Andrea Riseborough

Andrea Riseborough

Born: November 20, 1981
in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, UK
Andrea Louise Riseborough (born 20 November 1981) is an English actress and producer. She made her film debut with a small part in Venus (2006), and has since appeared in more prominent roles in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Never Let Me Go, Brighton Rock, Made in Dagenham (all 2010), W.E. (2011), Shadow Dancer, Disconnect (both 2012), Welcome to the Punch, Oblivion (both 2013), Birdman (2014), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Battle of the Sexes, The Death of Stalin (both 2017), Mandy, Nancy (both 2018), The Grudge, and Possessor (both 2020). For her performance as a recovering addict in the drama To Leslie (2022), Riseborough received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Outside of film, Riseborough received a BAFTA nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the television film The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), and won critical acclaim for her performances in the Channel 4 miniseries The Devil's Whore (2008) and National Treasure (2016), as well as the BBC One miniseries The Witness for the Prosecution (2016). Her stage credits include August Strindberg's Miss Julie, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (Theatre Royal, Bath, both 2006) and Anton Chekhov's Ivanov (West End, 2008).

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Lee
Title: Lee
Character: Audrey Withers
Released: September 13, 2024
Type: Movie
The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
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Title: The Regime
Character: Agnes
Released: March 3, 2024
Type: TV
The story of one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel.
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Funny Birds
Title: Funny Birds
Character: Laura
Released: February 21, 2024
Type: Movie
Charlie returns from boarding school to take care of her sick mother Laura, owner of a small organic egg farm in the New Jersey countryside. It's a struggle to look after her mom, run the farm on her own and keep up with her studies. Their day-today life on the farm, already strained by years of unspoken resentment, is turned upside down when Laura’s mother Solange shows up unannounced! Solange is an eccentric French feminist who left America many years ago. She's never had much of a relationship with her daughter. Laura's sudden illness motivates her to reconnect. But can these three women, opposite in so many ways, learn to live together? To combat the unexpected bird flu epidemic that threatens the farm, they must rise above conflict. Only love and laughter can heal old wounds and help them to accept each other's differences.
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Title: Alice & Jack
Character: Alice
Released: February 14, 2024
Type: TV
When Alice and Jack first meet, they have a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but can they find happiness together, or will their own emotional complexities get in the way?
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Title: Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Character: Mrs. Wormwood
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.
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Please Baby Please
Title: Please Baby Please
Character: Suze
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: Movie
After witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of 1950s Manhattan, newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual identity.
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What Remains
Title: What Remains
Character: Anna Rudbeck
Released: October 14, 2022
Type: Movie
During the 1990s, at a Scandinavian psychiatric hospital, a man known as Mads Lake confessed to multiple murders and was convicted. However, the uneasy triumvirate of Mads, therapist Anna Rudebeck and policeman Soren Rank, all have a vested interest in unearthing the truth, and a deepening co-dependency threatens to consume them all.
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To Leslie
Title: To Leslie
Character: Leslie
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.
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Amsterdam
Title: Amsterdam
Character: Beatrice Vandenheuvel
Released: September 27, 2022
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
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My Name Is Andrea
Title: My Name Is Andrea
Character: Lover
Released: June 10, 2022
Type: Movie
A rousing portrait of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of the 20th century, who fought passionately for justice and equality for women.
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Here Before
Title: Here Before
Character: Laura
Released: February 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Title: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Character: Caroline Wain
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
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Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
Title: Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
Released: December 8, 2020
Type: Movie
The cast and crew talk about the core themes of the film and the seeds of the film.
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A Heightened World
Title: A Heightened World
Released: December 8, 2020
Type: Movie
The cast and crew talk about the look and feel of the film Possessor.
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Luxor
Title: Luxor
Character: Hana
Released: October 10, 2020
Type: Movie
When British aid worker Hana returns to Luxor, a sleepy city on the banks of the Nile, she comes across Sultan, a talented archeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.
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Possessor
Title: Possessor
Character: Tasya Vos
Released: October 2, 2020
Type: Movie
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
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Burden
Title: Burden
Character: Judy
Released: February 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend.
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Title: ZeroZeroZero
Character: Emma Lynwood
Released: February 14, 2020
Type: TV
Based on the book of the same name by bestselling author Roberto Saviano, ZeroZeroZero is an unforgettable exploration of the inner workings of the global cocaine trade.
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The Grudge
Title: The Grudge
Character: Detective Muldoon
Released: December 31, 2019
Type: Movie
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.
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The Kindness of Strangers
Title: The Kindness of Strangers
Character: Alice
Released: December 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
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Mandy
Title: Mandy
Character: Mandy Bloom
Released: September 13, 2018
Type: Movie
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Title: Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 21, 2018
Type: Movie
Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew him in the industry, and a discussion of the start of the #MeToo movement.
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Nancy
Title: Nancy
Character: Nancy Freeman
Released: June 8, 2018
Type: Movie
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
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The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Title: The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Released: March 2, 2018
Type: Movie
In 2017 Tyneside Cinema turned 80.
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Title: Waco
Character: Judy Schneider
Released: January 24, 2018
Type: TV
The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.
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The Death of Stalin
Title: The Death of Stalin
Character: Svetlana Stalin
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
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Battle of the Sexes
Title: Battle of the Sexes
Character: Marilyn Barnett
Released: September 22, 2017
Type: Movie
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
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Shepherds and Butchers
Title: Shepherds and Butchers
Character: Kathleen Marais
Released: May 12, 2017
Type: Movie
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
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Title: The Witness for the Prosecution
Character: Romaine Heilger
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: TV
The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Christie.
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Nocturnal Animals
Title: Nocturnal Animals
Character: Alessia Holt
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
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Mindhorn
Title: Mindhorn
Character: DC Elena Baines
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
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Title: National Treasure
Character: Danielle 'Dee' Finchley
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
Paul Finchley is a bona fide "national treasure", one half of a popular, long-running comedy double act. The famous comedian's world is thrown into chaos when he is accused of historic sexual abuse.
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Hidden
Title: Hidden
Character: Claire
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
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That Dog
Title: That Dog
Character: Stacey
Released: September 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A dark comedy of errors unfolds as two interloping idiots inadvertently wreak havoc on the lives of others.
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Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
Title: Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 2015
Type: Movie
A making-of documentary for the 2014 film "Birdman".
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Title: Bloodline
Character: Evangeline Radosevich
Released: March 20, 2015
Type: TV
A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Title: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Character: Laura Aulburn
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
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The Silent Storm
Title: The Silent Storm
Character: Aislin
Released: October 14, 2014
Type: Movie
An enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island finds herself caught between her minister husband and the delinquent who is sent to live with them.
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Title: Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2014
Type: TV
Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC’s "Late Night" — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent. As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show".
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Disconnect
Title: Disconnect
Character: Nina Dunham
Released: April 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the stories intersect with surprising twists that expose a shocking reality into our daily use of technology that mediates and defines our relationships and ultimately our lives.
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Oblivion
Title: Oblivion
Character: Victoria
Released: April 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
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Welcome to the Punch
Title: Welcome to the Punch
Character: Sarah Hawks
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
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Shadow Dancer
Title: Shadow Dancer
Character: Colette McVeigh
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Mia Nolan
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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Resistance
Title: Resistance
Character: Sarah
Released: November 25, 2011
Type: Movie
It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished. They have headed into the mountains to join the Resistance.
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W.E.
Title: W.E.
Character: Wallis Simpson
Released: September 1, 2011
Type: Movie
In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.
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Made in Dagenham
Title: Made in Dagenham
Character: Brenda
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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Brighton Rock
Title: Brighton Rock
Character: Rose
Released: September 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
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Never Let Me Go
Title: Never Let Me Go
Character: Chrissie
Released: March 18, 2010
Type: Movie
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.
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Mad Sad & Bad
Title: Mad Sad & Bad
Character: Julia
Released: July 31, 2009
Type: Movie
HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary metropolitan neuroses through the intersecting lives of these siblings and their friends. The narrative slips from one character to the next as they escape and attack each other. all reluctant members of the same dysfunctional family. Written by Ed Barratt
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Title: Being Human
Released: January 25, 2009
Type: TV
Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.
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Title: The Devil's Whore
Character: Angelica Fanshawe
Released: November 19, 2008
Type: TV
Set between the years 1642 and 1660, "The Devil's Whore" charts the progress of the English Civil War through the eyes of the a 17 year old girl, the fictional Angelica Fanshawe.
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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Title: Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Character: Margaret Thatcher
Released: June 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Title: Happy-Go-Lucky
Character: Dawn
Released: April 18, 2008
Type: Movie
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
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Love You More
Title: Love You More
Character: Georgia
Released: February 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.
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Magicians
Title: Magicians
Character: Dani
Released: May 18, 2007
Type: Movie
A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Herself
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: Party Animals
Character: Kirsty MacKenzie
Released: January 31, 2007
Type: TV
Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so messy. Sons of an ex-Labour MP, Scott and Danny Foster have politics in their blood.
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The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Title: The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Character: Myra
Released: October 16, 2006
Type: Movie
In 19th century Victorian England, Mrs. Isabella Beeton produced what became an essential book for housewives of the day. She was married at a relatively young age to Sam Beeton, a publisher of books and magazines on a variety of subjects. Not someone to sit at home in the traditional role of a housewife, Mrs. Beeton started work in her husband's business, initially as an editor correcting English but then writing some of the columns herself. It as at this point that she developed an idea for a cookbook and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management was born. Her life was not an easy one however. The publishing business went bankrupt, she lost two children at a young age and had several miscarriages. She died at the age of 28.
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Venus
Title: Venus
Character: Period Film Lover
Released: September 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.
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Whatever Love Means
Title: Whatever Love Means
Character: Anna Wallace
Released: December 5, 2005
Type: Movie
Strap in for a rollercoaster ride through the emotional worlds of love and royalty in an original WE Channel movie exploring the enduring, 30-year romance shared between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. Decades before the fairy tale wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the young prince and his longtime sweetheart found their growing love tragically clipped by the many demands of royalty and the sometimes rough waters of romance. Though he had previously exchanged vows with the glamorous Diana, Prince Charles never truly forgot about Parker-Bowles, and in this film Anglophiles and royalty scholars alike will finally learn the truth behind one of the highest profile romances in modern history.
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A Very Social Secretary
Title: A Very Social Secretary
Character: Amanda
Released: October 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up for very public scrutiny.
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Title: Doc Martin
Released: September 2, 2004
Type: TV
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn. Five series aired between 2004 and 2011, together with a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. Series 6 began airing on ITV on 2 September 2013.
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Alpha Gang
Title: Alpha Gang
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
“Alpha Gang” are aliens, sent on a mission to conquer Earth. Armed and dangerous, they show no mercy, until they catch the most toxic, contagious human disease of all: Emotion. World domination’s in danger of derailing once they start to feel joy, fear, empathy, and worst of all — love…but hopefully they can still annihilate mankind before it’s too late.