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Firelight
''Firelight'' is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. Written by William Nicholson, the film is about a woman who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English landowner in return for payment to resolve her father's debts. When the child is born, the woman gives up the child as agreed. Seven years later, the woman is hired as a governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate, whose father is the anonymous landowner. Filmed on location in Firle, England and Calvados, France, the film premiered at the Deauville American Film Festival on 14 September 1997. ''Firelight'' was Nicholson's first film as a director. Plot In 1837, Swiss governess Elisabeth Laurier (Sophie Marceau) agrees to bear a child for an anonymous English landowner in return for money needed to pay her father's debts. They meet over three nights at a lonely island hotel and have sex. Despite their wish for detachment, they develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau (; born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films ''La Boum'' (1980) and '' La Boum 2'' (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress (known as the French Oscar). She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including '' L'Étudiante'' (1988), '' Pacific Palisades'' (1990), '' Fanfan'' (1993) and '' Revenge of the Musketeers'' (1994). She became an international film star with her performances in ''Braveheart'' (1995), '' Firelight'' (1997), ''Anna Karenina'' (1997) and as Elektra King in the 19th James Bond film ''The World Is Not Enough'' (1999). Some of her later films tackle critical social issues such as '' Arrêtez-moi'' (2013), ''Jailbirds'' (2015) and '' Everything Went Fine'' (2021). Marceau has appeared on more than 300 magazine covers worldwide including ''Vogue'', '' Elle'', '' Madame Figaro'', '' Paris Match'', ''L'Officiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Nicholson (writer)
William Benedict Nicholson, OBE, FRSL (born 12 January 1948) is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist who has been nominated twice for an Oscar. Early life A native of Lewes, Sussex, William Nicholson was raised in a Roman Catholic family in Gloucestershire. By the time he reached his tenth birthday he had decided to become a writer. He was educated at Downside School, Somerset, and Christ's College, Cambridge. Career At the start of his career Nicholson worked for the BBC as a director of documentary films with numerous works to his credit between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. He gained renown as a novelist and playwright when the first book of his popular ''Wind On Fire'' trilogy won the Blue Peter best book award and the Smarties Gold Award for Best Children's Book. He has written several novels and fantasy books. He married author Virginia Nicholson (née Bell) in 1988. Screenplays and theatre He has twice been nominated for Tony Awards for best play, for ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Williams
Lia Williams (born 26 November 1964) is an English actress and director, known for stage, film, and television appearances. She is noted for her role as Wallis Simpson in ''The Crown''. Theatre career Williams's breakthrough performance came in 1991 when she appeared in ''The Revengers' Comedies'', for which she won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer and an Olivier Award nomination for Best Comedy Performance. In 1993, she created the role of Carol in the London production of David Mamet's '' Oleanna''. In 1997, Williams appeared opposite Michael Gambon in London's West End and on Broadway in David Hare's ''Skylight'', (Olivier and Tony Award nominations). In 2001, Williams appeared again in the West End and on Broadway, playing Ruth in Harold Pinter's ''The Homecoming''. Her long standing collaboration with Harold Pinter included roles in ''The Collection, Celebration, The Room, The Lover, The Hothouse'' and ''Old Times.'' Other leading theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Dillane
Stephen John Dillane (; born 27 March 1957) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in the 2002 film '' The Hours'', Stannis Baratheon in ''Game of Thrones'', and Thomas Jefferson in the 2008 HBO miniseries ''John Adams'', a part which earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination. An experienced stage actor who has been called an "actor's actor", Dillane won a Tony Award for his lead performance in Tom Stoppard's play '' The Real Thing'' (2000) and gave critically acclaimed performances in ''Angels in America'' (1993), ''Hamlet'' (1990), and a one-man ''Macbeth'' (2005). His television work has additionally garnered him BAFTA and International Emmy Awards for best actor. Early life Dillane was born in Kensington, London, to an English mother, Bridget (née Curwen), and an Australian surgeon father, John Dillane. The eldest of his siblings (his younger brother Richard is also an actor), he grew up in West Wickham, Kent. At school, Dillane began performin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Anderson (actor)
Kevin Anderson (born January 13, 1960) is an American stage and film actor. He is also a singer and drummer. Early life Anderson was born on January 13, 1960, in Gurnee, Illinois, the son of Joseph Anderson. He is one of five children. He studied acting in the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, for three years. Film and television career Anderson is perhaps most known for his role as a priest on the television series '' Nothing Sacred'' (1997), about a priest with self-doubts. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for this role. One of his first major film roles was as the brother of Richard Gere's character in the 1988 film ''Miles from Home''. He also starred in the 1991 film ''Sleeping with the Enemy'' with Julia Roberts. He appeared in the 2006 version of ''Charlotte's Web'' as Mr. Arable. This was the second time he worked with Julia Roberts, who voiced the role of Charlotte. Theater career He is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hodgkinson (actor, Born 1966)
John Hodgkinson (born 21 June 1966) is an English actor. He is known predominantly for his stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for his performance as Tom Kettle in '' The Ferryman'', for which he has been nominated as Best Actor in a Supporting Role in the 2018 Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2011, he was named '' The Journal's'' Performing Artist of the Year for the part of Chris Mullin in Michael Chaplin's ''A Walk on Part'' with the Live Theatre Company. Early life Hodgkinson was born in Surbiton, Greater London. He attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Filmography Film * ''Firelight'' (1997) – Carlo * ''Thunderpants'' (2002) – Launch Controller 1 * ''Skyfall'' (2012) – Silva's Isolation guard * ''Leave to Remain'' (2013) – Judge * ''Heart of Lightness'' (2014) – Jason Malvern Television * ''Inside Victor Lewis-Smith'' (1993–95) – 'BBC suit' 1 * ''Sometime, Never'' (1996) – Kev * '' Dad'' (1997) * ''Keeping Mum'' (1998) – Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Gunning
Christopher Gunning (born 5 August 1944) is an English composer of concert works and music for films and television. Gunning was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his tutors included Edmund Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett. Gunning's film and TV compositions have received many awards, including the 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for ''La Vie en Rose'', as well as three additional awards for ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', ''Middlemarch'', and ''Porterhouse Blue''. He has also won three ''Ivor Novello Awards'', for the TV miniseries ''Rebecca'', and the film scores for '' Under Suspicion'' (1991), and '' Firelight'' (1997). His other film scores include ''Goodbye Gemini'' (1970), '' Hands of the Ripper'' (1971), '' Ooh... You Are Awful'' (1972), the film version of ''Man About the House'' (1974), ''In Celebration'' (1975), '' Rogue Male'' (1976), ''Charlie Muffin'' (1979), '' Rise and Fall of Idi Amin'' (1981), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Pictures
Hollywood Pictures was an American film production label of Walt Disney Studios, founded and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Established on February 1, 1989, by then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then-studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, Hollywood Pictures was founded to increase the film output of the Walt Disney Studios, and release films similar to those of Touchstone Pictures, that featured mature themes targeted to adult audiences than those produced by the studio's flagship Walt Disney Pictures division. After years of hiatus, the label was shuttered on April 27, 2007. Hollywood Pictures' most commercially successful film was M. Night Shyamalan's ''The Sixth Sense'', which grossed over $670 million worldwide upon its 1999 release. History Hollywood Pictures Corporation was incorporated on March 30, 1984 and was activated on February 1, 1989. Ricardo Mestres was appointed the division's first president, moving from Disney's Touchstone Pictures. The division was formed to cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnival Films
Carnival Films is a British production company based in London, UK, founded in 1978. It has produced television series for all the major UK networks including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky, as well as international broadcasters including PBS, A&E, HBO and NBC. Productions include single dramas, long-running television dramas, feature films, and stage productions. History Carnival Films was founded in 1978 by feature film producer Brian Eastman. As of 2014, Carnival has produced over 500 hours of drama and comedy for television, cinema and stage. This included 70 episodes of ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' starring David Suchet and 22 episodes of ''Rosemary & Thyme'', starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris. In the action/adventure genre it produced '' BUGS'', ''Oktober'' and '' The Grid'', in comedy drama it produced ''Jeeves and Wooster'' starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, teenage drama-comedy '' As If'', as well as the adaptations of Tom Sharpe's novels ''Blott on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
