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- Tony Award-winning English actor Michael Gough, best known for playing the butler Alfred Pennyworth in the first four Batman (1989, 1992, 1995 & 1997) movies and for playing the arch-criminal Dr. Clement Armstrong in The Avengers (1961) episode "The Cybernauts", was an accomplished performer on both stage and screen. He was nominated twice for Tony Awards, in 1979 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Alan Ayckbourn's "Bedroom Farce" and in 1988 in the same category for Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code", winning in 1979. Though he never achieved on the small screen and silver screen what he did in the theater, Gough's career in television and movies spanned sixty-plus years over eight decades. Michael Gough died at age 94 on March 17, 2011 at his home near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
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Claudia Wells was born on 5 July 1966 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an actress, known for Back to the Future (1985), CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984) and Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition (2015).- Actress
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Genteel-looking British actress Jenny Seagrove distinguished herself as a sensitive heroine during the 1980s in plush TV romances such as The Woman in White (1982), Diana (1984) and, in particular, the adaptations of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance (1984) wherein she played Emma Harte, and Hold the Dream (1986) as Paula Fairley. In later years she would be highly recognizable for her role as Jo Mills, QC in the British crime mystery series Judge John Deed (2001).
Jenny enjoyed a privileged childhood though it was marked with sadness. Born Jennifer Ann Seagrove on Independence Day, 1957 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, her father ran an import-export firm and her mother was a British aristocrat who suffered a debilitating stroke when Jenny was less than a year old. At age 9, Jenny attended a girls' boarding school in England and appeared in school plays.
Initially interested in a culinary career, she opted for acting instead and trained at the Bristol Old Vic. After leaving school, Seagrove met Indian-born Madhav Sharma, a little-known actor-director, but the marriage was not a happy one (1984-1988). She also had a long term relationship with director Michael Winner of "Death Wish" fame, whom she met on the set of the Agatha Christie mystery Appointment with Death (1988).
Jenny is known fondly respected for her superb theatre work in England. Playing the title role in "Jane Eyre" at Chichester Festival Theatre in 1986, she returned there to play Bett in "King Lear in New York" in 1992. Other roles have included Ilona in "The Guardsman" (1986); "Present Laughter" opposite Tom Conti (1993); Annie Sullivan in "The Miracle Worker" (1994); "Dead Guilty" with Hayley Mills (1995); "Hurlyburly" (1997); the Parisian thriller "Vertigo" (1998); "Brief Encounter" (2000); a female version of "The Odd Couple" (2001-02); the title role in W. Somerset Maugham; "The Constant Wife" (2003); David Hare's "The Secret Rapture" (2003); "The Night of the Iguana" (2005); "The Letter" (2007); "Absurd Person Singular" (2007); "Murder on Air" (2008); "The Country Girl" (2011); Noël Coward "Fallen Angels" (2014); and as distraught mother Chris MacNeil in "The Exorcist" (2017). Many of these plays were in association with her long-time partner, theatre impresario Bill Kenwright.
To date, Jenny's film career has not match her impressive stature on stage or TV. Nevertheless, she made her British film debut as "Anna" in the Jeremy Irons Polish political vehicle Moonlighting (1982) directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. She subsequently appeared as a quirky Scottish lass in the film Local Hero (1983) starring Burt Lancaster, and then was given the top female role as Sophie in the period adventure comedy Nate and Hayes (1983) (aka Nate and Hayes) starring Tommy Lee Jones and Michael O'Keefe as O'Keefe's fiancée.
She was part of an all-star suspect line-up in the Agatha Christie whodunnit Appointment with Death (1988) starring Peter Ustinov as sleuth Hercule Poirot and followed that with the Jeremy Irons starrer A Chorus of Disapproval (1989). In the United States, Jenny was seen in an unsympathetic light as the evil nanny in The Guardian (1990), directed by William Friedkin and appeared in the comedy caper Bullseye! (1990), filmed in England and Scotland.
In later years, Jenny was given several starring film roles. She played the title missionary in Miss Beatty's Children (1992); co-starred with Anthony Edwards in the romantic comedy Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999); played an eccentric widow who forms a bond with a teenage runaway in Zoe (2001); and played a woman who hid an escaped Russian POW during World War II in Another Mother's Son (2017).- Actor
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Ric Young was born in June 1944 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is an actor and writer, known for Seven Years in Tibet (1997), The Transporter (2002) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).- Actress
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Wendy Hoopes was born on 4 November 1972 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an actress and director, known for Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003) and Private Parts (1997).- Actress
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Sweet-faced, gentle-voiced veteran British actress Dulcie Gray's demure career is often linked with that of her late actor/husband Michael Denison, with whom she appeared frequently on stage, TV and in films in over a hundred projects for nearly four decades.
She was born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey in British Malaya (now Malaysia), on November 20, 1915, the daughter of a lawyer. She was sent off to boarding school in England at quite an early age. Originally interested in art and dance until the lure of the theatre, she worked at one time as a governess. Dulcie attended the Webber Douglas Drama School where she met future husband Denison, whom she married in 1939. Making her professional stage debut that same year in "Hay Fever," she gained repertory theatre experience between the years 1940 and 1941.
Dulcie made an insignificant film debut in an uncredited part in the Welwyn Studio comedy Banana Ridge (1942), but stayed focused on theatre, particularly in Shakespeare's plays -- "Twelfth Night" (as Maria), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (as Hermia) and "The Taming of the Shrew" (as Bianca). She won London stage stardom after making her West End debut as "Alexandra" in a production of "The Little Foxes" starring Richard Attenborough.
Dulcie earned a great stage success as waitress "Rose" in "Brighton Rock" (1943), which led to a film contract with Gainsborough Studios. Although she lost out playing the waitress role when "Brighton Rock" was transferred to film, she went on to grace a host of lady-like melodramas for the studio. She began with small roles in both Two Thousand Women (1944) and Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) supporting leading ladies Phyllis Calvert and Patricia Roc. She then went on to support Margaret Lockwood in A Place of One's Own (1945) before sharing the lead with Calvert and Anne Crawford in the meller They Were Sisters (1945) in which she played the passive sibling at the mercy of a cruel, sadistic husband James Mason.
Dulcie continued to rise gracefully in the film ranks with features such as the crime drama Wanted for Murder (1946) opposite Eric Portman and Derek Farr; the social drama A Man About the House (1947) as a concerned sister to Margaret Johnston; and the psychological drama Mine Own Executioner (1947) opposite Burgess Meredith. She also shared the screen with husband Michael in such vehicles as My Brother Jonathan (1948), The Glass Mountain (1949), The Franchise Affair (1951), Angels One Five (1952) and There Was a Young Lady (1953), usually to generous reviews.
In between times, the actress would remain royal to the stage, appearing in scores of plays, including "Dear Ruth" (title role), "Tea and Sympathy," "South Sea Bubble" and "The Seagull," With Michael she appeared in a host of theatre vehicles such as "Queen Elizabeth Slept Here," "The Four Poster," "Private Lives," "Alice Through the Looking Glass," "Let Them Eat Cake," "Candida," "Heartbreak House," "The Royal Gambit," "An Ideal Husband," "The Wild Duck," "The Clandestine Marriage," "The First Mrs. Fraser" and "The Clandestine Marriage."
In the mid 1950's, Dulcie began to focus on TV with roles in such anthologies as "BBC Sunday Night Theatre," "Somerset Maugham Hour" and "London Theatre." Like her husband, the theatre was her first love and true calling and she would remain committed to the stage for most of her career, making relatively few films in her later life. Dulcie later turned to writing, authoring 24 mystery books, most of which involved intrepid sleuth Inspector Cardiff.
She earned TV success back in England with Howards' Way (1985) (in which Michael had a recurring role) - a major hit in the late '80s. The couple was awarded Commander of the British Empire in 1983. Late in life, they made their Broadway debut together in "An Ideal Husband" in 1996. Following Michael's death from cancer two years later in 1998, Dulcie continued in the theatre playing delightfully sweet old ladies in such enjoyable fare as "The Ladykillers" (1999) and "The Lady Vanishes."
Dulcie would be the subject of the TV tribute program This Is Your Life (1955) on two separate occasions, in 1973 and 1995. She was a guest for other subjects four other times. She passed away from bronchial pneumonia just a few days before her 96th birthday on November 15, 2011.- Born in Malaysia to British parents, her family moved to Hong Kong when she was 9 years old, and eventually moved to England where she finished her formal education at Canterbury College of Art.
Justina was visiting her sister in Hong Kong when she talked her way into an audition for a role in Yellowthread Street, a British television series. To her surprise, she was hired on the spot. Shortly thereafter, Justina won the role of Amanda in the feature film Shadow of China with actress Sammi Davis. Justina then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a full time acting career.
In 1998, after a number of roles in television and features, Justina landed the role of a Russian scientist working for the NSA in the television series Seven Days (1998) Seven Days. In 2000 Justina realized she wanted to switch careers, and the final episode of Seven Days was broadcast on 29 May 2001. Justina is now a career & personal development coach and hypnotherapist for professionals in the business and entertainment worlds.. - Peter Arne was for a short time the perfect villain in British film. After a couple of roles in war movies (The Purple Plain (1954) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)) and a Tarzan movie (Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)) he became a villain in Strangers' Meeting (1957). From than on he continued to play sinister types in The Moonraker (1958), Intent to Kill (1958), Breakout (1959), Conspiracy of Hearts (1960), The Hellfire Club (1961) and The Secret of Monte Cristo (1961). He was very convincing as a Cromwell officer, an Italian camp commander or a Nazi officer. Several times he had sword fights as a devious count. In 1962 he was a pirate sidekick of Christopher Lee in The Pirates of Blood River (1962), but a new kid on the block by the name of Oliver Reed challenged him and killed him halfway through the picture. It seemed like a symbolic fight because for a while Oliver Reed played the roles in Hammer Pictures that Peter Arne could have played and Arne moved to TV roles. His days as a leading actor were over and he continued work in TV and in bit parts in features. Sometimes directors he worked with before brought him back for a little role. In 1972 he got a nice break with "The Stallion", a TV movie in which he starred with a horse. He was also in a couple of Blake Edwards movies. He became an antique dealer with his sister as a sideline. He was murdered at the age of 63 shortly after being cast in Doctor Who (1963).
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Carmen Soo was born on 14 October 1977 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an actress, known for Kahit isang saglit (2008), Dead Mine (2012) and Ghost Child (2013).- Writer
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Nick Newman was born on 17 July 1958 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. He is a writer and actor, known for Harry Enfield and Chums (1994), The Wipers Times (2013) and Spitting Image (1984).- Cinematographer
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James Nield is a Malaysian-British cinematographer known for his commercial work with major international brands and award-winning narrative films. A member of the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG) and Society of Camera Operators (SOC), James has shot critically acclaimed films such as Counterpart, which won Best Short at the Cannes Film Festival.- Natasha Beaumont was born on 21 June 1974 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an actress, known for Inception (2010), All Saints (1998) and EastEnders (1985).
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Jenny Eclair was born on 16 March 1960 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an actress and writer, known for Skins (2007), The Mark Steel Lectures (2003) and Packing Them In (1992).- Actor
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Vijayaraghavan was born on 20 December 1951 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is an actor, known for Ramaleela (2017), Pookkaalam (2023) and Kammara Sambhavam (2018).- Actor
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Syamsul Yusof was born on 21 May 1984 in Kuala Lumpur. He is a Malaysian actor, film director, scriptwriter, film producer, rapper and singer. He is the son of famous director Yusof Haslam. He set the record as the youngest director to win the Malaysian Film Festival, doing so at the age of 26. His brother, Syafiq Yusof, his cousins, Rizal Ashreff and Sabrina Ali and his half-brother is Faizal Yusof are also actors. Syafiq and Faizal themselves also have their other careers as film directors. Born into a family who owns one of the largest film companies in Malaysia, the desire in film directing was ingrained to him from a very young age. His father, recognizing this, decided to test his directing abilities by allowing him to direct the former's police drama series "Gerak Khas" for a few episodes as an assignment. After those episodes were given the approval by his father, Syamsul was now confident enough to sit in the director's chair.
He eventually decided to produce and direct his first feature film. The script that would eventually became "Evolusi KL Drift", co-written by him and his cousin Rizal was initially rejected by his father for further redrafting. After the revision, his first film project was finally approved alongside a budget of RM 1.35 million. Despite his lack of directing experience and the immense pressure of keeping reputation of his family, "Evolusi KL Drift" managed to succeed. The film's success paved the way for several other directorial endeavors.- Director
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Syafiq Yusof was born on 7 December 1992 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a director and producer, known for SAM: Saya Amat Mencintaimu (2012), Abang Long Fadil 3 (2022) and Misteri Dilaila (2019). He has been married to Aisyeah Zainal Al-Hafizah since 5 April 2014. They have two children.- Actor
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Rosyam Nor was born on 1 March 1967 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is an actor and producer, known for KL Menjerit (2002), Bara (1999) and Lenjan (1998).- Actor
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Ravichandran was born on 9 January 1941 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is an actor and writer, known for Majunu (2001), Manthiran (2005) and Kannethirey Thondrinal (1998).- Cinematographer
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Collaborations with visionary directors such as Robert Zemeckis ("Welcome to Marwen" - Universal Pictures), Bobby Farrelly ("Champions" - Focus Features/Universal Pictures), Nick Peche ("Grudge" - Sony Pictures/ Lions Gate), Peter Ramsey ("Lost Ollie" - Netflix), Alex Graves ("Project Blue Book" - A+E/History), Eduardo Sanchez and Deepa Mehta ("Yellowjackets" - Showtime) have influenced and bolstered the storytelling prowess that C. Kim Miles, asc, csc, mysc brings to the screen.
Putting story first above all other considerations has allowed Miles to dedicate himself to building a diverse portfolio of work, developing unique visual approaches to each individual project.
Peer recognition has come to Miles in the form of the 34th Annual ASC Award for Outstanding Cinematography in an Episode of Commercial Television for his work on "Project Blue Book", a 2019 Leo Award for Cinematography in a Feature Film for "Welcome to Marwen", along with multiple nominations for other projects.
Miles is an active member of the American Society of Cinematographers, Canadian Society of Cinematographers and Malaysian Society of Cinematographers, organizations dedicated to the development and evolution of cinematography on a global scale.- Actor
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Hairul Azreen, the youngest child of Idris Ali and Habsah Desa, was an active child growing up. At the age of 16, he had already received a black belt in Taekwondo. In 2004, he even represented Selangor in the SUKMA Games. The Sukma Games is a biennial national multi-sport event involving young athletes in Malaysia.
He was a stuntman and a martial artist in his early 20's before he began dabbling in acting, scoring a leading role in Mahabah De Laila, a drama series on TV9 back in 2009. He continued to star in several telemovies and drama series such as Teknofobia, Pontianak Remaja, and 5 Bujang before his film debut in 2011 for the movie Keramat. In 2013, Hairul Azreen, along with teammate, Dazrin Kamaruddin won first place against 15 other celebrity teams in Fear Factor Celebrity Malaysia, a stunt/dare game show adapted from the American Fear Factor TV show.
Within the next few years, he hit it off with being the lead of several highest-ranking grossing films in Malaysia. Movies such as Polis EVO 2 which has a grossing of 20M and PASKAL The Movie which has an amazing grossing of 30M, the highest gross collection for an action movie in Malaysia to this day. Other notable films that Hairul Azreen has a leading role in would be Wira (2019) and Pasal Kau! (2021), the first Malaysian produced original Netflix film. He also starred in The Assistant, the first Malaysian film distributed by Sony which will premiere in March 2022 amongst his other line-ups which includes Abang Long Fadil 3 and Bakara.
In 2021, he made his directorial debut for Ada Hantu, the first Malaysian-made film for Disney Hotstar. Due to a very positive feedback from the audience, he returned to the director's chair and served as an executive producer for the sequel, Ada Hantu 2.
Hairul Azreen is married to actress, TV host and blogger, Hanis Zalikha and is a father of two children, Yusuf Iskandar and Alisa Aisyah.- Director
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Amanda Nell Eu was born on 26 November 1985 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a director and writer, known for Tiger Stripes (2023), Lagi senang jaga sekandang lembu (2017) and Vinegar Baths (2018).- Mia Sara Shauki was born on 12 October 1999 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an actress, known for Old Road Mistery (2011), Ceroboh (2022) and AI.5YA (2022).
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Fabian Loo was born in Malaysia on 9th October 1990. He first started acting in local theaters. He would later pursue acting career on televisions and in movies. He is best known for his role in the movie Think Big Big and Fly By Night. He was nominated Best Actor in Supporting Role with the portrayal of KeQiang in The Driver and Best Actor with the portrayal of Sailo in Fly By Night.- Danielle Graham was born on 19 July 1977 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an actress, known for 2002 (2001), Saving Hope (2012) and Six Days (2002). She has been married to Randall Graham since 30 July 2014. They have one child.
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Penny Phang was born in 1975 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an actress, known for House of the Dead (2003), The Dessert (2023) and Def Jam Vendetta (2003).