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Class of 2011: one year on… Last year’s Stars of Tomorrow are conquering the world. Fionnuala Halligan tracks them down
Actors 1 Vanessa Kirby is about to begin
work on The Necessary Death Of
Charlie Countryman opposite Shia LaBeouf, before starting work on Rich- ard Curtis’ About Time. Once that has wrapped, Kirby will return to the stage, playing Masha in the Young Vic’s pro- duction of Three Sisters. Joshua Bowman has wrapped film-
ing on the first series of Revenge for CBS in the US, one of the hottest new shows on US television which is currently being retransmitted on E4 in the UK.
2 After being nominated for the pres- tigious Ian Charleson award this
year for his work on A Woman Killed By Kindness, Sebastian Armesto will be back at the National Theatre later this
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year leading the cast in a production of Tirso de Molina’s Damned By Despair, adapted by Frank McGuinness. Armesto will also appear in the five-part TV drama Parade’s End, adapted by Tom Stoppard from Ford Madox Ford’s nov- els, and directed by Susanna White. Georgia King went straight into shoot-
ing Austenland, and has just filmed the lead role in Ryan Murphy’s (Glee) pilot for NBC, The New Normal, alongside Ellen Barkin, playing an American (King got the part without Murphy realising she was English). John Boyega played a young Mike
Tyson in Da Brick and stars opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton and Joseph Mawle in Biyi Bandele’s adapta- tion of Half A Yellow Sun, shot on loca- tion in Nigeria.
Alexandra Roach is finishing work
on Anna Karenina for Joe Wright, play- ing the role of Countess Nordstrom. She also starred in Private Peaceful for Pat O’Connor, and director Iain Softley’s Trap For Cinderella, all due out this year.
3 Phoebe Fox is currently shooting the lead role in Switch, a new series
from the Being Human team, in which she plays a witch. After that, Fox will play Cordelia to Jonathan Pryce’s Lear at the Almeida Theatre in London. Antonia Campbell-Hughes is well
on her way to being the UK’s indie queen. Straight after Stars of Tomorrow 2011, she shot Storage24, which hits cinemas this June, and followed it up with the lead in Kelly + Victor. Her big- gest part, though, was playing Natascha
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