STARS OF TOMORROW ACTORS
KARLA CROME (PICTURED PREVIOUS PAGE) “She is really special,” says one of the UK’s leading casting directors of the 23-year-old actress Karla Crome. Special enough to land the coveted lead in the BBC2 drama Murder, directed by The Killing’s Birger Larsen. “It’s a direct-to-camera piece, almost,” says Crome of the hard-won role. “He just puts the camera on you and clears the room, it’s amazing.” Crome is from a determinedly
non-showbiz family — her mother is a nurse and her father a plumber — and she studied at London’s Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and was part of the National Youth The- atre, for which she wrote the play If Chloe Can, which was staged at Lon- don’s Lyric Theatre. In addition to Murder, Crome can
currently be seen as Mia, the 16-year-old caretaker of hit-man/ woman Chloe Sevigny’s extended family in Sky Atlantic/Red Produc- tion Company’s Hit And Miss. The actress is now shooting the
next series of TV drama Misfits. She plans to continue writing to flesh out the acting gigs. “In the last year, it has all blown up,” she admits. “Until then, the work came in and out and it was never as consistent as it is now. Things definitely seem to be changing.” Contact Michael Duff, Troika Talent +44 (0) 20 7336 7868
michael@troikatalent.com
DANIEL RIGBY It has been a fast and furious year for talented actor and stand-up-comic Daniel Rigby. After winning a TV Bafta for his role as the young Eric Morecambe in the well-received drama Eric And Ernie, Rigby started out in the role of Alan Dangle in Nicholas Hytner’s production of One Man, Two Guvnors at the National Theatre. It has become a runaway success that played to packed houses, transferred to the West End, and finds itself a Tony award-winner on Broadway. “It’s going brilliantly,” he says
from New York. “If anything, the reaction here has been even more effusive than in the UK. Now we just have to wait and see if people buy tickets.”
n 24 Screen International June-July 2012 Daniel Rigby “I was at a low point in my life,”
he recalls. “I had lost my job at the community centre. I was on my arse. I had nothing.” Laverty pushed and so did Craw-
ford. “He has a presence,” she says. “He has a twinkle and the camera loves him. He has a complete will- ingness to do what he needs to do, to leave his doubts at the door. Paul has seen one side of the world and he’s really not scared about things.” Brannigan has not hesitated for a
Rigby may be on Broadway for a
while yet but the 29-year-old gradu- ate of the Royal Academy of Dra- matic Art (RADA) has never had “a grand plan — I like to take things as they come”. He would, however, like to return
at some point to his stand-up and writing, something which has been on the back burner with nightly per- formances of his show. “Winning the Bafta felt like things have changed, but I’ve been in the show since then so I can’t really say,” he says. “It will be interesting to see what happens next.”
Contact Lydia Hampson, PBJ Management +44 (0) 20 7287 1112
Lydia@pbjmanagement.co.uk
PAUL BRANNIGAN Glasgow-born Paul Brannigan shares a lot with Robbie, the young man he plays in Ken Loach’s Cannes jury prize-winner The Angels’ Share. They have both experienced diffi- cult times, including a fractured childhood and a stint in prison; they have both got that broad, broad Glaswegian accent; and they both have an uncanny ability to turn things around. Since coming out of jail in 2007,
25-year-old Brannigan has worked on community youth programmes tackling a range of subjects from alcohol awareness to knife crime, often engaging his students in role play. That is where Loach’s collabo- rator, Paul Laverty, found him. But Brannigan took some coaxing into auditions with casting director Kahl- een Crawford.
second since. After The Angels’ Share comes a role in Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin with Scarlett Johans- son. “I’m raring to go now,” he says. Contact Olivia Woodward, Curtis Brown +44 (0) 20 7393 4484
woodwardoffice@curtisbrown.co.uk
ASHLEY THOMAS Ashley Thomas — aka Bashy — has three films coming out this year, to complete his full set of showbiz cre- dentials. Born in London, the 27-year-old Thomas was fixated on theatre as a kid, studied it to GCSE level and attended the BRIT School. Then music came to the fore, with Thomas’ natural talent for hip hop and grime emerging to make a big impact in the UK, in particular with his 2007 track ‘Black Boys’ and album Catch Me If You Can. Thomas then moved to the big
screen, starting out in Shank in 2010. This year should see him make a real impact on that front, with key roles in Cockneys Vs Zom- bies and My Brother The Devil, and the lead in boxing drama The Man Inside opposite Peter Mullan, due out in the autumn via Kaleidoscope. Thomas is now writing a screen-
play and working on new material for a potential album, and an EP is coming out this summer. “Not many people have over-
night success,” he notes. “It is a lot of hard work. People ask me which would I sacrifice, film, music, thea- tre, if I had to. My answer is none. I’ll sacrifice sleep as opposed to any of them. I love them all the same, in different ways.”
Contact Deborah Wiley, Independent Talent Group +44 (0) 20 7636 6565 deborahwilley@independenttalent.
com
LENORA CRICHLOW Lenora Crichlow sprints onto the big screen in this month’s Fast Girls, an enjoyable pre-Olympic UK ‘girl power’ feature most notable for the warmth of her presence as its lead. Off-screen, however, it has been a long-distance effort for this native Londoner. Playing lonely ghost Annie in the
BBC3 supernatural drama/comedy Being Human has won Crichlow some devoted fans, while other tele- vision roles have gained her atten- tion including the part of Sugar in the adaptation of Julie Burchill’s Sugar Rush, and she had a central role in the expensive BBC drama Material Girls. Having just wrapped Doors Open,
a TV film based on the Ian Rankin novel and co-starring Stephen Fry, it is now time for 27-year-old Crichlow to act out her ambitions on a bigger stage. Trained at the YoungBlood Theatre Company at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios, Crichlow has been with her agent since he spotted her in a school play aged 11. “I have always performed,” she
says. “It is what I did as a kid. There’s footage of me aged two, dressing up and putting on a show. And it’s all I want to do now. I don’t want to limit myself. I want to do more big-screen work. I’m open to opportunities and we’ll see what happens.”
Contact Andrew Braidford, The BWH Agency
+44 (0) 20 7734 0657
andrew@thebwhagency.co.uk
IAIN DE CAESTECKER “I don’t think too far ahead,” says 24-year-old Scotland-born Iain de Caestecker (the name signals his father’s Belgian ancestry). But the future is looking good for the actor who has had an agent since he was spotted in drama class as a child. With four eagerly anticipated UK
films out shortly, from art film Shell, directed by former Star of Tomorrow Scott Graham, to Jeremy Lovering’s thriller In Fear, as well as roles in Filth, based on Irvine Welsh’s novel, and black comedy The Comedian, De Caestecker is now making the move from TV to film. You may have seen him as the
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