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Anna Madeley is an English actress. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". She grew up in London and started her career as a child actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in BBC TV films and on Channel 4. Anna has also done work in radio and film.
Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company: 2001-2002; and 2003-2004. She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher.
In 2005 she appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist (directed by David Grindley) and The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy.
In 2006, Madeley starred in two BBC TV films - as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, and in the original drama Aftersun - and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders.
In 2007, Madeley appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, Madeley played Nina in a production of The Seagull for a time, when the main actress fell ill.
She was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist.
In 2010 she appeared The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010.
In January 2013 Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw.
In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.- Abigail Klein was born on 24 December 1988 in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), That's My Boy (2012) and Butterfly Caught (2017).
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Melanie Specht was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Fairfax, Virginia with one older sister and happily married parents. Considered by her family "a little Sarah Bernhardt" from the moment she was born, theatrical antics defined Melanie's childhood. Melanie's passion for horses led her to attend a sleep away horseback riding camp every summer throughout her youth. Dancing from the age of four, it was natural for Melanie to join her high school's dance team and perform with them every year at the UDA National Dance Team Championship competition, held in Orlando Florida and broadcast on ESPN. Melanie attended Florida State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications. During her college years Melanie's love of travel took her to Paris, France where she enjoyed a summer semester abroad.
Specht has appeared in multiple TV shows and films including The Young and The Restless and the short film, Something Sweet. Melanie has been featured in multiple television shows including Passions, The Ex List, Body of Proof and Entourage. After discovering her natural gift for comedy, Melanie joined the Straitjacket Society, a sketch company, where she is still a member today. In addition, Melanie has starred in several other live sketch comedy shows, including (presently) an online sketch web series called The 5 Minute Sketch Show. This multi-talented actress has also appeared in movies including Loveless in Los Angeles, My American Nurse 2 and countless short films like Building Lines, First Weekend, Cosmic Girl, Cherry on Top and Home Invasion Package. Along with her film work, Specht co-starred in Burning Jet Black's music video "Magazine Girl."
In a role that is sure to solidify her title as an ever-growing star in Hollywood, Melanie will soon be seen in Michael Bay's new movie Transformers: Age of Extinction, to be released by Paramount on June 27, 2014.
Melanie supports several humanitarian causes. She is an advocate of putting a stop to sex trafficking and empowering young women both here and abroad.- Actress
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Actress and singer Victoria Summer is best known for her breakout role as 'Julie Andrews' in Disney's 'Saving Mr. Banks' opposite Tom Hanks and a supporting role in Paramount Pictures' 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' (Michael Bay). She has since appeared in 'Garlic and Gunpowder' (Vivica A. Fox/Martin Kove/Michael Madsen), 'Game of Aces' (Chris Klein), 'Ratpocalypse' (Casper Van Dien), musical movie 'How Sweet Is It' (Erika Christensen/Joe Piscopo) and 'Glow and Darkness' (Jane Seymour/Denise Richards).
Victoria has a myriad of projects in the pipeline for 2024. Her next major movie release is 'Vindication Swim' playing Edith Gade about the first British woman to swim the English channel. Up next, 'Julie Davis' in the film 'Brooklyn All American', alongside Sex and The City favourite Chris Noth and Christopher McDonald. The film follows the life of a young man looking to achieve greatness in Division One college football. Along with her acting prowess, Victoria is a distinguished singer and continues to dazzle both on and off the big screen. Victoria headlines major Los Angeles events with 'The Victoria Summer Big Band' for prestigious brands and organizations like Women In Film, BMW, and 20th Century Fox. You may also recognize her from the Centennial Anniversary Celebration of the Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, where she took center stage as 'The Biltmore Girl.'
From pantomimes and singing in the church choir to local theatre productions at age three, her heart has always been in entertainment. She landed a scholarship at Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick, West London that earnt her an honours degree in Dance and Musical Theatre. In her last year of school, Victoria became the understudy to the lead role in Musical 'Brighton Rock', directed by Michael Attenborough performing at the prestigious Almeida Theatre. More recently, she recorded and contributed songs for the soundtracks of 'Garlic and Gunpowder' and 'Ratpocalypse' and is now working on her first single as a recording artist.
She is a global ambassador for Teen Cancer America, the national non-profit co-founded by Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend of 'The Who', that provide facilities and support for adolescents and young adults with cancer. She has put on three Afternoon Tea Events 'Tea with Victoria Summer' for the charity; the last featuring Sheryl Crow, Alfie Boe and Downtown Abbey's Lesley Nicol. She looks forward to hosting a new Tea Event this June at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica that will boast a star-studded line up.
Victoria has also created a successful new website and TV show 'Next Generation Role Model' that shines the spotlight on up-and-coming young talent and interviews visionaries and leaders of the Next Generation.
In her free time Victoria helps to rescue animals and find them forever homes. Originally from countryside town Wokingham in Berkshire, Victoria currently resides in Los Angeles with her Pomeranian Bentley and cats Tiger and Storm. In 2020 she met and became engaged to Italian Michelin star chef Fabrizio Vaccaro - a real life love story. The couple tied the knot in a fairy tale ceremony in Calabria, Italy on May 22nd 2023. The wedding was covered exclusively by HELLO! magazine. She truly has her 'happily ever after!'- Lise Slabber is an actress best known for her role playing Idelle on the T.V. series, Black Sails. In real life Lise hails from Cape Town, South Africa. She has described herself as a "Third World Bird". Lise once claimed not to believe in Valentine's Day, and expressed her love of Table Mountain, a large, mostly flat-topped mountain landmark that overlooks Cape Town.
- Lili Simmons is an American actress who was born in San Diego, California, USA as Lili Marie Simmons. At the age of fifteen she was discovered by a talent manager. She would begin her career as a Ford Model and continue her work for Bebe Stores, Roxy, J.C. Penny, and Saturn. In 2010 she began her acting career and starred in recurring roles in several television series including Hollywood Is Like High School with Money (2010), Banshee (2013), and Hawaii Five-0 (2015). Her film work includes a starring role in the movie Bone Tomahawk (2015).
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Rebecca Night broke onto the scene leading Andrew Davies' BBC hit show "Fanny Hill" - directed by James Hawes (Slow Horses) alongside Alison Steadman and Samantha Bond.
She and her husband actor Harry Hadden-Paton and their children split their time between New York & London.
With great range of roles across theatre, film & tv she recently co-starred in the two-hander Pulitzer-Prize- winning play "Night, Mother" alongside acting royalty Stockard Channing. As described by lead theatre critic Mark Shenton: "Night is like a young Julia Roberts... with natural stage chops... It turns out to be a riveting, revealing evening.".
Film work includes Oscar-nominee Mike Figgis' 'Suspension of Disbelief' and other television includes Catherine Linton in ITV's 'Wuthering Heights', (Tom Hardy, Tom Payne, Sarah Lancashire and Andrew Lincoln), Yvonne Moncin in 'Maigret' (Rowan Atkinson and Fiona Shaw) and a regular starring role in Sky's 'Starlings' (Lesley Sharp, Unwell Roach & Brendan Coyle) and Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' (Tom Sturridge).
Lead of Bella Manningham opposite James Purefoy and Cathy Tyson in the BBC's audio and podcast drama re-make of 'Gaslight"
Theatre roles include Frances in David Hares's 'Racing Demon' (Paapa Essiedu, David Haig, dir. Jonathan Church), Queen Elizabeth in Oscar-winner David Seidler's North American Premiere of The King's Speech alongside Tony-nominee Harry Hadden-Paton and James Frain at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cecily Cardew in Peter Gill's The Importance of Being Earnest in London's West End (Daisy Haggard, Dame Penelope Keith), Eugenie in Sir Richard Eyre's production of 'A Flea in Her Ear' at the Old Vic Theatre and Rose of Sharon in Chichester Festival Theatre's production of 'Grapes of Wrath' (dir. Jonathan Church).
She created the role of Jack Cardiff's carer Lucy alongside Tony-winner Robert Lindsay in Tony-winner Terry Johnson's "Prism". Within the play she transforms into both Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall.
At the Roundabout Theater's Gala Night of "The Importance of Being Earnest" on 42nd St, Broadway, NYC she reprised her role of Cecily Cardew alongside the legendary Dame Angela Lansbury, Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Jayne Houdyshell, John Glover, Simon Jones, Daniel Davis and Thom Rhoads. Drama-Desk-winner Michael Wilson directed.
Trained at Rose Bruford College (alumni Gary Oldman) where she played Charity in 'Sweet Charity' and National Youth Theatre where she starred in 'Master and Margarita' alongside Matt Smith, Daniel Ings, Tom Allen, Ben Aldridge, Shane Zaza, Reece Ritchie, Charlie Covell & Harry Melling.
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Nicola Bryant was born the daughter of a heating engineer, in 1960, in Surrey, England. She began her training in dance and music at the age of three, studying classical ballet, then jazz and tap dance, the piano, flute and guitar, and finally acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Here, apart from developing her acting skills, she continued her hobbies of golf and music. It was also during her time at drama school, that Nicola married the Broadway singer, Scott Kennedy, although they later separated. Her final production at Webber Douglas was "No, No, Nanette", in which she played the lead.
Bryant was spotted by an agent, Terry Carney (William Hartnell's son-in-law), and asked to audition for the part of Peri in Doctor Who (1963), which she got. On leaving Doctor Who, Nicola appeared in Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988), Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993), which was a Doctor Who spoof and the highly successful three "Stranger" videos and The Airzone Solution" with Colin Baker.
In 1992, she went to Los Angeles for several months before returning to the UK. In 1995, she appeared as Martine in The Biz (1995), a children's series, which has run for three series so far. She also has sung with Colin Baker, Anthony Ainley, Nicholas Courtney and a number of British pop stars on the "Doctor In Distress" record. Nicola lives in Notting Hill, where her understanding neighbours allow her to write music at all hours of the day and night.- Rosalind Halstead trained as a dancer at The Central School of Ballet.
After several stage appearances in her youth, with the National Youth Theatre and at the Edinburgh Festival, Rosalind first appeared on screen in Stephen Whittaker's Sons and Lovers, followed quickly by a guest role in the BBC's very successful Love Soup, written by David Renwick and produced by the late Verity Lambert. Rosalind has made her mark on screen in both film and TV and her credits to date include; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, directed by Beeban Kidron, Stephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presents, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and directed by Shekhar Kapur, David Leland's Virgin Territory, Mammoth Screen's Wuthering Heights, directed by Coky Giedroyc, BBC's Sherlock, Endeavour and Marple both for ITV.