Pride & Prejudice (2005) FAN Blog

Today ( March 26th ) is the two-time Academy Award ® Nominee (for Best Actress performance of her iconic role, Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 's Pride & Prejudice film and Best Supporting Actress as Joan Clarke for 2014 's The Imitation Game ) Keira Knightley 's 35th Birthday!

Today ( March 4th ) is the 33rd birthday of Tamzin Merchant (aka Georgiana Darcy in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film). Tweet Miss Merchant your birthday wishes today on her twitter account here: tamzin merchant  or send her a birthday greetings via her Instagram account .

Today, February 20th , is the 74th birthday  of  two-time Academy Award Award Nominee   Brenda Blethyn , best known to us  P&P fans  as  Mrs. Bennet , the five  Bennet girls '  mother  in the 2005  Pride & Prejudice  film. After twenty years of hard work on stage and both television and films, there are not many other actresses who deserved the success, recognition and stardom which  Brenda Blethyn  has now achieved. Recently seen on ITV's Vera series, which just finished its 10th season  and will be filming its 11th season in April! Born in (February 20th) 1946 in Ramsgate in Kent, England, she started her career at British Rail in the 1960s. Saving money during her time there, she took a risk and enrolled herself at the at The Guildford School of Acting in Guildford, Surrey, England and then left her British Rail years behind. Her risk had paid off, by the mid-1970s she was working on stage, event...

The teaser trailer has been released late January for HBO's upcoming thriller and limited series, The Undoing starring Nicole Kidman , Hugh Grant , Edgar Ramirez , and Donald Sutherland . From writer David E. Kelley ( Big Little Lies ) and director Susanne Bier ( The Night Manager ), the new limited series focuses on Nicole Kidman’s Grace Fraser, a successful therapist, and her devoted husband, Jonathan (Hugh Grant), and their young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. A chasm opens in Grace's seemingly perfect life: a violent death, a missing spouse and a chain of terrible revelations. Donald Sutherland plays Grace’s father Franklin Reinhardt: a retired financier and loving grandfather, tasked with protecting his family when turbulent revelations come to light. The Undoing is set to premiere in May. Watch The Undoing teaser trailer, read more info. and more below...

Today ( January 27th ) is the lovely and ethereally beautiful, Golden Globe , BAFTA , and Academy Award nominee for Best Actress (for her outstanding performance as Amy Dunne in Gone Girl )  Rosamund Pike  (aka Pride & Prejudice 2005 's very own Jane Bennet )'s 41st Birthday !  Born  Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike  in (Hammersmith) London, England, UK.  Miss Pike  is  an only child , her  parents  are  Julian  and  Caroline Pike . Her father  Julian  is a  professional opera singer , whilst her mother  Caroline  is a  concert violinist .  Read more of Rosamund Pike's Biography here . Happy Birthday Rosamund Pike!!!

According to Deadline, Keira Knightley is attached to star in a new British Christmas film titled Silent Night with 12-year-old Golden Globe Nominee Roman Griffin Davis ( JoJo Rabbit ), Matthew Goode ( Downton Abbey , Official Secrets ), and Annabelle Wallis ( Peaky Blinders ). Filming is said to be underway next month, February 17th. When Deadline first reported this earlier today ... Casting is underway for the role of Knightley’s husband in the film . The couple’s screen son will be played by Jojo Rabbit child star Roman Griffin Davis. The project will mark the feature directorial debut of Camille Griffin (Griffin Davis’s mother) who has also scripted. Side Note: When I first read casting news this afternoon, I was hoping the casting gods would cast Matthew Macfadyen for the role of Keira 's husband in this film (as I thought it would be another great reunion for Keira & Matthew since it's been a long time since they last co-starred in Pride & Preju...

During the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour presentation, AMC Networks announced various premiere dates for new and returning shows and shared new images for highly anticipated titles including  Quiz starring Matthew Macfadyen ( Succession ) and Fleabag 's Sian Clifford . Quiz is set to premiere  Monday, May 25 at 9/8c  and air for three consecutive nights through May 27th in the same timeslot. The limited series (three-part TV Adaptation) depicts the true story about Charles and Diana Ingram (Macfadyen & Clifford) who attempted to scam the game show  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in their native England. Stephen Fears directs the title written by playwright James Graham . Michael Sheen also star. Check out new promo stills of Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford as Charles & Diana Ingram below...