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Kevin Doyle is an English actor. He was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England in 1961. He is better known as the perpetually unlucky butler-turned-footman Molesley in Downton Abbey (2010). He has appeared in shows such as Happy Valley (2014), Scott & Bailey (2011), and the 2016 ITV TV Mini-Series Paranoid (2016). He lives in West Yorkshire with his partner Olwen May.- Liz Smith found fame as an actress at an age when most people are considering retirement. It was a long road to eventual stardom, during which she struggled to raise a family after a broken marriage. She became best known for her roles in The Vicar of Dibley (1994) and The Royle Family but her talents encompassed serious drama too. And while she made something of a name playing slightly dotty old ladies, the real Liz Smith was far removed from these on-screen personas. She was born Betty Gleadle in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Her early life was not happy. Her mother died in childbirth when she was just two years old and her father abandoned her when he remarried. "My father was a bit of a sod, really. He just went off with loads of women and then married one who said he had to cut off completely from his prior life and that meant me." She started going to the local cinema with her grandfather when she was four and she quickly gained a fascination for acting.
By the age of nine, she was appearing in local dramatic productions, often playing the part of elderly ladies. World War Two thwarted her plans and she joined the WRNS because, as she later told the BBC's Desert Island Discs, she loved the cut of the naval uniform. She continued appearing in plays and entertainments while serving in the Royal Navy. She met her future husband Jack Thomas while she was stationed in India and the couple married at the end of the war. Her grandmother had left her enough money to buy a house in London. Smith later remembered that she had picked it at random from a magazine and bought it without crossing the threshold.
But what had been an idyllic marriage failed shortly after the family moved to Epping Forest in Essex and she was left to bring up her two children alone. With money tight, she worked in a number of jobs including delivering post and quality control in a plastic bag factory. But her love for acting remained and she began buying the theatrical magazine, The Stage, and sending her photograph to casting agents. Eventually she became part of a group studying method acting under a teacher who had come to the UK from America.
She performed at the Gate Theatre in west London and spent many years in repertory, as well as spells as an entertainer in Butlins holiday camps. In 1970, she was selling toys in London's Regent Street when she got a call from the director Mike Leigh to play the downtrodden mother in his film Bleak Moments. Leigh cast her again in Hard Labour, part of the BBC's Play for Today series, a role that allowed her to shine. She received critical acclaim as the middle-aged housewife who endures a life of domestic drudgery, constantly at the beck and call of her demanding husband and daughter.
It was the breakthrough she had sought for years and, as she later recalled: "I never went back to grotty jobs again." She was seldom off the screen over the next 20 years, with appearances in a number of TV programmes including Last of the Summer Wine, The Sweeney, The Duchess of Duke Street and The Gentle Touch. She was cast as Madame Balls in the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, but her scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. However, she did appear in the role six years later in The Curse of the Pink Panther. In 1984 she received a Bafta for Best Supporting Actress when she played Maggie Smith's mother in the film A Private Function.
Two years later she appeared as Patricia Hodge's alcoholic mother in the BBC drama The Life and Loves Of A She Devil. It was a part, she said, that she really enjoyed as it gave her the chance to wear more glamorous outfits than her usual roles required. And she was able to dress up again for her next film appearance, this time in the role of Grace in Peter Greenaway's film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. She was still much in demand at the beginning of the 1990s, appearing in the sitcom 2point4 Children and in the series Lovejoy and Bottom.
In 1994 she became a household name with her portrayal of Letitia Cropley in the series The Vicar of Dibley (1994). The character was famous for her idiosyncratic recipes such as parsnip brownies and lard and fish paste pancakes, but was killed off in 1996. Two years later Liz Smith starred as Nana in The Royle Family, a sitcom that ran for nearly four years. She took the part again in 2006 in a special edition in which Nana died. Typically, she attributed her success to Caroline Aherne's scripts rather than her own talent.
"They were great roles," she later remembered. "I was so lucky that things did come my way then." Unlike some actors, she watched recordings of her own performances looking for ways in which she could improve her acting. She continued to appear in feature films, playing Grandma Georgina in Tim Burton's 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and she was the voice of Mrs Mulch in Wallace & Gromit -The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. In 2006 she published her autobiography Our Betty and moved into a retirement home in north London but continued acting. She appeared in the BBC's Lark Rise to Candleford, finally announcing her retirement in 2008 at the age of 87. It was a belief in her own talent that drove Liz Smith on when her life was at a low ebb. "All I wanted was a chance," she told the BBC. "It was wonderful when it did happen."
Smith died on Christmas Eve 2016. She was 95. - Ian Lawman was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK.
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Ryan J. Brown, originally from Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, graduated from Goldsmiths University of London and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Brown won the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Prize in 2016. He is the only screenwriter to have been featured on the UK's TV Brit List twice.
In 2023 Brown was named one of the Top 10 most influential LGBTQ+ trailblazers in Film, TV + Music by Attitude Magazine.- Ian Collins was born on 25 October 1966 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Most Annoying People of 2007 (2007), The Most Annoying Pop Songs.... We Hate to Love (2007) and The Talk (2022).
- Dannielle Woodward is a British actor, born on 31st December, 1997. She grew up in the small town of Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire, England. She graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Honours in The Arts.
Based in Australia, she is a British actor known for Channel 9's 'Warnie' (2023). - Darren Bett was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK.
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Jake Quickenden was born on 3 September 1988 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Hollyoaks (1995), Ninja Warrior UK (2015) and I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! NOW! (2002).- Actor
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Richard Collins-Moore was born in 1960 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Holy Camp! (2017), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) and Second Name (2002).- Lucy Clarvis was born in Scunthorpe General hospital on the 15th of may 1988. She was raised in the small market town of Brigg, in north Lincolnshire with her sister Polly and brother Simon.
She attended Wendy Fosters Theatre School from the age of 4, studying Ballet, Jazz, Tap and also Musical Theatre. It was here that Lucy's love for the performing arts stemmed and later grew into the prospect of a career in the industry.
At the age of 16 Lucy moved to London and trained for 3 years at Bird college of Dance and Theatre Performance. There she trained in a wide genre of dance ranging from ballet to commercial. She also studied Musical Theatre and Acting. She graduated in 2007 with a national Diploma in Dance and Musical Theatre.
Since graduation Lucy's career has continued progressing from strength to strength, she has worked in Film, Stage, Music Videos and the Fashion Industry.
She is a featured model for Spanish designer Ricardo Ramos and has worked with him in London, in editorial shoots for his latest collections and for London fashion week. They have also worked together several times at Berlin Fashion Week sponsored by Mercedes Benz. Last year Lucy travelled to Colombia for 5 days for the (IFLS) International Footwear and Leather show in Bogota. There she modelled for Ricardo and was his spokes model in the after show press junket.
For the last 3 years Lucy has stepped away from dance and musical theatre and has been focussing solely on her career in acting. Her passion is to become a successful Film and TV actress and she is looking forward to the future ahead. - David Plowright was born on 11 December 1930 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was a producer, known for El C.I.D. (1990), The Return of the Antelope (1986) and King Lear (1983). He was married to Brenda Key. He died on 24 August 2006 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, UK.
- Samantha Cameron was born on 18 April 1971 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. She has been married to David Cameron since 1 June 1996. They have four children.
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Mike Bradwell was born in 1948 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He is a director and actor, known for Bleak Moments (1971), Second City Firsts (1973) and The Fosdyke Saga (1977).- Emily Sheffield was born in 1973 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. She is married to Tom Mullion.
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Malcolm Ranson was born on 15 January 1943 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1960), Nicholas Nickleby (2002) and Twelfth Night (1996). He was married to Jennifer Reilly. He died on 12 March 2022.- Art Department
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Richard Hornsby was born on 28 January 1957 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He is a production designer and art director, known for The Meaning of Life (1983), Ordeal by Innocence (1984) and A Handful of Dust (1988).- Soundtrack
Iain Matthews was born on 16 June 1946 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK.- Tony Jacklin was born on 7 July 1944 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK.
- Matthew Battles was born in the Scunthorpe General Hospital on (mothering) Sunday !0th March 1991. For eight years of his life, Matthew lived in Southampton until his mother returned to the town of Scunthorpe, where he remained until relocating to London to study Drama and further his career.
In 2009, Matthew undertook his first acting job, Dry Stone (Directed by John Babb) which is currently (13/05/2010) his only imdb accredited film.
Matthew studies Drama at the university of Greenwich, enjoys guitar hero and is working on his first novel. - Oliver Quickenden was born in 1993 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. Oliver was married to Olivia. Oliver died on 8 September 2012.
- Craig Stovin was born on 6 April 1974 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Zombie Diaries (2006), Zombie Diaries 2 (2011) and Tales from the Graveyard: The Clophill Archives (2013).
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Johnny Robinson is an British Film & TV Producer/Director mostly known for work within TV Drama/Comedy. He began within the Film industry working as a Camera Assistant, before beginning to produce both Factual and fictional content. Johnny is also working with CultureZone Productions on their Culture Talk show "The Culture Cafe" and involved with a number of Radio Drama's that are set to be released mid 2017.- Additional Crew
Matthew Barker was born on 20 March 1985 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He is known for Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears (2020) and Zero to Hero (2004).- F.O.S. was born on 14 August 1994 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK.
- Jack Burnell was born on 13 June 1993 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK.