March 13
Kaya Rose Scodelario (born Kaya Rose Humphrey; 13
March 1992) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Effy
Stonem in the E4 drama Skins. Scodelario was born in Haywards Heath,
West Sussex, UK on 13 March 1992 to an English father and a Brazilian mother.
Her parents divorced when she was a child and she was brought up by her mother,
subsequently adopting her surname and becoming fluent in Portuguese. Her
father, Roger Humphrey, passed away on 22 November 2010. Scodelario was bullied
during her early childhood and dealt with low self-esteem, which led to her
passion for drama becoming an outlet. She revealed she has dyslexia, saying,
"Watching an interesting doc on BBC Three about dyslexia, something that I
have struggled with my whole life. It really affected my self-esteem."
Today is the birthday of Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole. We read his story The Etching.
ReplyDeleteHe was a New Zealand-born English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, but his works have been neglected since his death.
Harry Edward Melling (born 13 March 1989) is an English actor, best known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films. In 2009, Melling made his stage debut in a revival of Mother Courage and her Children at the Royal National Theatre. He appeared in an episode of the BBC series Merlin entitled "The Sorcerer's Shadow", playing a young warlock named Gilli who intends to use magic to help him win Camelot's legendary tournament.
ReplyDeleteScodelario revealed in an interview that she dated Skins co-star Jack O'Connell for about a year before splitting in June 2009, though they remain good friends. She has been in a relationship with Elliott Tittensor since late 2009.Their relationship became more prominent when Scodelario supported Tittensor during a court case he was facing
ReplyDeleteChristopher Gable was also born on the 13th of March. He was an English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor.Gable's roles included Romeo in the Kenneth MacMillan production of Romeo and Juliet,Mercury in Offenbach's comic operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, a production that was filmed and released on DVD. and Colas in La fille mal gardée. Gable frequently partnered with Lynn Seymour.In 1996 Gable was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to British dance. The following year he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Bradford.
ReplyDeleteWith no prior acting experience, at the age of 14, Scodelario was cast in the 2007 first series of Skins as Effy Stonem. Upon Scodelario's arrival to the auditions she felt she was too young and became discouraged, a producer told her to stay and was asked to read for the part. While Scodelario's role had minimal speaking lines in the first series, her character developed considerably in the series during 2008, before she eventually became the central character in the 2009 and 2010 series after the cast had been replaced with a new generation of characters. This made Effy the only character to appear from series 1 right through to series 4 of Skins. Filming began in July and Scodelario revealed that 18 November 2009 had been her last day of filming the series and that she would miss being on the show. Scodelario left after the fourth series, making way for the third generation of characters. For her performance on Skins, Scodelario was nominated twice in the category for Best Actress at the TV Quick Awards in 2009 and 2010.
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