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Sarah Williams (screenwriter)
Sarah Williams is a British producer and screenwriter perhaps best known for writing the scripts to the 2005 television film ''Wallis & Edward'' and co-writing the 2007 feature film ''Becoming Jane''. For her work adapting the novels '' Poppy Shakespeare'' and '' Small Island'' for television, Williams received two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award nominations. Career In 1992 Williams produced a series of documentary films for the BBC and Showtime USA '' Funny Business'', which starred Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Roseanne Barr and Bill Hicks. Williams worked as a co-producer in the film '' Up on the Roof'' in 1997, and the following year was a producer for the 1998 television film ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' starring Paul Merton. She also produced the wildlife documentary 'Operation Lemur" starring John Cleese, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award. The first authorial credit of Williams was the 2005 ITV television production ''Wallis & Edward'', starring Joely Richar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallis & Edward
''Wallis & Edward'' (in Canada also known as ''Her Royal Affair'') is a 2005 British television film, scripted by Sarah Williams, dramatising the events of the Edward VIII abdication crisis. It was billed as the first scripted account of the romance between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII to view events from Wallis Simpson's point of view. Joely Richardson played Wallis, and Steven Campbell Moore played Edward. Cast *Joely Richardson - Wallis Simpson * Steven Campbell Moore - Edward VIII *David Westhead - Ernest Simpson, Wallis's second husband *Richard Johnson - Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin *Clifford Rose - George V, Edward's father *Margaret Tyzack - Mary of Teck, Edward's mother *Bill Champion - George VI, Edward's brother *Monica Dolan - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Edward's sister-in-law * David Calder - Winston Churchill *Miriam Margolyes - Bessie Merryman, Wallis' aunt * Lisa Kay - Mary Raffray, Ernest Simpson's wife after Wallis *Helena Michell Helena Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecosse Films
Ecosse Films is a British film and television production company based in London. Ecosse Films produces programs for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Showtime, Sky Atlantic, Starz Channel and WGBH. History The first production of Ecosse Films was the 1997 film ''Mrs Brown'', starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria and Billy Connolly as her servant John Brown. Their most successful television production has been '' Monarch of the Glen'', produced for BBC Scotland and screened on BBC One, which ran to seven series and chronicled events on a Scottish estate. Between 2008 and 2010 they have produced the BBC One series ''Mistresses''. Ecosse's international drama, ''Camelot'', a 10 part series written by Michael Hurst and Chris Chibnall for Starz Channel and Channel 4 was broadcast in 2011. It stars Joseph Fiennes, Jamie Campbell Bower, Tamsin Egerton and Eva Green. Ecosse has also produced RTÉ's series ''Raw'', set in a Dublin restaurant, with a fourth series in production. Ecosse has produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley Atwell
Hayley Elizabeth Atwell (born 5 April 1982) is a British and American actress. Born and raised in London, Atwell studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and made her stage debut in a 2005 production of James Kerr's translation of the Ancient Greek tragedy ''Prometheus Bound''. She subsequently appeared in multiple West End productions and on television, and was recognised for her breakthrough role as Lady Elizabeth Foster in '' The Duchess'' (2008), for which she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her leading performance in the miniseries ''The Pillars of the Earth'' (2010) earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film. Atwell rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Agent Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film '' Captain America: The First Avenger'' (2011), a role she reprised in the short film '' Agent Carter'' (2013) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Lawrance
Tamara Naomi Lawrance (born 1994)Bowie-Sell, Daisy ''WhatsOnStage''. 14 February 2017. is a British actress. She is known for her performances as Prince Harry's republican girlfriend in the 2017 BBC television film ''King Charles III'', and as Viola in the 2017 production of ''Twelfth Night'' at the National Theatre cinecast internationally on NT Live. In 2018 she received the second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for this performance as Viola.Masso, Giverny"Natalie Simpson wins 2017 Ian Charleson Award" ''The Stage''. 18 May 2018 ''WhatsOnStage'' named her one of "10 theatre faces to look out for in 2017"Hewis, Ben"10 theatre faces to look out for in 2017" '' WhatsOnStage.com''. 27 December 2016. and ''The Guardian'' listed her in "20 talents set to take 2017 by storm".Logan, Brian; Makrell, Judith; Gardner, Lyn; et al"Get ready, here I come: 20 talents set to take 2017 by storm" ''The Guardian''. 7 January 2017. In December 2018 she starred as Miss July, a former slave on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy (7 March 1956 – 14 February 2019) was an English author best known for the novels '' Small Island'' (2004) and ''The Long Song'' (2010). She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities. Early life Levy was of primarily Afro-Jamaican descent. She had a Jewish paternal grandfather and a Scots maternal great-grandfather. She said in a 2004 article: "Jews went to Jamaica in the 1600s. My paternal grandfather was born Orthodox Jewish, from a very strict family, but after fighting in the First World War he became a Christian and came back and married my grandmother. His family disowned him, so I don't know much about them." Her father came to Britain on the in 1948, with her mother following later that year on a banana boat. Levy was born in Archway, north London, "the fourth, and baby, of the family, by a long way". She grew up on a council estat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long Song
''The Long Song'' is a historical novel by Andrea Levy published in 2010 that was the recipient of the Walter Scott Prize. It was Levy's fifth and final novel, following the 2004 publication of '' Small Island''. In December 2018, a three-part television adaptation of the same name was broadcast on BBC One; ''The Long Song'' was aired on PBS in February 2021. Plot summary ''The Long Song'' is written as a memoir by an elderly Jamaican woman living in early 19th-century Jamaica during the final years of slavery and the transition to freedom that took place thereafter. It tells the tale of a young slave girl, July, who lives at Amity – a sugarcane plantation. She lived through the 1831 Baptist War, and then the beginning of freedom. Her mother, Kitty; the slaves working the plantation land; and the owner of the plantation, the white woman Caroline Mortimer, are other characters in the novel. Themes The themes of the book incorporate: how it feels being an immigrant Jamaican, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long Song (TV Series)
''The Long Song'' is a three-part BBC television serial, which is an adaptation of Andrea Levy's ''The Long Song'', a 2010 historical novel. Produced by Heyday Television, its three episodes were adapted by Sarah Williams and directed by Mahalia Belo. It premiered on BBC One on 18 December 2018 and aired in the US on PBS on January 31, 2021 as part of the network's long-running series ''Masterpiece''. Synopsis The story is set in early-nineteenth-century colonial Jamaica, focusing on the final years of slavery on the island, including the Christmas Rebellion of 1831, and the transition to freedom that took place after its abolition in 1833. It follows the life of July (Tamara Lawrance), an enslaved woman on a sugarcane plantation. The adaptation explores many of the novel's themes, including colonialism, slavery, racism, violence and love. Cast Tamara Lawrance plays July, the series' main character. Hayley Atwell plays Caroline Mortimer, the owner of the plantation, who even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV Network
ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time, BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was for four decades a network of separate companies which provided regional television services and also shared programmes between each other to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs the ITV1 channel, and STV Group, which runs the STV channel. The ITV network is a separate entity from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004. ITV plc holds the Channel 3 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Williams
Olivia Haigh Williams (born 26 July 1968) is a British actress who has appeared in British and American films and television. After studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years followed by three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company, her first significant screen role was as Jane Fairfax in the British television film '' Emma'' (1996), based on Jane Austen's novel. She made her film debut in 1997's ''The Postman'', followed by '' Rushmore'' (1998) and ''The Sixth Sense'' (1999). Williams then appeared in several British films, including '' Lucky Break'' (2001), '' The Heart of Me'' (2002) and ''An Education'' (2009). In 2010, she won acclaim for her performance as Ruth Lang in Roman Polanski's ''The Ghost Writer''. From 2017 to 2019, she played Emily Silk on the science fiction television series '' Counterpart''. In 2022, Williams portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles in the Netflix historical drama ''The Crown'' in its fifth season, a role she is set to reprise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah (born 1971) is a British poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge. Biography Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester, England; her father was the academic Norman Geras and her mother is the author Adèle Geras. She attended Beaver Road Primary School in Didsbury and the University of Manchester. Publications Hannah published her first book of poems, ''The Hero and the Girl Next Door'', at the age of 24. Her style is often compared to the light verse of Wendy Cope and the surrealism of Lewis Carroll. Her poems' subjects tend toward the personal, utilizing classic rhyme schemes with understated wit, humour, and warmth. She has published five previous collections of poetry with Carcanet Press. In 2004, she was named one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Island (television Drama)
''Small Island'' is a two-part 2009 BBC One television drama adapted from the 2004 novel of the same title by Andrea Levy. The programme stars Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson as joint respective female protagonists Hortense Roberts and Queenie Bligh, two women who struggle to fulfil their personal ambitions and dreams amidst the chaos of World War II London and Jamaica. The drama was developed by producers Joanna Anderson and Vicky Licorish of AL Films, after having optioned Levy's novel. The script was first written by Sarah Williams and later amended by Paula Milne. It was directed by John Alexander (who also directed the BBC's 2008 adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Sense and Sensibility''). The drama consists of two 90-minute episodes that premiered on 6 December 2009, subsequently being shown in the United States on PBS as part of the channel's ''Masterpiece Classic Collection'' beginning on 18 April 2010. Plot The story is centred on four main characters: Hortense, Queenie, Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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