Fine Arts College is an independent college in Belsize Park

Belsize Park

Belsize Park is an area of north-west London, England, in the London Borough of Camden.It is located north-west of Charing Cross and situated on the Northern Line. It borders Hampstead to the north and west, Kentish Town and Gospel Oak to the east, Camden Town to the south east and Primrose Hill...

, North-West London. It was founded in 1978 by artists Candida Cave

Candida Cave

Candida Cave is an artist and writer. Her plays have been performed in London and Italy, and include Still Lives, Savonarola, Bonfires and Vanities and Lotte's Journey. Together with Nicholas Cochrane, she founded Fine Arts College London, in 1978.-References:...

 and Nicholas Cochrane. It is a small college with never more than 120 students at one time. It is known for its successful Alumni within the arts.

Notable former pupils

• Theo Adams
  Theo Adams
  Theo Adams , previously referred to as The-O, is a performance artist and director of the contemporary theatrical performance art group Theo Adams Company.-Personal life:...
  
   , artist and director
• Alfie Allen
• Orlando Bloom
  Orlando Bloom
  Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom is an English actor. He had his break-through roles in 2001 as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and starring in 2003 as blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood...
  
  , actor
• Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, stage, and television. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane...
  
  , actor
• Johnny Borrell
  Johnny Borrell
  Johnny Borrell is an English guitarist and singer, currently the frontman of the band Razorlight.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• JJ Feild
  JJ Feild
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• Jane Green
  Jane Green (author)
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  , author
• Mel Raido
  Mel Raido
  Mel Raido is a half Spanish and half Greek actor. Raido moved to London three years later. After taking elocution lessons, he started to become hooked by the acting bug at school and studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.-Education and career:He studied at Webber Douglas Academy of...
  
  
• Coco Sumner
  Coco Sumner
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• Amelia Warner
  Amelia Warner
  Amelia Warner is an English actress and songwriter. As of October 2011, Warner is a signed musician to Island Records and works under the name, 'Slow Moving Millie'.-Early life:...
  
  
• Liam Watson
  Liam Watson
  Liam Watson is a Grammy Award-winning British record producer and owner of Toe Rag Studios. Watson is perhaps best known for his work engineering and mixing the White Stripes' Elephant, receiving the 2004 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album...
  
  

In the Media

Kayvan Novak

Kayvan Novak

Kayvan Novak is an award-winning British Iranian television actor and voice artist.- Voice actor :Novak has provided voice work for three video games: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo...

 played the part of 'Brian Badonde', challenging Nicholas Cochrane to an art duel for the series Facejacker

Facejacker

Facejacker is a Channel 4 comedy series which started on 16 April 2010. It follows the similar show Fonejacker. Kayvan Novak adopts various disguises , including several characters heard in Fonejacker...

.

External links

• http://www.hampsteadfinearts.com
• http://www.axcis.co.uk/50188.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/04/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/202_6387.stm