Also ranks #1 on Actors Who Love History But Not Accuracy 66 Hugh Grant Hammersmith, London, England 212 votes Hugh Grant, a distinguished British actor known for his charm and wit, has left an indelible mark on
Main costume drama works A Dream of Splendor (Gu Qian Fan) Nothing Gold Can Stay (Shen Xingyi) The Qin Empire III (Mi Yan) The Three Heroes and Five Gallants (Bai Yutang) Legend of Lu Zhen (Gao Zhan) To be announced Long Life Long Street (Main Role) The Ingenious One (Main Role) ...
Ursula Martinez (born 1966), also known as Ursula Lea, is a London-based Anglo-Spanish British writer, performer, and cult cabaret diva noted for her use of nudity and non-actors. Her latest show, "My Stories, Your Emails", builds on the notoriety gained from popular Internet videos of ...
Among the actors — all amateurs — were Dickens himself, who took the role of the Doctor, jealous guardian to a young girl amorously pursued by John Leech, thePunchcaricaturist, in the guise of the Marquis de Lancy. These two male leads were supported by Dickens's illustrator, George ...
A U.K. court intervened after a British woman named her twins “Cyanide” and “Preacher.” The determination was that neither name would be appropriate for a child, and specifically stated the name “Cyanide” could be interpreted as a rejection of the girl by her mother. ...
Which actors got a nod? While first-time talent, and Asian and Irish stars shone, it wasn't the best year for British talent with just Bill Nighy and Andrea Riseborough making the cut. The best actor category saw five first time nominees, with Nighy, 73, gettin...
Robert Downey Jr is one of the richest actorsin the world, he was continuously number 1 in the “Forbes World’s Rich Actors List” (福布斯全球演员富豪榜) from 2013 to 2015. However, he wasn’t popular on the Chinese internet until 05thMay 2012, when his science and action movie “Ave...
The actors can be perceived as truly "performing" their gender, in partic- ular the onnagata (men acting as women), similarly to the enigmatic geisha, a subject of many books, films, paintings, and prints, in which she embodies the aesthetics of eroticism (Pandey 2009). Such eroticism is...
As regards styles of performance, the shift from TV shows to film production well illustrates the distinction that British TV scholars Tom Cantrell and Christopher Hogg posited between TV acting and TV performance: the former indicates the "actor's portrayal of a character within a dramatic ...
Casting Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman does not preclude the display of an active woman wearing a golden lasso in the Man of Steel sequel; indeed many reactions to this casting news have hoped that shewould increase her muscle massfor this role as actors like Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale have...