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Events with high posterior probability

Ed Westwick	In January 2011, Westwick joined Clint Eastwood's film J. Edgar, a biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio about J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial first director of the FBI.
Stanley Holloway	After the war, he played Albert Godby in Brief Encounter and had a cameo role as the First Gravedigger in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet.
Oksana Mysina	In Oleg Babitsky and Yury Goldin's television movie of Mikhail Bulgakov's `` Theatrical Novel'' (2003), she offered an eccentric interpretation of Polixena.
Charlie Dore	In 1983 she starred opposite Jonathan Pryce and Tim Curry In Richard Eyre's film, The Ploughman's Lunch and during the 1980s more acting work followed, including leading roles in Hard Cases and A Killing on the Exchange for ITV, South of the Border for BBC and two productions, Whistle Stop and The Big Sweep with People Show, the UK's longest running fringe theatre group.
Hannah Murray	In 2009 Murray appeared in the ITV adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Why Did n't They Ask Evans ?
Amanda Hale	In June 2013, she played Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in the BBC series The White Queen, based on Philippa Gregory's bestselling historical novel series The Cousins' War.
Dennis Potter	Potter is known to have written adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The White Hotel and his own 1976 television play Double Dare : all reaching the preproduction stage before work was suspended.
Michael Audreson	He played Winston Churchill as a schoolboy in the film Young Winston in 1971.
Eileen Atkins	Atkins starred as Lady Spence with Matthew Rhys in an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's The Scapegoat, shown in September 2012.
Colin Firth	It was not until his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that Firth became a household name.
Poppy Montgomery	Her first big break was when she won the role of Marilyn Monroe in the 2001 CBS mini-series Blonde, based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates.
Anthony Minghella	Minghella's 1990 feature Truly, Madly, Deeply, a drama he had written and directed for the BBC's Screen Two anthology strand, bypassed its expected TV broadcast and received a cinema release.
Doon Mackichan	Also in 1998 she appeared in the BBC TV mini-series of Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend as Mrs Veneering, social-climber and nouveau-riche who with her equally ambitious husband wears her acquaintances like so much jewelry, to impress others.
Elizabeth Shepherd	In 1960, she appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Citadel.
Marc Warren	In December 2007 he played Mr. John Simpson in the BBC production of Ballet Shoes with Emilia Fox and Emma Watson.
Martin Clunes	In 2001, he played Captain Stickles in the BBC adaptation of R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone.
Kynaston Reeves	And in the cinema, he fulfilled a small role in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the 1970 film which starred Robert Stephens and Geneviève Page.
Freya Tingley	In 2013 Freya was cast in Once Upon a Time as Wendy, a 13 year old girl based on the heroine Wendy Darling from the novel Peter Pan.
Danny Webb (actor)	In 1985, Webb starred alongside Jon Pertwee in a television adaptation of Karl Wittlinger's Broadway play, Do You Know the Milky Way ?
Christopher Casson	He was part of a Jacob's Award winning production in 1982, as a member of the RTÉ Players, when he acted the part of Virag in RTÉ Radio's unabridged, 30 hour, marathon broadcast of James Joyce's novel,'' Ulysses''.
Judi Dench	In 1997, Dench appeared in her first starring film role as Queen Victoria in John Madden's teleplay Mrs. Brown which depicts Victoria's relationship with her personal servant and favourite John Brown, played by Billy Connolly.
Jamey Sheridan	In 1994 he played the character of Randall Flagg in the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand.
Patrick Stewart	He appeared as Vladimir Lenin in Fall of Eagles ; Sejanus in I, Claudius ; Karla in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People ; Claudius in a 1980 BBC adaptation of Hamlet.
N. F. Simpson	A radio documentary about his life and work, Reality is an Illusion Caused by Lack of N. F. Simpson, produced by Curtains For Radio on BBC Radio 4 on 5 April 2007, featured contributions from Eleanor Bron, Jonathan Coe, John Fortune, Sir Jonathan Miller, Sir John Mortimer, David Nobbs, Ned Sherrin, Eric Sykes and Simpson himself.
Amanda Root	She was the voice of Fanny in the 2-cassette 1997 BBC radio dramatization of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.
Joanne Froggatt	On 15 April 2010, Joanne Froggatt appeared opposite Lee Ingleby in the BBC Radio Four play The Disappearance by Peter Whalley.
John Caird (director)	Caird's television work includes his own adaptation of Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 for the BBC's performance series in 1995, starring David Calder, Ronald Pickup, Rufus Sewell, Jonathan Firth, Elizabeth Spriggs, Simon McBurney, Jane Horrocks and Paul Eddington amongst others.
Gregory Paul Martin	Martin appeared opposite Faye Dunaway, Liam Neeson, and Richard Burton in the 1984 CBS mini-series Ellis Island.
Paul Michael Glaser	On November 30, 2007, Glaser starred as Captain Hook in a pantomime version of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would n't Grow Up at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, Kent, England.
Derek Marlowe	Marlowe returned to the world of espionage in his 1970 novel Echoes of Celandine which was subsequently filmed as The Disappearance starring Donald Sutherland.
Marina Hands	Her most notable performance to date was in the title role of Lady Chatterley (2006), an adaptation of John Thomas and Lady Jane by D. H. Lawrence.
Brenda Blethyn	A major hit for Blethyn came with Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, a 2005 adaptation of the same-titled novel by Jane Austen.
Alan Bennett	A radio play of the same title was broadcast on 21 February 2009 on BBC Radio 4, with actress Maggie Smith reprising her role of Miss Shepherd and Alan Bennett playing himself.
Patrick Macnee	He played Watson three times : once to Roger Moore's Sherlock Holmes in a 1976 TV film, Sherlock Holmes in New York and twice with Christopher Lee (Incident at Victoria Falls and Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady).
Dinsdale Landen	In 1987 he played the lead in a BBC TV production of What the Butler Saw, playing Dr Prentice in a production also featuring Prunella Scales, Timothy West and Bryan Pringle.
Paul Wegener	In 1926 he appeared in his only Hollywood film, Rex Ingram's The Magician, in which he played the Aleister Crowley - esque Oliver Haddo in an adaptation of Somerset Maugham's story.
Jeremy Brett	Brett had previously played Doctor Watson on stage opposite Charlton Heston as Holmes in the 1980 Los Angeles production of The Crucifer of Blood, making him one of only four actors to play both Holmes and Watson professionally.
Anton Walbrook	One of his most unusual films, reuniting him with Dickinson, is The Queen of Spades (1949), an odd, Gothic thriller based on the Alexander Pushkin short story, in which he co-starred with Edith Evans.
Jon Finch	In 1977 Finch was the original choice for the role of'' Doyle'' taken by Martin Shaw in the British television series The Professionals (Shaw previously had played Banquo to Finch's Macbeth in Polanski's film).
Andrew Clarke (actor)	Andrew Clarke also appeared in the movie Les Patterson Saves The World in 1987 and portrayed Laurence Olivier in Blonde.
Henry Daniell	Daniell appeared as Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone - Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945).
Nicholas Amer	Amer had a part written specially for him by film director Terence Davies and played the elderly, ailing Mr Elton in The Deep Blue Sea (2011), which starred Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.
Roger Michell	In 1993, he directed the acclaimed BBC miniseries adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia, starring Naveen Andrews.
Michael Caine	In 1976 he appeared in the screen adaptation by Tom Mankiewicz of the Jack Higgins novel The Eagle Has Landed as Oberst (Colonel) Kurt Steiner, the commander of a Luftwaffe paratroop brigade disguised as Polish paratrooper s, whose mission was to kidnap or kill the then - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, alongside co-stars Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter and Donald Pleasence.
James Faulkner (actor)	In 1991, he played Alex Mair, the manager of the Larksoken nuclear power plant, in an Anglia production of the P. D. James novel featuring her character Inspector Adam Dalgleish, Devices and Desires.
Ewen Bremner	In 2005, he had a small role in the mini-series Elizabeth I as James VI, King of Scots.
Jack Cardiff	However, his 1960 adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers, starring Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller and Dean Stockwell, was a successful hit, critically and financially.
Michael Jayston	He appeared as Dornford Yates' gentleman hero Jonathan Mansel in the 1977 BBC adaptation of She Fell Among Thieves.
George C. Scott	He appeared opposite Laurence Olivier and Julie Harris in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory in a 1961 television production.
Rod Taylor	Also in 1963, Taylor had a leading role in the all-star cast of The V. I. P. s along with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Orson Welles and Maggie Smith.
Joanna Page	They both appeared in the 1999 BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield (Page as Dora Spenlow and Thornton as Ham Peggotty).
Michelle Pfeiffer	The following year, she played Countess Ellen Olenska in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (1993) opposite Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.
Jennifer Morrison	Paleyfest 2012 Her film projects that year included Big Stan alongside Rob Schneider, and The Murder of Princess Diana, a television movie based on the book of the same name by Noel Botham.
Honeysuckle Weeks	In 2008, she appeared as Harriet Pringle in the Radio 4 adaptation of Fortunes of War.
Bernard Mayes	Mayes's dramatic works include : Homer's Odyssey, the Agamemnon of Aeschylus and Plato's Phaedo, each adapted from the original Greek ; The Lord of the Rings a 1979 radio series in which he played the part of Gandalf ; and several of Dickens' novels.
Kevin McKidd	In the 2005 BBC drama, The Virgin Queen, he played Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
Tom Hollander	Hollander has lent his vocal talents to a number of roles for BBC radio including Mosca in 2004's Volpone for Radio 3, Frank Churchill in Jane Austen's Emma and as Mr Gently Benevolent in the Dickensian parody Bleak Expectations for Radio 4.
Anthony Howell (actor)	In 2010, he played Gordon Way in the BBC TV adaptation of Dirk Gently (which was loosely based upon the books by Douglas Adams).
Richard Mulligan	As for his radio work, he starred in the adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's'' The Oblong Box'' heard on The CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1975).
Madeleine Carroll	She made her final film for director Otto Preminger, The Fan, adapted from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, in 1949.
Stephen Fry	In 2003, Fry made his directorial début with Bright Young Things, adapted by him from Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies.
Jason Fuchs	The summer of 2012 also saw the televised premiere of Fuchs' Nickelodeon original TV movie musical,'' Rags (film)'', a revisionist take on the Cinderella tale starring Keke Palmer and Max Schneider.
Robert Newton	He also played Ancient Pistol in Laurence Olivier's 1944 film of Henry V and Lukey in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ; this performance was later immortalised in Harold Pinter's play Old Times.
Todd Lasance	In March 2010, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Lasance had signed on to co-star in the drama mini-series Cloudstreet, based on the Tim Winton novel of the same name, in which he played the role of Quick Lamb.
Michael J. Pollard	In 1959, at twenty, Pollard portrayed Homer McCauley, the dramatic lead, in a television adaptation of William Saroyan's novel, The Human Comedy, production narrated by Burgess Meredith.
Julius Hagen	Hagen also directed a film, the 1928 adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel The Passing of Mr. Quinn.
Laurence Olivier	In 1939, Olivier starred in a production of No Time for Comedy, written by S. N. Behrman, opposite Katharine Cornell ; it was his first prominent role on Broadway.
Dan Brown	In 2006 Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code was released as a film by Columbia Pictures, with director Ron Howard ; the film starred Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, Audrey Tautou as Sophie Neveu and Sir Ian McKellen as Sir Leigh Teabing.
Hugh Grant	During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grant balanced small roles on television with rare film work, which included a supporting role in The Dawning (1988), opposite Anthony Hopkins and Jean Simmons and a turn as Lord Byron in a Goya Award - winning Spanish production called Remando al viento (1988).
Stanley Baker	He went on to play two important roles in other Hollywood costume epics : Achilles in Helen of Troy (1956) and Attalus in Alexander the Great (1956) ; he also portrayed Rochester in a TV adaptation of Jane Eyre (1956).
Tom Pickard	In 1974, his television play Squire was broadcast by the BBC and starred his friend, the singer songwriter Alan Hull -- who wrote music for the play.
Betty Bobbitt	In 2004, Bobbitt made a brief uncredited appearance in the American television remake of the Stephen King classic, Salem's Lot, which also starred fellow Australian based actress and Prisoner cast member, Julia Blake.
Minnie Maddern Fiske	Fiske is perhaps most famous for starring as Becky Sharp in the original 1899 production of Langdon Mitchell's Becky Sharp, a play based on William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
LeVar Burton	LeVar Burton rose to fame in 1977 when he played Kunta Kinte in the ABC award-winning drama series Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley.
Andr? Morell	With Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, he played Arthur Conan Doyle's character Doctor John H. Watson, in Hammer Film Productions' version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (also 1959).
Barry Letts	He also appeared as Colonel Herncastle in the 1959 television adaptation of Wilkie Collins's novel The Moonstone.
Nancy Travis	Travis had the leading role of psychology professor Dr. Joyce Reardon in 2002's four-hour television adaptation of Stephen King's Rose Red.
Jeremy Irons	The role which brought him fame was that of Charles Ryder in the television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1981).
N. F. Simpson	His final series for television was the unsuccessful Charley's Grants (1970), co-written with John Fortune and John Wells, starring Hattie Jacques, and produced by Ian MacNaughton, the producer of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Mary Miller (actress)	Mary Miller first appeared on television in 1959 as Alice Chandler in episode one of the 6-part series The Golden Spur, alongside Ronald Fraser and Oliver Reed.
Stephanie Flanders	In 2009, Flanders played herself in a BBC Radio production of the Julian Gough short story The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble.
Jo Woodcock	She appeared as Celia Radley in Dorian Gray, the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 2009.
Colin Jeavons	He played'' with chilling authority'' in the words of writer David Stuart Davies, Professor Moriarty in The Baker Street Boys (1982), and'' with great panache'' Inspector Lestrade in the Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (featuring Jeremy Brett as Holmes).
Stephen Fry	Towards the end of 2003, Fry starred alongside John Bird in the television adaptation of Absolute Power, previously a radio series on BBC Radio 4.
Gorden Kaye	He played Dr Grant in a television adaptation of Mansfield Park and Lymoges, Duke of Austria in the 1984 BBC production of King John by Shakespeare.
John Moffatt (actor)	For the director Lindsay Anderson he appeared as George in Alan Bennett's 1979 television play The Old Crowd.
Matt Day	He has said that his favourite role of this period was the photographer Frank Hurley in the 2002 Channel 4 television film Shackleton, in which Kenneth Branagh played the title role.
Lane Smith	He also acted on television, notably playing a United States Marine in Vietnam in the television miniseries A Rumor of War and in the 1980 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie'' Gideon's Trumpet'' starring Henry Fonda, José Ferrer and John Houseman.
Angela Baddeley	In 1938, she appeared in King Vidor's film, The Citadel, an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel.
Guy Henry (actor)	Ironically, it was pre-cursored by his appearance -- again as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester - in the 1986 TV drama Lady Jane.
Ewen Bremner	In 2007, he played Robert Louis Stevenson in the BBC Four documentary Ian Rankin Investigates Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Suzanna Hamilton	In 1987, she played the spirited but careless Anglo-French SOE spy, Matty Firman, in Wish Me Luck -- an LWT miniseries, this one set in occupied France during World War II.
Emma Davies (actress)	In an interview on ITV's chat show Loose Women on 12 December 2008, Emma announced that she would be starring alongside Laurence Fox, Matthew Macfadyen and Sally Hawkins in ITV's version of E. M. Forster's classic novel, A Passage To India.
Simon Gipps-Kent	As Chad Boyer, he reunited with Devil's Crown actor John Duttine in his BBC series To Serve Them All My Days (1980), based on the R. F. Delderfield novel.
Adam Davy	At the age of 8 Adam joined the Mushey Pea Theatre Group formed by Humphrey Carpenter, creator of Mr Majeika, a series of children's books adapted for TV, which then premiered as a musical in 1995 at' The Shaw Theatre' in London with Adam playing the title role of the 60 year old magician at the age of 15.
Richard Conte	He also was featured in a leading role opposite Susan Hayward in the 1955 film production, I'll Cry Tomorrow, a biopic about singer/actress Lillian Roth.
Clint Eastwood	In 2011, Eastwood directed J. Edgar, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role.
Reese Witherspoon	In 2004, Witherspoon starred in Vanity Fair, adapted from the 19th-century classic novel Vanity Fair and directed by Mira Nair.
Bill Tarmey	Tarmey was an extra in the Granada TV adaptation of King Lear (1983) which starred Laurence Olivier in the title role.
John Hurt	In June 2009, Hurt played the on-screen Big Brother for Paper Zoo Theatre Company's production of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.