The UK blew Eurovision again this year, but stage/TV/film actor Bryan Oliver restored our EU credentials when he carried off the award for best actor for his role in Canoe at the 2006/2007 Festival du Cinéma de Paris - Angela Meredith met up with him to say bonjour and félicitations.
9 Jul 2007 12:00
Angela Meredith
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The UK blew Eurovision again this year – but stage/TV/film actor Bryan Oliver restored our EU credentials when he carried off the award for best actor for his role in Canoe at the 2006/2007 Festival du Cinéma de Paris. Angela Meredith met up with him to say bonjour and félicitations.
Congratulations on the award. Would you like to tell Arts Hub all about it?
Thanks. I won the Festival du Cinéma de Paris award for best actor in the film Canoe directed by Paul Fenn. I play a workaholic businessman, Alex Dingle, who is trying to get to the most important meeting in his life. His journey turns out to be more eventful than he could ever have realised. Franco Nero won the award last year, so I’m in good company.
Angela Meredith is a freelance journalist/writer who covers the Arts, travel and leisure and consumer health. Her work has appeared on websites such as Men’s Health, Discovery Health and TravelZoo – and this year she worked on the launch of the website Moneypage.com as Travel/Leisure writer. She contributes accident and health and safety news to a personal injury website and has written extensively for the b2b journal Pharmacy Business. Angela is a former winner of Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award for new playwrights and has written for BBC TV. In 2007 she was short listed for the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook’s New Novel Award. She began her career as an actress and still acts occasionally. She is a full member of the NUJ and Equity and has a BA (Joint Hons) in Literature & History of Art and an MA in Literature.
