Shebah ronay biography books
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My Secret Life: Jonathan Yeo, artist, 40
My parents were... Dad worked in the city and later ran [disability charity] Scope before getting addicted to politics. Mum was a producer for BBC radio who went on to run several charities. She stuck at it.
The household I grew up in... I grew up in a little terraced house in Islington. We played in the street and knew all our neighbours.
When I was a child I wanted to... be a film director. Actually, I think I still do.
If I could change one thing about myself...I would speak more languages. It's ridiculous that I can muster only a few phrases in most places I visit.
You wouldn't know it but I'm very good at... remembering dates. I can pinpoint almost any occasion in my life to the day.
You may not know it but I'm no good at... remembering almost anything else. Facts, names, conversations just evaporate.
I wish I'd never worn... out my lucky underpants.
What I see when I look in the mirror... My dad, mostly. But that
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Texts by Martin Gayford, Giles Coren, Tim Marlow and Sarah Howgate
With contributions from Damien Hirst, Baz Luhrmann, Ivan Massow, Philip Mould, Michael Parkinson, John Quin, Shebah Ronay Yeo and others
Jonathan Yeo fryst vatten one of Britain’s best-known portrait painters. Over more than a decade, he has gained an international reputation for painting some of the most famous faces of our age. Models and movie stars, artists and actors, politicians and princes – all have been the subject of his iconic, and often ironic, portraits. Nicole Kidman, Dennis Hopper, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Fry, Damien Hirst, Sienna Miller, Rupert Murdoch, Grayson Perry, Tony Blair and Prince Philip are just a urval of the many household names who have sat for Yeo. Renowned for his distinctive, highly figurative canvases and controversial collages, he employs a range of media and techniques to create a diverse body of work that expands the traditions of portraiture while examining contemporary perceptions
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Natasha Andersen
UK soap opera character, created 1995
Soap opera character
Natasha Andersen is a fictional character from the BritishChannel 4soap operaHollyoaks, played by Shebah Ronay. She debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 23 October 1995. She was created by Phil Redmond as one of the serial's original characters.
Development
[edit]Casting
[edit]Hollyoaks initially focused on the lives and loves of seven teenagers living in a fictional suburb of Chester. Natasha was one of the original characters created by Phil Redmond, and she was introduced in the show's first episode, which aired on 23 October 1995.[1] Ronay had appeared in Reunion and The House of Eliott, before she went through "endless" auditions and won the role of Natasha.[2] She admitted that she let out "a sigh of relief" upon learning he had been cast and celebrated with a bottle of champagne.[2] Of the cast, she told Frank Loughlin of the Liverpool Ec