Haydn Gwynne
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Biography: Haydn Gwynne (21 March 1957 – 20 October 2023) was an English actress. She was nominated for the 1992 BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance for the comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1991), and won the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot the Musical. She was also a four-time Olivier Award nominee. Her other television roles included Peak Practice (1999–2000), Merseybeat (2001–2002), and playing Camilla in The Windsors (2016–2023).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England, UK
Birthday: January 01, 1957
Deathday: October 20, 2023
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Gender: Female
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The Secret
Overview: A woman is held for ransom by a bitter past acquaintance who threatens to disclose a secret that could destroy her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-13
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National Theatre Live: The Audience
Overview: For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-12
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Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball
Overview: In Pride And Prejudice: Having A Ball, social historian Amanda Vickery leads the action as a team of experts recreate a Regency ball in honour of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s popular novel. Joined by Alastair Sooke and a coterie of professionals – a food historian, a costume expert, music history academics and a choreographer who trains a team of dance students to take to the floor– cameras will follow the recreation inspired by Austen’s Netherfield ball. This intimate country house ball drives the plot of the Pride And Prejudice, and is a key turning point in the romance between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-10
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Amnesty International's Big 30
Overview: In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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The C-Word
Overview: The C Word is an adaptation of Lisa Lynch's inspiring and candid book, based on her blog, about her battle with cancer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-03
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Overview: On 3 May 2022, Cameron Mackintosh invited many of Stephen Sondheim’s old friends to join him in London’s West End for a thrilling, joyously staged production. He had specially devised it to celebrate Sondheim’s extraordinary talents as a composer and lyricist. Featuring an all-star cast including Michael Ball, Helena Bonham Carter, Rob Brydon, Petula Clark, Anna-Jane Casey, Rosalie Craig, Janie Dee, Judi Dench, Daniel Evans, Maria Friedman, Haydn Gwynne, Bonnie Langford, Damian Lewis and Julia McKenzie.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-03
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Lullaby
Overview: The story of a mothers love for an unborn child and how the time has come to leave the memories safely behind and move on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-17
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Remember Me?
Overview: A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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The Merchant of Venice
Overview: A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Venice.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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RSC Live: Coriolanus
Overview: A full-throttle war play that revels in the sweat of the battlefield, Coriolanus transports us back to the emergence of the republic of Rome.Caius Martius Coriolanus is a fearless soldier but a reluctant leader. His ambitious mother attempts to carve him a path to political power, but he struggles to change his nature and do what is required to achieve greatness. In this new city state struggling to find its feet, where the gap between rich and poor is widening every day, Coriolanus must decide who he really is and where his allegiances lie.Rome Season Director, Angus Jackson, completes the Royal Shakespeare Company’s collection of Shakespeare’s Roman plays with a visceral production which sees Sope Dirisu (One Night in Miami, Donmar Warehouse, 2016) take on the title role.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-11
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Consenting Adults
Overview: Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack's son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-04
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National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
Overview: As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of the city's underground – and their daughter’s whereabouts.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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Hospital!
Overview: Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made specifically for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-30
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Car Trouble
Overview: In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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Beauty and the Beast
Overview: A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Genres: Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-16
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Hollow
Overview: Award winning director Rob Sorrenti's latest short film 'Hollow' is a sensitive observation about the nature of addiction.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-01
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Human, All Too Human
Overview: European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical thought known as Existentialism, although the term had not been coined at the time of Nietzsche's writing and Heidegger declaimed the label. The documentary is named after the 1878 book written by Nietzsche, titled Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-17
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Myra: The Making of a Monster
Overview: The documentary examines Myra Hindley's psyche, the nature of her relationship with Ian Brady, her background, and time in prison. When Moors murderer Myra Hindley died on 15 November, she was Britain's longest serving woman prisoner - spending 36 years in jail. Hindley was jailed for life in 1966 for murdering two children with her lover Ian Brady.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-03
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Player
Overview: The story of a claustrophobic relationship between a single mother and her piano prodigy son. Arriving in a tight-knit rural community, the pair become embroiled in local romances which push their own relationship to boiling point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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What Mad Pursuit
Overview: If you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote your books, wouldn't you welcome with open arms the chance of a quiet weekend away from it all in a remote corner of Long Island? Of course you would. Well, let what happened to Evan Lorrimer be an awful warning....
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-24
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The Midnight Gang
Overview: When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself on the miserable children's ward of St Hugo's Hospital, where he is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter and wicked matron. But things aren't as bad as they seem and Tom is soon to embark on the most thrilling journey of a lifetime!
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-26
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The Pleasure Principle
Overview: Part relationship drama and part sex comedy follows a middle-aged man who loves women and sex and can't stop cheating. He gets a divorce from his angry wife, but then cheats on his lovers. However, one of them decides to get even.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-31
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The Canterville Ghost
Overview: Follows a tech billionaire who buys Canterville Chase, unaware that the contents include a malevolent family ghost, who has been haunting the premises for centuries.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-31
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Mickey 17
Overview: Mickey Barnes, an “expendable” employee, is sent on a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. With one regeneration, though, things go very wrong.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-28
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