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| Natascha McElhone |
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Natascha McElhone is a film and theatre actor.
Natascha McElhone established herself as a leading actor when she left drama school to play the lead in her first film, Merchant Ivory’s Surviving Picasso, opposite Anthony Hopkins. She quickly followed this with Peter Weir’s film, The Truman Show; Alan J. Pakula’s The Devil’s Own, with Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford; and John Frankenheimer’s action epic Ronin, in which she co-starred with Robert De Niro. She also played Rosalind to Kenneth Branagh’s Berowne in his musical version of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. Her theatre credits include Richard III, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Honour and most recently Queen Anne for the RSC.
She also starred in the Golden Globe-winning Showtime series Californication and the Netflix show Designated Survivor, playing the First Lady, Alex Kirkman. She most recently appeared in The First co-starring Sean Penn, a Hulu/Ch 4 co-production, created by Beau Willimon. McElhone is currently shooting Halo, based on the video game franchise for Showtime (due for release 2021/22). Her independent films include Ladies in Lavender with Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Judi Dench, and the adaptation of John Banville’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, co-starring with Rufus Sewell and Ciaran Hinds. She has three sons and lives in London.
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| Rowan Williams |
Dr Rowan Williams was born in Wales and is a theological writer, scholar and teacher.
He was ordained in Ely Cathedral, elected a Fellow and Dean of Clare College, University of Oxford, and later Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity. In 1991 he became Bishop of Monmouth, followed by Archbishop of Wales, and from 2002-2012 he was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. He became the 35th Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge in 2013 and is an Honorary Professor of Contemporary Christian Thought. Williams is a noted poet and translator of poetry, and, apart from Welsh, speaks or reads nine other languages.
He learned Russian in order to read the works of Dostoevsky in the original. This led to the book Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction; he has also published studies of Arius, Teresa of Avila, and Sergei Bulgakov, together with writings on a wide range of theological, historical and political themes. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Literature and the Learned Society of Wales. In 2013, he was made a life peer, becoming The Rt Rev. and the Rt Hon. the Lord Williams of Oystermouth. He retired from the House of Lords in August 2020.
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| Chigozie Obioma |
Chigozie Obioma was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2015, after the huge impact of his debut novel.
The Fisherman won the inaugural Financial Times/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award for Fiction; the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author; and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction [Los Angeles Times Book Prizes]. It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2015, as well as for several other prizes in the UK and US.
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| Maya Jasanoff |
Maya Jasanoff is a professor at Harvard, where she holds named chairs in History and in the Arts and Sciences.
She is the author of three works of global history—most recently The Dawn Watch (2017), about the life and times of Joseph Conrad—which have won honours including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Cundill Prize, and been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford and the James Tait Black Prizes. Maya frequently writes about history and literature for publications including The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books.
In 2021 will deliver the Lawrence Stone Lectures at Princeton University comparing the ways in which novelists and historians tell stories. She is currently working on a wide-ranging book about ancestry and inheritance in human history, a topic she grew curious about partly as a consequence of her own mixed Indian and Jewish heritage. A 2013 Guggenheim fellow, in 2017 she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction literature.
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| Horatia Harrod |
Horatia Harrod is an editor at the Financial Times Weekend.
She has written widely on arts and books, interviewing (among others) Margaret Atwood, Rachel Cusk, Carmen Callil, Marlon James, Martin Scorsese, Sir Peter Blake, Ralph Fiennes and the Coen Brothers.
As an editor, she has worked with writers from Jan Morris to David Mitchell and Simon Schama. She previously worked at the Telegraph, where she edited the Sunday Telegraph books pages.
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