Jeannette Charles, an actress whose uncanny resemblance to Queen Elizabeth II launched a movie career that included scene-stealing moments in National Lampoon’s European Vacation, The Naked Gun, and Austin Powers sequel Goldmember, died June 2 at a care home in Great Beddow in Essex, England. She was 96.
Her death was announced by daughter Carol Christophi to UK publications The Mirror and The Standard. “Mum was a real character and a force of nature,” Christophi said in a statement. “She had an amazing life.” In an interview with UK radio station Lbc, Christophi said, “She was always respectful of the Queen and adored the Royal Family. We will miss her dearly.”
In a 2022 essay for The Guardian, Charles explained how she began her career as a lookalike. “Before I had children,” she wrote, “I’d worked as an au pair and a typist, but I’d always wanted to act. I’d been in amateur productions,...
Her death was announced by daughter Carol Christophi to UK publications The Mirror and The Standard. “Mum was a real character and a force of nature,” Christophi said in a statement. “She had an amazing life.” In an interview with UK radio station Lbc, Christophi said, “She was always respectful of the Queen and adored the Royal Family. We will miss her dearly.”
In a 2022 essay for The Guardian, Charles explained how she began her career as a lookalike. “Before I had children,” she wrote, “I’d worked as an au pair and a typist, but I’d always wanted to act. I’d been in amateur productions,...
- 6/5/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Im polnischen Pasym finden derzeit die Dreharbeiten zu zwei weiteren Filmen der Ard-„Masuren-Krimi“-Reihe statt.
Am Set des „Masuren-Krimi“ (v.l.n.r.): Kamerafrau Eeva Fleig, die Darsteller Peter Schneider und Katharina Schüttler, Regisseur Nicolai Rohde sowie die Hauptdarsteller Claudia Eisinger und Sebastian Hülk (Credit: Ard Degeto / Darek Minkiewicz)
Im polnischen Pasym inszeniert Nicolai Rohde nach Drehbüchern von Nadine Schweigardt – beim Drehbuch zum „Masuren-Krimi: Liebestod“ (At) fungierte Olaf Kraemer als Ko-Autor – derzeit zwei neue Filme aus der Ard-Reihe „Masuren-Krimi“. In den Hauptrollen der Kriminaltechnikerin Viktoria Wex und des Dorfpolizisten Leon Pawlak stehen erneut Claudia Eisinger und Sebastian Hülk vor der Kamera, die Eeva Fleig führt.
Im „Masuren-Krimi: Liebestod“ (At) wird die Leiche des jungen Mädchens Rada (Weronika Skwaroń) am Morgen ihres 18. Geburtstags rituell inszeniert in einem weißen Kleid in einem Birkenhain aufgefunden. Das Mädchen war in der Nacht zuvor aus ihrem Zuhause, wo sie und ihre Schwester...
Am Set des „Masuren-Krimi“ (v.l.n.r.): Kamerafrau Eeva Fleig, die Darsteller Peter Schneider und Katharina Schüttler, Regisseur Nicolai Rohde sowie die Hauptdarsteller Claudia Eisinger und Sebastian Hülk (Credit: Ard Degeto / Darek Minkiewicz)
Im polnischen Pasym inszeniert Nicolai Rohde nach Drehbüchern von Nadine Schweigardt – beim Drehbuch zum „Masuren-Krimi: Liebestod“ (At) fungierte Olaf Kraemer als Ko-Autor – derzeit zwei neue Filme aus der Ard-Reihe „Masuren-Krimi“. In den Hauptrollen der Kriminaltechnikerin Viktoria Wex und des Dorfpolizisten Leon Pawlak stehen erneut Claudia Eisinger und Sebastian Hülk vor der Kamera, die Eeva Fleig führt.
Im „Masuren-Krimi: Liebestod“ (At) wird die Leiche des jungen Mädchens Rada (Weronika Skwaroń) am Morgen ihres 18. Geburtstags rituell inszeniert in einem weißen Kleid in einem Birkenhain aufgefunden. Das Mädchen war in der Nacht zuvor aus ihrem Zuhause, wo sie und ihre Schwester...
- 5/27/2024
- by Jochen Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada
He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school
This is the first time David Harewood has stepped through the doors of Rada’s London headquarters since he became its president in mid-February, and he’s immediately struck by flashbacks of his time as a student here. “Stunning memories,” he says. “Memories of my audition, the paintings … and that staircase will always be memorable because you walk in and go: ‘Oh my God, I’m at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art!’ It’s very evocative.”
Harewood, 58, is the first person of colour to lead Rada, and he follows in the footsteps of such luminaries as Kenneth Branagh, Richard Attenborough, Princess Diana and John Gielgud. It is the most prestigious of acting schools – some would say the...
This is the first time David Harewood has stepped through the doors of Rada’s London headquarters since he became its president in mid-February, and he’s immediately struck by flashbacks of his time as a student here. “Stunning memories,” he says. “Memories of my audition, the paintings … and that staircase will always be memorable because you walk in and go: ‘Oh my God, I’m at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art!’ It’s very evocative.”
Harewood, 58, is the first person of colour to lead Rada, and he follows in the footsteps of such luminaries as Kenneth Branagh, Richard Attenborough, Princess Diana and John Gielgud. It is the most prestigious of acting schools – some would say the...
- 4/23/2024
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Johnny Depp is being accused of berating a supporting actor on the set of his 2001 movie Blow.
Lola Glaudini had the small of Rada in the movie and she’s opening up about her on-set experience, over 20 years later.
The comments were made on an episode of the Powerful Truth Angels podcast earlier this year, but are first going viral online right now. Johnny‘s team has already responded to the allegations.
Keep reading to find out more…
Lola claims that she was instructed by director Ted Demme to “burst out laughing” after Johnny said one of his lines, but she says the actor berated her for doing so.
She said, “[Depp] says his monologue. I hear the cue, and I go haha, I do a big laugh or whatever. Johnny Depp, when they say cut, walks over to me, comes up to me, sticks his finger in my face and he goes,...
Lola Glaudini had the small of Rada in the movie and she’s opening up about her on-set experience, over 20 years later.
The comments were made on an episode of the Powerful Truth Angels podcast earlier this year, but are first going viral online right now. Johnny‘s team has already responded to the allegations.
Keep reading to find out more…
Lola claims that she was instructed by director Ted Demme to “burst out laughing” after Johnny said one of his lines, but she says the actor berated her for doing so.
She said, “[Depp] says his monologue. I hear the cue, and I go haha, I do a big laugh or whatever. Johnny Depp, when they say cut, walks over to me, comes up to me, sticks his finger in my face and he goes,...
- 3/20/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
A man of many parts, from starring in Deadwood and Sexy Beast to MCing for Grace Jones, the artist also still known as Lovejoy is here to tell all
With a new film on the way, now is a good time to reflect on all things Ian McShane. He trained with Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt at Rada (living with the latter) and both McShane and Hurt’s first film was 1962 British romantic drama The Wild and the Willing.
Other career highlights on the big screen include a role as a bisexual drug dealer opposite Richard Burton in the classic 1971 crime drama Villain, crimelord Teddy Bass in 2000’s Sexy Beast with Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley, Captain Hook in 2007’s Shrek the Third, Blackbeard in 2011’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and has starred with Keanu Reeves in all four John Wick films.
With a new film on the way, now is a good time to reflect on all things Ian McShane. He trained with Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt at Rada (living with the latter) and both McShane and Hurt’s first film was 1962 British romantic drama The Wild and the Willing.
Other career highlights on the big screen include a role as a bisexual drug dealer opposite Richard Burton in the classic 1971 crime drama Villain, crimelord Teddy Bass in 2000’s Sexy Beast with Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley, Captain Hook in 2007’s Shrek the Third, Blackbeard in 2011’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and has starred with Keanu Reeves in all four John Wick films.
- 2/16/2024
- by Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
Ahead of his upcoming film, The Undertaker, the former Time Lord answers your questions about Doctor Who, Withnail, and being competitive with his actor brothers
I played Proculeius in the school production of Anthony and Cleopatra where you played the lead. Clearly you’ve had more success as a thesp than me! What can you remember about it and our English teacher Joe Hartley? caseball
I can still smell the Tanfastic – the 70s fake stuff we’d smother ourselves in so we looked like Romans. I remember the excitement of having real girls over from Broughton Hall [Catholic high school, in Liverpool] to play the queen and women. Joe Hartley – his patience must have been saint-like. His love for poetry was infectious. I’d never heard of Rada until he mentioned it. I can remember him saying that Glenda Jackson went there and being really impressed, because Glenda was the Queen of England and also one of our own.
I played Proculeius in the school production of Anthony and Cleopatra where you played the lead. Clearly you’ve had more success as a thesp than me! What can you remember about it and our English teacher Joe Hartley? caseball
I can still smell the Tanfastic – the 70s fake stuff we’d smother ourselves in so we looked like Romans. I remember the excitement of having real girls over from Broughton Hall [Catholic high school, in Liverpool] to play the queen and women. Joe Hartley – his patience must have been saint-like. His love for poetry was infectious. I’d never heard of Rada until he mentioned it. I can remember him saying that Glenda Jackson went there and being really impressed, because Glenda was the Queen of England and also one of our own.
- 10/12/2023
- by As told to Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
As the actor stars in a new thriller, here’s your chance to ask him about Withnail, Doctor Who and Lesbian Vampire Killers
It’s funny how life works out. Liverpool-born actor Paul McGann had left school and was working in a shoe shop when he bumped into his old schoolteacher, Joe Hartley, who had given him the lead role in a school production of Antony and Cleopatra. Feeling McGann was wasting his talents fitting shoes, Hartley suggested he apply to Rada – which lead to a part in the snooker drama Give Us a Break opposite Robert Lindsay, then the lead role in Alan Bleasdale’s controversial first world war drama The Monocled Mutineer.
The rest is history. McGann went on to star as Marwood, the eponymous I to Richard E Grant’s Withnail in 1987 and then was cast as the eighth Doctor in the 1996 TV film, Doctor Who (the...
It’s funny how life works out. Liverpool-born actor Paul McGann had left school and was working in a shoe shop when he bumped into his old schoolteacher, Joe Hartley, who had given him the lead role in a school production of Antony and Cleopatra. Feeling McGann was wasting his talents fitting shoes, Hartley suggested he apply to Rada – which lead to a part in the snooker drama Give Us a Break opposite Robert Lindsay, then the lead role in Alan Bleasdale’s controversial first world war drama The Monocled Mutineer.
The rest is history. McGann went on to star as Marwood, the eponymous I to Richard E Grant’s Withnail in 1987 and then was cast as the eighth Doctor in the 1996 TV film, Doctor Who (the...
- 10/6/2023
- by Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
Daisy May Cooper has fiercely condemned one of London’s most famous theatre schools, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada).
The creator and star ofThis Country and Am I Being Unreasonable? trained at the institution in the mid-2000s.
“I’ve not known bullying like what I experienced in that school, in any f***ing workplace,” she told the Evening Standard in a new interview.
“I don’t think that I realised that it was real bullying until I started talking to other people from my year, or other people that went… That [kind of] bullying does not need to exist anywhere.
“It’s not like, ‘We’re trying to shape you into the best people that you could be, so we’ve got to be mean.’ That’s not going to get the best out of people, that’s going to leave [them] with scars that they can never fix.”
She...
The creator and star ofThis Country and Am I Being Unreasonable? trained at the institution in the mid-2000s.
“I’ve not known bullying like what I experienced in that school, in any f***ing workplace,” she told the Evening Standard in a new interview.
“I don’t think that I realised that it was real bullying until I started talking to other people from my year, or other people that went… That [kind of] bullying does not need to exist anywhere.
“It’s not like, ‘We’re trying to shape you into the best people that you could be, so we’ve got to be mean.’ That’s not going to get the best out of people, that’s going to leave [them] with scars that they can never fix.”
She...
- 3/30/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
It’s time to get our guessing on, as The Masked Singer is back for another season.
Thirteen mystery celebrities have signed up to sing in wild and wonderful disguises, while the audience try to figure out who’s behind the mask.
Like the previous seasons, Joel Dommett takes on presenting duties, while Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, Rita Ora and Jonathan Ross make up the judging panel.
In the season’s opening episode (Sunday 1 January), Chris Kamara was revealed to be behind the Ghost costume and was the first eliminee.
Meanwhile, contestants Otter, Jellyfish, Cat and Mouse, Phoenix and Knitting progressed to the next stage of the competition.
Since they’ve already given one performance, these characters have provided the judges and viewers with the first hints as to who they really are. But who is Otter?
Who is Otter?
In the video clue package, Otter spoke to the audience from a swimming pool,...
Thirteen mystery celebrities have signed up to sing in wild and wonderful disguises, while the audience try to figure out who’s behind the mask.
Like the previous seasons, Joel Dommett takes on presenting duties, while Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, Rita Ora and Jonathan Ross make up the judging panel.
In the season’s opening episode (Sunday 1 January), Chris Kamara was revealed to be behind the Ghost costume and was the first eliminee.
Meanwhile, contestants Otter, Jellyfish, Cat and Mouse, Phoenix and Knitting progressed to the next stage of the competition.
Since they’ve already given one performance, these characters have provided the judges and viewers with the first hints as to who they really are. But who is Otter?
Who is Otter?
In the video clue package, Otter spoke to the audience from a swimming pool,...
- 1/21/2023
- by Nicole Vassell
- The Independent - TV
It’s time to get our guessing on, as The Masked Singer is back for another season.
Thirteen mystery celebrities have signed up to sing in wild and wonderful disguises, while the audience try to figure out who’s behind the mask.
Like the previous seasons, Joel Dommett takes on presenting duties, while Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, Rita Ora and Jonathan Ross make up the judging panel.
In the season’s opening episode (Sunday 1 January), Chris Kamara was revealed to be behind the Ghost costume and was the first eliminee.
Meanwhile, contestants Otter, Jellyfish, Cat and Mouse, Phoenix and Knitting progressed to the next stage of the competition.
Since they’ve already given one performance, these characters have provided the judges and viewers with the first hints as to who they really are. But who is Otter?
Who is Otter?
In the video clue package, Otter spoke to the audience from a swimming pool,...
Thirteen mystery celebrities have signed up to sing in wild and wonderful disguises, while the audience try to figure out who’s behind the mask.
Like the previous seasons, Joel Dommett takes on presenting duties, while Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, Rita Ora and Jonathan Ross make up the judging panel.
In the season’s opening episode (Sunday 1 January), Chris Kamara was revealed to be behind the Ghost costume and was the first eliminee.
Meanwhile, contestants Otter, Jellyfish, Cat and Mouse, Phoenix and Knitting progressed to the next stage of the competition.
Since they’ve already given one performance, these characters have provided the judges and viewers with the first hints as to who they really are. But who is Otter?
Who is Otter?
In the video clue package, Otter spoke to the audience from a swimming pool,...
- 1/14/2023
- by Nicole Vassell
- The Independent - TV
It’s time to get our guessing on, as The Masked Singer is back for another season.
Thirteen mystery celebrities have signed up to sing in wild and wonderful disguises, while the audience try to figure out who’s behind the mask.
Like the previous seasons, Joel Dommett takes on presenting duties, while Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, Rita Ora and Jonathan Ross make up the judging panel.
In the season’s opening episode (Sunday 1 January), Chris Kamara was revealed to be behind the Ghost costume and was the first eliminee.
Meanwhile, contestants Otter, Jellyfish, Cat and Mouse, Phoenix and Knitting progressed to the next stage of the competition.
Since they’ve already given one performance, these characters have provided the judges and viewers with the first hints as to who they really are. But who is Otter?
Who is Otter?
In the video clue package, Otter spoke to the audience from a swimming pool,...
Thirteen mystery celebrities have signed up to sing in wild and wonderful disguises, while the audience try to figure out who’s behind the mask.
Like the previous seasons, Joel Dommett takes on presenting duties, while Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, Rita Ora and Jonathan Ross make up the judging panel.
In the season’s opening episode (Sunday 1 January), Chris Kamara was revealed to be behind the Ghost costume and was the first eliminee.
Meanwhile, contestants Otter, Jellyfish, Cat and Mouse, Phoenix and Knitting progressed to the next stage of the competition.
Since they’ve already given one performance, these characters have provided the judges and viewers with the first hints as to who they really are. But who is Otter?
Who is Otter?
In the video clue package, Otter spoke to the audience from a swimming pool,...
- 1/3/2023
- by Nicole Vassell
- The Independent - TV
Ahead of the release of The Railway Children Return, here’s your chance to ask the legendary actor about his extraordinary career. Leave your questions in the comments – all aboard!
Along with Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, Tom Courtenay is a living link to British cinema’s 1960s glory years, when his performances in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Billy Liar were key to the success of the British new wave. Courtenay is also a master of the theatre, having originated the title role of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests in 1974, and another Norman, in The Dresser in 1980, which he reprised in the successful film adaptation a few years later which nabbed him an Oscar nomination.
More recently, the Rada-trained actor won awards opposite Charlotte Rampling in the wintry marriage drama 45 Years; reimagined Clive Dunn’s Lance Corporal Jones for the 2016 cinematic update of Dad’s Army...
Along with Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, Tom Courtenay is a living link to British cinema’s 1960s glory years, when his performances in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Billy Liar were key to the success of the British new wave. Courtenay is also a master of the theatre, having originated the title role of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests in 1974, and another Norman, in The Dresser in 1980, which he reprised in the successful film adaptation a few years later which nabbed him an Oscar nomination.
More recently, the Rada-trained actor won awards opposite Charlotte Rampling in the wintry marriage drama 45 Years; reimagined Clive Dunn’s Lance Corporal Jones for the 2016 cinematic update of Dad’s Army...
- 6/30/2022
- by Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
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