DANIEL DAY-LEWIS (Danny), from his earliest roles, impressed audiences
and critics alike, moving easily from a flamboyant punk-rocker in My Beautiful
Laundrette to a delightfully foppish Victorian suitor in Merchant/Ivory's
A Room With A View. Together, these performances earned him 1986's New York
Film Critic's Award for Best Supporting Actor. Before creating these memorable
screen characters, he had supporting roles in both Gandhi and The Bounty.
He made his film debut in 1971 with an uncredited role as a child vandal
in John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Though Day-Lewis has continued to turn in one highly-praised performance
after another, it was his role as writer, artist and cerebral-palsy sufferer
"Christy Brown" in My Left Foot for director Jim Sheridan which
won him an Academy Award® for Best Actor. He received his second Oscar®
nomination for In The Name Of The Father, his second collaboration with
Sheridan-the true story of a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. His other
wide-ranging roles include the aristocratic "Newland Archer" in
Martin Scorsese's The Age Of Innocence and the early American adventurer
"Hawkeye" in The Last Of The Mohicans.
Day-Lewis ' additional film credits include Philip Kaufman's film version
of The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, in which he won praise for his memorable
lead role, and Arthur Miller's TheCrucible, in which he portrayed the repressed
Puritan "John Proctor" opposite Winona Rider.
In theater, Day-Lewis trained at the Bristol Old Vic School, then devoted
over a decade in the 1970's and early 1980's to acting with the Bristol
Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Company, turning in notable performances in
Another Country, Dracula and Futurists. In 1989, he successfully took on
the lead role in Richard Eyre's production of Hamlet at the National Theater.
EMILY WATSON (Maggie) burst on the motion picture screen last year
in Lars Von Trier's Breaking The Waves, giving a compelling portrayal of
obsessive love exalted by idealistic innocence. The performance won her
both the New York Film Critics Award and the European Film Awards' Felix
for Best Actress. She also garnered nominations for both a Golden Globe
and an Academy Award®.
Watson recently received more kudos for her radiant, evocative interpretation
of George Eliot's complex heroine "Maggie Tulliver" in the acclaimed
BBC Masterpiece Theater television production of The Mill On The Floss.
She will soon be seen opposite Christian Bale in Metroland. Her next role
is one that every actress in Hollywood was clamoring for: the part of legendary
cellist Jacqueline du Pre, whose career was cut short by the onslaught of
multiple sclerosis.
A veteran of the London stage, Watson's theatre credits include The Three
Sisters, The Children's Hour, The Taming Of The Shrew, All's Well That End's
Well and The Changeling. She has worked frequently with the Royal Shakespearean
Company and has also starred in the BBC's television production A Summer
Day's Dream.
BRIAN COX (Joe Hamill) has amassed an impressive list of stage acting
and directing credits. He has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company,
the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre, among others. He
has also directed productions at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, the Lyceum
Edinburgh and the Hampstead Theatre.
Cox has appeared in numerous television and screen projects, including Barbet
Schroeder's Desperate Measures, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Rob Roy, Braveheart
and The Glimmer Man. His credits for television include Red Dwarf, Picasso
and The Negotiator, all for BBC, as well as Sharpe's Rifles and Inspector
Morse.
KEN STOTT (Ike Weir), as one of Britain's leading thespians, is best
known to American audiences as the suspicious police investigator "Detective
McCall" opposite Ewan McGregor in Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave.
He has performed in repertory theatres throughout the United Kingdom, including
productions with the Plymouth, the Lyric and the Royal Court Theatres, as
well as the Royal Shakespeare Company. He won the 1995 Olivier Award for
Best Actor In A Supporting Role for his performance as "Dr. Harry Hyman"
in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass at the Royal National Theatre and then the
Duke of York Theatre.
In addition to his numerous stage performances, Stott has appeared in BBC
and BBC Scotland television productions, including episodes of The Singing
Detective, All Good Things, Your Cheatin' Heart and Takin' Over The Asylum.
Stott recently starred in the Academy Award®-winning short film, Franz
Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life. His feature films include Fever Pitch, Being
Human and Saint Ex.
GERARD McSORLEY (Harry) is an experienced stage, film and television
actor, whose most recent project is the feature film The Butcher Boy, Neil
Jordan's follow-up to Michael Collins. Other film credits include the Academy
Award® -winning Braveheart, An Awfully Big Adventure, Widow's Peak and
an earlier Jim Sheridan project, In The Name Of The Father.
On television, McSorely has appeared in both independent productions and
BBC programs ranging from The Hanging Gale to Who Bombed Birmingham?, and
from Act Of Betrayal to Easter 2016. His numerous theatre credits include
roles in Equus and A Doll's House as well as in The Abbey Theatre's productions
of The Crucible and Dancing at Lughnasa.
ELEANOR METHVEN (Patsy) is the founder of the Charabanc Theatre Co.
and has appeared on stage there and at London theaters in productions of
October Song, How Many Miles To Babylon, Drive On and Pentecost, among others.
Her extensive work on BBC Radio includes Blossom Before Essence and The
Quiet Heroes. She has had featured roles in the television productions of
The Life of Mary Ward and The Hen House, in the film The Disappearance of
Finbar, and is currently filming Falling for a Dancer for the BBC.
Fourteen-year-old CIARAN FITZGERALD (Liam) has already had numerous
prominent roles on stage, screen and television, including leads in Jim
Sheridan's Into the West, directed by Mike Newell, and in the BBC TV production
of All Things Bright and Beautiful. Other credits include the films Some
Mother's Son and Seeing Things, American and British television movies The
Informant and The Canterville Ghost, and plays ranging from Harold Pinter's
One for the Road to a production for the Bray Drama Festival. He is currently
shooting Jon Boorman's I Once had a Life.
KENNETH CRANHAM (Matt MaGuire), as bookie and fight arranger Matt
MaGuire, has worked extensively on the London stage at the Royal Court,
the National and other theatres. His recent credits include Cardiff East,
An Inspector Calls, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and both The Iceman Cometh
and Ivanov for the Royal Shakespeare Co. On television, he has appeared
in dozens of BBC and other British productions, including Inspector Morse,
Reilly and Lucasfilm UK's Young Indie. His films include On Dangerous Ground,
In the West, Under Suspicion, Prospero's Book, Dead Man's Folly and Oliver.
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