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British actor Clive Owen is one of a handful of stars who, though he is best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal measures of grace and skill. Owen is typically cast as characters whose primary traits are a balance of physical strength, intellect, conflicting soul but forceful will. He is best known to film audiences for his work in Children of Men (2006), Closer (2004) and his breakout part in Croupier (1998).
Born in Coventry, in England's West Midlands county, on 3 October 1964, Owen is the fourth of five brothers. He is the son of Pamela (Cotton) and Jess Owen, a country and western singer. His father abandoned the family when he was three years old, and Owen was subsequently raised by his mother and stepfather. He attended Binley Park Comprehensive School and joined the youth theater at 13 after playing the scene-stealing role of the Artful Dodger in a production of "Oliver!"
Acting was not his first choice as a profession, but he changed his mind and went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1987. Owen proceeded to join the Young Vic Theatre Company, where he honed his craft while performing in a number of Shakespearean productions.
Clive made his film debut in the British-made Vroom (1990) co-starring with David Thewlis as two fellows who restore a classic American car and take off on the road. Within two years, Clive became a full-fledged TV star playing devilish rogue Stephen Crane in Chancer (1990). However, the now-sought-after Clive abandoned the star-making part at the height of the show's popularity because of unwanted invasion of privacy and his fear of typecasting. His next project raised more than a few eyebrows when he filmed Close My Eyes (1991) in which he played a brother who acts on his incestuous desires for his older sister. Clive's reputation as a lovable shyster was completely shattered and he lost profitable commercial endorsements following the film's release. Offers fell off for the next two years as a result. But the persistent Clive carried on with stage work, including the role of a bisexual in a production of Noël Coward's "Design For Living." He returned to TV at that time as well and played a number of roles in both mini-movies and series.
In 1997, Clive had a huge hit on the London stage with "Closer," a cynical, contemporary ensemble piece about relationships. Controversy surrounded him again in the film role of Max in Bent (1997) playing a brash, reckless homosexual lothario in decadent pre-war Germany who finds unconditional love while interned in a Nazi war camp. His biggest film break, however, was in Mike Hodges' Croupier (1998), as a struggling writer-turned-casino employee who gets in over his head with a femme fatale scam artist. English audiences stayed away in droves but the U.S. embraced the film and Hollywood took notice of Clive, who was virtually unknown outside of England. Despite playing detective Ross Tanner in a series of successful "Second Sight" mini-movies and finding critical acclaim on stage with "The Day in the Death of Joe Egg" in 2001, Clive has focused primarily on film, including the offbeat Brit romantic comedy Greenfingers (2000), the classy and popular Robert Altman period piece Gosford Park (2001), the Matt Damon star-vehicle The Bourne Identity (2002), and the title role in King Arthur (2004). He has since reached the top rungs of the Hollywood ladder with the film version of his stage smash Closer (2004), in which he received an Academy Award nomination and won both the Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for "Supporting Actor." He also had noteworthy roles opposite Denzel Washington in Inside Man (2006); and Julianne Moore and Michael Caine in Children of Men (2006), as well as handling a few biopics, playing Sir Walter Raleigh opposite Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth I in the film Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and Ernest Hemingway (Emmy nomination) in Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) also starring Nicole Kidman.
More recent films include starring roles in The International (2009), Duplicity (2009), The Boys Are Back (2009), Trust (2010), Intruders (2011), Blood Ties (2013), Last Knights (2015), The Confirmation (2016) and Anon (2018). He also played Claudius in a retelling of "Hamlet" per Ophelia's perspective in Ophelia (2018); and played in support to Will Smith in the sci-fi thriller Gemini Man (2019).
Owen is married to former actress Sarah-Jane Fenton, who played Juliet to his Romeo at the Young Vic in 1998. The couple has two daughters.- Jennie Jacques is an English actress. Her first major role was as Annie Miller in Desperate Romantics (2009), a six-part BBC Two television drama serial about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood that was broadcast in July and August 2009. From 2013-2014 she played the lead role of WPC Gina Dawson on the BBC television series WPC 56. From 2015 to 2019 Jacques has played the recurring role of Saxon Queen Judith on the television series Vikings.
- Tamla Kari Cummins was born in Coventry in the English West Midlands on July 27 1988 and whilst she attended ordinary local schools she began to learn dancing from the age of four. Whilst at secondary school Tamla was part of a local drama group Finbarr's Youth Arts with whom she appeared at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry in a production of 'The Wedding'. Moving to London Tamla studied acting at the Drama Centre, being released during her final year to appear in 'The Inbetweeners Movie' though she returned to complete her course, gaining 1st class BA Honours in Drama in 2011. Since then she has been seen in several television series, including sitcoms 'Cuckoo' and 'The Job Lot' as well as the costume drama 'The Musketeers' as love interest for the leading character D'Artagnan.
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Jefferson Hall was born on 6 December 1977 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Tenet (2020), Oppenheimer (2023) and Halloween (2018).- Actor
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Born in 1986 in Coventry, England as Ghulam Dustgir Khan he is a British comedian, impressionist, and actor, best known for his comedy-drama series Man Like Mobeen (2017). He is of Pakistani descent and grew up in Coventry; he has two older sisters. After graduation from Coventry University he worked as a teacher. His career in comedy took off when he started publishing YouTube videos in 2014 and the following year he performed his stand-up for the first time. In the same year, a video of Khan performing as his character Mobeen and feigning an outrage at a scene from Jurassic World (2015) went viral and he gained popularity and recognition, prompting Khan to quit his job as a teacher and focus on his comedy career full-time. In 2017, Man Like Mobeen debuted on BBC iPlayer to much critical acclaim. Since then, he's appeared on game shows such as Taskmaster (2015), Would I Lie to You? (2007) and QI (2003), scripted shows such as Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019) and Our Flag Means Death (2022) and movies such as Army of Thieves (2021) and The Bubble (2022). He lives in the West Midlands with his wife and their four children.- Actress
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Alice Eva Lowe is an English actress and writer, mainly in comedy. She is best known for her roles as Madeline Wool/Liz Asher in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and as Tina in the 2012 film Sightseers, which she also co-wrote.
Lowe was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England. She attended Kenilworth School and graduated from King's College, Cambridge.
Lowe began her career co-devising and performing in surreal experimental theatre shows such as City Haunts, Snowbound and Progress in Flying Machines with David Mitchell and Robert Webb under the directorship of Paul King, who has since directed her in The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. She was part of the cast in Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight alongside fellow Cambridge graduates Richard Ayoade and Matt Holness and they were nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000. In 2001, she won that award for performing in the sequel to Fright Knight, Garth Marenghi's Netherhead. In 2005 she returned to the Fringe with MoonJourney, a sci-fi themed Kate Bush spoof. In 2009, Lowe appeared with Steve Coogan on his Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters tour. She played one of the supporting actors, filling in between Coogan's character changes and playing some of the support characters in sketches.
Her television credits include Channel 4's spoof horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Beth in the BBC comedy series My Life in Film, David Bowie in the BBC series Snuff Box, and a recurring role in Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive. She was part of the all female comedy show Beehive along with Sarah Kendall, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Clare Thomson which was aired on E4, and was a regular cast member of the CBBC show Horrible Histories during the second and third seasons. Her BBC Three pilot "LifeSpam: My Child Is French" was broadcast in 2009, and she co-wrote and starred in Channel 4's Orcadia. In February 2010, she appeared in and script-edited the pilot for a "sort-of-sketch-show" called Missing Scene.
She has also guest starred in a number of television shows including as Monkey in "The Priest and the Beast" episode of The Mighty Boosh, as Patricia in the "Fifty-Fifty" episode of The IT Crowd, a solicitor in the "Travel Writer" episode of Black Books, Madonna in an episode of Channel 4's Star Stories, as well as episodes of Little Britain, Come Fly with Me, Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, Beautiful People and This is Jinsy. She appeared in the music video for "Bastardo" by Charlotte Hatherley, directed by Edgar Wright.
Lowe co-wrote and starred in the short film Stiffy, directed by Jacqueline Wright, which premiered at Cannes in 2005 as part of the Kodak Straight 8 competition. Her self-penned short film Sticks and Balls was screened at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 together with Wright she founded the production company Jackal Films, making a short film each month of that year.
Lowe appeared in the action comedy film Hot Fuzz, and took a lead role in the 2012 film Sightseers, the third production from director Ben Wheatley. Sightseers was written by Lowe with Steve Oram, with additional material by Amy Jump. Lowe had a role in the Edgar Wright-directed film The World's End.
Lowe was pregnant while filming Prevenge and later gave birth to her daughter, Della.- Actress
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Manjinder was born in Coventry, to a car factory worker and his wife who had come to England from the Punjab. Manjinder describes her parents as " very liberal" - her father was involved in the Indian Workers Association - bringing herself and her sister up "like boys " - she has a brother - as well as being massively into the arts and encouraging of her acting ambitions. She began acting at the Belgrade Youth Theatre in Coventry before becoming an artistic director of Pangran Dance Theatre and going on to study contemporary dance at De Montfort University, Leicester.. She made her television debut in 1999 in 'Holby City' and has made her fair share of performances in medically-themed dramas - 'Monroe', 'Call the Midwife', 'Doctors' and the sitcom 'Green Wing' before, in 2015, becoming the new pathologist in the long-running 'Midsomer Murders' . Away from the small screen Manjinder was nominated for best actress for the film 'The Arbor' and was also named one of Screen International's Stars of tomorrow in 2007, the same year that she met her husband writer/director Neil Biswas, with whom she has two children. She is herself an acclaimed writer, in 2003 penning the play 'Glow' about a female boxer, for the touring company 'Theatre Centre'. In 2008 she wrote and directed a short film 'Forgive', following this up in 2012 with another film 'Out of Darkness' starring Tom Hiddleston. In 2016 she completed another short film 'With Love from Calais' about the refugee crisis.- Actor
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native UK and internationally, the unparalleled Nigel Hawthorne was born in Coventry, England on 5 April 1929, raised in South Africa and returned to the UK in the 1950s with his extensive work as a great gentleman of acting following during the decade as well as in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His portrayal of 'Sir Humphrey Appleby' in the BBC comedy Yes Minister (1980) won him international acclaim in the 1980s. In 1992, he was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for his sublime interpretation of 'George III' in Alan Bennett's hit stage play, "The Madness of King George III" and he was also nominated for an Academy Award of Best Actor in a Leading Role in its brilliant film adaptation The Madness of King George (1994), both of them exquisitely directed by Nicholas Hytner.- Sinead Matthews was born in 1980 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Pride & Prejudice (2005), The Boat That Rocked (2009) and Vera Drake (2004).
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Jordan Bolger was born on 9 November 1994 in Radford, Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Tom & Jerry (2021), The Woman King (2022) and iBoy (2017).- Ellise Chappell was born on 21 March 1992 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Yesterday (2019), Poldark (2015) and Deliver Us Mars (2023).
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Billie Whitelaw first appeared on the radio aged 11. She made her theatrical debut in 1950 and in films from 1953. She has made a speciality of playing intense, single-purposed women. Also, (on stage), she has appeared in many of the stranger plays by Samuel Beckett.- Actress
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Emma Fryer was born in Coventry, England, UK. She is known for Kill List (2011), In the Dark (2017) and Home Time (2009).- Charles Kay was born on 31 August 1930 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Amadeus (1984), Henry V (1989) and Fall of Eagles (1974).
- Lisa Dillon was born in 1979 in Coventry, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Suffragette (2015), Cranford (2007) and Hawking (2004).
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Chris Jury is an award-winning actor and director. Born in Coventry in the English Midlands, Chris studied Drama/English at Hull University and began working as an actor in the theatre with such names as Mike Bradwell, Danny Boyle and Anthony Minghella; And with companies as diverse as Hull Truck, The Bush and Stratford East. He also worked extensively in film and TV appearing most notably as Eric Catchpole in over 50 episodes of the BBC's long running series, Lovejoy.
He has directed for many of the major UK long-running series including Eastenders and Coronation Street.- Gillian Barber was born on 22 February 1958 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Romeo Section (2015), Chesapeake Shores (2016) and The Man in the High Castle (2015).
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Jassa Ahluwalia was born on 12 September 1990 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Heart's Ease (2018), Peaky Blinders (2013) and 50 Kisses (2014).- Composer
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Clinton Darryl Mansell is an English singer, musician and film composer known for his collaborations with Darren Aronofsky. He composed Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Black Swan, The Wrestler, Noah, Ghost in the Shell, Peacemaker, Doom Patrol, Loving Vincent, Mass Effect 3, Titans, World Traveler, Smokin' Aces, Doom, The Hole, and Definitely, Maybe.- Actor
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Martin John Marquez was born on October 8th 1963 in Coventry to Anglo-Spanish parents, his English mother having met her husband whilst on holiday in Spain. Younger brother John Marquez is also an actor, the pair performing as comedy duo the Brothers Marquez as well as appearing together in 'East Enders' and Martin making a guest appearance in 'Doc Martin', where John plays dim constable Penhale. Of Martin's five children his daughter Ramona was an established comedic actress at age six through sitcom 'Outnumbered' and she and her brother Raoul featured in the film 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'. Martin grew up in Coventry, attending King Henry VIII school and, having taken over his father's chip shop and also worked as a personal trainer and hotel barman Martin admits to getting the acting bug after a friend persuaded him to participate in a youth theatre group. From the 1990s he has built up an impressive stage career, performing in 'Private Lives', Jude the Obscure', 'Flesh and Blood' and 'Method and Madness' at the Lyric, Hammersmith., in the National Theatre's version of musical 'Anything Goes', both in London and on tour, 'The Iceman Cometh' at the Almeida, 'The Front Page' at the Donmar Warehouse and in the 2013 national tour of 'Abigail's Party'. On television he is perhaps best known as Gino the barman in 'Hotel Babylon' - in which John made a one-off appearance - and as fussy security guard Paul in the sitcom 'The Job Lot'.- Actress
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Kiran is a comedian who starred on the NBC/Hulu comedy Sunnyside, in addition to other shows like How to Get Away with Murder and Modern Family. She's a co-host on Crooked Media's Hysteria podcast and a touring stand-up comedian who headlined the NY Comedy Festival, the Kennedy Center, and more. As a writer/director, Kiran has made films for HBO and Sundance, been nominated for an Emmy, and shortlisted for an Academy Award. She loves naps and ice cream.- Dominic Jephcott was born on 28 July 1957 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987) and Paradise Postponed (1986).
- Graeme Hawley was born in 1973 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Kappatoo (1990) and Coronation Street (1960). He has been married to Elianne Byrne since 2008. They have two children.
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Harold Innocent was born on 18 April 1933 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Brazil (1985) and Henry V (1989). He died on 12 September 1993 in London, England, UK.- Jennifer Veal attended prestigious London performing arts schools Italia Conti at the age of 9 and Sylvia Young Theatre School 12-17 alongside stars such as Amy Winehouse, The Spice Girls and more. The stage then certainly took a shine to Jennifer leading to her West End debut in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" at The London Palladium, she performed for the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance and then went on to join casts such as the original cast of "Billy Elliot" working alongside stars such as Elton John.
Television called next. Jennifer joined the Disney family at 14 and has worked on a variety of shows ever since from the UK's first original series "As The Bell Rings". After graduating from Sylvia Youngs Jennifer was accepted a year early into The Central School of Speech and Drama. Her next role lead her to Los Angeles with a recurring role in the worldwide hit series "Jessie" where she play not only one but two characters, opposing twins Agatha and Angela. The popularity of her characters on "Jessie" continued her success in children's television and she joined the Nickelodeon Network and the cast of Victorious.
She soon met her current co star and creative partner "Lucas Cruikshank". The duo became an Internet sensation in 6 months and with their combined channels and the "Lucas And Jenny" channel reached millions of subscribers and billions of views all thanks to fun skits, their perfect pairing, personal vlogs and crazy shenanigans.
As well as working onscreen Jennifer has quite the reputation in the world of voice over worldwide lending her voice to shows such as channel 5's hit animation Hanas Helpine, ads such as "Google Chrome" and popular video games including "The Rekkoning, Guildwars" and many more.
Jennifer has grown her career worldwide and continues to do so. - Actress
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Talented musician and actress, Hazel O'Connor's career has been a rollercoaster one. Her breakthrough came in the film Breaking Glass (1980), in which she played a singer struggling to cope within the music industry. Sadly, this was to be the case in her music career as she battled over copyrights and clauses for a number of years. However, her determination persevered and she now happily records and tours with her friend, Carmac De Barra.- Ian Marter left university in 1969 and joined the Bristol Old Vic as an acting stage manager. In 1970, producer Barry Letts considered him for the role of Captain Mike Yates in Terror of the Autons: Episode One (1971), but it ultimately went to Richard Franklin. However, Letts remembered him and two years later cast him as John Andrews in Carnival of Monsters: Episode One (1973).
When Jon Pertwee decided to leave the series during the following year, Letts considered casting an older actor in the part of the Doctor. This meant that any physical action sequences might have to be performed by a younger actor (in the role of a companion to the Doctor) and Marter was thus cast as Surgeon Lieutenant Harry Sullivan. When 40-year-old Tom Baker landed the role of the Doctor, Marter became surplus to requirements and was written out in Baker's second season by the new production team of Philip Hinchcliffe and Robert Holmes, who felt the Doctor only needed one companion.
Marter spent much of the rest of his life novelising Doctor Who (1963) stories for Target Books. He died suddenly and prematurely in 1986. - Actress
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Rowena Wallace was born on 23 August 1947 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Rovers (1969), You Can't See 'round Corners (1969) and Home and Away (1988). She was previously married to George Assang.- Actor
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Declan Bennett was born on 20 March 1981 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), EastEnders (1985) and Top of the Pops (1964).- Brendan Price was born on 24 June 1947 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), The Chinese Puzzle (1974) and Doctor Who (1963).
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Robin Parkinson was born on 25 October 1929 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Good Companions (1980), Moody and Pegg (1974) and Thursday Theatre (1964). He was married to Patricia A Rogers. He died on 7 May 2022 in the UK.- Actress
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Gemma-Louise Sharman was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress and cinematographer, known for Ashes, Insomnia (2020) and The Better to See You With (2021).- Louis Hilyer was born in 1964 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Modigliani (2004) and Downton Abbey (2010). He is married to Matilda Ziegler.
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Legendary Broadway star of both dramas and musicals, he created the role of Francois Villon in Rudolf Friml's "The Vagabond King" in 1925, in which he also made his sound film debut opposite Jeanette MacDonald, Lillian Roth, and Warner Oland five years later. Primarily a stage actor, he only made a few more films, most notably The Devil's Brother (1933) and Between Two Worlds (1944), and was very active on early TV.- Sheila Sweet was born on 14 December 1927 in Coventry, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Grove Family (1954), It's a Great Day! (1955) and Fuss Over Feathers (1954). She was married to Richard Johnson and William Sylvester. She died on 16 November 2003 in Brent, London, England, UK.
- Patti Dalton was born on 12 March 1933 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Public Eye (1965), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973) and The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963). She died in 1997 in Surrey, England, UK.
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Frank Ifield was born on 30 November 1937 in Coventry, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Up Jumped a Swagman (1965), The End of the F***ing World (2017) and The Year My Voice Broke (1987). He was married to Carole Wood and Gillian Bowden. He died on 18 May 2024 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- Sandra Maitland was born in Coventry, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Brookside (1982), Ferryman (2023) and Angie (2012).
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Jo Neary was born in 1972 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Darkest Hour (2017), Suffragette (2015) and Ideal (2005).- Molly Heartbreaker was born in Coventry, Rhode Island, USA. She is known for Superbadazz (2008), Lustful Illusions (2011) and My Girlfriend's Abroad (2006).
- Legendary British stage actress who made a few silent film appearances. The daughter of strolling players, she was born in Coventry into an almost exclusively theatrical family. Her grandparents were actors, as were all six of her siblings. But only her son, Edward Gordon Craig, would in any way approach her fame in the theatre, albeit as a designer rather than as an actor. She made her debut in 1856 at the age of 8 before an audience which included Queen Victoria. By age 11, she had played a dozen roles including Puck. At 16, after showing early brilliance, she played "An American Cousin" (a year before the famed American production clouded by Lincoln's assassination) and then retired. After six years, still only 22, she returned to the stage and in 1875 played a landmark Portia in "The Merchant of Venice." For the next three decades, she played every major Shakespearean role opposite the greatest British tragedians, in England and in America. Her long association with theatrical giant Henry Irving ended with his death, but a year later, in 1906, she began a long professional and personal relationship with George Bernard Shaw. After more than half a century onstage, she undertook a tour of England, America, and Australia, lecturing on the theatre and on Shakespeare. She was coaxed into a film appearance in 1916 and played in a handful of additional pictures through 1922. Created a Dame by George V in 1925, she was the recipient of virtually every honor available to a figure of the English-speaking stage. After a long illness, she died at 81 from a combination of stroke and heart attack at her home in Smallhythe Place, Tenterdon, Kent, England. Her long estranged husband, James Carew, survived her.
- Kenton Moore was born on 31 March 1932 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Big Spender (1965), Watch All Night (1980) and Doctor Who (1963). He was previously married to Annette Hunt.
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Pete Waterman was born in England and became one of Europe's biggest pop music producers when he teamed up with Mike Stock and Matt Aitken.
Together, Stock Aitken Waterman produced songs for the biggest pop artists, including Samantha Fox, Rick Astley, Mel & Kim, Sinitta, Mandy Smith, Bananarama, Hazel Dean, Dead Or Alive, and Steps.- Actor
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Doug Berry (aka Andrew G. Ogleby) is an English actor and writer, born in the late 1960's to parents Donald and Valerie Ogleby. His home town, the then Motor City of Coventry was something of a boomtown at the time (following the devastation it had experienced during the heavy bombing raids of WWII) with its football club Coventry City, also gaining promotion to the top-flight of English football the same year of Doug's birth. By the time Doug left school however, Coventry had turned more into the 'Ghost Town' so poignantly portrayed in song at the time by its most famous band The Specials. Although, the mood of the city would later reignite when Coventry City F.C went onto win the F.A Cup in 1987, in what many still regard as the greatest Cup Final played in modern times. And in 2021, Coventry became the UK's City of Culture.
In terms of screen, Doug has appeared and starred in a wide-variety of film (both short and feature length) and produced the screenwriting for various film scenes, such as the Gus Zatoichi scene in Just Drive. He also has extensive experience as a supporting artist, including detailed featured work and performing various acting-double roles in major film/TV productions. Furthermore, Doug has an avid interest in martial arts/boxing films, having trained in the fighting/healing arts for over 25 years and with experience of stage combat, which he is now able to bring to the screen as well.
Due to his love of classic film comedy, such as Laurel and Hardy and satirical British humour, Doug had wanted to become a comedian when he was young, but circumstances at the time didn't allow it. Fast forward though to 2013, and a 'chance' meeting with the film producer Sharon Rapose at a business event at the O2 arena London, where Doug would later be offered the opportunity (and appear) in the short romantic comedy 'Konnichiwa Brick Lane' (2013) by Saera Jin. Following which, this then rekindled the idea of becoming a comedian, and so Doug began writing short sketches, with the idea of trying his hand at stand-up.
However in the summer of 2014, whilst absently minding his own business at a community festival, Doug was offered, 'out of the blue' by Louisa Le Marchand, the head of Global Fusion Music & Arts (a local charitable arts based organisation) the opportunity to appear in an original play 'All About the Boys' by one of its members, playwright Robert J. Fanshawe, about the WWI poet Wilfred Owen and his final battle scene. Doug would then go on to play one of its main characters, that of Private 'Jacko' Jackson, portraying the classic ironic humour of the British Tommy. Following which, he then completed a 22 performance run playing Chief Dogberry in the Fox and Chips production of Shakespeare's comedy 'Much Ado About Nothing' (where he was also to adopt his stage name from) and later also as Nick Bottom in the GFMA production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', amongst other stage productions
During this time, Doug was also inspired to write and perform in plays of his own, including 'Troubled meets the Troubadour' a bittersweet musical comedy, which he also co-directed. Following which, Doug then wrote the script and songs for an original full-length pantomime, Jackie & The Pirates of the Prime Meridian (2017). Which he also played the villain in. Similarly, Doug wrote another short play 'When the Chips are Down' (2018), a comedy also commenting on social issues, where he played the lead role in.
At present, Doug has written another short play, related to the covid-19 pandemic, which he hopes to stage as soon as it is possible to do so. Similarly, Doug has also written a short screenplay for a film looking at different aspects of the pandemic, which he has already stated working on and plays one of the main characters in. And it is hoped, the short film will be completed by early next year. So the future is looking bright for this hard-working, dependable and highly-versatile, observational, physical/comedic actor and writer.- Special Effects
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Perry Costello was born on 17 December 1960 in Coventry, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Slow West (2015), 1917 (2019) and Kick (2014). He has been married to Cheryl Strong since 21 March 1984. They have three children.- Music Artist
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British singer-songwriter. Hall founded ska-punk group The Specials in 1978; they scored two UK number 1 hits with 'The Special A.K.A. Live EP' and 'Ghost Town' and were pioneering (in British music) for featuring both black and white musicians. Hall left in 1981 to form Fun Boy Three and then Colour Field before embarking on a solo career. He was also a member of the 'Nearly God' collective, including Björk, Tricky, Neneh Cherry and others, who released a self-titled album in 1996.- Denis Holmes was born on 7 June 1921 in Foleshill, Coventry, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sabrina (1995), The Dark Island (1962) and The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World (1965). He died on 27 May 2013 in the USA.
- Don Fardon was born on 19 August 1943 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK.
- Brian Hawksley was born on 8 April 1920 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Witches (1990), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Doctor Who (1963). He died on 28 September 2001 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokshire, Wales, UK.
- P.J. Barry was born on 15 April 1931 in Coventry, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Family Man (2000), For Love of the Game (1999) and Law & Order (1990). He died on 2 September 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.