Andrea Riseborough
Also Known As: 안드레아 라이즈버러, Άντρια Ράισμπορο, アンドレア・ライズボロー, Андреа Райзборо, 安德麗亞·瑞斯波羅格, Андреа Райсборо, آندرهآ رایزبرو
Biography: Andrea Louise Riseborough (born 20 November 1981) is an English actress and producer. She made her film debut with a small part in Venus (2006), and has since appeared in more prominent roles in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Never Let Me Go, Brighton Rock, Made in Dagenham (all 2010), W.E. (2011), Shadow Dancer, Disconnect (both 2012), Welcome to the Punch, Oblivion (both 2013), Birdman (2014), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Battle of the Sexes, The Death of Stalin (both 2017), Mandy, Nancy (both 2018), The Grudge, and Possessor (both 2020). For her performance as a recovering addict in the drama To Leslie (2022), Riseborough received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Outside of film, Riseborough received a BAFTA nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the television film The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), and won critical acclaim for her performances in the Channel 4 miniseries The Devil's Whore (2008) and National Treasure (2016), as well as the BBC One miniseries The Witness for the Prosecution (2016). Her stage credits include August Strindberg's Miss Julie, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (Theatre Royal, Bath, both 2006) and Anton Chekhov's Ivanov (West End, 2008). Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrea Riseborough, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Whitley Bay, Northumberland, UK
Birthday: November 20, 1981
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Gender: Female
TMDb-Id: 127558
IMDb-Id: nm2057859
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Known For
Happy-Go-Lucky
Overview: A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-18
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Magicians
Overview: A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-18
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Lee
Overview: The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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Venus
Overview: Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-02
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Never Let Me Go
Overview: As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Overview: An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Brighton Rock
Overview: Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-13
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What Remains
Overview: In a psychiatric hospital, an alleged serial killer, his therapist, and a police detective seek to solve a brutal cold case before their obsessive quest for the truth consumes them all.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-21
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Made in Dagenham
Overview: A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-01
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W.E.
Overview: In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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Shadow Dancer
Overview: In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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Oblivion
Overview: Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-10
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Welcome to the Punch
Overview: When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Overview: A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-12
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Resistance
Overview: It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished. They have headed into the mountains to join the Resistance.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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Mad Sad & Bad
Overview: HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary metropolitan neuroses through the intersecting lives of these siblings and their friends. The narrative slips from one character to the next as they escape and attack each other. all reluctant members of the same dysfunctional family. Written by Ed Barratt
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-31
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Disconnect
Overview: A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-12
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My Name Is Andrea
Overview: A rousing portrait of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of the 20th century, who fought passionately for justice and equality for women.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-10
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Funny Birds
Overview: Thrown together under tragic circumstances, three generations of women from the same family are forced to learn to live together on a small rural chicken farm in New Jersey, which generates moving and amusing situations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-21
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Overview: A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Love You More
Overview: Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-05
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The Silent Storm
Overview: An enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island finds herself caught between her minister husband and the delinquent who is sent to live with them.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-14
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That Dog
Overview: A dark comedy of errors unfolds as two interloping idiots inadvertently wreak havoc on the lives of others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-01
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Hidden
Overview: A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-15
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Shepherds and Butchers
Overview: A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-12
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The Queen of Fashion
Overview: The Queen of Fashion details the ups and downs of Blow’s life, championing unknown and marginalised fashion figures like Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, and Sophie Dahl, whom she catapulted to success while struggling with undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Dragonfly
Overview: Two neighbours strike up an unlikely friendship, sometimes to the disapproval of others around them. Seeing the lack of care that her elderly neighbour Elsie is receiving from so called professionals, Colleen takes it upon herself to care for her. However, Colleen’s intentions may not be what they seem.
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Original Language: en
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The Noise of Time
Overview: The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after his opera is condemned. A stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror, and for decades he has to weigh appeasing those in power in Soviet Russia against the integrity of his music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Battle of the Sexes
Overview: The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-22
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The Death of Stalin
Overview: When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-20
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The Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Christie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-26
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Nocturnal Animals
Overview: Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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Burden
Overview: Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-28
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Mindhorn
Overview: A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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A Very Social Secretary
Overview: Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up for very public scrutiny.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-10
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The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Overview: In 19th century Victorian England, Mrs. Isabella Beeton produced what became an essential book for housewives of the day. She was married at a relatively young age to Sam Beeton, a publisher of books and magazines on a variety of subjects. Not someone to sit at home in the traditional role of a housewife, Mrs. Beeton started work in her husband's business, initially as an editor correcting English but then writing some of the columns herself. It as at this point that she developed an idea for a cookbook and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management was born. Her life was not an easy one however. The publishing business went bankrupt, she lost two children at a young age and had several miscarriages. She died at the age of 28.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-16
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Whatever Love Means
Overview: Strap in for a rollercoaster ride through the emotional worlds of love and royalty in an original WE Channel movie exploring the enduring, 30-year romance shared between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. Decades before the fairy tale wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the young prince and his longtime sweetheart found their growing love tragically clipped by the many demands of royalty and the sometimes rough waters of romance. Though he had previously exchanged vows with the glamorous Diana, Prince Charles never truly forgot about Parker-Bowles, and in this film Anglophiles and royalty scholars alike will finally learn the truth behind one of the highest profile romances in modern history.
Genres: TV Movie History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-05
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Nancy
Overview: Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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Mandy
Overview: The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
Genres: Fantasy Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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The Grudge
Overview: After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-31
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The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Overview: In 2017 Tyneside Cinema turned 80.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-02
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The Kindness of Strangers
Overview: Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-12
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Possessor
Overview: Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
Overview: A making-of documentary for the 2014 film "Birdman".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-18
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Overview: Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew him in the industry, and a discussion of the start of the #MeToo movement.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-21
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Overview: The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Luxor
Overview: When British aid worker Hana returns to Luxor, a sleepy city on the banks of the Nile, she comes across Sultan, a talented archeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-21
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Here Before
Overview: Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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Please Baby Please
Overview: After witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of 1950s Manhattan, newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual identity.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-28
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A Heightened World
Overview: The cast and crew talk about the look and feel of the film Possessor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-08
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Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
Overview: The cast and crew talk about the core themes of the film and the seeds of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-08
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Amsterdam
Overview: In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-27
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To Leslie
Overview: A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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Good Boy
Overview: Nineteen year old Tommy likes his life as a criminal, and leads his friends in acts of horrifying violence, until one night he is kidnapped by a stranger, Chris. Waking up with a chain around his neck in the basement of an isolated home, Tommy finds himself at the centre of a dysfunctional family dynamic as Chris and his mysterious wife Kathryn try to make Tommy a “good boy”, in a process of forced rehabilitation. The one thing Tommy knows for sure: he must escape.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
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Goodbye June
Overview: A touching, yet humorous story which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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