Kate Beckensale left her fans alarmed Monday after sharing emotional photos of herself in the hospital.
The “Underworld” star actress posted to Instagram celebrating her mother Judy Lowe’s birthday and Mother’s Day in the U.K. The 50-year-old actress also shared a teary-eyed photo of herself sitting in a hospital bed, wearing a gown and a large black bow on her head, but she gave no reason for her hospitalization.
“Happy birthday and U.K. Mother’s Day this last week to my incredible mother,” Beckinsale captioned the post. “Thank you to those that love us and support us when it’s s–t and try to make sure there are some bits that aren’t.”
“And for looking after our dogs when we can’t, and lead us to remember happy things when we can’t,” she continued. “And turn up when we are sick and sit...
The “Underworld” star actress posted to Instagram celebrating her mother Judy Lowe’s birthday and Mother’s Day in the U.K. The 50-year-old actress also shared a teary-eyed photo of herself sitting in a hospital bed, wearing a gown and a large black bow on her head, but she gave no reason for her hospitalization.
“Happy birthday and U.K. Mother’s Day this last week to my incredible mother,” Beckinsale captioned the post. “Thank you to those that love us and support us when it’s s–t and try to make sure there are some bits that aren’t.”
“And for looking after our dogs when we can’t, and lead us to remember happy things when we can’t,” she continued. “And turn up when we are sick and sit...
- 3/11/2024
- by Emily Smith
- The Wrap
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has confirmed that Matthew Perry will be honored at its TV awards later this year following backlash over his omission from the film awards’ In Memoriam segment on Sunday evening.
Although Perry, who died last October, was best known for his 10-year stint as Chandler Bing on hit TV show “Friends,” he also appeared in a number of popular feature films in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including “The Whole Nine Yards” alongside Bruce Willis and “Fools Rush In” opposite Salma Hayek.
This year’s In Memoriam segment, set to a special arrangement of Cyndi Lauper’s “The After Time” performed by “Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham, featured Jane Birkin, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Roundtree, Michael Gambon, Tom Wilkinson and Carl Weathers, among others. The segment also paid tribute to Tina Turner, who was commemorated as both an actor and singer.
Although Perry, who died last October, was best known for his 10-year stint as Chandler Bing on hit TV show “Friends,” he also appeared in a number of popular feature films in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including “The Whole Nine Yards” alongside Bruce Willis and “Fools Rush In” opposite Salma Hayek.
This year’s In Memoriam segment, set to a special arrangement of Cyndi Lauper’s “The After Time” performed by “Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham, featured Jane Birkin, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Roundtree, Michael Gambon, Tom Wilkinson and Carl Weathers, among others. The segment also paid tribute to Tina Turner, who was commemorated as both an actor and singer.
- 2/19/2024
- by K.J. Yossman and Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Kate Beckinsale just took to social media to share a “cold email” she received from BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) after the passing of her beloved stepfather, director Roy Battersby.
If you don’t know, Roy has a huge list of credits and accomplishments to his name (all of which Kate mentioned in her post.) Roy even has a lifetime achievement award from BAFTA for his work.
Keep reading to find out more…
In part, despite all of his accomplishments, Kate received an email from them that said they “could not guarantee he would be included in their ‘in memoriam tribute’” at the 2024 BAFTAs, which will take place in London on February 18.
Here is just part of Kate‘s Instagram post: “Today BAFTA told me they ‘could not guarantee’ he would be included in their ‘in memoriam’ tribute , to honour the industry members we have lost.
If you don’t know, Roy has a huge list of credits and accomplishments to his name (all of which Kate mentioned in her post.) Roy even has a lifetime achievement award from BAFTA for his work.
Keep reading to find out more…
In part, despite all of his accomplishments, Kate received an email from them that said they “could not guarantee he would be included in their ‘in memoriam tribute’” at the 2024 BAFTAs, which will take place in London on February 18.
Here is just part of Kate‘s Instagram post: “Today BAFTA told me they ‘could not guarantee’ he would be included in their ‘in memoriam’ tribute , to honour the industry members we have lost.
- 1/18/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Kate Beckinsale shared a charged and lengthy post on Instagram Thursday morning in response to what she described as a “horribly cold email” from BAFTA about the death of her stepfather, TV director Roy Battersby.
Shared just as this year’s BAFTA film awards were announced, Beckinsale said in the post that despite Battersby’s lengthy list of credits and honors for his work on the small screen, including a BAFTA for lifetime achievement, the awards body told her they “could not guarantee he would be included in their ‘in memoriam tribute’” to late industry members during this year’s awards shows.
“So a man dead less than a week somehow has to audition in front of a committee after a decades-long career (in which he has been awarded from said organization the highest accolade they have ) to decide If his death is worth mentioning,” Beckinsale said in the post,...
Shared just as this year’s BAFTA film awards were announced, Beckinsale said in the post that despite Battersby’s lengthy list of credits and honors for his work on the small screen, including a BAFTA for lifetime achievement, the awards body told her they “could not guarantee he would be included in their ‘in memoriam tribute’” to late industry members during this year’s awards shows.
“So a man dead less than a week somehow has to audition in front of a committee after a decades-long career (in which he has been awarded from said organization the highest accolade they have ) to decide If his death is worth mentioning,” Beckinsale said in the post,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Kate Beckinsale attended the Golden Globes as a presenter, then hit the Netflix party. But she ended her night in a hospital, where her stepfather, TV director Roy Battersby, is recovering from a stroke.
The British actress has been caring for her mother and stepfather as they struggle with serious illnesses.
Beckinsale shared red carpet photos on her Instagram, then posted two images showing her sitting in a hospital room, still wearing her gown from the event.
“Golden globes 2024 start to end,” she wrote in the caption.
In a cryptic message, the hospital images were later blacked out and contained only messages of condolences prompting speculation that her stepfather had passed away. It is unclear if an emergency prompted Beckinsale to rush to the hospital.
Beckinsale has been candid about the family issues. Last month, she asked for social media support.
“We need a miracle,” she wrote. “This week has...
The British actress has been caring for her mother and stepfather as they struggle with serious illnesses.
Beckinsale shared red carpet photos on her Instagram, then posted two images showing her sitting in a hospital room, still wearing her gown from the event.
“Golden globes 2024 start to end,” she wrote in the caption.
In a cryptic message, the hospital images were later blacked out and contained only messages of condolences prompting speculation that her stepfather had passed away. It is unclear if an emergency prompted Beckinsale to rush to the hospital.
Beckinsale has been candid about the family issues. Last month, she asked for social media support.
“We need a miracle,” she wrote. “This week has...
- 1/11/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Kate Beckinsale is remembering her father, the late actor Richard Beckinsale, in a sweet Father’s Day tribute.
On Sunday, Kate, 45, shared a black-and-white photo of herself when she was a child alongside her father, who died in 1979 at the age of 31 from a massive heart attack when Kate was 5.
“There has never been anyone like you . Happy Father’s Day...
On Sunday, Kate, 45, shared a black-and-white photo of herself when she was a child alongside her father, who died in 1979 at the age of 31 from a massive heart attack when Kate was 5.
“There has never been anyone like you . Happy Father’s Day...
- 6/17/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Pete Davidson and Kate Beckinsale's romantic date nights are still going strong. This time, they even brought some guests along. The SNL star and Beckinsale were seen out at Nobu in Malibu on Tuesday night and were accompanied by her mom Judy Loe and step-dad Roy Battersby. Tuesday was a bit of a solemn day for The Widow actress because it marked the 40th anniversary of her dad Richard Beckinsale's death, who passed away in 1979 at the age of 31. She paid tribute to her late father on social media and shared a number of pictures of him from some of his acting roles as well as family photos. "40 years is a lot of missing. Thank you so much to everyone who has been...
- 3/20/2019
- E! Online
Roy Battersby writes: Auditioning in a grim Salford secondary modern school for boys to play parts in Roll on Four O’Clock in 1970, Colin Welland, Ken Trodd and I also talked about the big strike of mostly women clothing workers in Leeds that same year. The result was the epic BBC Play for Today film Leeds United!, written by Colin, produced by Ken, directed by me, transmitted in 1974, repeated once in 1975, praised, admired and traduced, and since seen only at festivals, academic film gatherings and the National Film Theatre – but always to great appreciation. By heck, it’s a wonderful script and film, and should be included in Colin’s bio as one of his finest works. He always had such a wonderful way of giving a voice to those without one, but who have so much to tell us.
W Stephen Gilbert writes: Outstanding among Colin Welland’s achievements...
W Stephen Gilbert writes: Outstanding among Colin Welland’s achievements...
- 11/9/2015
- by Roy Battersby and W Stephen Gilbert
- The Guardian - Film News
Theodore Bikel. Theodore Bikel dead at 91: Oscar-nominated actor and folk singer best known for stage musicals 'The Sound of Music,' 'Fiddler on the Roof' Folk singer, social and union activist, and stage, film, and television actor Theodore Bikel, best remembered for starring in the Broadway musical The Sound of Music and, throughout the U.S., in Fiddler on the Roof, died Monday morning (July 20, '15) of "natural causes" at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The Austrian-born Bikel – as Theodore Meir Bikel on May 2, 1924, in Vienna, to Yiddish-speaking Eastern European parents – was 91. Fled Hitler Thanks to his well-connected Zionist father, six months after the German annexation of Austria in March 1938 ("they were greeted with jubilation by the local populace," he would recall in 2012), the 14-year-old Bikel and his family fled to Palestine, at the time a British protectorate. While there, the teenager began acting on stage,...
- 7/23/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
As the BFI celebrates his 50 years' work, the man behind Cathy Come Home reveals the tragedy that changed his world
Television has treated Tony Garnett well over the past 50 years. He lives in an apartment close to the Ritz Hotel, where Margaret Thatcher died, a far cry from his working class childhood roots in Erdington, Birmingham. His local cafe is Fortnum & Mason, where he wields a silver teapot with aplomb, but he still declares: "I am a revolutionary socialist. I think our society would benefit from fundamental change."
Charming, kindly, but still angry after all these years, Garnett, 77, was a leader of the generation of radical TV creatives who addressed big social and political issues in their influential BBC dramas of the 1960s and 70s. His work is about to be celebrated in a two-month season, Seeing Red, at London's BFI.
The season opens with his explosive dramas for the BBC's Wednesday Play,...
Television has treated Tony Garnett well over the past 50 years. He lives in an apartment close to the Ritz Hotel, where Margaret Thatcher died, a far cry from his working class childhood roots in Erdington, Birmingham. His local cafe is Fortnum & Mason, where he wields a silver teapot with aplomb, but he still declares: "I am a revolutionary socialist. I think our society would benefit from fundamental change."
Charming, kindly, but still angry after all these years, Garnett, 77, was a leader of the generation of radical TV creatives who addressed big social and political issues in their influential BBC dramas of the 1960s and 70s. His work is about to be celebrated in a two-month season, Seeing Red, at London's BFI.
The season opens with his explosive dramas for the BBC's Wednesday Play,...
- 4/28/2013
- by Maggie Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
London, July 30: Actress Kate Beckinsale was unhappy when her mother, actress Judy Loe, married director Roy Battersby because she had to deal with four rowdy step-brothers.
Her father, actor Richard Beckinsale, died following a heart attack in 1979 when Beckinsale was only five.
"It was definitely a shock. I was not that thrilled with it at first. (Out of the four) The two youngest boys lived with.
Her father, actor Richard Beckinsale, died following a heart attack in 1979 when Beckinsale was only five.
"It was definitely a shock. I was not that thrilled with it at first. (Out of the four) The two youngest boys lived with.
- 7/30/2012
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
- In Red Mercury, three young members of a terrorist cell - Asif (Navin Chowdhry), Shahid (San Shella) and Mushtaq (Alex Caan) - are warned of an impending police raid and flee their flat with the makings of a bomb. When they discover that their car has been clamped, they take refuge in a nearby restaurant, and the establishment's well-to-do diners become hostages. Before long, a sophisticated police and security services operation has been assembled outside, taking on added urgency when its leader, Sofia Warburton (Juliet Stevenson), discovers that the three young men are in possession of red mercury, a potential ingredient for what the London security services fear most: a 'dirty' bomb, capable of causing far greater death and destruction than an ordinary explosive device. Like Dog Day Afternoon, Red Mercury explores the shifting dynamics of the relationship between the three young Muslims, as well as those between the
- 8/29/2005
- IONCINEMA.com
TORONTO -- The Montreal World Film Festival, which got under way over the weekend, hosted a controversial film about British Muslim bombers that foreshadowed the July 7 suicide bombings in London. The world premiere of "Red Mercury" came as the Montreal World Film Festival so far has disappointed film buyers for the lack of quality American films, most of which are unspooling in Toronto or waiting for the rival New Montreal FilmFest, also in September. "Red Mercury", the drama starring Ron Silver and Peter Postlethwaite from veteran British director Roy Battersby, recently was turned down for screening at the upcoming London Film Festival, prompting the shift to Montreal.
- 8/28/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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