Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has said he would like to play Thomas in a movie of his life, which is due to start filming in February; it’s since been announced that British actor Tom Hardy is in talks for the role. Sort by: View: 40 names 1. 29 November … His winningly flamboyant and flirtatious designs have been worn by stars such as Joely Richardson, Shirley Bassey, Naomi Campbell and Beyonce Knowles. Susan Sarandon Glenn Ford Geraldine James Actor | Ngo si seoi Hong Kong's cheeky, lovable and best known film star, Jackie Chan endured many years of long, hard work and multiple injuries to establish international success after his start in Hong Kong's manic martial arts cinema industry. Following her several trips to entertain British troops in Iraq she was dubbed the new “forces’ sweetheart”.
The other movie wunderkind called Gareth (see Edwards, No.
But these days he’s also a familiar face on TV. Celebrity, if not ephemeral, is about the here and now, and who has the power to shift millions of tomorrow morning’s newspapers – tabloid, if at all possible.Celebrity is indeed a curious phenomenon. Jessica Alba She’s also the only artist to have recorded more than one Bond movie theme song – along with Goldfinger and Moonraker. Why, and where, did this curious phenomenon start? Welsh Actors and Actresses. And maybe that’s where part of our (sometimes morbid) fascination lies; we live the imagined life of fame through someone else just like ourselves, who’s happened upon a piece of luck, in the right place, at the right time.
No time for nostalgia, unless of course, an oldie is still a goldie, working with and influencing the newer breed – as with our No. We’ve been spoilt with too many chances, to become something, or someone, that others coo and cheer at, without necessarily deserving it.
10 November 1989. Pages in category "Welsh male film actors" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 total.
That full version of Nessun Dorma he sang in Cardiff that day was inevitably condensed into bite-sized portions for today’s short-attention span audience by the time he made it to the TV recording; and there’s the rub about fame and fortune, at any price. Maybe our relationship with old-school celebrity changed the day the Princess of Wales died.
However, he and his team did win a BAFTA for their coverage of last year’s Royal Wedding. Myrna Loy
Alan Rickman 10 November 1925. We're counting down from number 50 through to 41.... so in at No 50 is: Lewis first made his mark nearer home in British TV dramas Colditz and The Forsyth Saga. Arguably our finest senior stage actor (since Anthony Hopkins emigrated to Hollywood), Pryce recently achieved the pinnacle of his brilliant career by playing King Lear to rapturous reviews. They duly flopped, while Jones has gone on to enjoy fame and fortune as the perky hostess of If nothing else, Swansea-born Stephen Russell Davies better known by his pen name Russell T., will forever be remembered as the man who revived Doctor Who, bringing it back to BBC1’s screens after a 16-year hiatus, and taking it to new levels of popularity and cult-dom.
Notable movie roles include his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Rupert Murdoch-inspired Bond villain in Tomorrow Never Dies, and Pirates of the Caribbean. One can only hope that lessons have been learnt, and today’s Royals – arguably the most prominent celebrities of all – have a safer relationship with the paparazzi who trace their every move.Yesterday’s mega-celebrity – Richard Burton, if you will – was untouchable and mysterious; we marvelled from afar, for example, at his ostentatious, diamonds-no-object romance with Elizabeth Taylor.
With an accompanying album, natch.The former triple world-champion and Olympic silver medal-winning sprint and hurdle athlete has latterly found himself a comfortable niche as a sports commentator, no more so than during this summer’s Olympics athletics events. See him in One minute he’s Kevin Walker, the angsty gay son of hit US drama Brothers and Sisters, the next he’s a young Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love. His most recent appearance on British TV was at the Classical Brits, reflecting his other passion in life; earlier this year saw the Once upon a time, Mr Brydon’s biggest claim to fame was as the voice of Toilet Duck in a TV commercial. Proof positive that the ex-Porthcawl Comprehensive student (he first met Ruth Jones there) is now at the absolute top of his game; if you need further proof, just catch his scintillating performance as failed actor turned solicitor Dafydd ap Llewellyn, repeatedly launching into Ar Hyd a Nos, in the smash-hit West End revival of Alan Aykbourn’s A Chorus of Disapproval. Of Welsh parentage: In 2014, Robin Williams committed suicide by hanging at the age of 63. It’s all a long way from those no-budget monologues as sad, cuckolded chauffeur Keith Barrett in BBC2’s black comedy gems Marion and Geoff. He’s toured extensively ever since. Tiffani Thiessen 30) – Edwards crashed into the celluloid stratosphere with his extraordinary, tiny-budgeted 2010 debut feature Monsters, which he wrote, directed, and supplied the visual effects for, most of them from his bedroom computer. Potts’ millions of fans probably have no idea who even wrote Nessun Dorma, let alone what its words mean, or that it’s actually been around a bit longer than the 1990 World Cup, when Luciano Pavarotti’s rendition of the song reached No.