Haydn Gwynne, a stage and screen actor who starred in royal comedy “The Windsors” and also appeared in “The Crown,” died on Friday of cancer, Variety has confirmed. She was 66.
“It is with great sadness we are sharing with you that, following her recent diagnosis with cancer, the star of stage and screen Haydn Gwynne died in hospital in the small hours of Friday 20 October, surrounded by her beloved sons, close family and friends,” her agent said in a statement. “We would like to thank the staff and teams at the Royal Marsden and Brompton Hospitals for their wonderful care over the last few weeks.”
Gwynne made her TV breakthrough in the late 1980s with the drama “Nice Work” before going on to star in other British series including “Peak Practice,” “Merseybeat” and BBC series “Rome” as Julius Caesar’s wife Calpurnia.
But it was her role as cynical journalist...
“It is with great sadness we are sharing with you that, following her recent diagnosis with cancer, the star of stage and screen Haydn Gwynne died in hospital in the small hours of Friday 20 October, surrounded by her beloved sons, close family and friends,” her agent said in a statement. “We would like to thank the staff and teams at the Royal Marsden and Brompton Hospitals for their wonderful care over the last few weeks.”
Gwynne made her TV breakthrough in the late 1980s with the drama “Nice Work” before going on to star in other British series including “Peak Practice,” “Merseybeat” and BBC series “Rome” as Julius Caesar’s wife Calpurnia.
But it was her role as cynical journalist...
- 10/20/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The Addams Family has been a part of American culture for 84 years, starting with cartoons in The New Yorker and branching out into sitcoms, live-action features, and animated films. Their morbidly hilarious shenanigans and fierce loyalty to each other go hand in hand, and they continue to speak to freaks, outcasts, and fans of the macabre today. Though you probably have a good idea who the major players in the Addams Family are, some of the cobweb-covered branches of their family tree may surprise you.
For a fictional family that has been around since 1938, the Addams Family has a surprisingly straightforward canonical genealogy. Though there are countless aunts, uncles, and cousins that have accumulated over the years — most mentioned only in passing — the core group remains largely the same. Still, with a new series featuring the spooky family destined for Netflix, a refresher can't hurt. Here's a complete rundown of America's royal goth family.
For a fictional family that has been around since 1938, the Addams Family has a surprisingly straightforward canonical genealogy. Though there are countless aunts, uncles, and cousins that have accumulated over the years — most mentioned only in passing — the core group remains largely the same. Still, with a new series featuring the spooky family destined for Netflix, a refresher can't hurt. Here's a complete rundown of America's royal goth family.
- 11/8/2022
- by Jessica Scott
- Slash Film
Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird has rounded out its return-to-stage cast, with Hunter Parrish, Portia, Michael Braugher and Gordon Clapp among the actors joining the previously announced Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger.
Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel resumes performances at the Shubert Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 5.
Daniels and Keenan-Bolger are reprising their original performances as Atticus and Scout Finch. Joining them will be Portia as Calpurnia, Parrish as Jem Finch, Braugher as Tom Robinson, Russell Harvard as Link Deas, Neal Huff as Bob Ewell, Erin Wilhelmi as Mayella Ewell, Noah Robbins as Dill Harris, Zachary Booth as Horace Gilmer, Clapp as Judge John Taylor, Patricia Conolly as Mrs. Dubose, Christopher Innvar as Sheriff Heck Tate, Ted Koch as Mr. Cunningham, and Amelia McClain as Miss Stephanie, with Ian Bedford, Rosalyn Coleman, Anne-Marie Cusson, Michael Bryan French, Steven Lee Johnson, Tyler Lea, Mariah Lee, Geoffrey Allen Murphy,...
Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel resumes performances at the Shubert Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 5.
Daniels and Keenan-Bolger are reprising their original performances as Atticus and Scout Finch. Joining them will be Portia as Calpurnia, Parrish as Jem Finch, Braugher as Tom Robinson, Russell Harvard as Link Deas, Neal Huff as Bob Ewell, Erin Wilhelmi as Mayella Ewell, Noah Robbins as Dill Harris, Zachary Booth as Horace Gilmer, Clapp as Judge John Taylor, Patricia Conolly as Mrs. Dubose, Christopher Innvar as Sheriff Heck Tate, Ted Koch as Mr. Cunningham, and Amelia McClain as Miss Stephanie, with Ian Bedford, Rosalyn Coleman, Anne-Marie Cusson, Michael Bryan French, Steven Lee Johnson, Tyler Lea, Mariah Lee, Geoffrey Allen Murphy,...
- 9/7/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
In February, “To Kill a Mockingbird” will make history.
It will become the first Broadway play to be presented at Madison Square Garden, the sprawling sports complex best known for hosting Knicks and Rangers games, as well as Billy Joel concerts. Don’t try to get tickets. Like most performances of the smash production, this Feb. 26, one-day-only engagement is already a sell-out. Well, not a sell-out exactly. Tickets are being given out free to some 18,000 public school students from across New York City.
“It’ll be more of an event than a play,” says Ed Harris, the Oscar-nominated “Apollo 13” and “Pollock” actor currently starring as
Atticus Finch. “But it’s going to be memorable, I’m sure.”
The space is so enormous that the production has had to relocate from the Shubert Theatre on Broadway to a Long Island City studio for rehearsals to get a true sense of...
It will become the first Broadway play to be presented at Madison Square Garden, the sprawling sports complex best known for hosting Knicks and Rangers games, as well as Billy Joel concerts. Don’t try to get tickets. Like most performances of the smash production, this Feb. 26, one-day-only engagement is already a sell-out. Well, not a sell-out exactly. Tickets are being given out free to some 18,000 public school students from across New York City.
“It’ll be more of an event than a play,” says Ed Harris, the Oscar-nominated “Apollo 13” and “Pollock” actor currently starring as
Atticus Finch. “But it’s going to be memorable, I’m sure.”
The space is so enormous that the production has had to relocate from the Shubert Theatre on Broadway to a Long Island City studio for rehearsals to get a true sense of...
- 1/29/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Twenty-four hours haven’t been nearly enough to settle, in my mind anyway, yesterday’s Tony Awards Sorkin Snub, but for the most part, the nominations sit well. Certainly they represent a decent scope of styles and approaches that make for a Broadway inclusive enough to find space for something as quirky (understatement of the day) as Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus and as traditional (if woke) Kiss Me, Kate.
I wrote about the snubs and surprises of the Tony Award nominations yesterday, so today I’ll walk through some random Broadway byways – congratulations, disappointments and shout-outs to performances and productions that didn’t make the Tony cut but merit remembering as this season heads to a close (Tony eligibility is done and dusted; the ceremony is June 9).
Best Musical Of the big, end-of-ceremony categories, this one probably has the least to quibble with, though I will: Be More Chill should have been here.
I wrote about the snubs and surprises of the Tony Award nominations yesterday, so today I’ll walk through some random Broadway byways – congratulations, disappointments and shout-outs to performances and productions that didn’t make the Tony cut but merit remembering as this season heads to a close (Tony eligibility is done and dusted; the ceremony is June 9).
Best Musical Of the big, end-of-ceremony categories, this one probably has the least to quibble with, though I will: Be More Chill should have been here.
- 5/1/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird is continuing to make waves on Broadway. Producer Scott Rudin announced today that the play based on Harper Lee’s classic novel and directed by Bartlett Sher has broken its own one-week box office record for the fourth time. It has now reached a record-breaking gross of $1,756,227 (for the week ending April 28) and still holds the title of the highest weekly gross of a play in the history of the Shubert Organization. This makes To Kill a Mockingbird the highest grossing American play in Broadway history.
The news comes after it was recently announced that To Kill a Mockingbird has officially recouped its entire investment. The stage adaptation has played to capacity crowds since performances began on Nov. 1, 2018. Cumulative gross sales to date stand at more than $57 million.
Set in Alabama in 1934, Lee’s story of racial injustice and...
The news comes after it was recently announced that To Kill a Mockingbird has officially recouped its entire investment. The stage adaptation has played to capacity crowds since performances began on Nov. 1, 2018. Cumulative gross sales to date stand at more than $57 million.
Set in Alabama in 1934, Lee’s story of racial injustice and...
- 4/28/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Update, with community theater responses After some community theaters were forced to cancel planned productions of a 1991 version of To Kill A Mockingbird following litigation threats by Broadway producer Scott Rudin, those very companies are being offered by Rudin the chance to stage the Aaron Sorkin version currently on Broadway.
In other words – and remarkably – subscribers and ticket-buyers at The Dayton Playhouse or Buffalo’s Kavinoky Theater might get the chance to see Sorkin’s red-hot play before New Yorkers waiting for seats on Broadway, and certainly before the yet-to-be-announced touring production hits the road.
Informed of Rudin’s decision by Deadline, Matt Lindsay, board chair for The Dayton Playhouse, said, “That’s incredible. Amazingly incredible.” Lindsay said he had not seen Sorkin’s version, and doubted there would be time to mount it by March 8 – Dayton’s planned opening night for the Sergel version – but would investigate the offer...
In other words – and remarkably – subscribers and ticket-buyers at The Dayton Playhouse or Buffalo’s Kavinoky Theater might get the chance to see Sorkin’s red-hot play before New Yorkers waiting for seats on Broadway, and certainly before the yet-to-be-announced touring production hits the road.
Informed of Rudin’s decision by Deadline, Matt Lindsay, board chair for The Dayton Playhouse, said, “That’s incredible. Amazingly incredible.” Lindsay said he had not seen Sorkin’s version, and doubted there would be time to mount it by March 8 – Dayton’s planned opening night for the Sergel version – but would investigate the offer...
- 3/1/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Weezer have teamed with Calpurnia – the indie rock band led by Stranger Things‘ Finn Wolfhard – for a nostalgic new video for their cover of a-ha’s “Take On Me.” The track appears on Weezer’s new self-titled covers record, also known as The Teal Album.
In the video, Wolfhard plays a young Rivers Cuomo, an aspiring rocker done-up with massive metalhead hair, who leads Calpurnia through Weezer’s rendition of “Take On Me” in the living room of his parents’ house. In a nod to a-ha’s famous music video,...
In the video, Wolfhard plays a young Rivers Cuomo, an aspiring rocker done-up with massive metalhead hair, who leads Calpurnia through Weezer’s rendition of “Take On Me” in the living room of his parents’ house. In a nod to a-ha’s famous music video,...
- 2/12/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
He arrives exactly on schedule, not a minute early, not a minute late, and comes dressed in character: Armani cashmere shirt, translucent Alain Mikli eyeglasses and, of course, a Kangol cap. There are no formalities, no handshakes, no, "Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Samuel L. Jackson." He simply strolls into the restaurant in midtown Manhattan — a short walk from the $13 million condo he shares with his wife of 38 years, Latanya Richardson, who's currently starring as Calpurnia in Aaron Sorkin's Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird — slips into a corner booth ...
He arrives exactly on schedule, not a minute early, not a minute late, and comes dressed in character: Armani cashmere shirt, translucent Alain Mikli eyeglasses and, of course, a Kangol cap. There are no formalities, no handshakes, no, "Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Samuel L. Jackson." He simply strolls into the restaurant in midtown Manhattan — a short walk from the $13 million condo he shares with his wife of 38 years, Latanya Richardson, who's currently starring as Calpurnia in Aaron Sorkin's Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird — slips into a corner booth ...
Exclusive: As it continues to set records, the new Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird has released a new block of tickets through November 1. That will extend the run of the Scott Rudin-produced play to exactly one year after its first Broadway performance at the Shubert Theatre.
Critics raved when Mockingbird, adapted by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher, officially opened last month. Audiences have flocked to the new stage version of Harper Lee’s beloved novel, whose iconic film version starring Gregory Peck is in the Hollywood firmament. Jeff Daniels takes up Peck’s mantle in the current production, playing lead character Atticus Finch.
Last week, the production broke the single-week record for the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history. It also holds the Shubert Organization’s box office mark for the highest weekly gross of any Broadway play in the organization’s century-plus history.
Since...
Critics raved when Mockingbird, adapted by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher, officially opened last month. Audiences have flocked to the new stage version of Harper Lee’s beloved novel, whose iconic film version starring Gregory Peck is in the Hollywood firmament. Jeff Daniels takes up Peck’s mantle in the current production, playing lead character Atticus Finch.
Last week, the production broke the single-week record for the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history. It also holds the Shubert Organization’s box office mark for the highest weekly gross of any Broadway play in the organization’s century-plus history.
Since...
- 1/7/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
New York’s Governors Ball has tapped The Strokes, Florence + The Machine and Tyler, The Creator to headline its 2019 festival, which takes place at Randall’s Island Park from May 31st to June 2nd.
Lil Wayne, the 1975, Mitski, Kacey Musgraves, Major Lazer, Vince Staples, Nas, Sza, Lily Allen, Charli Xcx, Ty Dolla $ign and Blood Orange will also be among the 70 artists to perform at the annual festival over the course of the weekend.
The Strokes’ Governors Ball gig marks the band’s first U.S. show since July 2016. In addition to the Strokes,...
Lil Wayne, the 1975, Mitski, Kacey Musgraves, Major Lazer, Vince Staples, Nas, Sza, Lily Allen, Charli Xcx, Ty Dolla $ign and Blood Orange will also be among the 70 artists to perform at the annual festival over the course of the weekend.
The Strokes’ Governors Ball gig marks the band’s first U.S. show since July 2016. In addition to the Strokes,...
- 1/7/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
All rise for the miracle that is To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway. Aaron Sorkin has adapted Harper’s Lee’s benchmark 1960 novel of growing up in a racially segregated, hate-charged, Depression-era Alabama so that it adheres to the granular specificity of the past while speaking to the harsh realities of a turbulent present. It’s a tricky, balancing act and Sorkin — in tandem with dynamic director Bartlett Sher and a flawless acting ensemble — never loses sight of making Lee’s tale thrillingly alive on stage. Brimming with humor, generous heart and gritty provocation,...
- 12/17/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Several years ago, producer Scott Rudin contacted Aaron Sorkin with an idea that was either bold or insane: A new To Kill A Mockingbird. For the stage. Harper Lee’s beloved 1960 book became a just-as-beloved (maybe more so) 1962 movie that left what could easily be assumed to be an indelible, irreplaceable imprint on our cultural memory.
As Sorkin tells Deadline in this interview, he feared a new take on Mockingbird could only be less. Less than the book. Less than the movie. Less than Gregory Peck, whose portrayal of Atticus Finch is nothing short of iconic.
What changed his mind? The short answer: Scott Rudin, and maybe Donald Trump. The long answer: Let Sorkin explain.
Despite the allegations set forth in a now-settled lawsuit filed by the estate of Harper Lee, Sorkin’s Mockingbird stays close – in plot – to the Mockingbird everyone knows. In small-town Alabama during the Great Depression,...
As Sorkin tells Deadline in this interview, he feared a new take on Mockingbird could only be less. Less than the book. Less than the movie. Less than Gregory Peck, whose portrayal of Atticus Finch is nothing short of iconic.
What changed his mind? The short answer: Scott Rudin, and maybe Donald Trump. The long answer: Let Sorkin explain.
Despite the allegations set forth in a now-settled lawsuit filed by the estate of Harper Lee, Sorkin’s Mockingbird stays close – in plot – to the Mockingbird everyone knows. In small-town Alabama during the Great Depression,...
- 12/13/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Deborah Kerr would’ve celebrated her 97th birthday on September 30, 2018. With six Oscar bids to her name, the Scottish-born thespian is one of the most celebrated performers of all time. However, she never actually won one of those little gold statuettes, giving her the dubious distinction of tying Thelma Ritter and Glenn Close as the most nominated actress without a victory. Still, she must’ve done something right to rack up all that Academy recognition. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1921, Kerr got her start on the London stage before appearing in her first film when she was just 20-years-old: “Major Barbara” (1941). She had her big break two years later in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‘s epic “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” (1943). Kerr reunited with the filmmaking duo for “Black Narcissus...
Born in 1921, Kerr got her start on the London stage before appearing in her first film when she was just 20-years-old: “Major Barbara” (1941). She had her big break two years later in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‘s epic “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” (1943). Kerr reunited with the filmmaking duo for “Black Narcissus...
- 9/30/2018
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
When Spotify asked Vancouver-based indie band Calpurnia to record a cover song, their top choice – and their only choice – was the Weezer classic “Say It Ain’t So.” It was the only song all four of them knew how to play, which they learned at rock camp four years prior, they explained on the new episode of Spotify’s Under Cover podcast.
Stranger Things actor Finn Wolfhard sings lead and plays guitar for Calpurnia, along with Ayla Tesler-Mabe on vocals and lead guitar, Jack Anderson on bass and Malcolm Craig on drums.
Stranger Things actor Finn Wolfhard sings lead and plays guitar for Calpurnia, along with Ayla Tesler-Mabe on vocals and lead guitar, Jack Anderson on bass and Malcolm Craig on drums.
- 9/29/2018
- by Sarah Grant
- Rollingstone.com
Joseph L. Manciewicz's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar put Marlon Brando in a toga.
Beware the Ides of March. You can expect all manner of bad omens, murders most foul, and pretentious features like this one. The Roman year began in March and it took fifteen days to recover from their new year’s celebration. On this day in 44 BC, give or take a calendar change, Julius Caesar, who ended the Roman Republic after years of internal battles dating back to Romulus and Remus, was assassinated in a conspiracy of about 60 Senators who inflicted 23 stab wounds on the new dictator.
Mark Antony, who was Caesar’s underboss, united the people of Rome and went after the conspirators, finally forming a triumvirate with Lepidus and Octavian to rule the fledgling empire before “going native” in Egypt with Cleopatra. That period in Roman history is one of the most documented...
Beware the Ides of March. You can expect all manner of bad omens, murders most foul, and pretentious features like this one. The Roman year began in March and it took fifteen days to recover from their new year’s celebration. On this day in 44 BC, give or take a calendar change, Julius Caesar, who ended the Roman Republic after years of internal battles dating back to Romulus and Remus, was assassinated in a conspiracy of about 60 Senators who inflicted 23 stab wounds on the new dictator.
Mark Antony, who was Caesar’s underboss, united the people of Rome and went after the conspirators, finally forming a triumvirate with Lepidus and Octavian to rule the fledgling empire before “going native” in Egypt with Cleopatra. That period in Roman history is one of the most documented...
- 3/15/2013
- Den of Geek
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