Kingsman: The Golden Circle


10:00 pm - 12:45 am, Friday, February 13 on Film4 +1 (47)

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Having saved the world once, secret agents Eggsy and Merlin join forces with their US counterparts to bring down a psychotic femme fatale. Thankfully they are assisted by a veteran hero brought back from the dead, and cross paths with a kidnapped Elton John and a couple of killer robot dogs along the way. Director Matthew Vaughn's comedy adventure sequel, starring Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Julianne Moore


2017 HD subtitles audio-description
Adventure Comedy Espionage Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Taron Egerton (Actor) .. Eggsy
Colin Firth (Actor) .. Harry Hart
Mark Strong (Actor) .. Merlin
Julianne Moore (Actor) .. Poppy
Elton John (Actor) .. Himself
Channing Tatum (Actor) .. Tequila
Halle Berry (Actor) .. Ginger
Matthew Vaughn (Director)

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Taron Egerton (Actor) .. Eggsy
Born: November 10, 1989 in Birkenhead
Best Known For: Testament of Youth and Kingsman: The Secret Service.
Early-life: Taron David Egerton was born in Birkenhead on November 10, 1989. His family moved to Wales during his childhood and he considers himself to be Welsh. He graduated from Rada in 2012 and made his acting debut in a two-part Lewis story.
Career: Egerton had a recurring role in Sky1 drama The Smoke and went on to star in Testament of Youth (2014), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) and Legend (2015). He plays the title role in Eddie the Eagle (2016).
Quote: 'I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.'
Trivia: Egerton supports Manchester United. In 2015, he was named one of GQ's 50 best-dressed British men.
Colin Firth (Actor) .. Harry Hart
Born: September 10, 1960 in Grayshott, Hampshire
Best Known For: Being Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
Early-life: Colin Andrew Firth was born on September 10, 1960 in Hampshire. His parents, Shirley and David, were both lecturers. He has a sister, Kate, and younger brother Jonathan, who both followed him into the acting profession. He spent some of his childhood in America and Nigeria, where his father taught, before the family moved back to the UK. He studied acting in London. One of his early successes was in the 1983 stage adaptation of Another Country, and he subsequently made his big-screen debut in the film version a year later.
Career: Firth worked steadily throughout the 1980s in notable projects such as Falklands drama Tumbledown, A Month in the Country (opposite Kenneth Branagh) and the period offering Valmont. But it was the 1995 costume drama Pride and Prejudice that made him a superstar. Since then, he's notched up roles in several successful films, including The English Patient, Fever Pitch, Shakespeare in Love, The Importance of Being Earnest, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Love Actually, both Bridget Jones movies, both St Trinian's films, The Accidental Husband, Mamma Mia! and A Single Man. It was 2010 movie The King's Speech that really consolidated his reputation. It garnered a number of glittering awards and Firth's Bafta Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role was consolidated by an Academy Award for Best Actor. Films since include Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Magic in the Moonlight.
Quote: 'I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.'
Trivia: Firth pulled out of providing the voice of Paddington in the big-screen version of Michael Bond's books. He was replaced by Ben Whishaw.
Mark Strong (Actor) .. Merlin
Born: August 05, 1963 in London
Best Known For: Being a prolific character actor.
Early-life: Born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in London on August 5, 1963, Mark is the son of an Austrian mother and an Italian father. His father left home soon after his birth and he was raised by his mother. She had has name changed by deed poll when he was young. He studied in Munich with the intention of becoming a lawyer but after a year, he returned to London to study English and drama at Royal Holloway, University of London. He went on to develop his acting craft at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Career: Strong made his TV debut in a 1989 episode of After Henry and followed this up with a number of guest roles in the likes of The Bill, Inspector Morse, Prime Suspect 3 and Kavanagh QC. In 1996, he had a starring role in acclaimed BBC miniseries Our Friends in the North. Since then he has appeared in dozens of TV shows and featured in a number of films, including Revolver (2005), Syriana (2005), RocknRolla (2008), Kick-Ass (2010), Robin Hood (2010), Green Lantern (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), John Carter (2012) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). In 2013, Strong played a detective in short-lived AMC crime drama Low Winter Sun, reprising the lead role he played in the original 2006 British miniseries.
Quote: 'Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children.'
Trivia: Away from acting, Strong is heavily in demand as a narrator.
Julianne Moore (Actor) .. Poppy
Born: December 03, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina
Best Known For: Her numerous acclaimed movie performances.
Early-life: Born Julie Anne Smith on December 3, 1960, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. She changed her name to avoid clashing identities with another actress. Her brother is author Peter Moore Smith, and she also has a younger sister named Valerie. The daughter of a Scottish social worker mother and a military judge father, she lived in many different places as a child. After high school, she studied acting at Boston University, making ends meet as a waitress, and moved to New York on graduating in 1983.
Career: Moore started her professional career on stage and made her TV debut in 1984 with a recurring role in soap Edge of Night. She then had a two-year stint in As the World Turns, before taking roles in numerous forgettable movies. First made a mark on the big screen in 1993 with small roles in Benny and Joon, Short Cuts and The Fugitive. She followed those up with bigger parts in Nine Months and The Lost World. Her first Oscar nomination followed for 1997's Boogie Nights. She's since been nominated for The End of the Affair, Far from Heaven and The Hours. Other projects include The Kids Are All Right, Carrie and playing Sarah Palin in Game Change.
Quote: 'At school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.'
Trivia: She is an ambassador for Save the Children.
Elton John (Actor) .. Himself
Born: March 25, 1947 in Pinner, Middlesex
Best Known For: His long music career.
Early-life: Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in Pinner, Middlesex, on March 25, 1947, the son of a Royal Air Force trumpeter. He won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music aged 11 - but quit shortly before graduating to join band Bluesology. The group supported American soul acts and backed legendary British musician Long John Baldry. A conflict of interests with the latter caused arguments and Dwight left shortly before meeting lyricist Bernie Taupin. Dwight changed his name to Elton Hercules John in 1968.
Career: John's first solo album flopped in 1969, but its follow-up and the single Your Song were hits. Rocket Man in 1972 marked the beginning of an incredible run of success - 16 straight Top 20 hits (15 of which went Top 10). He has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. In 1994, he won an Oscar for Can You Feel the Love Tonight, from Disney's The Lion King. A version of Candle in the Wind became the world's best-selling single, raising more than £20million for the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. He has collaborated with Bernie Taupin on more than 30 albums, and continues to record and tour.
Quote: 'I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose. They should draw the line at goats, though.'
Trivia: Profits from his singles go to the Elton John Aids Foundation. He was knighted in 1998.
Channing Tatum (Actor) .. Tequila
Halle Berry (Actor) .. Ginger
Born: December 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio
Best Known For: Her tearful Oscar speech.
Early-life: Born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of an African-American hospital attendant and his English wife, a psychiatric nurse. Her parents divorced when she was four and Halle claims she hasn't seen her father since. She has an older sister, Heidi. After high school, Berry became a beauty queen, winning the Miss Teen All-American pageant. She was the first black American to take part in Miss World and enjoyed a successful stint as a model.
Career: Berry had a regular role in TV series Living Dolls in 1989, followed by a two-year stint in Dallas spin-off Knots Landing. Early films include Jungle Fever, Boomerang, and The Flintstones. She received acclaim for her performance in Bullworth in 1998, and a year later won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing the lead in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Projects since include Swordfish, Die Another Day, X-Men and its sequels, and Monster's Ball, for which she won a Best Actress Oscar. In 2005, she was given a worst actress Razzie award for Catwoman - and is one of the few stars to turn up to the ceremony to accept it. Other projects include Perfect Stranger, Things We Lost in the Fire, Frankie and Alice, Could Atlas, The Call and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Quote: 'I entertain people and get paid for it. Sometimes it seems like such a shallow existence. How insignificant in the scheme of life.'
Trivia: Robert Downey Jr broke her arm during the filming of a scene in Gothika. Production had to be halted for eight weeks.
Matthew Vaughn (Director)

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