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Nick Park was born on 6 December 1958 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Chicken Run (2000), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989).- Actor
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John Inman was born on 28 June 1935 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Are You Being Served? (1972), Are You Being Served? (1977) and Odd Man Out (1977). He was married to Ron Lynch. He died on 8 March 2007 in Paddington, London, England, UK.- Actress
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Bhavna Limbachia was born on 21 April 1984 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Citizen Khan (2012), Coronation Street (1960) and Cuffs (2015). She has been married to Darren Kuppan since 22 July 2018.- Maggie Ollerenshaw, proud Mancunian and supporter of Manchester City football club since childhood, made her television debut in 1974. She is especially famous for playing comedic Northerners, particularly in the sitcoms 'Last of the Summer Wine' and its prequel 'First of the Summer Wine' and 'Open All Hours' and its belated follow-up 'Still Open All Hours' . The late Thora Hird, no mean comic actress herself, declared Maggie to be one of the finest light comedy actresses in the country but her versatility is shown by the range of her stage roles - playing intense American leads in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire', as well as Shakespearean roles in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and 'King John' for Barrie Rutter's Northern Broadsides company. In addition she has toured internationally in her own show 'Sincerely Yours', a tribute to singing icon Vera Lynn and adapted works to be broadcast as plays on BBC Radio 4. In 2007 she married fellow actor Geoff Leesley in New York.
- Sean Rigby was born on 15 August 1989 in Preston, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Endeavour (2012), Foundation (2021) and Gunpowder (2017).
- Dick Wilson was born on 30 July 1916 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Bewitched (1964), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and The Twilight Zone (1959). He was married to Meg Brown. He died on 19 November 2007 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
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Darren Tighe was born in 1973 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for 24 Hour Party People (2002), Wire in the Blood (2002) and Vital Signs (2006).- Actor
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Nigel Hastings was born on 8 April 1963 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), A Bit of a Do (1989) and Double Rainbow (2022). He has been married to Sarah Ann Elizabeth Waring since 1999.- Actor
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Stu Bennett is a globally known actor, television host and professional wrestler who performed for WWE from 2007- 2016, before returning to WWE as a commentator from 2020 - present.
His growing acting résumé includes leading roles in the features 'I Am Vengeance' (2018), 'Fanged Up' (2017), 'Eliminators' (2016), and 'I Am Vengeance: Retaliation (2020) alongside fellow Brit, Vinnie Jones. His first movie role was in 2013's 'Dead Man Down', appearing alongside Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace and Terrence Howard. Stu received the 'Best Actor' award at the 2017 Urban Action Awards in Manhattan for his performance as 'John Gold' in 'I Am Vengeance'.
In addition, Stu has hosted the athletic competition show 'Ultimate Beastmaster' (2018) on Netflix, and ITV's 'WOS Wrestling' (2018).- Luscious and petite blonde knockout Anulka Dziubinska was born on December 14, 1950 in Preston, Lancashire, England. She's of Polish descent. Dziubinska was a finalist in the Miss United Kingdom competition in 1970. She worked for five months as a blackjack Bunny at the Playboy Club in London, England. Anulka was the Playmate of the Month in the May, 1973 issue of "Playboy." Dziubinska had previously appeared in the pictorial "Girls of Munich" in the August, 1972 issue of "Playboy." Moreover, she was also a Page Three model in London. Anulka achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her steamy and uninhibited portrayal of lusty and enticing bisexual vampire Miriam in Jose Ramon Larraz's supremely sexy and arousing soft-core horror gem "Vampyres." She had co-starring roles in both Ken Russell's "Lisztomania" and "The Likely Lads." Dziubinska made guest appearances on the TV shows "The New Avengers," "The Tomorrow People," "Magnum, P.I.," "Bare Essence," and "Falcon Crest." Anulka Dziubinska has also worked as a florist, a restaurateur, and a tree vendor from Scotland to Iran.
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Roy Barraclough began his career as a draughtsman, taking time off to work as an entertainer in a holiday camp on the Isle of Wight. Combining his day job with local amateur theatre for several years, he was eventually offered a full-time acting contract by repertory theatre producer Nita Valerie with her company in Huddersfield. Barraclough regularly appeared on stage and at times played piano in the pit, including for comedian Hylda Baker.
Barraclough later joined the repertory company at Stoke (appearing alongside Ben Kingsley) and then Oldham in 1966, appearing alongside Barbara Knox and Anne Kirkbride, who later both became colleagues on Coronation Street (1960). Whilst at Oldham he made his first TV appearances for Granada Television, including Coronation Street in 1964.
In 1969, he was cast as Harry Everitt in Yorkshire Television's first soap opera Castle Haven with Kathy Staff as his on-screen wife. Although the soap only lasted a year, Barraclough became a regular guest actor on YTV shows. It was whilst having lunch in the canteen there that he was asked to stand in for a missing actor on the first series of The Les Dawson Show. It was the start of a working relationship which would last many years both at YTV and the BBC. Barraclough appeared in the Jack Rosenthal sitcom The Lovers (1970) playing a grumpy barman. He played a similar role in the Rising Damp episode ("Pink Carnations", 1978) and also appeared in ITV's sitcom George & Mildred (1976).
Throughout the 1970s, he formed a partnership with comedian Les Dawson. They played two grotesque old ladies '...of a certain age...', Dawson playing Ada Shufflebotham, Barraclough playing Cissie Braithwaite, the more 'refined' of the two. In 1972 he gained a legion of young fans in the memorable children's series Pardon My Genie (1972-73) as ironmonger Mr Cobbledick, Hal Adden was played by Ellis Jones.
Barraclough made occasional appearances in Coronation Street in 1972 and 1975, playing the rather sleazy Alec Gilroy, theatrical agent to night club singer Rita Littlewood. He returned permanently in 1986 and a marriage to Bet Lynch was included in his character's narrative. After several departures and comebacks, Barraclough finally left Coronation Street at the end of 1998.
Barraclough was later to appear in a sitcom, Mother's Ruin (1994), in which he played a bachelor dominated by his belligerent mother (Dora Bryan). He made a guest appearance in Last of the Summer Wine ("Has Anyone Seen A Peruvian Wart? 2005) playing opposite his friend Kathy Staff and appeared in a variety of TV shows including _Casualty_, Peak Practice (1994, 2001) and Funland (2005).
In 2009, he played the vicar in the BBC1 drama All the Small Things and from 2012 to 2013 he played Maurice in Last Tango in Halifax. In 2016 he played Mr Grainger in a reboot of Are You Being Served?. In 2001, he appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.
On stage, Barraclough appeared in everything from musicals (The Boy Friend and Gypsy) to high drama (Death of a Salesman and A Different Way Home) and Christmas shows and pantomimes. He created the role of Santa in the lavish stage musical Santa Claus, which he reprised for several Christmases.- Music Department
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Eric Arthur Tomlinson was born in Preston, Lancashire, on 8 January 1931. Whilst working as an aeronautical engineer for Fairey Aviation Company, he became interested in recording sound and music. After working on jazz albums with the likes of John Dankworth, he moved to film music, recording the James Bond theme for Dr. No (1962). Over the years, whilst working at EMI's Abbey Road studios he recorded such film soundtracks as Amadeus (1984), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) in addition to working alongside composers including Burt Bacharach and recording Frank Sinatra's only album not to have been made in America. Eric retired in the mid-1990s, living with his second wife Joy in Devon, where he died on 24 November 2015.- Tupele Dorgu was born on 13 December 1977 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Billionaire Boy (2016) and The Case (2011). She has been married to Mark Flanagan since 23 May 2009. They have one child.
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Andrew Flintoff was born in Preston, Lancashire. He played in the Lancashire Leagues for Preston before being picked up as a school boy by Lancashire County Cricket Club. 'Freddie' as he is more often known made his debut for England in the home test series against South Africa in July 1998.
He more recently helped England win one of, if not the best series of all time against an experienced Australian side, taking 24 wickets and making 400 runs. Known earlier in his career as a big hitter he never reached his potential until the last 2 years when his batting has become more stable and controlled. His 73 v Australia in the second test match helping England win and level the series.- Ainsley Howard was born on 29 May 1983 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Mount Pleasant (2011), Mum & Dad (2008) and Getting Better (2021).
- Fanny Rowe was born on 26 June 1913 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Mulberry Accelerator (1955), The Forsyte Saga (1967) and Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). She was married to Clive Morton. She died on 31 July 1988 in London, England, UK.
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Kelly Aishling Gray was born on 30 July 1993 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Across the Rails (2018), Sex Ed (2014) and Never Winter (2010).- Composer
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Stephen Barton was born on 17 September 1982 in Preston, England, UK. He is a composer, known for Star Trek: Picard (2020), Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019) and Apex Legends (2019).- Director
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Christine Gernon was born in 1970 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. She is a director and producer, known for One Foot in the Grave (1990), Ghosts (2021) and Gavin & Stacey (2007).- Susan studied acting at the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art and worked as a singer and dancer before going into rep at Edinburgh, Newcastle, Bristol Old Vic and the Mermaid Theatre in London. Susan appeared in the film, Having a Wild Weekend (1965), and acted on television in such programmes as Bruno (1967), Nearest and Dearest (1968) and Going for a Song (1965), before finding fame as "Miss Diane Parker" in Crossroads (1964), a role she played from 1965 until 1987. During her career, she has acted in stage productions of "Dick whittington" and "Cinderella". In her free time, Susan enjoys collecting Victorian dolls, interior design and travelling. She was married to singer Carl Wayne, formerly of The Move, for 30 years. The couple had a son called Jack.
- Eileen Baker was born on 11 June 1947 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and Wombling Free (1977). She was married to Kenny Baker. She died on 23 September 1993 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK.
- Kate Holderness was born on 17 February 1984 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Elizabeth I (2017), The Six Queens of Henry VIII (2016) and Emmerdale Farm (1972).
- Max Mason was born on 12 April 1940 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sweeney 2 (1978), Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Sex and the Other Woman (1972). He died on 12 February 2015 in London, England, UK.
- David Cook was born on 21 September 1940 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996), Second Best (1994) and Heartland (1979). He died on 16 September 2015 in the UK.
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Founder of Astronism, philosopher and astrotheologian, lecturer, human rights scholar and specialist in freedom of religion or belief, Cometan was born Brandon Reece Taylor (later changed to Taylorian) in Preston in the county of Lancashire in England to hair salon owner Janet Louise Richardson (née Warbrick; later Counsell) and business owner Seán Frederick Taylor. Both his mother and father are of English ancestry. Cometan's ascent to fame began when, at age fifteen, he began to found a new religion that would come to be called Astronism. Before beginning to write seriously the first great Astronist treatise called the Omnidoxy, Cometan wrote mystery stories centring on a London teenager named Jesse Millette, an ideal young male hero figure during a futuristic age in which the human exploration of outer space has greatly advanced. Cometan's Jesse Millette books have since come to compliment and act as an auxiliary vehicle for his fundamental Astronist messages. During the period beginning when he was fifteen, Cometan began to experience an alarming amount ideations about the nature, function and destiny of humanity in the astronomical world. These ideations snowballed into writings strange and stupefying, climaxing with Cometan's experience of several astral ecstasies during his young adult years. Based on these deeply personal and thematically astral experience, Cometan began writing the Omnidoxy when he was seventeen years old. Upon the book's completion, which is now referred to as the "founding treatise of Astronism", it had grown to over 1.7 million words. The Omnidoxy gives an exposition of the Astronist view of existence and humanity's place within The Cosmos as Astronists should see it. Omnidoxical literature is both poetic and religious, sometimes difficult to follow and grasp, with a multitude of layered meanings ornamented with rich text throughout. The Omnidoxical treatise is a grand introduction to the Astronist belief system and its upcoming successor the Astrodoxy, which has already been dubbed the "central text of Astronism", continues on this tradition of writing over grand vistas of cosmic metaphor and transcensional instruction.
Cometan is blessed with a large family, the influence of whom over Cometan's founding of Astronism isn't to be understated, however, only small snippets are verifiably attributed to Cometan's family members and are only ever described as inspirational in order to preserve the sole development of Astronism to Cometan's original ideas and revelations. Cometan had two sets of grandparents whom he was more close to in different periods of his life. His paternal grandparents, Derrick and Irene Mary Taylor, were closer to Cometan during his childhood years especially his grandmother, Irene, a mother to ten children and a devout Roman Catholic whom instilled a strict religiosity into her grandchildren; it was this large presence of religion in his childhood that Cometan later attributed to his deep interests in exploring theology and philosophy. In his later years, after his paternal grandparents both passed away and his father's side of the family became bitterly divided over inheritance issues, Cometan became closer to his maternal grandparents, Hilda and William "Bill" Warbrick. After his parents' separation when he was four, Cometan's father remarried 7 years later and had five other children (Kieran Taylorian, Kent Taylorian, Zara Taylorian, Jay Taylorian, and Edie Taylorian), and his mother also remarried ten years later and had her second daughter after Lucia Natalie Richardson named Charlotte Sophia Louise Counsell.