Alice Patten

Alice Patten

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alice Patten (born 1980) is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last governor of Hong Kong. She has played a key role in the Hindi film Rang De Basanti (2006). Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End.[1] In 2005 and 2006 she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard’s Prince of Denmark. In 2006, she appeared in the Hindi film Rang De Basanti as Sue McKinley. In 2008 she played Thea in Hedda, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, at London's Gate Theatre and in 2009 she guest starred as Arthur's mother Ygraine in the BBC fantasy drama series Merlin. Patten was educated at Island School, Hong Kong and Queens’ College, Cambridge. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alice Patten, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Alice Patten

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Sarah
Set against an Eastern European nation's election, in a country that was the most notorious communist dictatorship, the film charts the paths of five characters; An aging CIA officer; A young attractive economic advisor; The ambitious Bulgarian Prime Minister's chief of staff; An American political consultant; and a retired member of the Bulgarian Communist State Police. These five character destinies intertwine in the weeks leading up to the elections in a fledgling democracy.
Rang De Basanti
Sue McKinley
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
Vincent in Brixton
Eugenie Loyer
Based on Nicholas Wright's 2002 play exploring the life of the young Vincent Van Gogh during a stay in Brixton, London in 1873. In the play, which is largely fictional, he falls in love with an English widow.