In the HBO series "House of the Dragon, actor Matt Smith plays Prince Daemon Targaryen, a character who will -- should "Dragon" last long enough -- no doubt commit multiple acts of murder, perhaps a few acts of torture, certainly several acts of incest, and, just for good measure, two separate acts of enthused cannibalism. Probably also tax evasion. This postulation is based merely on how lascivious and gnarly the show's predecessor, "Game of Thrones," was throughout its 2011 through 2019 run.
Smith's screen acting career began in 2006 with his appearance on a TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel "Ruby in the Smoke" and its sequel "Shadow in the North." He was a regular character on the BBC Two series "Party Animals" before landing the plum gig of The Doctor in "Doctor Who" in 2010. The Doctor, for neophytes, is a near-immortal space alien who can, upon his death, choose to regenerate into a new body.
Smith's screen acting career began in 2006 with his appearance on a TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel "Ruby in the Smoke" and its sequel "Shadow in the North." He was a regular character on the BBC Two series "Party Animals" before landing the plum gig of The Doctor in "Doctor Who" in 2010. The Doctor, for neophytes, is a near-immortal space alien who can, upon his death, choose to regenerate into a new body.
- 9/13/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
You don’t have to be a Broadway baby to scratch your onstage acting itch. In fact, all around the country—and outside of it—there are bustling theater communities producing works so vibrant they’d have Edward Albee rolling over in his grave. Want in on that action? You’d be wise to know the ins and outs of industry happenings, and this is a good place to start: From across the pond and back again, here is the week’s biggest regional theater news. ‘Anastasia’ will journey across the country.While it still journeys to the past every night on Broadway, “Anastasia” is gearing up for its first national tour and has announced complete casting for the year-long run. The principal cast will be led by Lila Coogan as Anya/Anastasia, Stephen Brower as Dmitry, Jason Michael Evans as Gleb, Joy Franz as Dowager Empress, Tari Kelly as Countess Lily,...
- 7/31/2018
- backstage.com
Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress known for her serious roles in period dramas. In 2004, she made her acting debut on stage in London in the Kevin Elyot play Forty Winks. Her feature film debut was as Kitty Bennet in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. She gained international […]
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- 12/5/2015
- by Patrick Culhane
- Uinterview
The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
- 5/30/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
The early adult life of novelist Christopher Isherwood, friend and occasional lover of Wh Auden, is chronicled here in 90-minute drama, Christopher and His Kind (Saturday, 9.30pm, BBC2). It.s a thrilling, insightful mirco-biography by playwright Kevin Elyot, based on Isherwood.s two-book novel, The Berlin Stories. But it could easily have stretched to three or four feature-length parts. Instead of skimming over his later decades there might have been a fuller recounting, plus a more in-depth probing of the protagonist, his cohorts and key themes.
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- 3/18/2011
- by Ruth Margolis
- TV.com
Christopher and His Kind
The first photos have been released from this BBC2 telemovie adaptation of the acclaimed novel by "A Single Man" author and "Cabaret" creator Christopher Isherwood.
Current "Doctor Who" star Matt Smith stars as the young writer who escapes the repressive English society of the 1930's and moves to hedonistic cabaret scene of Berlin where he sets out on a process of self-discovery.
Acclaimed playwright Kevin Elyot penned the script while Lindsay Duncan, Imogen Poots, Toby Jones and Douglas Booth also star.
Torchwood
AskAusiello has a break down of the three new characters that will join the returning Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles).
A "wickedly funny CIA agent born to make waves" named Rex Matheson will join as a series regular. A recurring role is Esther Katusi, a CIA grunt in her early 20s forced to find what she's made of.
The...
The first photos have been released from this BBC2 telemovie adaptation of the acclaimed novel by "A Single Man" author and "Cabaret" creator Christopher Isherwood.
Current "Doctor Who" star Matt Smith stars as the young writer who escapes the repressive English society of the 1930's and moves to hedonistic cabaret scene of Berlin where he sets out on a process of self-discovery.
Acclaimed playwright Kevin Elyot penned the script while Lindsay Duncan, Imogen Poots, Toby Jones and Douglas Booth also star.
Torchwood
AskAusiello has a break down of the three new characters that will join the returning Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles).
A "wickedly funny CIA agent born to make waves" named Rex Matheson will join as a series regular. A recurring role is Esther Katusi, a CIA grunt in her early 20s forced to find what she's made of.
The...
- 7/15/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
"It's Jungian," says Sam Trammell nonchalantly when describing how his dreams inspire his acting. He's equally offhand when explaining how as a college student he planned to become a theoretical physicist but was forced to lower his sights: "I was advanced, but I wasn't a genius, and at Brown University I majored in semiotics, which refers to the interdisciplinary study of sign systems and how they work, including linguistic theory, Marxist theory, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and film theory. I did most of my work in contemporary French philosophy."He certainly never imagined himself an actor, let alone one who plays a shape-shifter on a hit HBO show about vampires. The series is "True Blood," created by Alan Ball based on the novels of Charlaine Harris, and Trammell is enjoying the unexpected development. He admits that early in his career, he had a condescending attitude toward television. He would not have...
- 6/7/2010
- backstage.com
Welcome back friends! I’m a little hyper from sleep deprivation having stayed up all night watching the UK election coverage – more on that later. For now I’m keeping myself upbeat by bopping along to the new track from Scissor Sisters. Have you heard it? It’s ridiculous – in a good way. It features booming poetic vocals from Sir Ian McKellen. Yes, Gandalf goes disco-trance!
Lead singer Jake Shears and Sir Ian often party together, so Jake asked the veteran gay actor to contribute to new track “Invisible Light.” They actually took a bunch of recording equipment to McKellen’s dressing room when he was performing in the brilliant West End production of Waiting for Godot.
It looks as though the flamboyant pop group have their edge back, after a rather tame second album. They make quite a statement with their album cover – the taught buttocks of ballet dancer...
Lead singer Jake Shears and Sir Ian often party together, so Jake asked the veteran gay actor to contribute to new track “Invisible Light.” They actually took a bunch of recording equipment to McKellen’s dressing room when he was performing in the brilliant West End production of Waiting for Godot.
It looks as though the flamboyant pop group have their edge back, after a rather tame second album. They make quite a statement with their album cover – the taught buttocks of ballet dancer...
- 5/11/2010
- by Tim Macavoy
- The Backlot
Matt Smith is to play the novelist Christopher Isherwood in a new drama for BBC Two.
Titled Christopher and his Kind, the drama is based on the memoir of the same name, written by Isherwood in 1976. It covers the ten years in the writer's life-from 1929 to 1939, when he left England for Berlin, the capital of the young Weimar Republic, drawn by its reputation for sexual freedom. It talks about the gay Berlin of the 1930s and Isherwood's struggles to save his companion, a German man named Heinz, from the Nazis. Isherwood's experiences in the city later inspired him to write his 1939 novella Goodbye to Berlin on which the Broadway musical Cabaret was based.
The drama will also star Lindsay Duncan, who played Adelaide Brooke in The Waters of Mars, as Isherwood's mother. It will be directed by Geoffrey Sax, who directed the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
The drama is written...
Titled Christopher and his Kind, the drama is based on the memoir of the same name, written by Isherwood in 1976. It covers the ten years in the writer's life-from 1929 to 1939, when he left England for Berlin, the capital of the young Weimar Republic, drawn by its reputation for sexual freedom. It talks about the gay Berlin of the 1930s and Isherwood's struggles to save his companion, a German man named Heinz, from the Nazis. Isherwood's experiences in the city later inspired him to write his 1939 novella Goodbye to Berlin on which the Broadway musical Cabaret was based.
The drama will also star Lindsay Duncan, who played Adelaide Brooke in The Waters of Mars, as Isherwood's mother. It will be directed by Geoffrey Sax, who directed the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
The drama is written...
- 4/28/2010
- by Marcus
- The Doctor Who News Page
LONDON -- Channel 4 is heading its summer schedule with a look at the hidden lives of homosexuals at a time when sexual relationships between men were deemed criminal, the broadcaster said Wednesday.
Headlining the drama slate will be "Clapham Junction", a film about the mixed experiences of several gay men during one 36-hour period in London -- and the consequences that unfold when their lives collide.
Penned by award-winning playwright Kevin Elyot, the program will be broadcast to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in England and Wales.
Also marking the anniversary will be "The Last Gay Trial", which combines dramatic reconstructions with witness testimony to reflect the realities of gay life in 1950s Britain, and "How Gay Sex Changed the World", which documents the evolution of social attitudes toward homosexuality in the last four decades.
The summer slate also will see director Ken Loach in a new collaboration with the broadcaster, "It's a Free World", a drama about illegal immigrant workers that follows a Polish migrant worker as he tries to survive the fault line between crime and legitimacy.
Headlining the drama slate will be "Clapham Junction", a film about the mixed experiences of several gay men during one 36-hour period in London -- and the consequences that unfold when their lives collide.
Penned by award-winning playwright Kevin Elyot, the program will be broadcast to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in England and Wales.
Also marking the anniversary will be "The Last Gay Trial", which combines dramatic reconstructions with witness testimony to reflect the realities of gay life in 1950s Britain, and "How Gay Sex Changed the World", which documents the evolution of social attitudes toward homosexuality in the last four decades.
The summer slate also will see director Ken Loach in a new collaboration with the broadcaster, "It's a Free World", a drama about illegal immigrant workers that follows a Polish migrant worker as he tries to survive the fault line between crime and legitimacy.
- 5/24/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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