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OLLY ALEXANDER
Olly Alexander has had a baptism of fire in his first year as an actor. After playing a bright, artistic schoolboy in BBC children's series Summerhill, this 17-year-old segued into one of the lead roles in French maverick Gaspar Noe's Enter The Void. Shot over two months in Tokyo and ...
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SCARLETT JOHNSON
Making the leap from TV soap star to film actor is fraught with complication, with many finding it difficult to shake off their TV persona. Scarlett Johnson is about to prove it can be done. Known for her role as Vicki Fowler in the BBC's EastEnders, Johnson has been lying ...
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MICHELLE DOCKERY
'I can't wait to cast her in a film,' says one UK casting director; another bemoans the fact Michelle Dockery is never available because she is always on stage. She has been propelled into the limelight this year thanks to her captivating performance in Peter Hall's production of Pygmalion, which ...
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TOM HIDDLESTON
After winning two nominations in the best newcomer category at the UK theatre industry's Laurence Olivier Awards this year (he won for his performance in Cymbeline at the Barbican), Tom Hiddleston is now proving his credentials on the screen. This RADA-trained actor's first major television role was in Richard Loncraine's ...
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AARON JOHNSON
Aaron Johnson had an early taste of Hollywood, featuring as the younger version of Edward Norton's character in The Illusionist in 2006 and as a sidekick to Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson in 2003's Shanghai Knights. This year he graduates to leading man status with two very different films. The ...
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JACK O'CONNELL
Jack O'Connell has done well considering he fell into acting just to impress a girl. After a two-year stint with the Carlton TV workshop (he got in, the girl did not), he had his first break with his performance as an adolescent rapist on the ITV soap The Bill when ...
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DreamWorks walks from Walk The Talk
DreamWorks SKG, which financed and co-produced Australian comedy Walk The Talk on the back of director Shirley Barrett's debut feature Love Serenade, has had a change of heart about releasing the film and is shopping domestic rights. Evidently the film's disturbing nature did not fit well into the company's TV ...
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CHARLES MNENE
Charles Mnene is no stranger to controversy. His first screen experience was in Thomas Clay's uncompromisingly bleak The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael which caused a stir at Cannes in 2005, and he has since appeared in a number of tough films that tackle big issues. The most recent is ...
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GUGU MBATHA-RAW
Having turned heads with arresting performances in two critically lauded stage productions, Romeo And Juliet at Manchester's Royal Exchange and Big White Fog at London's Almeida, Gugu Mbatha-Raw is now showing what she can do on the screen. In Ian Rickson's recently screened Fallout, adapted for Channel 4 from the ...
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GEORGIA GROOME
Georgia Groome made her big-screen debut aged 14 in Paul Andrew Williams' festival hit London To Brighton, in which she played a young homeless girl. She is about to prove her versatility as an actor in Gurinder Chadha's comedy Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging which opens at the end of ...
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CHRISTIAN McKAY
Richard Linklater spent the best part of a decade looking for an actor to play the eponymous actor and director in Me And Orson Welles. When he saw Christian McKay in his one-man show Rosebud: The Lives Of Orson Welles last year, his search was over. Starring opposite Zac Efron ...
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OLIVIA HALLINAN
She made a splash as the tortured adolescent grappling with her emerging sexuality in the Emmywinning Channel 4 TV series Sugar Rush in 2006, but Olivia Hallinan has really shown her range in the BBC's Lark Rise To Candleford based on Flora Thompson's 19th-century autobiography. She dons bonnet and corsets ...
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EDWARD HOGG
Edward Hogg has been steadily building a name as someone to watch. His lead role in Woyzeck on stage at London's Gate Theatre won him an Ian Charleson Award nomination in 2006 but two films due for release next year are likely to propel him into the limelight. First off ...
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CAREY MULLIGAN
Having graced several high-quality television productions such as Bleak House and My Boy Jack, Carey Mulligan is about to hit the big time with the lead in Lone Scherfig's An Education. Set in the 1960s, the film is a coming-of-age drama in which she plays a 17-year-old who abandons her ...
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CHARLOTTE RILEY
One year after graduating from LAMDA and the buzz around Charlotte Riley is growing. She has just finished Stephan Elliott's adaptation of Noel Coward's Easy Virtue in which she plays the main character's down-to-earth childhood sweetheart. Riley may have felt intimidated before starting the job - hardly surprising given a ...
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KAYA SCODELARIO
It is a sign of her blossoming talent that Kaya Scodelario has graduated from minor character in the first two series of Channel 4's teen series Skins to a lead. But if she is fazed by the transition, this 16- year-old does not show it. 'It's very exciting and a ...
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Neeson replaces Gianopulos as Fox Int'l chief
Scott Neeson, former executive vice president of international marketing at 20th Century Fox, has been appointed president of 20th Century Fox International Theatrical, taking over from his former boss Jim Gianopulos who was upped to chairman of the studio last month.He will oversee the international theatrical marketing and distribution of ...
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COLIN MORGAN
Hailed as the most exciting drama-school graduate since Ben Whishaw, Colin Morgan dazzled the critics with his electrifying stage debut in last year's Vernon God Little at the Young Vic. He followed it with All About My Mother at the Old Vic and A Prayer For My Daughter at the ...
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ANDREW HAIGH
Writer-directorAndrew Haigh cut his teeth in the editing suite, on such mainstream hits as Gladiator and Notting Hill, but his own shorts display a much more indie sensibility. His debut, Oil, employs fast cutting and voiceover to create a poetic and poignant portrait of a man reminiscing over his departed ...