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ELIZABETH
THEGOLDEN
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UNIVERSAL PICTURES Presents
In Association with STUDIOCANAL
A WORKING TITLE Production
A SHEKHAR KAPUR Film
CATE BLANCHED
GEOFFREY RUSH
CLIVE. OWEN
ELIZABETH
THEGOLDENAGE
RHYS IFANS
JORDI MOLLA
ABBIE CORNISH
and
SAMANTHA MORTON
Executive Producers
DEBRA HAYWARD
L1ZA CHASIN
MICHAEL HIRST
Produced by
TIM BEVAN
ERIC FELLNER
JONATHAN CAVENDISH
Written by
WILLIAM NICHOLSON
and
MICHAEL HIRST
Directed by
SHEKHAR KAPUR
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CHARLES BRUCE
JEREMY CRACKNELL
BENEDICT GREEN
ADAM SMITH
SIMON STRATTON
CRISPIN SWAYNE
CAST
In order of appearance
King Philip II of Spain
JORDI MOLLA
Infanta
AIMEE KING
Queen Elizabeth I.
CATE BLANCHETT
Sir Christopher Hatton
LAURENCE FOX
Lord Howard
JOHN SHRAPNEL
Sir Francis Walsingham
GEOFFREY RUSH
Annette ..................•.........
SUSAN LYNCH
Laundry Woman
ELISE McCAVE
Mary Stuart
SAMANTHA MORTON
Bess Throckmorton
ABBIE CORNISH
Margaret
PENELOPE McGHIE
Robert Reston
RHYS IFANS
Thornas Babington
EDDIE REDMAYNE
Savage
STUART MCLOUGLIN
Sir Walter Raleigh
CLIVE OWEN
Calley
ADRIAN SCARBOROUGH
Palace Doorkeeper
ROBERT STYLES
Don Guerau De Spes
WILLIAM HOUSTON
First Court Lady
CORAL BEED
Second Court Lady
ROSALIND HALSTEAD
Manteo
STEVEN LOTON
Wanchese
MARTIN BARON
Walsingham's Agent
DAVID ARMAND
Francis Throckmorton
STEVEN ROBERTSON
Ramsey
JEREMY BARKER
Burton
GEORGE INNES
William Walsingham
ADAM GODLEY
Mary Walsingharn
KIRSTIN COULTER SMITH
Ursula Walsingham
KELLY HUNTER
Archduke Charles
CHRISTIAN BRASSINGTON
Count Georg von Helfenstein
ROBERT CAMBRINUS
Sir Amyas Paulet
TOM HOLLANDER
Torturer
SAM SPRUELL
Old Throckmorton
TIM PREECE
Spanish Minister
VIDAL SANCHO
Dr. John Dee ............•.......
DAVID THRELFALL
Dance Master
BENJAMIN MAY
Cellarman
DAVID STERNE
Woman With Baby
KATE FLEETWOOD
Royal Servant
GLENN DOHERTY
Dean of Peterborough
CHRIS BRAILSFORD
Executioner
DAVE LEGENO
Spanish Archbishop
ANTONY CARRICK
Marriage Priest
JOHN ATTERBURY
Admiral Sir William Winter
DAVID ROBB
First Spanish Officer
ALEX GIANNINI
Second Spanish Officer
JOE FERRERA
Mary Stuart's Ladies-in-Waiting
Queen Elizabeth's Ladies-in-Waiting
.
HAYLEY BURROUGHS
KIRSTY McKAY
LUCIA RUCK KEENE
LUCIENNE VENISSE-BACK
CREW
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
Executive Producers
Co-Producer
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Editor ...........•..............
Costume Designer
Makeup and Hair Designer
Music by
Music Supervisor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Casting by
First Assistant Director
Production Manager
Second Unit Directed &
Photographed by
Location Managers
SHEKHAR KAPUR
WILLIAM NICHOLSON and
MICHAEL HIRST
TIM BEVAN
ERIC FELLNER
JONATHAN CAVENDISH
DEBRA HAYWARD
L1ZA CHASIN
MICHAEL HIRST
MARY RICHARDS
REMI ADEFARASIN, ssc
GUY HENDRIX DYAS
JILL BILCOCK, ACE
ALEXANDRA BYRNE
JENNY SHIRCORE
CRAIG ARMSTRONG and
AR RAHMAN
NICK ANGEL
RICHARD STAMMERS
FIONA WEIR
,
TOMMY GORMLEY
MARK MOSTYN
ALAN STEWART
NICHOLAS. DAUBENY
MANUS HOME
'A' Camera Operators
SIMON FINNEY
BEN WILSON
Production Sound Mixer
DAVID STEPHENSON
Supervising Art Director
FRANK WALSH
Set Decorator
RICHARD ROBERTS
Casting Associate
LUCY BEVAN
Construction Manager
MALCOLM ROBERTS
Stunt Coordinator
GREG POWELL
Financial Controller
MICHELE TANDY
Script Supervisor
ANGELA NOAKES-WHARTON
Post-Production Supervisor
TANIA BLUNDEN
Special Continuity
Courtiers
KITTY FOX
KATE L1NDESAY
KATHERINE TEMPLAR
JONATHAN BAILEY
ALEXANDER BARNES
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First Assistant Editor
BILLY BROWNE
Post-Production Accountant
TARN HARPER
Co-Visual Effects Supervisor
GUY HENDRIX DYAS
Supervising Sound Editor .,
, .. MARK AUGUSTE
Supervising Re-RecordingMixer
TIM CAVAGIN
Cate Blanchett's Makeup & Hair
MORAG ROSS
Clive Owen's Makeup & Hair ... DORKA NIERADZIK,MBE
For WORKING TITLE
Chief Operating Officer
ANGELA MORRISON
Executive in Charge of Production .. MICHELLE WRIGHT
Production Executive
SARAH-JANE ROBINSON
Head of Development
NATASCHA WHARTON
Head of Legal & Business Affairs
SHEERAZ SHAH
Finance Director
TIM EASTHILL
Development Executive
AMELIA GRANGER
Vice President of Legal &
Business Affairs
GRAINNE McKENNA
Legal & Business Affairs Executive .. LUCY WAINWRIGHT
Executive Coordinator
ANN LYNCH
Legal & Business Affairs Manager
.
CHRISTINA ANGELOUDES
Assistant Production Coordinator
Assistant to Tim Bevan
Assistant to Eric Fellner
Music Coordinator
Office Manager
,
KATE BAILEY
CHLOE DORIGAN
ALiZA JAMES
VICKI WILLIAMS
NICOLA GARREn
Production Services by
SCION FILMS
Production Coordinator
SAMANTHA BLACK
Assistant Production Coordinator
REBECCA RAE
Assistant to Jonathan Cavendish
MARIA RYAN
Assistant to Shekhar Kapur
CLARE WILLIAMS
Assistant to Cate Blanchett
JEMMA KEARNEY
Assistant to Clive Owen
HELEN APPLEBY
Production Assistant
GAVIN CARRUTHERS
Asset Manager
EMMA OLRICH-SMITH
Accommodation Coordinator
ALEX HODGSON
Second Assistant Director
MARK LAYTON
Co-Second Assistant Director
CHLOE CHESTERTON
Crowd Second Assistant Director .. CANDY MARLOWE
Floor Runners .. ,
JEREMY ANGEL
OLIVER HAZELL
BEATRICE MANNING
Unit Managers
Location Assistant
First Assistant Accountant
Assistant Accountants
Accounts Assistant
TERRY BLYTHER
DUNCAN FLOWER
TOM FORSYTH
DAN WHITTY
JAMES RICHARDSON
DOUGAL CADIOU
FARNAZ DONOVAN
NON ELUNED
JESSICA GREEN
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MARKGEESON
BRADLEY GODWIN
scotT KEERY
TERRY ROYCE
GREGOR TELFER
LLOYD VINCENT
PETER WELLS
WILLIAM WELLS
Senior Sculptor
Sculptors
,
Props Coordinator
Trainee Prop Makers
Costume Supervisor
Assistant Costume Designers
Costume Assistant
Key Set Costumer
Cate Blanchett's Costumer
Set Costumers
Crowd. Costume Supervisors
Crowd Costume
Pre-Fitters
Crowd Costume Seamstress
Costume Coordinator
Costume Runners
Costume Driver
Chief Costume Cutter
Men's Costume Cutter
Costume Cutter
Head Textile Artist
Assistant Textile Artists
Costume Makers
DUNCAN McDEVITT
STEVE DEAHL
ALEXANDRA HARWOOD
STEPHEN MCCLURE
ADEDOYIN OLUSHONDE
JACQUELINE SIMPSON
AILSA WOODYARD
Hairdressers
JON HENRY GORDON
LOULIA SHEPPARD
Makeup Artists
JOE HOPKER
SUSAN HOWARD
Chief Crowd Makeup & Hair Artist
Crowd Makeup & Hair Artists
KELLY NEARY
SUZANNE FORWARD
KAREN PUDDIFOOT
SUZI TURNBULL
SHARON LONG
JEREMY TURNER
JANE PETRIE
MAURIZIO TORTI
ClARA McARDLE
MARTIN CHITTY
TOM HORNSBY
JOSIE MARTIN
FIONA McCANN
.. ANTHONY BROOKMAN
YVONNE OTZEN
CHLOE AUBRY
. SALLYANN DICKSEE
ANDREW JOSLIN
JOOLS OSBORNE
JACQUELINE THOMAS
EMMA BROWN
JANIE DOWDING
SHEARA ABRAHAMS
LUCY DONOWHO
JULIAN O'SULLIVAN
DALE WIBBEN
MELANIE CARTER
DOMINIC YOUNG
STEVEN GELL
JOANNA WEAVING
ANITA MARQUEZ
CHARLOTTE COPSON
SUSAN CRAWSHAW
JANE FLANAGAN
DEBBIE HINDS
LIBERTY KELLY
LINDA LASHLEY
PERNILLA LINDFORS
STEPHANIE LITTLE
ARMELLE LUCAS
CAVITA LUCHMUN
LOUISE MILLS
JULIA VERNON
BEATRIX ARCHER
ANITA BROLLY
NICOLA BUCK
SHARON COLLEY
CHARMAINE FULLER
JULIE KENDRICK
UXUE LAGUARDIA
ELIZABETH LAWSON
MAYUREE LAYTON
LIZ MICHIE
LOUISE NOCKLES
KATH RAYNER
CHRISTINE WHITNEY
ROSEMARY WARDER
Orrery Makeup & Hair Coordinator
Makeup & Hair Trainee
FT2 Makeup & Hair Trainee
Post-Production Coordinators
Second Assistant Editor
Cutting Room Trainees
LIZ MURRAY
KATIE LEE
KAREN SCOTT
AISHA BICKNELL
FAYE STEVENS
HELEN PASZYN
KARENJIT SAHOTA
RAJESH RAJILAL
Dialogue Editor
SAM AUGUSTE
ADR Editor
TIM HANDS
Sound Editor
PAUL APTED
Foley Editor
ANDREW NEIL
Special Effects Consultant
JOSS WILLIAMS
Special Effects Supervisor
MIKE DAWSON
Special Effects Floor Supervisor
TERRY FLOWERS
Senior Special Effects Floor Technician .. KEITH DAWSON
Special Effects Floor Technicians
DAVID WATSON
HAYLEY WILLIAMS
Special Effects Wireman
JASON L1ENSTER
Lead Special Effects
Workshop Technician
STUART DIGBY
Special Effects Workshop Technician .. TONY EDWARDS
Special Effects Trainee .......•
" . BEN BROADBRIDGE
Video Coordinator
ANDY HADDOCK
Sound Maintenance Engineers
GARY DODKIN
COLIN WOOD
Sound Assistant
Assistant Construction
Construction Buyers
Standby Carpenter
Standby Rigger
Manager
STEPHANE MALENFANT
ROBERT VOYSEY
CARMEL CASSIDY
SARAH HUNT
DAVID WILLIAMSON
SEAN YOUNG
Standby Painter
Standby Stagehand
HOD Carpenter
Supervising Carpenter
Chargehand Carpenters
.. '"
BRADLEY WOODBRIDGE
JIM MUIR
MARTIN HUBBARD
ARTHUR HOLLAND
'" .... WAYNE DAY
KEVIN DEARDON
WAYNE HAMMOND
PAUL NOTT-MACAIRE
GEOFF BALL
.Carpenters
RAYMOND BELLCHAMBERS
GARY BIRD
MARK BRADY
ROB BROOKMAN
RAYMOND DAY
KEITH DYETT
DAVID EDWARDS
LEE EDWARDS
STEVEN FITZWATER
LEN HUNTINGFORD
ROB JACKSON
TONY KERR
SIMON MARJORAM
DAVID MAYHEW
PETER MAYHEW
TOM McCARTHY
PAUL NASH
COLIN OSGOOD
TONY SNOOK
GRAHAM WEAMES
JASON WEST
NIK BILLAM-SMITH
Apprentice Carpenters
Scenic Artists
MARK WILLIAMS
ANDREW CASTLE
DANIEL WELLS
ROHAN HARRIS
Assistant Scenic Artist
Decorative Artists
JAMES GEMMEL
STEVE MITCHELL
; . NIGEL HUGHES
SIMON HAGUE
Wood Machinists
HOD Painter
Supervising Painter
Chargehand Painter
Painters
;
JULIAN WALKER
MICHAEL SOTHERAN
ALAN GOOCH
JASON IVALL
JOHN BROGAN
ADAM CAMPBELL
KEITH CONNOLLY
PETER DAVIS
PETER EDGE
LARRY GOOCH
ANDY GUYETT
RICHARD HALL
SCOTT MEEKING
JAY SOTHERAN
MICHAEL WEAVER
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Painters' Labourer
Apprentice Painters
ANDREW BROGAN
KIMBERLEY GRANT
HOD Plasterer
Supervising Plasterer
Chargehand Plasterers
ALEXANDER GREEN
DORIAN SMITH
STEPHEN WATTS
KEVIN TURNER
PHILIP BABBAGE
Plasterers
JOHN HARRIS
STEPHEN PAGE
ADAM AITKEN
ADRIAN AITKEN
LOUIS ALLEY
SEAN BIRD
TONY BOXALL
JOHN BUTLER
NEIL CLARK
MELVYN COLEMAN
STEVEN COOK
CLIFFORD ETHERIDGE
PATRICK GLEESON
JAMIE GOODFELLOW
GEOFF GRANT
MATTHEW GREEN
WILLIAM GRZESIK
OLIVER HOWLETT
RAYMOND JAMES
JOHN LLOYD
JOHN MADDEN
PETER McCARROLL
GLENN MEES
STEPHEN MORRIS
DENIS MURRAY
MICHAEL O'CALLAGHAN
STEPHEN POWELL
TONY PUTT
ROBERT RAMSEY
KEVON RICHARDS
JOHN ROBERY
JEREMY ROSE
ANDY SANDBACH
GARY STOKES
ANDREW TOMBS
RAYMOND TRICKER
ILiJAVASIC
STEVAN VASIC
BRIAN WHITE
DOUGLAS WOODS
Supervising Plasterer's Labourer
OTIS BELL
P.!asterers' Labourers
SIMON CORDELL
Apprentice Plasterers
PETER CROUCHER
LEE KEARY
LEN ROBERTS
DWAYNE TAPPIN
JOSH FIELD
BRADLEY FARMER
DAVE FISHER
DANIEL WAlTS
HOD Rigger
Riggers
Supervising Electrical Rigger
HOD Metalworker
Supervising Metalworker
Metalworkers
Metalwork Labourer
HOD Stagehand
Stagehands
Shipwright
Advanced Nautical Rigger
Standby Nautical Rigger
Stonemason ,
Gaffer
Best Boy
Rigging Gaffer
,
Electricians
Generator Operator
Electrical Rigger
Chargehand Rigging Electrician
Rigging Electrician
Additional Electricians
Assistant Stunt Coordinator
Stunt Double for Cate Blanchett
Stunt Double for Clive Owen
Stunt Performers
JOHN FIELD
PAUL GARRAlT
ROBERT GURNEY
PAUL MITCHELL
MELVYN SANSOM
RICHARD WILLIAMS
JOHN WRIGHT
PETER FORD
ANDY GODBOLD
PAUL HERBERT
GARY HOPTROUGH
ROB INCH
JOHN KEARNEY
PAUL KENNINGTON
MARC MAILLEY
PETER MILES
KEN SLATER
NIGEL GRAY
ANTHONY WASS
STEPHAN BAlTERHAM
FREDRICK BUHAGIAR
HISHAM EJJAYHA
NORRIE HENDERSON
BRUCE MAYHEW
MARK MOlTRAM
DANIEL NAPROUS
RAY NICHOLAS
PETER PEDRERO
DOMINIC PREECE
GORDON SEED
ANDY SMART
MAlTHEW ROBERTS
KEITH SMITH
ALAN BILLAM
JOHN FOLLY
COLIN SMITH
DAN SMITH
JAMES WARREN
STUART. WILLIS
CLAUS WANG HANSEN
T. NIELSEN & CO. LTD.
JAMIE GREEN
- .. WILLIAM REID
JIMMY WILSON
MARK FUNNELL
IAN FRANKLIN
TONY BURNES
GUY HAMMOND
JOHN SAUNDERS
MARTIN WELLAND
DANNY YOUNG
COLIN SMITH
DAVID WALL
SAM KITE
BILL BULPllT
EUGENE GROBLER
DENNIS HOLLIDAY
STEPHAN L1STNER .
ANDY MUNDAY
BRIAN SULLIVAN
Stand-In for Cate Blanchett
Stand-In for Geoffrey Rush
Stand-In for Clive Owen
Unit Publicist
Stills Photographer
Transport Captain
Shekhar Kapur's Driver
Cate Blanchett's Driver
Geoffrey Rush's Driver
Clive Owen's Driver
Unit Drivers
COLElTE APPLEBY
STEVE MORPHEW
ROY BORRElT
STACY MANN
LAURIE SPARHAM
MIKE BEAVEN
WASEEM BARLAS
PETER TABECKI
LEE ISGAR
LOL SMITH
ALLAN BRADSHAW
MIKLOS KOZMA
PETER MERCER
ENYO MORTTY
TERRY REECE
Facilities Coordinator
Facilities Drivers
MIKE HARRIS
FINN PARKER
DUNCAN PRENTISS
Camera Car Driver
Costume Drivers
Props Drivers
ALAN DODD
RITCHIE MAGENNIS
NIGEL MORRIS
JOHN ROY
Special Effects Driver
ROWLEY IRLAM
ABBI COLLINS
JAMES GROGAN
DAVID ANDERS
NICK CHOPPING
GEORGE COlTLE
DANNY DE FREITAS
BEN DIMMOCK
RICK ENGLISH
Construction
Drivers
Video/Sound Driver
Minibus Drivers
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KEN PRICE
, ALAN LEWANDOWSKI
MICHAEL MULHERN
STEVE PIKE
BOB TURNER
EDDIE COOK
VINCE WELLAND
BARRY BRITNELL
TONY EVANS
IAN DRINKWATER
GAVIN MULLENS
DAVE SMITH
KAREN RUSSELL
Second Unit
First Assistant Director
Second Assistant Director
Third Assistant Directors
WILLIAM BOOKER
RICHARD GRAYSMARK
ZOE LAING
Location Manager
Camera Operator
First Assistant Camera
Second Assistant Camera
FT2 Camera Trainee
Grip
Script Supervisor
Video Operator
Marine Coordinator
Gaffer
Best Boy
Electricians
BRYN LAWRENCE
ALEX GLADSTONE
MARK MILSOME
lAIN STRUTHERS
TOBY EEDY
TOBIAS MARSHALL
NICK RAY
KAREN FRYER
DAVID KIRMAN
DAREN BAILEY
BRIAN BEAUMONT
IAN GLENISTER
PAUL MALLOY
Standby Propman
Sound Mixers
Sound Maintenance
MARK THORNTON
JACK GARWOOD
JOHN CASALI
;
COLIN CODNER
JEREMY BENNET
Engineers
Standby Carpenter
Standby Rigger
Second Unit Nurse
Additional Photography
MITCHELL LOW
GARY FISHER
JOHN WRIGHT
RUTH NICOL
DAVID KATZNELSON
by
Underwater
Grip
Unit Manager
Makeup and Hair
Unit Nurse
Standby Props
Driver
Runner
Re-Recording Mixer
Foley Recordists
Foley Artist
ADR Recordists
Voice Casting
MANUS HINGERTY
PADDY BLAKE
ANTHONY MEADE
MICHELLE CORNEY
CG Supervisor
Compositing Supervisor
Executive Producers
VICTORIA MOWLAM
IAN WARD
JESSICA NORMAN
MICHAEL ELSON
Visual Effects Coordinator
Lead Lighter .....................•.
CG Artists
Lead Compositor
Compositors
Scotland. Unit
Production Manager
Production Coordinator
First Assistant Director
Second Assistant Director
Third Assistant Director
Camera Focus Puller
Camera Loader
Rigger
Costumer Supervisor
Costume Trainee
CLAIRE HUGHES
MICHAEL WILSON
ALAN J. WANDS
ALISON GORING
MARRISSA CARRARA
JULIE BILLS
ANNA BENBOW
IAN HARRISON
DEE WALSH
SYSTA MOGENSEN
Concept Artist
Digital Matte Painters
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ANDY THOMPSON
BRENDAN DONNISON, MPSE
VFX Producers
GREG POWELL
MARK SILK
BERNIE PRENTICE
DAVE SHAW
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BLAIR SLATER
MARIO VACCARO
MARK APPLEBY
Visual Effects by
THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY
Sea Plate Unit
Location Manager
Focus Puller
Clapper Loader
PEIRO JAMIESON
RANALD MACLEAN
CHRIS CAMERON
STEVE SINGLE
JASON MANNELL
VANESSA BAKER
Unit
Underwater Action Director
Underwater Cameraman
Underwater Gaffer
Diving Coordinator
DAVID ASHBY
ROBBIE KIRKPATRICK
MARION MCCORMACK
JANE HUGHES
STUART CUNNINGHAM
DREW JONES
JULIAN BLOM
JORDI CARDUS
DAVID ARMITAGE
THOMAS CARRICK
HOWARD MARGOLIUS
MATT MIDDLETON
DAVID MUCCI
CENAY OEKMEN
SIMON PAYNE
CLAIRE PEGORIER
SAMREMFRY
GUILLAUME ROCHERON
JASON WEN
PHIL YOUNG
RICHARD LITTLE
IZET BUCO
MARK CURTIS
ANDREW FLETCHER
RON GANBAR
QIAN HAN
CHRISTIAN IRLES
PETER JOPLING
SCOTT MARRIOTT
MARIAN MAVROVICH
DAVID SCOTT
MIQUEL UBEDA
VIRGINIE BOURDIN
DAVID GIBBONS
DAVID SWIFT
Render Engineer
Software Development
Visual Effects Editors
Matchmove
ANDREW BUNDAY
ELAINE KIERAN
PAUL ALEXIOU
ALED ROBINSON
Minibus Hire
Extras Casting
TRANSCAMERA LTD.
CASTING COLLECTIVE LTD.
2020 CASTING
Lighting Equipment
Costumiers
LEE LIGHTING LIMITED
ANGELS THE COSTUMIERS
ARTE E COSTUME sri
CORNEJO
COSPROp.
ANTHONY ABEJURO
GABRIEL ARNOLD
ARAM BALAKJIAN
JON CAPLETON
JIGESH GAJJAR
DAVID SUDD
Roto/Prep
COSTUMI D' ARTE ROME
TIRELLI COSTUMI ROMA
E. RANCATI sri
Jewelry Supplied by
ERICSON BEAMON
LABA
sri ROMA
DPP DI VALERIA PERCOSSI PAPA sas
Shoes Supplied by
POMPEII
RICHARD BAILLIE
MIKE BRAZELTON
LUAN DAVIS
ROB HALL
GREG HOWE-DAVIS
ALASDAIR McNEILL
; KIERAN BELSHAW
CHRIS FRASER
LEWIS GUARNIERE
TOBY LANGLEY
MARLIN McGLONE
CAROLINE ROWLANDS
Data Ops
K&D
Wigs Supplied by
Horses & Carriages Supplied by
R & S DENT
Horse Master
EMMA DENT
Animals Supplied by
ACTION STUNT DOGS
Weapons Supplied by
BAPTY & CO
Supervising Armourer
DAMIAN MITCHELL
Royal Barge & Marine Services .. TURK FILM SERVICES
On Camera & Safety Vessels
AQUA FILMS
Prop Makers. ;
CREATION WORKSHOPS
DICK GEORGE ASSOCIATES
Digital Film Mastering by
THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY
Producers
MATTHEW BRISTOWE
BEGONA LOPEZ
Colourist
IQ Editors
MAX HORTON
RICHARD ETCH ELLS
JAMIE LEONARD
CAROLINE ROWLANDS
PATRICK WINTERSGILL
TECHNICOLOR CREATIVE SERVICES
Scanning
Additional Visual Effects by
RAY MARSTON
TERRY JARVIS
CAROL WAUGH
Stills Processing
LOFTY'S LAB
Walkie Talkies
WAVEVEND
Location Security
THE MOVIE LOT
Marquees Supplied by
THE ORGANISATION
Insurance Services
AON/ALBERT G. RUBEN
Legal Research
,
.
MARSHALUPLUMB
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.
Front Title Sequence
CATO PURNELL PARTNERS
End Titles
VOODOODOG@
Negative Cutting
CUTTING EDGE
Laboratory Contact
CLIVE NOAKES
Rushes Transfer
ARION FACILITIES
Rushes Colourist
DANCRUSSELL
Post-Production Facilities .. GOLDCREST POST, LONDON
Sound Re-Recorded at .. TWICKENHAM FILM STUDIOS
Foley Recorded at
SOUNDFIRM AUSTRALIA
EPK
SPECIAL TREATS PRODUCTIONS
Historical Music Arrangement
and Composition
WILLIAM LYONS
Executive in Charge of Music
for Universal Pictures
KATHY NELSON
Recorded and Mixed by
GEOFF FOSTER
Assistant Engineers
NICKCERVONARO
JAKE JACKSON
Score Recorded and Mixed at .....
AIR STUDIOS, LYNDHURST HALL, LONDON
MACHINE
Catering
Catering Manager.
Chefs
PREMIER CATERERS LTD.
CAROL BULMER
MATTHEW BARRY
MARK EMMETT
GARY ETHERINGTON
TONY JUDD
Catering Assistant
NATASHA HUDSON
Personal Chef to Shekhar Kapur
SURESH KHALE
Crowd Catering
CHEFS ON LOCATION
Health & Safety Consultant
LARRY EYDMANN
Unit Nurse
ROSIE BEDFORD-STRADLING
ConstructionNurses
EMMA BROWN
JUDITH EDWARDS
Fire Cover
1st DEFENSE FIRE AND RESCUE
Equipment Transport
LAYS INTERNATiONAL
Facility Vehicles
LOCATION FACILITIES LTD.
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Orchestrated
Conducted
by
,
by
Programming and Additional
Arrangements by
,
Crown and Crystals courtesy of SWAROVSKI
MATT DUNKLEY
CRAIG ARMSTRONG
CECILIA WESTON
Kind Permission for Reproduction of Art Works courtesy
of The Bridgeman Art Library
DAVID DONALDSON
Footage from RYAN'S DAUGHTER
Licensed byTurner Entertainment Co.
All Rights Reserved.
Additional Orchestration,
Arrangement and Programming by .... KAZIMIR BOYLE
Additional Programming by
KRISHNA CHETHAN
Music Editor
TONY LEWIS
Orchestra Contractor
ISOBEL GRIFFITHS
Orchestra Leader
PERRY MONTAGUE-MASON
Choir
METRO VOICES
Choirmaster
JENNY O'GRADY
Music Preparation by
DAKOTA MUSIC SERVICE
Score Supervisor
EMMA FORD
Solo Soprano by
,
CATHERINE BOTT
SARAH EYDEN
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CATE BLANCHETT, reprising the role she originated in the seven-time Academy
Award@-nominated Elizabeth, readies her men for war in a gripping historical
thriller laced with treachelY and romance-Elizabeth:
The Golden Age.
ELIZABETH
THEGOLDEM
Academy Award@ winner CATE BLANCHETT
AGE
Globe winner and Oscar@ nominee CLIVE OWEN
returns to her star-making role from Working Title Films'
(Children of Men) as Sir Walter Raleigh, a dashing
seven-time Oscar<BI-nominated1998 film, Elizabeth. She
seafarer in whom Elizabeth finds newfound temptation.
is reunited with her collaborators from the worldwide
crossover hit-Academy
It is 1585 and, having reigned over England for
Award@winnerGEOFFREYnearlythreedecades,QueenElizabeth
I (Blanchett)
RUSH and Golden Globe- and BAFTA-nominated
continues to face bloodlust for her throne and the
director SHEKHAR KAPUR-in
lingering threat of familial betrayal. A channel away,
this gripping histor-
icaldrama laced with treachery and romance: Elizabeth:
a destructive
The Golden Age. Signing on to the new epic is Golden
blows across 16th century Europe, with Spain's Philip
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wind of fundamentalist
Catholicism
And as she charts her course
abroad,
Elizabeth's
trusted
advisor, Sir Francis Walsingham
(Rush), continues his masterful
puppetry of her court at homeand her campaign
to solidify
absolute power. Through an intricate spy network,
uncovers
Walsingham
an assassination
plot
that could topple the throne. But
as he unmasks traitors that may
include
Mary
Queen Elizabeth J (CATE BLANCHETT)
Elizabeth's
Stuart
(double
Elizabeth: The Golden Age tells the thrilling tale
head. Backed by the Church in Rome and armed with
of an era ... the story of one woman's crusade to
his powerful army and
armada-presents
he unknowingly
sets England on a course of destruction.
II (lORDI MOLLA of Sultanes del Sur), its figure-
sea-dominating
Oscar@
nominee SAMANTHA MORTON
plans her next maneUVeI:
of In America),
the Inquisition, Philip-with
own cousin
control love, crush enemies and secure her position as
an imminent
a beloved icon of the Western world.
threat to Queen and Country ... the dark and pious
Directed .by Shekhar Kapur,. from an original
king is determined to wrest the Protestant "heretic"
from the throne and restore England to the glory that
screenplay by WILLIAM NICHOLSON
is the Roman Catholic Church.
and MICHAEL HIRST (Elizabeth),
Golden Age is produced
Preparing to go to war to defend her empire,
(Gladiator)
Elizabeth: The
by Working Title's TIM
to balance ancient royal
BEVAN (Atonement) and ERIC FELLNER (Pride &
duties with an unexpected vulnerability in her love for
Prejudice), and JONATHAN CAVENDISH (Bridget
Raleigh-
Jones series). The executive producers are DEBRA
Elizabeth
also struggles
despite his status as a commoner-who
remains forbidden for a Queen sworn body and soul
HAYWARD {United 93), LIZA CHASIN (Pride &
to her country. Unable and unwilling to pursue her
Prejudice) and Hirst.
The filmmakers have assembled a stellar team of
passion, Elizabeth encourages her favored lady-inwaiting, Bess (ABBIE CORNISH of the upcoming
behind-the-scenes
Stop Loss), to befriend Raleigh and keep him near.
imagine the glittering court of Elizabeth I (along with
But such a strategy places Elizabeth at the center of
the gritty
reality
film artisans to re-create and reof day-to-day
life in the 16th
their courtship, where she has no choice but to observe
century), often using some of England's most historic
their growing intimacy. In the dashing and adventurous
sites as a backdrop to the epic drama-as
Raleigh, she sees not only an intellectual and spirited
shooting at the legendary Shepperton Studios. outside
equal, but also a clarion oflands beyond, the unexplored
of London. Many of the craftsmen return to work
globe, infinite ... freedom. By electing Bess to take her
with Kapur, having served in similar capacities on
place, she is ultimately forcedto make the anguishing
Elizabeth, and include director of photography REMI
ADEFARASIN;
choice between being a woman and being a Queen.
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editor JILL
BILCOCK;
well as
costume
designer ALEXANDRA
BYRNE; and makeup and
hair designer JENNY
SHIRCORE.
rating
production
artists
HENDRIX
include
DYAS
and
New collabodesigner
composers
GUY
CRAIG
Says producer Tim Bevan, "Elizabeth the First's entire
reign could not be told effectively in one film-it
was
so long and so much happened during it, and she
encountered so many extraordinary people."
Encouraged by the global success of Elizabeth,
ARMSTRONG and AR RAHMAN.
the discussions continued over the intervening years,
ABOUT THE
PRODUCTION
In Elizabeth, the story focused on the early (and
Childless, I am Mother to my people.
somewhat uncertain) years of the fledgling ruler's
God give me strength
reign. The young queen faced an uphill struggle to
to bear this mighty burden."
hold on to her throne, outfoxing conspirators
Elizabeth I
and
deceivers at every turn. Never certain which of her
Released in 1998, the bold and visceral Elizabeth
art-house hit, and-
buoyed by abravura turn by then star-on-the-rise Cate
Blanchett, an accomplished
sion writers Michael Hirst (who penned the first film)
play that would become Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Unmarried, I have no Master.
started out as a well-pedigreed
Elizabeth, the team felt the time was right to commisand William Nicholson to begin work on the screen-
"I am called the Virgin Queen.
-Queen
and approximately five years after the completion of
court and advisers could be trusted, the headstrong
and savvy Elizabeth emerged at the end of the film as
a Queen, firmly in charge of her destiny ...
Elizabeth: The Golden Age commences a decade
cast, superlative storygrew into an
after the period covered in Elizabeth and examines the
international phenomenon. Elizabeth was nominated
glorious middle years of her rule. On a political level,
for a total of seven Oscars@ (including Best Picture
the film explores Elizabeth's conflict with Philip II of
and Best Actress for Blanchett, with makeup designer
Spain, who-as
Jenny Shircore winning), 11 BAFTAs (winning six)and
with the considerable backing of the Church in Rome,
telling and sensual production values-it
the ruler of his own Catholic empire
three Golden Globes (with Blanchett
walking away with a statue). The magic
seemed to lay in the filmmakers' vision
of a great historical epic told in an
iconoclastic and contemporary wayan approach rendering it accessible to a
modern
audience-and
Kapur's direction
period
in Shekhar
(a reinvention
drama through
of
a decidedly
Eastern sensibility).
During production
of Elizabeth,
the filmmakers discussed the idea of
telling the story of Elizabeth I-from
the young girl to the Queen who ruled
nearly 45 years-in
a trilogy of films.
Elizabeth (CATE BLANCHETT)
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embraces loyal subject Sir Walter Raleigh (CLIVE OWEN).
relevant to today's individual,
political or psychological
atti-
tudes? Elizabeth: The Golden
Age is about Cate Blanchett,
who is interpreting
Elizabeth
for modem times. It's about the
conflict
between
fundamen-
talism and tolerance, the search
for the self, divinity. It's about
mortality
and immortality.
It's
all things we deal with in our
personal lives every day."
On a more personal level,
The Golden Age looks beyond
CLIVE OWEN as Raleigh.
the political
conflicts
to deal
not to mention the might of the ruthless Inquisition-
with Elizabeth as a woman, inwardly conflicted while
was regarded as the most powerful man in the world.
on her voyage from mortality to divinity-due
Religiously devout, he had sworn to blanket the world
part to one ofthe greatest romantic involvements in her
in Catholicism, whatever the cost.
life, the larger-than-life
When Elizabeth
adventurer
in large
and soldier Sir
succeeded to the throne as a
Walter Raleigh. At the heart of this is the exploration of
Protestant in 1558, nearly half of England's popula-
a triangular relationship among Elizabeth, Raleigh and
tion remained Catholic, but-in
one of many charac-
her favorite lady-in-waiting, Bess Throckmorton. The
she chose to view her
Queen plays a costly game of chess with the dashing
teristically skillful moves-
people as her subjects, dogma notwithstanding.
She
Raleigh and the beautiful Bess ... eventually experi-
reasoned
they loved her before they were either
encing a vicarious relationship with Raleigh (through
Protestant
or Catholic. ("I have no wish to open
the young Throckmorton) that she denies herself. In
windows into men's souls," she explained ... basically
some ways, Elizabeth hopes to keep Raleigh's mind and
meaning
what you like, but act as my
spirit to herself, while giving him her body in the form
Protestant subjects." Throughout her reign, Elizabeth
of Bess. In that costly gamble, she ends up losing the
I proved extremely tolerant to her Catholic subjects
game and, ultimately, control of Raleigh's heart.
"think
and constantly
protected
them
against
virulent
Marking their third collaboration
produced
both
from the floor of her own Parliament.) The new film
Cavendish
produces
sets about to examine the notion of religious tolerance
Films' Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Cavendish states,
set against fundamentalism-a
"The opportunity to work with Shekhar was an attrac-
resonates today.
films),
Jonathan
the film with Working Title
tive one, and it turned out to be an enormously stim-
Director Kapur believes that "by delving into
history, you wind up telling a contemporary
Jones
(he
protests and cries to persecute, many of which arose
timely subject that
Bridget
together
ulating
experience.
He's very collaborative.
He's
story
constantly bringing in new ideas, rejecting old ones,
about ourselves. Why make a film today that is not
and has the bravery and the imagination to keep ques-
relevant to today's times? Why make a film that's not
tioning things. He operates
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on metaphorical
and
"I've learned much more about filmmaking since
mythical levels, always keeping two or three ideas
going below the surface, so the scene appears to be
Elizabeth," the actor continues.
"That said, it is a
about one thing, but is often much more about some-
tricky role and there are times when I thought I've
thing else altogether."
got it all wrong and I wanted to start again. I think
that's the testament to a really powerful, complex
With a script in the works, the filmmakers set about
reuniting the creative team whose work on Elizabeth
character-there
had made it the subject of such acclaim-specifically
can approach her. .. and because film is temporal, this
director of photography
Remi Adefarasin, costume
is the way we chose to do it at the time. Elizabeth is
Byrne and hair and makeup
a character who continues to fascinate people; it's
designer Alexandra
are an infinite number of ways you
designer Jenny Shircore, all Academy Award@-nomi-
why so many versions of her life have been told.
nated, with Shircore winning hers. Also returning to the
What is revealed about her depends on where you
project would be editor Jill Bilcock, who received a
shine the light."
"For Cate," Kapur acknowledges,
BAFTA nomination for her editing of Elizabeth. Finally,
the filmmakers
signed production
designer
Guy
"this is a far
more challenging part, where she is much more active
Hendrix Dyas, whose bold vision is evident in such
than reactive-Elizabeth
is now far more complex.
films as X2 and Superman Returns.
Cate has given a performance
that maintains
the
vulnerability she expressed in Elizabeth, but now, it is
CASTING THE FILM:
THE
RETURN
underneath the surface of this much stronger woman."
The
OF THE QUEEN
concept
of
appearances-literally,
that
Elizabeth I lived and reigned at the center of a theatrical
As the story is about Elizabeth, it was, of course,
stage-is
one of the things that intrigued Blanchett:
in the part.
"Elizabeth explored denial, what one had to extricate
"Without Cate as Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden
from oneself in order to lead. She made herself into an
essential
to secure
Cate Blanchett
Age could not have been made,"
Kapur simply states.
Interestingly
Oscar@
WIllner
Blanchett
enough,
and
the
prolific
was not immediately
attracted to the idea of returning to
the
role.
Kapur
and
Rush
campaigned Blanchett over dinner,
and it was only later that she
agreed to portray the ruler once
again.
Blanchett
explains,
"It
helped, however, when I played
Hedda Gabler in a production in
Sydney, and then again 18 months
later in New York. I had a sense
that through returning to a role,
you can delve deeper into it.
Elizabeth
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(CATE BLANCHETT)
plots her war strategy.
Another draw for the leading lady was
the opportunity to re-team with director
Kapur. "We connect,"
she shares.
"We
always understand where one another is
coming from. He comes up with ways of
entering a scene which are completely
unique,
intensely
but at the same time,
collaborative
and
he is
genuinely
loves what actors bring to the scene. He
will reshape a scene around a moment an
actor brings, if it feels right."
Supplies Kapur: "Cate has a remarkable
combination
understanding,
of talent,
intellect
These qualities-along
discipline-allow
Elizabeth (CATE BLANCHETT) holds court with her trusted advise/;
Sir Francis Walsingham (GEOFFREY RUSH).
control,
and
emotion.
with incredible
her to seamlessly shift
between different sides of the character
icon, an image that she polished and honed for political
she plays. I've never seen her when she's not at work
ends ... and I surmise for emotional protection. The
on the role. She works all the time. If she has two
journey of The Golden Age, in many ways, is about
minutes off, she'll be listening to her lines on tape,
acceptance. What I have tried to do in this film is to
and thinking about them. She's unbeatable."
create
a sense of a .hollow woman-without
companion, a husband, a child-searching
Adds producer Tim Bevan: "Cate realized in the
a
first movie that she was talking to contemporary
for what
women; what she's done in this film is explore the
replaces that void.
price of having it all. For Elizabeth, it's career, the
"Elizabeth had a vigilant sense of self-control,"
Blanchett continues. "She was very controlling about
price of being omnipotent
her image. What the film deals with, among other
woman in a man's world. I think that will speak
themes, is that as she began to age, her availability to
directly to all women."
Geoffrey Rush etched a memorable portrait
be married and form alliances with other countriesa very powerful weapon-was
and the price of being a
of
Elizabeth's great adviser Walsingham in Elizabeth,
ebbing away. Her
and ability to bear children
and re-signed to the role even before the acceptance of
was questioned. It deals with the political pressure, as
their Queen. The Oscar@ winner was more than eager
well as pressure from within. Things that she's kept
to again plumb the depths of such a powerful man,
suppressed for so long come flooding to the surface,
whom some considered as slippery as he was savvy.
especially in the relationship she forms with Raleigh."
Rush
physical attractiveness
comments,
"Walsingham
was
the
great
with Raleigh
spymaster. He moved his way into a very powerful
proved to be the most motivating aspect of stepping
position in Elizabeth's court and, by the 1580s, he was
back into the role. As the script began to evolve, an
masterminding one of the greatest espionage networks
exploration of a love triangle that develops among
throughout Europe. He was an intellectual of that age
For Blanchett,
her relationship
and was the person that created the powerful notion of
Elizabeth, Raleigh and Bess was brought to the fore.
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the ruler being a divine figure. He was a person of
playfulness-and
great discipline and control, as was his Queen."
ness-about
sometimes very refreshing serious-
the deeper aspects of our characters'
In The Golden Age, this control is threatened
lives. Itgives you something more to play with, some-
when Walsingham uncovers his brother's betrayal.
thing that's not bound up with the minutiae of psycho-
Though not historically accurate, the plot point is
logical motivations
included for a specific reason, as Rush explains,
events are so complicated
"Shekhar was interested in exploring what happens
dramatic form-in
when powerful public figures are eaten away by their
capture the primal elements
personal
between these people, these nations."
dilemmas ... and
through
his
brother's
and historical
accuracy. These
that you have to find a
the end, the story you tell has to
of what's going on
Into the court of this accomplished ruler and her
involvement in a plot, we see Walsingham's uncer-
fading lion comes the bold explorer
tainty and vulnerability exposed."
Raleigh-a
The opportunity to take the character further than
Sir Walter
colorful figure who conjures almost. as
had been explored in Elizabeth was a determining
many myths as Elizabeth I does. Filmmakers were
factor in Rush's
to return to the role.
intent upon casting an actor with the abilities and the
Walsingham had served as a mentor to the young
physical attributes to bring the hero alive. Enter Clive
Elizabeth, guiding the uncertain woman into the respon-
Owen,
sibilities of leadership as dictated by a staunch and
performance in Closer netted him an Oscar@ nomina-
philosophical standpoint. Now, decades later, the great
tion and mature performance
adviser finds himself reduced to a more statesmanlike
Men was roundly lauded. As Sir Walter Raleigh, an
role, with much of his political clout and influence over
ambitious seaman who manages to inveigle his way
Elizabeth having waned.
into the court and into the Queen's heart, Owen
Offers
decision
producer
Cavendish,
"Walsingham's
journey in this film is extremely moving. His powers
whose
commanding,
primal
and
edgy
in 2006's Children of
effortlessly captures the spirit of the role. Commends
Bevan: "Into the mix came Clive Owen, who read the
are. failing him. He's not quite on top
of his game any longer. And Geoffrey
lends a gravitas to the characterization
which is quite astonishing to watch."
As with
Blanchett,
Rush was
persuaded to return by having Kapur
in the director's chair again: "Shekhar
is one of the most adventurous and
aesthetic filmmakers
with whom I
have worked," the actor notes. "When
he talks to the actors or anyone of the
crew, it is always in very appealing
images rather than instructions.
He
communicates very imaginatively and
during the shooting of a film, imagination is a great thing to keep alive.
He does it with great humor and great
Elizabeth (CATE BLANCHETT) lives vicariously through Raleigh (CLIVE OWEN) and her
lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton (ABBIE CORNISH).
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England, and in Raleigh, she saw
a hero who had discovered a new
world and had literally traveled
to where the maps end."
About
film
the relationship the
explores
between
Elizabeth
and Raleigh,
explains,
"Raleigh
Owen
may have
been many things, not the least
of which
was ambitious.
His
priori ty at first is to secure
funding for another expedition,
and his plan is to win favor
Elizabeth (CATE BLANCHETT)
with
prepares her men for the war that lies ahead.
the Queen, so that she
would fund his trip. But he is
part of Raleigh and decided that one was for him-
unexpectedly impressed by her and attracted to her.
which unconditionally, was fantastic."
He had an honesty about him, which set him apart
Says the director: "Clive is an amazing actor and
has the personality and the face I totally believe as
from most people at court, and she probably found
that very attractive."
Raleigh. He's undeniably credible as the free electron
Too, Owen was quite a fan of the first film. "The
that comes in and creates chaos."
most striking thing about Elizabeth was Shekhar's
For Owen, it was the jumble of Old World and
contemporary
qualities that made playing the char-
perspective, where he chose to put the camera," the
actor offers. "The events
felt epic, bold, hugely
acterso enjoyable. He offers, "Raleigh had a breath of
important. He's applying the same tools here. As
fresh air about him, a freedom, an energy. He was a
actors, we're not restricted by his pre-conceived ideas.
complicated
If he sees actors working ina
mixture-attractive
and very
well
particular way, he'll
educated, but also outspoken and incredibly arrogant
work to develop that. It's a very inspiring and creative
at the same time. His cavalier attitude impressed as
way of working."
many as it offended."
The weight of playing an historical figure also
Blanchett describes her character's affection for
struck Owen, but he adopted a philosophy that dove-
Raleigh not so much as love, but as a combination of
tailed with the filmmakers'
love and envy: "It isn't the youthful ebullience that she
"There is an element with any film that explores a
experienced with Dudley in Elizabeth. It is a more
real character-at
wistful vicariousness, that 'If only I could be him.' I
over from history, and it's my responsibility to play
think it is possible to fall in love with someone that you
Raleigh as the filmmakers see his function."
want to emulate, and somehow to be with them is to live
views on their subjects:
a certain point, the film has to take
The third corner of the triangle, Elizabeth's young
through them, to be inside them, and to see the world
and attractive
lady-in-waiting,
through their eyes-to
Throckmorton,
was a pivotal role for filmmakers to
person. As cultured, well-read, eloquent and intelligent
fill.
Cavendish
as Elizabeth was, she had never left the shores of
someone who expressed freshness, youth and energy,
live another life, be another
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Jonathan
Elizabeth
explains,
"Bess"
"We wanted
somebody upon whom Elizabeth
being a younger
version
could reflect as
of herself. We wanted
There are bigger games on the horizon for the
Protestant Queen-literally
just across the sea-in
someone who wasn't widely known, but who also had
the form of the Catholic ruler King Philip II of Spain.
the acting ability and charisma to hold her own oppo-
The role was filled by Spanish star Jordi Molla, who
site Cate." Abbie Cornish fulfilled those criteria, with
surprised and delighted filmmakers
her eye-opening
in the Australian
pected
going a long way
"Shekhar described Philip like a bat-always
coming-of-age
performance
film Somersault
toward. attesting to considerable talent.
Her co-star
Geoffrey
interpretation
in the darkness-yet,
with his unex-
of the role.
Says
Molla:
praying,
at the same time, the most
Rush, with whom she
powerful man in the world. I liked the idea of
worked in the recent Australian release Candy, states,
expanding that notion, the thought that he was this
"The camera
no
powerful man, but he was also a man with a huge
it's just a pure
complex. I wanted to play him with a very weak voice
absolutely
adores
her. There's
training, no technical background,
innate artistry. She's one of those great talents that
and an unusual gait ... peculiarities
constantly alerts one to what's going on underneath."
made him the object of ridicule and provide a reason
The 25-year-old Cornish relished the prospect of
that could have
for his complex." (Part of his hostility toward the
playing a character from a world that was completely
usurper Elizabeth-beyond
unknown to her, opposite an impressive cast. She
might have been due to the fact that Philip had been
states, "There is something intriguing about Bess, in
married to Elizabeth's older half-sister, Mary I, the
that she carries both light and dark. Shekhar has an
daughter
ability to dive in and explore something endlessly and
Aragon, who ruled England for less than five years
without limits, without any boundaries."
before dying childless, with the throne then passing to
her religious
beliefs-
of King Henry VIII and Catherine
of
The sexual and romantic politics were as intriguing
Henry's second daughter, Elizabeth I. During Mary's
to Blanchett, who supplies, "It became interesting for
brief reign, her zealous campaign to return England to
me to play the notion of a Queen who had made a choice
Catholicism
that she would use her virginity, her status as a single
heresy ... hence her nickname, "Bloody Mary.")
resulted
in
280
executions
Queen, as a political tool. Given her
mother, Anne Boleyn's, fate-and
also
the fate of many women at that time in
childbirth-marriage
and all that it
then entailed had little to recommend
for Elizabeth I. What would she gain?
She dispatches Bess like Prospero does
Ariel to have an experience that she
can't have. And while she's in control of
the chess game between Bess and
Raleigh, of their moving towards one
another,
there's
pleasure
in it. Of
course, the rules change when they fall
in love and Elizabeth realizes she no
longer has control of the game."
Elizabeth
s cousin
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MGI)' Stuart (SAMANTHA
MORTON) prepares/or
her beheading.
for
In America)
chance
legendary
welcomed
to
embody
and
the
such
a
controversial
woman. Morton says, "I found
Mary a fascinating
character,
and I found Shekhar's attitude
towards
her
very
exciting,
refreshing and very daring-not
with the intention of courting
controversy, but to capture her
essence. He approaches
every
character in a fresh and original
way. He chooses not to bring any
Elizabeth (CATE BLANCHETT) whispers to Bess (ABBIE CORNISH) about Elizabeth
Archduke Charles (CHRISTIAN BRASSINGTON).
s young
suitor,
baggage in regards to what has
already been said or done, and
while he has a healthy respect for
Another Mary who figured into the history of
England
was Mary Queen
of Scots, Elizabeth's
cousin, the daughter of James V of Scotland and
the subject
matter,
he gives
an actor complete
artistic freedom within that."
Of his choices,
director
Kapur
reflects,
"I
Mary of Guise, remembered for her beauty, misfor-
wouldn't say we've taken liberty with history, because
tune and political ineptitude. Under the laws of English
all history is interpretation.
succession, Mary was next in line to the throne after
tion with me today and tomorrow, when you tell
Elizabeth I-and
somebody about that conversation-one
in the eyes of many Catholics, she
Say you have a conversaday old-
was the rightful queen. This sentiment led to Mary's
you'd be giving your interpretation of it. So 400 years
imprisonment under Elizabeth for 19 years.
later, interpretations differ. Remember that over these
Determined
not to spill the blood of another
years, history was written by people who took them
queen, Elizabeth demurred each time the idea of
down for the ruling courts-they
Mary's execution was brought to her by political
the ruler of the time, and if that ruler didn't like it,
allies. Eventually, Mary's continual implication
in
then they'd have the writer's head chopped off. So
plots to assassinate Elizabeth and place herself on the
history had to be interpreted at that time in favor of
throne
one, the
the ruler. So what I do, today, here and now, is simply
Babington Plot, some consider a conspiracy launched
tell a story, and I'm attracted to this story for modern
by Walsingham-which
reasons ... for reasons that resonate within myself."
proved
her undoing
(the final
The Golden Age explores).
wrote the history for
I
When Mary was executed for treason at Fotheringhay
Castle in 1587, Elizabeth was 44 years old. And it was
Mary's execution that fueled Philip's launching of the
COSTUMES AND MAKEUP
FIT FOR A QUEEN
Armada against Elizabeth and her country.
Double OscatIDnominee Samantha Morton (for Woody
Allen's Sweet and Lowdown and for her wrenching
performance
as an Irish immigrant
Returning costumer Alexandra Byrne created, yet
again, a spectacular wardrobe for Cate Blanchett as
in the drama
Elizabeth. Byrne explains, "The benefit of doing the first
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film meant that I already knew the period very well,
seldom think about how funky and vibrant, sexy
having done the necessary research for Elizabeth. In a
and exciting aspects of it might have been. Alex has
way, that allowed me more freedom to look at the period
successfully
more tangentially this time, to read more about Elizabeth,
portraiture
as opposed to just looking at reference material.
them seem more alive and much more accessible to
"The more I read about her," she continues, "the
tweaked
and played with what the
of the clothes looked like. She's made
our 2 pt Century eyes."
more references I discovered to her amazing appear-
For Byrne, returning to the evolution of the char-
ance, her astounding dresses and her beauty, and I felt
acter of Elizabeth allowed her to expand on the artistic
that it was important to give some sense of that to an
vision of the first film. She says, "In Elizabeth, we find
audience today, by making her look, perhaps, more
a girl, a princess, actually, who became a Queen. She
accessible to us than historical dramas normally do."
made conscious choices about how to present herself,
Byrne's inspiration for the tone she sought came
sometimes reinforcing her confidence by her costume.
from
the
Balenciaga,
paintings
work
of
Spanish
fashion
designer
Now, she has established her reign, she's firmly on the
who had interpreted various historical
throne, her palaces to her liking, and her style of dress
in his 1950s couture,
including
some
Elizabethan pieces. Alexandra Byrne: "That was the
reflects that. She's confident, and she's Queen ... and
she's on a journey toward immortality."
big leap for me ... Elizabeth was a fashion icon in her
One of the challenges facing Byrne was the fact that
time, and I felt this was the way to make her more
there is no iconic "crowned Queen sitting on a throne
relevant to an audience today."
scene. We establish that with the red dress at the opening
Offers Blanchett, "Elizabeth stage-managed her
of the film-formal
robes, while she's at the job of
appearance according to what image she needed to
being Queen. From that, we establish that she has both
portray-. and we've definitely worked that concept
formal and informal attire, always very conscious of her
into the film. Some costumes and makeup are much
public personae."
more revealing and quite connected to the subtext of
Perhaps one of the leader's most important public
the film. Morag Ross created 16 wigs, many to reflect
appearances was in front of her troops before the
her state-some
perky, some tragic.
We talked much about the public and
the private self. Alex Byrne has created
the most astonishing costumes. Her
sense of color is emotional, as well as
visually arresting. One of the most
exciting costume progressions was as
Elizabeth moved toward Tilbury and
hardened her heart to Raleigh-it
was
clothing as armor ending in the vision
on the white horse,
Elizabeth
as
warrior, her Joan d'Arc."
Geoffrey
Rush concurs,
"Most
audiences have a sort of idea of what
the period must have been like, butwe
In a rare moment of solace, Elizabeth
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(CATE BLANCHETT)
ponders
her fate.
had to reflect each other, sometimes
echo
each
other.
And
then,
in
between them, you have Raleigh."
An Elizabethan man of average
means -
and Raleigh is a commoner,
dependent upon financial support for
his livelihood-would,
in all proba-
bility, possess a single suit of clothes,
so production did not have the luxury
of outfitting him as they would their
courtiers. Byrne explains, "There are
lots of contemporary engravings of
Raleigh, but bizarrely, he's in court
dress in the middle of the West Indies
or wherever; which is obviously how
they wanted to perceive him at court.
The reality is that a gentleman of that
time
maybe
clothing-he
(L to R, foreground)
Walsingham (GEOFFREY RUSH), Bess (ABBIE CORNISH) and Elizabeth
(CATE BLANCHETT) walk the grounds.
had
one
suit
of
would have gone to sea
in those clothes, where they would
have gotten wet, then dried; they
battle with the Spanish Armada. Actress, director and
would have gotten tom, they would have been repaired.
designer were in complete accord that her costume
Also, he would have had to put on more practical layers.
would convey her willingness to be seen as one of her
So we worked with the idea that his clothes had gone to
soldiers, someone willing to serve, fight and die
sea with him and they
beside them. The resulting look-a
journey ... and remember, it was four months there and
valiant woman-
at-arms, clad in almost medieval-looking armor, hair
down, astride a white horse-echoes
had evolved
over the
four months back."
another famous
The designer worked with Owen on the evolution
female militarist. Per Byrne: "In a way, it's both a PR
of the design, assuring the actor that "the britches
exercise and a reality. It obviously touches all the
would be fine! He was a little alarriled by them. But
images for the audience of Joan of Arc ... but whether
by the end [of production]'
the Queen wore armor like that and rode astride, we
on them ... the way they have become a part of him.
don't know, but in terms of telling our story, it's a very
They give you a certain way of walking and a certain
key moment."
scale. He wears them like no one else!"
I think he was quite keen
Also of importance to Kapur was the relationship
Jenny Shircore notably won both the Academy@
between Elizabeth and Bess, the fact that they're "the
and BAFTA Awards for her makeup and hair design
same person-Bess
on Elizabeth; she welcomed the opportunity to evolve
is the mortal side of Elizabeth the
Divine. It became more about what she was wearing
Elizabeth's look, maturing herfrom
in reaction to her other half. It proved very interesting,
filling her destiny to become the Queen of England.
as these are two very different actresses, and yet they
a young girl ful-
Now, in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, she was just as
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enthusiastic to continue Elizabeth's journey, taking
they wanted for the film, having been talking about it
her from middle-aged woman to eternally divine.
and developing it for years. It was very important to
Shircore's earlier research revolved arouhd the
expand the world that had been. created in. Elizabeth,
portraiture of the period, and she returned to that
and I thought it was a fantastic conceptual
reference material to establish Elizabeth's look during
Working Title's to create a very bold and modern
her middle years. She recounts, "A luminous creature
period film.
is the vision Shekhar had for Elizabeth, both in
idea of
"It was an exciting challenge to be charged with
Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and that's
creating
what we have sought to achieve. Along with that,
continues
we've also conveyed a sense of this very powerful
Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, in terms
woman, who managed a very controlled and carefully
of the design, is the scale of Elizabeth
constructed image."
environment.
the
scale
Dyas.
they
"The
In Elizabeth,
were
big
talking
difference
about,"
between
against her
she is dwarfed by the
Adds Morag Ross, Blanchett's personal makeup
architecture around her. It really helped add to her
artist on the film, "For me, it was about creating an
sense of isolation, of a young woman lost in the poli-
essence
several
tics of the time. In Elizabeth: The Golden Age, she is
about Elizabeth I, and we felt it was
now very much in charge of her world, and for that
of Elizabeth.
productions
There
have been
important-. in order to catch people's attention-to
reason, she needed to appear metaphorically
try something new while still presenting the familiar
against the architecture."
image. I like to think that we've achieved that iconic
image, with a bit of a twist."
bigger
This notion informed the team as they scouted locations and began to work on set designs. In the end, they
chose to bring The GoldenAge to the majestic and archi-
CAPTURING THE PERIOD:
THE
tecturally significant cathedrals in the south of England,
Wells and Winchester, where the scale is still grand but
LOOK AND THE SETS
the detail within the architecture is scaled down (e.g.,
In keeping
exciting"
with
the
director's
and
rather than one massive stone column, we see Elizabeth
take on the subject matter, young and
walking around a duster of columns that take up the same
innovative production
designer Guy
Hendrix
began as an
Dyas-who
illustrator/concept
multiple
illustrator
for
projects
and
heavy-duty
graduated
"fresh
to designing such block-
busters
as
X2
and
Returns-.
was brought
Superman
onboard
collaborate
with
Elizabeth
veterans
Adefarasin,
Byrne
Shircore,
along
and
Kapur
and
to
his
with
editor Bilcock.
Per Dyas: "It was clear from my
first meeting with the producers that
they had a very strong idea of what
Elizabeth (CATE BLANCHETT)
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has an unexpected moment a/intimacy
with Raleigh (CLIVE OWEN).
Dyas' years of experience as
an illustrator came into play with
his up-close and intensive attention to detail-considering
how
water runs down a wall, how
wood ages in different environments. These
building
were combined
blocks
to produce
a
"visual language" for the film's
design.
This
environmental
approach had the advantage of
not only producing stunning sets
that agreed with the period locaCATE BLANCHETT
tions,
as the Virgin Queen.
but also provided
performers
area). This working within a different sense of scale
with
a
the
credible,
authentic world in which to create their characters.
makes her appear stronger within the environment.
Another distinct advantage to Dyas' all-encom-
Simultaneously, there. are more classically feminine
passing design? Kapur is known for on-the-spot deci-
cosmetic features in these locations-floral
motifs in the
sions with regard to camera locations. Dyas observes,
stone carvings, more "delicate" gargoyles, a warmer and
"lfhe decides to shoot an actor's head right up against
creamier coloring in the stone. All of this physically rein-
a particular wall, I'd be in a lot of trouble if that wall
forces the. concept that the Queen has clearly become
wasn't as realistic as it could possibly be, and as high-
more comfortable in the spaces she inhabits.
definition cameras come into play, these high levels
Dyas welcomed the opportunity to work at these
locations: "It was imperative to do it. No matter how big
our combined imaginations
of finish will become even more necessary."
All of this only added to the workload of the
are, the architecture of
design team, as some of the textures and finishes they
these cathedrals is incredible, simply spectacular, and it
hoped to create could only be achieved by actually
would be foolish of us not to take advantage of these
going through the processes as originally executed by
spaces. They bring tremendous scale to the project and
the craftsmen centuries ago. "I have to ensure I give
Shekhar and Remi Adefarasin are brilliant at looking at
Shekhar the freedom to point the camera in any direc-
a space and very quickly deciphering ways to make it
tion and feel that what he is looking at is authentic
seem even larger and more dramatic."
and real, and that the audience isn't going to be
Having appropriated the ecclesiastical spaces of
several cathedrals to resemble a palace environment,
distracted by something looking out of place."
Dyas guesses that designing the Queen's Private
Dyas and his team more than had their work cut out for
Chambers set waS one of the most difficult challenges
them in linking these spaces together via the sets
of his career-Kapur
designed and constructed at Shepperton Studios. The
a set devoid of walls, the idea being to create a slightly
results: the Privy Chamber and the Queen's Private
skewed array of arches and columns through which the
Quarters, both created with massive attention to detail
director and his DP could shoot without physical restric-
and authenticity.
tions. This would provide them with the ability tomove
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had chargedhim to come up with
the camera around, to create depth, continually varying
seductive and attractive because of his life at sea, so
the shots while maintaining a living, visual sense that
the boat was hugely important."
would be inherently interesting to the audience. Part of
The final structure measured 180 feet in length,
Kapur's filming style involves off-camera voices, with
and was constructed from four-inch thick planks of
the audience having to search for the speakers-the
timber screwed to an enormous
camera often tracking around until the characters are
Tyger sat ona gimbal, a large structure that provides
discovered. Dyas created the ultimate Kapur set-a
movement, imitating a ship at sea in a variety of
visual puzzle with an endless array of potential camera
conditions-everything
angles and placement.
under attack. The build took several months, as once
Authenticity
was achieved
not only through
from
steel frame. The
calm to
stormy
to
the steel frame was bolted to the gimbal, each timber
considered design, but also with consideration of the
frame was treated with a vigorous process-the
materials
in construction.
wood was burned to remove some of the outer fibers,
for the floors in both
leaving only tougher, core fibers and resulting in a
that would be utilized
Using real materials-granite
the
Privy
Chamber
and
the
Queen's
Private
sea-battered and aged effect.
Chambers; beautiful and elaborate woodwork created
from a mixture
of wood enhanced
After the aging process, the painters came in, and
by patterns
scaffolding was built to allow the crew to work on the
sculpted in plaster, then stained and waxed to match
decks, adding the details that combined to create the
the wood of its time-the
designer created a set that
appearance of a rugged war ship of the period: replete
not only appears real, it sounds and feels real as well.
with railings, stairs and beautifully carved figure-
Comments Jonathan Cavendish, "Guy is remarkable,
heads. Sails were also sewn, then aged, torn and fixed
a massive talent. His attention to detail and his drive
(in a rough, sailorly way), to give a sense that cannon
for perfection is extraordinary."
balls had ripped through them.
In addition to the palace sets, Dyas was charged
with
creating
outstanding
Raleigh's
construction
ship
(built
The
Tyger,
Then came the enormous and incredibly compli-
an
cated job of rigging the ship, which involved using
to
actual scale) that would be used as
Raleigh's
men
defended
England
against the Spanish Armada. In order
to maximize the expenditure of the
production,
The Tyger-. when. re-
dressed and shot from another sidealso cleverly functioned as a Spanish
ship for the film.
Kapur explains,
compromise
"We could not
on the ship. Doing a
film with the Spanish Armada as a
backdrop, it was absolutely essential
for us to have a vessel that we could
shoot in and around to show what life
was like at sea. Raleigh's character is
Director SHEKHAR
KAPUR gives direction to CATE BLANCHETT
a/Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
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as Queen Elizabeth!
on the set
uncluttered
by
pillars-is
supports
simply
or
awe-
inspiring ..This expansiveness is
typical of the cathedral's exotic
Byzantine
its
style-favored
architect,
John
Bentley-which
perfectly
Spain's
lent
to standing
EI Escorial
by
Francis
it
so
in as
Palace,
circa 1588, with few changes
needed.
Here, the production
shot over two nights, capturing
scenes featuring
CATE BLANCHETT
Philip
II of
Spain, the most powerful man
as Queen Elizabeth Ion the set of the film.
in the world at that time.
historically accurate methods to tie thousands of feet
Observes Kapur, "It was such a fantastic place in
of tar-covered rope. "It must be every designer's
which to shoot. It was difficult, because it's so huge and
dream, at least once in their career, to get the oppor-
you want to encompass all of it into the frame, but you
tunity to design and build a vessel of some kind,"
have to be selective, Scale is the ability of the camera to
offers Dyas. "Quite frankly, the older the vessel, the
move and keep moving. And to keep finding things."
more character, the more interesting it is. To construct
Production
next traveled
to Hatfield
House,
The Tyger and see Clive looking so heroic on its
Hertfordshire, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury,
deck-well,
and one of Britain 's most famous stately homes. Here,
it was a great honor and one of the high-
lights of my career."
the filmmakers dressed.the North Entrance Hall and
the Armoury, replacing the wood paneling with stone,
and transforming it into Mary Queen of Scots' Private
ON THE ROAD:
Quarters at Chartley Hall, where she was incarcerated
LOCATION
ELIZABETH:
SHOOTING
THE GOLDEN
OF
for a time prior to her execution. The filmmakers also
AGE
used parts
of Hatfield
Marble Hall, the Grand
House-specifically
Staircase
the
and the Long
The locations in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
provided the production with a tour of some of the
most magnificent cathedrals in the country-as
well
as churches, stately homes and national parkland-
treasures and one of her best-kept secrets. The beau-
and the opportunity to set the story against extraordi-
tiful Norman Church is concealed
nary backdrops, all of which have played their own
streets and passages of Smithfield, and here, produc-
parts in English history.
tion shot one of the pivotal moments in the film: the
Location
shooting
began
with
Westminster
Gallery-for
Walsingham's Londonhouse.
St. Bartholomew's
execution by beheading
Church is one of London's
by the narrow
of Mary Queen of Scots
Cathedral, the largest and most important Catholic
(which actually took place at Fotheringhay
Church in England and Wales. To stand in the center
razed in 1627). Witha need to telescope the last three
of the cathedral-the
horrific but magnificent hours of Mary's life into just
immense space that unfolds,
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Castle,
a few minutes of film, the filmmakers picked key
embraced an idea of production
moments from historical record and wove them into a
show S1. Paul's as a work-in-progress,
master
with scaffolding. This had the added advantage of
shot that sees Mary enter (ignoring
the
designer
Dyas to
complete
Protestant prayers of the Dean of Peterborough),
providing
mount the scaffold, disrobe to reveal a crimson shift
shoot through obstructions.
(the color of Catholic martyrdom) beneath her black
work was actually going on in Winchester Cathedral
dress, grant her executioner forgiveness and, finally,
at the time of filming, the filmmakers
place her head on the block.
stonemasons,
Recalls historical researcher Justin Pollard: "The
scene had a startling effect on both the crew and the
director Kapur with the opportunity
to
(As some restoration
cast the real
who cut real stone during the scene,
as extras. )
Next, it was on to S1. John's College, Cambridge,
lOO-plus actors and extras in the room. Despite the
the second largest of the constituent Colleges of the
lights and cameras, it feltas though we were actually
University of Cambridge. St. John's was founded in
witnessing the execution." Adding to the effect of
1511 by. Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King
those present was the musical theme of the film's
Henry VII (and so Elizabeth's great grandmother) on
composers, Craig Armstrong and AR Rahman, which
the site of the medieval hospital of St. John. The first
rose over the largely silent scene and echoed around
court in St. John's was constructed mostly between
the ancient walls of the church as Samantha Morton
1511 and 1520, and so it makes a perfect setting for
(as Mary) took her last steps.
one of the great fabled scenes from Elizabeth's reign:
On to Winchester Cathedral, a magnificent struc-
the first meeting between the Queen and Raleigh,
tute in the West of England, the building of which was
where he purportedly threw down his cloak to cover a
begun in 1079, 13 years after William the Conqueror
muddy puddle in the road ... hence preventing
invaded England from Normandy. The east end of the
Royal Feet from getting dirty.
Church was extended around 1200 and the Nave was
But is the story true?
Comments
the
historical
completely remodeled around 1400. The production
researcher Pollard: "Well, it isn't recorded in any
spent four days filming in Winchester
contemporary document and the earliest reference to
Cathedral,
which is seen in the film as St. Paul's Cathedral (the
it I know is Thomas Fuller's
original St. Paul's was gutted in the Great Fire of
certainly the sort of thing Raleigh might have done
London in 1666 and then demolished to make way for
and just the sort of showmanship
the present cathedral).
liked. We decided to use the scene, partly because it is
With. its huge vaulted ceilings and enormous
stained-glass
windows,
Winchester
so iconic,
is remarkably
and partly because
in 1663. But it is
that the Queen
it still,
all these
centuries later, provides a wonderful way to first bring
similar to what the old St. Paul's Cathedral would have
looked like. The production used the Lady Chapel as
Raleigh and the Queen together."
The production remained in Cambridge to film
the Chapel Royal (where Elizabeth comes to pray and
the Royal Barge (where Walsingham
meets her would-be assassin), and also filmed in the
touchy subject of Elizabeth and marriage while trav-
spectacular Nave (where one of the more dramatic
e1ing down the River Thames
scenes of The Golden Age takes place-Elizabeth
London). The barge itself has its own historical value,
calling all to arms against the Spanish Armada).
having been used in the classic A Man For All
Under Elizabeth, London experienced a tremendous amount
of construction,
tackles the
on their
way to
Seasons, among other films. There, production was
and filmmakers
hampered by torrential rain, proving a challenge for
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everyone, especially the costume and art departments,
In the l580s, the world was barely half-explored by
who battled against wind and rain to keep the actors
Europeans, with the tempting promise of strange lands
(and props) dry and looking suitably regaL
and fabulous riches just beyond the horizon. Filmmakers
Another wonderful Norman cathedral provided
chose to flavor what might have been a traditional
the production with its next location: Ely. Cathedral,
banqueting scene with this. sense of the exotic-such
built on what was, in the 12th century, an "island" in
things as awonderful selection of period dishes prepared
the vast expanse of marshland known as the Fen. In
from original recipes and illustrations, including heron
this flat, watery world, the cathedral seemed to float
pies, crystallized fruits, stuffed peacocks, march panes
on the wetland, gaining it the title "The Ship of the
and sugar elephants. For entertainment, the royal occa-
Fen." Ely did not appear as itself, but politely subbed
sion boasts a parade of animals
for Elizabeth's court at Whitehall.
menagerie, including New World parrots; an Indian
from the royal
"The choice of this location and,. indeed, the other
python, a monkey and even a zebra. (Pollard muses,
cathedrals," explains Pollard, "is to give us a sense of
"Such animals were often presented to the crown as gifts
scale-an
from other rulers, and there was considerable competi-
idea of the grandeur and majesty of the
court at one level and ofthe vulnerability and frailty of
tion to acquire particularly rare examples.")
humanity set against its cold, stone facades at another.
Next stop, the West Country, to Brean Down--one
It is also, of course, a chance to celebrate the range and
ofthe most dramatic landmarks on the Somerset coast-.
virtuosity of England's architectural heritage."
to film Elizabeth's famous Tilbury speech, in which she
The production spent almost two weeks at Ely,
rouses the troops just prior to the confrontation with the
filming first in the Nave the key scenes in which
Spanish Armada. Explains producer Cavendish: "The
Elizabeth confronts the Spanish Ambassador with the
Tilbury speech marks the moment both in history-and
Spanish plot, and her reaction to the news that Mary
in our film-where
has been executed. This last scene is typical of
of the battle against the Spanish Armada. In doing so,
Kapur's signature style, shot from high in the octagon
she starts moving from her mortal presence to a more
of the Cathedral, revealing her as a frail human form
divine one."
against the vast stone vault. Says Pollard: "The
Elizabeth takes complete command
Adds Pollard, "SeeingCate crest the ridge ofBrean
building becomes part of the story itself: a grand,
Down on horseback-in
echoing, unmoving riposte to Elizabeth's emotions."
especially for the film, the sea breeze streaming her red
Next, on to the Lady Chapel, remodeled
by
hair behind her-it's
the armor and mailcoat made
easy to see what effect Elizabeth's
production designer Dyas as a backdrop for Raleigh's
arrival must have had on this hopelessly outnumbered
first presentation
iconic Raleigh
band of men. With the sun sparkling on her polished
moment, where he introduces the potato and tobacco,
armor plates, she must have looked more angel than
brought back from the New World. Too, the unit
human, and every man and boy there hoped she would
filmed Elizabeth's
prove to be an angel of victory."
at court-another
banquet in honor of Archduke
Charles of Austria, a potential suitor. Again, Pollard:
The rocky peninsula, capped with a row of Tudor
"The arrival of Elizabeth's suitor provides the occa-
tents (replicated in CGfor wider shots to afford scope
sion for a lavish banquet, in which we hope we have
and scaletothe
created some of the exotic flavor of court life as a
combination of its inspiring landscape and fantastic
background for action, which centers on Elizabeth,
quality provided a spectacular backdrop for the water-
Walsingham, Bess Throckmorton and Raleigh."
encampment), was chosen because the
shed moment. But the stunning location also provided
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a host of challenges ... standing nearly 100 meters
larger forces of Destiny. It was this thought that
(around 328 feet) above sea level, cast and crew had to
governed the way I not only approached this film, but
make their way up the steep cliffby shuttle bUs, with the
the way I shot it. It's operatic and it's mythic ... especially
fitter members of the crew (along with the horses)
now, four centuries later."
making the journey on foot.
Universal Pictures Presents, in association with
Staying in the West Country, the production relo-
StudioCanal, a Working Title Production of a Shekhar
cated to Wells Cathedral, the present building of which
Kapur Film: Cate Blanchett,
was begun in 1180. The impressive structure, along with
Owen in Elizabeth.' The Golden Age, starring Rhys
the surrounding buildings associated with the cathedral,
Ifans, Jordi Molla, Abbie Cornish and Samantha
has survived eight centuries and still dominates the
Morton. Casting is by Fiona Weir. The music is by
lovely city of Wells, in the heart of Somerset. An
Craig Armstrong and AR Rahman. Makeup and hair
extraordinary staircase links the North Transept with the
designer is Jenny Shircore. The costume designer is
Chapter House and was used to substitute for the main
Alexandra Byrne. The editor is Jill Bilcock, ACE; the
entry into Whitehall
production designer is Guy Hendrix Dyas; and the
Palace, which, according
Pollard, is "the portal of the palace-the
to
point between
director of photography
the world outside and the rarefied environment of the
The co-producer
court within."
producers
Before returning to Shepperton,
final locations
Michael
Geoffrey Rush, Clive
is Remi Adefarasin,
is Mary Richards. The executive
are Debra Hayward,
Hirst.
BSC.
Elizabeth:
Liza Chasin
The
Golden
and
Age
is
included: Waverley Abbey, the slowly crumbling ruins
produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Jonathan
of an almost-forgotten monastery, seen in the film as the
Cavendish, and it is written by William Nicholson and
meeting place for the Catholic conspirators; Dorney
Michael Hirst. The film is directed by Shekhar Kapur.
Court, home of the Palmer family for more than 450
A Universal
years and a Grade I listed building, used in the film as
www.elizabeththegoldenage.net
Release
~2007
Universal
Studios.
Raleigh's house; and, finally, to Petworth Park, the
stunning parkland landscaped by "Capability" Brown
and immortalized
in Turner's paintings-where
the
production filmed a riding sequence involving a private
ABOUT THE
CAST
moment between Elizabeth and Raleigh.
Since graduating from Australia's National Institute
****
of Dramatic
Art
(NIDA),
For director Shekhar Kapur, the decision to return
CATE.
to the subject matter of one of the greatest rulers that
(Queen
Elizabeth
I)
ever. lived was an easy one. For him, in Elizabeth I,
worked
extensively
in the
history shows us a cunning strategist, an intellectual
theater,
significantly
head of state and a born leader. Yet even in the face of
Company B, a loose ensemble
such larger-than-life subject matter, what continues to
of actors (including Geoffrey
interest the filmmaker most is the solitary woman who
Rush,
bore it all ... the Queen who ,herself had to answer to a
Richard Roxburgh) based at
higher power: "For all the will and power we as human
Belvoir Street, under the direc-
beings think we have, we are ultimately subject to the
tion of Neil Armfield. Her roles have included Miranda
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BLANCHETT
Gillian
Jones
has
with
and
(The Tempest), Ophelia (Hamlet-. for which she was
directed by Mike Newell; An Ideal Husband, directed
nominated for a Green Room Award), Nina (The Seagull)
by Oliver Parker; and The Talented Mr. Ripley, directed
and Rose (The Blind Giant Is Dancing).
by Anthony Minghella, for which
For the Sydney Theater Company (STC), she
appeared
in Caryl
Mamet's
Oleanna
Churchill's
she received a
BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Cate
Top Girls, David
also starred in The Gift, directed by Sam Raimi, and in
The Sydney Theater
Sally Potter's The Man Who Cried, which premiered at
Critics Award for Best Actress), Michael Gow's Sweet
the Venice Film Festival and for which Cate was
Phoebe (also for the Croyden Warehouse, London)
awarded Best Supporting Actress by the National
and Timothy Daly's Kafka Dances (also for The
Board of Review and the Florida Film Critics Circle.
(awarded
Griffin Theatre Company, for which she received the
Critics Circle award for Best Newcomer).
In 2001, Cate appeared in Bandits with Bruce Willis
and Billy Bob Thornton, directed by Barry Levinson,
For the Almeida Theatre in 1999, Cate played
for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomina-
Susan Traherne in David Hare's Plenty on London's
tion and a Screen Actors
West End.
Outstanding Supporting Actress. Cate has also appeared
Her television
credits
include
lead roles
in
Guild nomination
for
in The Shipping News, alongside Kevin Spacey and
Bordertown and Heartland, both for the Australian
directed by Lasse Hallstrom, based on the 1994 Pulitzer
Broadcasting Commission.
Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx. She was also
Her film roles include Susan Macarthy in. Bruce
seen as Galadriel, Queen of the Elves, in The Lord of the
Beresford's Paradise Road; Lizzie in Thank God He
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment
Met Lizzie, an anti-romantic
comedy directed by
of Peter Jackson's trilogy, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's
Cherie Nowlan, for which Cate was awarded both the
fantasy novels. Cate was honored by the National Board
Australian Film Institute (API) and the Sydney Film
of Review as the 2001 Best Supporting Actress for her
Critics awards for Best Supporting
outstanding
Lucinda
in Oscar and Lucinda,
Actress;
opposite
and
Ralph
supporting
The Lord oftheRings:
performances
in Bandits,
The Fellowship of the Ring and
Fiennes and directed by Gillian Armstrong, a role that
The Shipping News. She reprised her role as Galadriel
earned her an API nomination for Best Actress.
in 2002 for the second installment
of the trilogy,
In 1998, Cate portrayed Queen Elizabeth I in the
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and again in
critically acclaimed Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar
2003 in the final installment, The Lord of the Rings:
Kapur, for which she received a Golden Globe Award
The Return of the King.
for Best Actress in a Drama and a BAFTA for Best
In 2002, Cate was also seen in the title role of
Actress in a Leading Role, as well as Best Actress
Charlotte Gray, directed by Gillian Armstrong
Awards from the Chicago Film Critics Association,
based on Sebastian Faulks' best-selling novel. Cate
the London Film Critics Circle, the Toronto Film
also appeared in Heaven, opposite Giovanni Ribisi
Critics Association, the Online Film Critics Society,
and directed by Tom Tykwer, which premiered at the
Variety Critics and the u.K. Empire Award. She also
Berlin Film Festival (where the film was awarded the
received a Best Actress nomination from the Screen
Golden Camera Award).
Actors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and
In 2003, Cate was seen in Veronica Guerin, the
and Sciences.
fact-ba'Sed story of the Irish journalist who was slain
In 1999, Cate appeared in Pushing Tin with John
Cusack, a black comedy about air traffic controllers
in her homeland in 1996 by drug dealers, which was
directed
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by Joel
Schumacher.
Her
performance
earned her a Golden Globe nomination in thecate-
Cate is currently in production
on the fourth
gory of Best Performance by anActress in a Motion
installment of Indiana Jones, with Harrison
Picture Drama and a nomination by the Washington,
directed by Steven Spielberg. Todd Haynes' I'm Not
nc. Area
Film Critics Association for Best Actress.
There will be released on November 21 of this year.
She also starred in the Columbia Pictures' thriller The
Cate has also completed production on The Curious
Missing, opposite Tommy Lee Jones for director Ron
Case of Benjamin Button, co-starring Brad Pitt and
Howard; the film was released in November 2003.
directed by David Fincher, a 2008 release.
Ford,
In early 2004, Cate appeared in the film Coffee &
Cigarettes for director Jim Jarmusch. In this United
GEOFFREY RUSH (Sir Francis Walsingham),
Artists release, Cate played two roles opposite each
one of to day's most respected
other-herself
actors, started his career in
performances
and the role of her cousin.
Her
earned her a Best Supporting Female
nomination for the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards.
In July 2004, Cate returned to the Sydney Theatre
Company to play the title role in Andrew Upton's
Australian
since
theater
appeared
theatrical
and has
in over 70
productions
and
more than 20 feature films.
adaptation of Hedda Gabler. The play was a critical
Rush
won
an
Emmy,
Globe
and
Screen
success, earning her the prestigious Helpmann Award
Golden
for Best Female Actor in a Play. She also starred in
Actors Guild Award for his
her first Australian film in several years, Little Fish,
captivating
directed
by Rowan Woods,
for which she was
awarded Best Actress by the Australian Film Institute.
Cate received
in
HBO Films' The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, in
which he portrays the title character. This November
Award@ for her
he can be seen starring in Candy, opposite Heath
in The Aviator,
Ledger, for director Neil Armfield. Rush was most
directed by Martin Scorsese. She was also honored
recently seen in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World 50
with the BAFTA Award and a SAG Award for her role
End, where he reprised his role as Captain Barbossa.
in the 2005 release. Additionally, she was recognized
His other recent film credits include the box-office
by several critics' organizations and received a nomi-
giant Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man 50 Chest
nation from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
and the Academy Award@-nominated Munich
portrayal
an Academy
performance
as Katharine
Hepburn
In 2006 Cate was seen in Babel, opposite Brad Pitt,
for
director Steven Spielberg.
directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Ifiarritu. The film
Rush caught the eye of many for his starring role
received a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for
in director Scott Hicks' feature film Shine. His role
numerous awards, including an Academy Award@and
portraying David Helfgott in Shine garnered him an
a SAG Ensemble Award. Cate was also seen in The
Academy Award@for Best Actor. He also won Golden
Good German, co-starring
with George Clooney,
Globe, SAG, BAFTA, Film Critics Circle of Australia,
directed by Steven Soderbergh. She received a Golden
Broadcast Film Critics, AFI, New York Film Critics
Globe nomination, a SAG nomination and an Academy
Circle and Los Angeles
Award@nomination for Notes on a Scandal, opposite
awards. Rush also received
Judi Dench. Also in 2006, Cateand
nomination for his performance in Philip Kaufman's'
her husband,
Film Critics Association
an Academy
Award@
Andrew Upton, were named co-directors of the Sydney
Quills and an Academy Award@ nomination
Theatre Company. Their debut season begins in 2009.
Golden Globe nomination for Shakespeare in Love.
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and a
His other film credits include Intolerable Cruelty,
Gold's telefilm
adaptation
of The Return
of the
Finding Nemo, Ned Kelly, Lantana, Frida, The Tailor of
Native,
Panama, House
starred in the BBC's Second Sight police dramas, in
on Haunted
Hill, Mystery Men,
which aired on CBS. More recently,
he
Elizabeth, Les Miserables, A Little Bit of Soul, Children
which he performed as DCI Ross Tanner, and which
of the Revolution, On Our Selection, Twelfth Night,
aired on PBS's Mystery!
Oscar and Lucinda and Starstruck.
His UK. telefilm credits also include Andrew
Rush received a degree in English at the University
Grieve's Lorna Doone, Andy Wilson's An Evening
of Queensland before continuing at the Jacques Lecoq
With Gary Lineker, Diarmuid Lawrence's The Echo
School of Mime and Theater in Paris. Returning to
and David Blair's Split Second.
Australia, he starred in the theater production of King
Owen's feature films also include Beeban Kidron's
Lear and appeared alongside Mel Gibson in Waitingfor
Vroom; Stephen Poliakoff's
Godot.Recently,
Century;
he received rave reviews for his role
in Exit the King.
Sean Mathias'
Greenfingers;
He was a principal member of Jim Sharman's
Close My Eyes
Bent;
and Robert
Joel
Altman's
Gosford Park. His acclaimed
and
Hershman's
star-studded
stage work includes
pioneering Lighthouse Ensemble in the early 1980s,
portraying Romeo. at the Young Vic, starring in Sean
playing leading roles in numerous classics. His work
Mathias' staging of Noel Coward's Design for Living,
onstage garnered many accolades, including the Sydney
and playing the lead role in Patrick Marber's original
Critics Circle Award for Most Outstanding Performance,
production of Closer at the Royal National Theatre.
the Variety Club Award for Best Actor and the 1990
In the fall of200 1, he starred in London in Laurence
Victorian Green Room Award for his lauded performance
Boswell's staging of Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death
in Neil Armfield's The Diary of a Madman. He also
of Joe Egg and in The Hire series of BMW Internet
received Best Actor nominations in the Sydney Critics'
short features, in which he was directed by (respec-
Circle Awards for his starring roles in Gogol's The
tively) John Frankenheimer,Ang
Government Inspector, Chekhov's Uncle Timya and
Guy Ritchie and Alejandro Gonzalez liiarritu.
Lee, Wong Kar-Wai,
Mamet's Oleanna. In 1994 he received the prestigious
Clive's next films only added to his already brilliant
Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for his work in theater.
and diverse choice of film credits. He chose Beyond
Geoffreyresides
in Melbourne, Australia, with his
wife Jane and their two children.
Borders, a romantic war drama co-starring Angelina
Jo1ie; Mike Hodges' thriller I'll Sleep When I'm Dead;
the action war drama King Arthur; and Sin City, which
CLIVE OWEN's (Sir Walter Raleigh) performance
co-starred Bruce Willis, Benicio Del Toro, Rosario
in the title role of Mike Hodges'
Dawson and JessicaAlba.
sleeper hit Croupier had critics
In 2005, Clive won a Golden Globe and was nomi-
comparing him to the likes of
nated for an Academy Award@ for his role as Larry in
Bogart, Mitchum and Connery.
Closer, directed by Mike Nichols. The film also starred
Owen first came to the
UK. public's attention as the
star of the television
Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman.
Clive was seen in 2005 in Derailed,
opposite
series
Jennifer Alliston, and went on to star in Spike Lee's
Chancer. US. audiences later
2006 Inside Man, opposite Denzel Washington and
saw him starring
Jodie Foster, and the more recent Children of Men, co-
opposite
Catherine Zeta-Jones in Jack
starring Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, under the
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direction of Alfonso Cuaron ..He was most recently seen
In the theater, he has appeared at the Donmar
starring in the action thriller Shoot 'Em Up, with Paul
Warehouse in Robert Delamere's Accidental Death of
Giamatti and Monica
an Anarchist and Michael Sheen's Bad Finger; at the
Bellucci
for writer/director
Michael Davis.
National Theatre in Matthew Warchus' Volpone and
Roger Michell's Under Milk Wood; at the Duke of
RHYS IFANS (Robert Reston) is one of Britain's
finest contemporary
actors.
York Theatre in Hettie MacDonald's Beautiful Thing;
at the Royal Court Theatre in James MacDonald's
He was born and raised in
Thyestes; and at the Royal Exchange
Wales, attending youth.acting
Murray's Smoke and Ronald Harwood's Poison Pen.
schools
at Theatre
in Braham
Clwyd,
On television, most recently, he played the role of
MOld, and appeared in many
Peter Cook in Terry Johnson's Not Only but Always,
Welsh-language
for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best
programs
television
before embarking
on his film career.
in
1999,
in Shakespeare
Shorts
(BBC); Trial & Retribution (YTV); The Two Franks
His breakout performance
came
Actor. He also appeared
Roger
(S4C); Burning Love (S4C); and Review (S4C). In
Michell's Notting Hill, opposite Julia Roberts and Hugh
2005, Rhys made a guest appearance for the rock
Grant, for which he received a BAFTA Film Award
band Oasis in the video
nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a
Importance of Being Idle," for which he accepted
Supporting Role. Prior to that, Rhys starred in Charles
their award for Video of the Year at the 2005/2006
McDougall's Heart, Kevin Allen's Twin Town (along-
NMEAwards.
side his brother LlyrEvans),Anthony
in
(S4C); Judas and the Gimp (BBC); Night Shift; Spatz
for their
single
"The
Hopkins' August
and Karl Francis' Streetlife.
JORDI MOLLA (King Philip II of Spain) is one
Since 1999, he has appeared in more than 20 films,
of Spain's best-recognized ar-
including Andy Hurst's You're Dead; Clare Kilner's
tistic personalities:
Janice Beard; Edward Thomas' Rancid Aluminum;
director, painter and writer.
Dominic Anciano's Love, Honor and Obey; Ed Bye's
Kevin & Perry Go Large; Howard Deutch's
Replacements;
The
Steven Brill's Little Nicky; Michel
Gondry'sHumanNature;
RonnyYu'sFormula
an actor,
Jordi trained as an actor at
the
Barcelona
Theatre,
Institute
also taking
of
acting
51; Mike
classes in Italy, Hungary and
Figgis' Hotel; Lasse Hallstrom's The Shipping News; and
England. As an actor, he has
Shane Meadows' Once Upon a Time in the Midlands.
worked in many films for such
More recently, Rhys starred in Jeff Balsmeyer's
Danny Deckchair;
prestigious directors as Bigas
Mira Nair's Vanity Fair; Roger
Michell's Enduring Love, for which he was nominated
Luna, Pedro Almodovar, Peter Greenaway, Montxo
Armendariz, Ricardo Franco and Fernando Colomo.
for a Best British Actor Award by Empire magazine;
Jordi first received acclaim in Bigas Luna's Jamon,
Martha Fiennes' Chromophobia; Francesca Joseph's
Jamon in 1992. Since then, he has appeared in films
Four Last Songs; and Peter Webber's Hannibal Rising.
including Montxo Armendariz' Historias del Kronen
He
(1994); Pedro Almodovar's
most
recently
completed
filming
Pawel
Pawlikowski's The Restraint of Beasts.
La Flor de Mi Secreto
(1994); Gerardo Vera's La Celestina (1996), for which
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he received a Goya Award nomination for Best Actor;
Touted as Australian film's most accomplished up~
Ricardo Franco's La Buena Estrella (1997), for which
and-coming
he won the Butaca Award for the Best Catalan Film
CORNISH (BessThrockmorton)
Actor and the Best Actor Award at the Ondas Awards,
won the attention of critics and
as well as sharing the Best Actor Award at the Mar del
audiences alike with her sensual,
Plata Film Festival and receiving a Goya Award nomi-
steamy performance
nation for Best Actor; Fernando Colomo's Los Aiios
Shortland's Somersault. A stir-
Barbaros (1998); Bigas Luna's Volaverunt (1999);
ring glimpse into a 16-year-old
Mateo Gil's Nobody Knows Anybody (1999), for which
girl's escape into serial sex,
he was nominated for the Fotogramas de Plata's Best
Somersault swept the board at
Movie Actor Award; Gerardo Vera's Segunda Piel
the 2004 Australian Film In-
(1999), for which he also received a Goya Award nomi-
stitute Awards, winning every single feature-film award,
nation for Best Actor; Bigas Luna's Son de Mar (1999);
including Best Actress in a Leading Role for Abbie.
Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1
Cornish also won the FCCA Award for Best Female
and Part 2 (2003/04); Daniel Calparsoro's Ausentes
Actor, the IF Award for Best Actress
(2005); and Antonello Belluco's Antonio Guerriero di
Breakthrough Performance at the 2005 Miami Film
Dio/II Santo (2006). Morerecently, he starred in Renzo
Festival. She was also named Australian Star of the Year
Martinelly's The Stone Merchant, Miguel Courtois'
at the Australian International Movie Convention in 2005.
Gal and Angelo
Longoni's
telefilm
Caravaggio.
actress,
ABBIE
in Cate
and Best
Prior to Somersault, Abbie played a tortured young
s
Upcoming for Molla are Mary McGuckian's A.R.T in
poet in Samantha Lang's detective mystery The Monkey
Las regas and StevenSoderbergh's
Mask, a scheming teen in Horseplay and a rave-party
In 2001,Jordi
critically
Che.
made his Hollywood debut in the
acclaimed
Blow, opposite Johnny Depp
and Penelope Cruz, as Colombian
casualty in the more recent One Perfect Day. Her subsequent roles include the short Everything Goes, an adap-
drug smuggler
tation of a Raymond Carver story, in which she stars with
He followed this, in 2003, with
Hugo Weaving; Candy, the story of a young couple and
Michael Bay's comedy crime thriller Bad Boys II,
their struggle with heroin. addiction, .in which she stars
opposite Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, and, in
with Heath Ledger and Geoffiey Rush;.and Ridley Scott's
2004, starred in John Lee Hancock's
A Good Year, opposite Russell Crowe.
Diego Delgado.
opposite
The Alamo,
Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton
and
Jason Patric.
Abbie's acting career began on the Australian
Broadcasting commission series Children
s Hospital,
Jordi has also directed two short films: Walter
playing a quadriplegic. In 1997, she landed a part in a
Peralta, for which he won the National Short Film
television series called Wildside. Other television credits
Award at the Alcala de Henares Short Film Festival,
include Close Contact, Water Rats, Outriders, Life
and No Me Importaria Irme Contigo. His first feature
Support, White Collar Blue and Marking Time.
film as a director, God
s on Air,
was released in 2002,
Abbie will next appear in Kimberly Pierce's Stop Loss,
and was nominated for the Golden Biznaga at the
opposite Ryan Phillippe, the story of a soldier who refuses
Malaga Spanish Film Festival.
to return to Iraq after a visit home. She is also set to star as
Additionally, Jordi has written two books ("Las
the lead in filnunakerJane Campion's Bright Star, which
Primeras Veces" and "Agua Estancada") and is a self-
chronicles. the affair between the 19th-century poet John
trained painter.
Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Cornish).
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SAMANTHA MORTON (Mary Stuart) has been
received her second Oscar@ nomination
for Best
hailed as one of the foremost
Actress) and Claire in Roger Michell's Enduring Love
actresses
(for which she received a British Independent Film
of her generation.
Her career to date has seen.her
Award Best Actress nomination).
work with some of the most
respected
world,
directors
including
Films in 2005 and 2006 included the New Zealand
in the
epic River Queen, The Libertine, opposite Johnny Depp,
Steven
and Lassie. She also received a half-lifetime achievement
Spielberg and Woody Allen.
award from Dennis Hopper's Cinevegas Film Festival.
The diverse and often difficult
This fall Morton will be seen in Control,. playing
choices of roles she has made
Deborah Curtis in Anton Corbijn's filmabout the life of
are reflected in the list of acco-
the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, and as a Marilyn
lades that she has received, including a Golden Globe
Monroe impersonator
and two Academy Award@nominations.
anticipated Mister Lonely.
Morton grew up in Nottingham, England. At 13 she
in Harmony Korine's highly
Earlier this year Morton played the part of Myra
joined Central Television'sJunior Workshop, where she was
Hindley, opposite Jim Broadbent, in the NBC/Channel
quickly spotted and cast in early television roles, including
4 film Longford (which aired in the States on HBO).
Cracker and Peak Practice. Acclaimed theatre work
Her performance
included two award-winning plays at London's Royal Court
recently, an Emmy nomination.
earned her a BAFTA and, more
Theatre: Ashes and Sand and Stargazy Pie and Sauerh-aut.
Samantha is currently filming Synecdoche, New York
Aged 17, Morton was cast as Tracy in the award-
with director Charlie Kaufman, opposite Philip Seymour
winning television drama Band of Gold. The television
Hoffman and Michelle Williams, for release in 2008.
films Emma and TornJones quickly followed and led to
ABOUT THE
her playing the title role in Robert Young's acclaimed
FILMMAKERS
telefilm Jane Eyre.
Morton first came to the attention of International film
audiences as Iris in Carine Adler's harrowing Under the
SHEKHAR KAPUR (Directed by) started his
Skin. It was a role that earned her unanimous critical
career a far distance from the
acclaim and the Boston Film CriticsAward for Best Actress.
film industry, taking his degree
In 1999, Woody Allen cast her as the mute Hattie in
with
honors
in economics
Sweet and Lowdown, for which she received both Academy
from the University of Delhi
Award@ and Golden Globe nominations
for Best
and starting work as a char-
Supporting Actress. Notable roles in Alison Maclean's
tered accountant, a corporate
Jesus Son, Julien Temple's Pandemonium, Eric Style's
planner for Burma Oil and a
Dreaming of Joseph Lees and Amos Gitais' Eden followed.
management consultant in the
In 2002, Morton starred as the title role in Lynne
U.K. After several years, he
Ramsay's critically acclaimed Morvern Callar. She
decided to leave this world
then went on to appear opposite Tom Cruise as the pre-
behind him and returned to India to pursue a career in
cog Agatha in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report,
the film and entertainment industry.
Maria Gonzales in Michael Winterbottom's Code 46,
In addition to his success as a commercial director,
Sarah in Jim Sheridan's In America (for which she
Kapur has directed some of India's most celebrated
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and successful films to date-including
which is widely regarded
Mr. India,
as India's greatest-ever
This film brings Kapur back to his passion for
directing and continuing the story and journey
of
acclaimed
Elizabeth I, and reunites him with much of the acclaimed
Masooum; and one of India's most controversial films,
cast and crew from the original picture. The highly
Bandit Queen, which caught the attention of the
anticipated Elizabeth: The Golden Age has been an
worldwide film community when it became the rage
incredible journey for aU concerned and Kapur is very
at the Cannes Film Festival. After this film, Kapur
much looking forward to what is yet to come.
mainstream
film
for
children;
the
directed Elizabeth, his first English-language
film.
Elizabeth was nominated for seven Oscars~ including
WILLIAM NICHOLSON (Written by) was born
Best Picture and Best Actress. After Elizabeth, Kapur
in 1948 and grew up in Sussex and Gloucestershire. He
went on to direct the film version of the best.,.selling
was educated at Downside School and Christ's College,
book The Four Feathers for Paramount/Miramax.
Cambridge, and then joined BBC Television, where he
Kapur's creative interests are not limited solely to
worked as a documentary filmmaker. There his ambi-
directing. As a young man, he worked as a leading
tion to write, directed first into novels, was channeled
actor in Indian film, as India's first celebrity male
into television drama. His plays for television include
model and as a chat-show host for three seasons of On
Shadowlands and Life Story, both of which won the
the Other Hand, for Channel 4 India. It was Kapur
BAFTA Best Television Drama award in their year;
who brought the idea of the hit show Bombay Dreams
other award winners were Sweet As You Are and The
to Andrew Lloyd Webber, co-creating the base story
March. In 1988 he received the Royal Television
with Webber and persuading him to bring on the now-
Society's Writer's Award.
acclaimed
Indian composer AR Rahman
for the
His first play, an adaptation of Shadowlands
for
music. Kapur also founded the Intent Corporation
the stage, was Evening Standard Best Play of 1990
with best-selling author and guru Deepak Chopra, to
and went onto a Tony Award-winning
"provoke and platform the emerging Asian culture to
Broadway. He was nominated for an Oscar@ for the
the rest of the world." Through Intent, he has founded
screenplay of the film version, which was directed by
Virgin Comics
Richard Attenborough and starred Anthony Hopkins
and Imagination,
a venture
with
Richard Branson's Virgin brand-. involving approxi-
run
on
and Debra Winger.
mately 100 artists and writers in Bangalore and in
Since then he has written more films: Sarafina,
New York who create new characters for multimedia
Nell, First Knight, Grey Owl and Gladiator (as co-
exploitation in the international marketplace.
writer), for which he received a second Oscar<IDnomi-
Kapur has many other projects in development,
nation. He has written and directed his own film,
including the feature film Paani (Water), which tells
Firelight, and three further stage plays, Map of the
the tale of a major city 20 years from now, in which
Heart,
water has all but run out; an animated rap musical
Moscow, which ran for five months on Broadway and
entitled A Suitable Cockroach, currently in produc-
received three Tony Award nominations.
tion with Prana Studios,
Howard
and The Retreat from
leading
His novel for older children, "The Wind Singer,"
and stage
won the Smarties Prize Gold Award on publication in
musical of Rasputin, written by Michael Hirst, the
2000 and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award in
writer of Elizabeth and co-author of Elizabeth: The
2001. Itsseque1, "Slaves of the Mastery," was published
Golden Age.
in May 2001, and the final volume in the trilogy,
animation
companies;
one of India's
Katherine
and the
film
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"Fire song," in May 2002. The trilogy has been sold in
Europe's leading film production company, making
every major foreign market, fromthe U.S. to China.
movies that defy boundaries as well as demographics.
Founded in 1983, Working Title has made more
He has just completed a new sequence of novels
for older children,
Seeker"
(2005),
than 85 films that have grossed over$3.5 billion world~
called "The Noble Warriors:
"Jango"
(2006)
wide. Its films have won four AcademyAwatds@ (for
and "Noman"
(2007). His novels for adults are "The Society of
Tim Robbins' DeadMan
Walking, Joel and Ethan
Others" (2004).and "The Trial of True Love" (2005).
Coen's Fargo and Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth),
24
BAFTA Awards and prestigious prizes at the Cannes
He lives in Sussex. with his wife, Virginia, and
and Berlin international
their three children.
film festivals. Bevan and
Fellner have been honored with two ofthe highest film
British screenwriter MICHAEL HIRST (Written
awards given to British filmmakers: the Michael Baleon
by/Executive Producer) has been partly responsible for
Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
the resurgence of filmic and television interest in Tudor
at the Orange British Academy Film Awards (2004) and
royalty, having penned not only the BAFTA and multi-
the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening
Osca~-nominated Elizabeth (himself earning a BAFTA
Standard British Film Awards. They were both recently
nomination
madeCBEs (Commanders of the British Empire).
for Best Screenplay),
but also all 10
Working Title has enjoyed long and successful
episodes ofthe immensely popular and critically lauded
continuing Showtime series The Tudors. The series-
creative
which places a rock star-like Henry VIII in the middle
Curtis, Stephen Daldry and the Coen brothers, as well
of a highly sensual court full of beauties and intrigue-
as actors Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
received four Emmy nominations. Hirst is also at work
and Emma Thompson,
writing the second season of the drama.
successes
Hirst's feature film screenplay credits-in
collaborations
with filmmakers
Richard
among others. Its worldwide
(in addition
to the
above-mentioned)
include Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral;
addition
The
Richard Curtis' Love Actually; Stephen Daldry's Billy
Golden Age (with William Nicholson)----.,-includeJim
Elliot; Roger Michell's Notting Hill; Mel Smith's
McBride's Uncovered, Istvan Szabo's Meeting venus,
Bean; Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter; Peter Howitt's
Simon Callow's The Ballad of Sad Cafe (fromthe play
Johnny English; Joel and Ethan Coen's 0 Brother,
by Edward Albee), Pat O'Connor's Fools of Fortune,
Where Art Thou?; Chris and Paul Weitz's About a Boy;
KrzysztofZanussi's
both Bridget
to Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth
and Elizabeth:
Wherever YouAre (co-written with
Jones movies
(directed
the director) and Nicholas Meyer's The Deceivers. Hirst
Maguire
and Beeban
also wrote the telefilm Have No Fear: The Life of Pope
Wright's
Pride & Prejudice;
John Paul II, among other projects for the medium.
McPhee;
Edgar
Wright's
Bendelack's Mr. Bean
Upcoming for Hirst (in addition to The Tudors,
Kidron,
s
by Sharon
respectively);
Kirk Jones'
Hot Fuzz;
and
Joe
Nanny
Steve
Holiday. The company has
Series 2) is a television version of Camelot, along
also found great success in the u.K. with Mark
with the feature film projects Rasputin, Cry of the
Mylod's Ali G Indahouse,
Icemark, The Balance of Power, Wuthering Heights
Cohen, and Edgar Wright's award-winning sleeper hit
and The Royal Physician
s Visit.
starring
Sacha Baron
"rom zorn com" (romantic zombie comedy) Shaun of
the Dead.
Working Title Films, co-chaired by TIM BEVAN
and ERIC FELLNER
(Produced by) since 1992, is
The success of Billy Elliot on film has since been
repeated on the London stage. Stephen Daldry and
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by Paul McGuigan and starring Malcolm McDowell
screenwriter Lee Hall reunited for a stage musical
and Paul Bettany; Ordinary Decent Criminal, starring
version in 2005, with songs composed by Sir Elton
John. The hit production,
marking Working Title's
debut theatrical venture (co-produced with Old Vic
Peter Mullan and
directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan;
Croupier, starring
Clive Owen and directed by Mike Hodges; Nothing
Prods.), continues to play to full houses in London
Personal, directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
and garnered nine 2005 Olivier Award nominations,
by Mike Newell and starring
are now underway to take Billy Elliot to Sydney and
international
Last year saw the release of Paul Greengrass'
and
and December
Bride,
McCann and Saskia Reeves, which won 17 interna-
and Best
Editing) and an Academy Award@ nomination
film festivals;
directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan. and starring Donal
United 93 to critical acclaim worldwide, leading to
tional awards, including the Special Jury Prize at the
for
European Film Awards.
Best Director. Most recently, the company saw the
His most recent
continuation of the worldwide phenomenon of Bean
s Holiday,
Ellen Barkin
Gabriel Byrne, which won Best European Film at six
then New York, where it will open in 2008~
with the release of Mr. Bean
and star-
ring James Frain and Ian Hart; Into the West, directed
including a win for Best New Musical. Preparations
two BAFTA wins (for Best Direction
Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino,
films
include
Marc
Evans'
psychological chiller Trauma, starring Colin Firth and
again starring
Mena
Rowan Atkinson.
Forthcoming releases in2007 include Joe Wright's
Suvari;
Churchill:
The Hollywood
written and directed by Peter Richardson;
Years,
and The
Key, a drama for the BBC directed by David Blair and
Atonement, adapted from the book by Ian McEwan,
written by Donna Franceschild. Bernard and Doris,
starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley and Romola
Garai; and Adam Brooks' Definitely, Maybe, starring
starring Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes, is m
Ryan Reynolds,
post-production.
Cavendish has also
Isla Fisher, Derek Luke, Abigail
Breslin,. Elizabeth Banks and Rachel Weisz.
Films in preproduction
Kidron's
Hippie
Hippie
Shake,
which
The Many Lives of
nary real events,.starring John Gordon Sinclair; Dirty
Tricks (2000) for Carlton Television, starring Martin
of Play, starring
Brad Pitt; Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon,
include most recently
Albert Walker (2002), a drama based on extraordi-
starring
Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Emma Booth and Max
Minghella; Kevin Macdonald'sState
or executive-
produced several features and series for television,
and production include
Nick Moore's Wild Child, starring Emma Roberts;
Beeban
produced
Clunes;
adapted by
All for
Love
directed by Harry
Peter Morgan from his play of the same name and
(1998),
a television
film
Hook and starring Anna Friel,
starring Frank Langella and Michael Sheen; and Joel
Miranda Richardson
and Ethan
Writing on the Wall (1996), a television series star-
Coen's
Burn After
Reading,
starring
arid Richard
E. Grant;
ring Dennis Haysbert and William H. Macy;
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand and
The
The
Hanging Gale (1994), a television series starring the
John Malkovich.
McGann brothers and Michael Kitchen, which was
JONATHAN
CAVENDISH
(Produced
nominated
by). is
for four BAFTA awards including Best
joint managing director of Little Bird and has served
Serial; and In the Border Country (1991), a television
as producer on many feature films, including the orig-
film starring Juliet Stevenson and Sean Bean, which
inal Bridget Jones
s Diary
and .Bridget Jones: .The
won the Best Film Award at the Chicago
Film
Festival and Best Film at the BANFF TV Festival.
Edge of Reason, as well as Gangster No.1, directed
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DEBRA
HAYWARD
(Executive
LIZA CHASIN (Executive Producer) has served
Producer)
as president of U.S. production at Working Title Films
serves as head of film for Working Title Films and is
since 1996. Most recently, Lizaserved
creatively responsible for the company's entire slate
producer on the critically acclaimed films Catch a
of motion pictures in conjunction with her U.S. coun-
Fire, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Derek
terpart, Liza Chasin.
Hayward joined Working Title in 1989 as a producer's
Luke and Academy Award@winner Tim Robbins, and
United 93, directed by Paul Greengrass.
assistant on such films as Fools of Fortune and Dakota
executive-produced
Road and then moved to the development department,
served
the highly successful children's
and
Colin Firth; and the Academy Award@- and Golden
Kills Me and 1993's Map of the Human Heart.
most recently
Liza also
film Nanny McPhee, starring Emma Thompson
where she worked on such diverse films as 1991'sLondon
Hayward
as executive
Globe-nominated
as executive
adaptation
of the classic
novel
producer on Pride & Prejudice (with Keira Knightley
Pride & Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and an
heading
ensemble cast.
She is currently executive-producing
an impressive
ensemble
cast),
Nanny
McPhee (with Emma Thompson and Colin Firth), the
romantic comedy BridgetJones:
Definitely,
Maybe, written and being directed by Adam Brooks
The Edge of Reason
and Wimbledon (starring Kirsten Dunst and Paul
and starring
Bettany). She served in the same capacity on last
Fisher, Derek Luke, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Kline
year's Phillip Noyce-directed political thriller Catch a
and Abigail Breslin; and Atonement, directed by Joe
Fire and the upcoming Atonement, the adaptation of
Wright
by Oscar@ winner Sydney Pollack. Additional recent
executive-produced
Smokin'
ring Academy Award@ winners Nicole Kidman and
co-producer credits include Ned Kelly, starring Heath
Sean Penn and directed by Academy Award@ winner
Ledger and Orlando Bloom; Richard Curtis' world-
Sydney Pollack. She executive-produced the box-office
wide hit Love Actually; the international hit Johnny
success Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, starring
English, starring Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imbruglia
Oscar@ winner and Golden Globe nominee
and John Malkovich; and the award-winning About a
Renee
Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. Liza served as
The Guru and 40
producer on the international hit Wimbledon, starring
credits
Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany, and as executive
s Diary,
producer on the highly acclaimed Thirteen, which won
the lauded Elizabeth, The
the best director slot at the Sundance Film Festival for
co-producing
include the worldwide smash Bridget Jones
s Mandolin,
and James
Liotta and Andy Garcia.
Liza served as co-producer on The Interpreter, star-
winners Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn and directed
Captain Corelli
Keira Knightley
Isla
Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Affleck, Alicia Keys, Ray
starring Academy Award@
Days and 40 Nights.
Hayward's
additional
Rachel Weisz,
Aces, directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Jeremy
She also served as co-producer on the suspenseful
Boy. She also executive-produced
and starring
McAvoy. She recently
Ian McEwan's novel starring Keira Knightley.
thriller The Interpreter,
Ryan Reynolds,
Matchmaker and The Borrowers. As a development
Catherine Hardwicke and stars Holly Hunter (in an
executive, she was instrumental in helping to bring
Oscar@-nominated
such films as Notting Hill, Plunkett & Macleane,
Wood. She also co-produced Richard Curtis' worldwide
French Kiss, Moonlight and Valentino, Panther, Four
hit, the ensemble romantic comedyLoveActually.
Weddings and a Funeral and Posse to the screen. She
performance)
Over the past several
and Evan Rachel
years,
Liza has been
involved in the development and production of '2;uch
also served as associate producer on Loch Ness.
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acclaimed
films
nominated
as Dead Man Walking, Fargo,
Nolting Hill and 0 Brother, Where Art Thou? Liza
served as co-producer of About a Boy, directed by
Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, starring Hugh Grant,
Toni Collette
Diary,
and Rachel Weisz; Bridget Jones
starring
Renee
Zellweger;
s
and executive
producer of High Fidelity, starring John Cusack. She
also co-produced the Academy Award@- and Golden
Globe-nominated
critical success Elizabeth, starring
for
an Academy
Cinematography,
Award@for
an ASC Award and the Chicago
Critics Award.
More recent feature film credits include Terence
Davies'
The
House
of
Mirth,
PJ.
Liza first joined the company in 1991 as director of
development. She was subsequently promoted to vice
Hogan's
Unconditional Love, Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz's
About a Boy, Peter Howitt's Johnny English,
Minkoff's
The Haunted Mansion,
Rob
Paul Weitz's In
Good Company, Woody Allen's Match Point and
Scoop, and Michael Apted's Amazing
Cate Blanchett.
A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts,
Best
Grace. His
cinematography will also be seen in the upcoming
holiday comedy release Fred Claus, starring Vince
Vaughn and an ensemble cast.
president of production and development, becoming
After obtaining his master's degree from the pres-
the head of the Los Angeles office for Working Title,
overseeing the company's creative affairs in the U.S.
Prior to joining Working Title Films, Liza worked for
several years in various capacities at New York-based
is one of the most accomplished cinematographers of
his day. He first made his mark in British television in
the early'SOs working with Mike Leigh on a variety of
productions, including Grown-Ups, Home Sweet Home
and Four Days in July. Other notable television credits
include Angela Pope's Sweet as You Are, Adrian
Beeban
Kidron's
Great
Moments in Aviation, Nigel Finch's The LostLanguage
a/Cranes, Philip Saville's The Buccaneers and, most
GUY HENDRIX
Emmy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.
In the '90s he expanded
his repertoire
into
with director Anthony
.
on Truly, Madly, Deeply; Angela Pope on
films,
working
as second-unit
Art
m.
DYAS (Production
London,
Designer)
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), and he eventually
moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a career
in film design.
As a production designer, his credits include Bryan
Singer's X2: X-Men
Brothers
cinematographer
on
Grimm;
United; Terry Gilliam's
and Bryan
Singer's
The
Superman
Returns. As an assistant art director, his credits include
The Cell and Swordfish; and as conceptual artist his
credits include such films asPearl Harbor, Vanilla Sky,
Planet of the Apes and The Matrix Reloaded.
Dyas is currently designing the upcoming fourth
installment
of the Indiana
Superman:
Man of Steel, the follow-up to the hit
Jones adventures
and
Superman Returns .
Minghella
Captives and Hollow Reed; Anthony Minghella once
more
of
moved to Japan, where he began his career as an
recently, Band of Brothers, for which he received an
feature
College
Tokyo. In 1993, Guy was hired as an art director by
REMI ADEFARASIN (Director of Photography)
Christabel,
Royal
industrial designer for the Sony Design Centre in
production companies.
Shergold's
tigious
JILL BILCOCK (Editor) is one of the world's
The
leading editors, having worked with directing heavy-
English Patient; Peter Howitt on Sliding Doors; and
weights such as Sam Mendes, Baz Luhrmann and Fred
Shekhar Kapur on Elizabeth, for which he won the
Schepisi. An award-winning editor at an early age in her
BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
native Australia, Bilcock'searlier
and was
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feature film credits
Award; and Marc Forster's Finding Neverland, for
include FredSchepisi's A Cry in the Dark, for which she
which she also received a BAFTA nomination. Her
was nominated for an API Best Editing Award; Baz
other feature film credits include Joel Schumacher's
Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom, for which she received
the AFI Award for Best Editing; PJ. Hogan's Muriel
The Phantom of the Opera, for which she received a
s
Costume
Wedding, for which she was nominated for the AFI
s
Her television costume credits include most notably
Roger Michell's Persuasion, for which she received
and a BAFTA nomination for Best Editing; and Shekhar
the BAFTA TV Award for Best Costume Design, and
for which she also received a
Roger Michell's The Buddha of Suburbia, for which
BAFTA nomination for Best Editing.
she received a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best
Other early credits include Strikebound, The More
Costume Design.
In the theater, Alexandra received a Tony nomina-
Things Change, Dogs in Space, Till There Was You,
Say a Little Prayer, You Seng, Erotique and Head On.
tion for Best Scenic Designer for Roger Michell's
More recently, Jill collaborated once again with
Baz Luhrmann
s Mandolin.
sion and the theater, both as costume and set designer.
Romeo + Juliet,
forwhich she received both the AFI Best Editing Award
Kapur's Elizabeth,
and John
Alexandra has also worked extensively in televi-
Moorhouse's How to Make an American Quilt; Baz
William Shakespeare
Guild nomination,
Madden's Captain Corelli
Award for Best Editing; Fred Schepisi's I.Q.; Jocelyn
Luhrmann's
Designers
Some Americans Abroad.
on Moulin Rouge!, for which she
received the American Film InstituteAward for Editor
JENNY
of the Year, the Australian Film Institute Award for
both an AcademyAward@
nomination
Hair
Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth. Her feature film credits
nomination and BAFTA
since include Roger Michell's
McGuigan's
include Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition; Japanese
Gangster
No.
Notting Hill; Paul
1; Michael
Apted's
Enigma; Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers; Neil
Story, starring Toni Collette, for which she received
Jordan's The Good Thief, Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty
the AFI Award for Best Editing; The Libertine, star-
Things; Gregor Jordans' Ned Kelly; Peter Webber's
and Phillip Noyce's political
Girl With a Pearl Earring; Mira Nair's Vanity Fair;
thriller Catch a Fire, starring Tim Robbins.
Joel Schumacher's
Jill is also the recipient ofthe AFI Byron Kennedy
The Phantom.
of the Opera;
Stephen Frears' Mrs. Henderson Presents; Kenneth
Award for outstanding creative enterprise, and the IF
Branagh's As You Like It; Tom Vaughan's Starter For
Living Legend Award.
10; and Michael Apted's Amazing Grace.
ALEXANDRA BYRNE (Costume Designer)has
established
and
BAFTA Award for Best Makeup for her work on
or Musical, and
for Best Editing. Other recent. credits
ring Johnny Depp;
(Makeup
Designer) received both the Academy Award@ and the
Best Editing, the American Cinema Editors Award for
Best Edited Feature Film-Comedy
SHIRCORE
Earlier credits include Rasputin; The SecretAgent;
herself as one of the finest costume
In the Bleak Midwinter; Mary Reilly; Sister My Sister;
designers working in the industry today. Although she
The Dwelling Place; Second Best; The Secret Rapture;
has costumed only five feature films, she has earned
The Secret Garden; The Big Man; Erik the Viking;
Academy Award@ nominations
Paperhouse; Stormy Monday; Wish You Were Here; A
Branagh's
for three: Kenneth
Hamlet, for which she also received a
BAFTA nomination; Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, for
Month in the Country; and Personal Services.
She has also worked in television,
which she also received the International Film Critics
where her
credits include most notably Roland Joffe's 'Tis Pity
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She
s
a Whore; Piers
Haggard's
Pennies
that premiered
From
and wrote
Caught on a Train; Jack Gold's Macbeth; and Elijah
("20
"The
Broken
Heart"
for the Royal
Shakespeare Company (premiered 1994).
Moshinsky's A Midsummer Nights Dream.
AR RAHMAN (Music by) has redefined contem-
Scottish-born musician CRAIG
porary Indian music. In a country where film scores are
ARMSTRONG (Music by) has proved his versatility
the most popular kind of music, Rahman (dubbed the
by fluidly shifting between musical genres, equally at
"Mozart of Madras" by Time magazine) is one of the
home writing film scores or theatrical and classical
compositions,
Festival
Movements" in 1996 and "Chamber Opera" in 1993),
Heaven; Bill Vincent's The Oresteia; Peter Duffell's
Award-winning
at the Edinburgh
producing/composing/arranging
most successful artists of all time-according
for
to BBC
estimates, he has sold more than 100 million albums
world-class recording artists and recording his own
from his more than 50 movie scores.
solo albums.
His work on Baz Luhrmann's
Rahman was born into a musically affluent family
groundbreaking
(his father, RK Shekhar, was a composer, arranger
musical Moulin Rouge! earned him AFI's Composer
of the Year, a Golden Globe for Be-stOriginal Score of
the Year and a BAFTA for Achievement
playing piano at an early age. His father died when he
in Film
was only nine, and the family rented out musical
Music. His score for The Quiet American garnered
him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film
Score. His other feature film. scoring credits include
the Oliver Stone drama World Trade Center; the
Oscar@-winning
bio-pic
Ray (which
netted
him
another BAFTA nomination); the romantic comedy
Must Love Dogs;
and the worldwide
heard in The Magdalene Sisters, Kiss of the Dragon,
Collector,
The Clearing,
Plunkett
&
Macleane, Best Laid Plans and Orphans. His work as
co-composer
on William Shakespeare 50 Romeo
composed
additional
in Film Music. He also
music for the features
Negotiator and Goldeneye.
As a composer/producer/arranger,
noted composer Ilayaraja's troupe as a keyboardist
and computer programmer.
with a
his own, composing jingles and scores for popular
obtained a degree in Western classical music from
Trinity College of Music, London, and set up his own
in-house
The
studio called Panchathan
Record. Inn at
Chennai (arguably Asia's most sophisticated studio)~
In
1991,
filmmaker
Mani
Ratnam
offered
Rahman the chance to score the film Roja-its
runaway success brought
nationwide
fame to the
composer, who won the Indian National Award for
Best Music Composer (the first time ever for a debutante). He has since won the Indian National Award
Armstrong has
three more times (for the films Minsaara Kanavu,
worked with a wide variety of artists, including U2,
Lagaan and Kannathil Muthamittal), the most ever by
Madonna, .Luciano Pavarotti, Massive Attack, Tina
any composer. Time rated the score from Roja in the
Turner, Suede, Pet Shop Boys, Michael Hutchence,
top 10 of the 100 best movie soundtracks
Future Sound of London, Paul Buchanan and Texas.
Armstrong
After working
string of notable composers, Rahman struck out on
+
Juliet (again with Baz Luhrmann) also earned him a
BAFTA for Achievement
instruments to make ends meet. Rahman then joined
Indian television features. During this period, he also
ensemble
comedy smash Love Actually. His scores can also be
The Bone
and conductor for Malayalam movies), and he started
of the
world. Themes from Rahman's scores have even made
has recorded four solo albums: "Piano
it into thesoundtracks
Works," "As If to Nothing," "The Space Between Us"
War and Inside Man.
and "Hope." He has composed t.wo original works
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of such U.S. features as Lord of
Rahman has won 17 Filmfare Awards (the Indian
Oscar@), three MTV awards, four IIFAs, six Tamil
Nadu State Awards, six Zee Awards and four Screen
Awards; in 2000, Rahman was conferred the prestigious
Padmashree (the highest civilian honor in India) by the
government of the country in recognition of outstanding
His other film scores include Gentleman, Thiruda
Kaadhalan,
Kannavu-these
Bombay
and
Minssara
hits were also dubbed into Hindi as
well. Other hits in Tamil include Alai Payuthey,
Kandukondian
Kandukondian,
Jeans,
appealed
to India's youth and
brought with it a renewed spirit of nationalism. In 2001,
Rahman received an invitation from Andrew Lloyd
Webber to compose for the stage musical Bombay
Dreams-which
ran for two years in London's West
been heard in the Chinese film Warriors of Heaven and
Earth and in the concert piece for violinist Vanessa
Mae, "Raga's Dance." His two recent world tours have
played to sold-out audiences around the globe.
Rahman also takes the time to give back through
Mudalvan,
Kannathil Muthamittal and Boys. Hindi titles include
Rangeela, Dil Se, Tall, 1947 Earth, Pukar, Lagaan,
Zubeida, Meenaxi, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Yuva
and Tehzeeb. His more recent film scores include
Swades, Ah-Aah,
"Vande Mataram,"
End and later on Broadway. Rahman's work has also
contribution to the Indian film industry.
Thiruda,
recording artist from South Asia. The resulting album,
Bose: The Forgotten Hero, The
Rising, Water and Rang De Basanti.
his involvement with numerous charitable organizations, such as Save the Children
global
ambassador
Organization's
concerts
for
hidia, serving as
the
Stop TB Partnership
and forwarding
proceeds
World
and performing
to the 2004
tsunami victims.
In 1997, in a move celebrating 50 years of Indian
-'- elizabeth: the golden age-
independence, Sony Music signed Rahman as its first
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