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Lashana Lynch (born 27 November 1987) is a British actress. She plays the leading role of Rosaline in the ABC period drama series Still Star-Crossed.
Lynch is a graduate of the BA Acting course at ArtsEd drama school in London. She made her film debut in the 2011 drama film Fast Girls. She later co-starred in the BBC television film The 7.39. On television, she also has appeared in Silent Witness, Death in Paradise, and was regular cast member on the short-lived BBC comedy Crims in 2015.
In 2016, Lynch was cast as leading character, Rosaline, in the American period drama series Still Star-Crossed produced by Shonda Rhimes.
Lynch is of Jamaican descent.- This ill-fated British actress was born in the Shepherd's Bush area of London, England, on February 27, 1936. After the outbreak of World War II, young Virginia and her family were evacuated to South Africa. She eventually returned to London and entered a convent school where the pretty, gray-eyed brunette developed an interest in acting.
Virginia attended drama school and finally broke into the business with TV parts, usually playing demure young lasses in assorted dashing action series such as "The Buccaneers" and The Adventures of Robin Hood." Making a minor film debut for director Roy Boulting with Happy Is the Bride (1958), she achieved better notices with her second film. In Our Virgin Island (1958), she played the bride of John Cassavetes who learns to adapt to a Robinson Crusoe-styled existence. Co-starring an up-and-coming Sidney Poitier, the story lightly tinges on racial issues.
On the strength of this, Virginia won a contract with British Lion Pictures and showcased well in The Man Upstairs (1958) with Richard Attenborough, but less so playing a airline stewardess in the mediocre Jet Storm (1959) which also wasted a top-notch cast including Attenborough, Mai Zetterling, Diane Cilento, Stanley Baker and Sybil Thorndike.
Virginia's reticent but sincere approach to films worked remarkably well in an understated way, and she proved just as quietly compelling on stage with a prime role in "The Catalyst" in 1958 with Phil Brown and Renée Asherson. She showed escalating promise and earned BAFTA nominations for her memorable work in Young and Willing (1962) and as Peter Sellers' forlorn wife in Only Two Can Play (1962), but then all filming stopped.
This abrupt end was primarily due to her marriage in 1962 and a change of focus on family life. Other than occasional TV appearances in such popular series as "Danger Man" and "The Prisoner," Virginia was seldom seen. It was learned that following the birth of her second son in February, 1966, she began showing acute signs of post-natal depression.
In the summer of 1967 Virginia returned auspiciously to filming with a remake of the soap drama Interlude (1968) playing the cast-off wife of orchestra conductor Oskar Werner. She suffered a severe nervous breakdown following the film's shoot and never recovered.
On a bitterly cold day on January 24, 1968, Virginia took a major overdose of antidepressants, drove away from her home at Princes Risborough. She was found collapsed in a nearby wooded area the next day suffering from acute hypothermia. Although she was revived briefly, she died shortly after at a nearby hospital.
Virginia won a posthumous National Board of Review award and a BAFTA nomination for her work in "Interlude." During her relatively short career, the actress seemed doomed to play unhappy, sympathetic third parties in romantic triangles. While a notable sadness touched many of Virginia Maskell's roles, her performances are all the more haunting to watch knowing her personal tragedy. - Actress
- Composer
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Yazz was born on 19 May 1960 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Coldcut Feat. Yazz and the Plastic Population (1988), Yazz: Stand Up for Your Love Rights (European Version) (1988) and Yazz: Stand Up for Your Love Rights (US Version) (1988).- Actress
- Music Department
Roberta Tovey was born on 9 August 1953 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965), Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) and A High Wind in Jamaica (1965).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Heather Tobias was born in 1953 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Making Out (1989) and Our Mutual Friend (1998).- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
British cinematographer Brian Tufano began his career at the BBC, working with such directors as Stephen Frears and Alan Parker. In 1992 he was assigned to the series Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1993) and worked with director Danny Boyle. Boyle took him along on his feature debut, Shallow Grave (1994), and continued to work with Tufano on such films as Trainspotting (1996) and A Life Less Ordinary (1997). In 2001 Tufano won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film and Television.- Director
- Editor
- Producer
Leslie Norman began his career as a 14-year-old in the laboratories and editorial rooms of Warner Brothers Teddington Studios. He worked his way up from sweeping cutting-room floors to supervising editor and then assistant director. After military service he joined Ealing, where he became involved in their Australian operation. Norman's first major credit was as supervising editor of the classic outback drama about wartime cattle droving, The Overlanders (1946), starring Chips Rafferty. Back in Britain he worked on The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) and Frieda (1947), before resuming his fruitful association with "Overlanders" director Harry Watt as producer of Watt's African and Australian "true-life" adventure dramas, including the Technicolor Ivory Hunter (1951) (which he also co-wrote) and West of Zanzibar (1954). Norman then produced one of the classic British war dramas of the 1950s, an epic story of Atlantic convoy duty during World War II, The Cruel Sea (1953). The picture made a major star out of its lead, Jack Hawkins.
By 1955 Norman was directing his own films, beginning with the suspenser The Night My Number Came Up (1955), followed by a well-observed Australian-set character drama, The Shiralee (1957); and even a rather well-received sci-fi drama, X the Unknown (1956) (which he took over from exiled American director Joseph Losey). He also turned out the stiff-upper-lip wartime epic Dunkirk (1958), which was Ealing's most expensive venture to date. What to do with a captured Japanese prisoner in the Malayan jungle was the theme occupying Norman's last notable directorial effort, Jungle Fighters (1961). He elicited some excellent performances from his cast (including Laurence Harvey and Richard Todd) in what was an absorbing character study of clashing personalities.
Norman, ever versatile, turned his hand to directing episodic television during the 1960s and 1970s, with particular emphasis on cult action series, such as The Saint (1962), The Baron (1966), Department S (1969) and The Persuaders! (1971).- Stunts
- Actor
- Casting Department
Joe Powell was born on 21 March 1922 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Zulu (1964), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Top Secret! (1984). He was married to Marguerite "Clem" and Juliet. He died on 30 June 2016 in London, England, UK.- Camera and Electrical Department
Vic Hammond was born on 7 May 1945 in Shepherds Bush, London, England, UK. He is known for Troy (2004), Dead Fish (2005) and Blame It on Rio (1984). He died on 24 April 2013 in Ickenham, Greater London, England, UK.- Lawrence Dallaglio was born on 10 August 1972 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Ken Westbury was born on 5 January 1927 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for The Singing Detective (1986), Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984) and 1990 (1977). He was married to Doreen White. He died on 28 April 2023 in the UK.- William Fazan was born on 25 May 1877 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Murder! (1930), Once in a New Moon (1934) and Break the News (1938). He died on 13 December 1942 in Clapham, London, England, UK.
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- Casting Department
- Additional Crew
Maude Spector was born on 19 July 1916 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. She was a casting director, known for Lifeforce (1985), The Boys from Brazil (1978) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She died on 11 October 1995 in Hertfordshire, England, UK.- E.C. Bentley was born on 10 July 1875 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Trent's Last Case (1929), Trent's Last Case (1920) and Trent's Last Case (1952). He was married to Violet Alice Mary Boileau. He died on 30 March 1956 in London, England, UK.
- Peter Brough was born on 26 February 1916 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He died on 3 June 1999 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Middleton Woods was born on 20 September 1886 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952) and The Swingin' Maiden (1962). He died in 1974 in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Norman Hargood was born on 15 October 1923 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Murder She Said (1961), The Unstoppable Man (1961) and Black Joy (1977). He died on 11 March 1990 in Majorca, Spain.- Composer
Tim Blake was born on 6 February 1952 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. Tim is a composer, known for Hu-Man (1975).- Music Department
- Actor
Lennie Bush was born on 6 June 1927 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for BBC2 Play of the Week (1977), Peter Skellern (1980) and The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000). He was married to Anne. He died on 15 June 2004 in Suffolk, England, UK.- Peter Prichard was born on 30 November 1932 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was a producer, known for Bob Monkhouse: Live and Forbidden (1995), The Royal Variety Performance 2011 (2011) and The Best of the Royal Variety (2006). He died on 30 August 2014.
- Vivian Harboard was born on 14 January 1893 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Her Cross (1919). He died on 2 February 1950 in Heddington, Wiltshire, England, UK.
- Kate Allen was born on 25 January 1955 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Reginald Foresythe was born on 28 May 1907 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Stars in Your Eyes (1956), Texasville (1990) and The Big Noise (1936). He died on 28 December 1958 in Paddington, London, England, UK.- Kenneth L. Maidment was born on 7 September 1922 in Shepherds Bush, London, England, UK. Kenneth L. was a producer, known for The Village (1953). Kenneth L. died on 1 February 2006 in Surrey, England, UK.
- Music Department
Walter Legge was born on 1 June 1906 in Westwick Gardens, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England. He is known for Common Heritage (1940) and Music Now (1968). He died on 22 March 1979 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France.