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Colonel Katherine Powell's mission to wipe out a terrorist cell in Kenya is complicated when a girl enters the blast radius of the intended drone strike. Powell has to decide between sacrificing the girl's life or letting the terrorists flee to carry out more atrocities. Thriller, starring Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul
2015
HD
subtitles
16x9
violent-scenes
strong-language
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Movie/Drama
Thriller
Cast & Crew
Helen Mirren
(Actor)
.. Colonel Katherine Powell
Alan Rickman
(Actor)
.. Lieutenant General Frank Benson
Aaron Paul
(Actor)
.. Steve Watts
Barkhad Abdi
(Actor)
.. Jama Farah
Alia Mo'Allim
(Actor)
.. Aisha Takow
Jeremy Northam
(Actor)
.. Brian Woodale
Monica Dolan
(Actor)
.. Angela Northman
Iain Glen
(Actor)
.. James Willett
Gavin Hood
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Helen Mirren
(Actor)
.. Colonel Katherine Powell
Born:
July 26, 1945
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing the Queen.
Early-life:
Born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff on July 26, 1945, in Chiswick, London. She has an older sister and a younger brother. Her father was a member of an aristocratic Russian military family forced to move to the UK by the 1917 Revolution. At six, Mirren decided she wanted to be an actress, but on leaving school went to teacher training college to keep her parents happy. She eventually ditched her studies in favour of the stage, and made an immediate impact playing Cleopatra in a 1965 production for the National Youth Theatre.
Career:
Mirren was snapped-up by the Royal Shakespeare Company and tackled numerous classical parts. She's continued to appear on stage throughout her career, alongside TV and film roles. Her most famous TV role is Jane Tennison in police drama Prime Suspect. Her first movie was Herostratus in 1967. More famous parts came in Caligula, The Long Good Friday, Excalibur, The Mosquito Coast, Calendar Girls and Elizabeth I. In 2003 she was made a Dame and three years later won an Oscar for The Queen. She's also been nominated for The Madness of King George, Gosford Park and Hitchcock. Other big-screen outings include State of Play, The Last Station, The Tempest, Brighton Rock, Red and the remake of Arthur.
Quote:
"Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. I can't stand it when they behave like solicitors from Penge."
Trivia:
Mirren claims to love camping, and even went on a trip with her ex-boyfriend, Liam Neeson, while they were still an item.
Alan Rickman
(Actor)
.. Lieutenant General Frank Benson
Born:
February 21, 1946
in
Hammersmith, London
Early-life:
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born in London on February 21, 1946. He was the second eldest of four children born to a housewife mother and factory-worker father. His dad died when he was eight, and his mother later remarried, but soon divorced. He was interested in acting at school, but attended the Royal College of Art and became a graphic designer before finally enrolling at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada). He supported himself during this period by working as a dresser for Nigel Hawthorne and Ralph Richardson.
Best Known For:
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Career:
After graduating from Rada, Rickman worked in repertory theatre. His big break came when he was nominated for a Tony Award in the Broadway production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. He was passed over for the film version, instead making his big screen debut in Die Hard as the villain Hans Gruber. He went on to play a wide variety of roles on the stage and on the big screen. His other film credits included Truly, Madly Deeply, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Sense and Sensibility, the Harry Potter films, Love Actually and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Rickman also directed the movies A Little Chaos and The Winter Guest, and maintained a strong stage career. He died from cancer on January 14, 2016 at the age of 69.
Quote:
"I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously."
Trivia:
Rickman won a Bafta film award for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and a Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy for TV miniseries Rasputin.
Aaron Paul
(Actor)
.. Steve Watts
Barkhad Abdi
(Actor)
.. Jama Farah
Alia Mo'Allim
(Actor)
.. Aisha Takow
Jeremy Northam
(Actor)
.. Brian Woodale
Born:
December 01, 1961
in
Cambridge
Best Known For:
Playing Ivor Novello in Gosford Park.
Early-life:
Jeremy Philip Northam was born in Cambridge on December 1, 1961 to Rachel and John, both university professors. The third of four children, Jeremy graduated from Bedford College, University of London, in 1984 and went on to attend Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He landed his first TV role in 1987, a remake of Hitchcock's Suspicion, and followed it up with a string of roles in dramas such as the TV series Wish Me Luck and the film Carrington (1995).
Career:
In 1990, Northam's profile was boosted when he was awarded the Olivier Award for Best Newcomer, thanks to his performance in stage play The Voysey Inheritance. Five years later, he got a part in the Sandra Bullock vehicle The Net, before donning period costume to play opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the 1996 adaptation of Emma. Since then, Northam has gone on to impress critics and audiences alike with roles in Amistad (1997), Happy, Texas (1999), Enigma (2001), Gosford Park (2001), Possession (2002) and Cypher (2002). More recently, he played Sir Thomas More in historical TV drama The Tudors and starred in the BBC drama White Heat. He also had a part in short-lived American drama Miami Medical.
Quote:
"I have always had to work at acting, but I think it was the work that appealed. The very fact that acting was ephemeral and hard to grasp made it seem all the more wonderful."
Trivia:
Away from acting, Northam's a keen cook.
Monica Dolan
(Actor)
.. Angela Northman
Iain Glen
(Actor)
.. James Willett
Gavin Hood
(Director)
