Daniela Nardini
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Biography: A Scottish actress of Italian ancestry, Daniela Nardini first shot to fame in the mid 90s playing the part of the feisty and self-destructive Anna Forbes in BBC2 smash hit This Life. The role earned her a BAFTA Best Actress award in 1998 and also earned her a Scottish BAFTA. She received a second Scottish BAFTA in 2009 for her performance in Annie Griffin's New Town.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
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Birthday: April 26, 1968
Age: 57 years old
Gender: Female
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Overview: Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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Rubenesque
Overview: A cheeky tale of a female football referee whose life takes an interesting turn when, despite a lack of enthusiasm for anything other than sport, she finds herself working as a plus-size model.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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Priest School
Overview: Documentary providing rare access to the inner workings, personnel, seminarians and history of the oldest Scottish institution abroad - Il Pontificio College Scozzese (The Scots College in Rome.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-19
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Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
Overview: Drama about a woman who works as a personal shopper in a glamorous department store who becomes seduced by the opulent lives of her clients, with devastating consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-26
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Rough Treatment
Overview: Eve Turner (Daniela Nardini) is an ambitious military officer with a brilliant career ahead of her, but when she suffers a brutal attack by two officers, her world falls apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-28
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Sunshine on Leith
Overview: Davy and Ally have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships. Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-03
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Two Doors Down
Overview: Comedy set in a chaotic Hogmanay party. Beth and Eric Baird's Hogmanay goes horribly wrong as family, friends and neighbours descend on their home. As they count down to the bells in traditional Scottish style, a lively evening is assured as drink flows and Beth's legendary steak pie comes out of the oven. Secrets are revealed, tempers fray, scores are settled and a gazebo is destroyed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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Tube Tales
Overview: Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grasshopper" (Menhaj Huda); "My Father the Liar" (Bob Hoskins); "Bone" (Ewan McGregor); "Mouth" (Armando Iannucci); "A Bird in the Hand" (Jude Law); "Rosebud" (Gaby Dellal); "Steal Away" (Charles McDougall)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-19
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Transsexual Stories
Overview: Filmed over a year, Transsexual Stories follows the lives of Anne, Gladys, Carla, Bee and Jan – five trans women at various stages of transition. Whether it's 17-year-old Bee, who is just beginning her hormone therapy, retired antiques dealer Gladys who had her full sex change operation at the age of 69, or ex-soldier Anne who has recently come out to friends and family, it's tough coming out in the public eye.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-24
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Quite Ugly One Morning
Overview: Investigative reporter Jack Parlabane stumbles across the aftermath of a murder scene in Edinburgh, and when he shows little sign of shock at the gruesome killing of a respected doctor, Detective Inspector McGregor suspects that he is the killer and Parlabane must clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-04
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This Life +10
Overview: A decade on, Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg is a writer, Milly a mum, Anna's still a lawyer, while Warren and Miles have 'business' careers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-02
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Your Cheatin' Heart
Overview: In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-11
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Elephant Juice
Overview: The story of Billy, Will, Jules, Daphne and Dodie, a group of people who prove that there are no secrets between friends. It all comes out in the end.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-23
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Festival
Overview: 'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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The Party's Just Beginning
Overview: In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of her best friend. She medicates her misery with joyless sex, chips and a belief in the power of positive drinking. Surrounded by bittersweet memories, she struggles to find someone to talk to or some reason to make life worthwhile at the most stressful time of the year.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-07
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The Fantastic Mr Feynman
Overview: Richard Feynman is one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century. He helped design the atomic bomb, solved the mystery of the Challenger Shuttle catastrophe and won a Nobel Prize. Now, 25 years after his death - in his own words and those of his friends and family - this is the story of the most captivating communicator in the history of science.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-12
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New Town
Overview: Starry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but when the head of Scottish Heritage falls from the church tower in a mysterious accident, it becomes a question of whether he fell or was pushed.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-14
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Duck Daze
Overview: Johnina seeks revenge on her childhood abuser and the community that enabled him, with the help of a duck.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Bunny
Overview: An emotionally repressed and traumatised young man is challenged by disruptive outsiders to face up to his delusion, and risks losing the final bond to his dead mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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Sunset Song
Overview: The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-04
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Surreally Scozzese: Enrico Cocozza 1921 - 1997
Overview: Documentary on experimental film-maker Enrico Cocozza, exploring his life and work with excerpts from his films and interviews with those who knew him.
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Original Language: en
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Dancing
Overview: Dying of cancer, an old woman trapped in her Glasgow flat relieves her pain by drinking morphine and whisky cocktails and dreaming of her youth and dancing to the bittersweet music of The Inkspots.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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