Floella Benjamin

Floella Benjamin

Nacimiento : 1949-09-23, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]

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Floella Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin, OBE, DL is a Trinidadian-British actress, author, television presenter, singer, businesswoman and politician. She is known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play Away and Fast Forward

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Floella Benjamin

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Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
Konnie Huq celebrates the very best of British children’s television, with a dazzling array of clips from some of the most treasured programmes ever made and revealing chats with some of TV’s most beloved stars. But Konnie also tells a perhaps more surprising story: of how kids’ TV has frequently been at the forefront of social change, in terms of the stories it tells and the people who get to tell them.
Expediente Anwar
CIA Staffer
Isabella (Reese Witherspoon) es la esposa de un ingeniero químico, nacido en Egipto (Omar Metwalley), cuya familia emigró a Estados Unidos a mediados de los años 80. Tras ser detenido por ser sospechoso de terrorismo, es enviado a unas instalaciones secretas fuera de Estados Unidos donde es interrogado de manera poco ortodoxa por el agente de la CIA Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal). Pero su esposa hará todo lo posible por encontrarle...
Corredor de fondo
Libby's Mum
Dennis es un tío normal. Está un poco gordo y fuma, pero es buena persona, encantador y sencillo. Sin embargo, hace cinco años, Dennis hizo algo que no estuvo bien. El día en que debía casarse con Libby, su novia embarazada, se dio a la fuga. No pudo seguir adelante con la boda. No se sentía merecedor de Libby, entonces decidió que en vez de arruinarle la vida, era mejor arruinarle su gran día. Hoy, cinco años después, Dennis se da cuenta de que ha cometido un gran error. Aún está enamorado de Libby.
Coming To England
Teacher
"A story of a Windrush generation girl who came to Britain in 1960 from the Caribbean. Adapted from the book Coming to England [by Floella Benjamin], which was written for children everywhere." - BBC.
Nursery Rhymes
narrator
70 favourite traditional songs and rhymes presented as a pop-up book which comes to life through animation, puppetry & live performances. The beautiful visual world draws on the work of such classic children's illustrators as Arthur Rackham (Peter Pan) & John Tenniel (Alice in Wonderland). A delightful musical score by Tony & Grammy winning composer John Du Prez, features everything form Northumbrian pipes to Baroque orchestra, folk guitar, early instruments, military band, fairground organ & even a singing sheep (courtesy of Percy Edwards).
A Hole in Babylon
Norma
Three black men rob a Knightsbridge Italian restaurant. But when the police are called and the robbery becomes a siege, the men find themselves in a situation out of their control.
Waterloo Sunset
Marie-Louise
Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.
Black Joy
Miriam
An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.
Poseído al nacer
First Nurse
Víctima de una maldición, una mujer da a luz a un bebé enorme concebido por el mismísimo diablo que ataca a la gente y emite horrorosos aullidos. Una monja intentará ayudar a la mujer a través de un exorcismo.
The Floater
Solicitor's clerk
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.