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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mitra was born in Paddington, London, England, the daughter of Antony Mitra, who is a cosmetic surgeon, and Nora Downey. She has an older brother, Jason Wath Mitra, who is two years her senior, and a younger brother.Her father is of Bengali Indian and English descent, and her mother is Irish. In 1984, when Mitra was eight, her parents divorced, and she was sent to boarding school. She spent several years at two different schools, including Roedean, but Mitra claims she was eventually expelled from both of them. ... Read more

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Chapters: Ben Kingsley, Parminder Nagra, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rhona Mitra, Archie Panjabi, Naveen Andrews, Ayesha Dharker, Art Malik, Shobna Gulati, Riz Ahmed, Nina Wadia, Raji James, Preeya Kalidas, Sacha Dhawan, Pooja Shah, Mathew Bose, Seeta Indrani, Deepak Verma, Arjun Mathur, Afshan Azad, Ronny Jhutti, Mina Anwar, Sarita Choudhury, Vineeta Rishi, Kavi Raz, Sunetra Sarker, Bindya Solanki, Inder Manocha, Marc Elliott, Shobu Kapoor, Anjali Jay, Nitin Ganatra, Ameet Chana, Rebecca Hazlewood, Kulvinder Ghir, Sarita Khajuria, Himesh Patel, Navin Chowdhry, Ravi Kapoor, Ben Jones, Hajaz Akram, Indira Joshi, Edmund Kingsley, Stephen Rahman-Hughes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 152. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji (Gujarati: ); 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has won Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Snainton, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, the son of Anna Lyna Mary (née Goodman), an actress and model, and Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a medical doctor. Kingsley's father was born in Kenya of Gujarati Indian descent; Kingsley's paternal grandfather was a spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar, where Kingsley's father lived until moving to England at the age of 14. Ben Kingsley's mother, born out of wedlock, was "loath to speak of her background"; she was the daughter of an English mother who worked in the garment district of East London, and a father who was believed by the family to have been a Russian or German Jew. Kingsley grew up in Pendlebury, near Salford. He was educated at Manchester Grammar Sc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=168480 ... Read more

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Chapters: Sarah Miles, Verity Lambert, Jessica Hsuan, Olive Willis, Zerbanoo Gifford, Rebecca Hall, Cicely Saunders, Rhona Mitra, Vera Stanley Alder, Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, Roedean School, Phyllis Pearsall, Beatrix Ong, Katharine Whitehorn, Honeysuckle Weeks, Lucy Griffiths, Tanya Streeter, Nancy Spain, Margery Fry, Margot Heinemann, Jill Balcon, Perdita Weeks, Adèle Geras, Margaret Cole, Edith Pretty, Buzz Goodbody, Tessa Dahl, Elizabeth Gloster, Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester, Enid Marx. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 116. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Verity Ann Lambert, OBE (27 November 1935 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. She is best known as the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who, a programme which has become a part of British popular culture, and for her association with Thames Television. Her many credits include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek and Love Soup. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s, and continued to work as a producer until the year she died. After leaving the BBC in 1969, she worked for other television companies, notably Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 80s. She also worked in the film industry, for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, and from 1985 ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963 she was the youngest producer, and only female...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=190216 ... Read more