Linda Spurrier
Nascimento : , Sittingbourne, Kent, England, UK
História
Born 1947, Linda Spurrier is an English actress.
Train Passenger
Produção para TV que conta a história do físico britânico Stephen Hawking, desde o momento em que é diagnosticado com a Doença de Lou Gehrig, também chamada ELA (Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica, que gera a gradativa perda do controle da musculatura). Também narra seu relacionamento com sua primeira esposa e a ajuda que recebeu do professor de Cambridge, Roger Penrose, com quem demonstrou a validez da Teoria Geral da Relatividade proposta por Albert Einstein.
Mrs Mason
Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder each others husbands.
Hilda Grey
Em plena Florença de 1938, a viúva britânica Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas) viaja por uma vila italiana, onde se vê envolvida num triângulo amoroso e em intrigas políticas. Quando seu velho amigo Sir Edgar (James Fox) pede sua mão em casamento, Mary pede alguns dias para pensar na proposta. Durante este tempo, Mary conhece num jantar um americano (Sean Penn) com quem acaba se envolvendo romanticamente e para quem revela seu terrível segredo.
Twinset
Iris Du Pré inspira o amor pela música nas suas filhas. A violoncelista Jackie ofusca a irmã flautista com sua fama internacional, enquanto Hilary constrói uma vida familiar feliz. Quando Jackie entra no mundo dos músicos clássicos de elite, ela recorre à irmã Hilary em busca de ajuda.
The Hon. Mrs Wescot
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.
Filmed in India, Rumer Godden’s story has been adapted and directed by the Jewel in the Crown team. Two English schoolgirls arrive in New Delhi, 1959. Their diplomat father has secured them a beautiful Eurasian governess. 15-year-old Una suspects an ulterior motive. But her father’s affairs take second place to her own when she has a secret affair with the Indian gardener.
Nurse 3
A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen's poems reflecting the war's horrors. It shows the story of an Englishman soldier (Wilfred Owen) and a nurse (his bride) during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contemporary wars (WWII, Vietnam, Angola, etc.)
RADA Instructor
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton moves to London in 1951, to study at RADA, and enjoys an openly gay relationship with Halliwell in their famous Islington flat in the 1960s. However, when Orton achieves spectacular success with such plays as 'What the Butler Saw' and 'Loot', Halliwell begins to feel alienated and the pair's future looks increasingly uncertain.
Margaret
Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.
Viv
A rainha Elizabeth I visita a Grã-Bretanha do final do século XX para encontrar uma paisagem deprimente onde a vida mudou desde seu tempo.