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2006:
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A panel discussion about the film "History Boys"
with Richard Griffiths, Nicholas Hytner, Dominic Cooper and more on Nov 17, 2006
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with Richard Griffiths, Nicholas Hytner, Dominic Cooper and more on Nov 17, 2006
Frances de la Tour is a Tony Award winning English actress. Some of her notable appearances were Rosalind in “As You Like It” and Isabella in “The White Devil”. She played Stephanie, the violinist with MS in “Duet for One” for which she won the Olivier for Best Actress. She also won that award for her performance as Josie in “A Moon for the Misbegotten” and for Best Supporting Actress for ” When She Danced” In 2004, de la Tour played Mrs. Lintott in “The History Boys” at the National, later on Broadway and in the film version.
On television, her many appearances have included the TV version of “Duet for One”, the series “A Kind of Living”, and “Waking the Dead”. She is best known for the Television comedy “Rising Damp”. In 2005 she played Olympe Maxime in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”. She starred in the highly acclaimed anti-Iraq-war one-woman play, “Peace Mom”. She won a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award for her work in “The History Boys”. De la Tour was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA Award for Actress in a Supporting Role for her work on the film version of “The History Boys”.
Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_de_la_Tour
