
Birthday:
07-20-1944
Deathday:
08-18-2019 (75 years)
Birthplace:
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
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Oliver Twist
Act like Mrs. Sowerberry
event2005 star_border 6.7
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An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Les Misérables
Act like La Thénardier
event1998 star_border 7.2
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In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Woman of the Wolf
Act like Madame Printemps
event1994 star_border 8
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This fairy-tale-like drama, based on a 1904 short story by American poet and feminist author Renée Vivien, tells two opposing versions of the same narrative: one told verbally by Pierre Lenoir, a male narrator at a Victorian dinner party; the other told visually through the behavior of an unnamed woman who meets him on a fantasy cargo boat. The intercutting of the two stories creates a tension between the different world views of the woman and the man.
The Heart Surgeon
Act like Margot
event1997 star_border 6
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Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.
Mr. Nice
Act like Irish Phone Operator
event2010 star_border 6.1
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Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
The House of Bernarda Alba
Act like Maid
event1991
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A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
The Heart of Me
Act like Betty
event2004 star_border 6.5
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Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Genius
Act like Julia Wolfe
event2016 star_border 6.5
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New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
Act like Margaret Knight
event1993 star_border 5
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A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.
National Theatre Live: Treasure Island
Act like Grandma
event2015 star_border 6.2
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It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
All the Queen's Men
Act like Nettie
event2001 star_border 4.9
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A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Act like Mrs. Shubunkin
event1989 star_border 5.6
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A Dickensian mock-Gothic tale of resourceful children, evil governesses, forged wills, cruel orphanages, and goodness triumphant set against an isolated country house, in an alternate 19th century where savage packs of wolves roam the snowbound countryside.
Ethel & Ernest
Act like Midwife / Aunty Flo (voice)
event2016 star_border 7.4
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This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
Safe
Act like Eileen
event1993 star_border 5.8
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Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Act like Margaret Baker (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8.1
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From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
All Creatures Great and Small
Act like Betty Sanders (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 7.7
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All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
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