Samuel Barnett

...first collaboration of its kind between a national newspaper and an independent production company, the radio drama features Samuel Barnett, star of History Boys and Desperate Romantics, as the Bletchley Park code breaker. He died in 1954,...

In this article: Alan Turing, The Independent, Suicide, Desperate Romantics, Roger Alton, Ian McEwan, Stephen Fry, and Richard Dawkins

...a national newspaper and an independent production company, the radio drama featuring History Boys and Desperate Romantics star Samuel Barnett portrays the Bletchley Park code breaker on his death in 1954 after eating an apple laced with...

In this article: The Independent, Alan Turing, Suicide, Desperate Romantics, History Boys, Roger Alton, Ian McEwan, Stephen Fry, and Richard Dawkins

Samuel Barnett (born 25 April 1980) is an English actor. He has performed on stage, film, television and radio, and achieved recognition for his work on the stage and film versions of The History Boys by Alan Bennett. He most recently...

In this article: The History Boys, The History Boys, Alan Bennett, London, Desperate Romantics, Olivier Award, The Marriage of Figaro, John Everett Millais, and North Yorkshire, England

...of an indie band on the make. Rossetti (Aidan Turner, the vampire from Being Human) is the smouldering front man, Millais (Samuel Barnett) is the slightly camp one and Holman Hunt (Rafe Spall) is probably the drummer who boxes naked in...

In this article: John Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Aidan Turner, Giraffe, and Open University

...most important art movements. There's William "Maniac" Holman Hunt (played by Rafe Spall), the gifted John Everett Millais (Samuel Barnett) and the charismatic Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Aidan Turner), who was notorious for seducing his...

In this article: Sam Crane, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Desperate Romantics, Walter Deverell, Aidan Turner, BBC Two, and Tracy Emin

...I think that we can probably dismiss this show as being any use as history. As television, it has some way to go too. Samuel Barnett as the angelic-looking Millais, Rafe Spall as the troubled Hunt and Aidan Turner as the erratic Latinate...

In this article: Shakespeare in Love, Desperate Romantics, William Holman Hunt, John Millais, Harold Pinter, John Ruskin, and Will Shakespeare

...of arrogance, long hair and big ideas. Advertisement - article continues below » The cast of Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall and Samuel Barnett look every inch the part and while it seems unlikely that the head of the Royal Academy ever advised...

In this article: Desperate Romantics, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Millais, Aidan Turner, Bread, and John Ruskin

...guilt, infidelity, success and failure, is played to its considerable limits by a sharp young cast including Rafe Spall, Samuel Barnett, Zoe Tapper and Amy Manson as Siddal. Leading this crew, as the fiery Rossetti, is Aidan Turner, a hot...

In this article: Desperate Romantics, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, John Ruskin, Aidan Turner, and Laudanum

British actor Samuel Barnett spent 2 1/2 years shaping and reshaping Posner, his character in Alan Bennett's "The History Boys," from its first staged reading in London to its Tony-winning run on Broadway to its new film version. (See review...

In this article: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Dominic Cooper, London, The History Boys, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Oxford, and Broadway

...who, as you might expect, are stumbling entertainingly toward adulthood. The two among them who are most engaging are Posner (Samuel Barnett), who is gay, Jewish and stricken with unrequited lust for the other, Dakin (Dominic Cooper), a...

In this article: The History Boys, Alan Bennett, Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, and England