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The Waiting Room (2008 Film)
''The Waiting Room'' is a 2007 British romantic drama film directed by Roger Goldby and starring Anne-Marie Duff, Frank Finlay and Ralf Little. It was produced by Bright Pictures. The story follows three south London couples who try to come to terms with their love lives. The film's running time is 102 minutes and 24 seconds. Cast * Anne-Marie Duff - Anna * Frank Finlay - Roger * Rupert Graves - George * Adrian Bower - Toby * Daisy Donovan - Penny * Ralf Little - Stephen * Phyllida Law - Helen * Zoe Telford - Jem * Christine Bottomley - Fiona * Leader Hawkins - Frank * Peggy Batchelor - Doris * Polly Rose McCarthy - Charlie * Elizabeth Perry - Lady with Pram * Lizzy McInnerny - Fiona's Mum * Allan Corduner - Fiona's Dad * Lee Williams - Brian * Lottie Birdsall - Football Girl * Kate Conway - Emily's Mum * Finlay Kenny Tighe - Joe * Paul Popplewell Paul Popplewell (born 18 April 1977) is a British actor. He became a professional actor at 16, leaving colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Marie Duff
Anne-Marie Duff (born 8 October 1970) is an Irish actress and narrator. She is an accomplished theatre actress and has been nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. She has also received acclaim and awards for her television and film work. After graduating from Drama Centre London, Duff made television appearances in ''Trial & Retribution'', ''Amongst Women'' and ''Aristocrats'' in the late 1990s. She made her breakthrough as Fiona Gallagher on the Channel 4 drama series '' Shameless'' and as Queen Elizabeth I in '' The Virgin Queen''; both earned her BAFTA nominations for Best Actress. She was awarded the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress for her work in the 2007 television film ''The History of Mr Polly''. Further television roles include Claire Church in ''From Darkness'' (2015), Ma Costa in the BBC and HBO series ''His Dark Materials'' (2019), Erin Wiley in ''Sex Education'' (2020–2021) and as Tracy Daszkiewicz in ''The Salisbury Poisonings'' (2020). In film, Duff has had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Corduner
Allan Corduner (; born 2 April 1950) is a British actor. Born in Stockholm to a German mother and a Russo-Finnish father, Corduner grew up in a secular Jewish home in London. After earning a BA (Hons) in English and Drama at Bristol University he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked extensively on stage, TV, and film, both in the UK and in the United States. His voice is familiar from many BBC radio plays, audio books and TV documentaries. Corduner made his feature film debut in '' Yentl'', with Barbra Streisand and Mandy Patinkin. Of his 44 films he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's ''Topsy-Turvy''. He also voiced Gehrman the first hunter in the 2015 video game ''Bloodborne''. Early life Corduner grew up in a secular Jewish home in North London with his parents and younger brother. His mother had escaped to Great Britain from Nazi Germany with her family in 1938. His father was born in Helsinki, Finland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Romantic Drama Films
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s English-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2007 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The highest-grossing film of the year was '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'', which was just ahead of '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. 2007 is often considered one of the greatest years for film in the 21st century. This would also be the last year in which no films grossed at least $1 billion at the box office until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented multiple theatrically released films. Evaluation of the year Many have considered 2007 to be the greatest year for film in the 21st century and one of the greatest of all time. In his article from April 18, 2017, which highlighted the best movies of 2007, critic Mark Allison of ''Den of Geek'' said, "2007 must surely be remembered as one of the finest years in English-language film-making, quite possibly the best of this century s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Popplewell
Paul Popplewell (born 18 April 1977) is a British actor. He became a professional actor at 16, leaving college after gaining the lead role of Simon in the BBC television drama ''Criminal'', for which he won Best Actor at the Golden Chest Film Festival and was nominated for Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Awards, alongside Oscar nominees Pete Postlethwaite and Tom Wilkinson. At the age of 20, Popplewell was playing a leading role with the Royal Shakespeare Company in their production of ''Bad Weather''. Since then, he has continued to work in film, television, theatre and radio. In 2001, he played Happy Mondays bassist and founder member Paul Ryder in the Michael Winterbottom film '' 24 Hour Party People''. He later made an appearance in the music video for the Oasis single " Lyla" in 2005. Popplewell played the character of Bod in the BIFA and BAFTA winning feature film ''Tyrannosaur'', written and directed by Paddy Considine, which was released in the UK on 7 Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Conway
Kate Conway (born June 17, 1986) is a Canadian actress and producer. She is best known as the star of the web series '' Out With Dad.'' Career Conway was cast in ''Out With'' Dad in 2010, and has starred on the series since then. For her performance, she has been nominated for various awards, winning several, including two Indie Series Awards and two awards at the Los Angeles Web Series Festival. At the 2014 Streamy Awards, Conway was nominated for the Best Actress in a Drama Series award for her performance in ''Out With Dad'', but lost to Ashley Clements for ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries''. Conway is also the star and producer of her own web series on YouTube titled ''#KateConwayisaJerk'', which is directed and edited by ''Out With Dad'' creator Jason Leaver. Personal life Although she is known for her role as a lesbian in ''Out With Dad'', Conway identifies as straight Straight may refer to: Slang * Straight, slang for heterosexual ** Straight-acting, an LGBT person who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Williams (actor)
Lee Williams (born 3 April 1974) is a Welsh actor and former model from Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales. He is best known for his role as Scott LeTissier in ''Boyz Unlimited'' Williams was the face of French Connection TV, Calvin Klein jeans, Sisley, and has worked as a model for designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Calvin Klein. Early life Lee Williams was born in Bangor, Wales. Early in his life he lived in Holyhead with his father Peter Durkan and his mother Elaine He then went to a comprehensive school in Warrington in England. He enrolled to study fine art and fashion at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Fashion in London, he eventually dropped out in his 2nd year when he was nineteen and began working for Vivienne Westwood, where he helped in her designer shows in Paris; it was here that the photographer Steven Meisel encouraged Lee to pursue modelling. Modelling Williams worked as a model for two and a half years at the time when the heroin chic look was in po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Bottomley
Christine Bottomley (born 27 April 1979) is an English actress. Early life Born in Rochdale and grew up in an apartment above the family's chemist shop. She went to several local youth drama groups before embarking on a course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, from where she graduated in 2001. Career Following graduation, she made her on-screen debut in an episode of ''EastEnders''. Bottomley has had numerous parts on television, including episodes of the second series of ''Torchwood'', the comedy series '' Massive'' and the drama series '' Hope Springs'' and '' Land Girls''. Her first film role was in ''Hush'', in 2009. The following year she was nominated for Best New Actress at the London Film Critic's Circle Awards for her portrayal of Lisa Thompson in ''The Arbor''. She is a three-times winner of Best Actress at the BBC Audio Drama Awards; in 2014 for ''My Boy''; 2017 for '' The Sky is Wider'' and 2018 for ''Solitary Solitary is the state of being alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Finlay
Francis Finlay, (6 August 1926 – 30 January 2016) was an English stage, film and television actor, Oscar-nominated for a supporting role as Iago in Laurence Olivier's 1965 film adaptation of ''Othello''. In 1983, Finlay was directed by Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass in the erotic classic '' The Key'', with Stefania Sandrelli. His first leading television role came in 1971 in ''Casanova''. This led to appearances on '' The Morecambe and Wise Show''. He also appeared in the drama ''Bouquet of Barbed Wire''. Early life Finlay was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the son of Josiah Finlay, and Margaret Finlay. He was educated at St Gregory the Great School, but left at 14 to train as a butcher at Toppings, gaining a City and Guilds Diploma in the trade. Stage career Finlay made his first stage appearances at the local Farnworth Little Theatre, in plays that included Peter Blackmore's ''Miranda'' in 1951. The current Little Theatre president, also in the cast of that ''Miranda'' pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Telford
Zoe Telford is an English actress. Early life and education Telford was born in Norwich, England. She started training as a dancer at a very young age and continued until she was in her 20s. She attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. Her first break was on the show ''The Bill'', a police drama, in 1993. Career After guesting in ''The Bill'', Telford appeared as a guest on several British TV shows before her first major role in the mini-series '' The Last Train'' (1999). One of her first recognisable works was in the first season of Channel 4's ''Teachers'' (2001) in which she played Maggie, a police officer and girlfriend to the character Simon Casey, played by Andrew Lincoln. In the TV movie ''Men Only'' (2001), she played Alice, a nurse who was gang-raped by a group of men known to her and with whom she had flirted, played by, among others, Stephen Moyer and Martin Freeman. She played the social worker Christina Leith in '' Real Men'' (2003), a two part TV drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllida Law
Phyllida Ann Law (born 8 May 1932) is a British actress, known for her numerous roles in film and television. Early life Law was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Meg "Mego" and William Law, a journalist. Prior to the Second World War, her father was a journalist with the ''Glasgow Herald'' who "kept odd hours"; when the war broke out, he went into the air force and separated from his wife, later divorcing. Law would not see her father again until she was 18. Law's mother Meg worked in a dress shop in Glasgow during the war. The family also included Law's brother, James, her elder by five years, and their maternal grandmother, the wife of a Presbyterian minister, and "a fierce Presbyterian" herself whom Law "did not like as a child but can now admire." She attended Glasgow Girls High up to age seven. The war began in September 1939 and Law and her brother were evacuated to family friends outside Glasgow in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, and attended a local school there, before La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
