出生于1918年的曼德拉是深受全世界人民尊敬的民主斗士与政治家，为了推翻南非白人种族主义统治，他进行了长达50年（1944—1994年）艰苦卓绝的斗争，被南非当局关押了27年（1962—1990年）。在1994年南非举行的首次民主大选中，曼德拉成功当选南非第一任黑人总统 ，为新南非开创了一个民主统一的局面。 电影《漫漫自由路》改编自曼德拉的同名自传，故事将从曼德拉的孩提时代一直讲到他的总统就职演说。
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Justin Chadwick is an English actor and television and film director. Chadwick began acting at the age of eleven.He graduated from the University of Leicester and in 1991 made his screen debut in London Kills Me. Additional acting credits include The Loss of Sexual Innocence and appearances in the television dramas Heartbeat, Dangerfield, Dalziel and Pascoe, and others. Chadwick\'s directorial debut was the 1993 television movie Family Style starring Ewan McGregor, after which he directed and performed in Shakespeare Shorts, a series that explored the history of Shakespearean characters and presented them in key scenes from the plays in which they appeared.He directed episodes of EastEnders,Byker Grove, The Bill, Spooks,and Red Cap before directing nine of the fifteen episodes of the mini-series Bleak House, which was broadcast by the BBC in the UK and by PBS in the United States as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series. Chadwick was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special, the Royal Television Society Award for Breakout Performance Behind the Scenes, and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Bleak House, which was the Best Drama Serial winner in the British Academy Television Awards 2006. Bleak House” was also nominated for two Golden Globes, four Royal Television Society Awards, three Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, three Satellite Awards, and the Television Critics Award. Chadwick\'s most recent project is The Other Boleyn Girl,shown at the February 2008 Berlin International Film Festival. He was scheduled to start production on screen adaptations of Birdsong (released 2012) and Jamaica Inn in 2008.He completed the feature film The First Grader starring Naomie Harris which is scheduled to be released on May 13, 2010.
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娜奥米·哈里斯1976年9月在伦敦出生，成长于单亲家庭，母亲Lisselle Kayla五岁时从牙买加来到了英国。哈里斯曾在剑桥大学主修政治学，毕业后进入布利斯托尔老维克戏剧学院（Bristol Old Vic Theatre School）接受专业表演训练。最初在英国，哈里斯通过出演电视剧《白牙》中一位狂热的“耶和华见证人”母亲的牙买加女儿而被观众熟悉，该剧改编自扎迪·史密斯（Zadie Smith）同名处女作获奖小说，诙谐地展示了生活在现代不列颠这个大熔炉中，来自不同民...
1972年9月6日出生在英国。Elba作为一名演员，出演过许多在美国和英国制作的电影。Idris Elba在东伦敦的Canning Town长大。他第一次演出经历，是在一场演绎家庭琐事的肥皂剧中。Idris Elba尝试过各种各样的角色，出演过《致命紫罗兰》，《审查员》这样的罪案悬疑电视剧。他也在HBO热映的电视剧《火线》中，扮演一位一心追求至高权力的毒品商。除了拍戏之外，Elba还是一位DJ，一名HipHop和灵魂乐歌手，DJ Big Driis，Big Driis the Londoner是Elba在音...
罗伯特·胡布斯（Robert Hobbs），美国演员 ，制作人。作品主要有耶路撒冷Jerusalema(2008)，乱世妖姬The Devil\'s Whore(2008)，成事在人Invictus(2009)等。