Over the years since we started preparing students for drama school entry, over 150 people have been through drama school training. Many have found work in the profession as technicians or performers. Daniel Higgot - sound technician, has secured positions throughout the West End and at The RNT. This includes work on sound for the infamous Blue Man Group! Emily Blunt left us to go straight into the business and after taking a lead role in the movie The Devil Wears Prada with Merryl Streep, she has gone forward to even greater Hollywood movie success. Not only that, she is dating Canadian heartthrob crooner, Michael Bouble. Writer Paul Sellar goes from strength to strength with his latest and acclaimed plays Two Graves and World’s End which both transferred to ‘Town’. Ryan Hawley’s first job out of drama school was a lead in the RNT’s The History Boys. It is getting quite difficult to keep track of what everybody is up to so if you have news or updates, please send, pics, reviews and information to us here at info@hurtwood.net and we will post them on the web.
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Hans Zimmer
hundreds of nominations
two Golden Globes
one Grammy
one
Oscar!
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Emily Blunt. Hurtwood 2001Emily`s career has gone from strength to strength since she left us and went straight to agent; Ken Mcreddie after we invited them up to Edinburgh to see her in a show written by ex-student, Paul Sellar (Hurtwood 1986). Within months she was sharing the stage with Dame Judi Dench in The Royal Family directed by Ternor Nunn and is currently playing at your local cinema and, we hear, tipped for an award for The Devil Wears Prada. Other movies include My Summer of Love (Best Newcomer Award) and Irresistible with Susan Sarandon. Up and coming for Emily is the heroine in – Wind Chill by George Clooney and Stephen Soderberg and The Great Buck Howard with John Malkovich She has also been working recently with none other than Tom Hanks and his son.
Ali Sichilongo
Ali Sichilongo Hurtwood 1993
Ali was with us in 1993, and Involved himself in every project possible on the stage. Then he went off to Uni to study law. But Ali couldn`t resist doing what he loved best and in 1996 joined Central School of Speech and Drama. Since then he has played at The Royal National Theatre, in shows directed by Nicholas Hytner and Suzy Adriani. Ali has also appeared on numerous TV shows including a stint on Eastenders.
Michael Price. Hurtwood 1986. LAMDA 1988
You may recognise Michael from early series of Hollyoakes and Holby City. Michael was one of our first students to get into drama school. He left us way back in 1988 to attend LAMDA. He has also appeared at The Royal Court and Bristol Old Vic
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Jenna Harrison known to her school mates here as Clare, joined Emily Blunt in signing with agent Ken Mcreddie straight from Hurtwood. She too has had extensive TV, film and stage exposure since then and has also managed to front her own band. Whilst at Hurtwood, Jenna rarely missed an oppotunity to take the mic in concerts and showcases in addition to to straight acting parts
Jenna`s first major TVappearance was in My Brother Tom. By coincidence, she starred opposite actor Adrian Rawlins, who directs and works with us her when not engaged elsewhere. Adrian shares the same agent as her and Emily
Whilst not otherwise engaged Adrian, or
H as we know him, enjoys working with
our students on their acting. ‘H’ has had a huge stage Film and TV career and will not thank me for mentioning that he also plays Harry Potter’s Dad in the Harry Potter films
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Actor\writer - Jack Huston. Jack was at Hurtwood with Emily Blunt in 2001 and like Emily, skipped drama school and went directly into The Business. He ended up in Hollywood where he has appeared in Factory Girl with Sienna Miller. Jack is also engaged in completing his movie script Blood Relatives. Other projects include: Shrink (currently shooting). Boogie Woogie (Out soon). Outlander, Miss Austen Regrets (TV).
The Garden of Eden, Shrooms, Neighbourhood Watch and even Spartacus!! (2004 version of course!)
 
Samantha Whitaker. 2002
Sam left us and, like Emily, went straight to an agent, skipping drama school altogether. She has had an excellent run of work over the last couple of years on stage and screen. One of her jobs was with Tom above, when she played Ophelia in Trevor Nunn`s Hamlet at The Old Vic.
Samantha Whitaker
Tom Mison, Graduated from the late Webber Douglas Academy to work on stage and screen. When not otherwise engaged with acting work, Tom does some one to one acting coaching at Hurtwood. Otherwise Tom has worked with Trevor Nunn at The Old Vic and numerous appearances at the Royal National Theatre. Since then his film and TV career has really started to take off. Roles include: Lost in Austen (TV mini series). Out There.
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (with Billie Piper). Heroes and Villains, The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, Entente Cordiale and Mysterious Island (TV). The only problem with his success is that we get to see him here less often.
Tom Mison
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Congratulations to Sol Heras(Hurtwood 04-06)who has landed the lead role in ITV's new drama from Shed productions, described as "a worthy successor to Footballer’s Wives", it depicts a fascinating fictional world behind the scenes of a blockbuster TV talent contest.
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Congratulations to Emily Beecham (Hurtwood 2000-01) on her principal role in a recent episode of Lewis and in the 2007 film 28 Weeks Later. Other work includes: The Calling (out soon). The Bill, Deadly Intent, New Tricks, Rise of the Footsoldier, Miss Marple and TV mini Series Bon Voyage.
 
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| Jessie Walters(hurtwood 2001-03)
Jessie has her own circus company, started after turning down a place at Cambridge!!
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William El-Gardi (Jemal)
William trained at Mountview Academy. Recent theatre credits include Failed States (Pleasance Theatre) and Time of the Tortoise (Theatre 503). William also recently completed national tours of: Tangier Tattoo with Glyndebourne Opera House; OneFourSeven with the Dende Collective/Lyric Hammersmith, and a Welsh national tour of Flowers From Tunisia with Theatre Ibyd/Theatre Clwyd. Other theatre includes Laters with Rikki Beadle-Blaire (Tristan Bates); Release The Beat-The Musical (Arcola Theatre); Funky Stuff, (Kingshead Theatre). In Film and TV, William has recently completed guest roles in the The Bill, the new BBC series Whistleblowers, and Channel 4’s new drama Saddam’s Tribe. Other recent credits include Last Flight to Kuwait for the BBC, a lead role in the BBC/HBO film Dirty War, and Danish Dogma feature, Brothers with Suzanne Beir. |
