title: Bridgerton

text: Anthony Bridgerton and Simon Basset meet in the real-life Reform Club on Pall Mall in central London. The scene in which Lady Featherington takes Marina to the slums was filmed at Chatham Dockyard in Kent. Boxing scenes were also filmed here in addition to Normansfield Theatre in Teddington. Theatre scenes were filmed at the Hackney Empire. A café in Bath, Pickled Greens, was used as the site of the Modiste shop and the Bathrooms at No.5 store on Trim Street became the site of Gunter's Tea Shop.


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text: The costuming was led by Ellen Mirojnick and involved over two hundred people and five months of preparation to create 5,000 costumes.


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text: Production on the second season began in March 2021. In May 2021, it was reported that the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead refused permission to build a film set for the second season in Sunninghill Park near Windsor, despite royal approval. On July 15, 2021, production on the second season was paused for 24 hours when a crew member tested positive for COVID-19, but resumed the following day. However, on July 17, production was halted indefinitely following a second positive test. Production resumed in August 2021. Production for the second season wrapped on November 20, 2021.


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text: New filming locations for season 2 included Wrotham Park (standing in for the Bridgertons' country home Aubrey Hall); West Wycombe Park (Aubrey Hall interior and the Crane estate); Wrest Park and Ivinghoe Beacon (the Orangery and Aubrey Hall grounds); the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club (Royal Ascot); Old Royal Naval College; Windsor Great Park (woods scenes); Goldsmiths' Hall (Buckingham palace throne room); and Wilton's Music Hall (feminist meeting place). The real St James's Church is in the series. The art display at Petworth House was used for the museum scene, with Royal Artillery Barracks used as the exterior. The finale ball was filmed at Basildon Park.


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text: American composer and pianist Kris Bowers composed and arranged the score for the series. Bowers wrote and composed the first season's soundtrack, featuring nineteen songs. Musicians recorded the score remotely from their home studios during the COVID-19 pandemic.


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text: The first season featured orchestral covers of contemporary popular music, which director and executive producer Julie Anne Robinson said was inspired by the use of classic rock songs in the 2001 film "A Knight's Tale". Songs featured included Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next", Maroon 5's "Girls Like You", Shawn Mendes's "In My Blood" and Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy", all four of which performed by Vitamin String Quartet. Also included are Celeste's "Strange" performed by Bowers, and Taylor Swift's "Wildest Dreams" performed by Duomo. Bowers also included modern interpretations of classical music, such as Bach's Cello Suite No. 6 in D major from Peter Gregson's "" and Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" from Max Richter's "". The first season also included JPOLND's "The End" which has a "swingy melody but intense lyrics".


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text: In the second season, covers include Nirvana's "Stay Away" and Robyn's "Dancing On My Own" by Vitamin String Quartet, Madonna's "Material Girl", "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham" from the soundtrack of the film of the same name and Calvin Harris' "How Deep Is Your Love" by Bowers. Also included are Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" and Pink's "What About Us" by Duomo, Harry Styles' "Sign of the Times" by Steve Horner, Rihanna's "Diamonds" by Hannah V and Joe Rodwell and Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" by Midnight String Quartet. To promote the show, Morisette appeared in a video performing "You Oughta Know" with Duomo. When discussing the music of season two, music supervisor Justin Kramps explained that "even for these songs that are just huge songs that everyone knows, [an instrumental version] still breathes new life and brings them to a new audience, and in a different way. Pop is where we start, because it fits the style of the show, and it's often using these super-recognizable songs that just add a lot of joy, which is what pop does in general."


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text: The eight episodes of the first season of "Bridgerton" began streaming on Netflix on December 25, 2020.


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text: A preview of a scene from season 2 aired during Netflix's September 2021 "TUDUM: Extended Talent Panel," which was followed by first look stills. On February 14, 2022, the first teaser trailer for the second season was released. A world premiere was held at Tate Modern on March 22, 2022, in London, England prior to the season's eight episodes being released on March 25, 2022.


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text: Due to a three-month commitment as the lead in the acclaimed West End play "Cock", Jonathan Bailey had missed "press, talk shows, FYC events, and even the Met Gala" as part of the show's promotion.


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text: For the first season, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 87% based on 99 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Sumptuous design, soapy drama, and a sterling cast make "Bridgerton" a delightful treat." Metacritic gave the series a weighted average score of 75 out of 100 based on 34 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."


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text: Kristen Baldwin of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the series a B+ and wrote, ""Bridgerton", it seems, is a wonderful diversion for those who love "Pride & Prejudice" but wish it had more stairway sex." Richard Roeper of "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the series four out of four stars and called it "A show that will give you that unmistakable binge twinge and have you activating that "Next Episode" time and again, until there are no more "Next Episodes"." "British GQ" described "Bridgerton" as a cross between "Downton Abbey" and "Gossip Girl", but noted that it "may just end up being another disappointment" and "it could have been brilliant." Salamishah Tillet of "The New York Times" said "Bridgerton provides a blueprint for British period shows in which Black characters can thrive within the melodramatic story lines, extravagant costumes and bucolic beauty [...] without having to be servants or enslaved." Erum Salam of "Cosmopolitan" wrote "I kept wanting more. I wanted more explanations of how race factored into this society..." Carolyn Hinds from "The Observer" stated ""Bridgerton" has been praised as a racially diverse show set in the Regency Era". "Vanity Fair" Caroline Framke describes the sex in the series "isn't altogether shocking material for Shondaland to mine for its first drama series absent broadcast restraints."


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text: The first season's 6th episode drew criticism with regard to the non consensual nature of Simon and Daphne's lovemaking, which amounted to marital rape. The episode depicts Daphne, while having sex with Simon, changing her position to be on top, not letting Simon pull out of her when he climaxes despite his objections. Described as one of the toxic plot points of their relationship, it further drew scrutiny due to the fact that the deceit was never addressed as sexual assault in the series. Critics pointed out that it failed to acknowledge the difficulties of male victims of rape, and the further fetishisation of black men in media.


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text: For the second season, Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 78% based on 89 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critics consensus states, "The risqué thrill may have faded, but "Bridgerton" remains a compulsive episode-turner in this delightful sophomore season." Metacritic gave the series a weighted average score of 70 out of 100 based on 32 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."


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text: Kristen Baldwin of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the series an A- writing, "With a second season that's more clever, moving, and emotionally complex than the first, this period drama... proves that it's not just a titillating trifle." "The Hollywood Reporter"'s Angie Hahn echoed the sentiment describing the season as "older and wiser" than its predecessor's "rampant horniness" with an effective central romance that prioritized "a meeting of minds, played out over quick-witted arguments outside ballrooms and vicious competition during a friendly family game of pall-mall." Peter Travers of ABC praised the season writing, "Kudos to season two for digging deeper into the emotional lives of its characters and continuing the colorblind casting that creates a utopia in which diversity is so ingrained it's hardly worth a mention."


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text: Alison Herman of The Ringer commented that Season 1 is "sexy without quite being erotic" while "Season 2 is the reverse. There's not a lot of sex, but in the crackling chemistry and relentless self-denial that defines Anthony and Kate's dynamic, there's plenty of eroticism." Emma Clarke of "The Independent" argued that, "it is precisely the lack of physicality that makes this season (of the show and of courtship) so... well, sexy." Scott Bryan of the BBC wrote that the season serves as antidote to the "always static, laboured and slow" period dramas, adding that it comes with "real energy, it feels so modern (even though it is set in the past) and even though it feels extravagant, it doesn't feel too highbrow. It is refreshingly accessible."


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text: Kevin Fallon of "The Daily Beast" elaborating on Bailey's "exquisite lead performance," wrote that "he has an exceptional ability to carry his angst, pain, and guilt with him without bogging down things into a somber drag." "The Telegraph"' s Anita Singh wrote that Bailey "brings more soul to the role of Lord Bridgerton than Page ever did with the Duke," with Randy Myers of "Mercury News" adding that Bailey "has a gift at comedic timing." Proma Khosla of Mashable concluded that with "Bailey and Ashley, "Bridgerton" Season 2 strikes gold" as they deliver "heaping, smoldering helpings of sexual tension" for "their chemistry is nothing short of explosive."


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text: On January 27, 2021, Netflix announced that 82 million households have watched at least two minutes of the season amounting to 625,490,000 million hours viewed. It was the most-watched original series launch on the service at the time of its premiere, prior to being surpassed by "Squid Game" in October 2021. Caroline Framke of "Variety" attributed this huge viewership to "the perfect storm of a perfectly timed premiere (Christmas Day of 2020), providing silly and sexy entertainment after the first terrible year of COVID."


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text: Season 2 amassed 193 million viewing hours in its opening weekend, the highest opening for any English-language Netflix series at the time. It also broke the record for most viewed English-language series in a single week at that time, with 251.74 million viewing hours from March 28 to April 3. The first season also re-entered Netflix's top ten in second place. By April 19, "Bridgerton"s second season had overtaken its predecessor as the most watched English-language television series on Netflix at the time with 627.11 million hours viewed since its March 25, 2022 launch. This viewing numbers went up to 656.16 million by the 28-day mark.


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text: Nielsen Media Research, analyzing the 2.55 billion minutes viewed on United States television screens in the first three days of season 2's availability (double all others across streamers for the week of March 21), characterized "Bridgerton"'s audience as "diverse and broad". The firm found one third of viewers to be Hispanic or African American and an even split in popularity across the 18–34, 35–49, and 50–64 age groups at 25% each. The only exception was gender parity with 76% of the audience reported to be female. It added 3.2 billion minutes viewed in its second week on top of the chart. It topped the chart for a third week with 1.6 billion minutes viewed.


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text: Chris Van Dusen has said that the show "is a reimagined world, we're not a history lesson, it's not a documentary. What we're really doing with the show is marrying history and fantasy in what I think is a very exciting way. One approach that we took to that is our approach to race." The Bridgerton family, Lady Whistledown and most of the other characters in the show are fictional.


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text: The theory that Queen Charlotte may have had African ancestry has been called an unhistorical assertion by most scholars. In an interview with "Insider" magazine, American historian Marlene Koenig said the show's representation of Regency-era London was more diverse than it was in reality, adding that "diversity as we know what the word means did not exist" in Britain during that period. Some classical music pieces used in the first season were composed later than 1813, the year of the first season. Examples include Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2, which was written in 1938 and "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" from Jacques Offenbach's 1881 opera "The Tales of Hoffmann".


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text: Fashion and interior design trends influenced or made popular by the series have been dubbed "Regencycore" or "the Bridgerton effect". "Lyst" reported an increase in searches for items such as corsets, headpieces, and elbow-length gloves after the series' premiere. The series' female leads Daphne and Kate were also linked to a popularity in the colours sky blue and lilac respectively. In 2021, Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear wrote a concept album based on characters and situations in season 1 of the series titled "The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical"; it won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. After the two presented the songs from the album live in concert at the Kennedy Center in July 2022, Netflix sued them for copyright infringement.


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text: To ring in the second season, an official "Queen's Ball" was held in Washington DC, Chicago, Montréal, and Los Angeles, with similar events and experiences taking place in London and Johannesburg. Bloomingdale's put together a "Bridgerton"-themed pop-up collection and tea bar, displaying real costumes from the series in the U.S. for the first time in its 59th Street windows.


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text: After season 2 featured the main characters playing pall-mall, a lawn game considered to be the precursor to croquet, retailer John Lewis reported a 90% rise in sales for croquet sets. There was also a notable increase in internet searches and purchases of tiaras and corsets after season two's premiere.


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text: Walking tours of the filming locations of the series have also been created, including an official one by Netflix. Castle Howard also has an exhibition titled "Castle Howard on Screen: From Brideshead to Bridgerton" on location which opened in May 2022.


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text: The 33rd season finale episode of "The Simpsons" on May 22, 2022, featured Marge and her friends watching a period drama called "Tunnelton" with a Lady Whistledown-sounding narrator, and a character emerging drenched from a lake, like Anthony in the fifth episode of the second season.


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text: In May 2021, Netflix ordered a limited prequel series from Shondaland which will focus on young Queen Charlotte, a character who does not appear in the "Bridgerton" novels. Rhimes will write the spin-off and serve as executive producer alongside Betsy Beers and Tom Verica.


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text: Rosheuvel, Andoh, Gemmell, and Fleet will reprise their roles, while India Amarteifio, Michelle Fairley, Corey Mylchreest, and Arsema Thoma were cast, together with Connie Jenkins-Greig who will play young Violet. A novelization of the series written by Rhimes and Quinn will be released by Avon Books in 2023.


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text: In April 2022, it was reported that production designer Dave Arrowsmith was fired from the series following allegations of abusive behavior and bullying on set. In September 2022, Netflix announced that "Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story" would be the title for the series and also released the first look.


title: Emily Blunt

text: Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards. "Forbes" ranked her as one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2020.


title: Emily Blunt

text: Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of "The Royal Family". She went on to appear in the television film "Boudica" (2003) and portrayed Queen Catherine Howard in the miniseries "Henry VIII" (2003). She made her feature film debut in the drama "My Summer of Love" (2004). Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film "Gideon's Daughter" and the comedy-drama film "The Devil Wears Prada". The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.


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text: Blunt's profile continued to grow with leading roles in the period film "The Young Victoria" (2009), the romantic comedy "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" (2011), the science fiction films "The Adjustment Bureau" (2011), "Looper" (2012), and "Edge of Tomorrow" (2014), and the musical films "Into the Woods" (2014) and "Mary Poppins Returns" (2018). She received critical acclaim for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film "Sicario" (2015), an alcoholic in the thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and a survivalist mother in the horror film "A Quiet Place" (2018), for which she won the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since starred in the sequel "A Quiet Place Part II" (2021) and the western television miniseries "The English" (2022).


title: Emily Blunt

text: Emily Olivia Leah Blunt was born on 23 February 1983 in the London Borough of Wandsworth, the second of four children born to Joanna, a former actress and teacher, and barrister Oliver Blunt, QC. Her siblings are Felicity, Sebastian, and Susannah. Her grandfather was Major General Peter Blunt, and one of her paternal uncles is Crispin Blunt, Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate.


title: Emily Blunt

text: From age seven to 14, Blunt had difficulties with stuttering. She credits a school teacher for helping her manage the stutter through acting. She went on to sit on the board of directors for the American Institute for Stuttering. Blunt attended Ibstock Place School in Roehampton, southwest London and, at age 16, went to Hurtwood House near Dorking, Surrey, a private sixth form college known for its performing arts programme. There, she was discovered and signed by an agent.


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text: In November 2001, Blunt made her professional debut in Peter Hall's production of the play "The Royal Family", in which she played the role of the granddaughter Gwen to Judi Dench's Fanny Cavendish. Critic Tom Keatinge hailed the production, writing that "Peter Hall's direction and Anthony Ward's tremendous set combine with all this to make "The Royal Family" a terrific night's entertainment", and that "it provides a vehicle for acting of the finest quality, with strong performances from the whole ensemble". For her performance, Blunt was named "Best Newcomer" by the "Evening Standard". She went on to perform as Eugenie in Nicholas Wright's "Vincent in Brixton" at the National Theatre, and as Juliet in Indhu Rubasingham's production of "Romeo and Juliet" at Chichester Festival Theatre, both in 2002. In 2003, Blunt made her screen debut in the British television drama "Boudica", about the life of the ancient Celtic warrior-queen who fought the Romans. That same year, she was praised for her performance as the 16th-century Queen Catherine Howard in the two-part British television drama "Henry VIII".


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text: In 2004, Blunt received considerable attention for her performance as Tamsin in the independent British drama "My Summer of Love", a love story revolving around two young women from different socioeconomic backgrounds in the English countryside. Director Paweł Pawlikowski gave high praise to Blunt and co-star Natalie Press, stating in an interview that "Both Natalie and Emily were extremely different and very original, which is a rare thing nowadays. They avoid the obvious, and are capable of playing complex and conflicting attitudes. Above all, they had energy, which is key for a movie." James Berardinelli of "ReelViews" praised the film, calling it a "gem" lost in the "hype" of Hollywood blockbusters, and noted that "Both Natalie Press and Emily Blunt [...] are superlative. They nail their cinematic alter-egos effortlessly, using verbal and non-verbal cues to tap into their emotions. They understand their characters and use their talents to bring them to life." She shared the "Evening Standard" British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer with Press. In 2004, prior to "My Summer of Love", she played Linnet Ridgeway in the episode "Death on the Nile" of the series "Agatha Christie's Poirot".


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text: Blunt starred in the British television drama "Gideon's Daughter", based on an original screenplay written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, where she played the troubled only child of New Labour spin doctor Gideon Warner. The film premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2005, and debuted on British television in February 2006. The drama was praised for its overall "sterling performances," and Blunt won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.


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text: She then featured in the comedy-drama "The Devil Wears Prada", set in the fashion world in New York City. Blunt played Emily, the senior assistant of "Runway" magazine editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly. The film was a commercial and critical success, grossing $326 million. Blunt's performance was praised, with Clifford Pugh of the "Houston Chronicle" asserting that "[Blunt] has many of the movie's best lines and steals nearly every scene she's in." Blunt was nominated the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance. She attended the 79th Academy Awards where she co-presented the award for best costume design with co-star Anne Hathaway, with both acting as their characters from the film. Blunt then appeared in the independent mystery drama "Irresistible".


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text: Blunt's profile continued to rise, and in 2007, she appeared in four films: the horror film "Wind Chill", the romantic drama "The Jane Austen Book Club", the comedy-drama "Dan in Real Life", and the biographical comedy-drama "Charlie Wilson's War". In 2008, Blunt appeared in two films, "Sunshine Cleaning" in the role of Norah Lorkowski, an underachiever who starts a crime-scene clean-up business with her sister Rose. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews, particularly for Adams' and Blunt's performances. Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" magazine commented "This funny and touching movie depends on two can-do actresses to scrub past the biohazard of noxious clichés that threaten to intrude. Adams and Blunt get the job done." A. O. Scott of "The New York Times" agreed, stating "Amy Adams and Emily Blunt [...] attack their roles with vivacity and dedication..." She then starred in "The Great Buck Howard" as Valerie Brennan, which premiered at the same festival.


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text: In 2009, Blunt portrayed Queen Victoria in the independent period drama "The Young Victoria", directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and written by Julian Fellowes, which focused primarily on her early life and reign, as well as her marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Blunt admitted to having little prior knowledge of the Queen, but after consulting her mother, found her to be "remarkable" and "a very 21st century sort of woman." Blunt's performance earned critical accolades, and she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, among others. Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" concluded that "Director Jean-Marc Vallée's images have a creamy stateliness, but this is no gilded princess fantasy – it's the story of a budding ruler who learns to control her surroundings, and Blunt makes that journey at once authentic and relevant." That same year, Blunt received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year.


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text: She starred in the Toby Spanton–directed short film "Curiosity". She also voiced Matilda Mouseling, the mother of the titular character, in the television series "". In 2010, Blunt co-starred in the horror film "The Wolfman", a re-adaptation of the classic 1941 film of the same name. The film received mainly negative reviews, and according to the "Los Angeles Times", was one of the largest box-office failures of all time. Her performance in the thriller "The Adjustment Bureau" (2011) fared better: in the film, Blunt played a dancer who is "being mysteriously kept apart" from a politician. The film earned generally positive reviews, with critics praising Blunt and co-star Matt Damon's chemistry.


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text: In 2011, Blunt starred in the British romantic comedy-drama "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen", directed by Lasse Hallström. She played a financial adviser who recruits a fisheries expert to help realise a sheikh's vision of bringing the sport of fly fishing to the Yemen desert, resulting in a spiritual journey for both in the process. The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, receiving positive reviews, as did Blunt's performance. Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" noted "Blunt and [co-star Ewan McGregor] are two of the most gifted and attractive actors working today, able to play off each other with great style..." Blunt was nominated the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her performance. Also that year, she made a cameo appearance in Disney's "The Muppets", as Miss Piggy's receptionist, and starred in the independent comedy-drama "Your Sister's Sister." In November 2011, Blunt was named the ambassador of the new Yves Saint Laurent fragrance Opium.


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text: In 2012, Blunt starred in the romantic comedy "The Five-Year Engagement", directed by Nicholas Stoller and co-starring Jason Segel, in which she and Segel played a couple whose relationship becomes strained when their engagement is continually extended. The film earned positive reviews, with Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York "Daily" News remarking that "Blunt has never been more relaxed, and she and Segel have a believably warm chemistry." She then starred in "Looper", a science fiction action film directed by Rian Johnson. Blunt played Sara, a tough farm woman and single mother, who aids and falls in love with a time-traveller. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where it served as the opening film, and earned highly positive feedback. Todd McCarthy of "The Hollywood Reporter" credited Blunt for "effectively [revealing] Sara's tough and vulnerable sides." Also that year, she starred in the comedy-drama "Arthur Newman" as the troubled Charlotte, who is trying to run away from her past. The film received generally mixed to negative reviews.


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text: In 2014, Blunt starred in "Edge of Tomorrow", a film adaptation of the Japanese novel "All You Need Is Kill", written by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Blunt played Sergeant Rita Vrataski, a Special Forces warrior tasked with training a public relations officer to defeat invading extraterrestrials. Blunt trained three months for her role, "focusing on everything from weights to sprints to yoga, aerial wire work and gymnastics", and studying Krav Maga. The film was commercially successful, grossing $370,541,256, and earned positive reviews. Many critics took note of the atypically dominating role portrayed by Blunt, and Justin Chang of "Variety" noted that "Blunt is alert, energized and emotionally present in a none-too-taxing role." For her performance, Blunt won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie. A sequel is currently in development, with Blunt expected to reprise her role.


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text: Blunt then played the role of the Baker's Wife in The Walt Disney Company's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Into the Woods", directed by Rob Marshall and featuring an ensemble cast. Ironically, Blunt was pregnant throughout filming, while playing a character who is barren throughout the film's first act. The film was a commercial success and earned generally positive reviews, with Blunt earning praise for her acting and singing. Lou Lumenick of the "New York Post" felt it was one of the best female performances of the year, while Richard Corliss of "Time" remarked that "When Blunt is onscreen, these woods are alive with the magic of a fractured fairy tale..." She was nominated for her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her performance.


title: Emily Blunt

text: In 2015, Blunt starred in the crime thriller "Sicario", directed by Denis Villeneuve. Blunt played Kate Macer, a principled FBI agent assigned to take down the leader of a powerful Mexican drug cartel. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it received critical acclaim. Blunt received considerable praise for her performance, with Dan Jolin of "Empire" magazine calling it "nuanced", and stating that "Her straight-arrow-sharp determination becomes painfully dulled," and while Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" found her character implausible, he praised Blunt for "[brazening] out any possible absurdity with great acting focus and front." Blunt was nominated for her second consecutive Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie.


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text: In 2016, Blunt co-starred in "", which serves as both a prequel and sequel to "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012). The film, directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, was a box-office bomb and was mostly dismissed by critics. Blunt then headlined the mystery thriller "The Girl on the Train", directed by Tate Taylor. Based on Paula Hawkins' best-selling novel of the same name, Blunt played Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who becomes involved in a missing person's investigation. While the film overall received mixed reviews from critics, who felt it failed to live up to the novel, Blunt's performance earned considerable praise. Writing for "Rolling Stone", Peter Travers remarked that "the movie gives away the game faster than the novel," but credited Blunt for "playing the hell out of [her character] and adding a touch of welcome empathy. [She] digs into the role like an actress possessed – there's not an ounce of vanity here, [and she] raise[s] "Girl" to the level of spellbinder." For her performance in the film, she received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and Screen Actors Guild Award (SAG) for Outstanding Female Actor.


title: Emily Blunt

text: After providing her voice for the 2017 animated films "" and "Animal Crackers", Blunt made her return to live action in husband John Krasinski's horror film "A Quiet Place", which follows a family being tormented by monstrous creatures that hunt by sound. Neither Krasinski nor Blunt had initially planned for Blunt to co-star in the film with him, but upon reading the script, she persuaded him to cast her. "A Quiet Place" served as the opening night film at the 2018 South by Southwest film festival, where it received critical acclaim; Eric Kohn of IndieWire lauded the cast for "contribut[ing] credible intensity to their scenes with a degree of sophistication rare for this type of material," while Laura Prudom of IGN remarked that, "Blunt, in particular, is put through the wringer in ways that would seem almost farcical, if she didn't play them with such compelling conviction."


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text: That same year, Blunt played the title character in Rob Marshall's musical fantasy film "Mary Poppins Returns". It served as a sequel to the 1964 film, with Blunt taking over the role from Julie Andrews. Owen Gleiberman of "Variety" found Blunt to be "practically perfect in every way" and added that she "inhabits Mary Poppins' snappishly entrancing spirit, and in the musical numbers she generates her own spit-spot radiance." She received two SAG nominations for her performances in "A Quiet Place" and "Mary Poppins Returns", winning Best Supporting Actress for the former, and she also received her sixth Golden Globe nomination for the latter.


title: Emily Blunt

text: In 2020, Blunt guest starred in her husband's web series "Some Good News", which began streaming on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic. She starred in the romantic drama "Wild Mountain Thyme"based on John Patrick Shanley's play "Outside Mullingar". The part required her to sport an Irish accent; both the film and her accent were not well received. In the same year, "Forbes" ranked her as the sixth highest-paid actress in the world, with annual earnings of $22.5 million.


title: Emily Blunt

text: Blunt reprised her role in the horror sequel "A Quiet Place Part II" (2021), which was released after a year-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It became one of the first major Hollywood films to be released theatrically since the beginning of the pandemic. Peter Bradshaw bemoaned that the "excellent" Blunt did not have more screen time. As with the first film, it also emerged as a commercial success. Later that year, Blunt starred in the adventure film "Jungle Cruise", based on the eponymous amusement ride. It was released simultaneously in theatres and digitally on Disney+ Premier Access. Jeannette Catsoulis of "The New York Times" disliked the picture and opined that "not even Emily Blunt, doing her best Katharine Hepburn impression, can keep this leaky boat ride afloat".


title: Emily Blunt

text: The following year, Blunt played an avenging mother in the television miniseries "The English", a western from Hugo Blick. Critics were impressed with the performances of Blunt and her co-star Chaske Spencer. Lucy Mangan of "The Guardian" opined, "Blunt is at her best yet, giving us a woman made brave and undauntable by resolve".


title: Emily Blunt

text: Blunt will next portray Katherine Oppenheimer opposite Cillian Murphy's J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's biographical film "Oppenheimer". She will star in David Yates's crime drama film "Pain Hustlers" for Netflix, and in David Leitch's action film "The Fall Guy".


title: Emily Blunt

text: Blunt had a three-year relationship with Canadian singer Michael Bublé. They met in 2005, while backstage at the Australian television Logie Awards in Melbourne. They later shared a home in Vancouver, British Columbia, before breaking up in 2008.


title: Emily Blunt

text: In November 2008, Blunt began dating American actor John Krasinski. They became engaged in August 2009, and married on 10 July 2010 in Como, Italy. They reside in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of New York City, and have two daughters, one born in 2014 and the other in 2016.


title: Emily Blunt

text: In August 2015, Blunt became a naturalised citizen of the United States. She took dual citizenship in the United States, suggesting the status helped her tax situation, but that she feels "conflicted" about it.


title: Emily Blunt

text: According to the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes and the box office site Box Office Mojo, Blunt's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful films include "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006), "Looper" (2012), "Edge of Tomorrow" (2014), "Into the Woods" (2014), "Sicario" (2015), "The Girl on the Train" (2016), "A Quiet Place" (2018), "Mary Poppins Returns" (2018), and "A Quiet Place Part II" (2021).


title: Daniel Craig

text: Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English-American actor who gained international fame playing the secret agent James Bond in the film series, beginning with "Casino Royale" (2006) and in four further instalments, up to "No Time to Die" (2021).


title: Daniel Craig

text: After training at the National Youth Theatre in London and graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, Craig began his career on stage. He made his film debut in the drama "The Power of One" (1992) and the family film "A Kid in King Arthur's Court" (1995), with his breakthrough role coming in the drama serial "Our Friends in the North" (1996). He gained prominence for his supporting roles in films such as "Elizabeth" (1998), "" (2001), "Road to Perdition" (2002), "Layer Cake" (2004), and "Munich" (2005).


title: Daniel Craig

text: In 2006, he played James Bond in "Casino Royale", a reboot of the Bond franchise which was favourably received by critics and earned Craig a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. His non-Bond appearances since then include roles in the fantasy film "The Golden Compass" (2007), the drama "Defiance" (2008), the science fiction Western "Cowboys & Aliens" (2011), the mystery thriller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011), and the heist film "Logan Lucky" (2017). For his performance as Detective Benoit Blanc in the murder mystery comedy films "Knives Out" (2019), and "" (2022), he received two Golden Globe Award nominations.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In 2011, he made his Broadway debut in the revival of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" opposite his wife, the actress Rachel Weisz. In 2016, he starred in the New York Theatre Workshop production of "Othello". In 2022, he returned to Broadway in the title role of "Macbeth" with Ruth Negga.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Daniel Wroughton Craig was born in Chester, Cheshire on 2 March 1968, the son of an art teacher, Carol Olivia ("née" Williams), and Timothy John Wroughton Craig (1943–2020), a midshipman in the Merchant Navy and steel erector. His father later became the landlord of two Cheshire pubs: the Ring o' Bells in Frodsham and the Boot Inn in Tarporley. Craig has an older sister named Lea (born 1965). He is of part Welsh and distant French descent, counting the French Huguenot minister Daniel Chamier and Sir William Burnaby, 1st Baronet among his ancestors. His middle name, Wroughton, comes from his great-great-grandmother, Grace Matilda Wroughton.


title: Daniel Craig

text: When Craig's parents divorced in 1972, he and his sister moved to the Wirral Peninsula with their mother, where he attended primary school in Hoylake as well as school in Frodsham. He attended Hilbre High School in West Kirby. Upon leaving there at the age of 16, he attended Calday Grange Grammar School as a sixth form student. He played rugby union for Hoylake RFC.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig began acting in school plays at the age of six, making his debut in the Frodsham Primary School production of "Oliver!" He became interested in serious acting by attending Liverpool's Everyman Theatre with his mother. At the age of 14 in 1982, he played roles in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Cinderella" at Hilbre High School. In 1984, he was accepted into the National Youth Theatre and moved to London, where he worked part-time in restaurants to finance his education. His parents watched his stage debut as Agamemnon in "Troilus And Cressida". He performed with the National Youth Theatre on tours to Valencia and Moscow under the leadership of director Edward Wilson. He entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1988, and graduated in 1991 after a three-year course under the tutelage of Colin McCormack, an actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig appeared in his first screen role in 1992, playing an Afrikaner in "The Power of One". Having played minor roles in the miniseries "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes" and the shows "Covington Cross" and "Boon", he appeared in November 1993 as Joe in the Royal National Theatre's production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America". Also in 1993, Craig was featured in two episodes of the American television shows "Zorro" and "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles", and British shows "Heartbeat", "Between the Lines", "Drop the Dead Donkey" and "Sharpe's Eagle". In 1994, Craig appeared in "The Rover", a filmed stage production and "Les Grandes Horizontales", a stage production at the National Theatre Studio, where he first met Rachel Weisz, who would become his second wife. Craig was featured in the poorly received Disney film "A Kid in King Arthur's Court" (1995). In 1996, Craig starred in the BBC drama serial "Our Friends in the North" as the troubled George 'Geordie' Peacock. Appearing alongside Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee and Mark Strong, Craig's part in the series is considered his breakthrough role.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In the same year, Craig guest-starred in an episode of the HBO horror anthology series "Tales from the Crypt" and was featured in the BBC television film "Saint-Ex". Craig gave a lead performance in the Franco-German drama "Obsession" in 1997, about a love triangle between Craig's character and a couple. The same year, he played a leading role in "Hurlyburly", a play performed in the West End at the Old Vic.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig appeared in three films in 1998: the independent drama "Love and Rage", the biographical drama "Elizabeth", in which he played Jesuit priest John Ballard, who was executed for being involved in an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England in the Babington Plot, and the BBC television film "" (1998), in which Craig played small-time thief George Dyer who becomes the lover and muse of painter Francis Bacon, who was portrayed by Derek Jacobi. The following year, Craig starred in a television drama called "Shockers: The Visitor" and as Sergeant Telford Winter in the independent war film "The Trench", which takes place in the confines of the trenches in the First World War during the 48 hours leading up to the Battle of the Somme.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig played a schizophrenic man who falls in love with a woman (played by Kelly Macdonald) after being discharged from psychiatric hospital in the drama "Some Voices" (2000). Also in 2000, Craig co-starred alongside Toni Collette in the dark comedy "Hotel Splendide" and was featured in "I Dreamed of Africa", based on the life of Kuki Gallmann (played by Kim Basinger). Craig played the love interest of Angelina Jolie's character Lara Croft in "" (2001), based on the video game series "Tomb Raider". He later admitted to having taken on the role in the poorly-reviewed yet commercially successful film only for the paycheque. In 2001, Craig also starred in the four-part Channel 4 drama "Sword of Honour", based on the trilogy of novels of the same. Craig appeared in the anthology film "Ten Minutes Older: The Cello" (2002), starring in the segment "Addicted to the Stars", directed by Michael Radford.


title: Daniel Craig

text: His second release of 2002 was Sam Mendes' crime film "Road to Perdition" with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, in which he played Irish mobster Connor Rooney, the son of the crime organisation's boss. Craig then portrayed German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg in the BBC television drama "Copenhagen" (2002), which depicts Heisenberg's involvement in the German nuclear weapon project during World War II. On stage, Craig starred opposite Michael Gambon in the original production of Caryl Churchill's play "A Number" from September to November 2002 at the Royal Court Theatre. Craig received a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor nomination for his role as a man who is cloned twice by his father. The next year, he starred as poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath in the biographical film "Sylvia" (2003), which depicts the romance between the two poets. In the same year, he appeared in "The Mother" as a man who engages in an affair with the much older mother (played by Anne Reid) of his lover and best friend.


title: Daniel Craig

text: The crime thriller "Layer Cake", directed by Matthew Vaughn, starred Craig as an unnamed London-based cocaine supplier known only as "XXXX" in the film's credits. Kevin Crust, writing for the "Los Angeles Times", praised Craig's "stunningly suave performance", while Roger Ebert thought he was "fascinating" in the film. Craig next starred as a man who becomes dangerously close with a stranger (played by Rhys Ifans) after witnessing a deadly accident together in "Enduring Love" (2004).


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig appeared in three theatrical films in 2005, all of which were supporting roles. His first release of the year, was the thriller "The Jacket" starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. He then made a brief appearance in the Hungarian film "Fateless" as a United States Army Sergeant who takes a liking to a teenage boy who survives life in concentration camps. Craig's third and final role of the year was in "Munich", directed by Steven Spielberg, as a South African driver who is a part of a covert Israeli government assassination mission against eleven Palestinians allegedly involved in the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Also in 2005, Craig starred in the BBC television film "Archangel" – based on Robert Harris' novel – as an English academic who stumbles upon a notebook believed to have belonged to Joseph Stalin.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In 2005, Craig was contacted by Eon Productions to portray James Bond. Initially, he was unsure about the role and was resistant to the producers' overtures. "There was a period of trying to woo him" longtime Bond co-producer Barbara Broccoli later commented in 2012. During this period, he sought advice from colleagues and friends, of whom "most of us said to him...'there is life after Bond'.". He stated he "was aware of the challenges" of the Bond franchise, which he considered "a big machine that makes a lot of money". He aimed at bringing more "emotional depth" to the character. Born in 1968, Craig is the first actor to portray James Bond to have been born after the Bond series started and after the death of Ian Fleming, the novels' writer.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig's casting as Bond caused some controversy due to his physical appearance. Some fans considered the blond-haired, 5-foot-10-inch (1.78-metre) tall Craig to not fit the image of the taller, dark-haired Bond portrayed by the previous actors. Throughout the entire production period, internet campaigns expressed their dissatisfaction and threatened to boycott the film in protest. Although the choice of Craig was controversial, numerous actors publicly voiced their support. Most notably four of the five actors who had previously portrayed Bond – Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton – called his casting a good decision. Connery notably shared his thoughts on Craig's casting as Bond in 2008, describing him as "fantastic, marvelous in the part". The other actor to have previously played Bond, George Lazenby, has since voiced his approval of Craig also. Clive Owen, who had been linked to the role, also spoke in defence of Craig.


title: Daniel Craig

text: The first film, "Casino Royale", premiered on 14 November 2006, and grossed US$594,239,066 worldwide, which made it the highest-grossing Bond film until the release of "Skyfall". After the film was released, Craig's performance garnered critical acclaim. Craig lent his voice and likeness as James Bond for both the Wii game "GoldenEye 007", an enhanced remake of the 1997 game for the Nintendo 64, and "". In addition to "Casino Royale", Craig also appeared in two more films in 2006: the drama "Infamous" as mass murderer Perry Edward Smith and as the voice of the lead character in the English-language version of the French animated film "Renaissance". In 2006, Craig was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig starred opposite Nicole Kidman in the science fiction horror film "The Invasion" in 2007, the fourth film adaptation of the novel "The Body Snatchers" by Jack Finney, which was met with a negative reception. He portrayed Lord Asriel in "The Golden Compass", the 2007 film adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel. In March 2007, Craig made a cameo appearance as himself in a sketch with Catherine Tate who appeared in the guise of her character Elaine Figgis from "The Catherine Tate Show". The sketch was made for the BBC Red Nose Day 2007 fundraising programme. In 2008, in addition to "Quantum of Solace" and its accompanying , Craig starred in the drama "Flashbacks of a Fool" alongside Emilia Fox, as a washed-up Hollywood actor who reflects on his life; although the film was received negatively, Craig's performance was praised. In his final release of 2008, the war film "Defiance", Craig starred as Tuvia Bielski, the leader of the Bielski partisans, fighting in the forests of Belarus during World War II, saving 1,200 people.


title: Daniel Craig

text: He co-starred with Hugh Jackman in a limited engagement of the drama "A Steady Rain", on Broadway, which played in autumn 2009 at the Schoenfeld Theatre, for which he gained positive reviews. In August 2010, Craig starred as crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist in David Fincher's 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". The next year, he took up a leading role in "Dream House", a psychological thriller directed by Jim Sheridan and co-starring Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts and Marton Csokas. It garnered mostly negative reviews and low box office results. Craig then co-starred with Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde in "Cowboys & Aliens", an American science fiction Western film, based on Scott Mitchell Rosenberg's 2006 graphic novel of the same name. The same year, Craig provided his voice to Steven Spielberg's animated film "The Adventures of Tintin" in 2011, playing the villainous pirate Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine and his ancestor Red Rackham in a dual role.


title: Daniel Craig

text: The planned 19 April 2010 release of Craig's third Bond film was delayed, because of financial troubles; the film, titled "Skyfall", was eventually released on 23 October 2012. The same year, he appeared as James Bond in the short film "Happy and Glorious", in which he escorted Queen Elizabeth II to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. He and his wife Weisz starred in a Broadway play titled "Betrayal", which ran from October 2013 to January 2014. Despite mixed reviews, it grossed $17.5 million, becoming the second highest earning Broadway play of 2013. Craig's fourth Bond film, "Spectre", began filming in December 2014 and was released on 26 October 2015. His first four Bond films have grossed $3.5 billion globally, after adjusting for inflation.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Prior to the inaugural Invictus Games held in London in September 2014, Craig along with other entertainers and athletes read the poem "Invictus" in a promotional video. He made an uncredited cameo appearance as a stormtrooper in the 2015 film "". Craig appeared in a modern production of William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" at the Off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop throughout late 2016 and early 2017. The production starred David Oyelowo as the titular character and Craig as the main antagonist, Iago. Diane Snyder of "The Daily Telegraph" praised his "chilling" portrayal of Iago in the play. In 2017, Craig co-starred in Steven Soderbergh's comedy "Logan Lucky", about two brothers who pull off a heist during a NASCAR race. Craig starred alongside Halle Berry in the drama "Kings" set during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The film premiered in September 2017 and was distributed by the Orchard the following year; it was harshly reviewed by many film critics.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In 2019, Craig starred in Rian Johnson's black comedy murder-mystery "Knives Out" as Benoit Blanc, a detective investigating the sudden death of a family patriarch. It premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim, and was theatrically released that November. In 2020, it was announced the Craig had signed on to reprise the character in . His fifth Bond film "No Time to Die" was to be directed by Danny Boyle and released in November 2019, but it was delayed after Boyle left the project. It was ultimately directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and was released in cinemas from 30 September 2021 in the UK and in the US on 8 October 2021 having been delayed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In appearances on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and "The Graham Norton Show", Craig said that "No Time to Die" would be his last James Bond film. Two days before the film's release in the US, Craig was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame which is located at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard (a reference to Bond's code number "007"), and next to the star of fellow Bond actor Roger Moore.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In 2022, Craig starred in a contemporary revival of "Macbeth" opposite Ruth Negga on Broadway. "Variety" described his performance writing "Craig has some strong moments but does not capture the transformation of Macbeth into a power-hungry tyrant." The Guardian's Alexis Soloski rated the production 3/5, stating, "...Craig’s burly Macbeth, clad handsomely in Suttirat Larlab’s modern dress costumes, is every inch a man of action and a soldier, even in a silky bathrobe, entirely convincing in motion, less persuasive when zipping through Macbeth’s equivocations."


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig also starred in "", the sequel to "Knives Out." He has reportedly signed on for a third film, with Rian Johnson to direct again.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In 2007, Craig and British Prime Minister Tony Blair took part in the United Kingdom's Comic Relief charity fundraiser, ultimately raising more than USD $90 million. Craig made a cameo appearance as himself in a sketch with Catherine Tate who appeared in the guise of her character Elaine Figgis from "The Catherine Tate Show", for the BBC Red Nose Day 2007 fundraising programme. Craig participated in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraising 8 December 2009, raising $1,549,953 in the 21st annual Gypsy of the Year competition, from six weeks of curtain appeals at their hit Broadway drama, "A Steady Rain". Craig starred in 2011 in a short film narrated by Judi Dench, which was produced for International Woman's Day. The next year, Craig worked with Orbis International in Mongolia to raise support and awareness of the Orbis medical team and their Flying Eye Hospital.


title: Daniel Craig

text: He is involved with multiple charities including S.A.F.E. Kenya, which uses street theatre to address social issues. He is also involved with the Opportunity Network, which provides access to education for low-income students in New York. In 2011, he collaborated with Dame Judi Dench to highlight gender inequality for International Women's Day. In August 2014, he added his name to a letter to British broadcasters calling for better representation of ethnic minorities. In 2015, Craig appeared in the film "Comic Relief: Behind the Bond" for the BBC Red Nose Day 2015 fundraising programme.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In April 2015, the United Nations appointed Craig the first global advocate for the elimination of mines and explosive hazards. The role involves raising awareness for the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), and political and financial support for the cause. Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Craig: "You have been given a licence to kill, I'm now giving you a licence to save." In 2019, Craig appeared in a video with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and launched the UNMAS Safe Ground campaign to turn minefields into playing fields.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In 2012, Craig expressed a dislike and distrust for politics and politicians in general, being quoted as saying "Politicians are shitheads. That's how they become politicians, even the good ones. We're actors, we're artists, we're very nice to each other. They'll turn around and stab you in the fucking back". He has been particularly scathing about Tony Blair, going as far as comparing Blair's penchant for befriending celebrities to the book "Mephisto". He also expressed a reluctance to involve himself with politicians, arguing that by doing so "you immediately are aligning yourself with a political party."


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig supported Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 US presidential elections. He was outspoken about his opposition to Brexit before the 2016 EU membership referendum. In 2016, he was pictured wearing a "Vote Remain" t-shirt which was adorned with the words, "No man is an island. No country by itself."


title: Daniel Craig

text: In 1992, Craig married actress Fiona Loudon; they had a daughter named Ella before divorcing in 1994. He later began a relationship with German actress Heike Makatsch, which lasted for seven years before ending in 2004. He subsequently dated and was engaged to film producer Satsuki Mitchell from 2005 until 2010.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig and actress Rachel Weisz had known each other since working together on "Les Grandes Horizontales" (1994). They began dating in December 2010, and were married in a private ceremony in New York City on 22 June 2011 with only four guests in attendance, including Craig's daughter and Weisz's son. It was reported on 1 September 2018 that their first child together, a daughter, had been born.


title: Daniel Craig

text: In January 2018, Craig purchased a house in Brooklyn, New York, for an amount in excess of $6 million. He is an avid fan of Liverpool F.C., and is also a fan of rugby, having travelled to Australia in 2013 to watch the British and Irish Lions tour.


title: Daniel Craig

text: Craig was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to film and theatre. This was the same honour held by Ian Fleming's James Bond, according to "From Russia, with Love".


title: Shah Rukh Khan

text: Shah Rukh Khan (; born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works in Hindi films. Referred to in the media as the "Baadshah of Bollywood", "King of Bollywood" and "King Khan", he has appeared in more than 80 films, and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Filmfare Awards. He has been awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India, as well as the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Legion of Honour by the Government of France. Khan has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide. In terms of audience size and income, he has been described as one of the most successful film stars in the world.


title: Shah Rukh Khan

text: Khan began his career with appearances in several television series in the late 1980s. He made his Bollywood debut in 1992 with "Deewana". Early in his career, Khan was recognised for portraying villainous roles in the films "Baazigar" (1993), "Darr" (1993), and "Anjaam" (1994). He then rose to prominence starring in a series of romantic films, including "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" (1995), "Dil To Pagal Hai" (1997), "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" (1998), "Mohabbatein" (2000) and "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..." (2001). Khan earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of an alcoholic in "Devdas" (2002), a NASA scientist in "Swades" (2004), a hockey coach in "Chak De! India" (2007) and a man with Asperger syndrome in "My Name Is Khan" (2010). His highest-grossing films include the comedies "Chennai Express" (2013), "Happy New Year" (2014) and "Dilwale" (2015), and the crime film "Raees" (2017). Many of his films thematise Indian national identity and connections with diaspora communities, or gender, racial, social and religious differences and grievances.


title: Shah Rukh Khan

text: As of 2015, Khan is co-chairman of the motion picture production company Red Chillies Entertainment and its subsidiaries, and is the co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders and the Caribbean Premier League team Trinbago Knight Riders. He is a frequent television presenter and stage show performer. The media often label him as "Brand SRK" because of his many endorsement and entrepreneurship ventures. Khan's philanthropic endeavours have provided health care and disaster relief, and he was honoured with UNESCO's Pyramide con Marni award in 2011 for his support of children's education and the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award in 2018 for advocating for women's and children's rights in India. He regularly features in listings of the most influential people in Indian culture, and in 2008, "Newsweek" named him one of their fifty most powerful people in the world.


title: Shah Rukh Khan

text: Khan was born on 2 November 1965 into a Muslim family in New Delhi. He spent the first five years of his life in Mangalore, where his maternal grandfather, Iftikhar Ahmed, served as the chief engineer of the port in the 1960s. Khan's father, Mir Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar who campaigned alongside the Khudai Khidmatgar, a nonviolent resistance movement led by Abdul Ghaffar Khan that sought a united and independent India. Mir was a follower of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and affiliated with the Indian National Congress. He was also the cousin of the major general in the Indian National Army Shah Nawaz Khan. As of 2010, Khan's paternal family was still living in the Shah Wali Qataal area of Peshawar's Qissa Khwani Bazaar. Mir moved to New Delhi in 1948 after the partition of India. Khan's mother, Lateef Fatima, was the daughter of a senior government engineer. His parents were married in 1959.


title: Shah Rukh Khan

text: Khan described himself on Twitter as "half Hyderabadi (mother), and half Pathan (father). According to Khan his paternal grandfather, Mir Jan Muhammad Khan, was an ethnic Pashtun (Pathan) from Afghanistan. However, his paternal cousins in Peshawar later clarified that the family speaks Hindko and is originally from Kashmir, from where they settled in Peshawar centuries back, contradicting the claim that his grandfather was a Pashtun from Afghanistan.


title: Shah Rukh Khan

text: Khan grew up in the Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood of New Delhi. His father had several business ventures including a restaurant, and the family lived a middle-class life in rented apartments. Khan attended St. Columba's School in central Delhi where he excelled in his studies and in sports such as hockey and football, and received the school's highest award, the Sword of Honour. Initially Khan aspired to pursue a career in sports, however owing to a shoulder injury in his early years meant that he could no longer play. Instead, in his youth, he acted in stage plays and received praise for his imitations of Bollywood actors, of which his favourites were Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, and Mumtaz. One of his childhood friends and acting partners was Amrita Singh, who became a Bollywood actress. Khan enrolled at Hansraj College (1985–88) to earn his bachelor's degree in economics, but spent much of his time at Delhi's Theatre Action Group (TAG), where he studied acting under the mentorship of theatre director Barry John. After Hansraj, he began studying for a master's degree in mass communication at Jamia Millia Islamia, but left to pursue his acting career. He also attended the National School of Drama in Delhi during his early career in Bollywood. His father died of cancer in 1981, and his mother died in 1991 from complications of diabetes. After the death of their parents, his older sister, Shahnaz Lalarukh (born 1960) fell into a depressed state and Khan took on the responsibility of caring for her. Shahnaz continues to live with her brother and his family in their Mumbai mansion.


title: Shah Rukh Khan

text: Although Khan was given the birth name Shahrukh Khan, he prefers his name to be written as Shah Rukh Khan, and is commonly referred to by the initialism SRK. He married Gauri Chibber, a Punjabi Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991, after a six-year courtship. They have a son Aryan (born 1997) and a daughter Suhana (born 2000). In 2013, they became parents of a third child, a son named AbRam, who was born through a surrogate mother. Both his elder children have expressed interest in entering the entertainment industry; Khan has stated that Aryan, who studied filmmaking at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in California, aspires to become a writer-director, while Suhana, who served as assistant director for Khan's film "Zero" (2018), is studying drama and acting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for higher education. Suhana made her acting debut in November 2019, in a short film titled "The Grey Part of Blue." According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Islam, he also values his wife's religion. His children follow both religions; at his home the Qur'an is situated next to the murti of Hindu deities.


title: Shah Rukh Khan

text: Khan's first starring role was in Lekh Tandon's television series "Dil Dariya", which began shooting in 1988, but production delays led to the Raj Kumar Kapoor directed 1989 series "Fauji" becoming his television debut instead. In the series, which depicted a realistic look at the training of army cadets, he played the leading role of Abhimanyu Rai. This led to further appearances in Aziz Mirza's television series "Circus" (1989–90) and Mani Kaul's miniseries "Idiot" (1992). Khan also played minor parts in the serials "Umeed" (1989) and "Wagle Ki Duniya" (1988–90), and in the English-language television film "In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones" (1989). His appearances in these serials led critics to compare his look and acting style with those of the film actor Dilip Kumar, but Khan was not interested in film acting at the time, thinking that he was not good enough.


title: Shah Rukh Khan

text: Khan changed his decision to act in films in April 1991, citing it as a way to escape the grief of his mother's death. He moved from Delhi to Mumbai to pursue a full-time career in Bollywood, and was quickly signed to four films. His first offer was for Hema Malini's directorial debut "Dil Aashna Hai", and by June, he had started his first shoot. His film debut was in "Deewana", which was released in June 1992. In it he starred alongside Divya Bharti as the second male lead behind Rishi Kapoor. "Deewana" became a box office hit and launched Khan's Bollywood career; he earned the Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for his performance. Also released in 1992 were Khan's first films as the male lead, "Chamatkar", "Dil Aashna Hai", and the comedy "Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman", which was his first of many collaborations with the actress Juhi Chawla. His initial film roles saw him play characters who displayed energy and enthusiasm. According to Arnab Ray of "Daily News and Analysis", Khan brought a new kind of acting as he was "sliding down stairs on a slab of ice, cartwheeling, somersaulting, lips trembling, eyes trembling, bringing to the screen the kind of physical energy ... visceral, intense, maniacal one moment and cloyingly boyish the next."


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text: Among his 1993 releases, Khan garnered the most appreciation for portraying villainous roles in two box office hits: a murderer in "Baazigar", and an obsessive lover in "Darr". "Baazigar", in which Khan played an ambiguous avenger who murders his girlfriend, shocked Indian audiences with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula. In "The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture", Sonal Khullar called the character "the consummate anti-hero". His performance in "Baazigar", which would be his first of many appearances with actress Kajol, won Khan his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor. In 2003, the "Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema" stated that Khan "defied the image of the conventional hero in both these films and created his own version of the revisionist hero". "Darr" marked the first of Khan's many collaborations with filmmaker Yash Chopra and his company Yash Raj Films. Khan's stammering and the use of the phrase "I love you, K-k-k-Kiran" were popular with audiences. Malini Mannath of "The Indian Express" argued that he "walks away with the acting honours in yet another negative role". For "Darr" he received a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role, also known as the Best Villain Award, but lost to Paresh Rawal for "Sir". Also in 1993, Khan performed a nude scene with Deepa Sahi in "Maya Memsaab", although parts of it were censored by the Central Board of Film Certification. The ensuing controversy prompted him to eschew such scenes in future roles.


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text: In 1994, Khan played a love-struck musician in Kundan Shah's comedy-drama film "Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa" opposite Deepak Tijori and Suchitra Krishnamurthy, which he later professed was his favourite role. His performance earned him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, and in a retrospective review from 2004, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com referred to it as Khan's best performance, calling him "spontaneous, vulnerable, boyish, mischievous and acting straight from the heart". Also in 1994, Khan won the Filmfare Best Villain Award for his role as an obsessive lover in "Anjaam", co-starring Madhuri Dixit. At the time, playing antagonistic roles was considered risky to a leading man's career in mainstream Hindi cinema. Arnab Ray subsequently credited Khan for taking "insane risks" and "pushing the envelope" by choosing to play such characters, through which he established his career. The director Mukul S. Anand called him "the new face of the industry" at the time.


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text: Khan starred in seven films in 1995, the first of which was Rakesh Roshan's melodramatic thriller "Karan Arjun". Co-starring Salman Khan and Kajol, it became the second-highest-grossing film of the year in India. His most significant release that year was Aditya Chopra's directorial debut, the romance "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge", in which he played a young Non-resident Indian (NRI) who falls in love with Kajol's character during a trip across Europe. Khan was initially reticent to portray the role of a lover, but this film is credited with establishing him as a "romantic hero". Lauded by both critics and the public, it became the year's highest grossing production in India and abroad and was declared an "all time blockbuster" by Box Office India, with an estimated lifetime gross of worldwide. It is the longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema; it is still showing at the Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai after more than 1000 weeks as of early 2015. The film won ten Filmfare Awards, including the second of Khan's Best Actor Awards. The director and critic Raja Sen said, "Khan gives a fabulous performance, redefining the lover for the 1990s with great panache. He's cool and flippant, but sincere enough to appeal to the [audience]. The performance itself is, like the best in the business, played well enough to come across as effortless, as non-acting."


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text: In 1996, all four of Khan's releases failed critically and commercially, but the following year, his starring role opposite Aditya Pancholi and Juhi Chawla in Aziz Mirza's romantic comedy "Yes Boss" earned him accolades that included a Filmfare Best Actor nomination. Later in 1997, he starred in Subhash Ghai's diasporic-themed social drama "Pardes", portraying Arjun, a musician facing a moral dilemma. "India Today" cites it as one of the first major Bollywood pictures to succeed in the United States.


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text: Khan's final release of 1997 was the second collaboration with Yash Chopra in the popular musical romance "Dil To Pagal Hai". He portrayed Rahul, a stage director caught in a love triangle between Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor. The film and his performance met with critical praise, winning Khan his third Best Actor Award at Filmfare.


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text: Khan performed the lead role in three films and made one special appearance in 1998. In his first release of the year, he played a double role opposite Juhi Chawla and Sonali Bendre in Mahesh Bhatt's action comedy "Duplicate", the first of his many collaborations with Yash Johar's production company Dharma Productions. The film was not well received, but "India Today" lauded Khan for his energetic performance. The same year, Khan won critical praise for his performance as an All India Radio correspondent who develops an infatuation for a mysterious terrorist (Manisha Koirala) in "Dil Se..", the third instalment of Mani Ratnam's trilogy of terror films. In his final release of the year, he portrayed a college student in Karan Johar's romance "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai", in which he was involved in a love triangle along with Kajol and Rani Mukerji. The writer Anjana Motihar Chandra has referred to the picture as "the" blockbuster of the 1990s, a "pot-pourri of romance, comedy, and entertainment." Khan won the Best Actor award at the Filmfare Awards ceremony for the second consecutive year, although he and several critics believed his performance to have been overshadowed by that of Kajol.


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text: The roles in this phase of his career, and the series of romantic comedies and family dramas that followed, earned Khan widespread adulation from audiences, particularly teenagers, and according to author Anupama Chopra, established him as an icon of romance in India. He continued to have frequent professional associations with Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra, and Karan Johar, who moulded his image and made him into a superstar. Khan became a romantic leading man without ever actually kissing any of his co-stars, although he broke this rule in 2012, after strong urging by Yash Chopra.


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text: Khan's only release in 1999 was "Baadshah", in which he starred opposite Twinkle Khanna. Although the film underperformed at the box office, it earned him a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Performance in a Comic Role, which he lost to Govinda for "Haseena Maan Jaayegi". Khan became a producer in 1999 in a collaboration with the actress Juhi Chawla and the director Aziz Mirza for a production company called Dreamz Unlimited. The company's first production, "Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani" (2000), starring Khan and Chawla, was a commercial failure. It was released one week after "Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai", starring Hrithik Roshan, then a newcomer, who critics believed overshadowed Khan. Swapna Mitter of Rediff.com spoke of Khan's predictable mannerisms, saying "Frankly, it's high time he innovated his act a little." Khan did a supporting role in Kamal Haasan's "Hey Ram" (2000), which was made simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi. He thereby made his Tamil debut by playing the role of an archaeologist named Amjad Khan. He performed free of charge as he wanted to work with Haasan. On Khan's performance, T. Krithika Reddy of "The Hindu" wrote, "Shah Rukh Khan, as usual comes up with an impeccable performance."


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text: In 2001, Dreamz Unlimited attempted a comeback with Khan portraying the title role in Santosh Sivan's historical epic "Aśoka", a partly fictionalised account of the life of emperor Ashoka. The film was screened at the Venice Film Festival and the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival to a positive response, but it performed poorly at Indian box offices. As losses continued to mount for the production company, Khan was forced to close srkworld.com, a company that he had started along with Dreamz Unlimited. In December 2001, Khan suffered a spinal injury while performing an action sequence for a special appearance in Krishna Vamsi's "". He was subsequently diagnosed with a prolapsed disc, and attempted multiple alternative therapies. None of these provided a permanent solution to the injury, which caused him severe pain while shooting several of his films. By the beginning of 2003, his condition had worsened to the point that he had to undergo anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgery at Wellington Hospital, London. Khan resumed shooting in June 2003, but he reduced his workload and the number of film roles he accepted annually.


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text: Successes during this time included Aditya Chopra's "Mohabbatein" (2000), and Karan Johar's family drama "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..." (2001), which Khan cites as a turning point in his career. Both films co-starred Amitabh Bachchan as an authoritarian figure, and presented ideological struggles between the two men. Khan's performances in the films were met with wide public appreciation, and he was awarded his second Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for "Mohabbatein". "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..." remained the top-grossing Indian production of all time in the overseas market for the next five years.


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text: In 2002, Khan played the title role as a rebellious alcoholic opposite Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period romance "Devdas". At a cost of over , it was the most expensive Bollywood film ever made at the time, and became a box office success, earning approximately () worldwide. The film earned numerous accolades including 10 Filmfare Awards, with Best Actor for Khan, and a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. Khan next starred in "Kal Ho Naa Ho" (2003), a comedy-drama written by Karan Johar and set in New York City, which became the second-highest-grossing film domestically and the top-grossing Bollywood film in external markets that year. Co-starring with Jaya Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, and Preity Zinta, Khan received critical praise for his portrayal of Aman Mathur, a man with a fatal heart disease, with critics praising his emotional impact upon audiences. Conflict broke out between Khan and the other partners of Dreamz Unlimited over the failure to cast Juhi Chawla in their 2003 production of Aziz Mirza's "Chalte Chalte", and they parted ways, despite the film's success.


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text: 2004 was a critically and commercially successful year for Khan. He transformed Dreamz Unlimited into Red Chillies Entertainment, adding his wife Gauri as a producer. In the company's first production, he starred in Farah Khan's directorial debut, the masala film "Main Hoon Na". A fictionalised account of India–Pakistan relations, it was viewed by some commentators as a conscious effort to move away from the stereotypical portrayal of Pakistan as the constant villain. Khan then played an Indian Air Force pilot who falls in love with a Pakistani woman (Preity Zinta) in Yash Chopra's romance film "Veer-Zaara", which was screened at the 55th Berlin Film Festival to critical praise. It was the highest earning film of 2004 in India, with a worldwide gross of over , and "Main Hoon Na" was the second-highest earner with .


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text: In his final release of 2004, Khan starred as a NASA scientist who patriotically returns to India to rekindle his roots in Ashutosh Gowariker's social drama "Swades" (meaning "Homeland"), which became the first Indian picture to be shot inside the NASA research centre at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.


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text: Film scholar Stephen Teo refers to the picture as an example of "Bollywoodised realism", displaying a transcendence in conventional narrative and audience expectation in Hindi cinema. In December 2013, "The Times of India" reported that Khan found filming the picture such an emotionally overwhelming and life-changing experience that he had still not viewed the film. Derek Elley of "Variety" found Khan's performance "unsettling" as "a self-satisfied expatriate determined to bring Western values to poor Indian peasants", but several film critics, including Jitesh Pillai, believed it to have been his finest acting to date. He was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award for all three of his 2004 releases and eventually won the award for "Swades". "Filmfare" later included his performance in the 2010 issue of Bollywood's "Top 80 Iconic Performances".


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text: In 2005, Khan starred in Amol Palekar's fantasy drama, "Paheli". The film was India's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards. He later collaborated with Karan Johar for the third time in the musical romantic drama "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" (2006), the story of two unhappily married people in New York City who begin extramarital affairs. The film, which featured an ensemble cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji and Kirron Kher, emerged as India's highest-grossing film in the overseas market, earning more than worldwide. Both his roles in "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" and the action film "Don", a remake of the 1978 film of the same name, earned Khan Best Actor nominations at the Filmfare Awards, despite his performance as the titular character in "Don" being negatively compared to that of Amitabh Bachchan in the original film.


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text: In 2007, Khan portrayed a disgraced hockey player who coaches the Indian women's national hockey team to World Cup success in Yash Raj Films' semi-fictional "Chak De! India". Bhaichand Patel notes that Khan, who had a background in the sport playing for his university's hockey team, essentially portrayed himself as a "cosmopolitan, liberal, Indian Muslim". Faring well in both India and abroad, Khan garnered another Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his performance, which Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN considers to have been "without any of his typical trappings, without any of his trademark quirks", portraying Kabir Khan "like a real flesh-and-blood human being". "Filmfare" included his performance in their 2010 issue of the "Top 80 Iconic Performances". In the same year, Khan starred


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text: alongside Arjun Rampal, Deepika Padukone and Shreyas Talpade in Farah Khan's reincarnation melodrama "Om Shanti Om", portraying a 1970s junior artiste who is reborn as a 2000s era superstar. The film became the highest grossing Indian motion picture of 2007, both domestically and abroad. "Om Shanti Om" earned Khan his second nomination of the year for Best Actor at Filmfare. Khalid Mohammed from "Hindustan Times" wrote, "the enterprise belongs to Shah Rukh Khan, who tackles comedy, high drama and action with his signature stylespontaneous and intuitively intelligent".


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text: Khan collaborated for the third time with Aditya Chopra on the romantic drama "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" (2008) opposite Anushka Sharma, at that time a newcomer. He played Surinder Sahni, a shy man with low self-esteem, whose love for his young arranged wife (Sharma) causes him to transform himself into Raj, a boisterous alter-ego. Rachel Saltz of "The New York Times" believed the dual role to have been "tailor-made" for Khan, giving him the opportunity to display his talents, although Deep Contractor from "Epilogue" thought Khan displayed greater strength in the role of Surinder and weakness in the role of monologue-prone Raj. In December 2008, Khan suffered a shoulder injury while filming a small role in Mudassar Aziz's "Dulha Mil Gaya". He underwent extensive physiotherapy sessions at the time but the pain left him almost immobile and he had arthroscopic surgery in February 2009. He performed a special appearance in the 2009 film "Billu", playing Bollywood superstar Sahir Khana fictionalised version of himself, wherein he performed musical item numbers with actresses Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Deepika Padukone. As head of the film's production company, Red Chillies, Khan made the call to change the title of the film from "Billu Barber" to "Billu" after hairdressers across the country complained that the word "barber" was derogatory. The company covered up the offending word on billboards that had already been installed with the original title.


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text: After refusing the role that subsequently went to Anil Kapoor in Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008), Khan began shooting "My Name Is Khan" (2010), his fourth collaboration with director Karan Johar and his sixth with Kajol. The film is based on a true story and set against the backdrop of perceptions of Islam after the 11 September attacks. Khan plays Rizwan Khan, a Muslim suffering from mild Asperger syndrome who sets out on a journey across America to meet the country's president, in a role that film scholar Stephen Teo sees as a "symbol of assertive rasa values" and another example of Khan representing NRI identity in global Bollywood. To provide an accurate portrayal of a sufferer without disparagement, Khan spent several months researching his role by reading books, watching videos and talking to people affected by the condition. Upon release, "My Name is Khan" became one of the highest grossing Bollywood films of all time outside India, and earned Khan his eighth Filmfare Award for Best Actor, equalling the record for the most wins in the category with actor Dilip Kumar. Jay Wesissberg from "Variety" noted how Khan portrayed the Asperger's sufferer with "averted eyes, springy steps, [and] stuttered repetitions of memorized texts", believing it to have been a "standout performance sure to receive the Autism Society's gold seal of approval".


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text: In 2011, Khan starred alongside Arjun Rampal and Kareena Kapoor in Anubhav Sinha's superhero film "Ra.One", his first work in this subgenre, as a favour to his children. The film follows the story of a London-based videogame designer who creates a villainous character who escapes into the real world. It was billed as Bollywood's most expensive production; it had an estimated budget of . Despite negative media coverage of the film's box office performance, "Ra.One" was a financial success with a gross of . The film, and Khan's portrayal of a dual role, received mixed reviews; while most critics praised his performance as the robotic superhero G.One, though they criticised his portrayal of the videogame designer Shekhar. Khan's second release of 2011 was "Don 2", a sequel to "Don" (2006). To prepare for his role, Khan exercised extensively and performed most of the stunts himself. His performance earned him positive reviews from critics; Nikhat Kazmi of "The Times of India" said, "Shah Rukh remains in command and never loses his foothold, neither through the dramatic sequences nor through the action cuts". The year's highest grossing Bollywood production abroad, it was showcased at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.


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text: Khan's only release in 2012 was Yash Chopra's last picture, the romantic drama "Jab Tak Hai Jaan", which saw him once again in a romantic role, starring opposite Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma. CNN-IBN considered the overall performance by Khan to have been one of his finest to date, but believed that Khan's first screen kiss of his career with Katrina Kaif, twenty years his junior, was an awkward one. "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" was a moderate financial success earning over worldwide. The film was showcased at the 2012 Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco, along with "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...", "Veer-Zaara", and "Don 2". At the following Zee Cine Awards, Khan performed a tribute to the late Yash Chopra along with Kaif, Sharma, and several of Chopra's other past heroines.


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text: In 2013, Khan starred in Rohit Shetty's action comedy "Chennai Express" for Red Chillies Entertainment, a film which earned mixed critical reviews and a fair amount of criticism for its perceived disparagement of South Indian culture, although the film included a tribute to Tamil cinema star Rajinikanth. The critic Khalid Mohamed thought that Khan overacted in the film and criticised him for "re-rendering every old trick in the acting book". Despite the criticism, the film broke many box office records for Hindi films in both India and abroad, surpassing "3 Idiots" to briefly become the highest grossing Bollywood film of all time, with a gross of almost in worldwide ticket sales. On 7 March 2013a day before International Women's Day"The Times of India" reported that Khan had requested a new convention with the name of his lead female co-stars appearing above his own in the credits. He claimed that the women in his life, including his co-stars, have been the reason for his success. In 2014, the actor was featured in Farah Khan's ensemble action comedy "Happy New Year", which co-starred Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan and Boman Irani; his third collaboration with the director. Although Khan's unidimensional character was criticised, the film became a major commercial success grossing worldwide.


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text: Khan next appeared alongside Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon in Rohit Shetty's action comedy "Dilwale" (2015). The film garnered mixed reviews, though it was financially profitable with a gross of . Namrata Joshi of "The Hindu" commented, "With "Dilwale", Rohit Shetty goes hopelessly wrong despite much that he had at his disposal, including a power-packed cast and producer", and felt that the attempt to repackage Khan and Kajol had backfired. He then took on dual parts of a superstar and his doppelgänger fan in Maneesh Sharma's action thriller "Fan" (2016). Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" considered the film to be "exhausting, bizarre yet watchable" and thought that Khan was aptly "creepy" as the obsessive admirer. The film underperformed at the box office, and trade journalists attributed this failure to the film's non-conformity to mainstream formula. Later that year, Khan portrayed the supporting part of a therapist to an aspiring cinematographer (Alia Bhatt) in Gauri Shinde's coming-of-age film "Dear Zindagi".


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text: In Rahul Dholakia's action crime film "Raees" (2017), Khan took on the part of the titular anti-heroa bootlegger turned mobster in 1980s Gujarat. In a typical mixed review, Pratim D. Gupta of "The Telegraph" thought Khan's performance to be "inconsistent, intense and power-packed at times, but often slipping out of character into his usual mix of stock mannerisms". Commercially, the film was a modest success, earning about worldwide. Khan returned to the romantic genre with the role of a tourist guide who falls in love with a traveller (Anushka Sharma) in Imtiaz Ali's "Jab Harry Met Sejal" (2017). In a review for "Mint", Uday Bhatia criticised Khan's pairing with Sharma, 22 years his junior, writing that Khan had performed "similar gestures of love decades ago to actors his own age". The film proved to be a box office flop.


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text: Khan next reunited with Sharma and Katrina Kaif in Aanand L Rai's romantic drama "Zero" (2018), in which he played Bauua Singh, a dwarf involved in a love triangle. The film received mixed reviews with praise directed to Khan's performance. Writing for "Hindustan Times", Raja Sen commended his "dominating performance and tremendous energy" and Anna M. M. Vetticad of "Firstpost" called him an "excellent fit" for the role for allowing his "naturally energetic personality, comic timing and charm to take flight". Commercially, it failed to do well. According to a Box Office India report, Khan's stardom was impacted by his films failing to do well.


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text: Following the release of "Zero", Khan took a four-year break from full time acting which was partly caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in India. He will star in three films in 2023: Yash Raj Films' "Pathaan", co-starring Deepika Padukone and John Abraham; "Jawan", where he will play a dual role; and Rajkumar Hirani's "Dunki" alongside Taapsee Pannu.


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text: Khan co-produced three films from 1999 to 2003 as a founding member of the partnership Dreamz Unlimited. After the partnership was dissolved, he and Gauri restructured the company as Red Chillies Entertainment, which includes divisions dealing with film and television production, visual effects, and advertising. As of 2015, the company has produced or co-produced at least nine films. Either Khan or Gauri are usually given production credits, and he has appeared in most of the films, either in the lead role, or in a guest appearance. Khan was involved in several aspects of the making of "Ra.One" (2011). Aside from acting, he produced the film, volunteered to write the console game script, dubbed for it, oversaw its technical development, and wrote the digital comics based on the film's characters. Khan has occasionally done playback singing for his films. In "Josh" (2000) he sang the popular song "Apun Bola Tu Meri Laila". He also sang in "Don" (2006) and "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" (2012). For "Always Kabhi Kabhi" (2011), which was produced by Red Chillies, Khan participated in the lyrical composition.


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text: In addition to his early television serial appearances, Khan has hosted numerous televised awards shows, including the Filmfare, Zee Cine, and Screen Awards. In 2007, he replaced Amitabh Bachchan for one season as the host of "Kaun Banega Crorepati", the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", and a year later, Khan began hosting "Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?", the Indian version of "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?". In 2011, he returned to television, appearing on Imagine TV's "", the Indian version of "Wipeout"; scenes featuring Khan were shot at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai. Contrary to his earlier television anchoring jobs, "Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout" performed poorly. It aired for only one season and became the lowest rated show hosted by a Bollywood star. In 2017, Khan began hosting "TED Talks India Nayi Soch", a talk show produced by TED Conferences, LLC which started aired on STAR Plus.


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text: Khan is a frequent stage performer and has participated in several world tours and concerts. In 1997, he performed in Asha Bhosle's Moments in Time concert in Malaysia, and returned the following year to perform with Karisma Kapoor for the Shahrukh–Karisma: Live in Malaysia concert. The same year, he participated in The Awesome Foursome world tour across the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States along with Juhi Chawla, Akshay Kumar and Kajol, and resumed the tour in Malaysia the following year. In 2002, Khan featured with Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Preity Zinta, and Aishwarya Rai in the show From India With Love at Manchester's Old Trafford and London's Hyde Park; the event was attended by more than 100,000 people. Khan performed alongside Rani Mukherji, Arjun Rampal and Ishaa Koppikar in a 2010 concert at the Army Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The next year he joined Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in the Friendship Concert, celebrating 150 years of India–South Africa friendship in Durban, South Africa.


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text: Khan started an association with the "Temptations" series of concert tours by singing, dancing, and performing skits alongside Arjun Rampal, Priyanka Chopra, and other Bollywood stars in Temptations 2004, a stage show that toured 22 venues across the world. The show played to 15,000 spectators at Dubai's Festival City Arena. In 2008, Khan set up Temptation Reloaded, a series of concerts that toured several countries, including the Netherlands. Another tour was held with Bipasha Basu and others in 2012 in Jakarta, and in 2013 another series of concerts visited Auckland, Perth and Sydney. In 2014, Khan performed in SLAM! The Tour in the US, Canada, and London, and also hosted the Indian premiere of the live talent show, Got Talent World Stage Live.


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text: In 2008, Khan, in partnership with Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta, acquired ownership rights for the franchise representing Kolkata in the Twenty20 cricket tournament Indian Premier League (IPL) for million, and named the team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). , KKR was one of the richest teams in the IPL, with a brand value of million. The team performed poorly on the field during the first three years. Their performance improved over time, and they became the champions for the first time in 2012 and repeated the feat in 2014. The Knight Riders hold the record for the longest winning streak by any Indian team in T20s (14).


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text: Khan performed alongside Sunidhi Chauhan and Shriya Saran at the opening ceremony of the IPL 2011 season, where they danced to Tamil songs. He appeared again in 2013 alongside Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and Pitbull. In May 2012, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) banned him from the Wankhede Stadium for five years for getting into an argument with the security staff after a match between KKR and the Mumbai Indians. Khan had, however, stated that he acted only after children, including his daughter, were being "manhandled" by the security staff and that the officials were extremely high-handed and aggressive in their behaviour, he had been abused with communal indecent comment. Later MCA officials had accused him of being drunk in one version of the story, hitting the guard and of completely uncharacteristically abusing a female supporter of Mumbai Indians after the match in another version of the story, which Khan had maintained it was done to support their action and for cheap publicity. Wankhede guard later contradicted MCA officials' claim and said Shah Rukh Khan had not hit him. Khan later apologised to his fans after his team won the final match. MCA revoked the ban in 2015 and in 2016, Mumbai Police informed that no 'cognisable offence' was made out against Khan and they had come to the conclusion that Shah Rukh Khan was not drunk and did not use abusive language before minors at the Wankhede Stadium in 2012.