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Graziadaily
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Graziadaily
And Just Like That: Who Plays Carrie Bradshaw's Handsome British Neighbour?
As she navigates her five-year hiatus/ long-distance confusion with Aidan Shaw in the third season of And Just Like That, Carrie Bradshaw is due a new love interest - or at least a romantic distraction. We have the hot gardener Adam (played by Logan Marshall-Green), and now the next man to bring a smile to Carrie's face comes in the form of handsome and suave British neighbour – a Patrick Dempsey 'McDreamy' lookalike played by British star Jonathan Cake. Here's everything we know about him… Jonathan Cake ©Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images Jonathan Cake is a British actor, who's best known for roles in Desperate Housewives, The Affair and historical drama Empire. British fans may recognise him from Press Gang and Grange Hill from back in the day. He's classically trained, graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Jonathan is 57 years old. A child actor, Jonathan started off on stage with roles in Shakespeare productions for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre before making his TV debut in Press Gang in 1993. The following year, he had a small role in the US film First Knight alongside Sean Connery and Richard Gere and was cast as Ewan in Grange Hill. Since those early days, Jonathan has worked on a lot of British TV shows and productions with some of the industry's biggest names, and switches from the UK to the US. Most notably, he was in Brideshead Revisited, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Chuck, Stargirl and Grey's Anatomy. Jonathan Cake and Julianne Nicholson ©Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Jonathan is married to American actress Julianne Nicholson. The couple married in Italy on 24 September 2004. Jonathan and Julianne have two children – son Ignatius, 17, and daughter Phoebe, 16. Jonathan is on Instagram, where he's been promoting his new role. You can find him @ Shereen Low is a senior news and entertainment writer for Grazia UK, who has covered some of the biggest showbiz news from the past decade.
BBC News
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Voice coach to Laurence Olivier becomes 'UK's oldest podcaster'
Laurence Olivier's former voice coach said it was "enjoyable" to be able to share his stories on working with the stars as he starts a podcast series at the age of Hall, dubbed the "UK's oldest podcaster", taught at the Royal Academy of Music for 30 years and worked with stars of stage and screen including Olivier, Doctor Who's Christopher Ecclestone and Rufus the Brighton-based centenarian has started a five-part podcast series talking about his life and work, even as he continues to teach budding Hall said: "It was a surprise to be described as possibly the UK's 'oldest' podcaster but it is very enjoyable. "It is very interesting and enjoyable to know that my stories about various theatre and TV actors are being remembered in the podcasts."Mr Hall studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1949 alongside actress Dame Joan Plowright and later became a voice coach for her husband, Lord Olivier. In the first podcast episode, he tells the story of Dame Joan asking Mr Hall to keep their then-secret relationship at the time under wraps from the press, and claims Lord Olivier was "going through a phase of being absolutely obsessed about colonic irrigation".Mr Hall continues to give weekly Zoom lectures on the history of music to post-graduate students at the Royal Academy of Music and says he encourages people to "try new things", particularly starting a podcast episodes include sitting down with Blackadder's Sir Tony Robinson to speak about his early theatre memories, and speaking to presenter Fern Britton and Only Fools and Horses actress Tessa Peake-Jones.
