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Biographies
Stephen
Fry – Charles Prentiss
Writer,
director, novelist and actor, it seems there is no end to the talents
of Stephen Fry, with the list of projects to which his name is attached
being both extensive and varied.
As
a writer, TV credits include The Cambridge Footlights, Not The Nine
O'Clock News, Mastermind, Saturday Night Live and A Bit Of Fry And
Laurie (series three).
His
projects for radio include Injury Time, Frybeat, Loose Ends, and
Saturday Night Fry.
Not
content with writing for TV and radio, Fry branched out into literature
publishing a succession of bestsellers such as The Liar, Paperweight
and Moab Is My Washpot.
But
it is for acting that the Cambridge intellectual is perhaps best
loved.
From
TV roles in The Young Ones (1982), Blackadder (series one to four),
A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Cold Comfort Farm,
Gormanghast, Fortysomething (2002) and most recently Q.I, to big
screen projects such as A Fish Called Wanda, Peter's Friends, I.Q,
SpiceWorld, The Wind In The Willows, Wilde and Gosford Park (2001),
it is a career which has encompassed many genres serving to reinforce
Fry's enormous talent.
Adding
to his many stringed bow, Fry took time out from front of camera
duties last year and stepped behind it to direct Bright Young Things,
his adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies.
John
Bird – Martin McCabe
John
Bird came into prominence at London's first satirical nightclub,
The Establishment Club (1961), and since then has appeared in innumerable
television series, films, plays and has written scripts for radio,
television and film.
His
television appearances include The Melting Pot, A Very Peculiar
Practice, The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole, Inspector Morse, two
series of El CID, A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, In The Red, Filthy, Rich
and Clatflap and two series of Chambers.
But
Bird is perhaps most famous for his political satire and has received
great acclaim for his work with John Fortune in the long running
series, The Two Johns.
In
addition, their subsequent pairing with stand up comic and impressionist
Rory Bremner for The Rory Bremner Show has resulted in one of the
most enduring comedy partnerships with The Two Johns adding real
bite to Bremner's routine.
The
plaudits rained down on the three, as further series were commissioned:
Rory Bremner Who Else and most recently, Bremner, Bird and Fortune,
for which Bird received two BAFTA nominations.
With
satire in his blood, it is no surprise to see him reprising his
role as the erstwhile Martin McCabe, wing man and partner in crime
to Charles.
Zoe
Telford – Alison Jackman
The
chameleon-like Zoe Telford here makes a rare foray into the world
of comedy, playing Alison Jackman.
First
achieving notoriety through a stunning central performance in Channel
4's harrowing drama Men Only, Telford immediately changed tack in
the role of the outspoken Maggie in the first series of Teachers.
This
was followed by the critically acclaimed BBC drama, Real Men (2002),
in which Telford played Christina, a social worker who abuses the
children in her care.
Her
most recent on-screen role was that of Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's
lover in Channel 4's Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2002).
James
Lance – Jamie Front
With
a starring role in the new BBC comedy drama Absolute Power, James
Lance further consolidates his position as one of the UK's most
talented young actors.
It
also highlights a propensity to inhabit characters whose most distinguishing
trait is an almost complete lack of moral fibre.
His
first high profile role came when he played Ben the receptionist
in Steve Coogan's I'm Alan Partridge (1997).
From
there, roles in TV cult hits such as Spaced and Smack The Pony (1999)
and independent films such as Late Night Shopping (2001), reveal
his flair for dark comedy.
His
dual role as heroin addict Lachlan, and his arrogant, cheating brother
Barnaby in Channel 4's The Book Group (2002), series one and two,
combined with his most recent on-screen incarnation as Matt in Teachers,
series three, have seen him reach new lows in charismatic treachery.
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