Clare Higgins

Clare Higgins

Born: November 10, 1955
in Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins (born 10 November 1955) is an award-winning English actress.

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Title: Dangerous Liaisons
Character: Madame Jericho
Released: November 6, 2022
Type: TV
A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".
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Title: The Sandman
Character: Mad Hettie
Released: August 5, 2022
Type: TV
After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.
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The Convent
Title: The Convent
Character: Reverend Mother
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
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Ready Player One
Title: Ready Player One
Character: Mrs. Gilmore
Released: March 28, 2018
Type: Movie
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
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Title: Liar
Character: Felicity Cassidy
Released: September 11, 2017
Type: TV
A teacher and a surgeon are rocked by scandalous accusations after they enjoy a seemingly innocent date.
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Title: The Worst Witch
Character: Miss Ada Cackle
Released: January 11, 2017
Type: TV
Mayhem and mishaps follow young witch Mildred Hubble wherever she goes. She just can't help it! But with her friends' help, Mildred always manages to avoid disaster just in time.
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Doctor Who: Series 9 Prologue
Title: Doctor Who: Series 9 Prologue
Character: Ohila
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: Movie
In this prologue to "The Magician's Apprentice", the Doctor returns to Karn, and meets Ohlia again.
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Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Title: Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Character: Self
Released: June 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II films.
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Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
Title: Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
Character: Ohila
Released: November 14, 2013
Type: Movie
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.
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Title: Rogue
Character: Vivian
Released: April 3, 2013
Type: TV
Grace, a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective, is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Grace’s search for the truth is further complicated by her forbidden relationship with Jimmy, the crime boss who may have played a hand in the crime.
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I Give It a Year
Title: I Give It a Year
Character: Elaine
Released: February 8, 2013
Type: Movie
After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Dinah Fortescue
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Title: A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Character: Clair De Grunwald
Released: June 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.
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Title: Vera
Character: Elaine Sidden
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Toast
Title: Toast
Character: Mavis
Released: December 30, 2010
Type: Movie
An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Nigel's mother was always a poor cook, but her chronic asthma and addiction to all things canned does not help.
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Title: National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Character: Gertrude
Released: December 9, 2010
Type: Movie
A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).
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Title: Downton Abbey
Character: Mrs. Bartlett
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: TV
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
Title: National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
Character: Countess of Rosillion
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which broadcasts live via satellite, performances of their productions to movie theaters, cinemas and arts centres on the world. The second production, All's Well That Ends Well, showed at a total of around 300 screens, and today, the number of venues that show NT Live productions has grown to around 700.
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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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The Curse of Steptoe
Title: The Curse of Steptoe
Character: Joan Littlewood
Released: March 18, 2008
Type: Movie
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal.
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The Golden Compass
Title: The Golden Compass
Character: Ma Coster
Released: December 4, 2007
Type: Movie
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
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The Stronger
Title: The Stronger
Character: Mrs. X
Released: October 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on a dramatic monologue by August Strindberg, the short film follows a married woman as she confronts her husband's lover after bumping into her in a café on Christmas eve.
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Spring 1941
Title: Spring 1941
Character: Clara Planck
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: Movie
After Germany invades Poland and the Nazis order the confinement of all local Jews in the ghetto, medical doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes) manages to flee with his family, seeking refuge at the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their former grocer. With the Planck family hiding in her attic, Emilia finds her feelings for the physician growing stronger than she wants, or can control -- despite the dangers of the situation.
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Cassandra's Dream
Title: Cassandra's Dream
Character: Mother
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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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Title: Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Character: Mrs. Meyer
Released: November 25, 2005
Type: Movie
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Ohila
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Casanova
Character: Cook
Released: March 13, 2005
Type: TV
Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, tells Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle, his remarkable life story, and about falling in love with Henriette.
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Bigger Than the Sky
Title: Bigger Than the Sky
Character: Edwina Walters
Released: February 18, 2005
Type: Movie
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which wreaks havoc upon his life.
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The Libertine
Title: The Libertine
Character: Molly Luscombe
Released: September 16, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
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Stage Beauty
Title: Stage Beauty
Character: Mistress Revels
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II lifts the ban on female stage performers. And just as Maria aided Ned, she needs his help to learn her new profession.
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Title: New Tricks
Character: Francis Kane
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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Title: Murder Investigation Team
Character: Lesley Pattison
Released: May 3, 2003
Type: TV
Murder Investigation Team is a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long-running series, The Bill. The series is based around the cases of a Murder Investigation Team, who are linked to the Sun Hill borough of London, as featured in The Bill.
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Vincent in Brixton
Title: Vincent in Brixton
Character: Ursula Loyer
Released: March 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Based on Nicholas Wright's 2002 play exploring the life of the young Vincent Van Gogh during a stay in Brixton, London in 1873. In the play, which is largely fictional, he falls in love with an English widow.
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Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
Character: Edith Wharton
Released: January 13, 2002
Type: TV
The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of the early 20th century, and participating in the events that helped shape history.
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The House of Mirth
Title: The House of Mirth
Character: Mrs. Bry
Released: September 23, 2000
Type: Movie
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
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Title: The Secret
Character: Maggie Hewitt
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: TV
Freddie Musgrave's life is in turmoil when a letter implicates him in murder, things are further complicated by his feelings towards his bosses daughter, Belle, who is married to a madman.
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B. Monkey
Title: B. Monkey
Character: Ms. Cherry
Released: July 15, 1999
Type: Movie
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
Character: Edith Wharton
Released: July 14, 1999
Type: Movie
In the sixteenth film in the series, in 1917, Indiana Jones is working to get Austrian deserters safely to the allies side in the Italian Alps. In his spare time, he is wooing an Italian beauty named Guiletta. When he finds out another man is vying for her attention, Indy and his new pal, ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway, make plans to crush Indiana's competitor by smothering Guiletta with presents and compliments. Afterwards, Indiana is begrudgingly ordered to Casablanca to find a traitor who is selling arms to the Berber rebels. Traveling incognito, he is joined by American novelist Edith Wharton and journalist Lowell Thomas. Indy and Edith soon find themselves attracted to each other despite their age difference.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Medea (voice)
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Gina Colby
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Small Faces
Title: Small Faces
Character: Lorna Maclean
Released: April 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby's gang. Lex's cockiness and immaturity unfortunately prevent him from understanding the effect his subsequent crimes will have on both himself, and on those around him.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: D.S. Farmer
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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The Absence of War
Title: The Absence of War
Released: May 18, 1995
Type: Movie
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election.
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Title: Kavanagh Q.C.
Character: Susannah Dixon QC
Released: January 3, 1995
Type: TV
James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.
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Fatherland
Title: Fatherland
Character: Klara
Released: November 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
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Men of the Month
Title: Men of the Month
Character: Fiona
Released: May 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek videos and delivers packages for a women's erotic magazine, "Bad and Beautiful". As the female staff produce their new issue, they are watched by builders restoring their crumbling office block - each of them with an interest in the women within.
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Circle of Deceit
Title: Circle of Deceit
Character: Eilish
Released: October 16, 1993
Type: Movie
John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is re-activated for duty and is given orders to infiltrate the organization responsible for his family's murder.
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The Fruit Machine
Title: The Fruit Machine
Character: Eve
Released: September 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
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Bad Behavior
Title: Bad Behavior
Character: Jessica Kennedy
Released: May 28, 1993
Type: Movie
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When temptation comes, how will they react?
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Maureen Bristow
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: After the War
Character: Rachel Lucas
Released: June 16, 1989
Type: TV
John Madden's sweeping drama After the War tells the tale of a quarter-century relationship between two men who share a similar wartime experience and a similar religious background. Michael Jordan grew up in a well-heeled British family, while Joe Hirsch spent much of his childhood on the run from the Nazis. The two become friends when they are both enrolled at the same school in 1942. They survive anti-Semitic taunts together. Joe grows into a powerful media figure, while Michael becomes a respected man of the arts. The film charts a quarter-century of their history together, detailing a relationship that is equally affectionate and hostile.
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Title: Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Character: Julia Cotton
Released: December 23, 1988
Type: Movie
Julia Cotton, her step daughter Kirsty, and the sinister Dr. Channard are sent into the dominion of the Cenobites themselves.
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Hellraiser
Title: Hellraiser
Character: Julia Cotton
Released: September 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
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Up Line
Title: Up Line
Character: Fizzy Targett
Released: February 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deploying their skills as entertainers, only to eventually discover the sinister purpose behind the Pathway organization.
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Title: Hideaway
Released: February 11, 1986
Type: TV
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Nineteen Nineteen
Title: Nineteen Nineteen
Character: Young Sophie
Released: November 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Title: The Citadel
Character: Christine Barlow
Released: January 20, 1983
Type: TV
A faithful ten part BBC adaptation of A.J. Cronin's book of the same name published in 1937 about a young Scottish doctor (Ben Cross) trying to find a place for himself in the dysfunctional medical system of Wales and England in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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Unity
Title: Unity
Character: Annie MacFarlane
Released: March 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
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Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Kitty Bennet
Released: January 13, 1980
Type: TV
The arrival of a young, well-off, eligible man named Mr. Bingley sends the Bennet household--with five girls of a marrying age--into a tizzy. But it's the introduction of Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Darcy, that sets in motion the fate of Elizabeth Bennet, resolved only after a labyrinth of social and personal complexities.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Nominee
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.