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Charles Edwards (actor), the Glossary

Charles Peter Keep Edwards (born 1 October 1969) is an English actor with a career in theatre, TV, and film, most notable for playing Michael Gregson in Downton Abbey (2012–2013), Dr Alexander McDonald in The Terror (2018), Sir Martin Charteris in The Crown (2019-2020), and Lord Celebrimbor in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022).^[1]

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596.

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Alexander McDonald (surgeon)

Alexander McDonald (or M'Donald; 15 September 1817 –) was a Scottish physician who served as assistant surgeon of HMS ''Terror'' on Franklin's lost expedition.

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Amesbury School

Amesbury School is a co-educational independent prep school in the Hindhead/Haslemere area of Surrey, England, educating pupils between the ages of 9 months and 13 years.

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An Ideal Husband (1999 film)

An Ideal Husband is a 1999 British film based on the 1895 play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.

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Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British and American actress.

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Arthur & George (TV series)

Arthur & George is a three-part British television drama based on the 2005 book of the same name by Julian Barnes, based in turn on the real-life Great Wyrley Outrages.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.

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Batman Begins

Batman Begins is a 2005 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Nolan and David S. Goyer.

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Bernard Weatherill

Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, (25 November 1920 – 6 May 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Bertie and Elizabeth

Bertie and Elizabeth is a 2002 television film directed by Giles Foster and produced by Carlton Television.

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Best of Enemies (play)

Best of Enemies is a political drama play by James Graham.

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Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts".

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Celebrimbor

Celebrimbor is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Central Otago wine region

The Central Otago wine region is a geographical indication in New Zealand's South Island, and the world's southernmost commercial wine growing region.

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Clarence Derwent Awards

The Clarence Derwent Awards are theatre awards given annually by the Actors' Equity Association on Broadway in the United States and by Equity, the performers' union, in the West End in the United Kingdom.

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Colditz (2005 TV series)

Colditz is a two-part 2005 television drama miniseries, based on the book Colditz: The Definitive History by Henry Chancellor, and the Channel 4 television series Escape from Colditz.

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Diana (2013 film)

Diana is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, about the last two years of the life of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes.

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Edward VIII

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor

The Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor is an annual award presented since 1955 by the Evening Standard in recognition of achievement in British theatre.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Gingerbread man

A gingerbread man is a biscuit or cookie made from gingerbread, usually in the shape of a stylized human being, although other shapes, especially seasonal themes (Christmas, Halloween, Easter, etc.) and characters are common too.

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Gold (British TV channel)

Gold is a British pay television channel from the UKTV network that was launched in late 1992 as UK Gold before it was rebranded UKTV Gold in 2004.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit.

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Grayshott

Grayshott is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

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Green Room Award for Male Actor in a Leading Role (Music Theatre)

The Green Room Award for Male Actor in a Leading Role (Music Theatre) is an annual award recognising excellence in the performing arts in Melbourne.

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Green Room Awards

The Green Room Awards are peer awards which recognise excellence in Cabaret, Dance, Theatre Companies, Independent Theatre, Musical Theatre, Contemporary and Experimental Performance and Opera in Melbourne.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music and drama school located in the City of London, England.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Hansel and Gretel

"Hansel and Gretel" (Hänsel und Gretel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimms' Fairy Tales (KHM 15).

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Harley Granville-Barker

Harley Granville-Barker (25 November 1877 – 31 August 1946) was an English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist.

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Harry Hadden-Paton

Harry Frederick Gerard Hadden-Paton (born 10 April 1981) is a British actor.

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Haslemere

The town of Haslemere and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south west Surrey, England, around south west of London.

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Hay Fever (play)

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Henry IX (TV series)

Henry IX is a 2017 British comedy series created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, that aired on the television channel Gold.

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Hindhead

Hindhead is a village in the Waverley district of the ceremonial county of Surrey, England.

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Holy Flying Circus

Holy Flying Circus is a 90-minute BBC television comedy film first broadcast in 2011, written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris.

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ITV1

ITV1 (formerly known as ITV) is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the British media company ITV plc.

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John Frost (producer)

John Edward Frost (AM) (born 30 September 1952) is an Australian theatrical stage impresario.

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Joseph Simpson (police officer)

Sir Joseph Simpson KBE KPFSM (26 June 1909 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Joe Simpson to his officers, was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1958 to 1968.

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Julie Andrews

Dame Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author.

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre.

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Laurence Olivier Awards

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply The Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London.

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Lerner and Loewe

Lerner and Loewe is the partnership between lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe.

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Mansfield Park (1999 film)

Mansfield Park is a 1999 British romantic comedy-drama film based on Jane Austen's 1814 novel of the same name, written and directed by Patricia Rozema.

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Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield

Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Michael Charles Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, (7 September 1913 – 23 December 1999) was a British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Michael Billington (critic)

Michael Keith Billington (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic.

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Michael Blakemore

Michael Howell Blakemore AO OBE (18 June 1928 – 10 December 2023) was an Australian actor, writer and theatre director who also made a handful of films.

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Michael Palin

Sir Michael Edward Palin (born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter.

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Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series created by Caroline Graham, and broadcasts on the ITV Network since its premiere on 23 March 1997.

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Monarch of the Glen (TV series)

Monarch of the Glen is a British drama television series produced by Ecosse Films for BBC Scotland and broadcast on BBC One for seven series between February 2000 and October 2005 with 64 episodes in total.

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Monty Python's Life of Brian

Monty Python's Life of Brian (also known as Life of Brian) is a 1979 British comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin).

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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599.

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Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes

Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes is a television crime drama series created by David Pirie, and co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, a PBS station.

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My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Opera Australia

Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia.

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Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is an Irish-born British-American journalist, television presenter, and author who was previously the private secretary and equerry to Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Philomena (film)

Philomena is a 2013 drama film directed by Stephen Frears, based on the 2009 book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by journalist Martin Sixsmith.

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Private Lives

Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward.

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Private Secretary to the Sovereign

The private secretary to the sovereign is the senior operational member of the Royal Household of the sovereign of the United Kingdom (as distinct from the great officers of the Household, whose duties are largely ceremonial).

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Relative Values (film)

Relative Values is a 2000 British comedy film adaptation of the 1950s play of the same name by Noël Coward.

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Richard Hannay

Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps (and other later film adaptations), very loosely based on Buchan's 1915 novel of the same name.

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Richard II of England

Richard II (6 January 1367 –), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399.

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Rings of Power

The Rings of Power are magical artefacts in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, most prominently in his high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England.

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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast (or Ensemble) in a Drama Series is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest ensemble acting achievements in drama series.

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Shakespeare's Globe

Shakespeare's Globe is a realistic true-to-history reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse first built in 1599 for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays.

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Sherlock (TV series)

Sherlock is a British mystery crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.

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Simon Godwin

Simon Godwin is artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. He was previously associate director of London's National Theatre, associate director of the Royal Court Theatre, and associate director at Bristol Old Vic.

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Sky UK

Sky UK Limited, trading as Sky is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television, internet, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom.

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South Island

The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.

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Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude is an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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The 39 Steps (play)

The 39 Steps is a parody play adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock.

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The All Together

The All Together is a 2007 comedy film written and directed by Gavin Claxton and starring Martin Freeman, Corey Johnson, Velibor Topic and Danny Dyer.

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The Apple Cart

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza is a 1928 play by George Bernard Shaw.

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The Crown (TV series)

The Crown is a historical drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix.

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The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612–1613.

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The Duke (2020 film)

The Duke is a 2020 British comedy drama film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.

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The Girlfriend Experience (TV series)

The Girlfriend Experience is an American anthology drama television series created, written, and directed by Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz shown on the premium cable network Starz.

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The Halcyon

The Halcyon is a British television period drama broadcast on ITV which began airing on 2 January 2017.

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The King's Speech

The King's Speech is a 2010 historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler.

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The King's Speech (play)

The King's Speech is a 2012 play written by David Seidler and based on the 2010 Academy Award-winning film of the same name.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy television series developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video.

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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.

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The Shell Seekers (2006 film)

The Shell Seekers (Die Muschelsucher) is a 2006 mini-series starring Academy Award-winners, Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell.

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The Terror (TV series)

The Terror is an American supernatural horror drama anthology television series developed for AMC.

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The Witches (2020 film)

The Witches (also known as Roald Dahl's The Witches), is a 2020 dark fantasy comedy horror film co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kenya Barris and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1983 novel The Witches by Roald Dahl.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edwards_(actor)

Also known as Charles Edwards (English actor).

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