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David Thewlis

Name: David Wheeler
DOB: March 20, 1963
Where: Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Occupation: actor, author, director, screenwriter
Years Active: 1987-present
Partner: Anna Friel(2001-2010, 1 child)

-English actor of stage and screen
-Most successful role to date was that of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter series
-Other roles include: Kingdom of Heaven(2005), James and the Giant Peach(1996)

Early Life
-2nd of 3 children born to Maureen Thewlis and Alec Raymond Wheeler. Both parents worked at his father's shop, which sold toys in summer, wallpaper and paint in winter
-Enrolled in Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Graduated in 1984. Wanted to use 'David Wheeler' as his stage name, but it was taken, so he used his mother's maiden name Thewlis instead

Career
-First acting role: play called Buddy Holly at the Regal
-Through the 1990s, he appeared in a variety of movies, mostly fantasy anf period, such as Restoration(1995), Black Beauty(1994), Dragonheart(1996), Seven Years in Tibet(1997)
-In the movie The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, he played an SS Commandant in the Nazi death camp.

Personal Life
-In 2001, began a relationship with actress Anna Friel. They have one daughter, Gracie Ellen May Friel.

Filmography

Jeremy Irons

Name: Jeremy John Irons
DOB: Sept. 19, 1948
Where: Cowes, Isle of Wight, England
Occupation: Actor
Years Active: 1971-present
Spouse: Julie Hallam(1969), Sinead Cusack(1978-present)

Die Hard with a Vengeance. Playing a terrorist named Simon Gruber

-English actor who received his training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre.
-Began his career in 1969
-His first film role was in the 1981 romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman. After that, he played in various roles, such as Moonlighting(1982), Betrayal(1983), The Mission(1986). He received alot of good attention by playing twin gynaecologists in Dead Ringers(1988)
-Also has appeared on TV. He currently stars on the HBO show The Borgias.

Early Life
-Born to Barbara Anne Brereton, a houswife, and Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant.
-Has a brother named Christopher and a sister named Felicity Anne.
-In school, played the drums, and was able to play "Stairway to Heaven" on harmonica.

Career
-Went on to the London stage playing John the Baptist and Judas alongside David Essex in Godspell
-In 2005, he appeared on the BBC show Who Do You Think You Are?
-On Jan. 12, 2011, Irons was a guest star on Law and Order:SVU, in an episode titled "Mask". On that episode, he played a sex therapist named Dr. Cap Jackson. He has said that that was the most fun he has ever had on TV. He apparently enjoys working on TV rather than film
-Played the Musketeer Aramis opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Man in the Iron Mask(1998)
-One of his better known roles was providing his voice for the character Scar in The Lion King(1994)

Law and Order:SVU

The Lion King

The Man in the Iron Mask

Eragon

Personal Life
-Married Irish actress Sinead Cusack in March 1978. They have 2 sons, Samuel James Brefni Irons, who works as a photographer and Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons, also an actor, who appeared in the 2006 Burberry fashion campaign.

Other things
-At the 1991 Tony Awards, Irons was one of the few celebs to wear the recently created red ribbon to support the fight against AIDS.

Filmography

IMDb
Trademark
-Haunting voice
-Aggressive, industrious work ethic

Trivia
-Had his motorcycle license suspended for 3 months after going 97 mph on his BMW motorcycle in England

Naveen Andrews

Name: Naveen William Sidney Andrews
DOB: January 17, 1969
Where: Lambeth, London, England
Occupation: Actor
Years Active: 1991-present

-Naveen William Sidney Andrews is a British American actor.
-Best known roles: Kip in The English Patient, Sayid Jarrah on the TV show Lost
-Also appeared on an episode of Law and Order:SVU, titled "Shadow". He played a Special Frauds agent named Det. Ashok "Ash" Ramsay

Playing a Special Frauds agent named Ash Ramsay

Playing Sayid Jarrah on Lost

Playing Kip, an Indian in the British Army in The English Patient

Early Life
-Born to Nirmala, a psychologist and Stanley Andrews, a business man. Both are Malayali Nasrani immigrants from Kerala, India.
-Was brought up in Wandsworth, South London and had what he described to be a "very repressive" upbringing.
-At age 16, he fell in love with his math teacher, Geraldine Feakins, 7 years later, they had a son, Jaisal, born in 1992

Career
-Auditioned for drama school and was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Ewan McGregor and David Thewlis.
-His studying paid off when he won a role in London Kills Me(1991). In 1996, he played Kip in The English Patient and also Sayid Jarrah on the TV show Lost in 2004.

Playing Jodie Foster's British-Indian doctor fiancee in The Brave One

Personal Life
-Was in a relationship with Barbara Hershey; they lived together in L.A and separated in 2005; during that time, he had another son, Naveen Joshua with another woman, Elena Eustache.
-He has openly spoke about his alcoholism and 2 year addiction to heroin in the mid 1990s.
-Plays guitar and sings. Became a naturalized U.S. citizen on May 27, 2010.

Naveen Andrews and Barbara Hershey

Filmography

The English Patient

-1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri-Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje.
-Directed by Anthony Minghella
-Set before WWII, it's a story of love, fate, misunderstanding and healing. Told in a series of flashbacks.

Did You Know?
-Ralph Fiennes burn make up took 5 hours to apply every day
-Both Naveen Andrews and Kevin Whately had to learn how to operate motorcycles for the film

Hmmm, might have to check this out. I'm always up for a good, old fashioned love story.

Plot
-Set during WWII and shows a critically burned man, at first known only as "the English patient", who is being cared for by Hana(Juliette Binoche), a French-Canadian nurse in an Italian monastery. The patient is hesitant to reveal any info but through a series of flashbacks, people who watch the movie can see into his past. It reveals that he is in fact a Hungarian geographer, Count Laszlo de Almasy(Ralph Fiennes), who was making a map of the Sahara Desert, and whose affair with a married woman, Katharine Clifton(Kristin Scott Thomas), brought his situation to light. As the patient remembers more, David Caravaggio(Willem Dafoe), a Canadian intelligence officer and former thief, arrives at the monastery. He lost his thumbs while being interrogated by German officers and he reveals that it was the actions of the patient that had brought about his torture. In addition to the story, the film devotes time to Hana and her romance with Kip(Naveen Andrews), an Indian Sikh sapper in the British Army. Due to events in her past, Hana believes that anyone who comes close to her is likely to die, and Kip's position as a bomb defuser makes their romance full of stress

-In the 1st phase, set in the late 1930s, the minor Hungarian noble Count Laszlo de Almasy(Ralph Fiennes) is the co-leader of a Royal Geographical Society archaeological and surveying expedition in Egypt and Libya. He and his English partner Madox are at heart academics with little sophistication in the politics of Europe and Africa. Shortly, both the morale and finances of their trip are bolstered by a British couple, Geoffrey and Katherine Clifton(Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas). The Count is very attracted to Katharine. When Geoffrey is away from the group, an affair begins. The final months before the onset of the war, he Count's discovery of an ancient Saharan cave with "swimming figure" paintings ffrom the prehistoric times are found. Romance between the Count and Katharine get stronger. She is plagued with the guilt of infidelity, while he shows a streak of jealousy along with an imbalance that later haunts him

-The fall of 1939 and the war all bring excavation to a halt and Madox and the Count go their own ways. Geoffrey Clifton has pieced together the outline of the affair and seeks a sudden revenge: crashing his plane, with Katharine aboard, in the Count's desert camp. The wreck injures Katharine and narrowly misses the Count, and kills Geoffrey. He manages to take Katharine into the shelter of the swimming figure cave, leaves water for her, a flashlight and a fire and begins his 3 day walk back to the nearest town and help. The town is held by British Army and the dazed Count, with his non English name, is unable to explain his situation. He loses temper and is thrown into military jail. He is sent in chains on a train "north to Benghazi", escapes, finds himself behind Afrika Korps lines and quickly trades his desert maps with the Germans for a biplane. By the time he returns to the cave, Katharine is dead- and in all but a physical sense, so is the Count. He manages to bundle her body into the plane and take off. Ironically, a German anti-aircraft battery shoots down the plane as he pilots it over the desert. Horribly burned, he is rescued by Bedouin tribesmen

-The film's 2nd phase shifts to Italy and the last months of the war. The Count by now is an invalid, and dependent on morphine and care of his French-Canadian nurse Hana. That monastery becomes the main point for the movie and it shows Hana seeing a fiancee and friend die in the Italian campaign and is left to wonder if her relationship with a British-Indian will break her chain of bad luck. A visitor named Caravaggio is in search of the Count that he thinks played a role in the problems in Egypt. He lost both thumbs to an interrogation by the Nazis and has killed those who he deems responsible.

-Hana finds solace in the film. Her lieutenant survives a brush with death on the last day of the war and her hope in love is made stronger. The Count asks for, and dies of, an overdose of morphine from Hana

Cast

Ralph Fiennes as Count László Almásy
Juliette Binoche as Hana
Willem Dafoe as David Caravaggio
Kristin Scott Thomas as Katharine Clifton
Naveen Andrews as Kip
Colin Firth as Geoffrey Clifton
Julian Wadham as Madox
Jürgen Prochnow as Major Muller
Kevin Whately as Sgt. Hardy
Clive Merrison as Fenelon-Barnes
Nino Castelnuovo as D'Agostino
Hichem Rostom as Fouad
Peter Rühring as Bermann
Geordie Johnson as Oliver
Torri Higginson as Mary
Liisa Repo-Martell as Jan
Raymond Coulthard as Rupert Douglas
Philip Whitchurch as Corporal Dade
Lee Ross as Spalding
Anthony Smee as Beach Interrogation Officer
Matthew Ferguson as Young Canadian Soldier
Jason Done as Kiss Me Soldier
Roger Morlidge as Sergeant – Desert Train

People Magazine

-American magazine of celebrity and human interest stories.
-Published by Time Inc.
-Prints everything from human interest stories, to celebrity gossip
-Also best known for printing yearly issues titled Sexiest Man Alive

Got this one!!

History

Teen People
-In 1998, the magazine introduced a version called Teen People, dedicated to stories about teen entertainers, such as Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, etc.

Sexiest Man Alive
-Jude Law