Thompson has American, English and French nationality, studied at Brown University in the United States and lives in France.

His most recent work is in his mother Danièle Thompson’s ‘La Bûche’ which he co-wrote and acted in with co-stars Emmanuelle Béart and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Other film credits include Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Total Eclipse’ with Leonardo di Caprio and David Thewlis, James Ivory’s ‘Jefferson in Paris’ with Greta Scacchi, Nick Nolte and Gwyneth Paltrow, Elie Chouraqui’s ‘Les Marmottes’ for which he was nominated for a César Award, Francis Girod’s ‘Delit Mineur’, Bob Swaim’s ‘L’Atlantide’, Giuseppe Tornatore’s ‘Ils Vont Tous Bien’ with Marcello Mastroianni’, and Richard Heffron’s ‘La Revolution Française’.

On television he has worked extensively with director Josée Dayan in ‘Les Boeuf-Carottes’, ‘Le Comte de Monte Cristo’, ‘Les Heritiers’ and ‘Les Liens du Coeur’. Other television credits include ‘Sam’, ‘Le Juge et une Femme’, ‘Les Steenfort’ and ‘Maria, Fille de Flandre’.

Peter Blythe
Ilya
Peter Blythe plays Ilya, Natalia’s father.

Blythe’s film credits include Christopher Hampton’s ‘Carrington’ starring Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce, Phil Davis’ ‘i.d.’, Sydney McCartney’s ‘The Bridge’ with Saskia Reeves, Clive Donner’s ‘Alfred the Great’ and Jack Smight’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ starring Warren Beatty and Susannah York.

An established theatre actor, Blythe is a longtime collaborator with director Peter Hall having appeared in his Old Vic productions of ‘Amadeus’, ‘King Lear’, ‘The Provok’d Wife’, ‘The Seagull’, ‘Waste’ and ‘Mind Millie For Me’ which ran at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. His other extensive theatre credits include Declan Donnelan’s ‘Hayfever’ at the Savoy Theatre, Howard Davies’ ‘Flight’, David Hare’s ‘Pravda’ and Richard Eyre’s ‘Futurists’ all at the Royal National Theatre.

Blythe’s television credits include ‘Dalziel and Pascoe’, ‘Mrs. Hartley and the Growth Centre’, ‘The High Life’, ‘Devil’s Advocate’, ‘Love on a Branch Line’, ‘Between the Lines’, ‘Pie in the Sky’, ‘Maigret’, ‘Rumpole of the Bailey’ and the ‘Barchester Chronicles’.

THE CREW

Marlene Gorris
Director
Gorris is best known for her Academy Award winning film ‘Antonia’s Line’, a warm social comedy, which light-heartedly traced fifty years of a family’s life in a small village in the Dutch countryside. As well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, it won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival and the Best Actress and Best Director Awards at the Utrecht Film Festival. Other recent film credits include ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ which starred Vanessa Redgrave and Rupert Graves.

Gorris made her directorial debut with ‘A Question of Silence’ which she also wrote. The film was awarded the Best Feature Award at the Utrecht Film Festival in Holland, the audience prize at the Women’s Film Festival at Sceaux, France and a prize at the Festival of Taormina, Sicily.

Her second film, ‘Broken Mirrors’ which she also wrote was awarded the Audience Prize at the Utrecht Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the International Film Festival, San Francisco. It was also given a special jury mention at the Women’s Film Festival in Creteil, France.

Gorris’ third script and feature film ‘The Last Island’ was released in Holland in 1990, followed by a series of five half hour films called ‘Tales from a Street’ for Dutch television in 1992.

Gorris studied English at the University of Groningen and Drama at the University of Amsterdam. In 1976 she obtained an M.A. in Drama at the University of Birmingham, England.

Caroline Wood
Producer
Wood has been Head of and then Director of Development at Renaissance Films since 1994 and has been responsible, with Stephen Evans, for commissioning and developing all of the projects on the current Renaissance slate. At Renaissance she was also Associate Producer on ‘The Wings of The Dove’ and Production Associate on ‘Twelfth Night’.

Prior to joining Renaissance, Wood was Development Executive at Jean-Jacques Beineix’s film company, Cargo Films (‘Diva’, ‘Betty Blue’) in Paris with responsibility for co-ordinating the company’s international operations.

Wood’s first job in film was Script Editor then Creative Executive at Paramount British Pictures in London.

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