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Richard Wilson
Richard
Wilson (born 23 October 1984 in Leicester, England) is an English-born Australian actor. Wilson moved from the UK to Australia when he was six and currently resides in
Sydney. He used to live in the Blue Mountains. Wilson is best known for his
role as Dan in the 2006 Australian film 48 Shades, based on the book 48 Shades of Brown by Nick
Earls. He also starred as Mikey Burns in the 2005 film The Proposition. He has won and been nominated for numerous
awards, most recently for his critically acclaimed performance in the 2007 film
Clubland in which he received an AFI Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Many respected critics including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
described Wilson's portrayal of a mentally handicapped teen as "a tour de
force performance". Wilson has completed two films set for a cinematic
release in 2010. The films are Birthday and The Loved Ones.. It is rumoured Wilson has taken a several
year break from film and television to complete a psychology degree at an
Australian university. 2008 Film Critics Circle of Australia, Nominated, Best
Actor – Supporting Role, Clubland (2007) 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards,
Nominated, AFI Award
Contributed by Elena Snadina
Oh! It's very interesting! While I was reading some information about Richard Wilson, I was confused, because there are SEVERAL ROBERTS WILSONS and all of them are rather famous =)
ReplyDeleteSo, FIRST: Richard Wilson OBE (born Ian Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a British (Scottish) actor, theatre director and broadcaster, best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. He appears in the BBC drama Merlin as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot.
SECOND: Richard Wilson (born May 24, 1953) is a sculptor, installation artist and musician.
Born in Islington, in London, he studied at the London College of Printing, Hornsey College of Art and Reading University. He was the DAAD resident in Berlin in 1992, Maeda Visiting Artist at the Architectural Association in 1998 and nominated for the Turner Prize in both 1988 (when Tony Cragg won) and 1989 (when Richard Long won).
THIRD: Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members in 1768 of the Royal Academy. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country.' He is considered the father of British landscape painting.
FOURTH: Professor Richard Wilson (born 1950) is a British literary critic and Shakespeare scholar teaching at Kingston University.
FIFTH: Richard Wilson (born 1926, London, England) is a British physicist. He has been a faculty member at Harvard University since 1955 and is currently the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, emeritus. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
And also, a huge law was excepted this day in England by the Parliament in 1689. The Bill of Rights or the Bill of Rights 1688 is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689. It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 (or 1688 by Old Style dating), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England. It lays down limits on the powers of sovereign and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement to regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution. It reestablished the liberty of Protestants to have arms for their defense within the rule of law, and condemned James II of England for "causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law".
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