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The Golden Compass has grossed $372 million worldwide but was a box office disappointment in North America which directly contributed to New Line Cinema's 2008 restructuring. [5] The film won Best Visual Effects at the 80th Academy Awards and Best Special Visual Effects at the 61st British Academy Film Awards .
Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress. Her film debut at the age of 13 was in The Golden Compass, as the lead character Lyra Belacqua. [1] [2] Other lead roles include the wayward teenager April in Dustbin Baby and Maria in the 2009 film The Secret of Moonacre. [3]
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.
Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK.Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious ...
'Farder' is possibly a dialect variant of 'Father', honouring his role as 'Elder' to the Gyptians. He is played by Tom Courtenay in the film The Golden Compass, in which his dæmon is a caracal. James Cosmo plays the character in the His Dark Materials TV series, whilst Stephen Thorne provides his voice in the audiobooks. [citation needed]
This is a list of actors appearing on the 1978–1991 US television series Dallas. During its 14 seasons on air, the show featured 21 regular cast members. Furthermore, 32 actors were billed as "also starring" during the first scene of the episodes, and 24 were billed as "special guest star" in the closing credits.
Eva Gaëlle Green [1] was born on 6 July 1980, [2] [3] two minutes earlier than her fraternal twin sister Joy. [4] She is the daughter of French actress and author Marlène Jobert and Dr Walter Green, a Swedish dental surgeon [5] [6] [7] and occasional actor in his youth (Au hasard Balthazar directed by Robert Bresson).
Szubanski was born on 12 April 1961, in Liverpool, England. [12] Her mother Margaret (née McCarthy) is Scottish-Irish and came from a poor family. Her father, Zbigniew Szubański, came from a well-off Polish family and was an assassin in a counter-intelligence branch of the Polish resistance movement in World War II.