Scene from Excalibur (1981)
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Alternate Names: Cherie Mary Lunghi, Cheri Lunghi
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Cherie Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She is probably best known for her role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur, as football manageress Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The Manageress and for starring in a series of adverts for Kenco coffee. She also competed in the 2008 series of Strictly Come Dancing. She is the mother of the actress Nathalie Lunghi.
Birth Name: Elena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov
Birth Date: 1945-07-26
Birth Place: Hammersmith, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, United Kingdom
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Alternate Names: 헬렌 미렌, Έλεν Μίρεν, Helen Lydia Mironoff, Helen Lydia Mirren, Dame Helen Mirren, 海伦·米伦, Ilyena Vasilievna Mironova, هلن میرن
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Dame Helen Mirren (/ˈmɪrən/; born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov; July 26, 1945) is an English actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is the only person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She received an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for the same role in The Audience, three British Academy Television Awards for her performance as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, and four Primetime Emmy Awards, including two for Prime Suspect.
Excelling on stage with the National Youth Theatre, Mirren's performance as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra in 1965 saw her invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company before she made her West End stage debut in 1975. Since then, Mirren has also had success in television and film. Aside from her Academy Award-winning performance, Mirren's other Oscar-nominated performances were for The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), and The Last Station (2009). For her role on Prime Suspect, which ran from 1991 to 2006, she won three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress (1992, 1993 and 1994), a joint-record of consecutive wins shared with Julie Walters, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Playing Queen Elizabeth I in the television series Elizabeth I (2005), and Queen Elizabeth II in the film The Queen (2006), she is the only actor to have portrayed both the regnant Elizabeths on screen.
After her breakthrough film role in The Long Good Friday (1980), other notable film roles included Cal (1984), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, 2010 (1984), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), Calendar Girls (2003), Hitchcock (2012), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Woman in Gold (2015), Trumbo (2015), and The Leisure Seeker (2017). She also appeared in the action films Red (2010) and Red 2 (2013) playing an ex-MI6 assassin, and in the Fast & Furious films The Fate of the Furious (2017), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), and F9 (2021).
In the Queen's 2003 Birthday Honours, Mirren was appointed a Dame (DBE) for services to drama, with investiture taking place at Buckingham Palace. In 2013 she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2014 she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2021, she was announced as the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
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Alternate Names: Katerine Boorman, Katherine Boorman, Kathrin Boorman, Katrina Marigold Boorman
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Katrine Boorman is an English actress and director of film, television, voice and stage since 1974. She is the daughter of British actor-filmmaker John Boorman.
Boorman was born to British film director John Boorman and his first wife Christel Kruse Boorman. They had four children, Telsche (died 1997), Daisy, Katrine, and Charley. The family spent the early years of her life in County Wicklow in Ireland, but after John and Christel divorced, the children and the mother left that area, and John remarried and started another family.
Boorman gradually became a greater presence in her father's life as she took parts in his films.
About the Movie: Excalibur (1981)
Release Year: 1981
Nation: United Kingdom, United States
Alternative Title: Екскалибур, Excalibor - Das Schwert des Königs, Excalibur: sankarin miekka, Excalibur - Vér és mágia, Ekskalibur, Excalibur - Mec kralja Arthurja, Экскалибур, Krallar savasiyor
Director: John Boorman
Writer: John Boorman, Rospo Pallenberg, Thomas Malory
Production & Genre
Producer(s): Producer: John Boorman
Executive Producer: Edgar F. Gross, Robert A. Eisenstein
Companies: Cinema 84, Orion Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre: Action Film, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy Film, Film Based On Book, Medieval Film, Sword And Sorcery Film
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Keywords: adultery, battle, castle, duel, england, excalibur, fog, holy grail, king arthur, knight, lancelot, love triangle, magic, mist, mythology, prophecy, sword and sorcery, tournament, vision, witch, wizard
Story
Excalibur (1981) begins with the birth of King Arthur Pendragon following Merlin's prophecy that he would become king. As a young boy, Arthur pulls the sword Excalibur from the stone, fulfilling the prophecy and proving his worthiness to rule. The film chronicles Arthur's rise to power, his battles against rebellious nobles, and the formation of the Knights of the Round Table.
The knights embark on a quest for the Holy Grail, but their journey is fraught with danger and temptation. Lancelot, one of Arthur's closest friends, becomes involved in an adulterous relationship with Guenevere, Arthur's queen, leading to strife within the kingdom. Ultimately, the betrayal leads to civil war among the knights, culminating in a tragic battle at Camelot where many of the Round Table are killed.
Summary
Excalibur is a surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur', directed by John Boorman in 1981. The film chronicles key events from Arthurian legend, including Arthur's conception and rise to power, the search for the Holy Grail by his Knights of the Round Table, and his eventual death.
While sources are limited and do not provide a general summary beyond the plot points mentioned, Excalibur is notable for its fantastical storytelling and atmospheric visuals. It explores themes of love, betrayal, and the cyclical nature of power, as depicted through the rise and fall of King Arthur's kingdom.