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Allen Leech (born 18 May 1981) is an Irish actor best known for his role as Tom Branson on the historical drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015). He made his professional acting debut with a small part in a 1998 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, made his first major film appearance as Vincent Cusack in Cowboys & Angels, and earned an Irish Film & Television Awards nomination in 2004 with his performance as Mo Chara in Man About Dog. He appeared as Willi in the Queen and Peacock (2000), at the Garter Lane Arts Centre. The following years, he was in The Morning After Optimism (2001) and then Da (2002). His breakthrough film performance was in Cowboys and Angels (2003), followed by a role in the 2004 cross-country caper film Man About Dog. He played the role of Shane Kirwan in Ireland's RTÉ series Love Is the Drug (2004), for which he received a Best Actor nomination from the Irish Film and Television Awards. He followed that up with the role of Willy in the television series Legend (2006), for which he received a Best Supporting Actor nomination from Irish Film and Television Awards. In 2010, he appeared on the small screen in The Tudors (2010) as the doomed Francis Dereham. Leech also appeared in ITV 2010s television series Downton Abbey as chauffeur Tom Branson. He played the role of officer Sam Leonard in television series Primeval in 2011 in series five. He also starred in the 2012 film adaptation The Sweeney. In 2014 he starred as the spy John Cairncross, in The Imitation Game. He played Freddie Mercury's personal manager, Paul Prenter, in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), which earned him a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Allen Leech, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Allen Leech
Grigori Peshkov
for Grigori Peshkov in Century Trilogy - Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, Edge of Eternity
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Fall of Giants The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Winter of the World Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism. Edge of Eternity Five families. Three decades. One extraordinary era. As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion, five families from across the globe are brought together in an unforgettable tale of passion and conflict during the Cold War. When Rebecca Hoffmann, a teacher in East Germany, finds herself pursued by the secret police, she discovers that she has been living a lie. Her younger brother, Walli, longs to escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain to become part of the burgeoning music scene.
