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Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on October 05,2020 in Reading UK. Kate is not the only actor in the Winslet family. Both of her sisters, Anna and Beth and her father and grandparents are or have worked as actors.

Kate also has a younger brother Joss. Kate at the age 11 in 1986 began taking acting lessons in Maidenhead and she secured her first acting role in a Sugar Puffs advert dancing with the Honey Monster.
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Helena's baby - 18/02/03
The delightfully eccentric actress and Belsize Park resident Helena Bonham Carter is reportedly expecting her first child…

Helena and boyfriend Tim Burton met when he directed Planet of the Apes, which starred the actress. Both are said to be 'ecstatic'!

But the news hasn't pleased the makers of Helena's new film - about Anne Boleyn. They are just hoping they can film it quickly before her bump starts to show - says one insider!

Helena Bonham Carter was born 26 May 2020 in London's Golders Green. She was born into a family of politicians, actors and aristocracy. She is the Great Grand Daughter of late Prime Minister H.H. Asquith.

Helena pursued her dream to become an actress and landed her first film role at the age of 18, as Lady Grey, in Trevor Nunn's Lady Jane. Her next role in the movie A Room with a view propelled her into the premier league.

She has been type-casted as a 'period' actress after acting (and wearing corsets!) in nearly all of the following roles Howards End, Wings Of The Dove and Hamlet (1990), To avoid such stereotyping she played the part of weirdo Marla in the critically acclaimed film Fight Club alongside Brad Pitt.

Helena Bonham was nominated for Best Actress in 1998 for the film The Wings Of The Dove

She fell in love and lived with Kenneth Branagh until 1999 after playing his love interest in Frankenstein.

One of Helena's most recent roles was in Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes, playing one of the animals! It was also the film were she met her current love, director Tim Burton.

Now residing in Primrose Hill, Ewan was born in the sleepy Scots town of Crieff which makes him a teuchter. That's a yokel to you Sassenachs.

The only thing he has in common with the working class smack addict that he shot to fame playing in Trainspotting is his reported habitual swearing.
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Weisz says actors are paid too much - 18/07/03
Local actress Rachel Weisz has said she believes successful actors are being paid too much…

The 32-year-old star of the US blockbuster The Mummy, said extortionate salaries often squeezed other parts of the film itself.

She told Harpers and Queen magazine: "It's bad for actors; they feel they can't take less than their quote because they think it won't look good. And it puts pressure on the movie."

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The daughter of Hungarian immigrants, Rachel Weisz was born in London in 1971 and now lives in Primrose Hill.

After expulsion for bad behaviour from various posh schools she started a modelling career. She got her self into the papers when she was 14 because she turned down an offer from Richard Gere of a role in 'King David'.

She did English Literature at Cambridge and then went into acting, going on to star in films such as 'The Mummy'.

Now commands an international success, she's said to command £2 million per movie and is a now . She has dated Neil Morrissey as well Sam Mendes, Kate Winslet's current beau.

Anthony Stewart Head was born 20 February 2020 in Camden Town, London. He has had a successful acting career, but he gained mass recognition in both the UK and the States in the Gold Blend coffee commercials. Remember them? Although nowadays he has found fame as well spoken Giles in Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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Born in London in 1972, heart throb Jude Law now lives in Primrose Hill. He is married to film actress and designer Sadie Frost.

Jude grew up in Blackheath and after landing a role in daytime TV soap opera 'Families', he left school at 17.
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Sadie Frost was born in London in 1967and now lives in Primrose Hill, she is married to film hunk Jude Law.

She was named after the beatles song "Sexy Sadie." Sadie has previously appeared in Peter Medak's The Krays and Nick Broomfield's Dark Obsession, with Gabriel Byrne and Amanda Donohoe, but it was Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula that brought her international acclaim. Critics praised her talent.
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Miller's Canterbury Tales - 28/04/03
Primrose Hill based actor Jonny Lee Miller joins Canterbury Tales has joined the cast of the modern day remake of The Canterbury Tales…

Contemporary writers Tony Marchant, Peter Bowker, Sally Wainwright and Tony Grounds will retell Geoffrey Chaucer's book for a modern audience.

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Jonny back in Angelina's arms - 19/11/02
Primrose Hill resident Jonny Lee Miller has got back with his ex-wife Tomb Raider star, Angelina Jolie. Jonny split with his fiance of 16 months, Lisa Faulkner a couple of months ago and has got back in contact with Angelina.

The pair, who divorced in 1999 after four years together have been spotted all over each other at the exclusive Claridges Hotel. Angelina recently talked in typical morbid style, about the things she'd like to do before she dies.

Top of her list was to put things right with 30-year-old Johnny. 'I wanted to commit to Johnny. But he deserved more than I was prepared to give him at the time,' she said. 'I'd like to tell Johnny I love him. But I think he already knows.'


Run with Jonny - 15/08/02
Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller (who lives in Primrose Hill) has signed up to run the New York Marathon for learning disability charity Mencap. If you fancy joining him Stateside then give Mencap a call 08459777779. Courtesy of Heat Magazine.

Johnny Lee Miller was born on November 15,2020 in Surrey, he comes from an acting family, his father, Bernard played "M" in the early James Bond movies. Johnny has been in many movies including "Hackers" and "Dead Man Walking".

He was offered the part of the prince in "Ever After" but turned it down. Johnny married American actress Angelina Jolie in 1995,after completing "Hackers" with her. Their relationship lasted until 1997, they asre now divorced and he is currently engaged to actress Lisa Faulkner.

He is close friends with David Arquette (Scream), Ewan McGregor (his co-star in Trainspotting), and Gavin Rossdale (lead singer of Bush).

Johnny formed the production company Natural Nylon along with Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee and Sadie Frost.

Remembering Harris 03/12/02
Around 700 people have attended a memorial service for Irish actor Richard Harris in his native Limerick. The service for Harris, who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films, was held at the city's Jesuit Church.

His first wife, Elizabeth, one of their sons, Jared, and the actor's three brothers, Ivan, Noel and Billy, were at the service. Friends and acquaintances from the worlds of acting, politics and sport were also there.

Former Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds described Richard Harris as an outstanding actor and a great Irishman.

Harris, who first rose to fame in America in the 1967 screen musical "Camelot," in which he played King Arthur to Vanessa Redgrave's Guenevere, died Oct. 26 in a London hospital shortly after it was announced that he was suffering with Hodgkin's Disease.



Actor Richard Harris was born 10 January 2021 in Limerick, Ireland. Throughout his prolific career, Harris has been part of classic films, including The Guns of Navarone (1961), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Hawaii (1966), and Unforgiven (1992).

He received Best Actor Oscar nominations for The Field (1990) and This Sporting Life (1963), and won a Golden Globe for Camelot (1967).

More recently, Harris has appeared in Gladiator (2000), and as Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone(2001).

ITV axes Hugh Laurie - 18/07/03
ITV has dropped Hugh Laurie's drama Fortysomething from the Sunday schedule and moved it to a graveyard slot late on Saturday nights…

Since it's launch the drama has lost more than two million viewers. The show was sdescibed as "portrait of hapless middle-aged urban angst" and starred Laurie as a doctor suffering a mid-life crisis.

Fortysomething is being shifted from 9pm on Sundays to 11pm on Saturdays from the weekend after next, half way through its six-week run.

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Hugh Laurie signs £500,000 deal for new ITV sitcom - 19/08/02
Hugh Laurie has signed a £500,000 deal to make a comeback to TV comedy. His first new role will be as a doctor in ITV's new series Fortysomething.

Hugh has not been seen on our screens since Jeeves and Wooster ended nearly ten years ago, focusing instead on Hollywood roles in movies such as Stuart Little and Maybe Baby.

Filming starts on the new comedy in November.

An Eton man, Oxford graduate and rowing blue, Hugh is to many the quintessential slightly daffy English gentleman. He confirmed that view by his brilliant TV rendition of Bertie Wooster opposite Stephen Fry's equally accomplished Jeeves.

His career took off when he won a Perrier award at the Edinburgh Festival. Now 42, Laurie is well known as a comic and has done a wide variety of straight acting as well. For one perfectly-formed piece of genius catch his performance in the brilliant 'Stuart Little'.

A breathless Lynn Barber, writing in the Daily Telegraph, said, "The man who walks into the Langham Hotel is so handsome, tall, well built, tousle-haired, generally gorgeous, that I don't immediately recognize him as Hugh Laurie..."