MATTHEW MACFADYEN - Paul Prior
Matthew Macfayden was born in Norfolk
in 1974 and is now based in London. He attended schools in England,
Scotland, Indonesia, and then went onto a boarding school in Leicestershire.
At 17 he won a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Matthew's first professional engagement was playing
Antonio in John Webster's Duchess of Malfi for the touring theatre
company Cheek by Jowl, playing in the West End, New York, Bogota,
Moscow and many other cities over ten months. This was followed
by two world tours, playing Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream
for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Benedick in Much Ado About
Nothing, again for Cheek by Jowl, both directed by Declan Donellan.
He then returned to the RSC to play Charles Surface in Declan Donellan's
production of Sheridan's School for Scandal.
Subsequently, Matthew played Alan James in Peter
Kosminsky's Warriors, a film for television about British peacekeepers
in Bosnia. Warriors won a BAFTA for Best Drama, the Royal Television
Society Award, the prix Italia, numerous other awards and Matthew
was nominated for the RTS Award for Best Actor.
Matthew plays other impressive television roles
in Stephen Poliakoff's Perfect Strangers (Almost Strangers in the
USA) with Michael Gambon; the BBC's BAFTA winning serial The Way
We Live Now, based on Anthony Trollope's novel, with David Suchet
and Miranda Otto; Peter Kosminsky's The Project and the BBC's BAFTA
winning spy drama series Spooks.
In film, Matthew's credits include Enigma directed
by Michael Apted, Ben Elton's Maybe Baby and The Reckoning. Matthew
is currently filming Pride and Prejudice for Working Title Films
playing the role of Mr. D'Arcy.
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EMILY BARCLAY - Celia Steimer
Emily was born in
Auckland, New Zealand, where she also attended school and is now
studying at Auckland University.
Alongside her studies Emily has been building up a strong acting
career. Emily’s television performances include roles in
popular New Zealand series including Mercy Peak, Shortland Street
and Spin Doctors. She has played lead roles in school and youth
theatre productions. Emily has also played American teenagers in
the US television films: No One Can Hear You and Terror Peak.
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COLIN MOY - Andrew Prior
New Zealander Colin Moy was born in Auckland
where he went to school and spent one year at Auckland University.
He then moved to Sydney
to attend drama school and studied for three years at the Sydney
Acting School. Soon after graduating he played Demetrius in an
Australian tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In 1995 he returned to Auckland where he now works in theatre,
television and film. His television credits include Jaris in Hercules,
Galantis in the hugely popular cult series Xena Warrior Princess,
Quint in Cleopatra 2525, and Ted Reece in Mataku, The Rocks directed
by Cliff Curtis. Colin’s film credits include the US high-altitude
adventure Vertical Limit directed by Martin Campbell.
Recently Colin has extended his work into directing and writing.
In 2002, he was taken on board as the director in training at the
Auckland Theatre Company and the following year he was appointed
as the literary manager for the theatre.
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MIRANDA OTTO - Penny Prior
A graduate of the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art
(NIDA), Miranda is one of the most exciting Australian actors of
her generation. Internationally recognised as the warrior princess
Eowyn of Rohan in the last two instalments of the LORD OF THE RINGS
trilogy, Miranda also has a number of recent European credits.
She played the title role in Julie Walking Home for acclaimed female
Polish director Agnieszka Holland, appeared opposite ER's Goran
Visnjic in the English thriller Doctor Sleep and starred in La
Volpe A Tre Zampe (The Three Legged Fox) for Italian director Sandro
Dionisio in 2001. In the same year, Miranda played a scheming Frenchwoman
named Gabrielle in Charlie Kaufman's Human Nature. Other US credits
include What Lies Beneath and The Thin Red Line. She also played
the lead role in the South African feature Kin in 2000.
Miranda re-teamed with her Human Nature co-star Rhys Ifans in
the Australian romantic comedy Danny Deckchair last year. She has
received critical acclaim for her work on Australian films including
Dead Letter Office, for which she received a 1999 Film Critics
Circle of Australia (FCCA) Award nomination; IN The Winter Dark,
which earned her a 1998 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award nomination;
The Well, for which she received both AFI and FCCA nominations
and which screened in competition at Cannes in 1997; and Love Serenade,
which earned her an FCCA nomination in
1997 after winning the Caméra d'Or at Cannes the previous
year. Miranda also received an AFI nomination in 1992 for Daydream
Believer and AFI and FCCA nominations for Gillian Armstrong's The
Last Days Of Chez Nous in 1992. Other Australian credits include
True Love and Chaos and The Nostradamus Kid.
Miranda has recently finished shooting in Namibia on a new action/adventure
called The Flight Of The Phoenix in which she stars opposite Giovanni
Ribisi and Dennis Quaid.
Miranda is also a respected stage actor who has had a long association
with the Sydney Theatre Company (STC), for whom she first appeared
in the 1986 production The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant. Her
performance as Nora in the STC's 2002 production of A Doll's House
earned her a 2003 Helpmann Award nomination and the prestigious
MO Award for Female Actor in a Play.
On television, Miranda has appeared in the US miniseries The Jack
Bull with John Cusack and in the UK miniseries The Way We Live
Now by Andrew Davies. She has recently embarked on a major new
Australian miniseries with the working title Through My Eyes, in
which plays the lead role of Lindy Chamberlain in the infamous
story of a woman who is wrongfully accused of murdering her baby.
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JODIE RIMMER - Jackie
Jodie Rimmer is a well established New Zealand
actress who has trained in both acting and dancing. Jodie's film
credits include two New Zealand features, Snakeskin and I'll Make
You Happy, and Disneys You Wish. For the UK's Channel 4 film for
television Not Only But Aways, written and directed by Terry Johnson
about Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Jodie played opposite Rhys Ifans
in the role of Pete's first wife Wendy. Her other television roles
include Seska in Hercules, Seraphim in Xena Warrior Princess, Phoebe
in New Adventures of Black Beauty and Kathryn in The Strip for
which she was voted Best Actress in the T.V Guide People's Choice
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