"a cover version of The Beatles song ""Help!"", and was released on the London Records label, entering the UK Singles Chart on 25 February 1989 and reaching a high of #3. It remained in the chart for nine weeks. French, Saunders and Burke returned for Comic Relief in 1997 as ""The Sugar Lumps,"" along with Llewella Gideon and Lulu, to parody The Spice Girls, with whom they performed a version of ""Who Do You Think You Are?"" In 1986 she appeared as a blonde in Kate Bush's music video titled ""Experiment IV."" French met Lenny Henry on the alternative comedy"
"Dawn French Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, writer, comedian and presenter from Holyhead, Wales. She is best known for starring in and writing for the BBC comedy sketch show ""French and Saunders"" with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom ""The Vicar of Dibley"". French has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and also won a BAFTA Fellowship with Jennifer Saunders. French was born in Holyhead, to English parents Denys Vernon French (5 August 1932 – 11 September 1977) and Felicity Roma French"
"Darwin French Doctor Erasmus Darwin French (1822–1902) was an American man of adventure. He was born New York State, trained as a doctor and then enlisted in the army, later becoming a silver prospector. He married Miss Cornelia S. Cowles, daughter of Judge Cowles of San Diego in 1858. They had two sons Alfred and Addison. Dr French was born in Middlesex, New York on January 20, 1822. He was the son of Harvey and Amanda Hazelton French. His father was a veteran of the War of 1812. He attended local schools before moving to Michigan where he attended Albion"
"he delivered the dictation. The typewritten copy is as near as possible an exact representation of the original manuscript including the original spelling and punctuation. Darwin French Doctor Erasmus Darwin French (1822–1902) was an American man of adventure. He was born New York State, trained as a doctor and then enlisted in the army, later becoming a silver prospector. He married Miss Cornelia S. Cowles, daughter of Judge Cowles of San Diego in 1858. They had two sons Alfred and Addison. Dr French was born in Middlesex, New York on January 20, 1822. He was the son of Harvey and"
"that her self-confidence and self-belief stem from her father, who told her how beautiful she was each day. She stated, ""He taught me to value myself. He told me that I was beautiful and the most precious thing in his life."" He had a history of severe depression and two suicide attempts but managed to conceal his illness from Dawn and her brother. However, on September 11, 1977 Denys French committed suicide by car exhaust, aged 45. She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1977, where she met her future comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders. Both came"
"AIDS thing was just starting to come out. Nobody had gotten it yet, but it was still in the back of our minds. He thought, ‘Well, if I’m going to take a chance, that’s enough.'"" Dawn was married to the adult film star John ""The Wadd"" Holmes from January 23, 1987, until his death on March 13, 1988, during which time he was stepfather to her young son. According to Dawn, they first met in December 1982 on the set of a film they were working on together in San Francisco, entitled ""Marathon"". (Mike Sager reports the 19-year-old, first met"
"Charles Daniel French Charles Daniel French (January 26, 1884 – May 3, 1954) was a Canadian politician and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. He was born in Scotstown, Eastern Townships on January 26, 1884 and married Emily Christina Macaulay in 1914. French ran as a Union Nationale candidate in the provincial district of Compton in the 1939 election and was defeated by Liberal incumbent William James Duffy. Following Duffy's death in 1946, a by-election was called. French successfully ran and became a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). He was re-elected in the 1948 and 1952 elections."
"marriage collapsed when she turned 21. She married electrician Donald Ibbertson in 1965, with whom she had three daughters, Dawn, Ann and Julie. At the time of her death, she had six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. In March 2004, Dawn was diagnosed with emphysema (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – COPD). She attributed the illness to her own smoking habit and performing in smoke-filled clubs. In May 2009, Dawn agreed to become the ""Celebrity Ambassador"" of the British Lung Foundation (BLF). She also worked to raise awareness of COPD. In June 2009 she spearheaded the campaign ""Breathe Easy Week"", to raise"
"the 2003 film ""Swimming Upstream"". Fraser herself is credited in the film as Dawn Fraser's coach. On 1 September 2015, Dawn Fraser featured on Season 7, Episode 5 of the SBS genealogy television series Who Do You Think You Are?, which traced her heritage back to South America. Fraser married Gary Ware on 30 January 1965 at St Stephens Church, Macquarie Street, Sydney. The marriage was short-lived. She has one daughter from the marriage, Dawn-Lorraine, who has a son, Jackson. Dawn Fraser suffered from severe asthma. Fraser has drawn negative criticism for public comments such as in 1997, ""I'm sick"
"for Dr Pepper. French studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara before dropping out to start an acting career. After dropping out of college, French lived in San Diego briefly before moving to Los Angeles to start her acting career. French is good friends with writers Angela Robinson and Alex Kondracke. In her spare time, French enjoys surfing, water skiing and hiking with her pet dogs. French supports the Surfrider Foundation. In 2008, she appeared alongside comedian Kathy Griffin in a pro same-sex marriage ad urging California voters to vote against Proposition 8. On September 25, 2010, French married"
"2017, Robinson stated that they were no longer together. Dawn Robinson Dawn Sherrese Robinson (born November 24, 1965 or November 28, 1968) is an American singer–songwriter, model, and actress. Robinson is best known as a founding member of the R&B/Pop group En Vogue, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Following her departure from En Vogue, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl and released their self-titled debut album Lucy Pearl in 2000, which went platinum worldwide and produced the successful singles ""Dance Tonight"" and ""Don't Mess with My Man"". In 2002, Robinson released her first solo album ""Dawn"", which"
"Alive"" tour ran until the end of 2008, and then resumed in Australia in the summer of 2009. In 2009, they were jointly awarded the BAFTA Fellowship. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders met in 1978 while they were students at the Central School of Speech and Drama and began their career to collaborate on several comedy projects. They came to prominence in the early 1980s for performing at the London alternative comedy club ""The Comic Strip"", which also gave its name to its eponymous television series and the informal grouping of so-called ""alternative comedians"". French and Saunders were featured on"
"Nataly Dawn Natalie Knutsen, who goes by the stage name Nataly Dawn (born October 29, 1986), is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She is one half of the duo Pomplamoose with her husband Jack Conte and released her first solo album, ""How I Knew Her"", on Nonesuch Records on February 12, 2013. The daughter of missionaries, Dawn spent much of her childhood in Europe, where she attended schools in France and Belgium before returning to the United States to study art and French literature at Stanford University. Jack Conte and Nataly became engaged in January 2016, and were married"
"is Sylvia Young, the founder of the famous theatre school at which Frances trained. Frances married director John Caird in 1990. They have two children: daughter, Eliza Doolittle, and son, Nathaniel George (born in 1990). Frances Ruffelle Frances Ruffelle (born Frances Jane Ruffell; 29 August 1965) is an English musical theatre actress and recording artist. She won a Tony Award in 1987 and represented the United Kingdom in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest with the song ""Lonely Symphony (We Will Be Free)"", finishing 10th. The song became a UK Top 30 hit. In 1984, Ruffelle starred as Dinah in the"
"appeal."" It was revealed that Dawn was to be played by actress Kara Tointon. Of her new role, Tointon said, """"EastEnders"" is my dream job and I feel blessed with this opportunity. Dawn is sexy, independent and has this amazing wardrobe — I can't wait to start filming."" The character was introduced in September 2005, in a special week of off-set episodes, filmed on location in France. In the storyline, Mickey travelled to France to meet Dawn and discovered that she is living with their estranged father Mike — a conman who ultimately lets his family down and flees, resulting"
"final dance together. She came out of retirement in December 2015 to make a one-off guest appearance in the soap ""Emmerdale"" as the character Mrs Winterbottom. Dawn won the Special Achievement Award at the 2008 British Soap Awards for her decades-long portrayal of her iconic character. Dawn was appointed an MBE in the 2000 Queens Birthday Honours, for services to the Manchester Children’s Hospital, the Genesis Appeal and the Liz Dawn Breast Cancer Appeal, St. James’s Hospital, Leeds. At the age of 18, Dawn married Walter Bradley in Leeds in 1957 and the couple had a son, Graham, but the"
"feature films. She retired from acting in 1954, and spent the remainder of her life working as a casting executive. Dawn died at age 97 in New York City. Dawn was born Henrietta Hazel Tout in Ogden, Utah in 1890. She went to Wales with her family at the age of eight when her father served as a Mormon missionary there. Dawn studied violin and voice in London, England; Paris, France, and Munich, Germany. She was especially impressed by the attentiveness of teachers she studied under in Paris. Her sister, Nancy Tout, was an opera singer who sang with the"
"Doherty (born 6 February 1959) is an Irish traveller, bare-knuckle fighter and television personality, who featured on ""Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men"" and the 2010 Channel 4 programme ""My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding"". Doherty made it to the final and was crowned the winner of the series on Day 22, beating Kerry Katona. Pamela Bach (born Pamela Ann Weissenbach; 16 October 1963), also known as Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff, is an American actress. She gained notoriety from her previous marriage to David Hasselhoff. She worked with her now ex-husband on ""Baywatch"", and had a recurring role as a psychologist in the series ""Sirens""."
"old. Bob was against the idea of Dawn marrying Terry because of the 27-year age gap, but she married him anyway in March 2003. They have a son together: Terry Junior, or ""T.J."" (Connor Lee) as he is usually known. Dawn and Terry split up after he suffers a stroke just after T.J is born. Unable to cope with a newborn baby and an ill husband at such a young age, Dawn ended their marriage. When Dawn's mother Jean arrives from Spain to support her following their break-up, she falls for Terry and is jealous of Dawn. She makes a"
"much attention to the set and posing of his models, but left the actual triggering of the shutter to assistants, amongst whom were Terence Donovan and David Bailey. In 1942 he married Vere Denning (1910–91), a fashion journalist, who gave his photographic archive to the Victoria and Albert Museum. French died of lymphoma in the Royal Marsden Hospital. John French (photographer) (Leonard) John French (1 March 1907–21 July 1966) was an English fashion and portrait photographer. Born in Edmonton, London, French originally trained and worked as a commercial artist, becoming a photographic director in an advertising studio just before World"
"blind date after a University of California–USC game. They married in a small Episcopal church ceremony in Santa Barbara on May 9, 1954. Together, Diane and Ron had several children whom they were survived by: Tamara Scheer, Patrick D., Jennifer Miller-Goff, Christopher D., Walter Elias, Joanna. Ronald then served in the Army and played professional football before Walt convinced him to work the Walt Disney Studios, and ascended from film directing and production to president and CEO of what is now The Walt Disney Company. In 1988, Lillian Disney, her mother, announced plans to contribute $50 million to the Los"
"the tradition of French humanist documentary photography."" Franck was often described as elegant, dignified and shy. In 1966, she met Henri Cartier-Bresson, thirty years her senior, when she was photographing Paris fashion shows for ""The New York Times."" In 2010, she told interviewer Charlie Rose ""his opening line was, ‘Martine, I want to come and see your contact sheets.’"" They married in 1970, had one child, a daughter named Mélanie, and remained together until his death in 2004. Throughout her career Franck, who was sometimes described as a feminist, was uncomfortable being in the shadow of her famous husband and"
"his first column and until the end of 2000 he wrote a column for the ""New Statesman"". His solo novel ""Start from Here"" was published in 2004. Nicci French Nicci French is the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together. Nicci Gerrard and Sean French were married in 1990. Since 1999 they have lived in Suffolk in East Anglia, England. The couple have two daughters (Hadley and Molly) and Nicci has two children (Edgar and Anna) from her first marriage. Nicci Gerrard was born on 10 June 1958. She grew up in"
"on the main character of Thomas Harris' 1981 novel ""Red Dragon"". The show received critical acclaim and was nominated for numerous awards. It was cancelled after three seasons and concluded in 2015, though there are hopes for its revival. For three seasons, he appeared as Cal Roberts, a lead character in Hulu's ""The Path"", alongside Aaron Paul and Michelle Monaghan. Dancy met American actress Claire Danes on the set of ""Evening"" in Newport, Rhode Island, and they began dating. In February 2009, they announced their engagement. The couple married in France in 2009 in a secret ceremony. They have two"
"be interested in returning to acting if given the right opportunity. He and his wife spend their summers in their lake home in northern Idaho. He and his former ""NYPD Blue"" co-star Jimmy Smits made a surprise appearance at the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards, presenting the award for Outstanding Drama Series to ""Game of Thrones"". In 1995 Franz married Joanie Zeck, whom he met in 1982. He is the stepfather of Zeck's two daughters, Tricia and Krista, from a previous marriage. Dennis Franz Dennis Franz Schlachta (; born October 28, 1944), known professionally as Dennis Franz, is an American actor"
"Helen French (architect) Helen Douglass French (1900–1994) was an American architect. She worked together and independently with her husband, landscape architect Prentiss French. Helen French was born Helen Douglass in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1900. She earned her graduate degree in architecture at the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Massachusetts in 1921. After school, she worked at various firms in Boston and eventually traveled to Europe, where she studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, returning to the United States in 1927. That year, she married Prentiss French and the couple operated a private practice in Boston and Stockbridge,"
"Got The Blues"". He worked with a group of musicians including Jakko Jakszyk, lead singer of King Crimson, to produce the album ""New Millennium Blues"". The album consists of both covers of blues classics, as well as original tracks co-written by Lenny. Henry later released ""hard-hitting animated blues video"" directed by Iranian filmmaker, Sam Chegini titled ""The Cops Don't Know"" which was premiered by ""Classic Rock"" magazine on 20 April 2016. Henry met Dawn French on the alternative comedy circuit. They married in 1984 in Covent Garden, London. They adopted a daughter, Billie. On 6 April 2010, French and Henry"
"Dawn Robinson Dawn Sherrese Robinson (born November 24, 1965 or November 28, 1968) is an American singer–songwriter, model, and actress. Robinson is best known as a founding member of the R&B/Pop group En Vogue, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Following her departure from En Vogue, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl and released their self-titled debut album Lucy Pearl in 2000, which went platinum worldwide and produced the successful singles ""Dance Tonight"" and ""Don't Mess with My Man"". In 2002, Robinson released her first solo album ""Dawn"", which produced the single ""Envious"". In 2005, Robinson rejoined En"
"in 1970. French had six sisters. One sister, Catherine Harley, by then a widow, led a group of British nurses on the Salonika Front and was killed by shellfire at Monastir in March 1917. Another sister was the suffragette, anti-war campaigner and Irish nationalist Sinn Féin member Charlotte Despard, a Catholic convert. During the Irish War of Independence, while her brother the Lord Lieutenant was directing operations against Sinn Féin, Despard, together with Maud Gonne and others, was through the Women's Prisoners' Defence League supporting republican prisoners. Beginning in January 1915 French had an affair with Mrs Winifred Bennett, the"
"a board member of Technicolor, the first woman ever elected to the board of directors. Dunne remained married to Dr. Francis Griffin until his death on October 14, 1965. They lived in Holmby Hills, California, in a Southern plantation-style mansion they designed. They had one daughter, Mary Frances (née Anna Mary Bush), who was adopted in 1936 (finalized in 1938) from the New York Foundling Hospital, run by the Sisters of Charity of New York. Both she and her husband were members of the Knights of Malta. Dunne was a devout Catholic who became a daily communicant. She was a"
"in nightclubs, where she met director Marcel Camus. At the age of 24 she won the role of ""Eurydice"" in his film ""Black Orpheus"". The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She married Camus, but divorced him soon after and married Belgian actor Eric Vander. Considered a great beauty, she was featured in November 1959 by ""Ebony"" and has been hailed as ""one of ""Ebony"" magazine's prettiest cover girls, along with the likes of Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams and Lena Horne"". Dawn remained"
"Diana Dors Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was an English film actress and singer. She first came to public notice as a blonde bombshell in the style of American Marilyn Monroe, as promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly via sex film-comedies and risqué modelling. After it turned out that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with the parties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed a genuine talent for TV, recordings, and cabaret, and gained new"
"Dawn (born 1979), a singer-songwriter and artist who has recorded with her mother a number of times, including the duet ""Let There Be Love"" in 1999 for Murray's ""What a Wonderful World"" album. Murray and Dawn were featured in a mother-daughter duet of ""Nobody Loves Me Like You Do"" on Murray's hit 2008 U.S. CD (released in late 2007 in Canada), ""Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends"". Murray and Langstroth separated in 1997 and divorced the following year. Langstroth died in May 2013. In January 1998, Anne and Dawn performed at a benefit concert for Sheena's Place, an eating disorder"