Hayley Atwell

Hayley Atwell

Born: April 5, 1982
in London, England, UK
Hayley Elizabeth Atwell (born 5 April 1982) is a British and American actress. Born and raised in London, Atwell studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and made her stage debut in a 2005 production of James Kerr's translation of the Ancient Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound. She subsequently appeared in multiple West End productions and on television, and was recognised for her breakthrough role as Lady Elizabeth Foster in The Duchess (2008), for which she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her leading performance in the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (2010) earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film.

Atwell rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Agent Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), a role she reprised in the short film Agent Carter (2013) and the 2015–2016 television series of the same name in addition to other films and live-action and animated series. She also had roles in the war drama Testament of Youth (2014), the romantic fantasy Cinderella (2015), and the fantasy comedy-drama Christopher Robin (2018).

On the stage, Atwell has received Laurence Olivier Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in A View from the Bridge (2010), and for Best Actress, for her leading performances in The Pride (2013) and Rosmersholm (2020). In 2020, Atwell began hosting the podcast series True Spies, which aims to give an insight into the world of espionage by asking listeners what they would do in real-life spy situations.

Movies for Hayley Atwell...

Mission: Impossible 8
Title: Mission: Impossible 8
Character: Grace
Released: May 22, 2025
Type: Movie
The eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise.
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Tom Cruise: Impossible Missions
Title: Tom Cruise: Impossible Missions
Character: Self
Released: July 8, 2023
Type: Movie
The stories behind the most memorable stunts from the film franchise, from the genre-defining Langley Heist to the jaw-dropping Plane Hang
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Title: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Character: Grace
Released: July 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Title: Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Join visionary director Sam Raimi and the cast of the film as they recount their experiences bringing Marvel’s darkest story to life. From world-building to universe-building, hear first hand accounts from the cast and crew on what it took to design, create and make each universe unique and believable.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Title: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Character: Peggy Carter / Captain Carter
Released: May 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
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Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Title: Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Character: Peggy Carter / Captain Carter (voice) (archive footage)
Released: November 12, 2021
Type: Movie
Explore the Disney+ series of the MCU—past, present and future.
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Title: SNL Korea
Character: Self
Released: September 4, 2021
Type: TV
Korea's version of the late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory cast members.
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Title: What If...?
Character: Captain Carter (voice)
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: TV
Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.
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Title: What If...?
Character: Peggy Carter (voice)
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: TV
Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.
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Title: What If...?
Character: Peggy Carter / Captain Carter (voice)
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: TV
Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.
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Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Title: Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Character: Mittens (voice)
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Peter Rabbit runs away from his human family when he learns they are going to portray him in a bad light in their book. Soon, he crosses paths with an older rabbit who ropes him into a heist.
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Title: Marvel Studios Legends
Character: Peggy Carter (archive footage)
Released: January 8, 2021
Type: TV
Revisit the epic heroes, villains and moments from across the MCU in preparation for the stories still to come. Each dynamic segment feeds directly into the upcoming series — setting the stage for future events. This series weaves together the many threads that constitute the unparalleled Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Independent Miss Craigie
Title: Independent Miss Craigie
Character: Voice of young Jill Craigie
Released: August 25, 2020
Type: Movie
Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, prompting memories of the extraordinary life and loves of this forceful, charismatic woman, whose work has been long neglected. Craigie was one of the first women to direct documentaries. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 1950s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951), on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, tackled new subjects for the cinema through a unique blend of drama, polemic and humour. Independent Miss Craigie uses the director’s unseen papers, and her films, to reveal her energetic struggles to get her radical projects made and distributed, including her last one, on the Yugoslav conflict, made when she was 83, with her husband, former Labour leader, Michael Foot.
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Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
Title: Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 2019
Type: Movie
An exciting look into the future of Marvel Studios' films and upcoming Disney+ series.
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Title: Criminal: UK
Character: Stacey Doyle
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: TV
Within the walls of an interrogation room, London investigators question suspects accused of grievous crimes until the truth comes to light.
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Blinded by the Light
Title: Blinded by the Light
Character: Ms Clay
Released: August 9, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
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Avengers: Endgame
Title: Avengers: Endgame
Character: Peggy Carter
Released: April 24, 2019
Type: Movie
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
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Title: The Long Song
Character: Caroline Mortimer
Released: December 18, 2018
Type: TV
Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline.
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A Movie Is Made For Pooh
Title: A Movie Is Made For Pooh
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes documentary short for the movie "Christopher Robin".
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Christopher Robin
Title: Christopher Robin
Character: Evelyn Robin
Released: August 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.
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Title: Howards End
Character: Margaret Schlegel
Released: November 12, 2017
Type: TV
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
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Chicken/Egg
Title: Chicken/Egg
Character: Lauren
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Mark is going to help his uncle out. Maybe.
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Title: Conviction
Character: Hayes Morrison
Released: October 3, 2016
Type: TV
A brilliant young attorney, who is also the daughter of a former U.S. president, is blackmailed to head up LA's new Conviction Integrity Unit. She and her team investigate cases where people may have been wrongly convicted.
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The Complete Walk: Cymbeline
Title: The Complete Walk: Cymbeline
Character: Innogen
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: Movie
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Shakespeare's Globe has assembled an all-star cast to make 37 short films – one for each play – and here's the twist: each lavish 10 minute vignette is made on location in the real setting of each plot. The films have been directed by a selection of young directors and blend existing Shakespeare's Globe footage with new material shot in locations that capture the breadth of the Bard's imagination, including the Pyramids of Dahshur in Egypt, the rocks of Elsinore, Denmark, and the historic Jewish Ghetto of Venice, Italy. “Cymbeline”, which starred Hayley Atwell as Innogen, was filmed on location in Wales.
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Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years
Title: Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 2016
Type: Movie
A full-length documentary that follows the history of Captain America from 1941 to present and explores how “Cap” has been a reflection of the changing times and the world he has existed in throughout the years. Fans will hear from various Marvel luminaries including Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Jeph Loeb, Louis D’Esposito, Chris Evans and Hayley Attwell, as well as family members of Cap’s creators.
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Edge of Darkness
Title: Edge of Darkness
Character: Narrator
Released: November 1, 2015
Type: Movie
The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that culminated with groundbreaking discoveries in 2015. It features a spectacular flight though the great cliffs on comet 67P, a close look at the fascinating bright "lights" on Ceres, and the first ever close ups of dwarf binary planet Pluto/Charon and its moons.
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Ant-Man
Title: Ant-Man
Character: Peggy Carter
Released: July 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
Title: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Character: Peggy Carter
Released: April 22, 2015
Type: Movie
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
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Title: Lip Sync Battle
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2015
Type: TV
Each episode features two A-list celebrities like you've never seen them before - syncing their hearts out in hysterically epic performances. Hosted by LL Cool J with colorful commentary by social media maven and supermodel co-host, Chrissy Teigen. The mic is off, the battle is on!
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Cinderella
Title: Cinderella
Character: Cinderella's Mother
Released: March 6, 2015
Type: Movie
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.
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Title: Marvel's Agent Carter
Character: Peggy Carter
Released: January 6, 2015
Type: TV
It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life - Steve Rogers.
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Marvel: 75 Years, from Pulp to Pop!
Title: Marvel: 75 Years, from Pulp to Pop!
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 2014
Type: Movie
In celebration of the publisher's 75th anniversary, the hour-long special will take a detailed look at the company's journey from fledgling comics publisher to multi-media juggernaut. Hosted by Emily VanCamp (S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Sharon Carter), the documentary-style feature will include interviews with comic book icons, pop culture authorities, and Hollywood stars. The special also promises an "extraordinary peek into Marvel's future!" Might Marvel release the first official footage from next year's Avengers: Age of Ultron or Ant-Man? If they do, you'll know about it here.
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Testament of Youth
Title: Testament of Youth
Character: Hope Milroy
Released: October 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Title: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Character: Peggy Carter
Released: March 20, 2014
Type: Movie
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.
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Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Title: Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Character: Self
Released: March 18, 2014
Type: Movie
A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel films, the Marvel One-Shots and "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
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Title: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Character: Peggy Carter
Released: September 24, 2013
Type: TV
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
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Jimi: All Is by My Side
Title: Jimi: All Is by My Side
Character: Kathy Etchingham
Released: September 7, 2013
Type: Movie
A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.
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Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
Title: Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
Character: Peggy Carter
Released: September 3, 2013
Type: Movie
The film takes place one year after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger, in which Agent Carter, a member of the Strategic Scientific Reserve, is in search of the mysterious Zodiac.
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Title: Life of Crime
Character: Denise Woods
Released: May 10, 2013
Type: TV
Set against the backdrop of iconic moments in British history, Hayley Atwell stars as an impulsive rookie cop who becomes obsessed with tracking down the killer of a teenage girl.
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Title: Restless
Character: Eva Delectorskaya
Released: December 27, 2012
Type: TV
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
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Title: Falcón
Character: Consuelo Jiménez
Released: November 15, 2012
Type: TV
Falcón is a brilliant detective whose personal and professional life is compromised by dark secrets from the past.
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The Sweeney
Title: The Sweeney
Character: Nancy Lewis
Released: September 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack Regan, a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.
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I, Anna
Title: I, Anna
Character: Emmy
Released: March 3, 2012
Type: Movie
A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Martha Starmer
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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Captain America: The First Avenger
Title: Captain America: The First Avenger
Character: Peggy Carter
Released: July 22, 2011
Type: Movie
During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
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Title: Any Human Heart
Character: Freya Deverell
Released: November 21, 2010
Type: TV
Logan Mountstuart, writer and adventurer, narrates his life, from the Paris of the twenties to the eighties in London, passing through the New York of the fifties.
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Title: Conan
Character: Self - Guest
Released: November 8, 2010
Type: TV
A late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien.
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Title: The Pillars of the Earth
Character: Aliena
Released: July 23, 2010
Type: TV
A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.
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Tomato Soup
Title: Tomato Soup
Character: Movie Star
Released: June 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Set in the parallel worlds of gritty, urban reality and bright, sunny fantasy, Tomato Soup is the story of a teenage boy's journey to avenge the death of a loved one whilst trying to imagine a better life for himself.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: 4-15 / Lucy
Released: November 15, 2009
Type: TV
The Prisoner is a 2009 television miniseries based on the 1960s TV series The Prisoner about a man who awakens in a mysterious, picturesque village from which there is no escape and wonders who made the village and why.
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Love Hate
Title: Love Hate
Character: Hate
Released: June 26, 2009
Type: Movie
A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.
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Thrush
Title: Thrush
Character: Ruby's Friend
Released: April 13, 2009
Type: Movie
An entire relationship told through photos in five minutes.
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The Duchess
Title: The Duchess
Character: Bess Foster
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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Brideshead Revisited
Title: Brideshead Revisited
Character: Julia Flyte
Released: July 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
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How About You...
Title: How About You...
Character: Ellie Harris
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.
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The Shadow in the North
Title: The Shadow in the North
Character: Rosa Garland
Released: September 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.
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Cassandra's Dream
Title: Cassandra's Dream
Character: Angela
Released: June 18, 2007
Type: Movie
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
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Mansfield Park
Title: Mansfield Park
Character: Mary Crawford
Released: March 18, 2007
Type: Movie
In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual politics of high society along the way.
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The Ruby in the Smoke
Title: The Ruby in the Smoke
Character: Rosa Garland
Released: December 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Sally Lockhart has struck a man dead with just three words, sent to her in a message from her father just before he drowned in the South China Seas. But unfortunately, Sally has no idea what the words The Seven Blessings mean. Before long, she is drawn into a mystery filled with opium, secrets from her own past and, at the heart of it all, the Ruby of Agrapur.
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Fear of Fanny
Title: Fear of Fanny
Character: Jane
Released: October 23, 2006
Type: Movie
The bizarre tale of Fanny Cradock, Britain's famous and maligned TV chef from 50s to the 70s.
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Title: The Line of Beauty
Character: Cat Fedden
Released: May 17, 2006
Type: TV
Crawl deep under the skin of Thatcher's Britain, seen through the eyes and experiences of a young, gay man, from the euphoria of falling in love to the tragedy of AIDS. A story of love, class, sex and money.
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Whatever Love Means
Title: Whatever Love Means
Character: Sabrina Guinness
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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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Character: Self
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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Title: GMTV
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: TV
GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010.
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Title: Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
Character: Lara Croft (voice)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Follow heroine Lara Croft 25 years after her first adventure as she explores new territory.
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Rogue Trooper
Title: Rogue Trooper
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Rogue is a "Genetic Infantryman", a genetically created, blue-skinned, manufactured super soldier who, alongside his three comrades, is searching for the Traitor General. His comrades are in the form of biochips – onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval – and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack) and Helm (on his helmet). Rogue is genetically engineered to be immune to almost all known toxins, can submerge in strong acid unaffected, and is able to withstand a vacuum in his bare skin.