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Sarah Lancashire
Sarah-Jane Abigail Lancashire (born 10 October 1964) is an English actress from Oldham, England. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1986 and began her career in local theatre, whilst teaching drama classes at the Salford University. Lancashire was cast in television programmes including '' Coronation Street'' (1991–1996, 2000), '' Where the Heart Is'' (1997–1999), ''Clocking Off'' (2000) and ''Seeing Red'' (2000) and earned widespread recognition. In July 2000, Lancashire signed a two-year golden handcuffs contract with the ITV network which made her the UK's highest paid television actress. Subsequent television roles include the costume dramas ''Oliver Twist'' (2007), ''Lark Rise to Candleford'' (2008–2011) and '' The Paradise'' (2012), and the fact based dramas '' Cherished'' (2005) and ''Five Daughters'' (2010). Since the 2010s, Lancashire has earned success and critical acclaim for her roles in the drama series '' Last Tango in Halifa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Lancashire Filmography
Sarah Lancashire is an English actress whose career began in 1986. Lancashire's first acting roles were in local theatre, with small guest roles in television dramas and sitcoms. After coming to public attention with roles in programmes such as '' Coronation Street'', (1987, 1991–1996, 2000) '' Where the Heart Is'' (1997–1999) and ''Clocking Off'' (2000), Lancashire signed a two-year golden handcuffs contract with the ITV network, appearing exclusively in ITV1 programming for the next two years. Lancashire has continued to work extensively across a variety of television drama genres, including guest appearances, regular roles in returning series and with featured roles in standalone miniseries' and television films. Her more prolific work includes the drama series' ''Lark Rise to Candleford'' (2008–2011), ''Last Tango in Halifax'' (2012–2020) and '' Happy Valley'' (2014–2016, 2023). Lancashire has appeared in the feature films ''And When Did You Last See Your Father?' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 British Academy Television Awards
The 2013 British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 9 April 2013. The award ceremony was held at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 12 May 2013. Winners and Nominees Winners are listed first and emboldened. Leading Actor * Ben Whishaw – ''Richard II'': "The Hollow Crown" (BBC Two) ** Sean Bean – '' Accused'': "Tracie's Story" ( BBC One) ** Derek Jacobi – '' Last Tango in Halifax'' (BBC One) ** Toby Jones – '' The Girl'' (BBC Two) Leading Actress * Sheridan Smith – ''Mrs Biggs'' ( ITV) ** Rebecca Hall – '' Parade's End'' (BBC Two) ** Sienna Miller – '' The Girl'' (BBC Two) ** Anne Reid – '' Last Tango in Halifax'' (BBC One) Supporting Actor * Simon Russell Beale – '' Henry IV, Parts I & II'': "The Hollow Crown" (BBC Two) ** Peter Capaldi – '' The Hour'' (BBC Two) ** Stephen Graham – '' Accused'': "Tracie's Story" (BBC One) ** Harry Lloyd – ''The Fear'' (Channel 4) Supporting Actress * Olivia Colman – '' Accused'': "Mo's Story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Twist (2007 TV Miniseries)
''Oliver Twist'' is a 2007 British television adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel ''Oliver Twist'', written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Coky Giedroyc. It consists of five episodes, broadcast on BBC One from 18 to 22 December 2007. It aired on PBS' ''Masterpiece Theatre, Masterpiece Classic'' in the United States on 15 and 22 February 2009, in two ninety-minute installments. In Australia, ABC1 also opted to air this series as a two-part special each Sunday at 8:30 pm from 20 December 2009. Production Filming took place in May 2007, with the scene at the workhouse where Oliver asks "Please, sir, I want some more" being filmed at Chatham Dockyard, The Historic Dockyard in Chatham. Plot Summary A heavily pregnant woman makes her way to a workhouse in Mudfog where she gives birth to a boy and subsequently dies. The Beadle, Mr. Bumble names the boy Oliver Twist. 10 years later, Oliver makes the mistake of asking for more gruel. He is subsequently sold to work with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Blue Eyes
''Betty Blue Eyes'' is a 2011 stage musical comedy based on the 1984 film ''A Private Function'', and features music by George Stiles, with lyrics by Anthony Drewe. The book was written for the stage by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, adapted from Alan Bennett's original screenplay. Background ''Betty Blue Eyes'' is based on the 1984 film ''A Private Function'', by Alan Bennett. The show marked producer Cameron Mackintosh's first new musical in over 10 years and when describing what drew him to the project (which he has described as "delicious"), Mackintosh said: :"The score was written by friends of mine, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, whom I've known for 25 years and ho,of course, did all the terrific new songs for ''Mary Poppins'' ... The book was written by two Americans owen and Lipman and it was their idea... I read it and I thought it was the most original piece I had read in a long, long time. I mean, I knew they were working on it, because the moment I heard it was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guys And Dolls
''Guys and Dolls'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner". The show premiered on Broadway in 1950, where it ran for 1,200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. ''Guys and Dolls'' was selected as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. However, because of writer Abe Burrows' communist sympathies as exposed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), the Trustees of Columbia University vetoed the selection, and no Pulitzer for Drama was awarded that year. In 1998, Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene, Robert Alda and Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Brothers (musical)
''Blood Brothers'' is a musical with book, lyrics, and music by Willy Russell. The story is a contemporary nature versus nurture plot, revolving around fraternal twins Mickey and Eddie, who were separated at birth, one subsequently being raised in a wealthy family, the other in a poor family. The different environments take the twins to opposite ends of the social spectrum, one becoming a councillor, and the other unemployed and in prison. They both fall in love with the same girl, causing a rift in their friendship and leading to the tragic death of both brothers. Russell says that his work was based on a one-act play that he read as a child "about two babies switched at birth ... it became the seed for Blood Brothers." Originally developed as a school play, ''Blood Brothers'' debuted in Liverpool before Russell transferred it to the West End for a short run in 1983. The musical won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical and went on to a year-long national tour before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.Christopher Innes, "West End" in ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1194–1195, Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London. Famous screen actors, British and international alike, frequently appear on the London stage. There are a total of 39 theatres in the West End, with the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opened in May 1663, the oldest theatre in London. The Savoy Theatre – built as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan – was entirely lit by electricity in 1881. Opening in October 2022, @sohoplace is the first new West End theatre in 50 years. The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dad's Army (2016 Film)
''Dad's Army'' is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom ''Dad's Army''. It is directed by Oliver Parker and set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an elegant German spy, posing as a journalist, reporting on the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon. The platoon members are played by Toby Jones (Captain Mainwaring) (based on Arthur Lowe), Bill Nighy (Sergeant Wilson), (based on John Le Mesurier), Tom Courtenay (Lance Corporal Jones) (based on Clive Dunn), Bill Paterson, (Private Frazer) (based on John Laurie), Michael Gambon (Private Godfrey), (based on Arnold Ridley), Blake Harrison (Private Pike), (based on Ian Lavender) and Daniel Mays (Private Walker), (based on James Beck). The production design was by Simon Bowles and the cinematography by Christopher Ross. The film was released on 5 February 2016 in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures. DVD and Blu-ray released in the United Kingdom on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
''And When Did You Last See Your Father?'' is a 2007 British drama film directed by Anand Tucker. The screenplay by David Nicholls is based on the 1993 memoir of the same title by Blake Morrison. Plot While Blake Morrison, his mother, and younger sister Gillian tend to his father, Arthur, on his deathbed in his Yorkshire home, Blake has a series of flashbacks of moments he shared with his father. Despite Blake's success as a writer, poet, and critic, his father – a rural general practitioner – never accepted his decision to pursue a literary career or acknowledged his achievements. Bullying, blustery, and boorish, Arthur blunders his way through fatherhood, regularly calling his son a fathead and intruding into the boy's private moments with a sense of entitlement. He has a penchant for exaggeration when he is not telling outright lies, and publicly humiliates his long-suffering wife Kim with his shameless flirting with various women and an affair with Beaty, a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia (2022 TV Series)
''Julia'' is an American television series created by Daniel Goldfarb that premiered on HBO Max on March 31, 2022. It is based on the life of television chef Julia Child. In May 2022, the series was renewed for a second season. Cast and characters Main * Sarah Lancashire as Julia Child *David Hyde Pierce as Paul Child *Bebe Neuwirth as Avis DeVoto * Fran Kranz as Russell Morash * Fiona Glascott as Judith Jones *Brittany Bradford as Alice Naman Recurring *Jefferson Mays as P. Albert Duhamel * Robert Joy as Hunter Fox *Judith Light as Blanche Knopf *Adriane Lenox as Virginia Naman *Tosin Morohunfolo as Isaac Guest *Isabella Rossellini as Simone Beck *Erin Neufer as Marian Morash *James Cromwell as John McWilliams *Bryce Pinkham as John Updike * Christian Clemenson as James Beard * A.J. Shively as Chef André Soltner * Tracee Chimo as Betty Friedan * Rob McClure as Fred Rogers * Sam Brackley as Coco Van Episodes Production The series entered development at HBO Max in Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Valley (TV Series)
''Happy Valley'' is a British crime drama television series filmed and set in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, in Northern England. The series, starring Sarah Lancashire and Siobhan Finneran, is written and created by Sally Wainwright, and directed by Wainwright, Euros Lyn, and Tim Fywell. The first series debuted on BBC One on 29 April 2014, the second series debuted on 9 February 2016, and the third series will debut on 1 January 2023. In May 2015, ''Happy Valley'' won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series. Premise Series 1 Catherine Cawood ( Sarah Lancashire) is a strong-willed police sergeant in West Yorkshire, still coming to terms with the suicide of her teenage daughter, Becky, eight years earlier. Cawood is now divorced from her husband and living with her sister, Clare (Siobhan Finneran), a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, who is helping her bring up Becky's young son, Ryan (Rhys Connah), the product of rape. Neither Catherine's ex-husband nor their adult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Tango In Halifax
''Last Tango in Halifax'' is a British comedy-drama series that began broadcasting on BBC One on 20 November 2012 until its final episode which was broadcast on 15 March 2020. Screenwriter Sally Wainwright loosely adapted the story of her mother's second marriage. The series stars Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as Alan and Celia. The series has been praised for its depiction of the older generation, strong acting, and believable dialogue. A critic for ''The Daily Telegraph'' summarised the series as "a triumph against TV's ageism", and it has been endorsed by an executive member of the charity Age UK. ''Last Tango in Halifax'' accrued four nominations for the 2013 British Academy Television Awards and won the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. Overview Celia Dawson and Alan Buttershaw are both widowed and in their 70s. They were attracted to each other in the 1950s, but never expressed their feelings, and Celia moved away with her parents. In the present day, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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