Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog

Today ( January 27th ) is the lovely and ethereally beautiful,  Golden Globe ,  BAFTA ,  Academy Award nominee  for  Best Actress  (for her outstanding performance as  Amy Dunne  in  Gone Girl ) and  Emmy Award  winner  Rosamund Pike  (aka  Pride & Prejudice 2005 's very own  Jane Bennet )'s  44th Birthday ! Or is it?!?!  Again, continuing to celebrate her annual internet birthday here, lol. Miss Pike (photo by Charlie Gray Studio) herself, posted two years ago today, on her official Instagram page that January 27th is her internet birthday (and somewhat not her real birthday)! Well, color me surprised (much like her P&P co-star Rupert Friend’s birthday confusion...) as I’ve been celebrating her birthday on this day for years, lol. I blame her IMDB and Wiki pages for not providing her real birthdate, if her actual birthday is, in fact not today! Although there’s that one time it was listed on th...

Today,  January 4th , former  Pride & Prejudice  star  Claudie Blakley 's (best known to P&P Fans as  Charlotte Lucas  turned  Mrs. Collins  in  P&P movie ) birthday. Claudie , born  Claudia ,  Blakley  is the sister of Kirsten Blakley, the lead singer with indie band Little Spitfire, and their father was  Alan Blakley , bassist with Brian Poole's Tremeloes, who had several pop hits in the 1960s. Sadly Alan died of cancer in 1996 and missed seeing his daughters' success. Claudie graduated from London's Central School ...  See full bio  (on IMDB). Throwback to this photo of  Claudie Blakley  (with her fiancé  Ross Anderson) at the UK Premiere of Angelina Jolie's film " Unbroken ," November 2014. Worth reposting here...

Wishing all the  P&P/Jane Austen fans  around the world, frequent  visitors , and faithful  readers  of this blog a Happy New Year!  P.S. Sorry, I rarely posted and had been inactive in posting here for most of last year. I’ve been super busy and mostly just posted on my P&P social media accounts (ie. FB/IG/Twitter) than here. Hope to be able to post more here this year. We shall see…!