English Movie Review Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil - Cast & Crew

Who will not be stung with her “pouting lips?” Angelina Jolie is really a well pronounced movie actress, director and humanitarian worker. She was not so welcomed by critics at the early years of her career due to the lack of passion in way of acting. Later on she made a marked and became one of the highest paid actors/actresses of all time.

Born Angelina Jolie Voight in June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. Daughter of renowned and award winning actor Jon Voight. Married to Brad Pitt with 6 children including adopted. Angelina, aside from being actress, she is also a worker for humanitarian relief and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. She won her first Golden Globe Award for the miniseries “George Wallace” for “Best Supporting Actress.” Lead and won the Best Supporting Actress Award for the film-miniseries “Gia.” It also followed Academy Award Best Supporting Actress, Outstanding Supporting Female Actor for Screen Actors Guild and multiple nominations in the mentioned guilds. She became more famous with her own-made-stunt, no double Lara Croft Series. She’s included in 2015’s Most Admired Personality and got the first places from Brazil, Russia and Singapore. She received award from Queen Elizabeth with an Emblem Honorary Dame Grand Cross for fighting sexual violence and for UK Foreign Policy.

Aside from having multiple nominations, Jolie became more popular and media-frenzy when she was listed to be one of the “Sexiest Woman Alive” for FHM Magazine multiple times. Ever since then she ranked within 100 Sexiest Woman and known to have 14 tattoos over her body. She became a public figure and become a “Sex Icon’ having her dubbed as one of the most dreamed personalities of any man. Their appearances boosted up when they made announcements for engagement with Brad Pitt. With her almost-perfect-face complemented by her lips, she is so sophisticated and quite strict when it comes to camera lights, stage set-up and always requests to have a proper capture from head and up to breast lines.

Also one of the fun facts about Jolie is that she has royal bloodline. It is believed that Jolie’s late mother Marcheline Bertrand is a descendant of King Philip II of France. Not just that but also her husband Pitt have royal bloodline from King Henry II of England. Jolie have difficult times with his father due to Jon Voight as a womanizer. They finally settled and reconciled last 2007.

Linda Cheryl Woolverton is a prominent American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. She was born in Long Beach, California on December 19, 1952, to a schoolteacher and a technical writer. Her foremost works are books and screenplays of several Disney films and stage musicals. She is known for creating strong female characters who are inquisitive and do not conform to the ‘damsel in distress’ stereotype which used to be the norm in Disney movies. For her exemplary work, she has received a DFWFCA Award, Laurence Olivier Award and a Writer’s Guild award along with Tony Award and BAFTA nominations. Woolverton graduated from high school in 1969 as an honors student in the school’s theater program.

The Younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, Ellen Fanning was born on April 9, 1998, in Conyers, Georgia. She has appeared in movies like Phoebe in Wonderland, Maleficent, and Trumbo, etc. Her mother was a tennis player and her dad played minor league baseball who currently is working as a salesman in Los Angeles. Her maternal grandfather was an American football player, and aunt is an ESPN reporter. Despite having such big names in the family, she once said that she and Dakota Fanning wee like any other sisters who would go to school and play together like normal girls. At present, she goes to Campbell Hall School in Los Angeles. Her acting career started when she was just three years old, when she used to play the younger version of her sister Dakota in movies. Her first movie was the 2001 blockbuster ‘I Am Sam’. She also served the same purpose in the miniseries ‘Taken’. Her first independent role came at the age of four, playing an out of control mayhem causing toddler in the 2003 comedy flick ‘Daddy Day Care’ with Eddie Murphy. The movie won her a Young Artist Award Nomination. She received critical acclaim in the 2004 family drama ‘The Door in the Floor’ opposite Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger. The movie is unique in the sense that the producers originally had an idea of hiring identical twins for the film. However, they were so much impressed with Elle that they decided to change the storyline and hires her instead. During her career rising in Hollywood, she made small appearances on the small screen in TV series like ‘Taken’, ‘Judging Amy’ and ‘CSI: Miami’ and ‘CSI: NY.'

With a broad range that extends from Shakespeare to Chicken Run and pretty much everything in the middle of, on-screen character Imelda Staunton has, as anyone might expect, get to be a standout amongst the most profoundly regarded performing artists working in the U.K. On the off chance that her propensity for playing what numerous would consider to be commonplace, regular characters discovered Staunton criminally disregarded in the early years of her profession, it was her sharp capacity to infuse those characters with a momentous many-sided quality that in the end made the stage backbone turned-little screen powerhouse one of Britain's most looked for after abilities. 

A London local and graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Staunton squandered no time propelling her vocation taking after graduation, getting to be connected with such prestigious venues as The Old Vic and the National Theater. A trio of creations with the Royal Shakespeare Company picked up her various discriminating awards, and in 1986 Staunton made an amazing TV debut in the fanciful BBC generation of Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective. Progressively occupied all through the 1990s, Staunton kept on picking up force in front of an audience while acquiring three Oliviers for her exhibitions in The Corn Is Green, A Chorus of Disapproval, and Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. 

As Staunton's various stage parts kept on gaining her basic achievement, regular TV and film parts made her a well-known and charming face to the overall population. In spite of the fact that a significant number of her U.K. TV parts went concealed by stateside gatherings of people, supporting parts in such elements as Much Ado About Nothing, Sense, and Sensibility, and Shakespeare in Love discovered Staunton gradually living up to expectations her way into the still, small voice of U.S. film buffs too. Moving into the new thousand years, Staunton's parts in such movies as Chicken Run (for which she gave the voice of Bunty), Crush, Bright Young Things, and I'll Be There discovered the built up TV performing artist effectively removing herself from the little screen for highlight movies. 

Obviously, every performer longs for the achievement part that will make him or her a worldwide star, and for Imelda Staunton that part was of a 1950s time abortionist got in a descending winding in executive Mike Leigh's 2004 show Vera Drake. Her evidently influencing depiction of the title part - a magnanimous housewife and cleaning lady who becomes famous performing illicit premature births - earned her close all inclusive recognition. In the wake of gaining honors from both The Venice Film Festival and The New York Film Festival and also the Los Angeles and Chicago film faultfinder affiliations, Staunton had obviously arrived when the part earned her a Best Actress selection for the 77th Annual Academy Awards. 

Ensuing parts in the U.K. TV comic drama Little Britain and also the components Nanny McPhee and Freedom Writers served well to acquaint her with totally new, frequently American, groups of onlookers. In 2007, only one year in the wake of showing up in a bright Masterpiece Theater creation of the youngsters' excellent The Wind and the Willows, she stayed in the realm of imagination for her part in Harry Potter and the Phoenix's Order. Staunton played Dolores Umbridge - the most recent in a long line of Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers - whose serious demeanor got under the skin of Harry Potter himself. She was a thrown's piece of the very much regarded TV generation Cranford and showed up in the moving dramatization Freedom Writers. She collaborated with Mike Leigh again for 2010's Another Year, and that same year she showed up in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. She kept on working in enlivened family movies, for example, Arthur Christmas and The Pirates! Band of Misfits.

Juno Temple is an English actress. She was born on 20th July 1989 in a town in London, Hammersmith. Her mother is Amanda Pirie and her father is Julien Temple. Her childhood years were spent in Taunton a town in England and she had her education there.

One of the most desirable actresses of all time. Made a monumental remarks in most of her movies that she starred. She was born as Michelle Marie Pfeiffer on April 29, 1958 in Santa Ana, California. First starred in 1980 for two movies “The Hollywood Knights” as Suzie Q and as Sue Wellington as her breakthrough movie “Falling in Love Again.” These also includes “Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen”, and of the best young actress for “Grease 2.” She starred with Al Pacino in a story of a greedy immigrant that takes over drug dealing for the movie “Scarface.” She made another breakthrough in her career as Isabeau in a story of a fugitive and become and all out search for the movie “LadyHawke”, continuously reigned silver screen including “Married to the Mob”, and their famous “Tequilla Sunrise”, and starred with Mel Gibson for the story of a drug dealer that wants to forget his old bad habits in “Dangerous Liaisons.”

Joachim Ronning is a director from Oslo, Norway. He was born on May 30, 1972. Ronning is well renowned and mostly associated with his childhood friend, Espen Sandberg, who was born on 2nd June, 1971. They both work together under a company named ‘Roenberg’. The foundation of Roenberg began in 1995. The duo started their career by making commercials for concerns in Scandinavia, which gave them international recognition. After that, they worked with corporate giants like Coca Cola, Nokia, GE, Nintendo, and Airbus.

Joe Roth is an American, Los Angeles based director-producer, as well as a film executive active in the Western entertainment industry since the early 1970’s. Born in New York, USA, on 13th June, 1948, Roth is known for his work on movies like “Die Hard 2”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “Maleficent”, and “Snow White and the Huntsman”. Joe was also the majority share owner of the Seattle-based major league soccer franchise, “Seattle Sounders FC”. However, recently, in November 2015, he transferred his majority ownership to the team proprietor, Adrian Hanauer. He is also the elder brother of actor, George Roth, and son-in-law to the famous producer, Samuel Z. Arkoff. Currently married to Donna Roth, the producer-director is a father to three children.

Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor was born on 10 July 1977 in Forest Gate, London, England. His parents are Arinze and Obiajulu. Arinze, his father was a doctor while Obiajulu, his mother was a pharmacist. He also has a sister. He is the elder brother to Zain Asher, a CNN correspondent. When Chiwetel was 11, his father died in a car accident while he was badly injured. The scars he received in the accident can still be seen on his forehead. Chiwetel went to Dulwich College when he was fourteen. He joined the National Youth Theatre. He was an active member of the group. After leaving Dulwich College, he came in London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Edward George Skrein, who goes by the name Ed Skrein, is an English actor and also a rapper. He holds a BA Honors degree in Fine Arts. His first ever acting role was in ‘Ill Manors’ written by his best friend, Ben Drew. He then played roles in many short films namely ‘Michelle’, ‘GoldFish’, and 'Screaming Soul: Poverty' In 2013, he was cast in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” playing the character of Daario Naharis. He played the role for three episodes in season 3 of the series. In the same year, he appeared in three episodes of ‘The Tunnel’, a British/French TV series, playing the role of Anthony Walsh. When he was asked as to why he was replaced by “Michiel Huisman” in Game of Thrones he said that it was due to politics that he had to leave the show.

Sam Riley is an English singer and a renowned actor. He was born on January 8, 1980, in Menston, West Yorkshire of England. He is a familiar face in the industry since his debut in 2007. He drew attention for his participation in the biographical movie Control. He also garnered attention through his role as the protagonist Sal Paradise in On the Road, and also in the 2014 movie Maleficent. His father Andrew Riley was a textile agent while his mother Amanda was a nursery school teacher. He gained his education from the Malsis School, Cross Hills.

Most of us have watched Harry Potter series and enjoyed the vertically challenged yet adorable Professor Flitwick. We have also gotten angry at the goblin for deceiving Harry. Warwick Davis is the actor who enacted both these parts. Besides being an actor, he is also a producer, writer, television presenter, and director. Warwick's birthday fells on February 3 1970 in Epsom Surrey, England.