Robert Powell - Jeffrey Bernard
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ROBERT POWELL - JEFFREY BERNARD
Robert’s extensive theatre credits include: repertory seasons at Stoke, Scarborough and Bolton; A Smashing Day at the Arts Theatre; Ubu Roi and Pirates, Royal Court Theatre; Hamlet, Leeds
Playhouse; The Lady From the Sea, Greenwich Theatre; Glasstown, Prospect Theatre Company;
Travesties by Tom Stoppard for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Terra Nova, Watford Palace
Theatre; Private Dick, Whitehall Theatre and Tovarich, Chichester Festival Theatre, and a season in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre.
He starred in Sherlock Holmes - the Musical at the Bristol Old Vic and then on a national tour; played Louis Mazzini in Kind Hearts and Coronets, and starred with Susannah York in Double Double on national tours. In the spring of 2002 he played Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt in a tour of Alan Bennett’s Single spies alongside Liza Goddard, and in 2003 toured in The Picture of Dorian Gray, playing Lord Henry.
For his portrayal of Jesus in Franco Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth, Robert received Best Actor awards from TV Times and Italian TV Times, the International Arts Prize at the Fiuggi Film Festival, Grand Prize at the Saint Vincent Film Festival and a nomination as Best Actor from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Other television appearances include: Doomwatch, the title role in the 1971 BBC TV film Shelley, Jude in Jude the Obscure, Mrs Warren’s Profession, You Never Can Tell, Mr Rolls and Mr Royce, Looking for Clancy,The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Pygmalion etc etc. He starred in the ten-part TV serial, Shaka Zulu; played Richard Hannay in two series of Hannay for Thames Television, starred as Cortez in the world TV premiere of Arthur Miller’s The Golden Years and recently filmed a two-hour pilot for a TV series set in South Africa, Pride of Africa. Robert has made five series of the BBC TV comedy series, The Detectives and six series starring as Mark Williams in Holby City, the BBC’s flagship drama series. US television credits include: The Four Feathers (NBC); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (CBS); Frankenstein (Showtime) and an adaptation of Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle for US and Canadian TV playing the lead role of Gleb Nerzhin.
Robert’s many film appearances include: Secrets, Running Scared,The Asphyx, Liliana Cavani’s
Beyond Good and Evil, Merchant Ivory’s Jane Austen in Manhattan, Sergio Nasca’s D’annunzio,The Survivor,The Jigsaw Man, Krzysztof Zanussi’s The Long Conversation With a Bird, Dale Bradley’s acclaimed New Zealand film, Chunuk Bair, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. For Ken Russell, he played the title role in Mahler and Captain Walker in Tommy and was Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps. He won Best Actor Award at the Paris Film Festival for Harlequin and was adjudged Best Actor at Venice Film Festival for his performance in Imperative, directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.
PETER BRAMHILL
Peter trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: The Woman in Black, UK number one tour; King Lear at the Young Vic andLiverpool Everyman; Much Ado About Nothing, Regent’s Park; An Inspector Calls, Oldham Coliseum; The Glass Cage, Royal & Derngate, Northampton; The Miniaturists at the Arcola Theatre, and The Taming of the Shrew,Wilton’s Music Hall. For the RSC: Thomas More directed by Robert Delamere (for which he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award); Believe What You Will directed by Josie Rourke, Sejanus directed by Greg Doran, Speaking Like Magpies directed by Rupert Goold and Othello directed by Greg Doran; Gong Donkey’s at the Bush Theatre directed by Mike Bradwell; Macbeth directed by James Roose-Evans for the Ludlow Festival; Lady Windermere’s Fan directed by David Grindley; the British premiere of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi; Christopher Wren’s highly- acclaimed premiere production of Switchboard at the Grace Theatre; Antony and Cleopatra and As You Like It for Michael Bogdanov’s English Shakespeare Company; Strangers in the Night, Salisbury Playhouse, and A Christmas Carol, Birmingham Rep, directed by Michael Bogdanov.
Film credits include: Mind Flesh,The Nugget Run, Human Traffic, Jump and Love Roy.
Television credits include: Wickedest City,Vexed, Doctors, Dustbin Baby, Made With Magic,
EastEnders, Holby City,The Bill and Footballers’ Wives.
MARK HADFIELD
Trained at RADA. Recent theatre credits include: A Christmas Carol (Nuffield); Stephen Sondheim’s Into theWoods (Regent’s ParkTheatre); Talent, written and directed by VictoriaWood, and Rookery Nook (Menier Chocolate Factory); Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the RSC in Stratford and London; Donkeys’Years (tour); The 39 Steps (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Night at the Dogs (Soho);Child of the Snow,Two’s Company (Bristol OldVic); Don Juan, Man and Superman (Peter Hall Co/Theatre Royal Bath); The Lion King (Lyceum, London).
Other credits include: Cracked, By Many Wounds (Hampstead Theatre); The Danube, Amphitryon (the Gate); Romeo and Juliet (Lyric Hammersmith); The Taming of the Shrew (Crucible, Sheffield); The Miser (Chichester); Blockheads (Mermaid); Becket (Haymarket); Much Ado About Nothing (Queen’s); Guys and Dolls (Prince of Wales); The Plough and the Stars, Peter Pan (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Royal Shakespeare Company credits include: Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,The CanterburyTales (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor), The Plantagenets,T he Plain Dealer, Bartholomew Fair, TheTwo Gentlemen of Verona, The Talk of the City, The Seagull, Jubilee, The Comedy of Errors/Hamlet (regional tour) and The Winter’s Tale (world tour). Royal National Theatre credits include: The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Thérèse Raquin (Olivier Award nomination: Best Performance in a Supporting Role), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Film credits include: A Cock and Bull Story, Felicia’s Journey, In the Bleak Midwinter, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Just Like a Woman, Century.
Television credits include:Law&Order,Hamlet,DocMartin,Foyle’s War, The Bill, People Like Us,
Casualty, Holby City, Pigsty, Rhona, Posh Nosh,The Wyvern Mystery,The Vice, Cracker,Van der Valk, Headless.
Radio credits include: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Fungus the Bogeyman,The Talk of the City, A High Wind in Jamaica, Jennings at School,The Family Brandon, Listen With Les. Audiobooks:TheLondonTapes,RuthEllis,AdrianMole:theProstrate Years (shortlist Booker Prize: Best Audiobook 2010), Bad Boy.
REBECCA LACEY
Theatre credits include: Tartuffe (Liverpool Everyman); Amy’s View (national tour); Dead Funny (tour and West End); Loot and Skin of Our Teeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Love for Love (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Provoked Wife (national tour); It’s Not the End of the World, Eva Peron(OrangeTree);TheTamingoftheShrew,AnIdeal Husband (Royal Exchange); Sailor, Beware! (Theatr Clwyd); Wildest Dreams, My Very Own Story (Stephen Joseph Theatre for Alan Ayckbourn); Blithe Spirit.
Television credits include: Hustle, Monarch of the Glen (one series), Casualty (two years), May to December (five series), Badger (two series), Murder in Mind, Heartbeat, MIT,Murder in Suburbia, The Bill, ATouch of Frost, Heavy Weather, The Darling Buds of May, The Smiths, Home to Roost (two series), The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Crown Prosecutor, Game On, Perfect Scoundrels, Hannay, Lovejoy, Shine on Harvey Moon, The Bretts (two series).
Film credits include: Chalet Girl, Arthur’s Dyke, The Romanovs, Carry on Columbus, Second Victory, The Shooting Party
AMY HALL
Amy graduated with an MA from the Drama Centre London in 2006. Theatre credits include: Present Laughter and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (Royal National Theatre); Blithe Spirit (Oldham/Basingstoke/Harrogate); Time and Time Again (Mill at Sonning); And We That Are Left (Watford Palace).
TV credits include: Doctors (BBC) and Wire in the Blood (ITV).
Film credits include: Pride and What? (BBC British Summer of Film) and Mind the Gap (Independent).
Audio credits: audiobook: The Golden Prince (HarperCollins).
Amy has a BA in English Literature. She also worked as a camera assistant in TV and film, on
productions such as: Batman Begins, Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason, The Wedding Date,
Spooks, Hustle and Trial & Retribution.