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Happy Birthday Brenda Blethyn!

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Today, February 20th , is the 73rd 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. Currently seen on ITV's Vera series, which is now on its eighth season. ( Meet the cast of Vera series eight ) 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, eventually joining the National Theatre Company in 1975. ( Read more of he

Pride and Prejudice Quotes from Novel to Film (Chapter 43)

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Continuing from my previous posts ( Chapters 1-41 ), skipping Chapter 42 , since there were no matching dialogues (from book to movie) in that chapter...and moving onto Chapter 43 , which was about Elizabeth with her aunt & uncle, Mr. & Mrs, Gardiner 's trip to Derbyshire where they toured Mr. Darcy's estate, Pemberley. Read more here...

Movie News: Tom Hollander joins cast of 'Kingsman: The Great Game'

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Tom Hollander along with Gemma Arterton ( Lost In Austen ), Aaron Taylor-Johnson ( Anna Karenina ), and Alison Steadman ( Pride and Prejudice 1995 ) has joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's upcoming Kingsman Movie's prequel titled, Kingsman: The Great Game . Tom is said to be playing three characters (George V, the Kaiser, and the Russian tsar), all part of Queen Victoria's family tree! The movie is now filming and is shooting for the next few months. Read more info. below...

Movie News: Carey Mulligan to star in 'Promising Young Woman' thriller

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According to Deadline ,  Carey Mulligan will star in Emerald Fennell-directed thriller  Promising Young Woman  which FilmNation Entertainment will launch sales on at the EFM in Berlin. UTA will rep U.S.   Read more info. via Deadline below...

Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan model Disney's Red Nose Day 2019 T-shirts! (Updated)

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Keira Knightley (photographed by Greg Williams) and Carey Mulligan (See photos below! no Disney T-shirt photo available ye t) are among the celebrities to model TK Maxx’s new Comic Relief charity T-shirts . TK Maxx is launching an exclusive range of t-shirts for Red Nose Day 2019 designed by Disney. The limited edition tee-hee-hee shirts feature some of the most loved Disney characters and will be available in store and online starting from February 1st. Red Nose Day 2019 takes place on Friday, March 15, 2019. Read more info. ( Updated: 3/5/19 ) below...