How many times has the star of the BBC play "Secrets" won the Laurence Olivier award?
8e47ad28accc5666b6946016b93f20de
Secrets (1973 play) Secrets is a 1973 BBC Television play by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of one-hour duration, starring Warren Mitchell as the owner of a chocolate factory. The play was part of a series called "Black and Blue", which featured black and blue (saucy) comedy.
bb3e3f12f3a354d173a296c9bce2caa0
Warren Mitchell Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was an English actor. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner.
3729d179c2751c44fc4c6db45cf4f246
Beryl Reid Beryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996) was a British actress of stage and screen. She won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for "The Killing of Sister George", the 1980 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for "Born in the Gardens", and the 1982 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for "Smiley's People". Her film appearances included "The Belles of St. Trinian's" (1954), "The Killing of Sister George" (1968), "The Assassination Bureau" (1969) and "No Sex Please, We're British" (1973)
e5523a07eeee8438102439ffe10a522f
Francesca Annis Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress. She is known for television roles in "Reckless" (1998), "Wives and Daughters" (1999), "Deceit" (2000) and "Cranford" (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial "Lillie". Her film appearances include "Krull" (1983), "Dune" (1984), "The Debt Collector" (1999) and "The Libertine" (2004).
e8e1c43f21f63d2e9c1ae0b017895c05
Colin Firth Colin Andrew Firth, (born 10 September 1960) is a an English actor. He has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. Firth's most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in "The King's Speech", a performance that earned him an Oscar and multiple worldwide best actor awards.
bc8620fd0e7fd67310a0bc125287d6ee
Antony Sher Sir Antony Sher, KBE (born 14 June 1949) is an English actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood’s play "Mahler's Conversion", and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles. Sher and his partner and collaborator Gregory Doran became one of the first gay couples to enter into a civil partnership in the UK.
fc33bed0a6e94488c94a39862d6880b7
Ben Kingsley Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over 40 years. He has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He is known for his starring role as Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 film "Gandhi", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his performances in the films "Schindler's List" (1993), "Twelfth Night" (1996), "Sexy Beast" (2000), "House of Sand and Fog" (2003), "Lucky Number Slevin" (2006), "Shutter Island" (2010), "" (2010), "Hugo" (2011), "Iron Man 3" (2013), "The Boxtrolls" (2014), and "The Jungle Book" (2016)
81eeafd1e111e6d56f7627d2ec3ba11d
Hayley Mills Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film "Tiger Bay" (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's "Pollyanna" (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film "The Parent Trap" (1961). Her performance in "Whistle Down the Wind" (a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress.
d258084fc41b25903af4a8b7586dfc04
Jonny Lee Miller Jonathan Lee Miller (born 15 November 1972) is an English-American film, television and theatre actor. He achieved early success for his portrayal of Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson in the dark comedy drama film "Trainspotting" (1996) and as Dade Murphy in "Hackers" (1995), before earning further critical recognition for his performances in "Afterglow" (1997), "Mansfield Park" (1999), "The Flying Scotsman" (2006), "Endgame" (2009) and "T2 Trainspotting" (2016); for "The Flying Scotsman" he received a London Film Critics' Circle nomination for Actor of the Year. He was also part of the principal cast in the films "Melinda and Melinda" (2004), "Dark Shadows" (2012) and "Byzantium" (2013). He has appeared in several theatrical productions on Broadway, most notably "After Miss Julie" and "Frankenstein", the latter of which earned him an Olivier Award for Best Actor.
cbb01a713bb29e6ed34b7cef6e7e35b0
Jessica Lange Jessica Phyllis Lange ( ; born April 20, 1949) is an American actress who has received worldwide acclaim for her work in film, theater, and television. The recipient of several awards, including two Academy Awards, one Tony Award, three Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Dorian Awards; in 1998, "Entertainment Weekly" listed Lange among the 25 Greatest Actresses of the 1990s. In 2016, Lange became the twenty-second thespian in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
4ea097ef6cbe6a312eb007f936c1f37a
Julia Hills Julia Hills (born 3 April 1957) is an English actress best known for playing the man hungry Rona in eight series of the BBC hit sitcom "2point4 Children". She also played all of the women and some of the men in Channel 4's first late night satirical sketch show "Who Dares Wins", Beryl in two series of the sitcom "Dad" with Kevin McNally and Caroline Joyner in "Casualty".
8623dd6a3c8e9f383c83ec15b6e2fc85
Joanna Lumley Joanna Lamond Lumley, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress, former model, author and activist. She won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" (1992–2012), and was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of "La Bête". In 2013, she received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards and in 2017, she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award.
19dcc947fbcb4f876c9269761ff360b7
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
a478b27c2fdb42e2e5aacbad89b25ade
Claire Bloom Patricia Claire Blume CBE (born 15 February 1931) is an English film and stage actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She is famous for leading roles in plays such as "A Streetcar Named Desire," "A Doll’s House", and "Long Day's Journey into Night", and has starred in nearly sixty films.
6f39455dce51eb005a7c6fec3f8f0e6b
BAFTA Rising Star Award Rising Star Award (known from 2013 as EE Rising Star Award, previously known as Orange Rising Star Award) is one of the award categories for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) which acknowledges new talents in the acting industry. The award was created after Mary Selway's death in 2004. She has been recognised for her successful role as a casting director and has helped many new actors and actresses to their claim to fame. The five nominees have been chosen regardless of gender, nationality and whether they have made a breakthrough in television, film or both. Despite the nominees being chosen by the BAFTA juries, the winner is chosen entirely by the public votes via text, internet or phone. This award was sponsored by Orange UK until 2012. From 2013, it was sponsored by EE. The first winner was James McAvoy in 2006.
52687a678bacd3ce0cb77e5326339e57
Jennifer Saunders Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actress. She has won three BAFTAs (including the BAFTA Fellowship), an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a People's Choice Award.
c1713d5d49c1f7e454f44e0a3bf2c56f
Sheila Burrell Sheila Mary Burrell (9 May 1922 – 19 July 2011) was a British actress. A cousin of Laurence Olivier, she was born in Blackheath, London, the daughter of a salesman. She attended St John's, Bexhill-on-Sea and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Her first marriage to actor Laurence Payne was dissolved and she then married David Sim, a portrait and theatre photographer.
0df98ad5b0eabd4e47a453544058850f
Laurence Harrington Laurence Harrington (born 30 September 1938) is a British actor who has played DS Probert in "Z-Cars", Lunar Guard in "Doctor Who", George Latimer in "Softly, Softly", the Lawyer in "The Sweeney", Jackson in "", Gary in "Agony", Jeff Sadler in "Boon", Cyril Harrington-Morse in "Lovejoy", Vic Lawson in "Love Hurts" and James Palfrey in "Dalziel and Pascoe". He has also guest-starred in "Agatha Christie's Poirot", "The Bill", "Casualty", "Holby City" and "Doctors", and appeared in films such as "The Boys in Blue" (1982), "Don't Open till Christmas" (1984), "Car Trouble" (1986), "Out of Order" (1987) and "Afraid of the Dark" (1991). Harrington also appeared in the British band Naked Eyes' 1984 music Video "(What) In the Name of Love".
21f3af3e48a34bb919e1bdb0bf8cbf66
Mary Beth Hurt Mary Beth Hurt (born September 26, 1946) is an American actress of stage and screen. She is a three-time Tony Award-nominated actress.
c6624b6c700130478ab4de5262c4a706
Stephen Henry Stephen Henry (born 27 September 1968 in London) is an award-winning theatre director and producer.
ff267ca9f80ad1ed975eeca30f77a2f6
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical
0f72e766d2155f32962d7d706abd877c
Penny Layden Penny Layden (born 1969) is a British actress who has performed at the National Theatre - Table, Timon of Athens, Edward II, with the Royal Shakespeare Company], the Old Vic Theatre Shakespeare's Globe and with Shared Experience and the Royal Exchange Theatre amongst other theatre companies. Her television credits include Call the Midwife, Silent Witness, Poppy Shakespeare and EastEnders; she also performed in The Libertine starring Johnny Depp.