News about Morwenna Banks

Slow Horses writer Will Smith pokes fun at namesake's Oscar slap during funny moment at 2024 Emmy Awards

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 16, 2024
Sunday was a big night for writer Will Smith , who took home his third Emmy Award and poked fun at the famous movie star of the same name as well. The 53-year-old British writer and comedian previously earned to Emmys as a producer on HBO 's Veep, and won his third for Outstanding Writing For a Drama Series for his Apple TV Plus series Slow Horses. When he took to the stage at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles , Smith poked some fun at the now-infamous 2022 Oscar slap by the other, more famous Will Smith.

Gemma Arterton shows off her legs in a thigh-skimming black minidress as she joins co-star Alexa Davies and Morwenna Banks for a special screening of Funny Woman

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 29, 2024
The actress, 38, who stars as Barbara Parker in the comedy-drama, is set to appear on television screens once again as the second series is scheduled to premiere on September 6.  During the special screening of series two, Gemma looked nothing short of sensational as she put on a leggy display in a mini black dress. 

With enough actors to fill the Palladium, a Christie classic crammed to bursting

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 10, 2023
Hugh Laurie's address book must be kept. If he chooses to chuckle in the acting lark, he could make a fortune as an impresario, and the majority of British actors respond to his calls. The cast list for Why Didn't They Ask Evans (ITV), the Agatha Christie film that he adapted and directed, is crammed with enough top names to fill the London Palladium. Emma Thompson and Jim Broadbent were introduced as a bickering pair of long-married couples, Conleth Hill as a golf-loving doctor, and Morwenna Banks as a narcotic banker. Paul Whitehouse and Miles Jupp, as well as Laurie herself, will be performing.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Why listen to anyone else Amanda when you can talk about yourself!

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 10, 2023
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Sabrina is the inspiration for Gemma Arterton's bubbly adolescent actress Barbara in Funny Woman, which is based on British film actress Diana Dors. Barbara is up for a challenge, irreverent and sarcastic. She also has the double-Davantages that made Sabrina so briefly celebrated. No wonder the post-war showbiz establishment hasn't had no idea what to do with her. Funny Woman, with a Morwenna Banks stinging script, revels in all the raunchy sexism of the 1960s while mocking the guys who assumed every attractive female figure was topped off by a head full of air.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Earl Mord, the disgraced sex pest in a tumultuous bust up at a private London club, is disgraced

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 19, 2022
RICHARD EDEN: Simon Bowes-Lyon, 19th Earl of Strathmore (not pictured), was recently in an altercation after being released from jail, where he served a five-month term for sexual assault. Jemima Goldsmith (pictured far right) has been spotted with a mysterious man in other news. Tom Wheeler, a 25-year-old filmmaker who works inset center, has received critical praise for his latest film. Actor Tilda Swinton (inset top) claims she is an imposter in Hollywood, though actress Hayley Mills (pictured far left) has expressed regret for not spending more time with her family.