Sylvia (2003) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Director: a list of 37 titles created 16 Oct 2012 a list of 49 titles created 23 Sep 2013 a list of 29 titles created 01 Dec 2013 a list of 28 titles created 08 May 2014 a list of 48 titles created 18 May 2014 Search for " Sylvia " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. A talented professor is forced to come to terms with her clinical depression. Director: Sandra Nettelbeck A woman has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

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Director: James Gray A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel. Director: Peter Howitt Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a ... See full summary » Director: Peter Sehr A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant. Director: Bruno Barreto This film is based on true events that happened on Achill Island off the West coast of Ireland, in The Valley House. Director: Cathal Black Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. Director: Roger Michell Edit Storyline In 1956, aspiring American poet Sylvia Plath meets fellow poet Edward Ted Hughes at Cambridge, where she is studying. Enthralled with the genius of his writing, Sylvia falls in love with him even before meeting him, and he quickly falls in love with her. They eventually marry. Sylvia quickly learns that others are also enthralled with her husband, for a combination of his good looks, charisma, fame and success.

Sylvia lives in her husband's professional shadow as she tries to eke out her own writing career, which doesn't come as naturally to her as it does to Ted. She also suspects him of chronic infidelity. Both issues affect Sylvia's already fragile emotional state, she who once tried to commit suicide earlier in her life. Through her pain and her anger, she does gain minor success as a writer, with a completed semi-autobiographical novel and a few well received collection of poems. Following, she tries to regain some happiness in her life with Ted, but has an alternate plan if that... Written by Huggo Life was too small to contain her... Genres: Rated R for sexuality/nudity and language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 31 October 2003 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Ted and Sylvia See more » Filming Locations: $58,940 (USA) (17 October 2003) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Most of the extras in the opening scenes in Cambridge were, like Sylvia Plath herself, students of the University of Cambridge.

See more » Goofs Ted Hughes is already wearing a band on his left ring finger when he asks Sylvia Plath to marry him. See more » Quotes [first lines] Sylvia : Sometimes I dream the tree, and the tree is my life. One branch is the man I shall marry, and the leaves my children. Another branch is my future as a writer, and each leaf is a poem. Another branch is a good academic career. But as I sit there trying to choose, the leaves bring to turn brown and blow away, until the tree is absolutely bare. (New York City) – See all my reviews When I rented this movie, I thought it would be about Sylvia's entire life, or at least starting from her days at Smith College. I didn't realize that her marriage with Ted Hughes would be the entire storyline. I think this movie would've been better had they shown more about Plath's life BEFORE Ted Hughes. For people who don't really know much about Plath and her poetry, understanding her life before Hughes would've made the film much more substantial.

The audience has to realize that Plath led a very, very hard mental life even before she met Hughes, and her ideas for her poetry and 'The Bell Jar' mostly originated from her bachelorette days. She never recovered from her depression as a young woman and it branched out still as she married Hughes. Without understanding Plath from the beginning hinders the audience from understanding Plath at all. I feel like the movie only told half the story. Plath's mind was beautiful, colorful, and brilliant. It wasn't just about the jealousy, depression, and paranoia. Putting her works on the back burner really took away most of this movie. I would've liked to see more narration by Plath and giving us an insight into her mind, the way her unabridged journals do. However, I really enjoyed the dialogue of this movie; the lines were poetic and beautiful. Unfortunately, I am still waiting for a better Sylvia Plath movie. I recommend people to read 'The Bell Jar' and 'Ariel' before or after seeing this movie though. 36 of 45 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes The Mother (2003) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A woman has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter. Director: a list of 25 titles created 03 Oct 2010 a list of 35 titles created 31 May 2011 a list of 42 titles created 15 Nov 2011 a list of 31 titles created 16 May 2014 a list of 32 titles created 19 Nov 2015 Search for " The Mother " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 11 nominations.

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Director: Douglas McGrath Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a ... See full summary » Director: Peter Sehr This film is based on true events that happened on Achill Island off the West coast of Ireland, in The Valley House. Director: Cathal Black Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, ... See full summary » Director: Benoît Jacquot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.6/10 X Eddie, a Chicago cop on the edge, goes undercover as hitman. A man and a mysterious woman want him to kill a merciless New Orleans criminal kingpin. The sting goes sour and Eddie's partner is killed. All Eddie wants now is revenge. Director: Richard Pearce Edit Storyline Toots and May's marriage is one of Toots being dependent on his wife.

Shortly after Toots and May arrive in London to visit with their grown children Bobby and Paula and their respective children, Toots falls ill and dies. Toots' death brings to the surface the underlying strain that has always existed between May and both of her two children, and the unhappy lives they have all led. Now specifically with Paula, May is disapproving of her relationship with a construction worker named Darren. Not only does May think his occupation makes him beneath Paula, he's also a married man. Darren is in an unsatisfying marriage but doesn't want to leave it if only because of his son. Even after May gets to know and like Darren, she still encourages Paula to break up with him. The issue is is that May herself has fallen in love with Darren, the two who begin a sexual relationship. What will ultimately happen between May and Darren also depends on Darren, who is floundering in his own life and ... Written by Huggo It can take a lifetime to feel alive.

Genres: Drama | Romance Motion Picture Rating ( MPAA ) Rated R for sexual content including graphic images of sexuality, language and brief drug use | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 18 June 2004 (USA) See more » Also Known As: £59,077 (UK) (14 November 2003) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Filmed entirely on location. Daytime scenes were filmed using only natural light. For night time scenes, the crew again used as many practicals as possible (table lamps, fixtures already at the location, etc.) rather than rigging large lighting kits that would have required a generator (the crew did not use one). See more » Goofs When May is telling Darren about her affair and just before she asks him to take her to bed, Darren does not have a carpenter's pencil in his ear. When we see him a few moments later, the pencil is over his ear. See more » Quotes (Ottawa, Canada) – See all my reviews Of all the films I have seen this year (2004), none has affected me as deeply and personally as "The Mother", and on so many levels.

For one thing, watching May deal with the grief and loss and sudden disorientation of widowhood, I could not help wondering how my own mother will cope when the time comes, as it surely must, for her and indeed for all of us. But, as May's story unfolded, it was my own sense of grief and loss and disorientation that I experienced anew. May and I share something in common: not widowhood, but age, or rather the loss of youth, and the invisibility and untouchability that come with age. I could relate to May's need for passion, her need to be loved, her need, not so much for sex, but simply to be touched. But as we grow older, we are ironically shut out and shunted aside and denied the very thing our souls cry out for. (Note: There are some disturbing and shocking images of sexuality in "The Mother", but don't let them put you off and blind you to the real message of the film.) May, at least, rediscovers another passion within -- to create art -- and so is able to live again. Not all of us are so fortunate.

In this respect, I identify more with May's daughter Paula who, when love and passion fail and die, feels that her creative expression is no longer valid and worthwhile, and destroys her works in a fit of despair. May is a woman in her late 60s; I am a gay man in my late 40s. Yet our stories are similar in so many ways. What May experiences in a matter of weeks, I have felt over the past decade. My passion has yet to be rediscovered. It is no accident that "The Mother" was scripted by Hanif Kureishi, who gave us "My Beautiful Laundrette", a love story about two gay men in the flower of youth. "The Mother" is at the other end of the spectrum, a story about age and the denial of passion. To paraphrase the title of another Kureishi film, "The Mother" might aptly be titled "Sammy and Rosie Get Old". 63 of 71 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Craig. Daniel Craig. - Boston.com Craig. Daniel Craig.

That same year in 2003, Craig starred in "Sylvia," a biopic about Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow, right) in which he played Ted Hughes, Plath's poet husband. (Universal Studios) Daniel Craig: The tougher the better | Film | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close I meet Daniel Craig outside the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, which is closed for the time being while they hang their next show. I am standing calmly by the railings when Craig walks up to me, fast, shakes my hand and carries on, barely breaking stride. We've arranged to go for a walk, it's true, but there's no dallying with him, no dithering over direction or discussing of destination. We talk about the war - a subject about which Craig is very exercised. He has been reading every newspaper and is addicted to the rolling news. American imperialism, the fact that no one listens to dissenting voices despite the marches and demonstrations, the dubious role of Dick Cheney's company in the planned reconstruction of Iraq, the selective quotation of Hans Blix's report by Jack Straw - all of it falls within minutes into the span of Craig's hyperactive attention.

'You know those West End shows that are obviously awful, and they edit the reviews to make them sound good? Like "A phenomenal... evening... out" when what they've really said is "phenomenally bad... worst evening of my life... not worth going out for..." Well, that was what Jack Straw was like reading out Hans Blix!' Craig surges purposefully forward through the park, his hands gesticulating in spasms of urgency, his talk littered with expletives, until we've reached the other side and he stops dead in a crowded street. 'Where are we going?' he asks, suddenly bewildered. 'Harvey Nichols?' Harvey Nichols - which, since we are nowhere near it, I assume he means metaphorically - was not the plan, so we march back into the park again until we find a place to have tea and scones. This feverish personality is, according to his friend William Boyd, who directed him in The Trench, 'One of our best actors.' On screen, he exerts a supreme amount of control, releasing emotions in the most subtle of ways.

His face is slightly rugged without being steely - in some lights it looks handsomely sculpted, in others that of a life-worn boxer. His eyes are a lethal blue - when you see them on celluloid they seem too pale and too strange not to carry some meaning. Now, as he talks, they are animated or watery or screwed up into a grimace. Craig is a commanding, powerful actor. Seen back to back, his film roles show off an extraordinary range, and an exceptional grasp of rawness and complication. Many will know him best as the hapless Geordie Peacock, living hand-to-mouth in the TV series Our Friends in the North. Others will have seen him more recently, playing Paul Newman's cold, murderous son in Sam Mendes's Hollywood gangster movie, Road to Perdition. In between, he has portrayed a schizophrenic (Some Voices), a physicist (Werner Heisenberg in the TV adaptation of Copenhagen), an army sergeant during the Battle of the Somme (The Trench), and Francis Bacon's sado-masochistic lover (Love is the Devil).

Last year he appeared on stage opposite Michael Gambon at the Royal Court, where Stephen Daldry directed him in Caryl Churchill's new play A Number - Craig played three different cloned brothers and each was recognisable as soon as he appeared on stage. Later this year he will be seen in a Roger Michell/Hanif Kureishi film, The Mother, in which his character has an affair with a 65-year-old woman, and, early next year, in the role that is set to indisputably reveal his talent to the world, he plays Ted Hughes in the biopic Ted and Sylvia, opposite Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath. They have just finished shooting the film when we meet. So far, Craig has only seen a brief trailer made for the cast from the rushes. 'It looks like it's going to be a sad movie,' he says, 'but what can you do about that?' The shoot itself didn't take place at the happiest of times: Paltrow's father had died not long before. 'That brings a reality into it,' Craig says. 'It was very upsetting. I don't think the filming process itself was upsetting - it was just too big a deal.

I don't know how she coped really. She did brilliantly. And her mum was there, Blythe Danner. She plays Plath's mum in the movie.' Craig's is a role he is understandably a little nervous about. 'There's quite a bit of pressure riding on it,' he says. 'And also just the whole shit that goes with it - you know, the hatred directed at Ted Hughes. People are still scrawling "pig" on his grave.' Craig clearly has a good deal of sympathy for Hughes - he has firm beliefs about the reasons behind his behaviour towards Plath, though he's not sure how much of this will come through in the film, as it is told through Plath's eyes. I ask him if he always has to sympathise with the characters he plays, and he says not at all, it's just that he feels no one can judge the relationship between Hughes and Plath because 'ultimately, within a relationship there's an unknown, which is just about those two people.

You know, when you have friends who split up, the worst thing you can do is get involved.' It's an indication of Craig's intelligent brand of acting that he has humanised the famous couple, turned them into intimates, while standing back and allowing them some privacy. 'I spoke to this wonderful lady, Elizabeth Sigmund, who was a friend of Plath's - The Bell Jar is dedicated to her - and I said, "Come on, you've got to tell me. What were they like when they were together?" She said, "You couldn't put a cigarette paper between them. They were inseparable." And that meant so much to me. I genuinely believe that even if he did have affairs, it was part of a relationship - he wasn't a serial polygamist. He was in love with Sylvia, and he was always in love with Sylvia.' As a young boy, Craig heard Hughes give a reading at the girl's grammar school down the road from him in Liverpool. But far from being in awe of the man, Craig found the performance hilariously boring. 'I mean, bless him, he didn't read poetry particularly well.

It was just this monotone crap.' Craig puts on a Northern accent so low and gloomy you can barely hear words between the mumbles: 'This is called Crow. Crow sits in... duh duh duh... Blood and otters... Birth and death... thank you very much.' He bursts out laughing. In truth, though, Craig has examined Hughes's accent a little more closely than that, and found in the voice itself a minor tragedy. 'If you listen to it,' he says, 'his accent does not exist. Nowhere on earth does that accent exist - it's absolutely peculiar to Ted Hughes. He came down from Yorkshire and went to Cambridge and, of course, he got rid of it. What he did was he flattened it out. It's his interpretation of what a posh accent should sound like, but not too posh because he's from the north. It's bizarre - and heartbreaking. Feeling that you have to mask it and not mask it.' I ask Craig what's happened to his own accent - there's certainly no trace of Liverpool left. 'Exactly!' he cries. 'Exachtly! What has happened to it?

It's gone!' He says he arrived in London when the 'classless' accent was still a fairly posh one. 'Believe me, I know. I even grew my fringe long.' Looking at his feathery blond crew cut this seems quite unlikely, and he explains: 'Well, you know, when I left drama school it was Merchant Ivory or nothing!' But did he get those sorts of roles? 'Nah. I think they figured out that I was common as muck.' Craig was born in Chester in 1968, and brought up in Liverpool. His mother went to Liverpool Art College and his stepfather, who appeared in his life after his parents divorced when Craig was 'four, five, six' (he is vague on this), is a painter called Max Blond. He's clearly close to Blond, and sees a lot of his father, too. 'We're off to Dublin next weekend to watch the last game of the Six Nations,' he says. Craig is a secret rugby fan.

'It's not the coolest thing in the world to like, but I've been watching it since I was a kid.' He used to wonder what his dad's weekends in Dublin were all about, and now he knows: 'Your feet don't touch the ground.' His mother's social life revolved around the Liverpool Everyman, where she knew set designers and other people, at a time when Julie Walters and Bernard Hill were performing there regularly. Craig used to go along with his older sister and became fascinated by the theatre. 'Then, by the time I was 15 and I was failing miserably at school, my mum obviously thought, "Why won't this smelly eating machine leave my house?"' She saw an advertisement for the National Youth Theatre and, before long, Craig was in London being given choice acting roles at 17 and doing odd jobs while he applied to drama school. Craig married a Scottish actress and singer when he was 23 and has a 10-year-old daughter. He is divorced and has been living in northwest London for the past seven years with Heike Makatsch, a German actress he met on the set of a European film called Obsession.

Makatsch is something of a star in Germany, and has made a few films here. What promises to be her British breakthrough is due out later this year - Richard Curtis's directorial debut, Love Actually. In many ways, however, 'breakthrough' roles are just a cliché. Craig, for example, has done some work in Hollywood and there was 'Oscar buzz', which came to little, around Road to Perdition. But he knows his best work might not necessarily be generated in the city of angels. Though he's wary of being too rude about Tomb Raider, he makes no bones about the fact that he couldn't find anything challenging in his role as Angelina Jolie's boyfriend. He likes it when 'The whole thing comes together - reading the script, meeting the director, and thinking: this is interesting because it's a bit weird. The thing is, you start getting, let's say a bit more famous, and suddenly you get more scripts offered to you. So it all gets a bit more confusing and I'm not very clever, you see.' The key here is that Craig chooses parts because they're 'a bit weird', and it's clear from his performances that he thrives on that edge.

In Love is the Devil, his character is said to have 'a combination of amorality and innocence'. In one scene, he and Derek Jacobi (who plays Francis Bacon) get undressed, slowly, ritually. Jacobi bends over the bed, Craig winds a belt around his fist. The camera closes in on them as he picks up his cigarette and stubs it out on Jacobi's flesh. Craig exudes a touchpaper combination of tenderness and violence. In The Trench, there is a key scene in which the buttoned-up sergeant Craig plays offers one of his men some of his wife's homemade jam. The soldier refuses and Craig tries to persuade him, thrusting the jar into his face. As he sits back down, dejected and furiously spooning the jam into his mouth, the camera lingers on him, his face expressing all the lost warmth of home. The film's director William Boyd is particularly proud of this scene, and says Craig has 'an amazing ability to express emotion of the most poignant kind as well as the most vehement kind. Not all leading men have that - they can do the tough stuff, but they can't always do both.' Craig says that taking risks remains more important to him than making money.

'I'd like to be able to just earn money and stay comfortable. I mean, you could price yourself out of the market. And you can do too much, and you can be on the screen too much, and can I have the rest of your clotted cream?' It's incredible Craig is so controlled on screen, because you get the feeling he must find it hard to sit still. His fingernails are short, he fidgets, his hands working overtime to cover up his face as he cringes over something he's said. He's constantly undercutting himself with a little alter-ego voice that takes the piss and everything is expressed at a mile-a-minute. He says if you become bitter and twisted as an actor you've lost the point, and when I ask what the point is, he begins an interrupted disquisition. 'Well, I do it because I find it fulfilling and because I believe it has a place in the artistic...' then he splutters, crumbs falling out of his mouth along with the inevitable expletives. 'I do it because I like showing off!' He explodes into laughter.

Whenever he feels he is in danger of saying something too actorly, Craig says it's 'all bullshit really', or some such, but in between these apologies, he regularly makes observations that range from the sensitive to the subversive. For instance, when I ask him about playing Ray, the schizophrenic in Some Voices, he says that a psychotherapist offered to show him around the Maudsley hospital as part of his research, but Craig felt he couldn't justify the intrusion for the sake of method acting. Instead, he spoke to the psychotherapist, and found ways to understand what schizophrenia feels like, things schizophrenics and so-called sane people might have in common. Later, we end up talking about music - he has been trying to get his daughter to listen to the Rolling Stones, but she's stuck on the Beatles - and he says he hopes there will be a new political voice in music. Not only that, but he hopes he'll have no connection to it whatsoever, because only that way will it really represent a younger generation. He says he never used to have a diary, and now he thinks it's a sign of getting old that he feels this new responsibility to have an affinity with dates. Still, a little chaos reigns.

When he shows me what he calls his diary, I see it's just a blank book in which he's scrawled some days and numbers. I suppose you never know what might happen next. Craig is only 35 and yet he's waiting to be kicked up the ass and called 'oldie', because he's so keen for life (and culture and politics) to renew itself. He welcomes rebellion, courts it even. When we've finished our scones, he gives me a lift to the tube in his clapped-out-and-proud Saab. There's a paperback copy of some Ted Hughes poems on the floor. I accuse him of planting the book, but I know it's the kind of thing he'd never do. It's so verging on pretension that if anything, he'd be embarrassed it was there. Craig laughs and chucks the book over his shoulder, where it lands, somewhere in the back, with a clunk.

Super Reviewer ½ "sylvia" is a mighty bio-piece of the legendary poetess sylvia plath who terminated her own life by sticking her head into an oven, but mainly about her famous/infamous relationship with british laureate ted hughes who firstly achieved fame by his "hawk in the rain"...personally i absolutely cannot buy into the movie's premise that this is one of the most essential romances in 20th century...but to appreciate "sylvia", you've got to hypnotize yourself with such notion. so sylvia plath is a genius woman who's been obssessed with death after her dad passed suddenly when she was 9, then this young lady with such explosively sparkling intelligence falls under the spell of talented ted hughes who has the magnetism to frighten her off with challenging attractiveness as sylvia's mom puts it bluntly. except hughes' extraordinary gift as a poet, he has nothing adequately made for an ideal husband or father: he's a womanizer, an egoist whose priority is not family but his own recognition and he cannot really offer any solid tenderness to her except some momentary stormy passion.

in several scenes of his infidelity, he even angers at her then returns to her later with a brief "sorry, i love you" but still keeps on the same mistakes afterwards. but how about sylvia herself? she's also quite a difficult person with some serious symptoms of paranoia and some severe torments of her death wishes, not easy to get along with, either. it proves one fatal point that if two strong egos build a bond together, the union's doomed to collide into the ruin of one side which is more brittle with stubborn frailty. besides, why brilliant woman likes to be with such arrogant man to be your "black marauder" (as sylvia herself dubs it in her poem) who mostly takes and rarely gives? why not appreciative gentleman who admires the soils you step upon as talented man always marries submissive woman who's easy to handle? gwyneth paltrow amazes me with her showcasing performances, and before i only thought of her as someone who makes her success by dubbing herself with a tangibly conventional east-coast glamour, a grace-kelly-wanna-be.

the other surprise would be daniel craig as ted hughes, he's much more appealing as hughes than his later smashing role as millennium james bond. his ruggedness and ballistic energy are all demonstrated quite well as his winsome qualities for a leading man. craig serves an effective purpose to romanticize ted hughes in numerous smoldering love scenes with paltrow, and a sizzling feverish spunk could be felt upon him then somehow you could comprehend why she's so much into him. daniel craig's never been as sensual as he is in "sylvia", but since he was not so well-famed then so the focus of "sylvia" is still majorly on paltrow as her vehicle.

in a nutshell, calling the relationship of ted and sylvia one of the essential romances or great loves in 20th century is a hypocritical and absurd idea in spite of all the engrossing intensities the leads have projected on screen, even by watching the movie itself, you could feel this match is bad sass tailored by a woman's compulsively masochistic drive, her own strong need of self-victimization, no wonder of her choice over ted hughes whose second wife also commits sucide in the same way as sylvia plath: head in the oven. besides, it is spoiling enough to have all these literary feuds posed by their separate enthusiastic readers that include those who accuse hughes as chauvinistic asshole who tortures sylvia and those who condemn plath as abrasive psychobitch whose haunting intimidations push her lover away. additionally, some controversial editing problems on hughes' manipulated erase of evidence over sylvia's diaries and parts of her words against him aren't quite plesant to dig into as well. so, wouldn't you find it odd to make an epic romance on a couple of such obvious discord???

Veronique Kwak BBC - Drama - People Index Daniel Craig Daniel Craig Daniel Craig James Bond star, who first made his name in the classic BBC drama Our Friends in the North. Daniel’s film credits range from a hit man's psychotic son in Road to Perdition, a drug dealer in Layer Cake, and a famous poet in Sylvia. After a string of lauded performances, Daniel took on the role of cinematic icon James Bond, debuting in the 2006 movie Casino Royale. He first won acclaim with his performance in the award-winning BBC TWO drama series Our Friends in the North. Set in Newcastle, the series chronicled the turbulent lives of four British friends from 1964 to 1995. Co-star Christopher Eccleston also went on to play a screen icon when he starred in Doctor Who. Daniel performed alongside Bill Nighy in Roger Michell's 2004 thriller, Enduring Love. He also starred in Michell's 2003 film, The Mother. Daniel’s character has an affair with a woman twice his age, played by Anne Reid, whilst also sleeping with her daughter.

From thrillers to tragic romance, Daniel played English poet Ted Hughes to Gwenyth Paltrow's Sylvia Plath in 2003's Sylvia. He also appeared with Angelina Jolie in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. The 2002 adaptation Copenhagen saw Daniel play German physicist Werner Heisenberg. The true story followed Heisenberg's infamous 'nuclear energy' meeting with Niels Bohr (Stephen Rea) in 1941. He went on to play a Bond-esque maverick professor with an eye for adventure in Archangel. Daniel's other BBC credits include The Trench in 1999, and The Ice House in 1997. He made an early TV appearance in the 1993 political satire Drop the Dead Donkey. Remembering poet Sylvia Plath - Telegraph Book news Remembering poet Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath, one of Britain’s most celebrated female poets of the 20th century, was born 80 years ago today. Martha Murphy Badger reviews her legacy.

Image 1 of 6 The only surviving portrait of poet Ted Hughes by his wife Sylvia Plath was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 2005 Photo: PA Image 1 of 6 Gwyneth Paltrow played Sylvia Plath in the film "Sylvia" with actor Daniel Craig who plays her husband Ted Hughes. Photo: Reuters Sylvia Plath Photo: Everett Collection/Rex Features Sylvia Plath's grave in Heptonstall, Yorkshire Photo: David Burges British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, left, and his second wife Carol. Photo: PA By Martha Murphy Badger 8:00AM BST 27 Oct 2012 On October 27th 1932 Sylvia Plath was born in Boston. The wife, mother, poet, novelist and short story writer committed suicide at the age of 30 in 1963. • Plath's death Plath attempted suicide first in 1953 by taking her mother’s sleeping pills. Ten years later, she killed herself in the same Primrose Hill house that Irish poet W.B Yeats lived in during the 19th century (below, her grave in Heptonstall, Yorkshire).

While her two children Nick and Frieda slept - she had sealed the doors with wet towels - she gassed herself in the oven. Her doctor reported: "No-one who saw the care with which the kitchen was prepared could have interpreted her action as anything but an irrational compulsion." • Plath's parents Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar still haunts me 11 Jan 2013 Although famous for her recitation of Daddy, expressing some of the hatred she felt for her father (who died of undiagnosed diabetes when she was eight), she also wrote an affectionate poem about her mother which is less well known. Disquieting Muses describes her mother Aurelia Plath as a kind of Mary Poppins figure: I woke one day to see you, mother, Floating above me in bluest air On a green balloon bright with a million Flowers and bluebirds that never were. Plath who signed letters to her mother as ‘Sivvy’ wrote that she loved her mother "better than anybody".

In ways, Plath tried to emulate her parents; when living in an old farmhouse in north Devon she kept bees as her father had done (see her poem The Swarm for an insight into the dark but honey sweet danger of a hive). • Plath's drawings "I have a visual imagination. For instance, my inspiration is painting and not music when I go to some other art form. I see these things very clearly". Plath was a talented and keen draughtswoman. Her pen and ink drawings show intimate studies from nature and scenes from everyday life. The untitled sketch of a ‘Male in Profile’ is believed to be her husband Ted Hughes drawn in Paris during their honeymoon. It has been said that she has a similar illustrative line to Hockney using a combination of fine marks and crosshatched shading. Her early notes were adorned with drawings that she hoped to include as illustrations for her articles. One such successful example was a drawing of Spanish fishing boats included in a piece she wrote for the Christian Science Monitor in 1956. • Plath's husband When the poet met Ted Hughes at a party she bit him on the cheek drawing blood.

In a 1961 interview, she recalled: “I happened to be at Cambridge. I was sent there by the [US] government on a government grant. And I'd read some of Ted's poems in this magazine and I was very impressed and I wanted to meet him. I went to this little celebration and that's actually where we met. Then we saw a great deal of each other. Ted came back to Cambridge and suddenly we found ourselves getting married a few months later... We kept writing poems to each other. Then it just grew out of that, I guess, a feeling that we both were writing so much and having such a fine time doing it, we decided that this should keep on.” Hughes, the most recent addition to Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ corner, was having an affair with German Assia Wevill at the time of Plath’s suicide. Wevill killed herself and also their four-year-old daughter Alexandra Tatiana Elise (Shura) in 1969, taking her own life in similar fashion to Plath, by gassing herself. • Plath's childhood Plath's first poem was published in the Boston Sunday Herald when she was eight.

Her talents as an artist were appreciated winning an award for her paintings from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 1947. She excelled at school attaining the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to attend Cambridge university but viewed it later as being somewhat of a burden, bringing too much intellectual expectation. • Plath's feminism "I think I would like to call myself 'the girl who wanted to be God'. Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be - perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it." Hailed as a feminist icon, Ellen Moers writes of Plath in her 1976 book Literary Women, "No writer has meant more to the current feminist movement". The poet is known for being associated with domesticity. For Plath, that which she created was always the most important; her poetry and her children. When her son Nick was born, she wrote to her mother of "this great bluish, glistening boy [who] shot out on to the bed in a wave of tidal water that drenched all four of us to the skin, howling lustily".

• Plath's legacy Plath will be remembered for her extraordinary ability in many of the arts, from poetry, to drawing and indeed for how she died. Death was, for the poet, part of her artistic legacy: Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. She won the 1955 Glascock Prize, the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a B.A in English from Cambridge with highest honours. Her collections of poetry include Ariel (1965), Winter Trees (1971) and Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1968), her short novel The Bell Jar was published in 1963. She also wrote children's books including The Bed Book (1976) and The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (1996). Plath was played by Gwenyth Paltrow opposite Daniel Craig, as Ted Hughes, in the film Sylvia (2003). Daniel Craig - Buy, Rent, and Watch Movies & TV on Flixster Daniel Craig Chester, England Bio: British actor Daniel Craig grew up in Liverpool before moving to London and studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He made his film debut in The Power of One, directed by John G. Avildsen. A few made-for-TV movies followed before his role of Master Kane in the Disney adventure A Kid in King Arthur's Court. Returning to the U.K., he starred… More Bio: British actor Daniel Craig grew up in Liverpool before moving to London and studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He made his film debut in The Power of One, directed by John G. Avildsen. A few made-for-TV movies followed before his role of Master Kane in the Disney adventure A Kid in King Arthur's Court. Returning to the U.K., he starred in the miniseries Our Friends in the North, the four-part series Moll Flanders, and the TV mystery The Ice House. In 1997 he worked with German director Peter Sehr on Obsession where he met his future girlfriend, German actress/VJ Heike Makatsch. His first leading role in the U.K. came in 1998 with his portrayal of George Dyer, the intimate friend of painter Francis Bacon (played by Derek Jacobi) in John Maybury's Love Is the Devil. Other leading roles followed in the U.K.

films Love & Rage, The Trench, Some Voices, and Hotel Splendide. In Hollywood, he had smaller roles in I Dreamed of Africa, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and Road to Perdition. In 2002, he played the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in the BBC historical drama Copenhagen. His first mainstream leading role came in 2003 as Ted Hughes, the partner of Sylvia Plath (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) in Christine Jeffs' Sylvia. In 2004, he can be seen in the U.K. films Layer Cake and Enduring Love. Most Popular Daniel Craig's best non-Bond roles 21 October 2015 • 7:00am Daniel Craig's steely 007 may be his most famous role, but what's his best? Bond was the role that made Sean Connery, Roger Moore, George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton famous to a worldwide film audience. Daniel Craig, though, was already well on his way there.

Outside Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), his exposure in wide-release blockbusters had admittedly been minimal before Casino Royale, but an array of eye-catching parts in grittily independent British fare, and one supporting role for Steven Spielberg, had already tested his mettle. Since then, he's also beavered away in between Bonds – and while the likes of botched sci-fi remake The Invasion (2007) and the resounding flop of Cowboys and Aliens (2011) did him no favours, other forays have panned out better. 1. Love Is the Devil (1998) Daniel Craig and Derek Jacobi in 'Love Is the Devil' Credit: Moviestore Collection Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo He popped up as Babington plotter John Ballard in the same year’s Elizabeth, but John Maybury’s prismatic biopic of the painter Francis Bacon gave Craig his first major film role and among his best.

As George Dyer, the petty thief and bit of rough who fell in through Bacon’s skylight as a prelude to their tempestuous, ultimately tragic relationship, he played up his grunting, animal physicality: the pas de deux with Derek Jacobi was deftly managed, and it remains Maybury’s best film. 2. Sylvia (2003) Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath with Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes in 'Sylvia' Taking Craig back to the same period as Love Is the Devil, this was another ill-fated artistic love story, between legendarily embattled poets Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Ted Hughes. As with Dyer, Craig’s granite complexion and build made him a good physical match for Hughes, sexual magnetism and all. Kiwi filmmaker Christine Jeffs plunges us fervidly into Plath’s imagined inner life – whether he’s present or absent, Craig’s Hughes feels like a predatory hawk pecking away at her fragile sanity. 3.

Enduring Love (2004) Daniel Craig and Rhys Ifans in 'Enduring Love' Credit: Nicola Dove/Eyebox Craig has worked a couple of times with director Roger Michell, more fruitfully in Joe Penhall’s tautly skilful adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel than on Hanif Kureishi’s sour script for 2003's controversial May-to-December erotic drama The Mother. Ted Hughes aside, it’s unusual to see Craig cast as an intellectual – in this case Joe, the college lecturer whose hot-air-balloon rescue attempt links him uncomfortably with Rhys Ifans’ Jed. Craig accentuates his wary, prickly, even hostile side to shake off Jed's stalker-ish advances, and convinces forcefully in the role: it’s his best performance. 4. Munich (2005) Daniel Craig in Steven Spielberg's 'Munich' Credit: Photos 12 / Alamy Stock Photo “Look, I want to kill every one of these pigs,” pipes up Craig’s South African Mossad agent, in an open-necked shirt around the dinner table.

He’s the hard-liner in the cabal which assembled to retaliate against the Munich Olympics terrorist attack in 1972. Casting him just before Bond created an interesting rival interplay with Eric Bana’s protagonist: he questions the latter’s credentials to lead their mission, as if bristling at not being top-billed. 5. Infamous (2006) Daniel Craig as the murderer Perry Smith in 'Infamous' Credit: Everett/REX Shutterstock The Oscar-winning, Philip Seymour Hoffman-starring biopic Capote was much more widely seen than this Toby Jones-starring account of the In Cold Blood years, released a few months later. Still, Craig, expanding his gallery of glowering thugs, got to push his portrait of Death Row convict Perry Smith rather further than his counterpart in the other film: Douglas McGrath’s gossipy bauble of a movie openly posits that he and Capote had a sexual affair. 6.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Daniel Craig played Mikael Blomkvist to Rooney Mara's Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Credit: Merrick Morton We shouldn’t for a second pretend that the 2009 Swedish version of Stieg Larsson's bestseller is better than the US remake just because it’s Swedish: the actors weren’t at fault, but director Niels Arden Oplev hasn’t a tenth of David Fincher’s gruesome flair or widescreen savvy. Craig’s dour, driven turn as troubled journalist Mikael Blomqvist has the right gloomy sobriety for the material, even if he overdoes the habit of letting his glasses dangle from one ear. We know from one look at his forbidding face that things are going to get grim. Related to News 27 Apr 2016

Question: Daniel Craig played Ted Hughes in what 2003 film?
Answer: Sylvia