The Academy Award nominations were announced earlier today and I was very pleased to hear Mark Rylance received a Best Supporting Actor nod for his role in Bridge of Spies. After seeing him in last year’s Wolf Hall, I can’t imagine him turning in anything less than a stellar performance. However, I was disappointed no other actors with a public television connection received nominations for their work. (Helen Mirren, for example, had been nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as gossip maven Hedda Hopper in Trumbo, however no such luck where Oscar was concerned.)
I’m happy to say I was wrong. Several of the actors nominated have been in programs we have aired on UNC-TV. Here’s the list I compiled with a little sleuthing.
Michael Fassbender and Eddie Redmayne were nominated for Best Actor, Fassbender for his turn as Steve Jobs and Redmayne for his role in The Danish Girl. But what’s the PBS connection? Fassbender played Charles Allen in Masterpiece‘s Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Silk Stocking about ten years back. Redmayne was also on a few Masterpiece shows – he played Stephen Wraysford on Birdsong (2012) and Angel Clare on Tess of the D’urbervilles (2009). Continue reading
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