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Alex Kingston is a Actor British born on 11 march 1963 at Epsom (United-kingdom)

Alex Kingston

Alex Kingston
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Birth name Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 11 march 1963 (61 years) at Epsom (United-kingdom)

Alexandra Elizabeth "Alex" Kingston (born 11 March 1963) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Dr. Elizabeth Corday on the NBC medical drama ER and as River Song in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.

Biography

Kingston met English actor Ralph Fiennes while they were both students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. They were together for ten years before marrying in 1993. In 1995, Fiennes began an affair with his Hamlet co-star, Francesca Annis, and left Kingston the following year; they were divorced in 1997.

At the end of 1998, Kingston married her second husband, German writer and freelance journalist Florian Haertel, having met the previous year on a blind date arranged by friends; they have a daughter together, Salome Violetta Haertel, born 28 March 2001. Kingston and Haertel separated in 2010. Kingston married TV producer Jonathan Stamp in a ceremony in Rome on 18 July 2015.

As of 2011, Kingston continues to reside in the US.

Kingston appeared on the BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? in September 2012, investigating the lives of her great-grandfather Will Keevil and her four-times great-grandmother, Elizabeth Braham.

Usually with

Matthew Leutwyler
Matthew Leutwyler
(1 films)
Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman
(2 films)
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
(2 films)
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
(2 films)
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alex Kingston (18 films)

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Actress

Bukowski
Bukowski (2013)

Directed by James Franco
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Tim Blake Nelson, Josh Peck, Shannen Doherty, Keegan Allen, Alex Kingston, Teo Halm
Roles Katharina Bukowski
Rating62% 3.138923.138923.138923.138923.13892
The film focuses on Charles Bukowski's early years: his abusive father, disfiguring acne, alcoholism, and his escape through writing.
Like Crazy
Like Crazy (2011)
, 1h30
Directed by Drake Doremus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Alex Kingston, Charlie Bewley, Finola Hughes
Roles Jackie Gardner
Rating65% 3.298343.298343.298343.298343.29834
Anna Gardner (Felicity Jones), a British exchange student attending college in Los Angeles, meets and falls in love with Jacob Helm (Anton Yelchin), an American student who returns her affections. After graduation, Anna decides to spend the summer with Jacob rather than return to England, unaware of the consequences of staying longer than her student visa, which expired upon her graduation, allows. After returning to London for a family engagement, Anna flies back to Los Angeles, where she is detained, denied entry, and sent back to England by immigration officials.
Alpha Dog
Alpha Dog (2006)
, 1h57
Directed by Nick Cassavetes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Historical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Dominique Swain, Bruce Willis, Shawn Hatosy, Olivia Wilde
Roles Tiffany Hartunian
Rating68% 3.4484353.4484353.4484353.4484353.448435
Johnny Truelove is a young marijuana dealer living in Southern California. His father, Sonny, supplies him with marijuana, which Johnny distributes to his gang of friends, including Jake Mazursky, who owes Johnny a $1,200 drug debt. Mazursky makes a failed attempt at asking his father, Butch, and stepmother Olivia for the money. Meanwhile, Butch and Olivia are dealing with their rebellious teenage son Zack- Jake's half-brother. A fight breaks out between Jake and Johnny when Jake tries to pay Johnny only part of his debt. After back and forth retaliation, Johnny and his two henchmen, Frankie Ballenbacher and Tiko Martinez, go to confront Jake in person, but when they go to his house he is nowhere to be found. As they leave, they find Zack walking and decide to kidnap him with the intent of holding onto him until Jake pays his debt.
The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
, 2h54
Directed by Irwin Allen, Ronald Neame, John Putch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Adam Baldwin, Alexa Hamilton, Rutger Hauer, Steve Guttenberg, Bryan Brown, C. Thomas Howell
Roles Suzanne Harrison
Rating44% 2.2142.2142.2142.2142.214
The plot centers on the SS Poseidon, a 135,000-ton state-of-the-art luxury cruise ship on a cruise from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia as well as the stories and dramas of some of the 3,700 passengers and crew.
Sweet Land
Sweet Land (2005)
, 1h50
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, Lois Smith, Alex Kingston, Paul Sand
Roles Brownie
Rating70% 3.544713.544713.544713.544713.54471
In the aftermath of World War I, Inge Altenberg (Elizabeth Reaser), an orphan from Snåsa, Norway, arrives in America to a very cold reception. The parents of immigrant farmer Olaf Torvik (Tim Guinee) remain in Norway, where they met her. Dialogue reveals that the four of them have worked out an agreement that allowed her to emigrate to America for the purpose of marrying Olaf. The Minnesota farming village of Audubon, in which her intended husband lives, is horrified to learn that she is a German immigrant with no papers. To make matters worse, she has accidentally obtained membership papers for the American Socialist Party. Scandalized, both the town's Lutheran minister and the county clerk refuse to marry them.
Boudica
Boudica (2003)
, 1h38
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Political films
Actors Alex Kingston, Steven Waddington, Emily Blunt, Leanne Rowe, Hugo Speer, Gary Lewis
Roles Boudica
Rating53% 2.651632.651632.651632.651632.65163
Boudica, the Warrior Queen on Britain, leads her tribe into rebellion against the Roman Empire and the mad Emperor of Rome Nero.
Essex Boys
Essex Boys (2000)
, 1h42
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Sean Bean, Alex Kingston, Charlie Creed-Miles, Tom Wilkinson, Holly Davidson, Larry Lamb
Roles Lisa Locke
Rating59% 2.9978252.9978252.9978252.9978252.997825
The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of two top drug barons and their driver in Rettendon, Essex, UK. On 6 December 1995, Patrick Tate, Craig Rolfe and Tony Tucker, three drug dealers well known to the police, were lured to Workhouse Lane, Rettendon on the pretext of a lucrative drug deal. There they were killed by shotgun blasts to the head while sitting in their Range Rover. The bodies were found the following morning.
Croupier
Croupier (1998)
, 1h34
Directed by Mike Hodges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Jeu
Actors Clive Owen, Alex Kingston, Gina McKee, Kate Hardie, Nicholas Ball, Barnaby Kay
Roles Jani De Villiers
Rating69% 3.497943.497943.497943.497943.49794
Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet and against his better judgment, he takes a job as a croupier. The interview was set up by his father, a small-time hustler back home in South Africa.
Virtual Encounters 2
Virtual Encounters 2 (1998)
, 1h23
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Erotic, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Nikki Fritz, Alex Kingston
Roles Karen
Rating42% 2.138492.138492.138492.138492.13849
Deux jeunes hommes vendent du "sexe virtuel" depuis leur chambre au collège.
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
, 1h40
Directed by Stephen Surjik
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers, Jeffrey Tambor, Illeana Douglas, Chris Mulkey
Roles Verity Graham
Rating59% 2.9961852.9961852.9961852.9961852.996185
Lionel Powers and Julian Messenger are filthy rich men with dirty family secrets. They play dirty as well, fighting for control over a professional football team in Los Angeles with every weapon at their disposal.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
, 1h27
Directed by David Attwood
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Alex Kingston, Geoffrey Beevers, Lucy Evans, Neville Phillips, Maureen O'Brien, Daniel Craig
Roles Moll Flanders
Rating76% 3.8380553.8380553.8380553.8380553.838055
Ce téléfilm est une adaptation du roman Heurs et Malheurs de la fameuse Moll Flanders écrit par Daniel Defoe en 1722.
Carrington
Carrington (1995)
, 2h1
Directed by Christopher Hampton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Peinture, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Samuel West, Rufus Sewell, Penelope Wilton
Roles Frances Partridge
Rating67% 3.396083.396083.396083.396083.39608
The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey, played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group.