Any Human Heart (TV series)
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Any Human Heart is a 2010 BAFTA award–winning TV adaptation of the novel Any Human Heart
by William Boyd
. It was announced in April 2010 and broadcast in four parts from 21 November to 12 December 2010 on Channel 4
in the UK and in three parts during February 2011 on the PBS
series Masterpiece in the U.S.
It was awarded BAFTA Best Drama Serial at the BAFTA Television Awards
2011.
It was released on DVD on December 27, 2010.
Any Human Heart
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a Scottish writer. It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the protagonist, Logan Mountstuart, a writer whose life spanned the defining episodes of the twentieth century, crossed several...
by William Boyd
William Boyd (writer)
William Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa...
. It was announced in April 2010 and broadcast in four parts from 21 November to 12 December 2010 on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
in the UK and in three parts during February 2011 on the PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
series Masterpiece in the U.S.
It was awarded BAFTA Best Drama Serial at the BAFTA Television Awards
British Academy Television Awards
The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . They have been awarded annually since 1954, and are analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States.-Background:...
2011.
It was released on DVD on December 27, 2010.
Cast
- Sam ClaflinSam ClaflinSamuel George "Sam" Claflin is an English actor, perhaps best known for his role in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides....
the younger Logan Mountstuart. - Matthew MacfadyenMatthew MacfadyenDavid Matthew Macfadyen is an English actor, known for his role as MI5 intelligence officer Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks and for starring as Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice.In June, 2010 Macfadyen won a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting...
the middle-aged Logan Mountstuart. - Jim BroadbentJim BroadbentJames "Jim" Broadbent is an English theatre, film, and television actor. He is known for his roles in Iris, Moulin Rouge!, Topsy-Turvy, Hot Fuzz, and Bridget Jones' Diary...
the older Logan Mountstuart. - Hayley Atwell as Freya, Logan's second wife. Their relationship began as an affair, but they soon married. Logan had a daughter with Freya - Stella and they lived together in a house in London. While Logan was mistakenly incarcerated in a Swiss prison, Freya and Stella were killed by a German bomb. It is revealed that she was pregnant with their second child, when she was killed.
- Kim CattrallKim CattrallKim Victoria Cattrall is an English actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City, and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Porky's...
as Gloria, the wife then ex-wife of Logan's good friend Peter Scabius (played by Samuel WestSamuel WestSamuel Alexander Joseph West is an English actor and theatre director. He is perhaps best known for his role in Howards End and his work on stage. He also starred in the award-winning play ENRON...
). Logan has an affair with Gloria, then later Gloria moves in to Logan's house to live out the rest of her short life, as she dies from cancer. - Gillian AndersonGillian AndersonGillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress.After beginning her career in theatre, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. During the show's nine seasons, Anderson won Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen...
as Wallis, Duchess of Windsor. - Tom HollanderTom HollanderThomas Anthony "Tom" Hollander is a British actor who has appeared in productions such as Enigma, Gosford Park, Cambridge Spies, Pride and Prejudice, Pirates of the Caribbean, In the Loop, Valkyrie and Hanna.-Early life:Tom Hollander was born in Bristol and raised in Oxford, Oxfordshire, the son...
as Edward, Duke of Windsor.