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- Julie Claire Hesmondhalgh was born in Accrington, Lancashire, where she was involved in local amateur theatre and studied A-level Theatre Studies at Accrington and Rossendale College under Martin Cosgrif. Despite planning to go into social work, she won a grant to attend LAMDA, where she studied from 1988-91. After graduating she was part of the theatre company, Arts Threshold, and with her teacher and mentor Brian Astbury and a group of friends, built a theatre in a basement in Paddington.
This led to roles on television in, among other programs, The Bill (1984), The Dwelling Place (1994), Pat and Margaret (1994), and an episode of Dalziel and Pascoe (1996). She was spotted by the casting crew for Coronation Street (1960) while appearing in "Much Ado About Nothing" in the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester. She played "Hayley" in Coronation Street (1960), the first trans-character in a UK soap, from 1998 to 2014, when she left, winning a National TV Award for her performance in her exit storyline, which she shared with her screen husband, David Neilson. The couple also won Best Actor and Actress at the Soap Awards that year, as well as Best Onscreen Partnership.
She returned to work extensively in theatre, radio and television, with roles in Russell T. Davies's Cucumber (2015), Happy Valley (2014) (series 2), Doctor Who (2005), Catastrophe (2015), Inside No. 9 (2014), The Trouble with Maggie Cole (2020), and The A Word (2016) (series 3). The BBC4 film, Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster (2015), in which she reprised her stage role as the mother of a murdered teenager, won her a Best Performance in a Single Drama Award from the Royal Television Society. Her role as a rape survivor in series 3 of Broadchurch (2013) earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2018.
Hesmondhalgh lives in Manchester with her family and is a founding member of political theatre collective, Take Back. In 2019, her book, Working Diary, was published by Methuen. - Jonathan Slinger was born on 15 August 1972 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for A Knight's Tale (2001), A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011) and Paradox (2009).
- Vicky Entwistle was born on 15 September 1968 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Coronation Street: Through the Keyhole (1999) and Ackley Bridge (2017). She has been married to Andrew Chapman since 14 December 2002.
- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Jon Anderson first joined a small British band, called The Warriors, in the mid-1960s. Towards the end of the decade, Anderson and bass guitarist Chris Squire formed a progressive rock band called Yes. This band went on to have phenomenal success for 11 years. In 1980, Anderson left Yes due to lengthy quarrels over which direction the band should take in the music. For several years, Anderson worked on some collaborative albums with Greek synthesizer composer Vangelis, as well as some solo albums. In 1983, Anderson returned to a reformed Yes, contributing lead vocals on the album "90125", which featured Yes' only number one hit, "Owner of a Lonely Heart". After a brief departure from Yes in the late 1980s, he returned, and the band continues to make albums to this day.- Jim Feather was born in 1920 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Angel Eyes (2001), Welcome to Mooseport (2004) and Johnny Shortwave (1995). He was married to Betty. He died on 6 August 2010 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
- Mystic Meg was born on 27 July 1942 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Lily Savage Show (1997), Noel's House Party (1991) and Jools's Hootenanny (1993). She died on 9 March 2023 in Paddington, London, England, UK.
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- Composer
Simon was born and raised in Lancashire, in the north of England, gaining his Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree in Graphic Design (Film) in Liverpool. He moved to London in 1979 he found work as a freelance animation artist.
Between 1980 and 1982 he worked at Cucumber Studios, first as an inker and painter, then as post production supervisor on TV commercials and music videos.
In 1982, Simon formed a production company, Moon + Parrot Productions with co-director Keith Graham. Directing visual effects-oriented spots for London advertising agencies including J. Walter Thompson, Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann-Erikson and Publicis, Simon honed his skills producing highly complex film opticals combining live action and animation. Moon and Parrot Productions became The Holden Film Company when Simon bought out his partner in 1986. In this same year, Simon was admitted to the Directors and Producers Association of Cinema and Television Technicians and into the prestigious Design and Art Directors Association of Great Britain for Outstanding 20 Second Television Commercial.
Simon briefly assumed the role of Visual Effects Director with The Frame Store in London in 1988. There he gained hands-on experience with the Quantel Harry, bringing his knowledge of animation and optical processes to the company.
Since moving to Los Angeles in 1989, Simon has worked with most of the leading post production houses as a freelance digital effects artist and visual effects supervisor, using the Quantel Harry and Henry. In 1994 Digital Domain called and Simon graduated to Flame and Inferno compositing systems.
In September 1997, Simon joined Click 3X LA as Senior Digital Compositing Artist and Visual Effects Supervisor.
Simon returned to freelance visual effects work in 1999 and continues to offer freelance visual effects services as a senior lead compositor on Flame/Inferno as well as visual effects supervisor on set.
In 2003 he formed the band XUK. In August 2005 the band released a double CD "Love Hits ...like a cricket bat-out-of-hell". The track "Jaguar" was used in the film Freezerburn (Dir. Melissa Balin). The track "New Way" was used in the short film "86 Manners" (Dir. Paul Hart).- Yvette Livesey was born on 28 April 1968 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK.
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- Soundtrack
John Tomlinson was born on 22 September 1946 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Das Rheingold (1992), Parsifal (1992) and Le nozze di Figaro - Die Hochzeit des Figaro (1991).- Mckenzie Porter was born on 21 October 1911 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Quest (1961) and 90 Minutes Live (1976). He died on 21 October 2006 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Harrison Birtwistle was born on 15 July 1934 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a composer, known for The Offence (1973), Aeschylus' Oresteia (Tony Harrison Adaptation), the National Theatre (1983) and The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005). He was married to Sheila Duff. He died on 18 April 2022 in Mere, Wiltshire, England, UK.- John Sephens Oldham was born in a Britsh spring and music entered his life early since his boyhood. He was singing concert solos with his boy soprano voice, and when it evolved to tenor he soon went on to a professional career, leaving his job as a bank clerk. In 1914 he made his début at the London Pavilion as lead tenor in The Daring of Diane. After serving with the Scots Guards in World War I, singing for his fellow comrades, staging The Chocolate Soldier and earning the Military Cross in Macedonia, in 1919 he was demobilized and joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, in which he stayed for three years singing the tenor leads of most of the Gilbert & Sullivan works, which would forever remain dear to his heart and took him to the West End.
There he would sing during the1920s the tenor leads in a variety of musical plays : Madame Pompadour, The Merry Widow, Rose-Marie, The Vagabond King, which he combined with the Gilbert&Sullivan Savoy operettas. In 1922 he met soprano Winnie Melville as costar in Whirled Into Happiness at the Lyric Theatre. They got married and she retired for three years to study singing "seriously", reappearing in 1926 in The Student Prince. The following year they played the leads in The Vagabond King, and they would perform together in White Eagle, Blue Eyes, and vaudeville (see their photograph at the image gallery). They were also offered an exclusive contract to record for His Master's Voice. Later in 1929 they joined for a few months the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to perform more Gilbert & Sullivan plays, including a tour to the States. In 1933 they separated, she would die in 1937.
Derek also appeared in a few filmed operettas and musical films, much in vogue during that period : Her Song of Love (1934), Melody of My Heart (1936).
When the operetta fever gave way to the 1940s swing music and after World War II ended, he made a turn to Lieder singing, "serious" stage plays and became a character actor, yet he stayed faithful to his Gilbert & Sullivan preferred musicals acting as an officer and later Vice-President in their Society. He performed onstage until 70 years old, when he retired to Hampshire. - Val Robinson was born on 18 December 1941 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK. She was married to Gwyn Robinson . She died on 13 February 2022 in England, UK.
- Ian Rushton - a New Zealand producer, audio-engineer, pianist and guitarist, offering anything from neo-classical and pop/rock instrumentals through to adult-contemporary pop and rock songs. Rushton regularly collaborates with artists from around the world to create an exciting and varied mix of adult contemporary music.
- Stephen Hughes was born on 24 May 1975 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK.
- David Lloyd was born on 18 March 1947 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK.