Golden Globe® winner IAN MCSHANE – ‘Waleran Bigod’
Coming up this summer, Ian McShane stars in the television event of the year as Waleran Bigod in The Pillars of the Earth, based on Ken Follett’s bestselling novel. It will be an eight-hour event, airing July 23rd on Starz. Most recently, McShane joined the Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films blockbuster franchise Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as the fearsome pirate Blackbeard, starring opposite Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush and Penelope Cruz. The film is scheduled to open May 20, 2011 and is directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha)...
Donald Sutherland is one of the most prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of well over one hundred films, ranging from the biting political satire of Robert Altman's M*A*S*H to the intimate drama of Robert Redford's Ordinary People to the subtle intricacy of Alan Pakula's Klute to the eccentric romanticism of Fellini's Casanova...
Hayley Atwell is set to be one of the leading actresses of her generation. She is currently filming The Pillars of the Earth based on the Ken Follett novel. In this mini-series written for the BBC Hayley stars alongside a stellar cast including Eddie Redmayne, Matthew Macfadyen and Rufus Sewell...
Sarah was born and raised in the Somerset town of Yeovil, before moving to London and the Academy of Live & Recorded Arts. She began her professional acting career in musical comedy on the London stage.
In 1996 it was a very small stage, because when she played Maria in Kopit and Yeston’s Nine, the venue was the intimate, 250-seat Donmar Warehouse near Covent Garden, and the production was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. By 1998 Sarah had moved to the larger surroundings of the Apollo Theatre and the role of Brook Daniels in Laurence Boswell’s production of Ben Elton’s darkly satirical Popcorn, earning an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Comedy, which this time it won...
Robert read law at Cambridge University, but it was his involvement with the famous Footlights Club, which showed that his true vocation lay not in litigation but in acting. Besides popular and successful TV shows like My Dad’s the Prime Minister and Cold Feet – which won both the Montreux Rose d’Or and a BAFTA award for Best Drama Series – he has appeared in feature films, most recently Heidi and The Thief Lord, and on stage most recently in an acclaimed production of Noel Coward's Present Laughter. He is no stranger to wearing Period costume, in dramas such as Jane Austen's Emma and Hornblower; as Lord Percy Hamleigh in The Pillars of the Earth, he’ll be doing so again.
Selected credits: the new BBC series Emma, BBC's series My Family
David recently filmed the new TV series Trinity, also starring Charles Dance, for ITV. It is the first program created by Roughcut TV, the new production company headed by Ash Atalla, the award winning producer of The Office. David was also seen recently in Channel Four’s Mind of a Tyrant, a new series exploring the truth behind King Henry VIII...
Götz is one of the few German movie stars who is internationally successful. At the beginning of his career Götz Otto had a “classic” actors’ education at the Hochschule in Graz and the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. By this time he had already performed at the legendary Schillertheater in Berlin and at Münchner Kammerspiele...
Since graduating from LAMDA in 2009 Sam has worked on some very exciting projects. Later this year he is due to star in the mini-series The Pillars of the Earth in which he takes the role of Richard. In this drama based on the Ken Follett novel Sam will appear alongside a stellar cast including Eddie Redmayne, Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell and Ian McShane. Sam is currently in South Africa filming The Lost Future. He will star as lead character Kaleb in this sci-fi adventure alongside Sean Bean and Annabelle Wallis. Sam’s theatre credits whilst at LAMDA include the role of Dorimant in Man of Mode, the title role in Tommy, Silvius in As You Like It and Davey in Love Is.
Selected credits:Man of Mode, Tommy
SKYE LOURIE - ‘Elizabeth’
Born in New Zealand and raised in Tuscany, nineteen-year-old Skye has travelled across the world and lived in several countries. While attending Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and Hurtwood House, she studied for her A Levels alongside acting and theatre skills and performed in productions such as The Importance of Being Earnest and Pinter’s Mountain Language. As well as acting, she loves singing, song-writing, painting and cooking. Skye was in her final year at school when she was cast in her first professional television role as Elizabeth in The Pillars of the Earth.
Selected credits:The Importance of Being Earnest, Pinter's Mountain Language
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Two-time Golden Globe® Winner DONALD SUTHERLAND – ‘Bartholomew’
