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Character name: Tom Quinn
Appears in:Spooks
Date(s): 2002-2004
Award(s):
| Character back story: Tom Quinn was the fictional Section Chief in Section D, MI5's Counter-Terrorism Department.
He had natural leadership instincts and could relate to all of his staff. Having joined Section D directly from his training in June 1996[2], Quinn was particularly close to his boss Harry Pearce and the two ran Section D effectively. He helped both Zoe Reynolds and Danny Hunter (who were his junior officers) in their careers and training.
At the start of the first series Tom Quinn's girlfriend was Ellie Simm who knew him under the alias Matthew Archer. When later in the series she found out that he worked for MI-5 and had not even told her his real name, she was not happy. However she began to accept his career and all appeared well. However, during finale of season one their house almost got blown up when Tom unknowingly took a hidden bomb home with him. When Ellie and her daughter were nearly killed as a result she made Tom choose between her and his job; he chose his job and she left him at the beginning of season two. | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:30s
MI5 intelligence office-section chief | | Personality type:ntelligent, dedicated and focused with impeccable instincts | | Signature look: | | Resides:london | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:For much of the first series Matthew Macfadyen's character (Tom Quinn) wears dark glasses, this was actually due to a burst blood vessel sometimes just visible.
During production all files relating to spooks were labeled "Prawn" to "throw people off the scent |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Patrick McCann: There are people who'd fry my balls in batter if they knew what I was doing.
Tom Quinn: Suddenly grown a conscience, have we?
Patrick McCann: Well, I'll let you know what it feels like when I've worn it in.
Tom Quinn: Rich.
Danny Hunter: Tom... Not dead, I see.
Tom Quinn: No, I'm not dead... I feel pretty dead inside, but we don't want to go there, do we?
Christine Dale: It nearly destroyed me. It is destroying you.
Tom Quinn: No, I'm fine... dandy... cock-a-hoop.
Female Doctor: [In hospital, to Danny] Mr Palmer?
Tom Quinn: He may have broken a rib.
Female Doctor: You're the boyfriend, are you?
Tom Quinn: No.
Female Doctor: Well, there is a god.
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Character name: Daniel Howells
Appears in: Death at a Funeral
Date(s):2007
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| Character back story:Daniel is married to Jane and before his father died they were planning to buy a flat and get away from his parents and move out of his father's home.
He has a brother Robert, who is a novelist living in New York, Daniel is forced to cover the entire expenses for his father's funeral when Robert spends his money on a first class plane ticket to fly to england for the funeral.
The service is being held at the family home & Daniel is struggling to write an eulogy which he has to give later on.
During the service/reception several problems arise which Daniel & his friends struggle to cope with | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation:30s | | Personality type: | | Signature look: | | Resides:south of england/london | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:Filmed in seven weeks.
The film opened in 260 theatres in the United States on 17 August 2007 and grossed $1,282,973 on its opening weekend, ranking #17 at the box office. It eventually earned $8,580,428 in the US and $38,020,241 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $46,600,669
On 6 March 2009, The Hollywood Reporter reported Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan, and Martin Lawrence were set to star in an African Americanized remake of the film directed by Neil LaBute. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Daniel: [glances into the coffin just presented to him] Who is this?
Undertaker: Pardon me?
Daniel: This is not my father.
Daniel: My father was an exceptional man!
[pause]
Daniel: He may not have been a perfect man, but he was a good man, and he loved us. All I wanted to do today was to give him a dignified send-off. Is that really so much to ask? So, maybe, maybe he had some things he liked to do. Life isn't simple, it's complicated. We're all just thrown in here together, in a world full of chaos and confusion, a world full of questions and no answers, death always lingering around the corner, and we do our best. We can't only do our best, and my dad did his best. He always tried to tell me that you have to go for what you want in life because you never know how long you're going to be here. And whether you succeed or you fail, the most important thing is to have tried. And apparently no one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself. So when you all leave here today, I would like you to remember my father for who he really was: a decent, loving man. If only we could be as giving and generous and as understanding as my father was. Then the world would be a far better place.
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Character name: Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy
Appears in:Pride & Prejudice
Date(s):2005
Award(s):2006-won Camie award
| Character back story: Mr. Darcy is a wealthy gentleman with an income of at least £10,000 a year and the proprietor of Pemberley, a large estate in Derbyshire, England.
Darcy slights Elizabeth Bennet at their first meeting, but then is attracted to her, and later begins to court her (in his own way) while struggling against his continued feelings of superiority.
Ironically, when Darcy realizes his friend Bingley is seriously courting Elizabeth's elder sister Jane, he disapproves, and subtly persuades Bingley that Jane does not return his feelings | | Inspiration for character:based on the character from the novel | Age/Occupation:20s-30s
wealthy businessman/landowner | | Personality type:romantic,self absorbed,has a superiority complex looks down on people | | Signature look: | | Resides:pemberley,derbyshire | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:Matthew Macfadyen (Mr. Darcy) has very poor eyesight. In the misty morning shot, the director, Joe Wright, was behind the camera waving a red flag so Macfadyen knew where to walk.
When Elizabeth is reading the letter from Mr. Darcy and Charlotte comes and asks her if she is alright, you can see clearly the signature on the letter: Fitzwilliam Darcy. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Mr. Darcy: So this is your opinion of me. Thank you for explaining so fully. Perhaps these offences might have be overlooked had not your pride been hurt by my honesty...
Elizabeth Bennet: My pride?
Mr. Darcy: ...in admitting scruples about our relationship. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your circumstances?
Elizabeth Bennet: And those are the words of a gentleman. From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others made me realize that you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
[they look at each other for a long time as though about to kiss]
Mr. Darcy: Forgive me, madam, for taking up so much of your time.
Mr. Darcy: Tell me, do you and your sisters very often walk to Meryton?
Elizabeth Bennet: Yes, we often walk to Meryton. It's a great opportunity to meet new people. In fact, when you met us, we'd just had the pleasure of forming a new acquaintance.
Mr. Darcy: Mr Wickham's blessed with such happy manners, as may ensure his making friends. Whether he is capable of retaining them, is less certain.
Elizabeth Bennet: He's been so unfortunate as to lose your friendship. I dare say that is an irreversible event.
Mr. Darcy: It is. Why do you ask such a question?
Elizabeth Bennet: To make out your character.
Mr. Darcy: What have you discovered?
Elizabeth Bennet: Very little. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.
Mr. Darcy: I hope to afford you more clarity in the future.
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Character name: Arthur Clennam
Appears in:Little Dorrit
Date(s):2008
Award(s):2009-nominated for RTS award for best actor
| | Character back story:Kind, generous Arthur possesses a strong sense of loyalty and filial duty and has devoted his life so far to working for his parents' business in China. However, he now wants to find his own happiness and to start his life anew back in England. He also intends to uncover the truth about the Clennam family's past and to make reparations for any wrongdoing, despite facing fierce opposition from his domineering mother | | Inspiration for character:based on the character from the novel | Age/Occupation:30s
businessman | | Personality type:loyal,hard working | | Signature look: | | Resides:london | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia:The black velvet striped day dress worn by an extra in a London street scene is the same costume Anna Chancellor (Caroline Bingley) wears at Netherfield Hall in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995), and Lindsay Duncan (Lady Catherine) wears at Longbourn in "Lost in Austen" (2008). |
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