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Hannah Marie Tointon(born 1987) is an English actress. She is best known for enjoying Katy Fox within the long running Channel four soap opera Hollyoaks, and Tara in British sitcom The Inbetweeners.

Tointon was born to folks Ken and Carol in Essex, England.She and her sister Kara (born 1983) were cited in Leigh-on-Sea and attended St Michael’s college, Leigh, and St Hilda’s college, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.

Tointon’s 1st look on tv was within the CBBC hit sitcom Kerching!, where she played Tamsin, the love interest of the most character Taj Lewis. Her next role was within the series Star 2003 where she played the character Billie. Following this, she played Celina Johnson within the British police drama series The Bill. She additionally portrayed Casey within the horror film the kids.

In 2006, she appeared within the tv series Murder town, where she played Bethany Williams within the episode “Just Seventeen”. She additionally appeared in Dream Team as Savannah Caskey.She then went on to look in New Tricks, and had an uncredited half within the film simply My Luck as a concert goer, at the side of sister Kara. In early 2007, she appeared as Annabelle in Genie within the House, and additionally played Maxine Brogan in Doctors.

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Gabrielle Anwar ( Laleham , 4 February 1970 ) is an ‘ actress British.
Born in England in Middlesex , daughter of Shirley, actress, and Tariq Anwar , a film editor born in India . He studied acting and dance in London . After working in several British television productions, he moved to the U.S. in search of fortune, along with Craig Sheffer , actor with whom he worked and with whom he had started a romantic relationship.

In 1992 the popularity knows, thanks to its participation in the film Scent of a Woman – Scent of a Woman , where she starred opposite Al Pacino and Chris O’Donnell , still his best-known interpretation. Thanks to the popularity of jobs and increases in the years following states in the film Body Snatchers – The Invasion continues , For Love or Money , starring Michael J. Fox , The Three Musketeers and What to Do in Denver When You’re Dead .

After starting his career looked promising, the actress began to collect shares in several B movies and in this period, his most significant contribution is undoubtedly The Guilty – The culprit in 2000 , starring alongside Bill Pullman . In 2007 , thanks to the successful return to television with the series The Tudors , where she played Mary Tudor , and Burn Notice – Hard to die , in which she plays the role of a former volunteer of ‘ IRA .

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Frank Finlay ( Farnworth , 6 August 1926 ) is an actor in English.

As well as film actor, Frank Finlay was nominated to ‘ Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Othello ( 1965 ), in which she starred alongside Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith . It was theatrical performer in the English version of Saturday, Sunday and Monday ( Saturday, Sunday, Monday ), of Eduardo De Filippo , alongside Joan Plowright and Olivier, directed by Franco Zeffirelli , and the English version of Filumena Marturano , even with the Plowright, and directed by Zeffirelli. In Italy is known for being the protagonist of The key , of Tinto Brass , starring alongside Stefania Sandrelli.

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Finola Hughes ( London , 29 October 1960 ) is an ‘ actress and dancer, English -born Irish and Italian well known for her role as Anna Devane on the soap opera General Hospital and All My Children (All My Children) , and the role the identical twin sister of Anna Devane, Dr. Alexandra Devane Marick, on All My Children .

In 1981 , he created the role of Victoria the White Cat in the London production of the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber .

Hughes also appeared in the sitcom Blossom , and the role of the character of X-Men Emma Frost in the TV movie Generation X in 1996 . Frequently appeared in the series Charmed , where she played the mother of Halliwell witches, Patricia Halliwell.

In 1983 , Hughes starred alongside John Travolta in the musical romance film Staying Alive .

Married to Russell Young since 1992 , Finola Hughes is the mother of two boys and one girl.

Hughes won an award at the Daytime Emmy in 1991 as Best Actress in General Hospital . He was nominated for the same category in 1990 due to the role of Anna, in 2000 for All My Children in the role of Alex and again in 2002 in the role of Anna.

In April 2006 it was announced that she would return to General Hospital in May 2006.

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Felicity Ann Kendal, CBE (born twenty five September 1946) is an English actor known for her tv and stage work.

Born in 1946, Kendal spent a lot of of her childhood in India, where her father managed a touring repertory company. initial showing on stage at the age of 9 months, Kendal appeared in her initial film, Shakespeare Wallah, in 1965. Kendal began taking part in Barbara smart within the smart Life, the BBC sitcom in 1975. This created Kendal a household name. Later sitcoms where she was the lead failed to achieve the recognition of the nice Life. In 2003, Kendal initial played Rosemary Boxer in Rosemary & Thyme, a murder mystery drama that aired for 3 series ending in 2006.
Felicity Kendal was born in Olton, Warwickshire (now West Midlands), England, in 1946, and is that the younger daughter of Geoffrey Kendal and his wife Laura (née Liddell). Her elder sister, Jennifer Kendal, additionally became an actress. Their father, Geoffrey, was an English actor-manager who created his living leading a repertory company on tours of India once the Second World War. they’d perform Shakespeare before royalty someday, and in rough rural villages subsequent where audiences included several schoolchildren.Her father had adopted his birthplace of Kendal, (then Westmorland currently Cumbria), as his stage name, his original surname being Bragg. Felicity Kendal was educated at six convents in India.

Kendal created her stage debut aged 9 months, when she was carried on stage as a changeling boy during a Midsummer Night’s Dream. Later she started her career correct at the age of nineteen and starred within the Merchant Ivory film, Shakespeare Wallah (1965), loosely primarily based on her family’s real-life experiences. At 21, Kendal came back to Britain against her father’s needs, where she found that her film look wasn’t a passport to immediate success. She created her London stage debut in Minor Murder (1967), and went on to star during a range of well regarded plays.

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Ewan Gordon McGregor ( Crieff , 31 March 1971 ) is an actor in Scotland .

He debuted in the theater, where he still performs, and on television, only to be spotted by Danny Boyle , director eclectic. The latter wants him in 1994 in Shallow Grave , and, two years later, in the cult Trainspotting , who consecrate him as one of the most versatile actors of his time. Also in 1996 has starred in Brassed Off , while in 1998 more Danny Boyle directs in A Life Less Ordinary , alongside Cameron Diaz . That same year, Kurt Wilde plays in Velvet Goldmine , cult film in which she stars alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers , and in 1999 entered the saga of Star Wars , in which he plays Obi-Wan Kenobi . In the meantime, continues with independent productions and alternatives, and his production company, founded with his friend Jude Law , presents Nora , a film about the life of Nora Barnacle , in which McGregor plays James Joyce .

In 2000 you starred in Moulin Rouge , alongside Nicole Kidman , and in 2001 starred in Black Hawk Down . In 2003 plays Catcher Block in the romantic comedy Down with Love , alongside Renée Zellweger , with which also will star in Miss Potter , in 2006 . Also in 2003 she starred in the arthouse film Young Adam , presented at the Cannes Film Festival and Big Fish – The stories of an amazing life of Tim Burton . In 2005 she starred opposite Scarlett Johansson in The Island of Michael Bay , while in 2007 he starred alongside Colin Farrell in Cassandra’s Dream , by Woody Allen .

In 2009 , in addition to the role of Amelia and the Angels and Demons was the protagonist of The Men Who Stare at Goats , along with Jeff Bridges and George Clooney and The Ghost Writer , by Roman Polanski .

Son of Carol Diane (née Lawson), a teacher and James Charles Stuart McGregor, a physical education teacher, has an older brother named Colin. Always loved theater, Ewan started his career as an actor in British theater and television productions, appearing then to the cinema in a film by Danny Boyle : Shallow Grave . The first film which has become known outside the UK was Trainspotting of 1996 , also directed by Boyle, adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh . Danny Boyle , will direct two years later in A Life Less Ordinary , near Cameron Diaz . In 1998 interprets Velvet Goldmine, a film inspired by the figure of David Bowie , where he demonstrates his vocal talents.

He arrives at the world famous thanks to Star Wars . In Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ) and Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones ( 2002 ) plays the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, the knight jedi played by Alec Guinness in the three previous films . In the 2003 commits filming the third episode of the saga, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith , released in May 2005 . A curiosity: his uncle, Denis Lawson, who was also an actor, he participated in the original trilogy of Star Wars , in the role of the pilot Wedge Antilles . In the same year out of Star Wars Episode I ( 1999 ), as also the role of trader Nick Leeson in the film Rogue Trader, by James Dearden.

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Eve Best , born Emily Best ( London , 31 July 1971 ), is an ‘ actress the British theater and television , best known for her role as Dr. O’Hara in the U.S. television series Nurse Jackie – Anger Management .

Best grew up in West London and attended Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School, and then joined the Lincoln College of Oxford , where he studied English. In London, his first public performances were at the age of nine years, for W11 Opera children’s theater company. After graduating from Oxford, where he appeared in the representations of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and participated in the Edinburgh Festival , Best made ​​his professional debut playing the role of Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Southwark Playhouse.

After a stint at the alternative theater in London, Best Educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After graduating in 1999 , appeared in a revival of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore at the Young Vic, for which he won both the Award Evening Standard that Critics’ Circle as “best newcomer”  later adopted the name of his grandmother , Eve, as the name of art on stage, as another Emily Best was already registered in the British Actors’ Equity Association. [2]

Best won an Olivier Award for the interpretation of the main character in Hedda Gabler and the following year was nominated for the same award for his role in the play Josie in Eugene O’Neill , A Moon for the Misbegotten , staged at the theater Old Vic in London.

In early 2007 he played for a theater company in Sheffield Crucible As You Like It , which was performed for a short period of time at the Swan Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon . In the same year she performed in A Moon For The Misbegotten to Broadway , for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for best actress in a play.

Best worked at The Homecoming by Harold Pinter at the Cort Theatre in New York , where he played next to Ian McShane , Raúl Esparza and Michael McKean .

Also assumed the role of Lucretia in version audiobook Naxos de Rape of Lucretia by William Shakespeare . In 2000 he participated in the Best radio version of Emma for BBC Radio 4 .

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Claire Jane Sweeney (born seventeen April 1971) is an English actress, singer and tv temperament best known for enjoying the role of Lindsey Corkhill within the Channel four soap opera Brookside and her look on the primary series of the truth TV show Celebrity huge Brother.

Sweeney was born in Walton, Liverpool. She trained at the Elliott-Clarke Theatre college in Liverpool, and went on to the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Her 1st singing gig, at the age of fourteen, was within the Montrose Club in Liverpool. In 1987, she was a member of the Southport Summer Youth Theatre Workshop’s production of the musical Hair. Following this production, she auditioned for a region within the Southport Arts Centre’s Centre Stage Company production of Chicago however was turned down as a result of she was thought-about too young – she later went on to star in an exceedingly West finish version of identical show.

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Claire King (born Claire Seed on ten January 1963) could be a fashionable English actress, best known for enjoying the roles of Kim Tate within the ITV Soap Opera Emmerdale from 1989 to 1999 and Karen Betts in dangerous women from 2000 to 2004.
King attended Harrogate girls school, and as a punk selected a career within the music business, as a disc jockey in a very Leeds nightclub. She then joined the pop teams Fidea and later To Be Continued as lead singer.

Her career moved her to London, where she lived with Geoff Bird, alias guitarist Cobalt Stargazer of the cluster Zodiac Mindwarp. once creating her acting debut dancing in one amongst their videos, the connection broke down and he or she became a Rock n Roll Groupie. once a series of short term relationships, she determined to become an actress, however when she tried to register with actors union Equity, she found there was already another Claire Seed, therefore modified her name to King in lightweight of her love of horse racing (the sport of kings) and her favorite singer Elvis Presley.

Kim Tate was a classic soap character and had storylines together with having an affair with Neil Kincaid in 1992. Remarrying Frank Tate once more and then started an affair with David Glover in 1995 that the viewers loved and was the centre of attention for that year. She joined the show in November 1989 and left in January 1999. In her years on the show Kim Tate was one amongst soaps most well-liked characters being on front pages on most TV magazines and winning varied awards together with Best Bitch in Soap within the 1996 within Soap Awards and Best Exit in 1999 within the British Soap Awards. In 1997 Claire determined to go away the show however once she had finished her last scenes 3 days later she got a phone decision from the producers asking her back on the show with a lot of exciting storylines and a high pay rise that created her one amongst the foremost highest paid actresses in soap in ITV. once leaving in February 1997 she came back in could 1997. Kim Tate was presumed dead as her body was found in a very river Frank was charged along with her murder however was later released on bail. She came back in could 1997 to Home Farm where Frank was and he suffered a heart attack once he saw her. Kim left him there to die by not phoning for a doctor or ambulance and by leaning a compact mirror to his mouth to visualize whether or not he was still respiration or not. This scene was voted one amongst the foremost campest scenes on tv. Kim later came back for Franks funeral a couple of days later a lot of to the shock of her stepson and stepdaughter Chris & Zoe. once Frank had died Kim inherited all his shares from Home Farm and then married Steve Merchant.1998, when Kim and her new husband Steve Marchant fell on unwell times, they planned to achieve some cash by stealing a horse and selling it, once replacing it with an older horse within the hope that no-one would notice the distinction.

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Claire Elizabeth Cooper (born twenty four February 1979 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England) is an English actress who currently plays Jacqui McQueen in British Channel four series Hollyoaks. She has conjointly appeared in alternative British tv shows, together with Waking the Dead in 2004 and Coronation Street & Waterloo Road in 2006.

As a toddler Cooper was a British Champion Gymnast for ten years.

In 2007, Cooper was nominated for the simplest Actress award at the within Soap Awards.

Cooper attended the Guildford college of Acting.

Cooper designed a charity Christmas card for the 2008 BBC youngsters in would like.

Claire has been shortlisted for ‘Best Actress’ at the British Soap Awards 2011. She has conjointly received a panel nomination for ‘Best Dramatic Performance’ for her portrayal of Jacqui McQueen.
Cooper co-owns clothing rental boutique The Closet in Liverpool with Hollyoaks co-stars Jennifer Metcalfe and Leah Hackett.

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