Trivia:

Sister-in-law of Livia Giuggioli.

Sister of Colin Firth and Jonathan Firth.

Now works as a speech therapist. She actually helped her brother Colin Firth develop his stutter, and the exercises he uses to overcome it, for The King's Speech (2010).

Date of Birth:
9 May 1972

Trivia:

She played in the Finnish ringette league in the season 1989-1990. She played 18 matches for Lätkä 77 without recording a single point.

Miss Finland World finalist 1995.

Date of Birth:
2 November 1982

Nickname:
Fuka-kyon

Height:
5′ 4¼" (1.63 m)

Date of Birth:
18 May 1919

Birth Name:
Margaret Evelyn Hookham

Nickname:
Peggy

Mini Biography:

Peggy Hookham was always destined to be a dancer. Her Brazilian/Irish mother groomed her for stardom from almost as soon as she could walk. When she was aged 8 her father's work took the family to Shanghai. Peggy and her Mother returned to the UK when she was 14. Her father stayed in Shanghai and was interned by the Japanese for the duration of the war. Young Peggy was enrolled with the Royal Ballet School just when they were looking for a young British dancer to groom as the new Prima Ballerina. Until then all leading dancers in Britain had been Russian or French. Part of the grooming process was to change her name to Margot Fonteyn. Her most influential coach was Tamara Karsavina in London. Fonteyn also regarded her teacher Olga Preobrajenska, a disciple of George Balanchine. Fontain herself worked with George Balanchine as he staged and choreographed ballet for Sadler's Wells. She soon showed the natural talents and dedication required of a Prima Ballerina and after many wonderful performances at Sadler's Wells she went with the Royal Ballet on their 1949 American tour. Her performance as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty on their opening night in NYC wowed the critics and fans alike. Her performance set a new standard for the role. Success followed success and she was soon to become the most famous and most successful ballerina in the world. But one thing eluded her. She fell in love with composer / conductor Constant Lambert but he decided in favor of another. She then fell for playboy Roberto "Tito" Arias. He was a Panamanian delegate to the U.N. and the son of a powerful Panamanian family that had fallen out of political favor. Despite his reputation the couple were married at the Panamanian Consulate in Paris in February 1955. Whilst Margot continued her successful career, she was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 1956, Tito planned an armed invasion of Panama City to try to win back some of the power he felt was rightfully his. Margot joined him but the invasion was a total failure. In 1962 Margot was thinking of retirement (she was 43) from ballet when she met Rudolf Nureyev who had fled from the Soviet Union. Young Rudolf Nureyev revitalized Margot and led to some of her most wonderful performances. In 1964, just when Margot was thinking about divorcing him, Tito was shot five times and from then he was paralyzed from the neck down. Margot flew to his side and from then on was his nurse as well as the wife he had never let her be before. Although she knew how he had had many affairs she dedicated the rest of her life to him. It was mainly because of the money she needed to care for Tito that she kept dancing long after most dancers would have retired. She attracted some bad publicity by performing in apartheid South Africa and in the Chile run by the military dictators. As a dancer she made her last appearance in Nureyev's 1979 summer season, and in February 1986 (aged 66) she appeared on stage for the last time, as 'The Queen' in "The Sleeping Beauty", for the Birmingham Royal Ballet in Miami. She subsequently retired to Panama where she and Tito ran a cattle stud. When Tito died in 1989 Margot discovered that he had mortgaged their farm and she had to auction all her jewelry to pay for her own medical care for the newly discovered cancer. Dame Margot died on February 21st 1991. She was buried in the Arias family plot in Panama beside her Tito.

Trivia:

George Balanchine said of Fonteyn "Hands like spoons, can't dance a step", which was typical for Balanchine, who only commented on dancers with whom he wanted to work. After that they started working together on a ballet for Sadler's Wells.

Her mother was an illegitimate daughter of a Portuguese man and an English woman. His surname was Fontes, the Portuguese for Fountains, which gave Fonteyn.

Date of Birth:
14 January 1960

Mini Biography:

Per Fly was accepted to the Danish Film School in 1989. He completed his education in 1993 with the graduation film Room 17. In the following years Per Fly directed, among other films, the short films Sofaholdet (1994), Calling Katherine (1994) and The Little Knight (1997). In 1998, he directed the short film Liftarflickan and three episodes of the television show TAXI for Danish Radio.

In 2001 Per Fly won a Bodil and a Robert award for Best Director, and both the Audience Award and the Best Director award from Nordische Film Days 2000 in Lübeck. The awards were given for Fly's debut feature film, The Bench (2000), which was the first in Per Fly's trilogy about the lower, middle and upper class in Denmark.

The sequel, Inheritance (2003) about the Danish upper class, was the most attended film in Danish cinemas in 2003 and won a total of seven Robert awards in 2004, including Best Film, Best Director and The Audience Award. Inheritance also received several major international awards, including the award for best screenplay at the Flaiano International Film Festival in Italy and San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain.

Per Fly won the award for Best Director once more at the Robert Awards, with the last film of the trilogy, Manslaughter (2005), and a Bodil for Best Film and the Nordic Council Film Prize.

In 2005, Per Fly received the Crown Prince and Crown Princess' Culture Prize for the trilogy. In this context the Crown Prince stated that: "The trilogy is some of the most powerful films in Danish film history".

In 2007 Per Fly made the TV series Performances in six episodes for the TV network DR. Sonja Richter won the award for Best Actress at the 47th Monte Carlo TV Festival.

In January 2010 Per Fly released his latest film The Woman who Dreamed of a Man.

Trivia:

Per Fly collaborates with the Danish Embassy in Mali about the production of Malineese films. He first fruit of the collaboration is Da Monzon which had premiere September 2010.

Per Fly thought about becoming a rock star but gave up to pursue the second dream: film production. He still plays guitar in a band – but no with plans to become professional.

In 2009 Per Fly received the order of the Dannebrog by her Royal Majesty the Queen of Denmark in recognition of his meritorious work as film director.

Together with Thomas Vinterberg, Ole Christian Madsen and Birgitte Hald, Per Fly started the Production company Nimbus Film after graduating from the Danish Filmsschool in 1993. In 1996 he left the company. Per Fly is today one of the owners of Zentropa.

Date of Birth:
14 March 1932

Mini Biography:

John Flynn was a very fine, efficient and sadly underrated director who excelled at making mean'n'lean crime pictures. His movies are distinguished by tight plots, a hard, no-nonsense tone, and a taut, streamlined and fiercely economical directorial style. John was born on March 14, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Hermosa Beach, California. He served in the coast guard, where he studied journalism with "Roots" author Alex Haley. Flynn received a degree in journalism from UCLA. John began his cinematic career as an apprentice to director Robert Wise on "Odds Against Tomorrow" and was the script supervisor for "West Side Story." He then went on to work as a second unit director on such features as "Kid Galahad," "Two for the Seesaw," and "The Great Escape." Flynn made his debut as director with the obscure "The Sergent." He followed this film with the equally little seen "The Jerusalem File." John scored his first substantial commercial success with the superbly gritty "The Outfit." Flynn achieved his greatest enduring cult popularity with the marvelously tough and potent revenge thriller winner "Rolling Thunder." His subsequent movies are likewise solid and worthwhile; they include the exciting urban vigilante opus "Defiance," the terrific "Best Seller," the sturdy Sylvestor Stallone prison drama "Lock Up," the above average Steven Seagal action vehicle "Out for Justice," and the nifty virtual reality horror outing "Brainscan." John did two made-for-cable-TV pictures in the early 90s: the fun Dennis Hopper cop flick "Nails" and the enjoyable crime drama "Scam." His last film was the passable direct-to-video mobster item "Protection." John Flynn died at age 75 on April 4, 2007.

Trivia:

Served in the coast guard.

Studied journalism under "Roots" author Alex Haley's tutelage and graduated from UCLA with a degree in journalism.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Directors Branch).

Personal Quotes:

I just have a fairly direct style of filmmaking.

I've always been fascinated by the criminal demimonde.

Date of Birth:
4 March 1964

Birth Name:
Cheryl Ann Campbell

Trivia:

Was in attendance at the wedding of her "EastEnders" (1985) co-star Samantha Womack to Mark Womack (17 May 2009).

Is diabetic.

Gave birth to her son Alex Javed Saddiqi via Caesarean section in July 1999.

Her "EastEnders" (1985) character Heather Trott became the 19th woman on the soap opera to give birth. Heather had a son George (played by an unknown child), born on 23 October 2009.

Ranked #87 in the 100 Greatest "EastEnders" (1985) Characters of All Time for her performance as Heather Trott (2010).

Got engaged to Morrocan goatherd Yassine Al-Jermoni, whom she has been in a relationship with since April 2010, after he proposed to her by spelling out "Marry Me" on her bed with rose petals (25 December 2010).

Married fiancé Yassine Al-Jermoni in his hometown of Agadir during a break from her "EastEnders" (1985) filming schedule with just his family and her son Alex present.