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In 2014, Redmayne starred as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, a role for which he won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, depicting the debilitating challenges of ALS. [50] [51] Hawking was very pleased by the portrayal, stating "I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well. At ...
The Battle of Yorktown or siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.Marching from Fort Monroe, Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac encountered Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder's small Confederate force at Yorktown behind the Warwick Line.
As Géza Korvin, he made his Broadway stage debut in 1943, playing a Russian nobleman in the play, Dark Eyes. [3] After signing a movie contract with Universal Pictures, he changed his stage name to Charles Korvin. [citation needed] He worked steadily through the 1940s, including appearing in three films with actress Merle Oberon.
The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009). The collection is also known as The Last Days of the Civil War. Gettysburg (broadcast on History ...
Flanagan was born and raised in Dublin, the daughter of Rosanna (née McGuirk) and Terence Niall Flanagan. [4] Her father was an Irish Army officer and Communist who had fought in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War against Franco's Nationalists. [5]
In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre. His screen work includes television appearances in Heartbeat (2000), Silent Witness (2002) and Fortysomething (2003) before starring as Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking (2004). He has played Sherlock Holmes in the crime drama series Sherlock since 2010.
Royal Wives at War: Narrator TV film Stella: Ian Meyer TV series My Grandfather's War: Himself BBC TV documentary about the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War [15] 2017 Inspector George Gently: Michael Clements TV series (1 episode: "Gently and the New Age") 2018 Requiem: Aron Morgan TV mini-series (6 episodes) Father Brown ...
Actual historic locations in the film include Virginia Military Institute and Washington & Lee University, known as Washington College during the Civil War. Russell Crowe was the original choice to play Stonewall Jackson, but scheduling conflicts prevented his availability in the summer and fall of 2001 when the movie was filmed.