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Buket Kömür
Buket Kömür (born 19 December 1998) is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the ITV dramas ''Honour'' (2020) and ''Our House'' (2022), and the Channel 4 horror comedy ''Generation Z'' (2024). Early life Kömür is from North London and Hertfordshire and watched Turkish television growing up. She graduated from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in 2020 with a degree in film studies and English literature. Career Kömür began her career as a YouTube content creator under the alias Buket's Blog. She deleted her YouTube videos in spring 2021. Kömür appeared in the concert 2019 film '' Roger Waters: Us + Them''. This was followed in 2020 by Komur's television debut in the ITV true crime drama ''Honour'' portraying Banaz Mahmod. She also appeared in short films, such as ''Tin Luck'' opposite Samuel Adewunmi. In 2022, Kömür played Wendy in the ITV drama miniseries ''Our House'' and appeared in an episode of the BritBox series '' Signora Volpe''. In 2024, she appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of study. It is one of five Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BBSRC funded research campuses with forty businesses, four independent research institutes (John Innes Centre, Quadram Institute, Earlham Institute and Sainsbury Laboratory, The Sainsbury Laboratory) and a teaching hospital (Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital) on site. The university is a member of Norwich Research Park, which has one of Europe's largest concentrations of researchers in the fields of agriculture, genomics, health and the Natural environment, environment. UEA is also one of the nation's most-cited research institutions worldwide. The postgraduate UEA Creative Writing Course, Master of Arts in creative writing, founded by Malcolm Bradbury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amrou Al-Kadhi
Amrou Al-Kadhi (born 23 June 1990) is a British Iraqis, British-Iraqi writer, actor, drag queen, drag performer, and Filmmaking, filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural representation and racial politics. Early life and education Al-Kadhi was born in London to a tight-knit conservative Iraqis, Iraqi Muslim family. They were brought up in Dubai and Bahrain, before the family moved back to London. Al-Kadhi claims that discovering marine biology and quantum physics helped them understand their queer identity. Al-Kadhi has a twin brother. In 2006, Al-Kadhi was awarded a two-year scholarship to Eton College, where they did their A-levels, then graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA and MPhil in the History of Art. Al-Kadhi's stage name is Glamrou. It was at the University of Cambridge that they discovered drag, organising events and becoming a "drag mother" to their fellow drag queens in the university's first professional drag band. While at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of The University Of East Anglia
This List of University of East Anglia alumni includes graduates and non-graduate former students of the University of East Anglia. The list includes one current monarch and former prime minister, two de facto heads of state, one vice president, one deputy prime minister, and two former Leaders of the House of Lords. The list also includes two Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, one president of the Royal Society, two Lasker Award winners, and a further 15 fellows of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl .... Literary alumni include one Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel laureate in Literature, three Booker Prize winners, 11 Costa Book Awards, Costa Book Award (formerly Whitbread Award) winners, and three Caine Prize winners. Politics and govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actors From The London Borough Of Camden
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Births
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bookish (TV Series)
''Bookish'' is an upcoming British crime drama television series from Mark Gatiss. It was renewed for a second series prior to the broadcast of the first series which is expected to air on 16 July 2025. Synopsis An unconventional book shop owner helps police solve crimes in 1946 London. Cast * Mark Gatiss as Gabriel Book * Polly Walker as Trottie Book * Elliot Levey as Inspector Bliss * Connor Finch as Jack * Buket Kömür as Nora * Daniel Mays * Blake Harrison * Joely Richardson * Jonas Nay * Rosie Cavaliero * Jacob Fortune-Lloyd * Tom Forbes * Amanda Drew * Michael Workéyè * Ella Bruccoleri * Luke Norris Production The six-part series is produced by Eagle Eye Drama and is produced in association with Belgium-based Happy Duck Films. Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino are executive producers and the series is co-written by Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet. Carolina Giammetta is the director and Christopher Arcache is the producer. The cast is led by Gatiss, as well as Polly Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alibi (TV Channel)
U&Alibi is a British premium television channel that was launched on 1 November 1997 as UK Arena. It was renamed UK Drama in 2000, and then UKTV Drama in 2004, Alibi on 7 October 2008, and U&Alibi on 7 November 2024. History of U&Alibi The channel originally launched as part of the new four-channel UKTV network on 1 November 1997. The channel, originally named UK Arena, focused on arts programming and was named after the BBC's flagship arts programme ''Arena'' (The BBC, through BBC Worldwide, owning half of UKTV and therefore half the channel). The channel aired as a part-time service, airing from 3:00pm every day. However, following disappointing ratings, the channel's focus was broadened to include all drama series, and as a result was renamed UK Drama on 31 March 2000. However, the channel remained a part-time service, starting at 7:00pm. On 5 November 2001, UK Drama began timesharing with a new sister channel, UK Food, which aired in UK Drama's daytime slot. On 10 Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layla (film)
''Layla'' is a 2024 British romance film written and directed by Amrou Al-Kadhi in their feature directorial debut. Premise While navigating their identity around friends and family, Layla, a non-binary British-Palestinian drag queen living in London, falls in love with Max, an advertising executive. Cast * Bilal Hasna as Layla * Louis Greatorex as Max * Safiyya Ingar as Princy * Terique Jarrett as Felix * Darkwah as Lucilla * Sarah Agha as Fatima * Baby * Rebecca Lucy Taylor as Emily * Buket Kömür as Sara * Emma McDonald as Areej * Ghazi Al Ruffai as Travis Production Savannah James-Bayly produced the film for Fox Cub Films. Executive producers include Farhana Bhula of Film4, Kristin Irving of BFI, Mary Burke of Public Dreams, and Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker of Significant Productions. Principal photography took place in East London over six weeks and wrapped in December 2022. Release Film4 holds the UK and Ireland TV distribution rights. A first look image ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signora Volpe
''Signora Volpe'' (''Mrs Fox'') is a British mystery crime television series, produced by Route 24, of which season 1 was broadcast on Acorn TV in 2022 and repeated on the U&Drama channel in April 2025. The series was created by Rachel Cuperman and Sally Griffiths, and stars Emilia Fox in the title role. A second series premiered on Monday, 29 July 2024, on both Acorn TV and BBC America, and ran through to 12 August. Synopsis Former British spy Sylvia Fox tries to settle down in a new life in picturesque Panicale, Italy. However, she soon becomes involved in solving local crimes. Cast * Emilia Fox as Sylvia Fox * Giovanni Cirfiera as Capitano Riva * Tara Fitzgerald Tara Anne Cassandra Fitzgerald (born 1967)is an English actress who has appeared in feature films, television, radio and the stage. She won the New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 1995 as Ophelia in ''Hamlet' ... as Isabel Vitale * Matteo Carlomagno as Matteo Vitale Produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Channel)
ITV1 (formerly known as ITV) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the British media company ITV plc. It provides the ITV (TV network), Channel 3 public broadcast service across all of the United Kingdom except for the central and northern areas of Scotland where STV (TV channel), STV provides the service. ITV1 as a consistent national channel (with dedicated slots for regional news and other regional programmes) evolved out of the old ITV (TV network), ITV network – a federation of separately owned regional companies which had significantly different local schedules and branding. During the 1990s, the differences between the schedules in each region gradually reduced – partly through the consolidation of ownership and partly through the standardisation in the volume and scheduling of regional programmes. In 2002, a major change of appearance occurred when all ITV regions in En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BritBox
BritBox is a British Over-the-top media service, over-the-top Video on demand#Subscription models, video on demand Streaming television, streaming service founded by BBC Studios and ITV plc, ITV which operates in eight countries across Australia, Europe, North America, and South Africa."BritBox lands in Canada, sure to be a major disruptor in ever-shifting TV landscape" ''Globe & Mail'', 18 February 2018. In addition to original programming, it offers Television in the United Kingdom, British television series and Cinema of the United Kingdom, films, featuring cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
