Clone – brand new comedy series coming soon to 91Èȱ¬ Three
Cast and crew
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Jonathan Pryce (Victor)
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Jonathan studied at RADA and, on graduating, joined the Liverpool Everyman Theatre Company – where he has been both a performer and artistic director.
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In a career spanning more than three decades, Jonathan has walked the boards for The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Vic, the Royal Court and on Broadway, as well as London's West End.
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He has been awarded both Tony and Olivier Awards – two of which came for his outstanding performance in a musical in Cameron Mackintosh's production of Miss Saigon, both here and across the pond.
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He has co-starred in the film of Glengarry Glen Ross with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon and as Lytton Strachey opposite Emma Thompson in the film Carrington, directed by Christopher Hampton – for which he won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival 1995.
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Jonathan has also played Bond villain Eliot Carver, in Tomorrow Never Dies, as well as appearing in all three Pirates Of The Caribbean films with Johnny Depp, Kiera Knightly, Geoffrey Rush and Orlando Bloom. In December 2006, Jonathan was awarded an honorary doctorate from Liverpool University.
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More recently, Jonathan appeared in Leatherheads, directed by George Clooney, and My Zinc Bed, for 91Èȱ¬ Two, in which he co-starred with Uma Thurman and Paddy Considine.
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Stuart McLoughlin (Clone)
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Stuart McLoughlin's previous television work includes the Dickens classic Little Dorrit (91Èȱ¬ One) and Waking The Dead (91Èȱ¬ One).
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His numerous stage appearances range from A Matter Of Life And Death and Coram Boy at the National Theatre, The Odyssey at the Lyric Theatre and the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Brief Encounter.
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He also appeared in the 2007 film Elizabeth The Golden Age, which starred Cate Blanchett.
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Mark Gatiss (Colonel Black)
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Mark Gatiss is one of the most recognisable actors on screen today. He is most famous as one quarter of the League Of Gentleman, achieving massive success with three series and a Christmas special for 91Èȱ¬ Two, and the cinema smash The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, as well as book releases and stage show spin-offs.
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His other TV appearances include: Doctor Who (91Èȱ¬ One); Sense And Sensibility (91Èȱ¬ One); playing Mole in Wind In The Willows (91Èȱ¬ One); two series of cult comedy Nighty Night (91Èȱ¬ Three); Fear Of Fanny (91Èȱ¬ Four), based on the lives of Johnny and Fanny Craddock; and the much acclaimed series Funland (91Èȱ¬ Three).
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As well as the League Of Gentlemen film, Mark's other big-screen credits include: Starter For Ten; The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy; and Bright Young Things. An accomplished author, Mark has written a number of books including The Devil In Amber and The Vesuvius Club.
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He is also an avid Doctor Who fan and is only the second person to both write and appear in TV episodes of the hit 91Èȱ¬ One series.
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He has also written two of Doctor Who's most popular episodes, and narrates the Doctor Who Confidential series for 91Èȱ¬ Three.
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Oliver Maltman (Ian)
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Oliver is a rising comedy actor whose recent successes include two series of Star Stories (Channel 4), the spoof celebrity parody show where he played David Beckham, Bob Geldof, George Harrison and Sir Anthony Hopkins.
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His other TV work includes: The Bill (ITV1) and The Inspector Linley Mysteries (91Èȱ¬ One). His film credits include the Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky and Exorcist – The Beginning, directed by Paul Schrader.
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Oliver was most recently seen on The Kevin Bishop Show on Channel 4.
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Fiona Glascott (Rose)
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Fiona, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, has performed extensively in theatre, film and TV. She's appeared in Foyle's War on ITV and in US feature film The Deal, with William H Macy and Meg Ryan.
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West End theatre appearances include the role of Nicola in Hitchcock Blonde at The Lyric Theatre, and as Alma Mahler with Anthony Sher in Mahler's Conversion at The Aldwych Theatre.
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She also played Maggie in the original cast of Whipping It Up, directed by Terry Johnson.
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Television credits include a wide range of work for both the 91Èȱ¬ and ITV including Ballykissangel, Poirot, Murder In Suburbia, The Long Firm and The Bill – as well as playing Cathy in the dramatisation of Omagh.
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Adam Chase (Executive producer and writer)
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After graduating from Northwestern University in Illinois, Adam Chase headed for Hollywood where his first job was being a runner for Oscar-winning writer/director James L Brooks. It was through James that Adam landed his first job as a writer on the ABC sitcom Phenom.
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Luckily for Adam, that show was cancelled and the next job he took was on a show called Friends. Adam was part of the original writing staff for Friends and he worked on the show for the first six seasons – going on to executive produce seasons four, five and six.
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Adam has been nominated for four Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series as part of the Friends writing staff. In addition, he won two People's Choice awards for Best Comedy Series for seasons five and six.
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He met Ash Atalla when they were both judges on the sitcom writing competition The Last Laugh on 91Èȱ¬ Three. The two became friends and decided to produce a show together – Clone is the result.
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Ash Atalla (Executive producer)
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Producer and writer Ash Atalla is best known for producing the hugely successful comedy series The Office. The brilliantly observed satire about ordinary office life in a Slough paper mill hit a nerve with the public and went on to win a raft of awards over its three-year run, including two Golden Globes, three Baftas and three British Comedy Awards to name but a few.
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Ash joined talkbackTHAMES in 2004 as Head of Comedy and went on to executive produce the "off-the-wall" science spoof, Look Around You, for 91Èȱ¬ Two, starring Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper, and executive produced the third series of Bo Selecta!.
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In 2005, he devised and began work on Man Stroke Woman, a comedy sketch show about growing up – he made a second series in 2006. He has also produced two series of the Bafta -nominated series The IT Crowd, written by Graham Linehan at talkbackTHAMES. A third series is underway.
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As well as having a column in The Guardian, Ash has also been a script editor on the first series of the 91Èȱ¬ Two show Comedy Nation and has done a turn in front of the camera as presenter of Channel 4's Freak Out.
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He is a frequent contributor to various publications and guests on TV and Radio shows and is also an industry panelist.
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Ash set up his own independent production company, Roughcut Television, in January 2007. He is currently executive producing a variety of new projects for all the major UK broadcasters.
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