A collection of rare first editions of books by literary greats including Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and T.S. Eliot have raised $350,000 (£226,000) at an auction in the U.K.

Tippi Hedren is a real life Hitchcock victim in the Hollywood dramatization.

"I found myself doing all these posh parts. I got bored. And I wanted to explore roles that audiences might not associate me with. It's a reinvention." British actress Hayley Atwell relished the chance to star in upcoming cop movie The Sweeney after appearing in period dramas such as Brideshead Revisited and The Duchess.

Actor Jeremy Irons used an appearance on a U.K. political TV show on Sunday (22Jan12) to tackle Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg about the huge bonuses awarded to bankers.

British actress Hayley Atwell relished her gun-toting scenes in Captain America: The First Avenger after realising she had a "natural" ability to handle the weapon.

Brideshead Revisited star Hayley Atwell is in talks to join Outkast's Andre 3000 in the much-anticipated Jimi Hendrix biopic.

British actor Colin Firth happily plays upper-class roles to keep him in work - but insists his genteel accent is fake.

British film and television composer Geoffrey Burgon has died. He was 69.

British actress joins Joe Johnston's Marvel comics adaptation

Emma Thompson refuses to worry about how ageing might affect her Hollywood career - because she writes her own parts.