Sophie Thompson
Nacimiento : 1962-01-20, London, England, UK
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The second daughter born in 1962 to actress Phyllida Law and actor Eric Thompson, Sophie is the younger sister of twice Academy Award-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson.
Sophie Thompson has worked in film, television, theater and radio, and has narrated a number of audiobooks. She made her debut in 1978, at the age of 16, starring in A Traveler in Time.
Karen Marrow
A concerned young woman moves home to look after her ailing grandmother and soon finds herself fighting a malevolent presence with a dark secret.
Frieda
Hansel y Gretel han huido de la casa de jengibre, pero ¿y si la malvada bruja sobreviviera después de todo?
Monica Reed
As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching.
Lydia
You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years after the events of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Charles, Carrie, Fiona, Tom, David, Matthew, Bernard, Lydia and Father Gerald are back in church. But whose wedding is it - and will there be any more familiar faces?
Emma
Tales From The Lodge is a fresh take on the portmanteau horror-comedy genre. An isolated lodge somewhere in England. Five old university pals, now nudging 40, gather for a weekend to scatter the ashes of their friend, Jonesy, who drowned himself in the lake three years earlier. They settle in for a fun evening, entertaining each other with stories of murders, ghosts, zombies and possessions, but as day turns to night, the gang become aware of another horror story unfolding around them - And this one is real.
Dame Alvera
A local child has gone missing. For the family, it is a tragedy. For former celebrity psychic Dame Alvera, it is an opportunity to claw back her fame. But in the dingy confines of a small-town psychic fayre, can she still make a human connection?
Lady Bracknell
A new production of one of the funniest plays in English, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, was broadcast live to cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End and is now available as a recorded programme. Wilde’s much-loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays. Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn and Cecily discover how unsmooth runs the course of true love, while Lady Bracknell keeps a baleful eye on the mayhem of manners.
Miss Maxwell
A girl rescues a rat, which the malevolent burgerman wants to make into a burger and sell to the local school children and people.
Dan is about to introduce the woman of his dreams to his family, but as they are so quirky, will everything go to plan?
Aggie Whistlestop
When Lady Pagwell dies, leaving a legacy to fund local inventing, Professor Branestawm thinks his money troubles are over. But scheming councillor Haggerstone insists an inventing contest be held to decide who gets the cash.
That Musical We Made is an honest and funny look at the making of a musical. Victoria Wood takes us behind the scenes of That Day We Sang, the film she wrote and directed, and also looks at the real events which inspired her story. She goes back to Manchester to find out about the original choir of the 1920s, and the children who sang on the record of Nymphs and Shepherds. And in between unpeeling the history and sharing the fun of the shoot, she tries to work out how a piece of writing can evolve. Victoria unpicks the process in an attempt to understand how what started as a straightforward account of a day in the life of a children's choir in 1929 ended up as a middle-aged love story about the power of music to reconnect lonely people and give them a second chance to fall in love.
Dorothy
TV Film adaptation of Victoria Wood's hit musical set in Manchester in 1929 and 1969. When middle aged loners Tubby and Enid attend a reunion of the choir in which they sang as children, the music evokes powerful memories, leading them to realise they still have a chance to find happiness.
Aggie Whistlestop
Harry Hill stars in this comedy based on Norman Hunter's books. The Professor has a fight on his hands when a councillor tries to run him out of town for being a nuisance.
Emily
12-year-old Adam finds his 31-year old, superhero obsessed brother with learning difficulties a nightmare - until he sees a chance to use him to gain friends.
Mrs. Hardcastle
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward yo acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues. One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.
Auction Bidder 2
Una joven, su hermanastra y su mejor amiga dedican sus ahorros a cumplir un sueño: visitar París. Pero el viaje resulta decepcionante y París mucho menos glamouroso de lo que esperaban. Intentando olvidar su frustración, se cuelan en un hotel de lujo, donde una de ellas será confundida con una heredera británica. Antes de que puedan revelar su verdadera identidad, se verán envueltas en una serie de divertidos enredos que las llevarán a pasar sus vacaciones en Monte Carlo.
Carol
After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. But at night he seemingly becomes the victim of a ghostly revenge - but who is the avenger?
Mafalda Hopkirk
Una tarea casi imposible cae sobre los hombros de Harry: deberá encontrar y destruir los horrocruxes restantes para dar fin al reinado de Lord Voldemort. En el episodio final de la saga, el hechicero de 17 años parte junto con sus amigos Hermione Granger y Ron Weasley en un peligroso viaje por Inglaterra para encontrar los objetos que contienen los fragmentos del alma del Señor Tenebroso, los cuales garantizan su longevidad. Pero el camino no será fácil pues el lado oscuro adquiere más poder con cada minuto que pasa y las lealtades serán puestas a prueba. Harry deberá usar todos los conocimientos que gracias a Dumbledore ha adquirido sobre su enemigo para poder encontrar la forma de sobrevivir a esta última aventura.
Corella
Tras varios fracasos sentimentales, una mujer decide encontrarse a sí misma a través de un viaje por Italia, la India, Bali e Indonesia. Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) tenía todo lo que una mujer puede soñar, un marido, una casa y una brillante carrera, pero se encontraba perdida, confusa, insatisfecha. Una vez divorciada, y tras un periodo de reflexión, decide abandonar su acomodada vida y lo arriesga todo, emprendiendo un viaje alrededor del mundo. La historia se basa en el best-seller autobiográfico de Elizabeth Gilbert.
Sarah
When the going gets tough, the mums get tougher and will do almost anything to ensure their children get into the best school!
Glenda
The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.
Charlotte Bartlett
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.
Jane Hogarth
Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
Tracey
Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracey head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune.
Isabella
William Shakespeare's darkest comedy, Measure for Measure. Live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, this television production of the play was broadcast on BBC4 on Sept 4, 2004. Directed for stage by John Dove and for television by Janet Fraser Cook. Presented by Andrew Marr and with comment from historian David Starkey, actress Juliet Stevenson and the production’s director John Dove. Starring Mark Rylance, Liam Brennan and Sophie Thompson.
Bessie Topp
The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadvertent social satire.
Miss Lacreevy
La familia de Nicholas lleva una vida muy confortable, pero cuando el padre muere se quedan sin un penique. Entonces la familia decide viajar a Londres para pedir ayuda a su tío Ralph; sin embargo, lo único que éste pretende es separar y explotar a la familia. Basada en una novela de Charles Dickens.
Herself (uncredited)
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
Dorothy
Noviembre de 1932. Godsford Park es la magnífica mansión campestre a la que Sir William McCordle y su esposa Lady Sylvia invitan a familiares y amigos para una partida de caza. Los invitados son muy dispares: una condesa, un héroe de la Primera guerra mundial, el ídolo de masas Ivor Novello, y un productor de cine norteamericano. Mientras los invitados ocupan las lujosas habitaciones de arriba, sus criados conviven abajo con la servidumbre de los anfitriones. Sin embargo, no todo es lo que parece, ni entre los huéspedes ni entre los criados que se afanan por el bienestar de sus amos.
Dora Moxton 'Moxie'
En la Riviera francesa, el aristócrata Nigel acaba de anunciar su matrimonio con Miranda Frayle, una vulgar actriz de cine norteamericana, para desdicha de su madre la condesa Felicity y el antiguo prometido de Miranda, Don Lucas. Moxie, la asistente de Felicity, acaba revelando un terrible secreto: Miranda es su hermana menor, que escapó de casa para llevar una vida más bien amoral.
Mrs Perks
La película comienza en una feliz y cómoda casa de clase alta de Londres, a principios del siglo XX. Roberta, Phyllis y Peter son tres niños, hijos de una madre y un padre maravillosos. Un día el padre, que trabaja en la oficina de Relaciones Exteriores, es encarcelado como consecuencia de haber sido falsamente acusado de vender secretos de estado a los rusos. Los niños y su madre caen en desgracia y, finalmente, tienen que mudarse a una pobre casa en el campo, cercana al ferrocarril. Fascinados por el ferrocarril, saludan a los pasajeros todos los días, y su vigilancia y valentía evitan un accidente. Siempre mantienen el ánimo en alto y encuentran formas de ayudar a los demás. Por su bondad se hacen amigos de una persona importante que puede ayudarlos a resolver el caso de su padre.
Rose 'Rosie' Mundy
En los años 30, una familia rural formada por cinco hermanas solteras vive en el pequeño pueblo de Donegal, Irlanda. Su vida cotidiana se verá alterada cuando su hermano mayor, Jack, vuelva de las misiones en África mentalmente trastornado, a causa de la malaria. Su llegada avivará una serie de rencillas y secretos que harán que la aparente unidad familiar se rompa.
Miss Bates
Emma Woodhouse, una joven rica, atractiva, inteligente y presuntuosa, vive con su padre viudo en una pequeña población. Cuando su estimada institutriz, amiga y confidente, la señorita Taylor, decide casarse el señor Weston, la vida de Emma se queda vacía y sin sentido. Se plantea entonces una cuestión: cómo ayudar a los demás a llevar una vida tan perfecta como la suya.
Amy
The Donmar Warehouse production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's classic musical, starring Adrian Lester and directed by Sam Mendes.
Mary Musgrave
Año 1813, Inglaterra. La joven Anne Elliot, de 29 años, cuya edad "adecuada" para contraer matrimonio ha pasado, vive con su opresivo y vanidoso padre Sir Walter Elliot de Kellynch Hall, y su hermana mayor Elizabeth. Ocho años antes fue persuadida por Lady Russell, íntima amiga de su difunta madre, para que renunciara a su amor por un oficial de la marina de posición social inferior y con poco futuro, el capitán Wentworth. Sin embargo, después de todos esos años éste aparece nuevamente en su círculo social, ascendido a capitán, y enriquecido por la guerra.
Girlfriend
Mr. Bean takes his girlfriend to see Britain's famous ice skating duo Torvill and Dean perform in Manchester. But he accidentally injures Dean backstage and has to substitute as guest ice-skater with Torvill.
Gillian Player
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.
Lydia the Bride - Wedding Two
Charles y sus amigos, todos ellos solteros y sin compromiso, han llegado a una edad en la que casi todos sus conocidos se han casado. En una de las bodas, a la que el grupo ha sido invitado, Charles conoce a Carrie, una americana de la que se enamora a primera vista. Esa noche la pasan juntos, pero no vuelven a verse. Tendrán que esperar a la siguiente boda, en la que Carrie le presenta a su prometido.
Aiden (voice)
The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life in Verbonia, a fictional city in Gaul. A well-planned town with all modern conveniences, it is threatened by conflict between conquerors and conquered. Macaulay also visits Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, Nimes, Orange, and Rome, to view actual Roman architecture and engineering greatness.
Agatha
Durante años, un chantajista se ha aprovechado de las debilidades de otros en todo Londres. Cuando Holmes se entera de la miseria total que este hombre misterioso está creando, adopta una campaña para frustrar sus malvadas intrigas. La campaña asombra al Dr. Watson por su extrañeza y descubre que Holmes se enamora. Adaptación del relato de Arthur Conan Doyle.
Francesca
Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and her father.
Herself / Ophelia
Hamlet es uno de los personajes más importantes de la historia del teatro. Este documental entrevista a algunos de los directores que han llevado la obra de William Shakespeare a las tablas alguna vez y de los actores que lo han encarnado.
Jillie Harris
Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.
Louise Stubbs
Basada en la historia real del Teniente Robert Lawrence M.C., ex oficial del ejército británico, que peleó y fue gravemente herido en la guerra de Las Malvinas en la batalla de Tumbledown Hill en Junio de 1982. El relato de sus experiencias durante y después de la guerra fue luego adaptado para esta controversial película. También co-escribió con su padre John Lawrence el libro “Después de la batalla Tumbledown”.
Doris
A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed to become a lady, she is confused by the young man who seems to be courting her. Surrounded by pretentious people who have no clue how to deal with teenagers, she soon loses her naïveté and thinks of running away.
Mission Girl
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.