gynt'' (1994), ''The Seagull'' (1995), ''The Homecoming'' (1997), and ''Henry V'' (1997). His performances in ''Amadeus'' at the Old Vic and ''Look Back in Anger'' at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in ''Caligula'' at the Donmar Warehouse. Sheen has become better known as a screen actor since the 2000s, in particular through his roles in various biographical films. For writer Peter Morgan, he starred in a trilogy of films as UK prime minister Tony Blairthe television film '' The Deal'' in 2003, ''The Queen'' (2006), and '' The Special Relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
45 Years
''45 Years'' is a 2015 British Romance film, romantic drama film directed and written by Andrew Haigh. The film is based on the short story "In Another Country" by David Constantine. The film premiered in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. Charlotte Rampling won the Silver Bear for Best Actress and Tom Courtenay won the Silver Bear for Best Actor. At the 88th Academy Awards, Rampling received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress, Best Actress in a Leading Role. It was selected to be screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and also screened at the 2015 Telluride Festival. It was released in the United Kingdom on 28 August 2015. The film was released in the United States by Sundance Selects on 23 December 2015. Plot Five years after retirees Kate and Geoff Mercer had to cancel their 40th wedding anniversary because of his heart bypass surgery, the comfortably-off, childless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasporto Film Festival
Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival, annually organized since 1981 in Porto, Portugal. Giving screen space to fantasy/science fiction/ horror-oriented commercial feature films, auteur films and experimental projects from all over the world, Fantasporto has created enthusiastic audiences, ranging from cinephiles to more popular spectators, with an annual average of 110,000 attendees. It was rated in ''Variety'' as one of the 25 leading festivals of the world. In its 27th edition in February 2006 the festival reached 104,000 people and 5,000 media references, both domestic and international, with a record of 187 hours of TV time. Present in Porto were about 100 members of the foreign press and about 250 Portuguese journalists and media representatives. In spite of being organized by a private entity, the event is mostly state funded, with the Ministry of Culture of Portugal leading and the President of the Republic as head of the Honour Committee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Harrison
Blake Harrison is an English actor, comedian and dancer. He is best known for playing Neil Sutherland in the BAFTA-winning E4 comedy ''The Inbetweeners'' and more recently as 'Medium' Dan, in the ITV sitcom Kate & Koji since 2020. Career Harrison starred in three series and two subsequent films of the multi-award-winning comedy ''The Inbetweeners''. Harrison's other television work includes the BBC Three comedies '' Way to Go'' and ''Him & Her'', and Comedy Central's '' Big Bad World'', ''The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff'', and ''The Bill''. Harrison also starred in all three seasons of '' The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret'', created by David Cross. His theatre work includes 'End of the Pier' at the Park Theatre in 2018, ''Step 9 of 12'' at the Trafalgar Studios, London in 2012 and ''The Accidental Lives of Memories'' at the White Bear Theatre. His film work includes ''Keeping Rosy'' with Maxine Peake, ''Madness in the Method'' and '' Re-Uniting the Rubins'' with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Peake
Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English actress and narrator. She is known for her roles as Twinkle in the BBC One sitcom ''dinnerladies'' (1998–2000), Veronica Ball in the hit Channel 4 comedy drama '' Shameless'' (2004–2007), Martha Costello in the BBC One legal drama ''Silk'' (2011–2014), and Grace Middleton in the BBC One drama series '' The Village'' (2013–2014). In 2017, she starred in the ''Black Mirror'' episode " Metalhead". She has also played the title role in ''Hamlet'', as well as the notorious serial killer Myra Hindley in the critically acclaimed ITV dramatization of the Moors murders, '' See No Evil: The Moors Murders'' (2006). Early life Peake was born in Westhoughton, Bolton, on 14 July 1974, the second of two daughters born to Glenys (''née'' Hall) and Brian Peake. Her father was a lorry driver before working in the electrical industry, and her mother was a part-time careworker. Her older sister, Lisa, who was born in 1965, is a police office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keeping Rosy
Keeping is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Keeping (1924–1988), British illustrator, children's book author and lithographer * Damien Keeping (born 1982), Australian rules football coach * Frederick Keeping (1867–1950), British racing cyclist * Jack Keeping (born 1996), English cricketer * Janet Keeping, leader of the Green Party of Alberta * Jeff Keeping (born 1982), Canadian Football League defensive tackle * Max Keeping (1942–2015), Canadian television news anchor * Michael Keeping (1902–1984), English footballer and manager (son of Frederick Keeping) * Tom Keeping (born 1942), Canadian politician * Walter Keeping (1854–1888), British geologist and museum curator See also * * Keep (other) * Keeper (other) * Keepers (other) Keepers may refer to: * ''Keepers'' (novel), a 2005 novel written by Gary A. Braunbeck * "Keepers" (''Journeyman''), the sixth episode of the first season of ''Journeyman'' * '' Keepers: Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikesh Patel
Nikesh Patel (born 1985) is a British actor, best known for his role as Aafrin Dalal in the TV series ''Indian Summers,'' Kash Khan in the mini series ''Four Weddings and A Funeral'', and Tom Kapoor in the sitcom '' Starstruck''. Early life Patel was born in Wembley, London. His parents are pharmacists. He completed his secondary education at the City of London School. He initially wanted to become a journalist but turned to acting while at university. Career Patel started acting during his time reading English at the University of Warwick, where he played Othello in a student production. After graduating with a BA in English Literature, Patel went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He graduated from Guildhall in 2010 and was awarded the school's gold medal for Acting that year. Theatre Patel got his professional start in the theatre, appearing in Anupama Chandrasekhar's play ''Disconnect'' at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. In 2011, Patel was part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeel Akhtar
Adeel Akhtar (born 18 September 1980) is a British actor. In 2017, he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his role in '' Murdered by My Father''. He was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his role on Channel 4's ''Utopia'', as well as a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for '' Ali & Ava''. Early life Akhtar was born in London, to a Pakistani father and a Kenyan mother. He was educated at Cheltenham College Junior School from 1991 to 1994 and then moved to Cheltenham College in Newick House from 1994 to 1999. He originally completed a degree in law from Oxford Brookes University in 2002, but decided to follow his passion and change to acting, training at the Actors Studio Drama School, then within The New School, in New York. Career Akhtar's first major role was as the bumbling Muslim extremist Faisal in Chris Morris's film ''Four Lions''. Other comedic performances include Gupta in ''The An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulvinder Ghir
Kulvinder Ghir (born 10 August 1965) is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known as one of the cast members in the BBC sketch show '' Goodness Gracious Me''. He is also known for playing Aslam in the 1987 Yorkshire-based film '' Rita, Sue and Bob Too!'', alongside Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran and George Costigan. Early life Ghir was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Indian Punjabi parents of Sikh heritage. Ghir grew up in the Chapeltown suburb of Leeds, England. Ghir first began performing on stage at 13, going on to play comedy clubs between 15 and 17, thereafter enrolling in a London drama school. Career Ghir made his first television appearance as a teenager in 1981 on the Yorkshire Television programme ''The Extraordinary People Show''. At the time, he was looking at going into animation, and was one of three teenagers chosen to question Gerry Anderson about his techniques, and for general advice. His next TV appearance was in 1985, in the recurring role of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amara Karan
Amara Karunakaran (born 1984), known professionally as Amara Karan, is an English actress who made her film début as Rita in Wes Anderson's ''The Darjeeling Limited''. The film premièred at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. Karan's second film role was as schoolgirl Peaches in the 2007 film ''St Trinian's''. She made her stage début in 2008 as Jessica in an RSC production of ''The Merchant of Venice'' and as Bianca in an RSC production of ''The Taming of the Shrew''. With the latter, she made her West End debut at the Novello Theatre. In 2016, she co-starred on the HBO crime drama mini-series, ''The Night Of''. In 2012 she co-starred in the film ''A Fantastic Fear of Everything''. Background Karan was born in Wimbledon, London in 1984 to Sri Lankan Tamil parents who had emigrated from Zambia to Britain two years before she was born. She was brought up in Wimbledon and attended Wimbledon High School. Karan went on to study at St Catherine's College, Oxford and while there began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harish Patel
Harish Patel (born 5 July 1953) is an Indian character actor. He has appeared in a variety of Hindi films, but in recent years has begun to appear in American projects like reimagination of ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' on Hulu. His latest project is the MCU film '' Eternals''. Although mainly associated with the stage, he has appeared in Indian and British films and television shows. Early life and background Patel was born in Mumbai, Bombay State (now Maharashtra), India. He began performing at the age of seven, when he played male and female roles in the Hindu epic ''Ramayana''. Acting career He made his film debut in ''Mandi'' directed by Shyam Benegal in 1983. From 1994 to 2008, Patel worked with the Indian theatre director Satyadev Dubey. In 1995, he joined the Indian National Theatre and appeared in the play ''Neela Kamra''. His repertoire has included classical and modern Indian plays as well as plays by Western writers, e.g., Pinter's ''The Caretaker'', Sartre's ''No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
