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Kitty Aldridge

Nacimiento : 1962-01-01,

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From Wikipedia Kitty Aldridge (born 1962) is a British actress and writer. Aldridge was born in Bahrain. After training as an actress at the Drama Centre London, Aldridge worked in film, theatre and television as an actress. Her first novel, Pop, published by Cape (Vintage) in 2001, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 and shortlisted for the Pendleton May First Novel Award 2002. Her second novel, Cryers Hill, was published by Cape (Vintage) on 1 March 2007. Aldridge's short story, Arrivederci Les, won the Bridport Short Story Prize 2011. Her third novel, A Trick I Learned from Dead Men, was published by Cape (Vintage) in 2012. It was longlisted for the 2013 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and The Guardian newspaper's Not The Booker Prize 2012. Aldridge married the former Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler on Valentine's Day 1997 on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

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Películas

Divorcing Jack (I.R.A. y paz)

Agnes Brinn

1999, Irlanda del Norte. Dan Starkey es un reportero que trabaja en la redacción de un periódico. Su mujer le sorprende en los brazos de una joven, que resulta ser ex novia del líder del IRA. Un día, su amante es asesinada y su mujer secuestrada. La muerte de esta mujer es un misterio que le deparará peligrosas sorpresas. (FILMAFFINITY)

A Little Piece of Sunshine

Sabrina

Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case.

The World of Eddie Weary

Barbara Daniels

Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV show. Except Conway is actually a complete idiot in real-life: stuck up, pretentious and selfish, the constant focus of tabloid interest for his bad, usually drunken behaviour. But then he discovers he gets truckloads of mail from fans who think he really is Eddie Weary, asking for his help, so he decides to help them - with the aid of his assistant, Birdie.

Slipstream (La furia del viento)

Belitski

Historia futurista en la que un funcionario del gobierno y su compañera persiguen a un fugitivo para darle caza. Desgraciadamente para la pareja, el fugitivo es secuestrado por un explorador inconformista que busca el rescate. Los funcionarios deciden endurecer la captura, persiguiendo a ambos individuos, hasta la cantera que sirve de refugio a sus raptores. La cosa se pone peligrosa cuando el aventurero y su cautivo entran en el “slipstream”, un viento muy peligroso que asola la Tierra.

American Roulette

Kate Webber

Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and reputation, in love with Kate, his assistant, who has a secret of her own and keeps Carlos at a distance. The generals have a team of professionals in London bent on kidnap and assassination. Hovering around Carlos are two Russians, who may be KGB, an American book publisher, who may be CIA, an elusive Brit, probably from her majesty's secret service, and his own few supporters. Is Carlos doomed? Whom can he trust?

Maurice

Kitty Hall

Gran Bretaña, principios del siglo XX. Cuando el joven Maurice (James Willby) va a la universidad, se enamora de Clive (Hugh Grant), uno de sus compañeros de clase. Juntos vivirán un romance que mantendrán en secreto. Sin embargo, Clive, para evitar habladurías y normalizar su vida, decide casarse con una joven. Maurice, por su parte, seguirá manteniendo relaciones secretas con otros hombres, aunque no será lo mismo.

An African Dream

Katherine Hastings

An Englishwoman travels to South Africa in 1906.

Una habitación con vistas

New Lucy

Lucy Honey Church una joven inglesa de buena familia, se encuentra de viaje en Florencia, acompañada por su prima y dama de compañía Charlotte Bartlett. En la pensión donde se hospedan conocen al excéntrico señor Emerson y a su hijo George, que, amablemente, les ceden sus habitaciones para que las damas disfruten de una ventana con vistas a la ciudad.