One of Britain’s most revered theatre actors, Walter, 73, has in recent years made a name for herself playing scene-stealing roles in a variety of television blockbusters, from Jodie Comer’s KGB handler in Killing Eve and Maggie Smith’s school friend in Downton Abbey, to Hannah Waddingham’s mother in Ted Lasso, Rebecca Ferguson’s mentor in Silo and even a cameo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Denied entry to any medical school, despite her respectable education, she was forced to study nursing alongside male peers whose objections led to her dismissal. Ella Kate narrates this fictionalized look at her life and travels, and her parents’ unfailing loyalty. In the seaside town of Lyme Regis, a young Mary was taught to collect fossils by her father, which together they would polish and sell to tourists.

She made her West End and Broadway debut as Ophelia in Hamlet in 2009 and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Jessica Swale’s 2015 play Nell Gwynn. At the University of Hawaii, Ball studied the chemical composition of Piper methysticum, for her master’s thesis. She led the way in luxury fashion and today her brand - led by its creative director Karl Lagerfeld - sells clothes, perfume, handbags and watches.

It also reminds the world – especially in this time of the actors’ strike - that artists come with their own history that helps them to dive further into their work. While she did not win the presidential race, she was chosen by the Democratic candidate Joe Biden to be his vice president and running mate in the 2020 election!After graduation, with no prospects for an astronomy job in England, Cecilia secured a fellowship at the Harvard College Observatory in another Cambridge, the one in the USA. There are three Cosmonauts that head the Soviet Union’s hall of fame: Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, Alexey Leonov, the first person to spacewalk, and Valentina Tereshkova. Sarah Green studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and is an illustrator and designer based in San Francisco. Wally Funk was one of the 'Mercury 13', the thirteen experienced female pilots who, between 1960-61, passed the same physical tests as the Mercury 7 men, America’s first astronauts. After the death of her mother when she was just seven years old, Janet gained a scholarship at the precociously young age of nine, to attend Queen Charlotte’s school in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, where the other girls were all aged over 14.

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