1. – Lara Flynn Boyle, Threesome, 1994. After her high spot of being the blind Al Pacino’s tango partner in Scent of a Woman, 1992, the Brit beauty of the month disappeared into TV.
2. – Julia Ormond, First Knight, 1995. Guinevere to Billy Baldwin’s Lancelot a year earlier when there were script problems in Camelot – and no Connery. His queen was the next British flavour of the month.
3. – Kate Winslet, Titanic, 1996.
4. – Minnie Driver, Good Will Hunting, 1997. Gabrielle was among five British nearly-Skylars: Helena Bonham Carter, Julia Ormond, Rachel Weisz. When the writer-stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Oscars in hand, thanked Minnie Driver, the simultaneous translation for French TV said they thanked… beaucoup de chauffeurs!
5. – Mary Doyle-Kennedy, The Tudors, TV, 2007-08. “Audition processes are, by nature, horrific,” laughed Anwar, invited to audition for two of Henry VIII’s wives and one sister. “Unfortunately, they cast a great actress, Mary Doyle-Kennedy, to play Catherine. She’s terrific.” And Anwar got to be Princess Margaret for six episodes.
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