Virginia McKenna

Virginia McKenna

Nascimento : 1931-06-07, London, England, UK

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dame Virginia Anne McKenna, DBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with The Born Free Foundation.

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Virginia McKenna
Virginia McKenna

Filmes

Wings
Dora
A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War II.
Widow's Walk
Myrtle
Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.
Ethel & Ernest
Lady of the House (voice)
Este filme animado desenhado à mão, baseado no romance gráfico do vencedor do Prêmio Raymond Briggs, é uma representação íntima e afetuosa da vida e dos tempos dos pais dele, dois londrinos normais vivendo através de eventos extraordinários, como a II guerra mundial!
Golden Years
Martha
O destino, a crise das pensões e uma recusa firme em aceitar a injustiça da velhice, força o casal de aposentados Arthur e Martha Goode a viver uma vida de crime. Recusando-se a perder as pensões e a desaparecer em seus anos de declínio, nossos personagens decidem revidar. Eles decidem retomar o que era deles em primeiro lugar. Eles decidem começar a roubar bancos. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's frank and open conversations combine with personal interviews from some of the greats who have worked with him.
Leona Calderon
Leona Calderon is a retiring altruistic music lover earning her living cleaning establishments and private homes. Having a fun loving nature she is fancied by her landlord who dreams of dancing with her to her favorite tune. Another admirer is a homeless man who gets endears by her jolly disposition and not by her loose pennies for a can of lager. She befriends an isolated elderly English lady, a migrant worker with no visa and a charitable middle age woman. As a breadwinner she looks forward to her much awaited retirement which is now doomed following a diagnoses of cancer. The island where she comes from where she plans to spend her life with her family becomes just a dream. She now faces a dilemma between losing her hard earned savings to medical expenses or losing the time with her family if she spends her retirement in a country where her treatment is free. Leona's wit and fun nature will make you smile, laugh and cry. What happens to this happy lady in this funny world?
Love/Loss
Mary
A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apart, is there still love between them? How have their separate experiences shaped their lives over this long period apart, and is there still time for them to share the happiness that has so long been denied? As Mary and Joe confront the mistakes of their past and share memories of a previously unspoken love, their reunion appears to take them on a path to happiness. But the gentle narrative hides a twist that will challenge any preconceptions of love and loss.
The Whistle-Blower
Theresa Elliot
A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the National Criminal Intelligence Service. She learns that the money belongs to South American drug cartels, and her family are immediately taken into the Witness Protection Program and relocated.
De Caso com o Acaso
James's Mother
Em uma certa manhã em Londres, ao chegar ao trabalho Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow) é despedida de uma firma de relações públicas. Quando volta para casa, as portas do metrô se fecham. Deste instante em diante pode-se ver em acontecimentos paralelos o que aconteceria na vida de Helen se tivesse pego o metrô ou se não tivesse. Em uma realidade Helen pega o metrô, conhece James (John Hannah) e chega em casa para achar Gerry (John Lynch), seu namorado, a traindo com Lydia (Jeanne Tripplehorn), uma ex-namorada dele. Na outra realidade Helen perde o metrô, é assaltada, vai para o hospital e chega em casa para achar Gerry sozinho no chuveiro, pois Lydia já foi embora. As duas realidades avançam paralelamente. Na primeira Helen deixa Gerry e inicia uma relação com James; na outra Helen leva uma vida desgastante, pois trabalha arduamente como garçonete, para sustentar a ela e a Gerry, que supostamente está escrevendo um livro mas na realidade continua tendo um tórrido caso com Lydia.
The Scold's Bridle
Violet Orloff
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.
Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Violet
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets...
Staggered
Flora
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
The Lady in Waiting
Miss Peach
In 1970s New York, a drag queen and elderly woman meet during a blackout. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Duel of Hearts
Lady Brecon
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
Puccini
Elvira
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
The Case of the Frightened Lady
Lady Lebanon Amersham
A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.
Blood Link
Woman in Ballroom
A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes, they've been separated) So he travels to Hamburg, where the things he's seen start to come to pass…
Julius Caesar
Portia
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
O Desaparecimento
Catherine
The wife of contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.
Exterminação 2000
Eva Caine
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Peter Pan
Mrs. Darling
Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, starring Mia Farrow as Peter Pan and Danny Kaye as Captain Hook, and with Sir John Gielgud narrating. Julie Andrews sang one of the songs, "Once Upon a Bedtime", off-camera over the opening credits. It aired on NBC at 7:30pm on Sunday, December 12, 1976, capping off the program's 25th year on the air. The program did not use the score written for the highly successful Mary Martin version which had previously been televised many times on NBC. Instead, it featured 14 new and now forgotten songs, written for the production by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.
Beauty and the Beast
Lucy
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
The Gathering Storm
Clemmie Churchill
Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
Swallows and Amazons
Mrs. Walker
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.
The Lion at World's End
The astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of Harrods, then the cellar of an antique shop in London and, ultimately the wilds of Africa.
Waterloo - A Batalha de Napoleão
Duchess of Richmond
Épico histórico que conta a saga de Napoleão, na batalha de Waterloo. Em 1815, após escapar da Ilha de Elba, Napoleão organiza seu exército para participar da luta decisiva na Bélgica contra os exércitos da Inglaterra e da Prússia.
A Lontra Travessa
Mary MacKenzie
Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
The Lions Are Free
The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.
An Elephant Called Slowly
Ginny
Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.
The Admirable Crichton
Lady Mary
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs around on a South Pacific island. The usable hierarchy in a upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the communities leader.
A História de Elza
Joy Adamson
Recém-chegados à África, dois adolescentes se tornam amigos de Elza, uma jovem leoa e sua criadora, Val. Quando se tornar adulta, Elza será enviada a um zoológico, mas os jovens decidem mudar seu destino, ensinando-a viver a vida selvagem.
Two Living, One Dead
Helen Berger
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
O Navio Condenado
Janet Taggart
Em uma noite tempestuosa no Canal da Mancha, John Sands (Charlton Heston), o capitão de um pequeno navio de salvamento, quase o choca com o cargueiro Mary Deare, que aparentemente estava abandonado. Sands sobe a bordo do Mary Deare, esperando achar alguma carga que seria, segundo leis internacionais, de quem pegar primeiro. Porém nada acha e, para sua surpresa, se depara com o 1º oficial Gideon Patch (Gary Cooper), que há 4 dias assumira o comando do navio em razão da morte do capitão Taggart. Em razão da tormenta Sands não voltou para seu navio, assim ele e Patch navegam até o Mary Deare encalhar. Em Londres eles não dizem que o navio encalhou, pois Patch suspeita que aconteceu algo errado e quer que o Mary Deare seja vistoriado por um órgão imparcial.
Storm Over Jamaica
Judy Waring
A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.
Amanhã Sorrirei Outra Vez
Violette Szabo
Londres, Inglaterra, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Após uma trágica experiência de vida, a jovem Violette Szabo se junta ao Executivo de Operações Especiais e atravessa as linhas inimigas alemãs como agente secreto para ajudar um grupo da Resistência francesa.
The Smallest Show on Earth
Jean Spenser
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Henrietta Barrett
Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Mulheres Fugitivas
Jean Paget
In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Helen Randall
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Simba
Mary Crawford
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
The Oracle
Shelagh
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
Mar Cruel
Julie Hallam
The Cruel Sea é um filme britânico de 1953, do gênero drama de guerra, dirigido por Charles Frend e estrelado por Jack Hawkins e Donald Sinden. O filme, no estilo docudrama, é uma das produções mais subestimadas e comoventes entre aquelas ambientadas na Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Father's Doing Fine
Catherine
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending birth and the love affairs of the other three daughters; Bicky, with eccentric student Roly; Gerda, married to artist Wilfred; and Catherine, in love with the landlord's son, Clifford Magill. In addition, the impoverished Lady Buckering is being courted by Dr. Drew. Written by Les Adams