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CAST
Tom Barber Duffy T.E. Lawrence
Tom Barber Duffy started his performance career working in special action and combat roles on major movies like “Snow White and the Huntsman”, “Maleficent” and “Wrath of the Titans”. He then trained formally as an actor gaining a place at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he attained a Masters in Acting for Screen. Here he completed his first feature film, “The Befuddled Box of Betty Buttifint” and started writing and directing his own short films. Since graduating, Tom has played a number of theatre roles and starred in his second feature film "Anti Matter" playing the male lead, Nate. “Anti Matter” has gone on to be screened at festivals, most notably Raindance, and had a theatrical release in the US, and on-demand and DVD release in the UK. Tom has completed a number of short films, had a role in the film “Imitation Game” and roles in TV including “Downton Abbey” and “Tank Men”.
Brian Cox Epilogue/Father (Voice)
Brian Cox is an Emmy Award-winning Scottish actor. He was born on June 1, 1946 in Dundee, Scotland, to Mary Ann Guillerline Cox, maiden surname McCann, a spinner, and Charles McArdle Campbell Cox, a shopkeeper and butcher. His father was of Irish ancestry and his mother was of Irish and Scottish descent. His first big break was as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter (1986).
Brian Cox CBE is an Emmy Award-winning Scottish actor who started his career in theatre winning awards for "King Lear”. Through the 1990s, he appeared in nearly 20 films and television series, as well as making numerous television guest appearances. More recently, Cox has had roles in major films, including playing the lead in “Churchill", “Troy”, “Red”, “Red 2”, “X-Men” and the Bourne series of films. He is currently the lead in the successful TV series “Succession”.
Hugh Fraser Viscount Allenby
Hugh Fraser studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Fraser's first big break came after portraying Anthony Eden in the 1978 television series Edward & Mrs Simpson, with Edward Fox.
He has regularly appeared on film and in television and is best known for his portrayal of Captain Hastings in the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot opposite David Suchet, and his role as the Duke of Wellington in the Sharpe television series. In the 1980s, he appeared in the BBC thriller Edge of Darkness. Fraser can be frequently heard narrating the audiobooks of Agatha Christie’s works, which are currently published by HarperCollins. In recent years, he has been an associate tutor, director and member of the audition panel at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, specialising in Shakespeare. Fraser has also directed several plays, most notably a production of David Mamet's adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.
His film credits include Curse of the Pink Panther, 101 Dalmatians, Clint Eastwood’s Firefox, and Patriot Games along with his Sharpe co-star Sean Bean. He has also worked in theatre, playing Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing with the RSC in 1979 and Peyote in David Hare’s Teeth’n’Smiles at the Royal Court and Wyndham’s. He has guest starred in the Doctor Who audio dramas and alongside Martin Shaw in Death in Holy Orders.
Fraser has also become an author; his first crime novel, Harm, was published in 2015, followed by Threat in 2016, Malice in October 2017 and Stealth in 2018.
Michael Maloney George Brough
Michael Maloney is famous for roles in feature films such as “Young Victoria”, “Truly, Madly, Deeply”, “The Iron Lady” and Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet” and “Henry V”. Michael Maloney has played a wide range of classical roles over many years for some of the most famous theatre companies in the UK. At the National Theatre, he has played Benjamin Britten and Lewis Carroll, as well as Hal in “Henry IV” parts 1 and 2. For the RSC, Michael has played Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet” and Edgar in “King Lear”. He has also played Hamlet twice in various theatres around the country. His roles in TV include “Victoria”, “Waking the Dead”, “Empire”, “The White Queen” and “The Five”. Michael will be shooting with us during our May shoot in a few weeks time.
Nicole Ansari Cox Sarah Lawrence
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Nicole started her theatrical career in Zurich in repertory and worked extensively in European theatre and film before moving to the United States, returning to the place where she studied drama with the late Uta Hagen at HB Studios for Scene Study and in her famed Shakespeare Masterclass, as well as with Susan Batson at the Actor’s Studio in NYC. Film credits include Side Effects by Steven Soderberg, Remember Me, Last Moment of Clarity, and several independent films. These include Blumenthal and As Good as Dead (both of which she produced), Maggie Black, and I Was There. Her television credits include Einstein, NBC’s Mysteries of Laura, HBO’s Deadwood films. Padim @ PS3, a film about the arts programme at a New York City public school, and the narrative short Tina Goes to Town, set in the UK. She also just directed 5 episodes of the web series comedy Messy and directed several special programmes at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC.
On Broadway Nicole performed in Tom Stoppard’s Rock’n Roll, directed by Trevor Nunn in the role of Lenka, which she originated in the Royal Court’s world premiere and performed in the West End in London. Off Broadway her credits include the Armenian genocide drama Daybreak, the title character in I am Antigone, Sinners (directed by Brian Cox), Shakespeare’s Sister, directed by Irina Brook at La Mama, and Alliance Française in NY and on tour in France. Regionally she appeared in Hamlet as Queen Gertrude, Miss Maudie in To Kill a Mockingbird for the Mirror Theater, and Island of Slaves at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass.
Nicole was a Company Member of the famed Theatre du Soleil, directed by Ariane Mnouchkine in Paris, and on tour. She is also a founding member of the Shakespeare Company Berlin. She’s performed at the Public Theatre in Vienna as Berenice in Berenice, Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac, Irma in Irma La Douce, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, and Romy Schneider in the play Romy, which she also co-wrote.
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