To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters (MASTERPIECE)

MASTERPIECE
Airing 3/26/2017 @ 9:00 PM
Preview: 0:30 | TV-14 | CC

Ever since they were revealed to the world as quaint country-women, the Brontë sisters have fascinated legions of devoted readers. MASTERPIECE brings these remarkable literary geniuses to life with a beautifully filmed and acted two-hour drama, To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters.

Written and directed by Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax), To Walk Invisible depicts the evolution of secluded, dutiful clergyman’s daughters into authors of the most controversial fiction of the 1840s. The drama stars Finn Atkins (Eden Lake) as Charlotte, who shocked society with her edgy epic, Jane Eyre; Chloe Pirrie (War and Peace) as Emily, author of the darkly gothic and disturbing Wuthering Heights; and Charlie Murphy (Happy Valley) as Anne, whose penned the true-to-life love story The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Also starring are Jonathan Pryce (Wolf Hall) as their distracted father, Reverend Patrick Brontë; and Adam Nagaitis as the sisters’ only brother, Branwell, whose wild and dissipated life contributed to vivid characters in each of their novels.


READ MORE HERE: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/episodes/to-walk-invisible-the-bronte-sisters/

Toby Stephens: Maggie Smith’s Hot Son And Lesbian Pirates In Starz’s Treasure Island Prequel (FEMPOP) BY ALEX CRANZ

Not two weeks ago I was thinking about how dreamy Maggie Smith’s son, Toby Stephens, is and how I needed to see him in a new thing stat because I couldn’t just keep watching the perfect Tenant of Wildfell Hall like a creeper.

Trolling IMDB I saw he was in the little discussed Treasure Island prequel Black Sails.

I rolled my eyes because it was premiering on Starz and is a prequel to Treasure Island. Who on earth needs that? Why can’t you just call your show “Pirates Being Pirates.” This is a post-Pirates of the Caribbean world. People will rally to your swashbucklers.

Watchout4Hops

READ MORE: http://www.fempop.com/2013/04/15/maggie-smiths-hot-son-and-lesbian-pirates-in-starzs-treasure-island-prequel/

Toby Stephens is the son of Maggie Smith and the late Sir Robert Stephens. I didn't know that.

Toby Stephens began his acting career while a stagehand at the Chichester Festival Theatre, in end-of-season productions mounted by the crew. In his brief professional career, he has already won the Sir John Gielgud Prize for Best Actor and the Ian Charleson Award for his performance in the title role of "Coriolanus" at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1994. His other work at the RSC includes "Measure for Measure", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Antony and Cleopatra", "Wallenstein", "All's Well That Ends Well" and "Unfinished Business". Stephens also starred in Peter Hall's production of "Tartuffe" at the Aldwych Theatre and has just finished filming "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (1996). His television appearances include tt1341302 and "The Camomile Lawn" (1992). He made his screen debut in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992).

IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

Spouse
Anna-Louise Plowman (15 September 2001 - present) 3 children

Trivia
Son of the late Sir Robert Stephens and Dame Maggie Smith

Stepson of Patricia Quinn.

Younger brother of Chris Larkin.

Attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

In 1999, appeared on Broadway in "Ring Round the Moon".

Has the uncanny ability to master the American accent which, along with his smile and look, helped set him apart from the other actors reading for the part of Jay Gatsby and ultimately helped him land the role (a role he said he had the most fun playing and would do the part again in a heartbeat).

Was considered for the role of "Robin" in Batman Forever (1995).

Has turned down Hollywood many times; he concentrates mainly on theater.
TAKEN FROM IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827170/bio

CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S BIRTHDAY - April 21, 1816 (sorry I forgot)

In honor of the great author's birthday I present the following to honor her and her magnificent sisters, Emily and Anne.  Together the three wrote some of our most treasured masterpiece's including Charlotte's 'Jane Eyre', Emily's 'Wuthering Heights' and Anne's 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'

Here is my tribute to them (actually its someone else's youtube video)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-NKXNThJ610

YOU GO GIRL


by FineMoustaches