Max Percy – My Dad’s Gap Year

Max co-starred as Matias in My Dad’s Gap Year which ran at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park from the 30th of January until the 23rd of February 2019. 

Directed by cultural polymath Rikki Beadle-Blair, it told the story of Dave who, with his life reaching peak mid-life crisis, decides to take his repressed gay teenage son William, played by Alex Britt, on a wild mad-cap adventure to Bangkok, Thailand to lose his virginity.

Once there he is swept off his feet by the charming and sexy Matias who was played by our fabulous Max Percy! 

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Damien Walsh – Penny on M.A.R.S Season 2

Damien plays both twin roles of Nick and Mike in the second series of Penny on M.A.R.S. which went on air in Italy earlier this month with it airing in the UK later this year.

The series follows the adventures of Penny, a girl who has a big talent and a big passion: singing. She decides to enroll in the most famous performing arts high school, the Music Arts Reiner School. Her passion will encourage her to fight for her dreams alongside her best friend Camilla. And soon, the arrival of a boy will complicate things.

Nick is controlled, respectful and very studious, lives on music and dance and has never kissed a girl. He is reserved, profound, constant in his feelings, but slowly he will understand that he needs to be more impulsive like his twin Mike. 

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Maria Lundqvist & Molly Nutley- Wedding, Funeral and Baptism

Colin Nutley’s new series assembles some of Sweden’s most popular and renowned actors together in a 4-part miniseries focusing on two families in a small Swedish town meeting for a wedding. A dramatic event at said wedding then leads to both a funeral and a baptism. 

Maria plays the role of Michelle in Wedding Funeral and Baptism. 

Molly is s very accomplished young actress who is playing the role of Meya.

Wedding Funeral and Baptism will air on C More and TV4 next month. 

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Alexandra Afryea – Silent Witness

Alexandra will guest-star as Kate Riley in an episode of BBC’s Silent Witness premiering on Tuesday 8th January at 9pm on BBC One. 

The longest-running crime drama on TV today, first gracing our screens back in 1996, and currently starring Emilia Fox, David Caves, Liz Carr and Richard Lintern, it follows a crack team of forensic pathologists and their various assignments, helping the police solving often rather grizzly crimes by investigating the murder victims themselves, the titular Silent Witness. 

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Robin Kingsland – Call the Midwife

Robin will be co-starring in an episode of the upcoming eighth season of BBC’s Call the Midwife premiering on BBC One at 8pm on Sunday 13th of January. 

Set in the East End of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s, this period drama tells the story of nurses and midwives in the poverty-stricken neighbourhood of Poplar and is based off the trilogy of memoirs written by Jennifer Worth, the first book being the series’ namesake.

The post-World War II “Baby Boom”, the wave of immigration from the Commonwealth Nations following the Second World War, the foundation of the NHS in 1948, unexploded bombs left over from the Blitz, the threat of nuclear war and the introduction of contraceptive medication have all been featured in the show’s seven-series history.  

Robin will be playing Doctor Macallister, a surgeon specialising in cleft pallet surgery who is brought in to consult with a worried mother about an operation her newborn requires. 

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Alexandra Afryea – Care

Alexandra plays the role of Nurse Alice Darwin in Jimmy McGovern and Gillian Juckes Care.

Care will be shown on BBC 1 at 9pm on Sunday 9th December.

Jenny Northwood, played by Sheridan Smith, is a single mother of two struggling to raise her two girls after her feckless husband left for another woman. Her widowed mother Mary is her lifeline, helping out with the kids which allows Jenny to hold down her full-time job at the supermarket. When Mary (played by Alison Steadman)suffers a massive stroke resulting in vascular dementia, Jenny’s world comes crashing down.

 

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Jenny Gayner – Annie

Jenny will be co-starring as Lilly in Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin’s Broadway classic Annie, touring across the UK and Ireland from the 2nd of February until the 23rd of November. 

Following a smash-hit production at the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End, this heart-felt story of a brave young orphan in Depression-era America trying to find her true family with the help of the kind Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks stars either award-winning actress Anita Dobson or Strictly Come Dancing judge and resident bogeyman Craig Revel Horwood as the despicable orphanage owner Miss Agatha Hannigan. 

Jenny plays Lilly St. Regis, the partner and love-interest to criminal and con-artist Daniel Francis “Rooster” Hannigan, who is Miss Hannigan’s brother and attempts to trick Annie into believing that he is her real father. His girlfriend Lily is a rough, tough sexy New Jersey broad with a big rack and a bigger mouth. 

Annie will open at the Manchester Opera House on the 2nd of February 2019 and finish at Stoke’s Regent Theatre on the 23rd of November.  

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Simon Burbage – John Lewis & Partners Christmas Advert 2018

Simon stars as Elton John in his mid to late 30s in this year’s Christmas advert for John Lewis & Partners entitled A Boy and his Piano.

Produced with Sir Elton’s involvement in nearly every stage of production, the Christmas advert from the nationwide department store chain has become something of a Yuletide tradition.

Charting the life of Sir Elton John throughout his life, it starts in the modern day before going all the way back to a family Christmas in Pinner where his parents/Father Christmas have him his very first piano. Before then we see several major events in Elton’s life from a dreary childhood recital, to dazzling friends and family as a teenager by playing like Jerry Lee Lewis, to recording Your Song (the soundtrack to the episode), to performing in front of packed stadiums around the world.

While some have criticised the ad for having nothing to do with Christmas, the true message of the advert is that a lifetime of wonder and success and beauty can all be traced back to a single act of kindness and generosity towards those we love and adore.

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Cassidy Little – Shakespeare & Remembrance

Cassidy is taking part in Shakespeare & Rememberance at Shakespeare’s Globe in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

An evening of performances that will pit Shakespeare’s imagined experience of war against the realities of twenty-first century military life.

Focusing on current serving and veteran military personnel and their families, this will be an evening of remembrance for all those who served in both the First World War and other more recent conflicts. The call and response between Shakespeare and our contemporaries will explore what war means to our society, how we view the military and combat, and how it touches our lives.

The performance will also be a testament to the power of art, theatre, and specifically Shakespeare, to rehabilitate and enrich the lives of those who have experienced the effects of war. 

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Stephen Marzella – Walking with the Enemy

Stephen features as David Koenig in Mark Schmidt’s Walking with the Enemy, available on DVD, Netflix and iTunes now.

Starring Jonas Armstrong, Hannah Tointon, Burn Gorman and Ben Kingsley, it’s set in Hungary during the Second World War. In 1941, trapped between the German Reich and the Soviet Union, Admiral Miklos Horthy (Ben Kingsley), Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, is forced to join the Axis and must follow Hitler’s lead as to the treatment of Hungary’s Jewish population including forcing 10,000 into slave labour and the rest into ghettos & concentration camps. 

Two young men, Elek Cohen (Jonas Armstrong) and Ferenc Jacobson, obtain forged Catholic baptism certificates and urge their families to leave Hungary as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz is saving thousands of Jewish lives by issuing Swiss passports from his Budapest office, known as The Glass House.

Based on the true story of Pinchas Rosenbaum and Carl Lutz, they are accredited with saving 62,000 Hungarian Jews, the single largest rescue operation of Jewish people of the Second World War. Thanks to their actions, around half the Jewish population of Budapest avoided a grizzly fate at the Nazi extermination camps. 

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