Helena Bonham

Born    : 26 May 1966 (1966-05-26) (age 44)
             Golders Green, London, England, UK
Other names : Helena Bonham-Carter
Occupation : Actress, voice actress, singer
Years active : 1983–present
Parents : Raymond Bonham Carter (deceased)
              Elena (née Propper de Callejón)

Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. Bonham Carter made her film debut in the K. M. Peyton film, A Pattern of Roses, before appearing in her first leading role in Lady Jane. She is known for her portrayals of Lucy Honeychurch in the film A Room with a View, Marla Singer in the film Fight Club, Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter film series, her BAFTA-nominated performance as Enid Blyton in Enid, her Golden Globe-nominated performance as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, as well as her other collaborations with Tim Burton, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2001. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her roles as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove and as Queen Elizabeth in the 2010 film The King's Speech, along with winning a BAFTA in 2011 for The King's Speech.
 

Filmography (66 titles)
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (post-production)
Bellatrix Lestrange
2010 Toast
Mrs. Potter
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Bellatrix Lestrange
2010 The King's Speech
Queen Elizabeth
2010 Alice in Wonderland
Red Queen
2009 The Gruffalo (TV short)
Mother Squirrel (voice)
2009 Enid (TV movie)
Enid Blyton
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Bellatrix Lestrange
2009 Terminator Salvation
Dr. Serena Kogan
2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mrs. Lovett
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Bellatrix Lestrange
2006 Sixty Six
Esther Rubens
2005 Magnificent 7 (TV movie)
Maggi Jackson
2005 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Video Game)
Lady Tottington (voice)
2005 Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride (voice)
2005 Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
2005 Conversations with Other Women
Woman
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mrs. Bucket
2003 Big Fish
Jenny - Young / Jenny - Senior / The Witch
2003 Henry VIII (TV movie)
Anne Boleyn
2002 Live from Baghdad (TV movie)
Ingrid Formanek
2002 Till Human Voices Wake Us
Ruby
2002 The Heart of Me
Dinah
2001 Novocaine
Susan
2001 Planet of the Apes
Ari
2001 Football (short)
Mum (as Helena Bonham-Carter)
2000 Carnivale
Milly (voice)
1999 The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (TV movie)
Lily
1999 Women Talking Dirty
Cora
1999 Fight Club
Marla Singer
1998 The Theory of Flight
Jane Hatchard
1998 The Revengers' Comedies
Karen Knightly
1998 Merlin (TV mini-series)
Morgan Le Fey
1997 A Merry War
Rosemary
1997 The Wings of the Dove
Kate Croy
1997 The Petticoat Expeditions
Narrator
1996 The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (TV series)
Vera Brittain
– Explosion (1996) … Vera Brittain (voice)
– Slaughter (1996) … Vera Brittain (voice)
1996 Humanoids from the Deep (TV movie)
Lead female (uncredited)
1996 Portraits chinois
Ada
1996 Twelfth Night
Olivia
1995 Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995 Margaret's Museum
Margaret MacNeil
1995 Mighty Aphrodite
Amanda
1994 Frankenstein
Elizabeth
1994 Absolutely Fabulous (TV series)
Dream Saffron
– Hospital (1994) … Dream Saffron
1994 Butter (TV short)
Dorothy
1994 A Dark Adapted Eye (TV movie)
Faith Severn (adult)
1993 Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (TV movie)
Marina Oswald
1993 Dancing Queen (TV movie)
Pandora/Julie (as Helena Bonham-Carter)
1992 Howards End
Helen Schlegel
1991 Brown Bear's Wedding (TV movie)
White Bear (voice) (as Helena Bonham-Carter)
1991 Where Angels Fear to Tread
Caroline Abbott
1991 Jackanory (TV series)
Reader
– The Way to Sattin Shore: Part 5 (1991) … Reader
– The Way to Sattin Shore: Part 4 (1991) … Reader
– The Way to Sattin Shore: Part 3 (1991) … Reader
– The Way to Sattin Shore: Part 2 (1991) … Reader
– The Way to Sattin Shore: Part 1 (1991) … Reader
1990 Hamlet
Ophelia
1989 Getting It Right
Lady Minerva Munday
1989 Theatre Night (TV series)
Raina Petkoff
– Arms and the Man (1989) … Raina Petkoff
1989 Francesco
Chiara
1988 Six Minutes with Ludwig (short)
The Star
1988 La maschera
Iris
1987 A Hazard of Hearts (TV movie)
Serena Staverley
1987 Screen Two (TV series)
Jo Marriner
– The Vision (1987) … Jo Marriner
1987 Maurice
Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
1987 Miami Vice (TV series)
Dr. Theresa Lyons
– Theresa (1987) … Dr. Theresa Lyons
– The Savage (1987) … Dr. Theresa Lyons
1986 Lady Jane
Lady Jane Grey
1985 A Room with a View
Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge (as Helena Bonham-Carter)
1983 A Pattern of Roses (TV movie)
Netty, The Past (introducing)

Geoffrey Rush

Born  :Geoffrey Roy Rush
          6 July 1951 (1951-07-06) (age 59)
          Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Occupation : Actor
Years active : 1981–present

Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor and film producer. As of November 2009, he is one of 25 people to have won the "Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award. As well as being nominated for 4 Academy Awards for acting (winning 1) and 5 BAFTA Awards (winning 3) he has also won 2 Golden Globe, and 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Rush was born in Toowoomba, Australia, the son of Merle (née Kiehne), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His parents divorced when he was five and his mother subsequently took him to live with her parents in suburban Brisbane. Before he began his acting career, Rush attended Everton Park State High School. He also has an arts degree from the University of Queensland. While at university, he was talent-spotted by Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) in Brisbane. Rush began his career in with QTC in 1971, appearing in 17 productions.

In 1975, Rush went to Paris for two years and studied mime, movement and theatre at the famous L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, before returning to Australia to resume his stage career with QTC. In 1979, he shared an apartment with actor Mel Gibson for four months while they co-starred in a stage production of Waiting for Godot.

From November 2011, Rush will play the role of Lady Bracknell in Melbourne Theatre Company's production of The Importance of Being Earnest. The production is a reworking of the hugely popular 1988 production in which Rush also appeared, playing the character Jack Worthing. Jane Menelaus will also appear in the remake as Miss Prism, having played Gwendolyn Fairfax in the 1988 production.


Film career

Rush's film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. His next film was Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck, the following year. In 1996, he starred in Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Australian-born actor to win an Oscar.

In 1998, he appeared in three major films: Les Misérables, in which he played Inspector Javert; Elizabeth, in which he played the suspicious Sir Francis Walsingham, for which he won a BAFTA Award; and Shakespeare in Love in which he played Philip Henslowe, the acting company manager who remained calm in the midst of chaos (Rush received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor).

In 1999, Rush took the lead role as Steven Price in the horror film House on Haunted Hill. In 2000, he received his third Academy Award nomination, for Quills, in which he played the Marquis de Sade.
Rush at the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, May 2007

Rush's career continued at a fast pace, with nine films released from 2001 through 2003. He starred in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, as Captain Hector Barbossa, also appearing in its sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Rush reprised his character's voice for the enhancements at the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom theme parks, which involved an Audio-Animatronic with Rush's likeness being installed (including one at Tokyo Disneyland).[citation needed] He also voiced Nigel the pelican in Finding Nemo.

Rush played actor Peter Sellers in the television film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. For this performance, he won an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Mini-series or Movie, a SAG Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture made for Television. In 2005, he starred in Steven Spielberg's film Munich as Ephraim, a cold Mossad officer.

In 2006, Rush hosted the Australian Film Institute Awards for the Nine Network. He was the Master of Ceremonies again at the 2007 AFI Awards.

In 2010, Rush played Speech Therapist Lionel Logue in The King's Speech, a part that got him Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.

Rush has confirmed that he is returning as Captain Hector Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp, who has signed on to return as Captain Jack Sparrow. The probable story will be them going to find the fountain of youth, a story revealed at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Rush is also preparing for a film version of The Drowsy Chaperone, an award-winning stage musical, in which he'll be portraying The Man in the Chair.

In the beginning of 2009, Rush appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps featuring some of Australia's internationally recognised actors. He, Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series, in a contemporary portrait, and as one of their notable characters. Rush's film image is taken from Shine.

Filmography (48 titles)
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (post-production)
Barbossa
2011 The Eye of the Storm (post-production)
Basil Hunter
2010 The Warrior's Way
Ron
2010 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Ezylryb (voice)
2010 The King's Speech
Lionel Logue
2010 Lowdown (TV series)
Narrator / God
2009 Bran Nue Dae
Father Benedictus
2008 $9.99
Angel
2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Sir Francis Walsingham
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Captain Hector Barbossa
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Captain Hector Barbossa (uncredited)
2006 Candy
Casper
2005 Munich
Ephraim
2004 Kath & Kim (TV series)
Geoff
– Sitting on a Pile (2004) … Geoff
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
2003 Harvie Krumpet (short)
Narrator (voice)
2003 Intolerable Cruelty
Donovan Donaly
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Barbossa
2003 Finding Nemo
Nigel (voice)
2003 Ned Kelly
Superintendent Francis Hare
2003 Swimming Upstream
Harold Fingleton
2002 The Banger Sisters
Harry Plummer
2002 Frida
Leon Trotsky
2001 Lantana
John Knox
2001 The Tailor of Panama
Harold 'Harry' Pendel
2000 The Magic Pudding
Bunyip Bluegum (voice)
2000 Quills
The Marquis de Sade
1999 House on Haunted Hill
Stephen H. Price
1999 Mystery Men
Casanova Frankenstein
1998 Shakespeare in Love
Philip Henslowe
1998 Elizabeth
Sir Francis Walsingham
1998 Les Misérables
Javert
1998 A Little Bit of Soul
Godfrey Usher
1997 Oscar and Lucinda
Narrator (voice)
1997 Frontier (TV mini-series)
Soldier Administrator David Collins
1996 Mercury (TV series)
Bill Wyatt
1996 Children of the Revolution
Welch
1996 Shine
David Helfgott - Adult
1996 Twisted Tales (TV series)
Harry Chisholm
– Bonus Mileage (1996) … Harry Chisholm
1996 Call Me Sal (short)
Wal
1995 Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
Dave Rudd
1994 Midday Crisis (short) (uncredited)
1987 Twelfth Night
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1982 Starstruck
Floor Manager
1981 Hoodwink
Detective 1
1981 Menotti (TV series)
1981 The Added Dimension
Man (as Geoff Rush)
1981 The Added Dimension
Man (as Geoff Rush)

Colin Firth

Born:Colin Andrew Firth
September 10, 1960 in Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK

Firth was born in Grayshott, Hampshire, England, son of Shirley Jean and David Norman Lewis Firth. Firth has a sibling named Kate and Jonathan, which today they also work just as Firth.

The name "Firth" is taken from the Old English word collenferhð means "pride". Firth lives in St. Louis, Missouri, USA when he was 11 years old. Subsequently he was the school in Montgomery of Alamein Secondary School, a comprehensive school in Winchester, Hampshire. Then he went to Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh, Hampshire. While acting lessons he could at Drama Centre in North London.

Movie career

In 1983, Firth starred in his first film titled Another Country. Then in 1987 he appeared with Kenneth Branagh in the film is lifted from a novel by J. L. Carr called A Month in the Century. In 1989 he became a leading role in the film Valmont.

Firth entered as a supporting role in The Home Patient (1996), and since then he has starred in several movies, including Fever Pitch (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002 ), Love Actually (2003), What a Girl Wants (2003) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). In addition to the big screen, Firth also starred in several TV series such as Quixote (1999) and Conspiracy (2001). In 2007, Firth, playing along with Aishwarya Rai in The Last Region.
Firth is a permanent member of the jury in Amateur Filmaka Short Film Contest.

Papers

Colin Firth turns out to have other hobbies in the middle of filming the movie, which is writing a novel. Firth's first novel written works are The Department of Nothing "is featured in Speaking with the Angel (2000). Posts Firth's work was later edited by Nick Hornby and published by the publishing company TreeHouse Trust. Proceeds from sales of novels this Firth donated to help children with autism. Hornby Firth met when he played in the movie Fever Pitch.









Filmography(67 Titles)
2011 The Promised Land (in production)
Robert Chambers
2012 Stoker (pre-production)
2012 Gambit (pre-production)
Harry Deane
2011 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (post-production)
2010 Main Street
Gus Leroy
2010 Steve (short)
Steve
2010 The King's Speech
King George VI
2009 St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
Geoffrey Thwaites
2009 A Christmas Carol
Fred
2009 A Single Man
George
2009 Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton
2008 Easy Virtue
Mr. Whittaker
2008 Summer in Genoa
Joe
2008 Mamma Mia!
Harry
2008 The Accidental Husband
Richard Bratton
2007 St. Trinian's
Geoffrey Thwaites
2007 Then She Found Me
Frank
2007 When Did You Last See Your Father?
Blake
2007 The Last Legion
Aurelius
2007 Celebration (TV movie)
Russell
2006 Born Equal (TV movie)
Mark
2005 Nanny McPhee
Cedric Brown
2005 Where the Truth Lies
Vince
2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Mark Darcy
2004 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Host
– Colin Firth/Norah Jones (2004) … Host
2004 I Trauma
Ben
2003 Love Actually
Jamie Bennett
2003 Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer
2003 What a Girl Wants
Henry Dashwood
2003 Hope Springs
Colin Ware
2002 The Importance of Being Earnest
John 'Jack' Worthing
2001 Fourplay
Allen Portland
2001 Conspiracy (TV movie)
Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart
2001 Bridget Jones's Diary
Mark Darcy
2000 Donovan Quick (TV movie)
Donovan Quick
2000 Relative Values
Peter Ingleton
1999 The Turn of the Screw (TV movie)
Master
1999 Blackadder Back & Forth (short)
William Shakespeare
1999 The Secret Laughter of Women
Matthew Field
1999 My Life So Far
Edward Pettigrew
1998 Shakespeare in Love
Lord Wessex
1997 A Thousand Acres
Jess Clark
1997 Fever Pitch
Paul Ashworth
1996 The English Patient
Geoffrey Clifton
1996 Nostromo (TV mini-series)
Charles Gould
1995 Pride and Prejudice (TV mini-series)
Mr. Darcy
1994-1995 Performance (TV series)
Charles Holroyd / Freddie Page
– The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1995) … Charles Holroyd
– The Deep Blue Sea (1994) … Freddie Page
1995 Circle of Friends
Simon Westward
1994 Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV series)
Stephen Whalby
– Master of the Moor: Part 3 (1994) … Stephen Whalby
– Master of the Moor: Part 2 (1994) … Stephen Whalby
– Master of the Moor: Part 1 (1994) … Stephen Whalby
1994 Playmaker
Ross Talbert/Michael Condren
1993 The Advocate Richard Courtois
1992 Hostages (TV movie)
John McCarthy
1992 Mad at the Moon
Barber (uncredited)
1991 The Play on One (TV series)
1991 Femme Fatale
Joseph Prince
1990 Wings of Fame
Brian Smith
1989 Valmont
Valmont
1988 Apartment Zero
Adrian LeDuc
1988 Tumbledown (TV movie)
Robert Lawrence
1984-1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV series)
Adult Colin Craven / Armand Duval
– The Secret Garden (1987) … Adult Colin Craven
– Camille (1984) … Armand Duval
1987 A Month in the Country
Tom Birkin
1987 Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius (TV movie)
Rene Wilcox
1986 Lost Empires (TV mini-series)
Richard Herncastle
1985 Nineteen Nineteen
Young Alexander
1985 Dutch Girls (TV movie)
Truelove
1984 Another Country
Tommy Judd
1984 Crown Court (TV series)
PC Franklin
– Citizens: Part 1 (1984) … PC Franklin

David Seidler

The oldest ever winner of a best original screenplay Oscar.

Filmography (19 Titles)
2010 The King's Speech (screenplay)
2008 Kung Fu Killer (TV movie)
2006 Son of the Dragon (TV mini-series) (teleplay)
2003 Soraya (TV movie) (teleplay / television story)
2000 By Dawn's Early Light (TV movie) (written by)
1999 Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story (TV movie) (written by)
1999 The King and I (writer)
1998 Quest for Camelot (screenplay)
1998 Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure (TV movie)
1997 Time to Say Goodbye? (written by)
1997 Lies He Told (TV movie) (story / teleplay)
1995 Dancing in the Dark (TV movie) (written by)
1993 Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica (TV movie) (written by)
1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream (writer)
1988 My Father, My Son (TV movie) (written by)
1988 Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (TV movie) (written by)
1985 Malice in Wonderland (TV movie)
1981 Another World (TV series)
– Episode #1.4336 (1981) (writer)
1965-1967 Adventures of the Seaspray (TV series)
– Battle of Copra Island (1967) (writer)
– Rain of Death (1967) (writer)
– Smuggled Cargo (1966) (writer)
– The Hunt (1966) (writer)
– The Power of Davu (1966) (writer)

Tom Hooper

Born           : Thomas George Hooper
                    1972 (age 38–39)
                     London, England
Nationality   : British, Australian
Occupation  : Film and television director
Years active : 1990–present

Thomas George "Tom" Hooper (born 1972)[1] is a Academy Award winning British film and television director of English and Australian heritage.[2][n 1] Hooper began making short films at the age of 13, and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders and Cold Feet.
Into the 2000s, Hooper directed the major BBC costume dramas Love in a Cold Climate (2001) and Daniel Deronda (2002), and was selected to helm the 2003 revival of ITV's Prime Suspect series, starring Helen Mirren. Hooper made his feature film debut with Red Dust (2004), a South African drama starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor, before directing Helen Mirren again in the Company Pictures/HBO Films historical drama Elizabeth I (2005). He continued working for HBO on the television film Longford (2006) and in John Adams (2007), a seven-part serial on the life of the American president. Hooper returned to features with The Damned United (2009), a fact-based film about the English football manager Brian Clough (played by Michael Sheen). The following year saw the release of the historical drama The King's Speech (2010), starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, which was met with critical acclaim.
Hooper's work was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Prime Suspect and John Adams, won one for Elizabeth I, and was nominated for the British Academy (BAFTA) TV Craft Award for Best Director for Longford. The King's Speech won multiple awards, including Best Director wins for Hooper from the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a Best Director nomination from BAFTA.

Filmography (14 titles)
2010 The King's Speech
2009 The Damned United
2008 John Adams (TV mini-series)
2006 Longford (TV movie)
2005 Elizabeth I (TV mini-series)
– Episode #1.2 (2005)
– Episode #1.1 (2005)
2004 Red Dust
2003 ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: Prime Suspect 6 (TV movie)
2002 Daniel Deronda (TV mini-series)
2001 Love in a Cold Climate (TV mini-series)
– Episode #1.2 (2001)
– Episode #1.1 (2001)
1999-2000 EastEnders (TV series)
– Episode dated 3 February 2000 (2000)
– Episode dated 5 September 1999 (1999)
1999 Cold Feet (TV series)
– Episode #2.2 (1999)
– Episode #2.1 (1999)
1998 EastEnders: The Mitchells - Naked Truths
1997 Byker Grove (TV series)
– Episode #9.20 (1997)
– Episode #9.19 (1997)
– Episode #9.18 (1997)
– Episode #9.17 (1997)
1992 Painted Faces (TV short)