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British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea," both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in the Caucasian Chalk Circle, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in the 1971 production of "Abelard & Heloise." Her film roles include Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968); Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper (1981); and Arlene Marshall in Evil Under the Sun (1982). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC miniseries Mother Love (1989), and an Emmy Award for her role as Mrs. Danvers in the adaptation of Rebecca (1997). In 2013, she appeared with her daughter Rachael Stirling on the BBC series Bác Sĩ Vô Danh (2005) in an episode titled "The Crimson Horror" and plays Olenna Tyrell on the HBO series Trò Chơi Vương Quyền (2011).
From 1965 to 1968, Rigg appeared on the British television series The Avengers (1961) playing the secret agent Mrs. Emma Peel. She became a Bond girl in Điệp Vụ Nữ Hoàng (1969), playing Tracy Bond, James Bond's only wife, opposite George Lazenby. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) at the 1988 Queen's New Years Honours for her services to drama. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) at the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama.
Dame Diana Rigg died of lung cancer on September 10, 2020, she was 82 years old.- Writer
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Jeremy Clarkson was born in 1960 in the Yorkshire town of Doncaster in the North of England, an area renowned for its loud shouting and rampant exaggeration. He went to Repton school but didn't really pay attention and then got a job with a local newspaper where he was famed for stories such as 'Literally 50 billion people visit cake sale'. Probably. A chance meeting with a BBC producer saw him cast in the hit show Top Gear and the rest is history. Except for jet packs, which are the future.- Actor
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Neil Dudgeon was born on 2 January 1961 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Midsomer Murders (1997), Đứa Con Của Rambow (2007) and Messiah: The Harrowing (2005). He is married to Mary Peate.- Actress
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Emma was born Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire in 1964 to John, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, and Noelle (nee Strange). The family moved around and, while attending St Swithun's school, Winchester, Chambers acted in Winchester college productions - saying she "enjoyed showing off" - and played lacrosse for Hampshire. Her parents eventually split up and she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where the former EastEnders actor Ross Kemp was one of her contemporaries.
Her best remembered film role, in Curtis's 1999 romcom Notting Hill, was the eccentric Honey Thacker, star-struck and overawed at meeting the Hollywood actor (played by Julia Roberts) who has fallen for her bookshop-owner brother (Hugh Grant). Honey explains her own difficulties in finding a partner: "I don't have hair - I've got feathers - and I've got funny, goggly eyes, and I'm attracted to cruel men and no one will ever marry me because my boosies have actually started shrinking." She eventually becomes engaged to her brother's slovenly housemate (Rhys Ifans).
Her sister, Sarah Doukas, and brother, Simon, went on to run Storm Model Management, which discovered Kate Moss at the age of 14.
Chambers made her television debut as Margaret, one of the young Brangwen children, in a 1988 BBC adaptation of the DH Lawrence novel The Rainbow. In between one-off roles on TV, she played Charity Pecksniff in a six-part serialisation of Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, which began in the same week as The Vicar of Dibley (1994).
The popular BBC sitcom, written by Richard Curtis with Paul Mayhew-Archer, ran for two series, from 1994 to 1998, finishing with Alice's marriage to Hugo Horton (played by James Fleet), her second cousin once removed. Geraldine described both as having the intellectual capacity of a cactus and the wedding was notable for the two bridal attendants dressed as Teletubbies. Chambers won the 1998 British Comedy Award for best actress and returned as Alice in various Vicar of Dibley specials between 1999 and 2007.
She had significant supporting roles in the sitcom How Do You Want Me? (1998-99) as Helen Yardley, sister of the newlywed Lisa (Charlotte Coleman) returning from London to be near her family in the countryside, and Take a Girl Like You (2000), Andrew Davies's adaptation of Kingsley Amis's comic novel, as Martha Thompson, the bored housewife hostile to her beautiful, northern lodger.
Chambers' West End theatre debut came with the part of Geain, estranged daughter of Ian McKellen's composer Jerome, in Alan Ayckbourn's comedy Henceforward... (Vaudeville theatre, 1988-89) after appearing in the original 1987 production at the Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough. In his casting notes for Geain, Ayckbourn stipulated: "Not a child, please. Just a very small actress." Chambers lodged with McKellen for a while and said she regarded him as a father figure.
When, in 1989, she starred in the Scarborough premiere of Ayckbourn's Invisible Friends as another teenage daughter, Lucy Baines, who has an imaginary companion to relieve the awfulness of living with her family, the critic Harry Eyres praised Chambers' skill in "conveying Lucy's kaleidoscopic emotional states with startling immediacy" and negotiating the tricky device of also acting as the play's narrator. She reprised the role in London at the Cottesloe during two stints with the National Theatre company (1991-92) that included appearances in productions such as Franz Kafka's The Trial and Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III.
She gave a hilarious performance as Orgon's daughter Mariane in Tartuffe (Almeida theatre, 1996) and starred as Sheila in Michael Frayn's Benefactors (Albery theatre, 2002), a performance described by one critic as "a touching study in parasitic helplessness".
Chambers who suffered from asthma, attacks of which were often brought on by an acute allergy to animals, withdrew largely but not entirely from public life after the final episode of The Vicar of Dibley (1994) in 2007, which was also to remain her final television role. On the evening of 21st February 2018 Chambers suffered a heart attack and died at her home in Lymington, Hampshire, England at the age of just 53. Her death was announced three days later by her agent John Grant.
Chambers was survived by her husband, the actor Ian Dunn, whom she married in 1991, and by her siblings.- Actor
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Mark Ryan has been combining his acting, singing, writing, action direction and producer talents in an eclectic and successful international career ranging over 45 years.
He did several major musicals in London's West End, spending 4 years in Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit "Evita" playing "Magaldi" and "Che" under the direction of Broadway legend: Hal Prince.
He originated "Nasir" for the cult British TV series: "Robin Of Sherwood" and has appeared in dozens of films and television series both in the US and UK. Mark is also an accomplished author and has written for DC Comics and created "The Greenwood Tarot" for Harper Collins.
Mark also toured the US with original "Monty Python" member: Eric Idle, performing at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
He was Swordmaster and Fight Director on "King Arthur" for Antoine Fuqua and trained Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgard and Clive Owen. He has appeared in such productions as "The Prestige" and "The Thirst" and has continued to work in theater and TV in the US, recently completing "SpecialOps: Delta" playing Col. Anderson Savage.
He began working on the 2007 film Transformers during filming as the on-set voice of several different robots. This work continued throughout filming and into editing, prior to the actual casting of voice-over talent. He was then cast as the voice of the character Bumblebee. Ryan also voices Ironhide and Hoist for the Activision video game based on the film.
During 2008 he wrote and produced a musical adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" starring Jenn Korbee, directing the video "Women" for the project. In the fall of 2008 the online publisher, ComicMix, began running "The Pilgrim" written by Ryan and drawn by legendary graphic artist Mike Grell.
He continued voice-work on "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen" into 2009, performing several characters and standing in for the robots during principal photography.
In May 2010, Ryan returned to work on Transformers: Dark of the Moon, once again as the onset voice of the Autobots. Work on this third Michael Bay Blockbuster continued at locations across the US and also at Kennedy Space Center - Cape Canaveral. The film was shot in 3D with post production voice-work carrying on into the spring of 2011 at Bay Films and Ryan contributed uncredited military lines and voices to the final cut of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. in 2014 he also voiced the alien bounty-hunter "Lockdown" for the 4th Transformers movie: "Age of Extinction".
His biography; "Hold Fast" was written with John Matthews and published in 2015. "Hold Fast" includes chapters on "Black Sails" in which he played Quartermaster "Hal Gates" and the 5th movie in the franchise: "Transformers: The Last Knight" in which he voiced "Bulldog", "Hot Rod" and appeared as a British Army SAS Officer.
In 2022 Mark began work on co-writing: "The Sherwood Oracle" with John Mathews using imagery from the acclaimed artist; Anne Yvonne Gilbert to be released in the spring of 2024 and published internationally by major New York publishing house: Stirling Ethos.
In 2023 he began co-producing with films such as the multi-international award winning: "Penitent" and "Grail" and his first movie as co-producer and actor: "23 Letters From Vincent van Gogh" shot entirely on location in The Netherlands, will be released in 2024.- Actor
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Thomas Howes was born in 1986 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Chuyện Tình Anna (2012), Tu Viện Downton (2010) and Dark Angel (2016).- Sally Carman was born on 9 May 1981 in Mexborough, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Phẫn Uất (2011) and Shameless (2004). She has been married to Joe Duttine since 15 July 2022. She was previously married to Ryan Pope.
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Mary Millar had a very successful stage career in the West End. She began singing arias at the age of fourteen. Her London stage debut was in the 1962 production "Lock Up Your Daughters". She was in the original cast of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, "The Phantom of the Opera", and can be heard on the cast recording performing the role of "Madame Giry". Her final performance was in 1996 as Mrs. Potts in the West End production of "Beauty and the Beast".- Actress
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The youngest of four, she grew up in Leeds and left school with 8 O levels and 2 A levels then drama school, She spent 15 years with her partner Ron Bertoli until the end of 1995, Now lives in South London with her son, She quit Eastenders when it was planned that her character was going to be gang raped claiming that it would be too traumatic for her son to see- Edward Hogg was born on 26 January 1979 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Nặc Danh (2011), Người Thừa Kế Vũ Trụ (2015) and White Lightnin' (2009).
- Kelly Harrison was born in 1980 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), Casualty (1986) and A Passionate Woman (2010).
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Lewis is an English actor and director born in Doncaster, Yorkshire where he grew up with his mother and two brothers. He is best known for his work in I May Destroy You (2020), Midwich Cuckoos (2022), Unforgotten (2015-) and The Sandman (2022). Lewis is also know for his successful work on stage in London's West End where he starred in My Night with Reg (2015) & Our Boys (2012). One of Lewis' most infamous characters is in the FIFA video games The Journey (2017) where he played villain Gareth Walker.- Actor
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David Firth was born on 23 January 1983 in Doncaster, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Salad Fingers (2004), Burnt Face Man (2004) and Jerry Jackson (2005).- Jessica Baglow was born on 23 March 1989 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Gentleman Jack (2019), Silent Witness (1996) and Apostasy (2017).
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Louis Tomlinson was born on 24 December 1991 in Doncaster, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for iCarly (2007), Unforgotten (2015) and Family Guy (1999).- One of the finest exponents of the art of light comedy acting, Michael Denison enjoyed a highly successful career both on stage and screen. He and his wife, actress Dulcie Gray, appeared in over 100 West End shows and their marriage, which lasted nearly sixty years, was regarded as one of the happiest in British show business.
Denison was born in Doncaster, the son of a paint manufacturer, and was brought up by aunt and her husband. He was educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, where he read modern languages. He trained for the stage at Webber Douglas School in London where he met and married Dulcie Gray in 1939.
During World War Two, he served in the Royal Intelligence Corps and, by the time he had returned to the theatre, his wife was already a major film star in Britain. She secured him a role in the 1947 film My Brother Jonathan (1948). The following year, they appeared together in The Glass Mountain (1949), which became an international hit.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the couple were rarely off the West End stage where they attracted a loyal following. Denison appeared solo with great success in the TV series Boyd Q.C. (1956) (1956-63).
He appeared on Broadway in Oscar Wilde's, "An Ideal Husband", and, shortly before he died, he and his wife appeared in a two-hander production "Curtain Up" in a London fringe theatre.
Denison published two volumes of memoirs, "Overture and Beginners" (1973) and "Double Act" (1985). He also contributed many entries to the Dictionary of National Biography. He and Dulcie Gray were appointed CBE in 1983. - Actress
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Shelley Longworth was born on 22 March 1976 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Suffragette (2015), Vampire Academy (2014) and Em Muốn Ăn Kẹo (2007).- Tanweer Wasin "Tan" France (né Safdar) is an English fashion designer and television personality from Doncaster, South Yorkshire based in the United States. He is married to Rob France and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is best known for founding women's fashion line, Kingdom & State and for his role as the fashion expert in the Netflix revival of Queer Eye.
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English musician Yungblud twists genres and societal conventions, incorporating rock, punk, and hip-hop into a rebellious mix that endeared him to the outcast masses around the globe. Blending punk spirit with pop savvy, he made a steady climb in the late 2010s before scoring a trio of hits with Halsey, Machine Gun Kelly, Dan Reynolds, and frequent collaborator Travis Barker. While his full-length debut, 21st Century Liability, landed in 2018, he made his mainstream breakthrough a year later with the EP The Underrated Youth. He rode that wave of success into 2020 with his sophomore LP, Weird!
Born Dominic Harrison in Yorkshire, the singer/songwriter was raised in a musical family. His father was a vintage guitar dealer and his grandfather played with T. Rex. Influenced by Bob Dylan, the Clash, and the Beatles, he played guitar and sang from a young age. In 2017, when he was 19, he issued his debut single, "King Charles," a genre-blending protest song that fell somewhere between early Arctic Monkeys, Jamie T, and Rat Boy. He followed with the song "I Love You, Will You Marry Me," which incorporated some dub and grime elements. A major-label deal with Geffen yielded Yungblud's first collection, an eponymous 2018 EP that included his first two singles alongside three new tracks. His debut full-length, 21st Century Liability, appeared in May of that year and made a solid chart showing in Australia and Belgium.
Yungblud returned in early 2019 with "Parents," "Loner," and "11 Minutes," the latter of which was a collaboration with Halsey and Travis Barker. Later that year, another track with Barker helped push Yungblud higher up the U.S. rock chart, this time with rapper Machine Gun Kelly on the raucous "I Think I'm Okay." Primed by these chart placements, he scored his first spot on the Billboard 200 at the end of the year with his third EP, The Underrated Youth, which included his third Top Ten single on the Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, "Original Me," featuring Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds. Rounding out 2019, Yungblud teamed with Marshmello and Blackbear on "Tongue Tied."
At the start of the next decade, he began a fresh blitz with the ecstatic pop of "Weird!" He later issued collaborations with rapper Denzel Curry ("Lemonade") and fellow Englishmen Bring Me the Horizon ("Obey"). Yungblud closed 2020 with the release of his official sophomore effort, Weird!, which topped the U.K. albums chart. He returned in 2021 with a stirring live cover of David Bowie's "Life on Mars," which was used as the soundtrack to NASA's livestream following the Perseverance Mars rover's touchdown. He started off 2022 with the fiery pop-punk single "The Funeral," following it up with "Memories," an angsty collaboration with U.S. pop star Willow. Yungblud's eponymously titled third album arrived later that year.- Janet Dale was born in 1942 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Vanity Fair (1998), Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and The Vet (1995). She died in 2023.
- Steve Jackson was born in 1970 in Doncaster, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Cops (1998), A Thing Called Love (2004) and Ackley Bridge (2017).
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Sandra Exelby was born in 1943 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. She is known for Lifeforce (1985), Cao Nguyên (1986) and Without a Clue (1988). She has been married to Christopher Tidmarsh since 1974.- Margo Gunn was born on 8 February 1956 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000), Band of Gold (1995) and Look and Read (1967).
- Brian Roper was born on 19 August 1929 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Secret Garden (1949), Adventures in Paradise (1959) and The Secret Garden (1952). He was married to Michelle Bisserier and Barbara L. Eaton. He died on 14 May 1994 in Livermore, California, USA.
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Mark Drewry was born on 29 April 1955 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), About a Boy (2002) and Fortunes of War (1987). He died on 19 October 2004 in London, England, UK.