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After being released from prison, Glaswegian singer Rose-Lynn Harlan chases her dreams of being a country music star, with help from posh new boss Susannah. The problem is Rose-Lynn has two kids that she keeps getting her elderly mother to babysit. Musical drama, starring Jessie Buckley, Sophie Okonedo and Julie Walters.
2018
HD
subtitles
Country & Western
General
Indie
Movie/Drama
Music/Ballet/Dance
Cast & Crew
Jessie Buckley
(Actor)
.. Rose-Lynn Harlan
Sophie Okonedo
(Actor)
.. Susannah
Julie Walters
(Actor)
.. Marion
Jamie Sives
(Actor)
.. Sam
Craig Parkinson
(Actor)
.. Alan
James Harkness
(Actor)
.. Elliot
Tom Harper
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Jessie Buckley
(Actor)
.. Rose-Lynn Harlan
Born:
December 28, 1989
in
Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
Best Known For:
Playing Lorna Bow in Taboo.
Early-life:
Born on December 28, 1989 in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. She attended Ursuline Secondary School, where she appeared in school productions. Her mother, Marina Cassidy, is a vocal coach and encouraged her to sing. While attending The Association of Irish Musical Societies workshops, Jessie was encouraged to apply for drama schools in London. She was turned down by two drama schools just before she auditioned for the talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything.
Career:
Buckley came second in I'd Do Anything, losing out on the chance to play Nancy in Oliver. She was offered the understudy role for Nancy but turned it down in favour of playing Anne Egerman in the Off-West End production of A Little Night Music. The production later appeared at the Garrick Theatre in the West End. Buckley graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in January 2013 and, in the summer of the same year, performed in The Tempest and Gabriel in Shakespeare's Globe. In 2015, Buckley performed in the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's production of The Winter's Tale, which was broadcast to cinemas worldwide. Buckley has since had TV roles in such shows as War and Peace and Taboo.
Quote:
'If you work hard then you don't have to worry about anyone's preconception of what you were before.'
Trivia:
She achieved Grade eight in piano, clarinet and harp with the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Sophie Okonedo
(Actor)
.. Susannah
Born:
January 01, 1969
in
London
Best Known For:
Her role in Hotel Rwanda.
Early-life:
Born on January 1, 1969, in London, to a Jewish mother and Nigerian father. He was a government worker who returned to his native country when Sophie was five, leaving her mother to raise her. She left school at 16 and worked on a clothing stall at Portobello Market. She later attended a writing workshop run by Hanif Kureishi, but discovered she was better at acting in plays than writing them, prompting her to study at Rada. Upon graduating, she embarked on a series of theatrical roles.
Career:
Throughout the 1990s, Okonedo steadily built up a body of TV credits, including appearances in Casualty, The Bill and The Governor. She got her break in films with a small role in 1995 Jim Carrey vehicle Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. She also featured in The Jackal and Mad Cows, but it was Stephen Frears' thriller Dirty Pretty Things that people really began to take notice. More TV work followed in Clocking Off, Never Never and Spooks, before an Oscar-nominated performance in Hotel Rwanda. Other projects include Doctor Who, Tsumani: The Aftermath, The Secret Life of Bees, Skin, Criminal Justice, and Mrs Mandela.
Quote:
'I'm pretty secure about who I am. Anything that's truthful I'm not ashamed of.'
Julie Walters
(Actor)
.. Marion
Born:
February 22, 1950
in
Smethwick, Birmingham
Best Known For:
Her work with Victoria Wood.
Early-life:
Born February 22, 1950, in Smethwick, Birmingham, the daughter of an Irish postal worker mother and a decorator father. She has two older brothers. As a child she often performed impromptu shows impersonating Eartha Kitt or Shirley Bassey. She was expelled from school and dreamed of becoming an actress, but her mother persuaded her to take up a 'sensible' career, so she worked as a nurse and in a cigarette factory. She then studied English and Drama at Manchester Polytechnic, where she met Victoria Wood.
Career:
Walters' first acting job was at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, where she caught the eye of playwright Alan Bleasdale - the beginning of many collaborations. She appeared in his first stage success, Scully, in 1974, and in Boys from the Blackstuff in 1980, a year after making her TV debut in Victoria Wood's Talent. She reunited with Wood in the series Wood and Walters, and reprised her stage role in Educating Rita on the big screen, earning an Oscar nomination. Walters has worked steadily ever since. Her most notable projects include Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, Pat and Margaret, Mamma Mia! and the Harry Potter films. She was awarded an OBE in 1999, gained a second Oscar nomination for Billy Elliot in 2000, and won a Bafta (her seventh) in 2010 for her performance in TV drama Mo.
Quote:
'I've never had Botox or surgery and I wouldn't because I'd feel I was letting myself down. I've embraced not being young.'
Trivia:
She was awarded the Bafta Fellowship in 2014.
Jamie Sives
(Actor)
.. Sam
Craig Parkinson
(Actor)
.. Alan
James Harkness
(Actor)
.. Elliot
Tom Harper
(Director)
