Deborah Findlay
Nacimiento : 1947-01-01, Surrey, England, UK
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Deborah Findlay is an English actress.
Her TV credits include the recurring character Greer Thornton in 4 of the 6 episodes of State of Play, and in the episode The French Drop (2004) in Foyle's War. She also appeared in 4 episodes of the 2001 series of The Armstrong and Miller Show. In Autumn 2007 she appeared with Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis in the BBC1 costume drama series Cranford playing the role of the endless spinster Miss Augusta Tompkinson as well as in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale. She portrayed Home Secretary Denise Riley in Torchwood's 2009 third series Children of Earth, and featured as lawyer Gemma King in one episode of the BBC1 series Silent Witness in January 2010.
In 2008 she starred in the US premiere of Vincent River by Philip Ridley. In 2009 she appeared, again alongside Judi Dench in a Donmar West End revival of Madame de Sade, and reprised her (in this case more prominent) role as Augusta Tompkinson in the two-part Christmas special Return to Cranford.
She also played Gillian in the acclaimed 1999 ITV Drama The Last Train
She won the 1997 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (sharing the award with Allison Janney and Celia Weston) as well as the Olivier Award for her formance in Stanley.
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Claire
Two old lovers reunite many years later after a chance meeting.
Margaret
An inquisitive retiree surprises her new neighbours to say hello; what she wasn’t expecting is that they would all be naked. A short about over-stepping the line and how we find common ground.
Nurse
Adaptación de la tragedia de Shakespeare ambientada en la Italia contemporánea.
Helene
Three stories of strangers meeting on the edge of war. A conscientious objector and a roaming artist find tenderness as the carnage of the Second World War unfolds across the English Channel. A bereaved mother struggles with bitterness and love in recollecting her estranged son, lost in the Falklands. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany, an ageing holocaust survivor seeks to bring peace to disturbed young boy and his equally wild stepfather.
Sister Gilchrist
Alan Bennett’s sharp and hilarious new play is ‘just what the doctor ordered’ (Daily Telegraph). Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run, don’t miss this acclaimed production full of ‘singalongs and stinging wit’ (Guardian). The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir. One of Britain’s most celebrated writers, Alan Bennett’s plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George III, all of which were also seen on film. Allelujah! is his tenth collaboration with award-winning director Nicholas Hytner.
Maureen
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
Mary Neal
Emily Walters es una viuda que vive a las afueras de Hampstead Heath en Londres, incapaz de centrarse en cosas que requieren su atención, como su apartamento, sus finanzas o su hijo. Un día observa como un hombre que habita una destartalada cabaña es atacado por una banda profesional de matones, por lo que llama a la policía mientras sigue mirando. Después se adentra en el bosque para buscar al hombre, y así descubre que –aunque ha vivido en paz durante 17 años- ahora su existencia se ve amenazada por unos promotores inmobiliarios.
Maud Shaw
Película sobre la exprimera dama estadounidense Jacqueline Kennedy, centrada en los días inmediatamente posteriores al asesinato de JFK, en Dallas, el 22 de noviembre del año 1963.
Tessa
En Londres, Kate y Justin forman una exitosa pareja que esperan su primer hijo. Kate está llena de temores sobre su maternidad. Un día, otro matrimonio, Theresa y Jon, se mudan al apartamento de abajo. También esperan un bebé, pero a diferencia de Kate, Theresa lleva su maternidad con alegría. La diferente forma de ser de ambas parejas comenzará a tejer una red de sospechas y obsesiones.
Pauline
Un buen día, la señorita Shepherd, una mujer de orígenes inciertos, aparca su furgoneta en una acera de Londres, en el acceso a la casa del escritor Alan Bennett. Lo que al principio iba a ser algo temporal, un favor a regañadientes, se acaba convirtiendo en una relación que cambiará las vidas de ambos. Y es que la señorita Shepherd se quedó a vivir allí durante 15 años.
Harriet Harman
Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.
Madame Joseph
Año 1940, durante la ocupación alemana del ejército nazi en Francia. Lucile Angellier es una joven que aguarda noticias de su marido, prisionero de guerra, mientras lleva una sofocante existencia junto a su controladora suegra en un pequeño pueblo francés. Ambas viven ajenas a la realidad de la guerra hasta que un grupo de refugiados parisinos llega a la localidad huyendo de la ocupación, al que le sigue un regimiento de soldados alemanes que establecen sus residencias en los hogares de los habitantes del pueblo. En casa de los Angellier, Lucile intenta en un principio ignorar a Bruno, el elegante y refinado oficial alemán a quien se le ha encargado vivir con ellas.
Volumnia
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people.
General (voice)
Santa Claus cree que su reinado está llegando a su fin y que se acerca ya la hora de jubilarse. Confía en que su hijo Steven, que es muy eficiente y responsable, aunque no muy alegre, esté preparado para tomar el relevo inmediatamente. Sin embargo, esa Navidad surge un problema: uno de los 600 millones de niños a los que había que visitar se queda sin su regalo.
Set against the rising wave of gun crime in Britain, Gunrush sees a father driven to take the law into his own hands after his daughter is shot dead.
Doctor Price
Shaun y Daz son dos amigos inseparables que faltan sistemáticamente a clase y se dedican a montar en bici y a pasar las tardes junto al lago con Katy, el primer amor de Shaun.
Pamela Wilson
A drama about a couple on the edge of divorce, their solicitors, their daughter and of course, their dog.
Susan Owen
Jeremy Paxman tells the tragic story of World War One poet Wilfred Owen.
Madame Roulin
John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosive housemates in art history. For just nine weeks, in late 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin share a home, The Yellow House, in Arles, southern France.
A decade on, This Life's Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg has become a successful writer, Milly a full-time mum and Anna is still a lawyer, while Warren and Miles have pursued 'business' careers. Egg's latest book is based on the group's lives in the nineties when they shared a house. A TV production company, fronted by documentary film-maker Clare, is at the launch of Egg's book and suggests she films a reunion of the group. The reunion takes place in Miles' Mansion over a long weekend and the five old friends discover each other again.
Doctor
A decade on, This Life's Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg has become a successful writer, Milly a full-time mum and Anna is still a lawyer, while Warren and Miles have pursued 'business' careers. Egg's latest book is based on the group's lives in the nineties when they shared a house. A TV production company, fronted by documentary film-maker Clare, is at the launch of Egg's book and suggests she films a reunion of the group. The reunion takes place in Miles' Mansion over a long weekend and the five old friends discover each other again.
Mrs. Sedley
Londres, comienzos del siglo XIX. Hija de un artista inglés pobre y de una corista francesa, Becky (Reese Witherspoon) se queda huérfana a muy temprana edad, pero ya de niña era muy ambiciosa y soñaba con una vida de lujo y comodidades. Cuando sale de la Academia de la Srta. Pinkerton en Chiswick, está firmemente decidida a utilizar su belleza, ingenio y astucia para conquistar un lugar dentro la alta sociedad inglesa.
Margaret Ballantyne
The ostensibly calm and courteous Gerald Ballantyne lives in and embodies modern suburbia. But he is haunted by the memory of a recent car crash and hounded by his estranged wife and her demands for divorce. Slowly, a festering insanity takes over and unwilling to face the outside world he embarks on a lunatic experiment. Confining himself to his middle-class home, he eschews contact with others and survives entirely off 'food' which he can find in his house. Based on JG Ballard's The Enormous Space.
Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his wife.
Judith
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.
Miss Smythe
Sarah Miles es una mujer apasionada y atrapada en un matrimonio estéril que conoce al novelista Maurice Bendrix durante una fiesta que da su marido Henri, un respetable pero poco interesante funcionario del Estado. Ambos comienzan un apasionado romance. Pero, durante un bombardeo alemán, la casa de Bendrix es alcanzada por una bomba que sorprende a los amantes en la cama.
Mrs. Reed
Huérfana y abandonada, Jane Eyre tuvo una miserable infancia. Creció en un orfanato. A los dieciocho años se convierte en una mujer de fuertes principios y llega a Thornfield Hall para ocupar el puesto de gobernanta. Allí conoce al hombre que podría ser el amor de su vida, el Sr. Rochester, propietario de Thornfield. A pesar de su actitud indómita y de un misterioso pasado, el Sr. Rochester resulta irresistible para Jane. Pero sus sentimientos no son recíprocos, y Jane Eyre vivirá atormentada por sus constantes flirteos con la rica Blanche... Adaptación televisiva del clásico de Charlotte Brontë.
Miss Cartwright
Jack, un atareado abogado inglés, lleva una vida idílica con su esposa Sarah, que está esperando su primer hijo. Todo se viene abajo cuando la madre muere tras dar a luz a una niña. De pronto, Jack se encuentra sólo y desorientado ante una nueva responsabilidad para la que no está preparado. Además, su absorbente trabajo no le permite hacerse cargo de la niña. A pesar de contar con la ayuda de su madre, su suegra y William, un vagabundo al que ha dado cobijo, Jack se ve obligado a buscar a alguien que cuide de la niña. Pese a la oposición de todos, contrata a una joven e inexperta camarera americana llamada Amy.
Sylvia Milner
Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors.The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes.Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.
Cheryl Morris
A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.
An advertising executive investigating the death of an old girlfriend uncovers a conspiracy to cover up the spread of BSE in humans.
Martirio
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Isabella Bird / Joyce / Mrs Kidd
Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.
Doll
A marriage and home can be made complete with the arrival of a new baby, but Shirley Frame (Brenda Blethyn) feels a need to share her good fortune by going out into the world and helping others - driving husband Phil (Warren Clarke) up the wall. Shirley (39) gives birth to her third child and is over the moon. Intent on sharing her delight with the world she embarks on a plan to make life a better place for as many people as possible. Husband Phil and their two teenagers aren't easily convinced. Very quickly she learns that it's not easy being a Good Samaritan, especially in a world of tower blocks, drug abuse and homelessness, even if your own life is rosy.
Claire
Nina y Jamie son una pareja muy enamorada. La muerte de Jamie es para Nina un auténtico drama. Así las cosas, el espíritu de Jamie decide intervenir, desde el Más Allá, para buscar a alguien que la consuele, ya que no puede soportar la idea de ver a su amada lamentándose el resto de su vida.
Lisa
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
Angela
A ringing phone after midnight can be a disturbing experience but until Simon, a successful barrister, hears from Macy, his friend from university days, he doesn't know just how disturbing.
Ingy
Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to be enough for the unexpected demands the new life makes of him?
