The Phantom of the Open
12:05 am - 01:50 am, Thursday, June 18 on BBC Two England (2)
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About this Broadcast
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, manages to gain entry to the 1976 British Open Golf Championship qualification round, despite being a complete novice. Sporting comedy drama based on a true story, starring Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins and Rhys Ifans
2021
HD
subtitles
16x9
Comedy
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Mark Rylance
(Actor)
.. Maurice Flitcroft
Sally Hawkins
(Actor)
.. Jean Flitcroft
Rhys Ifans
(Actor)
.. Keith Mackenzie
Ian Porter
(Actor)
.. Dick Nelson
Tommy Fallon
(Actor)
.. Young Maurice
Mark Lewis Jones
(Actor)
.. Cliff
Craig Roberts
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Mark Rylance
(Actor)
.. Maurice Flitcroft
Born:
January 18, 1960
in
Ashford, Kent
Best Known For:
His award-winning stage career.
Early-life:
David Mark Rylance Waters was born in Ashford, Kent, on January 18, 1960 to teachers Anne and David. He moved with his family to Connecticut in 1962 and Wisconsin in 1969, where his father taught English at the University School of Milwaukee. Mark later attended this school, where he began acting. He took the stage name Mark Rylance when he registered with Equity. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London in 1980, he landed his first professional work at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre.
Career:
Known predominately for his stage career, Rylance has starred in a number of Shakespearean productions, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, As You Like It and Macbeth. He became the first Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 1995 and continued this role until 2005. While he was there, he directed and starred in a number of productions. He has won Olivier Awards for Much Ado About Nothing, and Jerusalem, and Tony Awards for Boeing Boeing, Jerusalem, and Twelfth Night. His film credits include Prospero's Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Intimacy (2001), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Blitz (2011) and Anonymous (2011). More recently, he starred in the BBC drama Wolf Hall.
Quote:
'Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.'
Trivia:
Rylance became a patron of LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) in 2013.
Sally Hawkins
(Actor)
.. Jean Flitcroft
Born:
April 27, 1976
in
London
Best Known For:
Happy-Go-Lucky and Blue Jasmine.
Early-life:
Sally Cecilia Hawkins was born in London on April 27, 1976 to Jacqui and Colin. After graduating from Rada in 1998, Sally appeared in a number of stage productions, including Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Romeo and Juliet, The Cherry Orchard and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Career:
Hawkins made guest appearances in TV shows Casualty and Doctors but her first break in front of the camera came in Mike Leigh's film All or Nothing (2002). Since then, she has starred in Vera Drake (2004), Layer Cake (2004), The Painted Veil (2006) and Cassandra's Dream (2007). She won a number of awards, including a Golden Globe, for her portrayal of Poppy Cross in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008). Her other film credits include An Education (2009), Never Let Me Go (2010), Made in Dagenham (2010), Submarine (2010), Blue Jasmine (2013) and Godzilla (2014).
Quote:
'I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.'
Trivia:
Hawkins received an Academy Award nomination for Blue Jasmine.
Rhys Ifans
(Actor)
.. Keith Mackenzie
Born:
July 28, 1968
in
Ruthin, Wales
Best Known For:
Spike in Notting Hill.
Early-life:
Rhys Owain Evans was born on July 22, 1968, in Ruthin, Wales. Welsh is his first language. He's the son of two teachers, and has a brother, Llyr, who's also an actor. Ifans changed his name when he was 13, 'just to be difficult and awkward'. Around the same time he joined a youth theatre, and later moved to London to study acting at the Guildhall School.
Career:
Ifans spent 18 months at the National Theatre and has also appeared at Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre. His first TV appearances were in Welsh-language programmes for S4C. In 1995, he made his movie debut in Streetlife. Two years later he appeared on the small screen in The Sin Eater and Trial and Retribution, and starred in the film Twin Town with his brother. Notting Hill made him a star in 1999. Since then he's featured in Kevin and Perry Go Large, Little Nicky, The 51st State, The Shipping News and Vanity Fair. His recent work includes Enduring Love, Hannibal Rising, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Boat That Rocked, Greenberg, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Quote:
'The Welsh are not made to go out in the sun. They start to photosynthesise.'
Trivia:
In 2012, he became patron of the Living Paths Society.
Ian Porter
(Actor)
.. Dick Nelson
Tommy Fallon
(Actor)
.. Young Maurice
Mark Lewis Jones
(Actor)
.. Cliff
Craig Roberts
(Director)
