Floella Benjamin

Floella Benjamin

출생 : 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.
렌디션
CIA Staffer
이집트 국적의 공학자인 남편이 남아프리카에서 미국으로 오던 중, 감쪽같이 사라지자 남편을 찾기 위해 백방으로 뛰어다니는 한 주부와 미국 정부 담당자와 이슬람 정부단체 등이 얽힌 이야기를 그린 영화.
런, 팻 보이, 런
Libby's Mum
임신한 여자친구와의 결혼식날, 신랑 데니스는 갑작스런 그녀의 임신과 결혼에 때문에 심한 부담감을 느끼게된다. 아직 자신은 준비가 안됐다는 생각에 결혼식장을 몰래 빠져나와 도망가 버린다. 그리고 5년후, 여성 속옷 가계에서 경비원 일을 하고 있는 데니스는 자신의 아들을 키우고 있는 ex여자친구 주변에 살면서 간간히 아들과 함께 시간을 보내곤 한다. 하지만 그녀에게 능력있고 핸섬한 남자친구가 생기고 5년이나 지난 지금에서야 자신이 그녀를 진정 사랑하고 있고 아들과 함께 단란한 가정을 꾸미고자 한다. 하지만 돈,명예,외모까지 모든걸 갖춘 경쟁자에 비해 턱없이 부족한 자신의 모습이 한없이 초라하게만 느껴지고, 심지어 아직 책임감이 부족하다며 자신을 받아주지 않는 ex여자친구때문에 이러지도 저러지도 못하고 있다. 그러던중 경쟁자가 마라톤을 즐기며 이번 자선 런던 마라톤에 참가한다는 얘기를 듣고 자신도 참가하려고 하는데...
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.
I Don't Want to Be Born
First Nurse
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene...
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.