Rebecca Root
Also Known As: Graham Root
Biography: Rebecca Root is an English actress, comedian and voice coach. She was rated 18th in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow List 2014, which named her as one of the very few openly transgender actresses in mainstream television, alongside Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Woking, Surrey, England, UK
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Birthday: May 10, 1969
Age: 56 years old
Gender: Female
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This Is Christmas
Overview: Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam breaks the unspoken taboo of talking to strangers on a train and invites the entire carriage to hold their own Christmas party together.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-04
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Eddie Elise
Overview: The young ex-offender Jason arrives home after spending years in prison, only to discover that his father had transitioned to a transgender woman and is now Elise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-21
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Normal
Overview: Normal is a biographical film that follows the turbulent lives of people who work in the sex industry. Nicola Mai's groundbreaking and unique form of story telling offers an intricate glance into 6 characters' diverse experiences of self-realization, exploitation, autonomy and dependency. Director and anthropologist Mai continually challenges the viewer by exposing these unheard voices, their dreams and the lives that they lead. Normal uncovers layered, human stories of migration and sex work, challenging popular expectations that most migrant sex workers are exploited and forced to sell sex against their will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-22
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Sis
Overview: Two estranged sisters, religious Fran and transgender Steph, reconcile their differences during the course of one night where honesty is the only policy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-10
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The Gallery
Overview: An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive narratives - set in 1981 (with a female protagonist) and 2021 (with a male protagonist).
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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The Danish Girl
Overview: When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-27
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Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe
Overview: Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe follows Hank in the run up to Christmas as he prepares for a new baby brother. But Hank's life never runs smoothly and soon Miss Adolf is turning Mr. Rock's Rudolph the Rock'n'Roll Reindeer into a one-woman Christmas Carol - two school inspectors are getting injured in a bizarre sleighing accident and Mr. Joy is trying to cancel Christmas altogether. In his attempt to drag triumph from the glittering jaws of doom, Hank will ice skate into disaster, nearly crash a Christmas tree into a crowd, get himself and his best friends arrested, get his favourite teacher sacked and lose the love of his life. This time, he really has let everyone down. Surely even Hank can't get out this one. Luckily for us, there's no way to tell Hank that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-12
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Colette
Overview: After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-21
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The Sisters Brothers
Overview: Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-19
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Last Christmas
Overview: Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-07
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Creation Stories
Overview: The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the ‘90s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. From humble beginnings to Downing Street soirées, from dodging bailiffs to releasing multi-platinum albums, Creation had it all. Breakdowns, bankruptcy, fights and friendships… and not forgetting the music. Featuring some of the greatest records you have ever heard, we follow Alan through a drug-fuelled haze of music and mayhem, as his rock’n’roll dream brings the world Oasis, Primal Scream, and other generation-defining bands.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-15
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The Rising
Overview: The Rising is the story of Neve Kelly, who discovers that she is dead. She's scared and confused by this new existence. But, when she realizes she has been murdered, she's furious. She's determined to find her killer and get justice, believing that it was someone she knew. Impulsive and restless, Neve regrets never leaving her isolated community. And, as she comes to terms with her abilities, she begins to destabilize the lives of those she left behind. Particularly her estranged father, Tom and her beloved mother Maria. Neve is a disruptive, unsettling hero who should not exist, and she needs to find her purpose. She takes us through the investigation into her death, going where the police can't. In the process she uncovers deeply buried secrets and is forced to re-examine everything about her life and the people she cared about.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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Hear Me Roar
Overview: Elizabeth Bellinger became one of the few transgender people in Britain to get married in the 1980s. She kept this ceremony secret from almost everyone until 2000 when she launched a campaign to have her marriage to Michael Bellinger legally recognized and the case went to the courts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Approach/Withdraw
Overview: Approach/Withdraw is a ten-minute, 16mm film narrated by Rebecca Root, which explores how public understandings of oestrogen and sex hormones affect the sense of self and relationships of those who feel at odds with their assigned gender.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Enigma
Overview: Two legends contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender history; and Amanda Lear, who has consciously denied and obfuscated her history for decades. Their divergent paths reveal disparate but intertwined legacies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-28
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