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Nolly: Created by Russell T. Davies. With Helena Bonham Carter, Con O'Neill, Augustus Prew, Antonia Bernath. Exploring the reign, and fall from grace, of the inimitable British soap star, Noele Gordon.
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- 2023-02-02
- Biography, Drama
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11 mar 2024 · Helena Bonham Carter stars as Noele Gordon, one of the most famous faces on British TV. PBS' latest series, Nolly, is a drama about the firing of one of Britain's biggest 1970s-era soap opera stars. Here's what viewers should know about the real Noele Gordon and the series she starred in, Crossroads.
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Speaking at a launch event for Nolly, creator Russell T Davies was quizzed on what parts of the show are factual and which have come from his imagination. He confidently assured the audience that all of the anecdotes mentioned about Nolly are true, placing particular emphasis on the enormous sense of loyalty she had to the cast and crew of Crossroa...
One of this show's standout moments takes place on Nolly's last day at Crossroads, when she films a teary goodbye aboard famous cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 (or QE2 for short). The cast feel great sadness over her forced removal from the show, which is only heightened by the realisation that Nolly would actually have to sail away on the QE2 comple...
One of the fictitious elements of Nolly is the insertion of a character named Poppy Ngomo, played by Stay Closestar Bethany Antonia, who is introduced in the first episode as a young actor preparing to make her Crossroads debut. Poppy is an invention of screenwriter Russell T Davies, who clarified at the show's launch that neither she nor her chara...
One other aspect of this story that Davies changed for the screen comes in the finale, when Nolly sits down with Crossroads head writer Jack Barton, who finally reveals to her the reason why she was fired from the show. Davies explained: "In real life, there's no evidence that she ever did [find out]. So that’s for drama, I had to give it some sort...
2 feb 2023 · Is Nolly a fictional character? No, she was very much a real person. Noele Gordon, aka Nolly to her friends, was an English actress and a trailblazer of her time. Born Jean Noele Gordon on December 25, 1919, she was given the middle name of Noele because of her arrival on Christmas Day.
The truth that inspired the fiction – learn more about the real event behind three-part ITV drama Nolly. Three-part ITV drama Nolly was it a hit with viewers when it first arrived in the UK...
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17 mar 2024 · Helena Bonham Carter as Noele Gordon, being hectored by the press in Nolly Episode 1. The triple cocktail of medications that transformed HIV/AIDS from a guaranteed death sentence to a chronic illness didn’t arrive until the mid-1990s, and by the time of Nolly’s death in 1985, she’d have lost many friends, colleagues, and fans.
Nolly is a British three-part biographical television miniseries created by Russell T Davies, starring Helena Bonham Carter as Crossroads star Noele Gordon. The series premiered on 2 February 2023, on the new streaming platform ITVX .
