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Paddy (Patrick) Considine was born on September 5, 1973 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire in the U.K. As a teenager, Considine studied a drama course at Burton College where he met with now friend and director Shane Meadows, who cast Considine in his first role in a feature film as the disturbed character Morell in A Room for Romeo Brass (1999).
Considine's performance in that movie got him cast in Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort (2000) the following year. Further roles ensued, including an acclaimed turn as Johnny in Jim Sheridan's In America (2002).
Along with his lead roles, Considine has had a number of scene-stealing supporting roles in films such as 24 Hour Party People (2002), Born Romantic (2000), and The Martins (2001). Considine has been noticed for his performance as Richard the revengeful brother in the applauded film Dead Man's Shoes (2004), which he co-wrote with Shane Meadows, and for his role as Phil the Born again Christian in Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love (2004).
In 2005, Considine co-starred with Russell Crowe and Renée Zellweger in Cinderella Man (2005). Other notable roles in recent years include small-but-memorable turns in Hot Fuzz (2007) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), along with bigger roles in [error] and Submarine (2010).
Considine has also recently tried his hand at writing and directing. His feature-length directing debut, Tyrannosaur (2011), won Considine a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer.
Considine has one child, Joseph, with wife Shelley.- Actor
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Talented British actor Hugh Dancy is one of the UK's most noted young talents.
Hugh Michael Horace Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, to Sarah Ann (Birley), who works in academic publishing, and Jonathan Peter Dancy, a philosophy professor and writer. He has a brother, Jack (b. 1977), and a sister, Kate (b. 1980). He was raised in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
He got started with roles in the series Trial & Retribution (1997), Dangerfield (1995), Kavanagh QC (1995) and Granada's popular series Cold Feet (1997), and his theater appearances include Sam Mendes' David Copperfield (2000) and BBC's Madame Bovary (2000) and Daniel Deronda (2002). He also portrayed "D'Artagnan" in the series Young Blades (2001).
Dancy's appearance in Ridley Scott's war drama, Black Hawk Down (2001), as "Medic Kurt Schmid" was followed with starring roles in Tempo (2003) with Melanie Griffith and Rachael Leigh Cook and The Sleeping Dictionary (2003). He played "Prince Charmont" opposite Anne Hathaway in Ella Enchanted (2004) and "Sir Galahad" in King Arthur (2004).
He has since become well known for his roles as the "Earl of Essex" in the HBO mini-series Elizabeth I (2005) and "Will Graham" in the critically acclaimed NBC series Hannibal (2013).
Dancy married American actress Claire Danes in 2009. The couple have two children, Cyrus (b. 2012) and Rowan (b. 2018).- Billy Howle was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, to a schoolteacher mother and a father who teaches at Kent University, the second of four sons. His older brother, Sam, is a graphic designer. Despite his parents' academic backgrounds, Billy has said that he was not interested in further education, and worked instead at the local Stephen Joseph theater, in community-based projects involving dance and acting. After a year at drama school, he enrolled at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2013. Having appeared at Bristol in 'The Little Mermaid,' his next stage appearance was in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, opposite Lesley Manville in Richard Eyre's production of Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and a year later was reunited with Bristol Old Vic, the director, and Ms. Manville in a scorching production of 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' alongside Jeremy Irons - another Bristol Old Vic alumnus - Hadley Fraser, and Jessica Regan, more than holding his own with his older, more experienced co-stars. After a couple of small roles in television drama, Billy's first substantial lead came in the youth-oriented murder mystery Glue (2014) in 2014, opening the first scene in memorable style as he rolled nude down stacks of grain in a barn. In 2016, he was in another murder mystery, The Witness for the Prosecution (2016), as the defendant accused of killing his wealthy benefactress, by which time he had filmed his first forays into cinema: On Chesil Beach (2017) and Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (2018), both with Saoirse Ronan, and The Sense of an Ending (2017).
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Rachel Joy Shenton is a British actress and writer born in the Midlands. Shenton started her career at Edinburgh fringe festival, where her play received critical acclaim. In 2018 Shenton won the Academy Award® for Best Live Action short film, for The Silent Child that she both wrote, produced and starred in.- Adrian Rawlins was born on 27 March 1958 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002).
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British character actor Freddie Jones came to the acting profession after ten years of working as a laboratory assistant and acting in amateur theater on the side. To kick off his mid-life career change, Jones attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent, England, on a scholarship. He then worked in repertory theater, later joining up with the Royal Shakespeare Company and gaining recognition as an actor of exceptional cleverness, intelligence and perception.
His theatrical film debut came in 1967 in Peter Brook's critically acclaimed, Marat/Sade (1967). Two years later, Jones made his mark on the acting world playing "Claudius" in the six-part television miniseries, The Caesars (1968). Based on this performance, he was named "The World's Best Television Actor of the Year" at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in 1969. Also, around this time, Jones gave one of his most touching film performances, that of the "monster" in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), in which he displayed pathos reminiscent of Boris Karloff's monster.
Critical acclaim led him into more prominent roles in television, e.g., The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976), Children of the Stones (1977), and Pennies from Heaven (1978), as well as in film, e.g., The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970), Antony and Cleopatra (1972), All Creatures Great and Small (1975) and Zulu Dawn (1979). He achieved international recognition as a film actor after appearing in such Hollywood films as Clint Eastwood's Firefox (1982) and David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984) and Wild at Heart (1990).
Arguably one of his most endearing roles was the frequently drunk reporter "Orlando" in Federico Fellini's The Ship Sails On (1983). His theatrical acting also went well as he was well suited for literary dramas, e.g., Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Nicholas Nickleby (1977), Silas Marner (1985), Adam Bede (1992), David Copperfield (2000) and The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).- Tom was born to parents Nick and Irma on June 29 1987 in Burton-on-Trent in the English West Midlands. He has two siblings, sister Bethan and brother Ben. His parents were drama teachers at the school in Dubai where he and his siblings were educated. He was in a school production of "Blood Brothers" where, he starred alongside his brother and, after graduating from Royal Holloway College, University of London, studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic until 2010 when he was cast in the play 'Enlightenment' at the Hampstead Theatre. Here he was spotted and given a role in TV spy series 'Spooks' with other roles following, most recently in sitcom 'Not Safe for Work'. Tom often returns to Dubai to visit his parents.
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Dominic Burgess was born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, England. He was awarded a scholarship at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) in London, where he studied for three years. Public ALRA productions included "The end of the Food Chain", "The Art of Success" and "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".- Actor
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Neil Morrissey was born on 4 July 1962 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Bounty (1984), British Men Behaving Badly (1992) and Up 'n' Under (1998). He was previously married to Amanda Noar.- Actress
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Rebekah Staton was born in 1981 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Raised by Wolves (2013), Home (2019) and Pulling (2006).- Actor
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Eddie Hall was born on 15 January 1988 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Expendables 4 (2023), The Lost Book of Creation and The Awakening. He has been married to Alexandra Hall since 9 June 2012. They have two children.- Music Artist
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Robert Peter Williams was born in Stoke-on-Trent, on February 13th 1974, to his mother: Jan and father: Pete. Robbie attended Mill Hill Primary School, followed by St. Margaret Ward's Roman Catholic School in Tunstall. At secondary school he became labeled as mischievous and a jester and subsequently left with no GCSEs. He participated in several school plays, and his biggest role was that of the Artful Dodger in a production of Oliver!He achieved fame when at 16 he became the youngest member to join the all-male group 'Take That' after responding to an advertisement. Now, a true British superstar with over eighty million records sold worldwide, Robbie Williams has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist in history and is the best-selling British solo artist of all time. His twelve number one UK albums, alongside a plethora of world records, including selling the most tickets (1.6 million) in one day, highlight his enormous success as both a live performer and recording artist. This year has been another huge one for Robbie: as well as writing the music to the acclaimed new musical 'The Boy in the Dress' with Guy Chambers and Chris Heath, he also completed his first ever sold-out Las Vegas residency, played a triumphant sold-out show to 65,000 fans at Hyde Park in London and will release his first Christmas album 'The Christmas Present' on 22nd November. Robbie is a lifelong football fan and is the co-founder of the Charity football event 'Soccer Aid' which has raised over £30m for UNICEF, providing help for children in danger around the world.- Actress
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Lorna Nickson Brown is an actress, writer and director, known for Poirot (1989), Lucy, the Human Chimp (2021) and The Boys in the Boat (2023). She was raised in Birmingham, England and lived briefly in Nepal in her early childhood.
She directed BFI Network short, Ned & Me (2020). The film's festival selections include the 2021 International Competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival.
Lorna trained at Drama Centre London where she was offered one of five female places on the three-year BA Acting course, winning a Laurence Olivier Bursary Award in her final year.- Elizabeth Rider was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Line of Duty (2012), Care (2018) and Doc Martin (2004).
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Lemmy was born on 24 December 1945 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Airheads (1994) and Smokin' Aces (2006). He died on 28 December 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Terence Longdon appeared in four early black and white Carry Ons. His main roles were in the first two films in the series. In 1958, he had a significant supporting turn as Miles Heywood, an upper crust chap who although doing National Service and coming from a military background, did not want to make his career the army. This came as a great disappointment to Eric Barker! Terence then graduated to the role of romantic lead in Carry On Nurse, mainly due to the absence of Bob Monkhouse from this film. In Nurse, Terence played journalist Ted York, holed up in the men's ward at Haven Hospital. Originally he was set the task of writing about what the NHS was really like, however that is soon forgotten when he falls for the charms of Shirley Eaton's Nurse Dorothy Denton.
Longdon missed Carry On Teacher, the next film in the series, but returned to Pinewood for a cameo role as a dodgy confidence trickster who nearly cons Police Constable Kenneth Williams out of his Post Office savings in Carry On Constable. This one scene is a marked change for Terence and this role together with his part in the next film jar slightly. It feels like he is simply being included as a familiar face while being given little to do. In Carry On Regardless, Terence is limited to just a few scenes as one of Sid James' Helping Hands. He barely gets a look in as Kenneths Williams and Connor get the majority of the screen time.
And that was it for Terence and the Carry Ons. Terence recorded audio commentaries for two of his Carry Ons in 2006 and according to him, he was asked to become a series regular after Regardless but turned it down as he wanted to do other things. That would explain why he did not appear in any other series entries. So what else did Terence Longdon get up to in his career?
Terence made his first screen appearance in 1951, playing the role of Metellus in a television play entitled Androcles and the Lion. This was followed by several other roles in the 1950s and early 1960s. He appeared in the following films: Simon and Laura (starring Kay Kendall); Helen Of Troy (with Nora Swinburne and Stanley Baker); Jumping For Joy (with Frankie Howerd); Doctor At Large (with Dirk Bogarde); Another Time, Another Place (with Sean Connery, Lana Turner and a certain Sidney James); What A Wopper (again with Sid James) and perhaps most famously in Ben Hur, playing Drusus.
On television, Terence starred in a children's series called Garry Halliday between 1959 and 1962, playing a Biggles type character who was always off on thrilling missions. He also took roles in such series as The Army Game, Danger Man, Ivanhoe and Emergency Ward 10.
Later in the 1960s, Terence Longdon returned to the theatre and played in several long theatrical runs, both in the West End and further afield. He even spent six months on a tour of the United States with the Old Vic. This meant screen roles became few and far between, although he did appear in an episode of The New Avengers in 1977 alongside Joanna Lumley, Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins. He also popped in films such as The Wild Geese and The Sea Wolves, both in the late 1970s.
On stage, Terence worked in the West End with the likes of Peter Cushing, Stanley Baker, John Gielgud and he even understudied the great Paul Schofield. In the early 1950s he spent three years at Stratford, playing roles that included Cassio in Othello, Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1 and Oliver in As You Like It. He later completed over 1000 performances in the West End in the comedy The Secretary Bird.
In 1982 he turned up in the cobbled streets of Weatherfield, playing Wilf Stockwell, a client at Mike Baldwin's denim factory. This brought Wilf into contact with the legendary Elsie Tanner and the pair became rather friendly, much to the dismay of Wilf's wife Dot, played by Barbara Young. Terence then made only rare appearances on the small screen, most notably alongside Victoria Wood in her As Seen On TV series in the late 1980s and also in an episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Terence Longdon more or less retired from acting in 2003.
Terence was born Hubert Tuelly Longdon in Newark-On-Trent, Nottinghamshire, in May 1922. He originally planned to sit exams to enter the Civil Service, however the Second World War broke out and he joined the Fleet Air Arm. It was while in the Air Force that he first became involved in amateur dramatics and encouraged by this experience, he enrolled at RADA after the war ended. Stage work at the Lyceum in Sheffield soon followed.
Terence Longdon married the actress Barbara Jefford in 1953. This union ended in divorce in 1960. He much later married again, this time to Gillian Conyers, in 2004. They were married until his death from cancer in April 2011 at the age of 88.- Alan Lake was born on 24 November 1940 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Department S (1969), The Growing Summer (1968) and Freelance (1970). He was married to Diana Dors. He died on 10 October 1984 in Sunningdale, Berkshire, England, UK.
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Joe Jackson was born on 11 August 1954 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for The Big Hit (1998), There's Something About Mary (1998) and This Means War (2012).- Actor
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Nick Hancock was born on 25 October 1962 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Cashback (2006), They Think It's All Over (1995) and Me, You and Him (1992). He has been married to Shari Eftekhari since 1997. They have two children.- Anthea Turner was born on 25 May 1960 in Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Lily Savage Show (1997), Mongrels (2010) and Absolute Power (2003). She was previously married to Grant Bovey and Peter Powell.
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Jai Day was born on 27 May 1986 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for General Commander (2019), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) and Skiptrace (2016).- Philip Bond was born on 1 November 1934 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for An Englishman's Castle (1978), The Herries Chronicle (1960) and Ann Veronica (1964). He was married to Pat Sandys. He died on 17 January 2017 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
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Tobias James-Samuels attended boarding School in Gloucestershire as a full boarder, then moved to the Isle of Wight to become a Wind Surf, Dinghy, Canoe and Power Boat Instructor also gaining his Yacht Masters and PADI advanced Divers Certificate. Tobias then in 1995 moved to the South of France Antibes to work as crew on some of the largest most prestigious private Yachts in the world including The Sultan of Brunei's, after several years of traveling the world he returned to Lichfield, England and invested in property where he met his partner Melanie, he attended Drama School achieving his acting solo Gold and Verse & Prose Gold Certificate at LAMDA also he received his Silver Award at RADA. For the last 12 Years Tobias has been working on several TV shows playing regular Police officer roles on Doctors (2000), Father Brown (2013), Hollyoaks (1995) and CID Agent in Dalziel and Pascoe (1996). Tobias has played a lot of supporting artist roles in a number of films at Pinewood, Shepperton and Warner Brothers. In 2012 Tobias married Melanie in New York and continues to live in Lichfield, England and works mostly in London and the Midlands, England.- Wendy Turner-Webster was born on 5 June 1967 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is a producer, known for Local Heroes (2023), Robot Wars (1998) and You Do Too (2002). She has been married to Gary Webster since 21 March 1999. They have two children.
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Piers Wenger was born on 29 June 1972 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is a producer and actor, known for How I Live Now (2013), Housewife, 49 (2005) and The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007).