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Saskia Reeves
Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is an English actress, best known for her roles in the films '' Close My Eyes'' (1991) and ''I.D.'' (1995), the 2000 miniseries ''Frank Herbert's Dune'' and the 2016 film '' Our Kind of Traitor''. Early life Saskia Reeves was born 16 August 1961, and brought up in Twickenham and Paddington, London with her younger sister Imogen, by her Dutch mother and English father. Reeves attended the Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton and then studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Career Early in her career she performed in puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre. Her television credits include '' Spooks'', '' The Commander'' and the ''Bodies'' finale. Her stage work includes productions at London's National and Royal Court theatres as well as on international tour. In addition to her acting career, Reeves does voice work, including commercials, narration, and book readings. In 2008, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddington
Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Paddington station, designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1847; St Mary's Hospital; and the former Paddington Green Police Station (once the most important high-security police station in the United Kingdom). A major project called Paddington Waterside aims to regenerate former railway and canal land between 1998 and 2018, and the area is seeing many new developments. Offshoot districts (historically within Paddington) are Maida Vale, Westbourne and Bayswater including Lancaster Gate. History The earliest extant references to ''Padington'' (or "Padintun", as in the ''Saxon Chartularies'', 959), historically a part of Middlesex, appear in documentation of purported tenth-century land grants to the monks of Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Touring Theatre
English Touring Theatre (ETT) is a major touring theatre company based in London, England. History English Touring Theatre was founded in 1993 by Stephen Unwin. In 2008, the directorship of the company was taken over by Rachel Tackley, making ETT the first producer-led touring theatre company in the UK. Richard Twyman succeeded Tackley to become the company's Artistic Director in November 2016. Awards Awards for English Touring Theatre include: 2016 * ''Theatre Awards UK ''Best Touring Production – for '' The Herbal Bed'' 2015 * ''Theatre Awards UK ''Best Touring Production – for ''Twelfth Night'' 2014 * ''Theatre Awards UK ''Best Touring Production – for ''Translations'' 2012 * ''Theatre Awards UK ''Best Touring Production – for ''Anne Boleyn'' 2011 * ''The Public Reviews'' Best of 2011 Award (joint) – for ''Tartuffe'' * ''The Stage'' 100 Awards – Best Producer * ''Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland'' Best New Play – fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfly Kiss
''Butterfly Kiss'' (alternative title ''Killer on the Road'') is a 1995 British film, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It stars Amanda Plummer and Saskia Reeves. The film was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot Set on the bleak motorways of Lancashire, ''Butterfly Kiss'' tells the story of Eunice, a bisexual serial killer, and Miriam, a naive, innocent and lonely young girl who falls under her spell. Miriam runs away from home and meets Eunice, and soon becomes her lover and accomplice. At a truck stop, Eunice first offers the unwilling Miriam to a trucker for sex, then rescues her in mid-rape by murdering the driver. When the hitchhiking duo are picked up by another licentious man, Miriam returns to their motel room to find Eunice and their benefactor having rough sex in the shower. Mistaking the consensual sex for the rape from which Eunice earlier rescued her, Miriam returns the favor by beating their benefactor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traps (1994 Film)
''Traps'' is a 1994 Australian film directed by Pauline Chan (Australian actress), Pauline Chan and starring Saskia Reeves, Jacqueline McKenzie, and Sami Frey. Retrieved 18 November 2012 It is not to be confused with the other Australian film named ''Traps (1985 film), Traps'' (1985). Premise Set in Vietnam during the 1950s, journalist Michael Duffield (Robert Reynolds) and his English photographer wife Louisa (Saskia Reeves) arrive at the plantation of a Frenchman named Daniel (Sami Frey) and his daughter Sarah (Jacqueline McKenzie).Cast * Saskia Reeves as Louise Duffield * Robert Reynolds as Michael Duffield * Jacqueline McKenzie as Viola * Sami Frey as Daniel Refere ...
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The Bridge (1992 Film)
''The Bridge'' is a 1992 independent film based on the novel by Maggie Hemingway. Directed by Sydney Macartney, it stars Saskia Reeves, David O'Hara, Joss Ackland, Rosemary Harris, Anthony Higgins, and Geraldine James. It was released in 1992. Synopsis In the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic when Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters moved into their seaside residence. But when Philip Wilson Steer arrives for his annual painting visit, a chain of events set off to change their lives forever. Overcome by his first sight of Isobel, Steer immediately decides to capture her on canvas; and as the painting grows, so does their love for each other. But jealousy and tragedy eventually force them to confront reality. Cast Soundtrack The soundtrack of this film was released in 1992 by Demon Records. # Opening Titles: "Painting" (2:03) # Quay House (2:03) # Arriving In Suffolk (2:17) # The Storm (3:28) # Reginald & Isobel Return to London (3:09) # The Sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December Bride (film)
''December Bride'' is a film produced in Ireland in 1990 and released on 29 November 1991. It stars Saskia Reeves as the title character, with Donal McCann and Ciarán Hinds as the brothers who become her lovers in a conservative rural part of Ulster. It is based on the novel by Sam Hanna Bell. The film won a special jury award at the 1990 European Film Awards. Plot Sarah Gilmartin comes with her mother Martha to keep house for a widower and his two grown sons, on their farm in Ireland in 1909. After Hamilton Echlin Sr. dies in a boating accident, Sarah's mother, dismayed by his sons' and her own daughter's refusal to attend church and behave in a manner she approves of, leaves the household, but Sarah stays on as housekeeper, and eventually takes first taciturn younger brother Frank (Hinds) and then amiable elder brother Hamilton (McCann), as lovers. When she becomes pregnant and refuses to marry either man or even specify which is the father of the boy she delivers, the local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonia And Jane
''Antonia and Jane'' is a 1990 comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron and starring Saskia Reeves and Imelda Staunton in the title roles, shown in ScreenPlay on 18 July 1990. It is about two mismatched woman friends who have had a love–hate relationship with each other since childhood. The story is told in flashback episodes as narrated by the two characters to their counsellor, prior to their annual dinner date. Cast * Imelda Staunton as Jane Hartman * Saskia Reeves as Antonia McGill * Brenda Bruce as the Therapist * Bill Nighy William Francis Nighy (; born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with '' The Illuminatus!'' in 1977. There he ... as Howard Nash References External links * * * 1990 television films 1990 films 1991 films Films directed by Beeban Kidron Films scored by Rachel Portman 1991 comedy films ScreenPlay 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph (Brisbane)
The ''Telegraph'' was an evening newspaper published in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was first published on 1 October 1872 and its final edition appeared on 5 February 1988. In its day it was recognised as one of the best news pictorial newspapers in the country.Daily Sun, Saturday, 6 February 1988 Its Pink Sports edition (printed distinctively on pink newsprint and sold on Brisbane streets from about 6 pm on Saturdays) was a particularly excellent production produced under tight deadlines. It included results and pictures of Brisbane's Saturday afternoon sports including the results of the last horse race of the day. History In 1871 a group of local businessmen, Robert Armour, John Killeen Handy (M.L.A. for Brisbane), John Warde, John Burns, J. D. Heale and J. K. Buchanan formed the Telegraph Newspaper Co. Ltd. The editor was Theophilus Parsons Pugh, a former editor of the ''Brisbane Courier'' and founder of ''Pugh's Almanac''.Queensland Press Limited history report 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In Love (TV Series)
''Women in Love'' is a British two-part television film, a combined adaptation by William Ivory of two D. H. Lawrence novels, '' The Rainbow'' (1915) and ''Women in Love'' (1920). Directed by Miranda Bowen and produced by Mark Pybus, it features Saskia Reeves, Rachael Stirling, Rosamund Pike, Rory Kinnear, Joseph Mawle and Ben Daniels. It was first transmitted on BBC Four on 24 and 31 March 2011. It was made by Company Pictures and filmed in South Africa. Other cast members included Ben Daniels as Will Brangwen. Music by Chris Letcher. Cast *Rory Kinnear as Rupert Birkin *Rachael Stirling as Ursula Brangwen *Joseph Mawle as Gerald Crich * Olivia Grant as Hermione Roddice *Rosamund Pike as Gudrun Brangwen *Ben Daniels as Will Brangwen *Saskia Reeves as Anna Brangwen *Patrick Lyster as Mr. Crich *James Alexander as Alexander Roddice *Grant Swanby as Wolfgang Loerke Reception In her review for ''The Daily Telegraph'', Ceri Radford praised the performances and singled out Kinne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rainbow
''The Rainbow'' is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, first published by Methuen & Co. in 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, focusing particularly on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within the confining strictures of English social life. Lawrence's 1920 novel '' Women in Love'' is a sequel to ''The Rainbow''. Plot ''The Rainbow'' tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a dynasty of farmers and craftsmen who live in the east Midlands of England, on the borders of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The book spans a period of roughly 65 years from the 1840s to 1905, and shows how the love relationships of the Brangwens change against the backdrop of the increasing industrialisation of Britain. The first central character, Tom Brangwen, is a farmer whose experience of the world does not stretch beyond these two counties; while the last, Ursula, his granddaughter, studies at university and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luther (TV Series)
''Luther'' is a British psychological crime thriller television series starring Idris Elba as DCI John Luther and Ruth Wilson as Alice Morgan, written by Neil Cross. The detective Luther must make cases against criminals while the murderer Morgan has a complicated relationship with him. The first series is composed of six episodes which ran in May and June 2010. A second series of four episodes aired on BBC One in June and July 2011, and a third was commissioned in 2012 composed of four episodes which aired in July 2013. A two-episode fourth series was broadcast in December 2015, and a fifth series of four episodes premiered on 1 January 2019. BBC Studios handles the distribution. Elba has been awarded a Critics' Choice Television Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as John Luther. The series has also received eleven Primetime Emmy Award nominations in various categories, including four nominations of Elba for Outstanding Lead Actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and BBC Sport, Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, the children's sites CBBC (TV channel), CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize and BBC Own It, Own It. The BBC has had an online presence supporting its TV and radio programmes and web-only initiatives since April 1994, but did not launch officially until 28 April 1997, following government approval to fund it by Television licensing in the United Kingdom, TV licence fee revenue as a service in its own right. Throughout its history, the online plans of the BBC have been subject to competition and complaint from its commercial rivals, which has resulted in various public consultations and government reviews to investigate their claims that its large presence and public funding distorts the UK market. The website has gone t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
