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The Night Manager’s Hugh Laurie pays tribute to Apple TV+ series Tehran co-creator Dana Eden

The Night Manager’s Hugh Laurie pays tribute to Apple TV+ series Tehran co-creator Dana Eden

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Night Manager star Hugh Laurie has taken to X to pay tribute to Tehran co-producer Dana Eden, who was found dead in Athens on Sunday. The producer, 52, was filming season four of the spy thriller in Greece, where local police have reported she had taken her own life.  International production company Donna and Shula Productions released a statement clarifying the circumstances of her death. “This is a moment of great sorrow for the family, friends, and colleagues,” it read. “The production company wishes to clarify that rumours regarding a criminal or nationalistic-related death are not true and are unfounded.” Hugh, 66, joined the Apple TV+ Israeli TV series in season three as Eric Peterson, a South African nuclear inspector who becomes caught up in the action with leading Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan).  © Getty Images Hugh pays tribute to Dana Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Hugh paid tribute to Dana in a post that read: “Dana Eden, who co-created and produced ‘Tehran’, died on Sunday, seemingly by her own hand. It’s a …

Shadowlands review: Hugh Bonneville shimmers in tender CS Lewis play

Shadowlands review: Hugh Bonneville shimmers in tender CS Lewis play

Published by Daniella Wilson

A star rating of 4 out of 5. Shadowlands at the Aldwych Theatre, written by William Nicholson and directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, tells the story of great English author CS Lewis and his relationship with American writer Joy Davidman. The story asks whether suffering is the price of love. Whether intellectual faith can survive lived grief. Largely, it succeeds in taking audiences on the emotional journey. Hugh Bonneville and Maggie Siff, unsurprisingly, deliver laudable performances, grounding the production in warmth and humour. Their connection feels sincere, and so the story’s message feels personal rather than an abstract concept. Where the relationship, and show at large, might have benefitted is from a sharper portrait of Lewis before Joy enters his life. A greater emphasis on his romantic isolation would have created a clearer contrast between the man who theorises about pain and the man who must endure it. As it stands, Lewis feels broadly consistent before and after meeting Joy, softening the emotional transformation he undergoes. For all its looming tragedy and theological debate though, Shadowlands …

Shadowlands review, Aldwych Theatre – Hugh Bonneville’s performance can’t capture the darker realities of grief

Shadowlands review, Aldwych Theatre – Hugh Bonneville’s performance can’t capture the darker realities of grief

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter At the end of CS Lewis’s classic Narnia series [spoiler alert], the children find out that they’ve died in the real world – and that the magical land they’ve been having such wonderful adventures in is actually a version of heaven, where they’ll live for ever. If you find that idea at all disconcerting or mawkish, then don’t dream of setting foot in the heavily moralistic, intensely sentimental world of film-turned-play Shadowlands. It opens with a gown-clad Lewis sermonising that real life is a shadowy land compared with the golden rewards after. Then, it shows him testing his faith to its limits, when his late-blooming love affair takes a tragic turn. Television’s favourite nicely brought up Englishman Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) brings plenty of affable charm to this devout, emotionally repressed character, but neither this sanitised production nor his unstintingly …

Agatha Christie’s Poirot star Hugh Fraser is married to a famous actress

Agatha Christie’s Poirot star Hugh Fraser is married to a famous actress

Published by Daniella Wilson

Fans have been returning to the world of Agatha Christie over the past few weeks as Netflix added Poirot and Marple to its library. Agatha Christie’s Poirot was a favourite among fans, with the ITV series airing between 1989 and 2014. In the first eight seasons, David Suchet’s Poirot was joined by close friend Captain Hastings, who was played by British actor Hugh Fraser. While Poirot was Hugh’s biggest role, the 80-year-old has also appeared in the likes of The Man in the Iron Mask, Edge of Darkness, Taggart, 101 Dalmatians, The Alan Clark Diaries and Sharpe. When it came to love, the star kept it in the entertainment industry as he married actress Belinda Lang and the pair share a daughter, Lily. Here’s all you need to know about Hugh’s famous family… © Mirrorpix via Getty ImagesHugh starred as Captain Hastings in eight seasons of Poirot Famous wife Hugh has been happily married to Belinda Lang since 1988, with the couple meeting while at the stage door of the National Theatre, with High mistakenly …

‘The Congo River Basin is at a tipping point’: Photojournalist Hugh Kinsella Cunningham – Perspective

‘The Congo River Basin is at a tipping point’: Photojournalist Hugh Kinsella Cunningham – Perspective

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 02/02/2026 – 14:47Modified: 02/02/2026 – 14:48 08:50 min From the show Reading time 1 min A leading photographer has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how his exhibition is a good excuse to talk about how the jungles of the Congo and the whole ecosystem of Central Africa are about to become potentially the most important site in the fight against climate change. The water there sustains the lives of millions of people across nine different countries. Photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham has spent years taking the images for his newest collection, and they’ve just gone on display at the Galerie Angalia in Paris. By: Video by: Source link

Hugh Laurie’s life off-screen with wife and 3 children who followed in his footsteps

Hugh Laurie’s life off-screen with wife and 3 children who followed in his footsteps

Published by Daniella Wilson

Warning! Spoilers lie ahead of The Night Manager season two…  Hugh Laurie shocked BBC viewers with his surprise return to The Night Manager as the villainous Richard Roper in season two. While viewers were led to believe Roper had been killed in the previous season, they later learned that he had survived capture and conned his way out, ultimately coming face-to-face with protagonist Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston). © BBC/Ink Factory/Des WillieHugh plays Richard Roper opposite Diego Calva as Teddy As the season finale airs on BBC One on Sunday night, with Hugh also serving as a producer on the series, we thought we’d take a closer look at the Blackadder, Sense and Sensibility and House star’s life off screen with his wife and children, who briefly followed in his footsteps. Who is Hugh Laurie married to? Hugh, 66, is married to Jo Green, with whom he has been for more than 35 years. While Jo reportedly worked as an administrator, she largely remains out of the spotlight. The pair are said to have met before Hugh …

Sheep Solve Hugh Jackman’s Murder!

Sheep Solve Hugh Jackman’s Murder!

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Yes, this is real! With a massive cast of top actors and a trailer where every second is more “what?!” than the last, I’m actually all in. Here is the trailer for The Sheep Detectives, an upcoming film adaptation of Leonie Swann’s Three Bags Full. Lupin returns! Netflix has announced that Lupin Part 4 will return in Fall 2026. The hit show starring Omar Sy is based on the Maurice Leblanc book series, which follows gentleman thief and master of disguise Arsène Lupin in his many escapades. Unusual Suspects Sign up to Unusual Suspects to receive news and recommendations for mystery/thriller readers. Subscribe to Selected No Thanks Bad Blood author sues Open AI John Carreyrou and a handful of authors have filed a lawsuit against xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta Platforms, and Perplexity, “accusing the AI companies of pirating their books and feeding them into the large language models (LLMs) that power the companies’ chatbots.” Reuters and Publishers …

Paddington star Hugh Bonneville says film series will continue without him

Paddington star Hugh Bonneville says film series will continue without him

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Actor Hugh Bonneville has indicated he is unlikely to return to the Paddington film franchise. The 62-year-old, who plays Mr Brown in the children’s films, suggested the series would continue without him as its focus remains on the bear. Asked about a potential return to Paddington, he told Saga Magazine: “I don’t think so. I really don’t. I’ve loved it, but I’m getting on a bit. It’s a younger man’s job, but you can get other actors in and it will work just as well, because it’s all about the bear.” Bonneville also stated that the period drama Downton Abbey could continue after its concluding feature film, The Grand Finale, but it would be without his involvement. He explained: “I wouldn’t be surprised if they make some sort of spin-off, but no, our company has left the building. The Grand Finale …

Does Hugh Laurie appear in The Night Manager season 2?

Does Hugh Laurie appear in The Night Manager season 2?

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Night Manager season 2 is off to an explosive start on BBC One and iPlayer, giving viewers long-awaited details on the fate of Hugh Laurie’s sinister arms dealer Richard Roper. Given how season 1 ended, the highly memorable character had not been expected to play any major role in this sequel, with Laurie’s continued involvement limited to strictly behind-the-camera duties. However, the very first episode has already upended that notion with a fleeting appearance from the actor, which powerfully connects Jonathan Pine’s new assignment to Roper’s ugly legacy. It raises the question of whether a more substantial flashback could follow down the line, giving Laurie another chance to inhabit this juicy role – for now, we can only speculate (and hope). Read on for everything you need to know about Laurie’s on-screen appearance in The Night Manager season 2, and a refresher of what exactly happened to his once-untouchable character at the end of the first chapter. Does Hugh Laurie appear in The Night Manager season 2? Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman star in …

Hugh Cutting/ Refound review – countertenor’s darkly compelling recital is an imaginative treat | Classical music

Hugh Cutting/ Refound review – countertenor’s darkly compelling recital is an imaginative treat | Classical music

Published by Sam Flores

Hugh Cutting is still sometimes described as a rising countertenor. That should surely now be unconditional. Cutting has risen, almost to the top, and 2025 has been a stellar year. This enthusiastically performed and received recital, a world away from the general run of pre-Christmas concerts or countertenor recitals, and accompanied by the eclectically matched eight-strong Refound Ensemble, showed why. Themed recitals are common, but Cutting’s programme of songs and music, all connected to the theme of night, was built on levels of thought and performative imagination that few such programmes would even attempt, much less bring off. The pieces ranged from the baroque to the brand new, via Schubert, folk song and Don McLean. Few familiar pieces on the programme were played as written, with Cutting preferring arrangements mostly by members of the ensemble. It was compelling from first to last, more cabaret than concert. Hugh Cutting with clarinettist Magdalenna Krstevska at the Wigmore Hall, London. Photograph: Sisi Burn The calms and charms of night came first. Even here, though, there was instant originality …