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Dame Maggie Smith, titan of stage and screen, has left us. The Oscar-winning actress, who starred in everything from A Room with a View to Downton Abbey, passed away in London at the age of 89. The news was announced this morning by her two sons Toby Stephens and Chris
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You may best know prolific stage and screen actor Adjoa Andoh from her role as a presiding member of Bridgerton’s ton, but offscreen, she’s more like British acting royalty. Born in 1963 and raised as the only Black girl in her small southern England town, Andoh’s life
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Surprise! It's time for another installment of Undercover Brits, and today we are investigating the final season of The Umbrella Academy. Based on the graphic novel of the same name by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, illustrated by Gabriel Ba, for four seasons, The Umbrella Academy has
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Olivia Cooke, born in 1993 in Manchester, was the sort of child who liked to put on performances in the front garden with her friends. At the age of eight, she joined the Oldham Theatre Workshop, an after-school drama program in her hometown, whose alumni included Anna Friel and Suranne
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With his imposing physical presence and interesting, not quite handsome face, and trademark fall of dark hair, Matt Smith has played everything from artists to time lords, princes, and pimps. Smith was born in 1982 in Northamptonshire, and his first love was football. He signed on as a youth player
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We know him best as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, in the ITV drama Foyle's War, which ran for eight series between 2002 and 2015. But Michael Kitchen has performed in all sorts of roles, from the James Bond franchise to William Shakespeare, on radio, stage, and TV,
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On Sunday, May 5, 2024, the BBC announced that actor Bernard Hill had passed away at the age of 79. Most Americans first saw Hill in the 1997 smash hit Titanic. In it, he played the ill-fated Captain Edward J. Smith, the man who led the ocean liner on her
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In the winter of 1989, Mystery! was entering its ninth wildly successful season as Masterpiece Theater's British murder-and-crime-focused spinoff. The series had boasted a string of Thursday night hits, starting with the 1970s Father Brown series starring Kenneth More, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, the 1980s Roy Marsden
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British actor Michael Fassbender was actually born in Heidelberg, Germany; his father, Josef, was German, and his mother, Adele, an Irish woman originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland. Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in southwest Ireland, where his family moved when he was
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Emily Blunt is an award-winning acting phenomenon whose range encompasses drama, musical theater, comedy, horror, and action movies. Born and raised in Roehampton, a well-heeled London suburb, the daughter of a barrister and English teacher, Blunt was a shy and awkward child afflicted with a stutter. School was not easy
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Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born 9 January 1956) is an English actress and singer of tremendous talent and versatility. Her mother, Bridie, was a hairdresser, and her father, Joseph, a laborer. She grew up in a London apartment above her mother’s hairdressing salon. Both parents came to London
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Tom Wilkinson, best known in America for the 1997 hit The Full Monty and the Oscarbait film, Michael Clayton, passed away just before the turn of 2024. The actor started out the son of a family from a relatively modest background in Leeds; the Wilkinson family moved to Canada (possibly