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In 1593 London, William Shakespeare is a sometime player in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and playwright for Philip Henslowe, owner of The Rose Theatre.Suffering from writer's block with a new comedy, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter, Shakespeare attempts to seduce Rosaline, mistress of Richard Burbage, owner of the rival Curtain Theatre, and to convince Burbage to buy the play from Henslowe.
He is known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love (1998), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, Sir Robert Dudley in Elizabeth (1998), Commisar Danilov in Enemy at the Gates (2001 ...
Shakespeare in Love arrived in theaters on Dec. 11, 1998, so it's 25th anniversary is still about nine months away. But, as we mentioned, it really cleaned up at the Academy Awards, winning awards ...
The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare ' s plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As of November 2023 [update] , the Internet Movie Database lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,800 films, including those under production but ...
Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar for best actress thanks to her role in “Shakespeare in Love,” but it was Julia Roberts who was originally courted for the role of Viola de Lesseps. Producer ...
'Shakespeare in Love' writer-producer Edward Zwick details Julia Roberts' early involvement in the Oscar-winning film and how she might have sabotaged the film.
Romeo.Juliet (1990); a motion picture conceived and performed to acclaim as a film-in-concert to the score of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev), which captures Shakespeare's timeless tale through the mesmerizing movements of feral cats with voiceovers by an all-star cast of British theater talent reciting extracts from the play ...
“Shakespeare in Love” actor Simon Callow has been cast in the sequel to micro-budget slasher hit “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.” Stage and screen star Callow, who has also appeared in ...