Search Results for: BAFTA nomination Best Actress for The Russian Bride (2002)

[…]e said, "I think you ought to go into the Church." Like my cousin did - my cousin Patrick became a priest, you see. And he said, "I think it would be best if you followed your cousin Patrick into the Church business," you know. So I said, "Oh, OK Dad, I'll do that." So I joined the Catholic Church a[…]

[…] going. And I had, eventually about two and a half years with 'Young Woodley'. And I can remember we never repeated a theatre. And later on one of my best jobs was assistant stage manager on the touring production of 'The Miracle', which was with Diana Manners and Glen Byam Shaw, in which I was the […]

[…]Then I spent six years at Brighton Art School, living in Brighton Very happy times and then Father had his studio at home in those days and he was my best critic. He taught me more than anything I ever learned at any art school. He was a very fine painter but only in a commercial sense. Anyway, from[…]

[…]:13  I killed the myth about the Albert Hall. Because I started doing other programmes only like the ones with the real audiences likeMiss World BAFTA Awards or something like that, which I used to do all these because nobody else seems to know teh Albert Hall, which isa really interesting plac[…]

[…]ay, ‘Gargantua, I must have...’ whatever it was he wanted to have, you know. [laughter] I knew him right to the very end because I used to see him at BAFTA and various places and his voice would come ringing out, ‘Gargantua! How are you?’ And everybody would turn round. [laughter] This very small ch[…]

[…]oped, including Vanessa's performance. All the audio engineers there couldn't have been more complimentary, saying again and again that they were the best results they have ever had with a Stedhiacer[?] microphone." [BA stumbles over name of microphone - helped out by FT - some indecipherable dialog[…]

[…]is garage had a marvellous workshop, it had everything, milling machines, everything in it. And he let me have the service of his foreman, he was the best engineer I've ever met in my life, and the whole workshop for a pound a day, so all I had to do was pay for the materials. So we stripped this ca[…]

[…]f an attitude in England that, of looking down on other nations and other peoples. And I felt that um, I've always felt that if we could bring in the best films from these - from other countries, and people would see these films here, and today of course it's also being seen by millions on televisio[…]

[…]be, doing cleaning jobs, cleaning out tanks,cleaning up floors, cleaning walls, I became one of the best cleaners in thebusiness. In fact I always said that I'd finish up as a cleaner o[…]