Charles and Eleanor Boorman

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She's a former model, now a painter and scupltor, dating since August 2008....She attended Princess Anne's old school, Benenden, before reading anthropology, psychology and economics at Durham. 

 

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What sort of women am I attracted to?

 Beautiful ones! Of course I am being facetious. I like independence, I like strong women, women who survive and thrive in what is still a male-dominated world in most professions. I think that description fits my ex-wife and my former fiancée, Eleanor [Boorman, with whom he has a daughter, Rose, 3].

 

Fatherhood is great, and Rose is fantastic. Having her has awakened paternal feelings in me despite the unshakable love I have for my grown-up daughter. Rose is as bright as a button, and despite our age difference I hope I will have a few more years so that I can see her grow from child to adulthood.

 

I hope that as Rose grows the world will continue to become less biased against women. I think there is a lot more sexual democracy now and less bigotry, which is a good thing.

But I sometimes wish Rose was growing up in a different time. When I was a kid, despite the fact we were all floundering around a bit, there was a kind of freedom in living in a world that wasn't permanently online. I regret the passing of those days of innocence.

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2015/05/australian-interview-what-i-know-about.html

 

 

attending the official launch of The 2009 Investec Derby Festival at the Kensington Roof Gardens in London, in aid of the Starlight Children's Foundation, May 2009

Charles  by Eleanor

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March 2009...At the launch party for the Josephine Hart novel, The Truth About Love

 

 

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September 2010 : Six years after his divorce, Charles Dance is to marry an artist 26 years his junior.

The 63-year-old star tells Mandrake that he is to tie the knot with Eleanor Boorman, 37, "sooner rather than later".

Dance says: "I have got used to the bachelor life over the last six years so now I am in the process of de-bachelorising myself - but it will happen shortly." Boorman, a former model, who has been courted by Dance for three years, told me at the first night of Krapp's Last Tape at the Duchess Theatre that she has "scattered some cushions" in an attempt to help.

 Mandrake disclosed last month that Dance had told friends Boorman was "the one"' and that there was an expectation that they would marry before the year was out. The couple assure me that the wedding will be "a small and private affair for closest friends and family".

september 2010 : Dance yesterday confirmed the news at his North London home, telling the Daily Mail: ‘It's fantastic news. We're very happy.’
Miss Boorman added: ‘Thank you for your congratulations. We’ve been quietly engaged for a while. Close family and friends knew.’
She added that it would be a ‘small and private’ ceremony ‘possibly abroad.' But she insisted they would not wed 'for a while' because she has an exhibiton and Dance has film commitments.
The artist also said that Tuscan capital Florence was a ‘strong possibility’ for the wedding venue – because she trained there and the couple enjoyed a wonderful holiday with pop star Sting and his film producer wife Trudie Styler in the central Italian region last month.

november 2011 : ‘We’re expecting a baby. Fingers crossed everything will be fine. We’re both thrilled."

  

 

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http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2013/12/miss-boorman-e-and-portrait.html

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2013/05/got-won-radio-times-audience-award-bafta.html

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/about-miss-eboorman.html

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com/2016/10/miss-boorman-cv-is-online.html

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com/2014/10/all-about-eleanor-boorman-work-from-her.html

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Charles is Raymond Brock in Plenty

For Susan Traberne (Meryl Streep), nothing can match the danger and excitement of her wartime work as a courier for the French Resistane; nor can any man match the British Agent with whom hse had a passionate liaison. After the war, as other are eager to settle back to a steady life, Susan becomes restless and disillusioned; determined to change the world but unable to make a mark. As those closest to her, including her long-suffering diplomat husband (Charles Dance), her bohemian free-spirit friend (Tracey Ullma) and her angry young lover (Sting) - become caught in the maelstrom of her instability, Susan riskes everything in an emotional struggle with a life of plenty.

 

Offscreen as well as on, Dance and Streep found their profesional conduct conflicting. "Dame Meryl," as he jokingly calls her, mystified him. Not long after the 11-week shoot, he told one reporter, "I did not find her easy to work with, but then it's not her job to make it easy for me." These days he hedges -- a bit. "I didn't have the rapport with her that I'm used to having with English actors," he says. "On days that our characters got on, so did we. The days they didn't, we didn't either." In the film, the latter far outnumber the former. There were times, he says, "I would think, 'Christ, is it me? Do I have bad breath today? Or am I turning in an appalling performance?'"

On the other hand Meryl Streep wasn't quite what he expected when they starred together in Plenty.
"You're going to ask me about Meryl, aren't you?" he said. "You've been reading the cuttings, I know! Listen, Meryl works under tremendous pressure, and she works in a particular way that wasn't a way I was used to working.
"There were some tensions, but I do have the highest regard for her. She's had labels pinned on her, like we all have. All the time, people are watching her box-office grosses very closely. Audiences see her movies because Meryl is the star and that's an enormous pressure to work under. If that pressure manifests itself in her being a little distant at times, then so be it."
Working with Shirley MacLaine on the TV production of Shirley's book, Out On A Limb, was a far happier experience for him. He nodded in agreement.
"Shirley is extraordinary. More than a little eccentric! It was marvellous, and a great pleasure to work with her. A STAR in the proper sense of that word," he said.
"Shirley works from the gut. Meryl is much more cerebral. That's the essential difference between them. But both are consumate artistes. Shirley has been at it longer. She has come up the hard way, having started out as a chorus girl. That's not to say Meryl hasn't worked hard for it. But Shirley is from the days of the old Hollywood star system, and is a wonderful product of it. Yes, working with her was an enormously enjoyable experience!"

                                      
Plenty in 12 parts on Youtube :
-part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKu4E8teTao

  

 Charles Dance has a thankless role, I suppose, as her long-suffering husband, but manages to suggest that he is decent as well as duped.

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Charles is an OBE since 2006

14 Nov 2006 :Actor Charles Dance received his OBE from the Queen today and declared afterwards: "I was more nervous than on a first night at the National."

"Really I've no idea though - it would be nice to know why these things happen," he said.

"You just do the best you can do. We were fortunate enough to have Her Majesty come to the opening of the first film I made as a director, Ladies In Lavender, two years ago, so I don't know if that may have had something to do with it."

 

Charles at Triana Lamo exhibition April 2010

 Brush with Celebrity

Multi-talented: Triana Terry

She’s putting the finishing touches to  Anna Friel before she starts on David Thewlis. And when she finishes, self-taught portrait painter and former Harry Potter star Triana Terry will be ready for the opening of her debut exhibition at Mayfair’s "The Gallery In Cork Street" next month.
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Artist and actress Triana, 24, persuaded celebrities - including Anna and David, Stephen Fry, Charles Dance, Steven Berkoff and Lenny Henry - to pose for her after befriending them when she worked on the door at Soho’s louche Groucho Club.

Charles at the Icewhole award in 2008

 

Charles at 00: 25 mn, don't click your eyes