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Ryan Lee (Home And Away)
Ryan Lee is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'', played by Alistair MacDougall. He made his first screen appearance on 22 August 1991. Ryan was MacDougall's first television role after previously working as a model. Ryan is characterised as a rich, good time guy with a selfish and manipulative personality. The character was introduced into the series as the ex-boyfriend of Lucinda Croft (Dee Smart). He arrives hoping to reconcile their relationship but is shocked to find her coupled with Nick Parrish (Bruce Roberts). Writers played the two characters as complete opposites and Nick the dependable policeman. Ryan was portrayed embarking on a series of schemes to snare Lucinda from Nick. The love triangle story gained notoriety in Australia where MacDougall feared for his public safety and Smart was verbally abused by men in the streets. The story ended with Lucinda leaving both Ryan and Nick to live alone in Perth. Producers wanted MacDougall to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair MacDougall
Alistair MacDougall is an Australian actor and photographer. He began his career taking the role of Ryan Lee in the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away''. He then moved to the United States and appeared as Adam Cartwright Jr. in '' Bonanza: The Return'' and Ty Cooper in ''High Sierra Search and Rescue'', which were both NBC productions. In later years, MacDougall became a professional photographer and started his own businesses. Career MacDougall began his career working as a model and his significant roles were filming adverts for Levi Strauss & Co. He later stated that this work was only to support himself financially and that acting was his "love". His debut acting role came in 1991, with MacDougall portraying the role of Ryan Lee in the Australian soap opera, ''Home and Away''. The character was portrayed as a villain and gained MacDougall notoriety in Australia. In a November 1992 interview featured in ''Inside Soap'', MacDougall claimed he became fearful making public o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Symons
Emily Symons (born 10 August 1969) is an Australian-born actress, active on both Australian and British television. She is known for playing Anne Costello in the short-lived soap opera '' Richmond Hill'' in 1988 and when that series ended, from 1989, she started playing Marilyn Chambers-Fisher in ''Home and Away''. After almost ten years in that role, Symons moved to the UK and was immediately cast as Louise Appleton in the British soap ''Emmerdale''. She also took part in the British show ''Dancing on Ice'' in 2007. She then returned to Australia in 2010 to reprise her role as Marilyn in ''Home and Away''. Life and career Emily Symons's mother remarried when she was just four years old and Symons did not see her biological, English father again until ten years later. She left school before finishing her exams and launched herself into the acting world. For nearly a year, she worked in shops before getting a break in a post office training video. Her first high-profile role w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday World
The ''Sunday World'' is an Irish newspaper published by Independent News & Media. It is the second largest selling "popular" newspaper in the Republic of Ireland, and is also sold in Northern Ireland where a modified edition with more stories relevant to that region is produced. It was first published on 25 March 1973. Until 25 December 1988 all editions were printed in Dublin but since 1 January 1989 a Northern Ireland edition has been published and an English edition has been printed in London since March 1992. Origins The ''Sunday World'' was Ireland's first tabloid newspaper. Hugh McLaughlin and Gerry McGuinness launched it on 25 March 1973. It broke new ground in layout, content, agenda, columnists and use of sexual imagery. In 1976 and 1982 it was the only newspaper in the country published on St. Stephen's Day. The title also publishes a separate Northern Ireland newspaper edition. It is owned by Independent News & Media, a subsidiary of Mediahuis. Over the years i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London, until 2013, and is now divided between the St Pancras and Boston Spa sites. The library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801. In total, the collection consists of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of microfilm containing tens of millions of newspapers with 52,000 titles on 45 km of shelves. After the closure of Colindale in November 2013, access to the 750 million original printed pages was maintained via an automated and climate-controlled storage facilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily tabloid. Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the '' Sunday Mirror''. Unlike other major British tabloids such as '' The Sun'' and the '' Daily Mail'', the ''Mirror'' has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the '' Daily Record'' and the '' Sunday Mail'', which incorporate certain stories from the ''Mirror'' that are of Scottish significance. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a working-class newspaper after 1934, in order to reach a larger audience. It was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, who sold it to his brother Harold Harmsworth (from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1963 a restructuring of the media interests of the Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shout (magazine)
''Shout'' is a UK magazine for teenage girls, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd of Dundee, Scotland, since 1993. It carries articles on fashion, celebrities, flowcharts, true stories, problems and embarrassing moments. It is printed fortnightly, normally at £2.99, and is read by over 520,000 people each fortnight. Their slogan is No.1 for YouTubers!, the ONLY teen mag YOU need! The categories include a wide range of articles. The celebrity pages may have a topic (such as celebs who pick their noses, etc.) or can be just be embarrassing or enhancing pictures. Fashion shows clothes available at various stores and different ways to wear them and different ranges of colours and ways to apply make up to enhance one's features. Flow charts and polls let readers express their opinion and see what other people think on a topic. True stories contain stories of people's experiences, problems or ailments. "Problems" is a write-back system which allows girls to send in their problems wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebekah Elmaloglou
Rebekah Sophie Elmaloglou (born 23 January 1974) is an Australian actress, known for her roles as teenage tearaway Sophie Simpson on ''Home and Away'' and Terese Willis on ''Neighbours''. She also made guest appearances in ''E Street (television show), E Street'', ''A Country Practice'' and ''Pacific Drive''. Her film appearances include ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985), ''Touch the Sun (Australian TV series), Princess Kate'' (1988) and ''The Sum of Us (film), The Sum of Us'' (1994). Two of her brothers, Dominic and Sebastian Elmaloglou, have also appeared on ''Home and Away''. Life Elmaloglou was born at the Royal Women's Hospital, Paddington, New South Wales, Paddington, New South Wales, to a Greek people, Greek father, Gregory, who was principal cello in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and an English mother, Theresa, who was a kindergarten teacher. Her father was born in France. Elmaloglou left school at the age of 15 and trained at the Keane Kids studios in Sydney, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Simpson
Sophie Dean (also Simpson) is a character (arts), fictional character from the Australian Seven Network, Channel Seven soap opera ''Home and Away'', played by Rebekah Elmaloglou. She debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 23 January 1990 and appeared as a regular until 1993. Elmaloglou returned to filming when Sophie made subsequent guest appearances in 2002, 2003 and 2005. Casting In 1991, Elmaloglou was forced to take a two-week break from filming due to exhaustion. In 1992, Elmaloglou decided to quit the serial to pursue other acting projects. She admitted that she found the long working hours hard and left when it took a negative impact on her health. In 2002 Elmaloglou agreed to return to the serial as part of Summer Bay's fictional celebrations. When Sophie returns her daughter Tamara has just began attending high school and her ex-boyfriend Blake Dean (Home and Away), Blake Dean (Les Hill) begins to develop romantic feelings for her again. She returned again in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Brummer
Dieter Kirk Brummer (5 May 1976 – 24 July 2021) was an Australian actor. He was best known for his roles in television soap operas, including playing Shane Parrish in ''Home and Away'' from 1992 to 1996 and Troy Miller in ''Neighbours'' from 2011 to 2012. He also starred in crime drama '' Underbelly: The Golden Mile'', after having a smaller role in the previous series Brummer and ''Home and Away'' co-star Melissa George, who portrayed his partner and later screen wife Angel Parrish, were promoted as a soap super couple in the early 90s. Biography Brummer was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was of German descent. He began his career starring as Shane Parrish in the television soap opera ''Home and Away''. Brummer was nominated for the Gold Logie and Silver Logie Awards for "Most Popular Actor" for the role of Shane Parrish in 1994, but failed to win. However, he went on to win the "Most Popular Actor" silver Logie Award in 1995 and 1996. In 1993, 1994, and 1995 the role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'', played by Dieter Brummer. He made his first on-screen appearance on 28 May 1992 and he departed on 13 March 1996. Casting In 1992, actor Dieter Brummer successfully auditioned for the part of Shane. Brummer was fifteen years old and had been studying drama at high school. Brummer has said the recognition was instant and admitted he found the attention "quite bizarre". In 1995, Brummer quit the serial after he decided Shane's story had come to its natural conclusion. He also admitted he had become bored of the role and working with the same cast members. Speaking of his departure, Brummer stated: "I know there's life after Home And Away and I'm not afraid of it. Now it's time it's time to move on." He filmed his final scenes in December 1995, with Shane's departure airing in early 1996. Character development When he was first introduced into the serial he was portrayed as a "bad boy". Brumme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
