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Exclusive: In the latest high-profile exit from UK agency Troika (now known as Ymu Drama and Comedy), the firm’s Director & Head Of Comedy Sophie Chapman has joined management outfit 42.
Respected rep Chapman spent six years at Troika and before that 12 years at Avalon. She specialises in comedy, with clients including stand-up comedians, actors, writers, improvisers, presenters and writer-performers.
Her strong list includes BAFTA-nominee Samson Kayo (Truth Seekers), Ellie Taylor (Ted Lasso), BAFTA-nominee Rachel Parris (The Mash Report), Geoff Norcott (The Mash Report), Freya Parker and Celeste Dring (Lazy Susan), Kaine Zajaz (Informer), Paul G. Raymond (Black Mirror: USS Callister) and Mark Silcox (Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back).
Josh Varney, co-founder of 42, said: “We are thrilled that Sophie has chosen to join us at 42, and brings with her a wealth of the most exciting comedy talent in the U.K. Her unique experience across talent representation and production will be a prized asset,...
Respected rep Chapman spent six years at Troika and before that 12 years at Avalon. She specialises in comedy, with clients including stand-up comedians, actors, writers, improvisers, presenters and writer-performers.
Her strong list includes BAFTA-nominee Samson Kayo (Truth Seekers), Ellie Taylor (Ted Lasso), BAFTA-nominee Rachel Parris (The Mash Report), Geoff Norcott (The Mash Report), Freya Parker and Celeste Dring (Lazy Susan), Kaine Zajaz (Informer), Paul G. Raymond (Black Mirror: USS Callister) and Mark Silcox (Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back).
Josh Varney, co-founder of 42, said: “We are thrilled that Sophie has chosen to join us at 42, and brings with her a wealth of the most exciting comedy talent in the U.K. Her unique experience across talent representation and production will be a prized asset,...
- 11/19/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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The British royal family has been unusually generous to Olivia Colman in providing roles. Playing the 18th century's Queen Anne in 2018's The Favourite brought Colman, 45, an Oscar for best actress. And she's the only actor to have played both Queen Elizabeth II, which she's doing now on Netflix's The Crown, and that royal's mother, Queen Elizabeth, which she did in 2012's Hyde Park on Hudson.
Prior to these film roles, Colman was probably best known in the U.K. for appearing on sitcoms. She gained attention in 2003 as the Sophie Chapman character ...
Prior to these film roles, Colman was probably best known in the U.K. for appearing on sitcoms. She gained attention in 2003 as the Sophie Chapman character ...
- 11/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Louisa Mellor Jan 9, 2019
As the awards circuit applauds Olivia Colman for her starring role in The Favourite, we tip a cap to some of her brilliant past work…
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Collie to her friends. Sarah on her birth certificate. Sophie from Peep Show to you and me. Sweary, smiley sandwich woman to Golden Globe Awards Ceremony audiences around the world. Olivia Colman’s name is currently everywhere, being spelled slightly incorrectly.
Colman’s role as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ comedy drama The Favourite has rightly earned her a royal cortege of nominations and awards, in addition to the existing train of nominations and awards she’s earned since stepping out of the comedy enclosure to make 2011 drama Tyrannosaur. Before playing abused wife Hannah in Paddy Considine’s directorial debut feature, Colman was known as a comic actor. Since then, she’s played just as much tragedy,...
As the awards circuit applauds Olivia Colman for her starring role in The Favourite, we tip a cap to some of her brilliant past work…
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Collie to her friends. Sarah on her birth certificate. Sophie from Peep Show to you and me. Sweary, smiley sandwich woman to Golden Globe Awards Ceremony audiences around the world. Olivia Colman’s name is currently everywhere, being spelled slightly incorrectly.
Colman’s role as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ comedy drama The Favourite has rightly earned her a royal cortege of nominations and awards, in addition to the existing train of nominations and awards she’s earned since stepping out of the comedy enclosure to make 2011 drama Tyrannosaur. Before playing abused wife Hannah in Paddy Considine’s directorial debut feature, Colman was known as a comic actor. Since then, she’s played just as much tragedy,...
- 1/9/2019
- Den of Geek
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