Many zoos take part in breeding programs to help this species survive.
368 of these Macaque are reported to live in zoos.
Sadie Frost
Sadie Frost (born 19 June 1965) is an English actress. She runs fashion label Frost French.
Frost starred in a Jelly Tots advertisement at the age of 3. She won a scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy.
But after an early eating disorder, she gave up acting at 13. She attended Hampstead School.
As an actress, Frost has acted in: "Press Gang" and "Casualty". Frost and her first husband Gary Kemp starred together in the 1990s film "The Krays". Frost and Kemp were married for 5 years. They divorced on 19 August 1995.
In 2004, she wrote and presented a short lived series "What Sadie did next..." for E4. In 2005, she appeared in "Eating with...Sadie Frost" on BBC2. In March 2006, Frost flew to South Africa to part-fund an orphanage for the Homes of Hope project.
She met Jude Law when they were both working on the film "Shopping". They married on 2 September 1997 and had three children.
Frost and Law divorced on 29 October 2003.
Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed, OBE (born 9 October 1936) is an English actor.
The son of William Blessed, a socialist miner, and Hilda Wall, Blessed was born at the Montague Hospital in the town of Mexborough, Yorkshire. He attended Bolton on Dearne Secondary Modern School, but after his father suffered an industrial accident, he was forced to leave school early at 14 and spent several years working at a variety of jobs, ranging from undertaker to plasterer's assistant. He completed his National Service as a parachutist in the Royal Air Force. He began his acting training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, alongside Patrick Stewart. He has written about his early life in his autobiography, "Dynamite Kid" (1992).
An early role was that of PC "Fancy" Smith in the BBC police drama "Z-Cars" from 1962 to 1965. In 1966, Blessed appeared in "Incident at Vichy" at the Phoenix Theatre in London. Blessed had small roles in such cult shows as "The Avengers" (1967, 1969) and the original "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" (1969). He portrayed Caesar Augustus in the BBC series "I, Claudius". He portrayed Basileos in the BBC mini-series Michael J. Bird's The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979). He portrayed the father of Robin Hood, Lord Locksley, in the blockbuster "" (1991).
He has appeared in a number of Shakespearean roles on both stage and screen, including four of the five Shakespeare films directed by Kenneth Branagh: as The Duke of Exeter in "Henry V" (1989), Antonio in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993), The Ghost of Hamlet's Father in "Hamlet" (1996), and the dual role of Duke Frederick and Duke Senior in "As You Like It" (2006). He also provided the voices of Bob in the animated series "Kika & Bob" (2008) and Grampy Rabbit in "Peppa Pig".
He also hosted the 1978 documentary on the life of Johann Sebastian Bach called "The Joy of Bach" in which he also portrayed Bach in different vignettes in this documentary.
Other roles have emphasised his comedic abilities: notably Prince Vultan in "Flash Gordon" (1980) – for which he is frequently remembered for the famous line "Gordon's alive!"; the mad, comic figure of Richard IV in the first series of "The Black Adder" (1983); and Spiro in the BBC adaptation of "My Family and Other Animals" (1987). He also played the role of General Yevlenko in the miniseries "War and Remembrance" (1988). Blessed jokes he almost starred in "Blackadder II" (1986) as Queen Elizabeth but he wasn't available at the time of filming.
He provided the vocal links on the Sony-Award-winning Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio and introduced adverts for Orange mobile phones. At Christmas 2006, he presented a panto "Cinderella" for Virgin Radio starring actors such as David Tennant and Thandie Newton. In November 2006, Blessed made a surprise appearance on the midday talk show "Loose Women". Also, he is featured reading the story "The White City, Part 1" which is the final piece on the album "". Blessed was also the voice of Jean Valjean in "Focus on the Family Radio Theatre's" audio dramatic adaptation of Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables".
Blessed has also starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats" as both Old Deuteronomy and Bustopher Jones during the original West End theatre production. In 2002, under the direction of Royal Shakespeare Company director Adrian Noble, Blessed originated the role of Baron Bomburst for the stage musical version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
During December 2005 to January 2006, Blessed headlined the pantomime production of "Peter Pan", alongside CBBC Television presenter Kirsten O'Brien at the Regent Theatre in Ipswich. In late 2007 and early 2008, Blessed starred in the panto version of "Peter Pan" as Captain Hook at the Grove Theatre in Dunstable. He played the same role again in "Peter Pan" in late 2007, early 2008 and again at Christmas 2008 at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon.
Blessed was the narrator of the Sky1 series "Crash Test Dummies", starring Steve Marsh and Dan Wright.
Since October 2008, Blessed presents the UK showings of the Japanese gameshow "Unbeatable Banzuke" on the Challenge channel under the name "Banzuke Brian". He also guest hosted episodes of "Have I Got News for You" in May 2008 and April 2013.
In 2009, Blessed played the world's worst explorer, Sir Basil Champion – a character based upon Blessed's fictional inspiration, "The Lost World's" Professor Challenger – in the fourth story in "The Scarifyers" series, "The Curse of the Black Comet". The story was broadcast on BBC7 in 2010.
In November 2009, Blessed starred in a series of online videos on the BBC Comedy website in which he played Henry VIII. The concept of the video series is that the Tudor king is alive & well, and living in a suburban semi with his long-suffering sixth wife Catherine Parr. Henry has embraced modern technology and lives his life online – insulting the King of France on Facebook, surfing for desirable women friends, and blocking the Pope on Twitter.
In late 2009, Blessed starred as the Narrator in the In the Wings production of "Peter and the Wolf" at the New Victory Theater, New York.
After a successful campaign on social networking site Facebook, satnav manufacturer TomTom recorded Brian Blessed's voice as an option for those using its satnav devices; Blessed's voice has been available in devices since October 2010.
In September 2010, Blessed recorded the voiceover to "Sheherazade, or The Princess, the Pirate and the Baboon!", an album of children's stories set to the classical music composition "Scheherazade" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and also featuring the voices of Rory Bremner, Jess Murphy, Sam Morris and Nigel Garton. Brian voiced the role of the Great Sultan Shahryār; the album was released as the first in a series entitled "Grandma Dingley's Ingeniously Musical Tales" in March 2011.
In 2013, Blessed starred in an advertising campaign for the New Zealand bank ASB playing a fictionalised version of himself encouraging the humble population to be proud of their achievements whether big or small.
Blessed has attempted to climb Mount Everest three times, getting to 28,200 feet in 1993 and 25,200 feet in 1996, but never reaching the summit. He has reached the summit of Aconcagua, in Argentina, and Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania. He is the oldest man to trek on foot to the magnetic North Pole, and has undertaken an expedition deep into the jungles of Venezuela.
Blessed has an honorary position as official Shoutsperson of the University of York's Douglas Adams Society, and in 2011 the University's student body voted to name a new study space as the 'Brian Blessed Centre for Quiet Study'.