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Clare Higgins is a Actor British born on 10 november 1955 at Bradford (United-kingdom)
Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins (born 10 November 1955) is an English actress. Her film appearances include Hellraiser (1987), Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Small Faces (1996) and The Golden Compass (2007).
A six-time Olivier Award nominee for her work in the theatre, Higgins received her first nomination in 1984 for her role as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. She has since won the Olivier Award for Best Actress three times; for Sweet Bird of Youth in 1995, Vincent in Brixton in 2003 and Hecuba in 2005. She made her Broadway debut in 2003 in Vincent in Brixton, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway in the 2014 revival of A Delicate Balance.
Ses prestations lui ont valu trois fois un Laurence Olivier Award, en 1995 pour Doux Oiseau de jeunesse de Tennessee Williams, en 2003 pour Vincent in Brixton de Nicholas Wright et en 2004 pour Hecuba d'Euripide.
Elle a interprété Maxine dans la Nuit de l'iguane de Tennessee Williams en 2005.
Clare Higgins est également apparue à la télévision britannique dans de nombreuses séries télévisées.
Au cinéma, son rôle le plus célèbre reste celui de la cruelle Julia Cotton dans Hellraiser : le pacte et sa suite Hellraiser 2, d'après le livre de Clive Barker.
On l'a revue également dans Rochester, le dernier des libertins, avec Johnny Depp, mais aussi dans Le Rêve de Cassandre de Woody Allen, où elle interprétait la mère de Colin Farrell. En 2007, elle était à l'affiche de À la croisée des mondes : La Boussole d'or, avec Nicole Kidman, où elle jouait le rôle de Ma Costa.
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Birth name Clare Frances Elizabeth Higgins
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 10 november 1955 (68 years) at Bradford (United-kingdom)
Awards Laurence Olivier Award
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 10 november 1955 (68 years) at Bradford (United-kingdom)
Awards Laurence Olivier Award
A six-time Olivier Award nominee for her work in the theatre, Higgins received her first nomination in 1984 for her role as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. She has since won the Olivier Award for Best Actress three times; for Sweet Bird of Youth in 1995, Vincent in Brixton in 2003 and Hecuba in 2005. She made her Broadway debut in 2003 in Vincent in Brixton, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway in the 2014 revival of A Delicate Balance.
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Née à Bradford, la seconde d'une famille de cinq, d'ascendance catholique irlandaise et formée à la London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Clare Higgins s'est beaucoup illustrée au théâtre et a connu un rapide succès au Royal Exchange Theatre à Manchester dans les rôles principaux de nombreuses pièces du répertoire (Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, parmi lesquelles Un tramway nommé Désir, où elle incarnait Stella. Elle est ensuite partie pour Londres et est entrée dans la troupe du Royal National Theatre.Ses prestations lui ont valu trois fois un Laurence Olivier Award, en 1995 pour Doux Oiseau de jeunesse de Tennessee Williams, en 2003 pour Vincent in Brixton de Nicholas Wright et en 2004 pour Hecuba d'Euripide.
Elle a interprété Maxine dans la Nuit de l'iguane de Tennessee Williams en 2005.
Clare Higgins est également apparue à la télévision britannique dans de nombreuses séries télévisées.
Au cinéma, son rôle le plus célèbre reste celui de la cruelle Julia Cotton dans Hellraiser : le pacte et sa suite Hellraiser 2, d'après le livre de Clive Barker.
On l'a revue également dans Rochester, le dernier des libertins, avec Johnny Depp, mais aussi dans Le Rêve de Cassandre de Woody Allen, où elle interprétait la mère de Colin Farrell. En 2007, elle était à l'affiche de À la croisée des mondes : La Boussole d'or, avec Nicole Kidman, où elle jouait le rôle de Ma Costa.
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Ready Player One (2018)
, 2h20Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Films set in the future, Films about video games
Actors Olivia Cooke, Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Hannah John-Kamen
Roles Mrs. Gilmore
Rating74%
En 2045, le monde est en proie à de nombreux soucis : crise énergétique, désastre causé par le changement climatique, la famine, la pauvreté, la guerre, etc. Dans ce monde chaotique, l'OASIS est un système mondial de réalité virtuelle, accessible par l'intermédiaire de visiocasques et de dispositifs haptiques tels que des gants et des combinaisons. Conçu à l'origine comme un jeu de rôle en ligne massivement multijoueur (MMORPG), il est devenu au fil du temps une véritable société virtuelle dont toute l'humanité se sert comme exutoire. Son créateur, James Halliday, était l'un des hommes les plus riches et populaires au monde, avant son décès. À sa mort, une vidéo est diffusée dans laquelle il explique qu'il léguera son immense fortune, 500 milliards de dollars, ainsi que sa société, GSS, à la personne qui réussira à trouver l’easter egg (« œuf de Pâques ») caché dans l'OASIS. Wade Watts, un jeune orphelin de 18 ans vivant à Columbus, est un fin connaisseur de Halliday et de l'OASIS, via son avatar Parzival, Wade va tout tenter pour trouver l’œuf. Il devra faire face à la multinationale Innovative Online Industries (IOI) et son PDG, Nolan Sorrento, prêt à tout pour prendre le contrôle du monde virtuel. Wade pourra compter sur l'aide de plusieurs alliés dans l'OASIS, notamment la mystérieuse Art3mis.
I Give It a Year (2013)
, 1h37Directed by Dan Mazer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Rose Byrne, Anna Faris, Simon Baker, Rafe Spall, Minnie Driver, Stephen Merchant
Roles Elaine
Rating56%
Ambitious high-flyer Nat (Rose Byrne) and struggling writer Josh (Rafe Spall) fall in love at first sight at a party. After 6 months together they decide to marry. The film highlights their struggles during their first year of marriage, switching back and forth from flashbacks of the year's action to a marriage-guidance counsellor's office. Their wedding goes as planned despite many friends' comments that the marriage will not last, an embarrassing best man's speech and a coughing priest.
, 1h40Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Actors Simon Pegg, Sheridan Smith, Clare Higgins, Amara Karan, Paul Freeman, Kerry Shale
Roles Clair De Grunwald
Rating57%
Jack is a children's author whose happy marriage has been destroyed by his obsession with his unpublished first book, Harold the Hedgehog. He is working on a series of scripts titled Decades of Death, about Victorian era serial killers. He has become obsessed with serial killers and paranoid that people are watching him and trying to kill him, which isn't helped by the fact that a serial killer called the Hanoi Handshake Killer, who cuts off the fingers of his victims, has been active in his neighbourhood.
Toast (2010)
Directed by S.J. Clarkson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, Freddie Highmore, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton, Corrinne Wicks, Matthew McNulty
Roles Mavis
Rating65%
The Slaters of Wolverhampton are plagued with Mrs. Slater's (Victoria Hamilton) chronic debilitating asthma and her cooking limited to what comes in canned goods that she can heat in boiling water. Mr. Alan Slater (Ken Stott) is sick with worry and has a cantankerous personality. Nigel longs for a life that is more than a succession of canned-food dinners made from what can be heated in boiling water. When dinner is burned, the standard substitute of toast is always served. He loves toast, with the crunchy outside giving way to buttery softness inside. Despite her infrequent forays into cooking meals from scratch, his mother's attempts to improve her cooking change nothing before or after her death. His father continues in widowhood with the same cooking style and frequent dinners of toast. The experience brings Nigel to conclude that he is not liked. Nigel learns from a friend that the way in which he could attempt a better relationship with his father is to cook a meal for him.
The Golden Compass (2007)
, 1h53Directed by Chris Weitz, Gábor Csupó
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Steampunk films, Children's films
Actors Nicole Kidman, Sam Elliott, Freddie Highmore, Eva Green, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig
Roles Ma Coster
Rating60%
At the beginning of the film, we learn that the story takes place in one of many alternate worlds, in which a person's soul is contained within an animal companion called a dæmon (pronounced demon). The Magisterium, represented as a unified religious power, exercises power in the secular world. Lyra Belacqua, an orphan that resides in Jordan College, in a city that resembles Oxford, with her dæmon Pantalaimon (Pan), accidentally witnesses a Magisterium member poison her uncle's bottle of Tokay. Lyra then warns her uncle, Lord Asriel, who instructs her to remain in hiding. Lyra watches Asriel give a presentation regarding Dust, a particle that the Magisterium has forbidden the mention of. The college gives Asriel a grant to fund a northern expedition.
Cassandra's Dream (2007)
, 1h48Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Sally Hawkins, Tom Wilkinson, John Benfield
Roles Mother
Rating65%
Brothers Terry (Colin Farrell) and Ian (Ewan McGregor), who live in South London, were raised by a weak father Brian (John Benfield) who runs a restaurant, and a strong mother Dorothy (Clare Higgins) who taught her sons to look up to their uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson), a successful plastic surgeon and businessman.
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
, 1h48Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Joan Plowright, Rupert Friend, Anna Massey, Robert Lang, Zoë Tapper, Georgina Hale
Roles Mrs. Meyer
Rating75%
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, Mrs Palfrey (Joan Plowright) strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer, Ludovic Meyer (Rupert Friend). Fate brings them together after she has an accident outside his basement flat. The two newly found friends discover they have a lot more in common with each other than they do with other people their own age. Ludovic inadvertently leads Mrs. Palfrey through her past; Mrs. Palfrey inadvertently leads Ludovic to his future where her life flashes before her eyes followed by a stroke resulting in the death of her illustrious life.
Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
, 1h46Directed by Al Corley
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Marcus Thomas, John Corbett, Amy Smart, Sean Astin, Clare Higgins, Allan Corduner
Roles Edwina Walters
Rating58%
After being rejected by his girlfriend, Peter Rooker decides to audition for a small role in an upcoming local community theatre's production of "Cyrano de Bergerac". Despite the fact that Peter has no experience or skill as an actor, the director casts Peter in the lead role. Peter soon becomes caught up in the various intrigues of the "theater people", including the charming but mercurial Michael Degan, the beautiful leading lady Grace Hargrove, and a cast of other eccentric players. Gradually, Peter discovers that in the world of theater the normal rules do not apply – but in the end there is a role for everyone.
Stage Beauty (2004)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Eyre
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Mark Letheren, Rupert Everett, Zoë Tapper, Tom Wilkinson
Roles Mistress Revels
Rating70%
Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) is one of the leading actors of his day, particularly famous for his portrayal of female characters, predominately Desdemona in Othello. His loyal dresser, Maria (Claire Danes), aspires to perform in the legitimate theatre but is forbidden because of a law enacted by the Puritans prior to the restoration of the House of Stuart. Instead, she appears in productions at a local tavern under the pseudonym Margaret Hughes. Her activity aided by the novelty of a woman acting in public, which attracts the attention of Sir Charles Sedley (Richard Griffiths), who offers his patronage. Eventually she is presented to King Charles II (Rupert Everett).
The Libertine (2004)
, 1h54Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, Paul Ritter, John Malkovich, Rosamund Pike, Stanley Townsend
Roles Molly Luscombe
Rating61%
The story begins with John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (Depp), delivering his prologue, the main themes of which are his fondness for drink, his sexual proclivities, and his disdain for his audience.
The House of Mirth (2000)
, 2h20Directed by Terence Davies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Elizabeth McGovern
Roles Mrs. Bry
Rating69%
Lily Bart is a beautiful socialite accustomed to comfort and luxury. Along with her younger cousin, Grace Stepney, she lives with her wealthy aunt, Julia Peniston. Through a series of unfortunate misunderstandings, she learns of the bitter consequences for a single woman without wealth, living in an uncaring society.
B. Monkey (1999)
, 1h32Directed by Michael Radford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Julie T. Wallace, Ian Hart
Roles Ms. Cherry
Rating59%
Alan (Jared Harris) is a schoolteacher in London who also moonlights as a jazz disc jockey for a hospital PA system. One night after work, he goes to a bar and sees Beatrice (Asia Argento), a beautiful woman who is arguing with two men. Alan is immediately captivated by Beatrice and begins to pursue her. What Alan doesn't know is that Beatrice is an infamous thief known to the police as "B. Monkey" (named for her ability to break into anything), and the men she was arguing with were Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a homosexual couple who are her partners in crime. When Alan becomes aware of Beatrice's secret, he tries to lead her into a safer and more honest way of life, even as she lures him into the thrilling existence he's been dreaming of.
Small Faces (1996)
, 1h48Directed by Gillies MacKinnon
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden, Alastair Galbraith, Laura Fraser, Clare Higgins, Kevin McKidd
Roles Lorna Maclean
Rating68%
Glasgow, Scotland, 1968. Three teenage brothers - gang member Bobby, artistically-minded Alan and 13-year-old Lex - are growing up with their mother on the South Side of the city. Events which will have consequences for all concerned start to spiral out of control when Lex accidentally shoots Malky, the leader of the Garaside Tongs street gang, with an air gun ...
Fatherland (1994)
, 1h46Directed by Christopher Menaul
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films, Alternate history films
Actors Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Jean Marsh, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine
Roles Klara
Rating63%
In the prologue, the failure of the D-Day invasion forces the United States to withdraw from the war in Europe and Dwight D. Eisenhower to retire in disgrace. The US continues the Pacific war against Japan and wins. In Europe, Germany invades the United Kingdom, resulting in King George VI and the rest of the British Royal Family fleeing to Canada in exile with Edward VIII regaining the British throne. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill also goes into exile in Canada and lives there until his death in 1953.
Bad Behavior (1993)
, 1h44Directed by Les Blair
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Stephen Rea, Sinéad Cusack, Philip Jackson, Clare Higgins, Phil Daniels, Mary Jo Randle
Roles Jessica Kennedy
Rating58%