The Claudia Winkleman Show


10:40 pm - 11:25 pm, Today on BBC One London (1)

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About this Broadcast

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Claudia is joined by Oscar-nominated star of Schindler's List, Ralph Fiennes, who is on the sofa to talk about his play Grace Pervades. Comedy actress Anna Faris returns to the world of Scary Movie for the next instalment in the spoof-horror franchise. Olivia Cooke, star of Amazon Prime's The Girlfriend, talks about the upcoming series in the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, and comedian Michelle de Swarte tells Claudia about her stand-up tour The Afters


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Cast & Crew

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Anna Faris (Guest)
Mia Cross (Series producer)
Graham Stuart (Executive producer)
Ruth Phillips (Executive producer)
Sophie Le Good (Producer)

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Claudia Winkleman (Presenter)
Born: January 15, 1972 in London
Best Known For: Strictly Come Dancing, and the BBC's flagship Film programme.
Early-life: Claudia Anne Winkleman was born in London on January 15, 1972, to former Sunday Express editor Eve Pollard and publisher Barry Winkleman. Her parents split when she was three, and subsequently remarried. Her half-sister, Sophie, is an actress, and she also has a half-brother called Nicholas. Claudia grew up in the London suburb of Hampstead and attended the City of London School for Girls before studying art history at Cambridge. She considered pursuing a career as a gallery curator, encouraged by her mother who thought the media could be tough on women, but instead ended up working on TV.
Career: Winkleman's TV career began with a job on the regional discussion programme Central Today in 1991, before graduating to Holiday on BBC One and ITV's This Morning. She worked on the infamous L!ve TV and various other digital channels before joining BBC Three's Liquid News in 2002. She also presented a Fame Academy spin-off series, and between 2004 and 2010, she presented Strictly Come Dancing's daily sister show, It Takes Two. Since then, she's fronted Art School, the Eurovision Dance Contest and part of the Sports Relief coverage, as well as her own vehicles, such as King Of. She currently co-hosts the Film programme and since 2013, she has presented The Great British Sewing Bee for BBC Two. After previously filling in as a co-host on Strictly Come Dancing when Bruce Forsyth was unavailable, she became the full-time co-host alongside Tess Daly in 2014.
Quote: On her parents: 'Nepotism is a magnificent thing. Not in the sense of 'Don't worry, love, I'll get you a job', but because they can give you advice.'
Trivia: Winkleman has lent her support to a number of charities, including Comic Relief and Refuge.
Ralph Fiennes (Guest)
Born: December 22, 1962 in Ipswich
Best Known For: Schindler's List and The English Patient.
Early-life: Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962, in Suffolk. He's the oldest of six children, and says his brothers and sisters were his earliest audiences. His father Mark was a photographer and his mother, Jennifer Lash, was a painter, novelist and travel writer. His cousin is explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The family moved 15 times during his childhood. After A-levels he completed a foundation course at Chelsea College of Art & Design, then attended Rada.
Career: Fiennes' film debut was in Wuthering Heights opposite Juliette Binoche in 1992. It was his performances in that and the acclaimed 1990 TV drama A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia that impressed Steven Spielberg so much he cast him in Schindler's List. That movie launched his Hollywood career and he was soon snapped up for Quiz Show, Strange Days, The English Patient, The End of the Affair and Red Dragon. In 1995, he won a Tony Award for his role as Hamlet on Broadway. More recently, Fiennes has worked in such diverse projects as Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Constant Gardener, The White Countess, In Bruges, The Reader, Clash of the Titans, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang and four Harry Potter movies. He made his directorial debut with Coriolanus in 2011, and is the Bond franchise's latest M.
Quote: 'It's Rafe, actually.'
Trivia: He won a Tony Award for his performance in a 1995 production of Hamlet.
Anna Faris (Guest)
Born: November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland
Best Known For: The House Bunny and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Early-life: Anna Kay Faris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 29, 1976. Her family moved to Edmonds, Washington, when she was six. She has an older brother. Anna gave her first professional acting performance at the age of nine in Danger: Memory! at the Seattle Repertory Theater. She went on to play in other stage productions as a child. After graduating from high school in 1994, she attended the University of Washington.
Career: Her first film role was in Lovers Lane (1999) and her big break came a year later in horror comedy Scary Movie. She went on to star in Scary Movie 2 (2001) and two further sequels, The Hot Chick (2002), Brokeback Mountain (2005), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), The House Bunny (2008), The Dictator (2012) and I Give it a Year (2013). She has also voiced characters in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and the 2013 sequel, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) and the 2011 sequel, and Yogi Bear (2010). On the small screen, Faris had a recurring role in Friends as the mother whose twin babies are adopted by Chandler and Monica, and more recently she has been starring in the American sitcom Mom.
Quote: 'I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.'
Trivia: Faris was known for doing dramatic plays and films before being cast in Scary Movie.
Olivia Cooke (Guest)
Born: December 27, 1993 in Oldham
Michelle de Swarte (Guest)
Mia Cross (Series producer)
Jeanette Goulbourn (Director)
Graham Stuart (Executive producer)
Ruth Phillips (Executive producer)
Sophie Le Good (Producer)

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