PHOTOSHOOTS : MODERN

EMMA THOMPSON

-b.15th April, 1959 – Paddington, London-

Henry V (1989) / The Tall Guy (1990) / Dead Again (1991) / Impromptu (1991) / Howards End (1992) / Peter’s Friends (1992) / Much Ado About Nothing (1993) / Remains of the Day (1993) / In the Name of the Father (1993) / Junior (1994) / Carrington (1995) / Sense and Sensibility (1995) / The Winter Guest (1997) / Primary Colours (1998) / Judas Kiss (1998) / Maybe Baby (2000) / Wit (2001) / Treasure Planet (2002) / Imagining Argentina (2003) / Love Actually (2003) / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) / Nanny McPhee (2005) / Stranger than Fiction (2006) / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) / I Am Legend (2007) / Brideshead Revisited (2008) / Last Chance Harvey (2008) / An Education (2009) / The Boat that Rocked (2009)

“If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times.  So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some corner of your heart and cry over it.”

“I have a nervous breakdown in the film , and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my everyday life, so isn’t much of a stretch.”

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SAMANTHA MORTON

-b.13th May 1977 – Nottingham, England-

This is the Sea (1997) / Under the Skin (1997) / The Last Yellow (1999) / Sweet and Lowdown (1999) / Jesus’ Son (1999) / Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999) / Pandaemonium (2000) / Electrical Storm (2002) / Minority Report (2002) / Morvern Callar (2002) / In America (2003) / Code 46 (2003) / Enduring Love (2004) / River Queen (2005) / The Libertine (2005) / Lassie (2005) / Free Jimmy (2006) / Expired (2007) / Control (2007) / Mister Lonely (2007) / Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) / Synecdoche, New York (2008) / The Daisy Chain (2008) / The Messenger (2009) / Dir – The Unloved (2009)

“My job is the same, whether they’ve got a hundred million or half a million. I go in and I play that character to the best of my ability.”

“Acting and music are self indulgent professions and they are a luxury unless you love what you do. I have a love/hate relationship with what I do. I think, `Where`s the relevance of this? I`m not a doctor, I`m not an aid worker.` But then I think you only have one life and I am a vessel for stories to be told.”

“I think people found me unnervingly truthful without any filter in my mouth, and this was deemed very bad, especially for a woman. You are not meant to tell somebody to fuck off if they are being rude – you are meant to find a political, tactical way to get out of a situation. When I was younger if I thought somebody was abusing me I would point it out immediately. I think you just grow up.”

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RENEE ZELLWEGER

-Renee Catheleen Zellweger – b.25th April, 1969 – Katy, Texas-

Dazed and Confused (1994) / 8 Seconds (1994) / Shake, Rattle and Rock (1994) / Love and a .45 (1994) / Rebel Highway (1994) / Texas Chainsaw Massacre:TNG (1994) / Empire Records (1995) / The Low Life (1994) / The Whole Wide World (1995) / Jerry Maguire (1996) / Deceiver (1997) / A Price Above Rubies (1998) / One True Thing (1998) / The Bachelor (1999) / Nurse Betty (2000) / Me, Myself and Irene (2000) / Bridget Jones (2001) / White Oleander (2002) / Chicago (2002) / Down With Love (2003) / Cold Mountain (2003) / Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) / Cinderella Man (2005) / Miss Potter (2006) / Leatherheads (2008) / Appaloosa (2008) / New in Town (2009) / Case 39 (2009) /

“It opens your eyes in this town,  it’s taught me who I don’t want to be.”

“Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.”

“I still feel like I’ve crashed the party.”

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JULIANNE MOORE

-Julie Ann Smith- b. 3rd Dec, 1960- North Carolina-

Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) / The Hand that rocks the cradle (1992) / Body of Evidence (1993) / Benny & Joon (1993) / The Fugitive (1993) / Short Cuts (1993) / Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) / Roommates (1995) / Safe (1995) / Nine Months (1995) / Assassins (1995) / Surviving Picasso (1996) / The Lost World: Jurassic park II (1997) / The Myth of the Fingerprints (1997) / Boogie Nights (1997) / The Big Lebowski (1998) / Hellcab (1998) / Psycho (1998) / Cookie’s Fortune (1999) / An Ideal Husband (1999) / A Map of the World (1999) / The End of the Affair (1999) / Magnolia (1999) / The Ladies Man (1999) / Not I (1999) / Hannibal (2000) / Evolution (2000) / The Shipping News (2000) / World Traveller (2000) / Far From Heaven (2002) / The Hours (2002) / Marie & Bruce (2004) / Laws of Attraction (2004) / The Forgotten (2004) / The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) / Freedomland (2006) / Trust the Man (2006) / Children of Men (2006) / Next (2007) / I’m Not There (2007) / Savage Grace (2008) / Eagle Eye (2008) / Blindness (2008) / Shelter (2009) / The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) / A Single Man (2009) / Chloe (2009) /

“I’m looking for the truth. The audience doesn’t come to see you, they come to see themselves.”

“In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there’s always the kid who’s too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who’s not athletic. Well, I was all three.”

“The great disappointment is that when you’re acting, you`ve literally become a different person in your head, and when you see it you go, Oh! It`s the same face! You feel sometimes so limited by your physiognomy. You are desperately trying to look different.”

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