This Beautiful Fantastic


8:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Tuesday, November 4 on WTBY Positiv (54.4)

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About this Broadcast
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The unlikely friendship between a young aspiring writer and a bad-tempered widower is depicted in this drama.

2016 English Dolby 5.1
Drama Fantasy Romance Comedy Comedy-drama Other

Cast & Crew
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Jessica Brown Findlay (Actor) .. Bella Brown
Tom WIlkinson (Actor) .. Alfie Stephenson
Jeremy Irvine (Actor) .. Billy Trantor
Andrew Scott (Actor) .. Vernon
Anna Chancellor (Actor) .. Mrs. Bramble
Mia Farkasovska (Actor) .. Young Bella
Eileen Davies (Actor) .. Milly
Natalie Nasseraldeen (Actor) .. Rhian
Nancy Nasseraldeen (Actor) .. Amy
Paul Hunter (Actor) .. O'Brien

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Did You Know..
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Jessica Brown Findlay (Actor) .. Bella Brown
Born: September 14, 1989
Birthplace: Cookham, Berkshire, England
Trivia: Performed with the Kirov Ballet at the Royal Opera House in London when she was 15. At 18, was forced to give up her training to become a professional ballerina after three ankle operations. Started taking acting classes while studying painting at a fine-arts college. Auditioned for the lead in Tim Burton's 2010 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, narrowly missing out on the role to Mia Wasikowska. Nylon magazine called the Downton Abbey actress "the best thing in a bonnet since Keira [Knightley] in Pride and Prejudice." Met Kate Middleton and Prince William in 2011 as one of 42 invited guests at the inaugural Brits to Watch event thrown by BAFTA during the royal couple's visit to Los Angeles. Featured as the face of a 2012 ad campaign for British jewelry designer Dominic Jones, who described Brown-Findlay as "a real English rose."
Tom WIlkinson (Actor) .. Alfie Stephenson
Born: February 05, 1948
Died: December 30, 2023
Birthplace: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Trivia: A popular British character actor, Tom Wilkinson specializes in playing men suffering from some sort of emotional repression and/or pretensions of societal grandeur. Active in film and television since the mid-'70s, Wilkinson became familiar to an international audience in 1997 with his role as of one of six unemployed workers who strip for cash in Peter Cattaneo's enormously successful comedy The Full Monty. That same year, he was featured in Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda, and as the rabidly unpleasant father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's young lover in Wilde. Wilkinson was also shown to memorable effect as a theater financier with acting aspirations in Shakespeare in Love (1998); also in 1998, he acted in one of his few leading roles in The Governess, portraying a 19th century photographer with an eye for the film's title character (Minnie Driver). Though he would appear in such popular mainstream films as Rush Hour (1998) and The Patriot (2000) over the next few years, it was his role in director Todd Field's emotionally intense In the Bedroom that earned Wilkinson (as well as co-star Marisa Tomei) an Oscar nod. After that success, his career began to really take off, and in just the next few years, he would appear in over a dozen films in roles of varying size. In 2003, he starred in HBO movie Normal as a married, middle-aged man who decides to start living his life as a woman and eventually have a sex-change operation. Acting alongside Jessica Lange, Wilkinson earned both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his brave and moving performance. In addition, he would also play a menacing, licentious patron of the arts in Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003) and an experimental doctor erasing his patient's memories in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), written by Charlie Kaufman and starring Jim Carrey.Now an established star thanks to his impressive body of work, Wilkinson was called upon to appear in a number of high profile Hollywood hits, and could always be counted on to deliver in spades. Still, Wilkinson had the talent and foresight to always offset each blockbuster with at least one low-key, character-driven drama, and for every scenery-chewing Batman Begins villain, a serious-minded Separate Lies lawyer or Ripley Under Ground Scotland Yard detective would be quick to follow. After doing battle with Beelzebub in 2005's frightening, fact-based horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Wilkinson would once again shift gears with impressive grace to portray the patriarch of a Texas family whose attempts to maintain order over his wildly dysfunctional family lead to a wild night on the town that ultimately helps him to restore his perspective in Night of the White Pants. Later that same year Wilkinson would pull back a bit for a supporting role in The Last Kiss - a romantic comedy drama starring Scrubs' Zach Braff and directed by Tony Goldwyn. 2007 brough WIlkinson yet another role that earned him uniformly strong reviews. His mentally unhinged lawyer in Michael Clayton garnered him a slew of year end accolades including Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor. That same year he became part of the Woddy Allen family with a starring role in Cassandra's Dream. In 2008 he appeared as Ben Franklin in the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams, as well as Valkyrie and RocknRolla. He reteamed with Michael Clayton mastermind Tony Gilroy for 2009's Duplicity, playing the CEO of a multinational corporation, and appeared in The Ghost Writer for director Roman Polanski the next year. In 2012 he was part for the all-star British ensemble put together for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Jeremy Irvine (Actor) .. Billy Trantor
Born: April 05, 1982
Birthplace: Cambridgeshire, England
Trivia: Has stated that he didn't fit in at school and it was his drama teacher who encouraged him to take up a career in acting. Played the role of Romeo and other main roles at school. Takes his stage name from his grandfather's first name. Once played a tree in a play with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Had never ridden a horse before he began working on the film War Horse. Has Type 1 Diabetes and participated in a medical trial that tested an artificial pancreas. Is interested in military history and collects weapons from the First and Second World Wars. Almost gave up acting to become a welder prior to landing his big break in War Horse in 2011. One of his grandfathers was Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, an eminent linguistics specialist and university administrator.
Andrew Scott (Actor) .. Vernon
Born: October 21, 1976
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Trivia: Dropped out of his drama course at Trinity College in Dublin, to join the players at the esteemed Abbey Theatre. Made his Broadway debut in The Vertical Hour, opposite Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy, and directed by Sam Mendes, in 2006. Voiced the character of Stephen Dedalus in a BBC Radio production of James Joyce's Ulysses in 2012. In 2013, he publicly came out as gay, condemning Vladmir Putin's Anti-Gay legislation in Russia.
Anna Chancellor (Actor) .. Mrs. Bramble
Born: April 27, 1965
Birthplace: Richmond, Surrey, England
Trivia: Is distantly related to both Jane Austen and Lord Byron. Great-great grandfather was H.H. Asquith, former Prime Minister, making her a second cousin, once removed of Helena Bonham Carter. Left the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts when she became pregnant with her daughter Poppy. In 1988, shocked TV hosts Richard and Judy, the audience and ITV bosses when she said the 'f' word while being interviewed. Met cameraman ex-husband Nigel Willoughby while filming for a beer advert in 1993. Met husband Redha Debbah when he was working as a taxi driver and took her to the West End while she was performing in The Real Inspector Hound in 1998. While appearing in an off-Broadway production of Creditors in New York in 2010, became stricken with a case of viral meningitis and had to be rushed to the hospital by the play's director, Alan Rickman. In 2013, won a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in Private Lives. Patron of the London childen's charity, Scene and Heard.
Mia Farkasovska (Actor) .. Young Bella
Eileen Davies (Actor) .. Milly
Natalie Nasseraldeen (Actor) .. Rhian
Nancy Nasseraldeen (Actor) .. Amy
Paul Hunter (Actor) .. O'Brien
Charlotte Asprey (Actor)
Paul Blackwell (Actor)
Born: January 29, 1954
Lola Sultan (Actor)
Claire Ashton (Actor)
Tia Shenton (Actor)

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