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Nicola Duffett is a Actor British born on 22 january 1963 at Portsmouth (United-kingdom)
Nicola Duffett (born 22 January 1963) is an English actress.
She remains best known for two long-running soap opera roles. After appearing as Debbie Bates in EastEnders from 1993 to 1995, she went into the role of boozy floozie Cat Matthews in Family Affairs. Cat first appeared in Family Affairs in late 1998, and was a key character in the show's story lines until the series ended in December 2005.
Duffett was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Prior to her soap roles, Duffett played the key role of Mrs. Bast in Ismail Merchant and James Ivory's 1992 film adaptation of Howards End. In 2008, she played Big Mo in the BBC film Dustbin Baby.
She has appeared on stage in Simon Gray's Simply Disconnected at Chichester Festival Theatre; as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Helen of Troy in Troilus and Cressida at The Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park; and in Coming Up by James Martin Charlton at The Warehouse Theatre.
Duffett also took part in Reality TV programme Celebrity Fit Club, and appeared as Bronwen Jones in an episode of Torchwood entitled "Random Shoes".
Her alcoholism and substance abuse was bought to light in Gary Websters book 'Debt Rescue', her friend and drinking partner. He explains that a level of severe alcohol consumption was described as getting 'Duffeted'
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Birth name Nicola T. P. Duffett
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 january 1963 (61 years) at Portsmouth (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 january 1963 (61 years) at Portsmouth (United-kingdom)
She remains best known for two long-running soap opera roles. After appearing as Debbie Bates in EastEnders from 1993 to 1995, she went into the role of boozy floozie Cat Matthews in Family Affairs. Cat first appeared in Family Affairs in late 1998, and was a key character in the show's story lines until the series ended in December 2005.
Duffett was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Prior to her soap roles, Duffett played the key role of Mrs. Bast in Ismail Merchant and James Ivory's 1992 film adaptation of Howards End. In 2008, she played Big Mo in the BBC film Dustbin Baby.
She has appeared on stage in Simon Gray's Simply Disconnected at Chichester Festival Theatre; as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Helen of Troy in Troilus and Cressida at The Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park; and in Coming Up by James Martin Charlton at The Warehouse Theatre.
Duffett also took part in Reality TV programme Celebrity Fit Club, and appeared as Bronwen Jones in an episode of Torchwood entitled "Random Shoes".
Her alcoholism and substance abuse was bought to light in Gary Websters book 'Debt Rescue', her friend and drinking partner. He explains that a level of severe alcohol consumption was described as getting 'Duffeted'
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Remi, Nobody's Boy (2018)
, 1h45Directed by Antoine Blossier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sagnier, Daniel Auteuil, Nicholas Rowe, Jonathan Zaccaï, Jacques Perrin
Roles Mrs. Driscoll
Rating71%
Le début du film se passe dans un orphelinat, par une nuit d'orage. Les pensionnaires, effrayés, se sont regroupés autour d'un vieil homme qui leur conte son histoire. Et cet homme, c'est Rémi.
Set Fire to the Stars (2014)
, 1h37Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Kelly Reilly, Elijah Wood, Steven Mackintosh, Shirley Henderson, Kevin Eldon, Steve Speirs
Rating58%
In 1950 New York, Harvard graduate and aspiring poet John M. Brinnin (Elijah Wood) embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hero, acclaimed Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Celyn Jones).
Made in Dagenham (2010)
, 1h53Directed by Nigel Cole
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Historical
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough
Roles Eileen
Rating70%
Rita O'Grady (a fictional character) leads the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike at the Ford Dagenham plant, where female workers walk out in protest against sexual discrimination, demanding equal pay. The strike is successful and leads to the Equal Pay Act 1970.
Dustbin Baby (2008)
, 1h28Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Children's films
Actors Dakota Blue Richards, Juliet Stevenson, David Haig, Saffron Coomber, Di Botcher, Lucy Hutchinson
Roles Big Mo
Rating70%
On April's fourteenth birthday, Marion, her adoptive mother, gives her earrings, not the mobile phone she wanted. They argue, and April leaves for school. After lying to her friends, claiming she has a phone and is going to the dentist's, April chooses to play truant. While at work at a stately home, Marion hears that April has not arrived at school. She talks to her friend and colleague Elliot, who unsuccessfully tries to dissuade her from leaving. April visits the home of Pat Williams, who cared for her as a baby. Pat remembers April and gives her a newspaper cutting telling the story of her discovery as a baby in a dustbin behind a pizza parlour. In a flashback, a young April is seen living with Janet and Daniel Johnson. The Johnsons' relationship is an abusive one, leading to Janet's suicide. Meanwhile, Marion goes to April's school, where she talks to April's friends, and realises that they were lied to. April then leaves Pat's home, and travels alone to Janet's grave. Marion continues to search, and, in a shopping centre, meets Elliot, who has joined her. April then visits the now abandoned Sunnyholme Children's Home, where she lived when she was younger. In a flashback, an eight-year old April lives at the Sunnyholme. Cared for by a woman named Mo, April befriends an older girl called Gina and is introduced to Pearl, a girl of her age. Pearl behaves in front of Mo, but actually bullies April. Gina wakes April one night to involve her in a burglary, and, later, Pearl attacks April, holding her head under water, and then tears up April's beloved paper dolls. April confronts Pearl, who she pushes down a flight of stairs, and is reprimanded by Mo. A voice-over from 14-year-old April says Gina was then "moved on", and, eventually, April is also moved on.
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
, 1h32Directed by David Attwood
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Nicola Duffett, Edna Doré, Candis Nergaard, Felicity Dean
Roles Judith
Rating76%
Employé dans un centre d'aide pour les sans-abris, Alexander Masters fait la rencontre de Stuart Shorter, un jeune homme alcoolique sans-abri atteint d'une dystrophie musculaire et mentalement instable, ayant connu une vie de petit criminel. Une amitié naît entre les deux hommes, Masters se décide à écrire un livre sur la vie de Stuart et découvre au fur et à mesure des confidences un événement traumatisant qu'à subi ce dernier durant son enfance.
Spider (2002)
, 1h38Directed by David Cronenberg
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Gary Reineke
Roles Barmaid
Rating67%
Spider is the story of Dennis Cleg, a man who is given a room in a halfway house catering to mentally disturbed persons. Cleg has just been released from a mental institution and in his new abode starts piecing together or recreating in his memory an apparently fateful childhood event. He roams the nearby derelict urban area and the local canal and starts to relive or visualize a period of his childhood in 1950s London with his mother and his father. A shift takes place in the child's psyche when he witnesses his mother groping with his father in the garden and, subsequently, when he sees his mother in a silky night gown she wore for his father. The son, as a grown man seems to recreate in his memory the buildup to his father's murder of his mother with the passive support of a prostitute he is involved with, who then moves into the house and is presented as his mother. The young son then kills the mistress by gassing her in the kitchen, although the final shot appears to show his true mother lying dead so we are left to wonder whether she really was his mother and the prostitute was just a fantasy. After that memory he sneaks late one night to the landlady's room and appears ready to kill her, whom he sees alternatively as the mistress, his mother and the landlady, but backs away after she says, "What have you done Mr. Cleg?" He is taken back to the asylum.
Shooting Fish (1997)
, 1h49Directed by Stefan Schwartz
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend, Kate Beckinsale, Peter Capaldi, Dominic Mafham, Ralph Ineson
Roles Mrs Ray
Rating65%
Dylan (Dan Futterman) and Jez (Stuart Townsend) are two orphans who meet in their twenties and vow to achieve their shared childhood dream of living in a stately home. In pursuit of this dream they spend their days living in a disused gas holder, spending as little money as possible and conning the upper classes out of their riches. During one of their biggest cons, their lives are touched by Georgie (Kate Beckinsale), who needs money to save the Down's syndrome foundation that her brother attends. When a con goes wrong, the two find themselves in gaol to be released only after their entire fortune is rendered useless because of a recall of £50 notes. It is down to an elaborate plan involving Dylan, Jez, and (if they can persuade her) Georgie, to break them out of gaol in order to save their dream.
Food of Love (1997)
, 1h45Directed by Stephen Poliakoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Richard E. Grant, Rupert Penry-Jones, Nathalie Baye, Joe McGann, Sylvia Syms, Nicola Duffett
Roles Angela
Rating49%
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995)
, 1h37Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Jeremy Brett, Elizabeth Hurley, Joss Ackland, Christopher Adamson, Christopher Adamson, Marcus Bentley
Rating39%
Antonia Dyer is a well-to-do Englishwoman with a serious drug habit. Her heroin supply is delivered by an American motorcycle courier named Mike Stone, and before long the two of them also develop a romantic attachment.
Howards End (1992)
, 2h20Directed by James Ivory
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, Joseph Bennett, Prunella Scales
Roles Jacky Bast
Rating73%
The story takes place in Edwardian England and concerns three families who represent three social classes: the Wilcoxes are wealthy capitalists, the class that is displacing the aristocracy; the Schlegel sisters standing for the enlightened bourgeoisie; and the Basts, a young couple down on their luck, who may be traced to the lower middle class. (Forster is clear that the novel is "not concerned with the very poor".) The film asks the question "Who will inherit England?" and answers it through the ownership of the house, Howards End, as it passes from person to person.