Francesca Annis

Francesca Annis

Nacimiento : 1945-05-14, Kensington, London, England, UK

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Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress. She is known for television roles in Reckless (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Deceit (2000) and Cranford (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial Lillie. Her film appearances include Krull (1983), Dune (1984), The Debt Collector (1999) and The Libertine (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francesca Annis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Francesca Annis

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The London Studios: Home of the Stars
Herself
The end of an era as the studios where ITV filmed its many shows for 45 years closes its doors for the last time.
Rey de ladrones
Lyn Reader
Una historia basada en hechos reales, sobre un grupo de ladrones retirados que logran un último golpe en el distrito joyero de Londres. Pero la codicia pronto transforma el éxito en una pesadilla.
Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
Self
A new documentary on the Criterion Collection edition of Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth featuring interviews with the director, producer Andrew Braunsberg, assistant executive producer Victor Lownes, and actors Francesca Annis and Martin Shaw.
Loving Miss Hatto
Joyce Hatto
Drama inspired by the true story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto. Victoria Wood's new strange-but-true drama about musical deception and enduring love
Dune: The Alternative Edition Redux
Lady Jessica
A film that’s been admired, hated and puzzled-over in fairly equal amounts, writer/director David Lynch’s ambitious 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel gets an extensive fanediting treatment in Dune The Alternative Edition Redux. This is the third and final cut of an edit first released in 2008 and again in 2009 by faneditor spicediver. As previously, it draws on the heavily cut Theatrical Version, the controversial Extended “TV” Version and a selection of Deleted Scenes and soundtrack cues.
Shifty
Valerie
Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer, intent on setting him up for a big fall.
Revolver
Lily Walker
Jake Green (Jason Statham) es un hábil jugador que tiene la mala suerte de desplumar a Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), un mafioso local. La jugada le saldrá cara, ya que Macha no parará hasta vengarse de él.
The libertine
Countess
Londres, 1660, Época de la Restauración. En un periodo en el que tienen lugar constantes descubrimientos y progresos en el mundo de la ciencia, la religión y las artes, vive el decadente John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), Conde de Rochester, amigo y confidente del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra (John Malkovich). Wilmot, destacado poeta, dramaturgo, soldado y cortesano, mujeriego, hedonista y libertino, es uno de los personajes más peculiares e influyentes del siglo XVII.
Copenhagen
Margrethe Bohr
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the event became the stuff of modern scientific mythology. Director Howard Davies puts his spin on the momentous meeting that occurred one night in September 1941, during which the longtime friends entered into a dangerous discussion about physics and politics.
Onegin
Ambientada en el año 1820, cuenta la historia de Eugene Onegin, un aristócrata que se traslada a San Petersburgo. Allí conoce a Vladimir Lensky, quien le presenta a la hermana de su prometida Olga, de quien se enamora perdidamente. Pero el amor de Onegin por la bella Tatiana no será fácil, trayendo consigo una fuerte confrontación con Lensky que le obligará a abandonar la ciudad durante seis años. Basada en la ópera del compositor ruso Piotr Ílich Chaikovski.
The Debt Collector
Val Dryden
Mean, gritty, dirty and low, and that's just the policeman Gary Keltie, out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh during the 1970s, by notorious, torturous, and killer, debt collector Nickie Dryden.
Milk
Harriet
Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family members show up at the farm to argue over the execution of Ruth's will. The one object that everyone seems to want, and several people try to steal, is Ruth's valuable Modigliani painting. In the midst of all this confusion over Ruth's death, a mysterious visitor named Ilaria inserts herself onto the scene and has a surprising effect on those gathered.
Reckless: The Sequel
Anna Fairley
One year on in their lives, Owen and Anna plan to marry. But Anna's ex-husband may have an other idea. He schemes to rip the couple apart. Can Anna and Owen survive this emotional trauma to become man and wife?
El puño de Dios
Sophie
Dr. Gerald Bull era un genio en el diseño y construcción superguns. (Muy grandes cañones de largo alcance capaces de disparar más de 100 millas.) Cuando un plan de la CIA para exportar material restringido el uso de él fue expuesto, la CIA negó todo conocimiento y se fue a la cárcel. Más tarde fue liberado para ayudar a Saddam Hussein a construir una nueva superarma capaz de disparar más de 500 millas. Israel, al enterarse de la superarma, teme que sería utilizado contra ellos mismos.
A Haunting Harmony
A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral.
Weep No More, My Lady
Leila
Cuando encuentran a Leila, una actriz muy temperamental, después de un ataque de histeria, rodeada de drogas y alcohol, todos suponen que se trata de un suicidio. Hasta que la policía descubre que ha sido asesinada.
Absolute Hell
Elizabeth Collier
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."
Romeo.Juliet
Juliet (voice)
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been re-released for the home video market. This lack of availability, which has been described as making it "more rare than the dinosaur" has made it a sought-after item in some circles.
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
Jacqueline Kennedy
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.
Under the Cherry Moon
Mrs. Wellington
Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first, Tricky has Christopher Tracy talked into romancing her for her money, but in getting to know her, Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers, and Tricky tells about the plan.
El río de oro
Dubarry
Un matrimonio veranea en el campo con sus tres hijos. El descanso estival se ve alterado con la llegada del tío Peter, un curioso personaje que se comporta de manera diferente al resto de su familia.
Dune
Lady Jessica
Por orden imperial la familia Atreides deberá hacerse cargo de la explotación del desértico planeta de Arrakis, conocido también como Dune, el único planeta donde se encuentra 'la especia', una potente droga que, además, es necesaria para los vuelos espaciales.
El misterioso señor Brown
Tuppence
Después de tener un encuentro casual y mantener una conversación indiscreta, dos amigos de la infancia, Tommy Beresford y Tuppence Cowley, se ven envueltos en una enrevesada intriga manejada desde las sombras por un hombre misterioso conocido simplemente como Mr. Brown.
Krull
Widow of the Web
El planeta Krull es atacado por un monstruo y todo un ejército de alienígenas asesinos. Para hacerles frente, dos naciones enemigas deciden juntar sus fuerzas uniendo en matrimonio al príncipe Colwyn y a la princesa Lyssa, pero el día de la ceremonia el palacio es asaltado, la princesa secuestrada y Colwyn herido. Lo primero que debe hacer el príncipe es encontrar una espada voladora con poderes extraordinarios que le servirá para encontrar a la princesa y librar al planeta de la amenaza de la bestia.
The Maze
Catherine Frode
A couple move to a country estate that turns out to be haunted.
Yo escapé del hielo
Galina
El joven norteamericano Víctor Herman y su familia se trasladó a la Unión Soviética a mediados de los años 30 . Cuando se negó a firmar como paracaidista para la URSS fue enviado a prisión sin ser juzgado. Tras la prisión, y torturas fue enviado a los Gulags (campos de trabajos forzados soviéticos).
Agatha Christie: Trayectoria de bumeran
Lady Frances Derwent
El argumento versa sobre el misterio que se esconde detrás de las palabras de un hombre moribundo. Bobby Jones y Lady Frankie Derwent se las arreglarán para desentrañar la verdad.
The Comedy of Errors
Luciana
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.
Stronger Than the Sun
Kate Crowley
Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.
Penny Gold
Delphi / Diane
While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.
The Wood Demon
Helen
A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen. At the luncheon is Khrushchov, a passionate environmentalist, called "the Wood Demon" by all, in love with Sonya and she with him, but neither will say it. Two weeks later there's a family meeting at the professor's estate; two weeks after that, a supper at the cabin of Dyadin, who's cheerful to all. George, Helen, Sonya, and Khrushchov are each suffocating. Can any of them take action?
Sign it Death
A young woman schemes to marry a wealthy businessman by becoming his secretary.
Big Truck and Sister Clare
A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pretty nun, gets stuck and are forced to wait to be rescued.
Polanski Meets Macbeth
Self
A 1971 documentary by Frank Simon featuring rare footage of the film’s cast and crew at work.
Macbeth: un hombre frente al rey
Lady Macbeth
Escocia, siglo XI. Impulsado por la retorcida profecía de tres brujas y la despiadada ambición de su esposa, el señor de la guerra Macbeth, audaz y valiente, pero también débil y dubitativo, traiciona a su buen rey y a sus hermanos de armas y se hunde en el lodo sangriento de un camino sin retorno, sembrado de crimen y sospecha.
The Walking Stick
Arabella Dainton
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
The Sky Pirate
Low-budget film illustrates the various factors which have lead a man to hijack a plane to Cuba.
Run with the Wind
A young woman is unable to decide between a boxer and folk singer, and ends up losing both.
The Pleasure Girls
Sally
When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and discovers the world of the carefree bachelor girl in Swinging London. Over one weekend - filled with parties, blossoming friendships, and romantic encounters with Keith and Nikko (Klaus Kinski) - the vivacious girls learn about life's pleasures and pains.
The Eyes of Annie Jones
Annie Jones
Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so.
Saturday Night Out
Jean
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.
La señora McGinty ha muerto
Sheila Upward
La señorita Marple se une a una compañía de teatro para demostrar la inocencia de un hombre acusado de asesinar a una ex actriz. Durante el juicio, el jurado decide que los hechos no están suficientemente probados. Tercera película de Margaret Rutherford en el papel de la señorita Marple.
Flipper y los piratas
Gwen
El famoso delfín y su amigo Sandy viajan a las Bahamas, donde se enfrentan a una banda de secuestradores que ha tomado a una familia como rehenes. Gracias a la gran amistad que les une, Flipper y Sandy intentan vencer todos los obstáculos.
Crooks in Cloisters
June
Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
Distrito 11
Phyl
Beckett es un tullido emocional que va de trabajo en trabajo, de mujer en mujer, incapaz incluso de amar a su madre. Por él se interesa Dyce, quien desea desembarazarse de su tía y piensa que él es el hombre adecuado para el trabajo...
Cleopatra
Eiras
La apasionada y ambiciosa reina egipcia Cleopatra tiene la determinación de seducir al emperador romano Julio César. Cuando Julio César es asesinado, Cleopatra redirige sus atenciones a su general Marco Antonio, quien jura llegar al poder. Pero el sucesor del césar tiene otros planes...
His and Hers
Wanda
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious...
No Kidding
Priscilla
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
The Cat Gang
Sylvia
The Cat Gang is a group of precocious British kids. They have a habit of hanging around a grown-up customs official who wishes that they'd beat it. But the Gang comes in handy when a smuggling gang arrives on the scene.