Mary Roscoe
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Biography: Mary grew up in Zimbabwe and came to London to train. She has been acting in film, television and theatre since 1980, and teaching alongside her acting work for 10 years. Recent acting with the acclaimed film directors Mike Leigh and Joanna Hogg led to Mary teaching improvisation for film at several drama schools in London. Film work includes – Testament of Youth (James Kent), The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig), Paddington (Paul King), Woman in Black Angel of Death (Tom Harper) Exhibition (Joanna Hogg), Les Miserables (Tom Hooper), Suspension of Disbelief (Mike Figgis), Chatroom (Hideo Nakata), Unrelated (Joanna Hogg – Guardian & Evening Standard award for best first film, Independent Film Critic’s Award for best film), Topsy Turvy (Mike Leigh). TV work includes – War & Peace, Partners in Crime, The Casual Vacancy, Whitechapel, Holby City, Great Expectations, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canoe Man, Antiques Rogue Show, The Thieving Headmistress, George Orwell A Life in Pictures, The Rector’s Wife, Frank Stubbs, Lovejoy, Sorry! Theatre includes playing lead roles in Repertory Theatres all over UK. London work includes “Aunt Dan & Lemon” Royal Court, Olive Oyl in “Popeye” Arts Theatre, Maria in “Twelfth Night” for Regents Park, “Trilby & Svengali” for Shared Experience at Lyric Hammersmith, 2 years of work for Mike Alfreds at Sadlers Wells, and experimental improvised work with David Gale & David Glass Ensemble.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Harare,Zimbabwe
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Unrelated
Overview: A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Les Misérables
Overview: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-18
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Exhibition
Overview: An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-09
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Chatroom
Overview: When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-11
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The People We Hate at the Wedding
Overview: A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Paddington
Overview: A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-24
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The Riot Club
Overview: Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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The Thieving Headmistress
Overview: A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
Overview: Dramatised biography of writer George Orwell.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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To Kill a King
Overview: A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-16
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Ashes and Sand
Overview: This is a British movie set in Brighton. It shows teenage angst and female gang behaviour. The leader of the gang is Hayley (Lara Belmont) and the other gang members are Jo (Beccy Armory), Anna (Sarah French-Ellis) and Lauren (Jessica Harris). They roam the streets of Brighton stalking single men, seducing and then robbing them. Hayley meets a policeman, Daniel (Nick Moran), and becomes fixated on him. She dreams of becoming his girlfriend/lover. Daniel has a shoe fetish and lets himself be seduced by Hayley. The end result is not what he envisages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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Canoe Man
Overview: The story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life with a false identity.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-30
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Topsy-Turvy
Overview: After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
Overview: 40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-30
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Enola Holmes
Overview: While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-23
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Room Service
Overview: Washed-up salesman Dennis Meeks is forced to confront his demons in a hotel room where the plumbing has a mind of its own.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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