#alesha phillips

[casasupernovas]

Okay miss stunner Freema Agyeman!

#luxury london living fabric #freema agyeman #dreamland #doctor who #martha jones #sense8 #new amsterdam #helen sharpe #carrie diaries #law and order uk #alesha phillips #larissa loughlin #amanita caplan

[hitchell-mope]

She’s got a point

#law and order uk #alesha phillips #crush

[schumigrace]

grace pls tell me what strictly come dancing and the discourse around it is 👀

hello akira welcome and do sit for I shall now tell you all about a classic british institution

Strictly Come Dancing (better known as 'Strictly') is a BBC dance contest similar to Dancing with the Stars (or Let's Dance is the German version I think?) Although Strictly was the original blueprint starting in 2004.

Basically, you've got 15 celebrities each paired with a professional Ballroom/Latin dancer, and every week they perform a routine to a Latin or Ballroom (or more recently, a 'couples choice' which can be either contemporary, theatre/jazz, or street/commercial). The public vote for their faves and the two with the least votes compete in a dance-off where the four judges (currently Craig Revel-Horwood, Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, and Motsi Mabuse who is also a judge on Let's Dance I believe) save their favourite couple.

LOTS and lots of discourse over the years but the one I am referencing atm is that one of the celebrities this year is known terf Amanda Abbington, who has now pulled out for 'health reasons'. Obviously a lot of people wishing her well but the cynical part of me believes she's running away from the backlash she's been facing for being, well, a piece of shit

some other controversies include the notorious 'Strictly curse' where every year at least one celebrity will break up with their long term partner to start dating their dance partner instead. Some of these relationships end up lasting years but some fall apart before they even leave the show lmao

back in 2010(?) there was a lot of talk about ageism as one of the judges, Arlene Phillips, who was in her late 60s was replaced with 30 something year old Alesha Dixon but obvs the BBC deny that. I remember it received literally hundreds of complaints from viewers tho

Anton du beke also used a racial slur during rehearsals once which obvs got a lot of press attention but he's considered a national sweetheart so everyone forgot about that (!)

it also took them 16 years to allow same-sex couples to dance together and turned multiple celebrities down before 2020 for asking to dance with a same sex partner soooo

a classically problematic British reality show really. and one of the best to criticise because it is watched mainly by 60 year olds who can't cope with anyone pointing out its flaws, so it's a lot of fun to lurk in Facebook comments in particular

#i used to watch it religiously. now i just watch it when something juicy enough happens to fill the tabloids #strictly

[lboogie1906]

Freema Agyeman (born Frema Agyeman; March 20, 1979) is an English actress. She rose to fame with her role as the Doctor’s companion Martha Jones in Doctor Who (2007–2010) and its spin-off Torchwood (2008), and received further recognition for playing Crown Prosecutor Alesha Phillips in Law & Order: UK (2009–2012), Amanita Caplan in Sense8 (2015–2018) and Dr. Helen Sharpe in New Amsterdam (2018–2023).

In 2013, she made her US television debut in Sex and the City prequel series, The Carrie Diaries, as magazine editor Larissa Loughlin.

Her other television appearances include Mile High (2005), Bizarre ER (2008), and Dreamland (2023). She has appeared in films, including North v South (2015), Eat Locals (2017), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021).

She was born in Hackney, east London. Her mother, Azar, is Iranian-Kurdish, and her father, Osei, is Ghanaian. They divorced when she was young. She has an older sister and a younger brother.

She grew up to be a practicing Roman Catholic. She attended Our Lady’s Convent RC High School. She attended the Anna Scher Theatre School and graduated in Performing Arts and Drama at Middlesex University. She took a theatrical course at Radford University, even volunteering to work as a box-office assistant for student drama productions in which she was not cast.

The tattoo she has on her upper arm is symbolic of her Iranian ancestry, containing the Persian word “raha”, meaning “free”, under an image of a butterfly.

She is a non-church-going Roman Catholic. She has stated that doing good is her way of believing in God and expressing Catholic Christianity. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenshistorymonth

[mdsc951]

Happy 43rd Birthday to Freema Agyeman. Born March 20, 1979. She is an English actress who rose to fame with her role as the Doctor's companion Martha Jones in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2007–2010), and received further recognition for playing Crown Prosecutor Alesha Phillips in the ITV crime procedural Law & Order: UK (2009–2012). Also as Amanita Caplan in the Netflix science fiction drama Sense8 (2015–2018) and Dr. Helen Sharpe in the NBC medical drama New Amsterdam (2018–2022). (at West Hollywood, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqA1rE3ravQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jasonblaze72]

[pers-books]

I’ve just re-watched the episode of Law & Order: UK that Jemma Redgrave was in and goddammit Jemma! I’d totally forgotten how good she looks all bewigged and gowned for court. Gah!

I mean, good gods, woman do you HAVE to be so fucking sexy?

Then she took her wig off and she STILL looked mighty fine!

And she’s got that lil’ smug half smile on her face too.

And even in civvies, she looks excellent!

Bloody hells bells, woman! Are you TRYING to kill me?!

And this scene with Freema Agyeman’s Alesha Phillips contains probably my favourite line of the episode in which Alesha points out that Helena would up there ‘on her Zimmer frame’ still prosecuting if she was allowed.

Then there’s the final scene of Helena sharing a drink with opposing counsel, James Steel, again. He offers her a second glass of wine and she refuses saying she should’ve been home for the babysitter an hour ago. Then she offers to share a cab with him and he refuses saying he’s meeting Alesha. She tells James to be careful because Alesha’s single and over 30 (’tick tock, James’) - which is utterly hilarious because in the show James and Alesha aren’t a couple! I was one of quite a few people who did ship them, and the show eventually hinted at them getting together, but it didn’t actually happen. Yet here Helena is, apparently shipping them on behalf of the audience!

Anyways, Jemma Redgrave is a sex goddess.

#I Swoon #My Queer Ass is Dead #Goddammit Jemma! #Sex Goddess #JR: Turns Up the Gay to Twelve #Jemma Redgrave #Helena Marsden #Hot Diggity Damn! #TV: Law and Order UK #Ben Daniels #Freema Agyeman #James Steel #Alesha Phillips

[old-deerstalker-hat]

#Law and Order UK #louk #Alesha Phillips #Freema Agyeman #James Steel #Ben Daniels

[feomary]

Oh, for God's sake, kiss the girl!

#law and order uk #james steel #Alesha Phillips #ben daniels #Freema Agyeman #they were so close #my gifs

[mihrsuri]

Content note for some gross victim blaming, explicit references to such as well as child sexual abuse. 

“The knowledge of exactly what had happened to Thomas Cromwell was not explicitly written down by any who knew the story - that something happened was apparent in private letters and journals but it was never spelled out - likely because Thomas himself was a deeply private man and his loved ones wished to keep his secret out of respect. Perhaps more likely he also felt the shame of it - as did those around him. He was already a commoner - this further stigma would have been a further taint to a man in a shaky position.”

M.L.Featherstone-Jones ‘Properly English: The Decline Of The Idea Of England From Henry VIII to Prince Taran  

“There is speculation that if Henry had known he would have discarded - he would have dropped Thomas immediately for having being touched before their marriage but sorry, no that’s fucking ridiculous. That’s my official legal opinion by the way, you can write it down as such. One of his letters to Thomas after Norwich was executed says “love, you bear no shame or taint for the reach of most wretched evil. My raven and my swan are the pure light of my soul” and then later we hear “the great evil that is done when the world sees shame in those who have been so vilely treated” and that’s before we take into account the Act Of Crimes Against The Person of 1540 and 1560 which if you read them is an extraordinarily modern and compassionate reform of the laws around sexual abuse and abuse of children.”

“No Shame My Love - Henrician England, Sexual Crimes & Law Reform” (A lecture by Alesha Phillips-Devlin-Steel QC at the A&W Museum)

Norwich kept records because offenders of that kind and depth keep records - he needed to have a testimony to his ‘genius�� even if it was only for the benefit of himself and history and he absolutely believed that history would vindicate him as a genius who deserved to reap rewards and repayment for his ‘charity’ which is something else we see - a justification, a defence - they wanted it, it’s love, they are so mature, so advanced - it was only what I was owed - it’s sickeningly repetitive and familiar. Norwich wasn’t unique - he only thought he was. 

Monsters Of History Documentary: John Norwich

Most of the Earls writings were destroyed - but there were some that were missed, hidden in what was essentially a storage locker for centuries until they were discovered during works to replace the plumbing in a pub that had been built over the original Tudor Cellar - it is due to a fluke of conditions that we have these documents at all and they are not documents that leave any doubts as to what happened to Thomas Cromwell in his hands. 

The rest of what we know about what happened and how King Henry and Queen Anne reacted we only know indirectly through piecing together allusions in letters and diaries - the rest is left to the realm of fiction. 

An Introduction To The Earl Of Norwich - Norwich Hall Trust

#ot3: political power trio #fic #tudors ot3 verse reference #tv: the tudors #tudorsfic #lil and her ridiculous aus #me: norwich had his secret shine to his genius made into a carpark and a workshop for something and it only survived #because working class builders made the cellar so well etc #actually no wait it got made into a pub #and because it needed to be dry etc for storing idek what booze but anyway it meantthe documents stayed intact etc #someone worked out the secret room due to plumbing works because they had to knock a wall through/take out the it turned out to be fake #shelf/cupboard back #also Alesha Phillips-Steel-Devlin is a character in LOUK #it’s my bonus feature for myself #the first historian is a restorationist who is like ‘I’m not a restorationist but…’ FYI

[hitchell-mope]

I like her

#law and order uk #alesha phillips #love and loss

[fuckyeahbradleywalsh]

Unfortunately life got in the way a lot last year and being an adult had to come first (Eugh!) Things are much calmer now and I am finally getting time to sort out the new Bradley shows and clips - new things will be coming soon!

#bradley walsh #ronnie brooks #matt devlin #jamie bamber #alesha phillips #freema agyemann #ben daniels #james steel #harriet walter #natalie chandler #law and order uk #law and order: UK

[jackbatchelor3]

BGT Champions Twist and Pulse Hope to Collaborate With Little Mix This Morning

👩‍🎤💃🤹🎭🏆 - 🕺🕺 - 👩🏻👩🏾👩🏽👱🏻‍♀️

#This Morning #Phillip Schofield #Holly Willoughby #Twist & Pulse #BGT #Britain's Got Talent #The Champions #BGT: The Champions #Britain's Got Talent: The Champions #Alesha Dixon #Golden Buzzer #Dance Tour #Little Mix

[vlc-uk]

FREEMA AGYEMAN

Freema Agyeman is an English actress from London, who is known for playing Martha Jones in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, and Amanita Caplan in the Netflix science fiction drama Sense8.

Following her role in the BBC series Little Dorrit, she held a starring role as Alesha Phillips in the crime procedural drama Law & Order: UK, between 2009 and 2012. 

In 2013, she made her US television debut on The CW's teen drama The Carrie Diaries as Larissa Loughlin. She also appeared as Penny in the 2015 film North v South. In 2018, she became part of the main cast of the NBC medical procedural series New Amsterdam.

#freema agyeman #doctor who #torchwood #sense8 #amanita caplan #dr. who #martha jones #little dorrit #law & order #the carrie diaries #new amsterdam #pretty eyes #black beauty #hot black babes #pisces girl

[beautifulfaaces]

Female English Masterlist

English

2010s

Amelie Bea Smith

Dafne Keen

Florence Keen

2000s

Beau Gadsdon

Emily Carey

Florence Hunt

Isabella Blake Thomas

Isla Johnston

Isobelle Molloy

Katy Byrne

Millie Bobby Brown

Pixie Davies

Rhea Norwood

Rosie Dwyer

Ruby O‘Donnell

Ruby Stokes

Sadie Soverall

Sujaya Dasgupta

Tamara Smart

Yasmin Finney

90s

Aimee Lou Wood

Aisling Loftus

Alexandra Dowling

Alia Bhatt

Amelia Eve

Amira McCarthy

Amita Suman

Ana Mulvoy Ten

Anjli Mohindra

Anya Chalotra

Anya Taylor-Joy

Bessie Carter

Bethany Antonia

Bonnie Wright

Cara Delevingne

Carla Woodcock

Celine Buckens

Charlotte Hope

Cher Lloyd

Cheyenne Carty

Chloe Howl

Corinna Brown

Emma Mackey

Dasiy Edgar-Jones

Daisy Ridley

Dominique Provost Chalkley

Eliot Salt

Elisha Applebaum

Ella Balinska

Ella Hunt

Ella Purnell

Ella Rae Smith

Ellie Bamber

Ellie Duckles

Ellise Chappell

Emily Coates

Emma Appleton

Emma Corrin

Emma Watson

Erin Doherty

Frances Encell

Genevieve Gaunt

Georgie Henley

Georgina Campbell

Georgina Leonidas

Hanna Mangan Lawrence

Hannah van der Westhuysen

Helena Barlow

Hermione Corfield

Holly Earl

Isabel Hodgins

Isabella Laughland

Jade Anouka

Jade Thompson

Jessica Alexander

Jessica Madsen

Jessie Mei Li

Kathryn Prescott

Kaya Scodelario

Laya Lewis

Lil Woods

Lily Loveless

Lily Newmark

Lola Kirke

Louisa Connelly-Burnham

Lucy Boynton

Lucy Fallon

Maddy Hill

Maisie Richardson-Sellers

Manpreet Bambra

Maya Jama

Megan Prescott

Melia Kreiling

Melissa Suffield

Mia McKenna Bruce

Mimi Ndiweni

Naomi Scott

Natacha Karam

Nell Hudson

Nell Tiger Free

Olivia Cooke

Phoebe Dynevor

Poppy Drayton

Poppy Gilbert

Precious Mustapha

Priya Blackburn

Rachel diPillo

Rachel Hurd Wood

Rose Reynolds

Rosie Day

Sabrina Bartlett

Samantha Boscarino

Shannon Flynn

Simone Ashley

Sophie Skelton

Sophie Turner

Tahirah Sharif

Tasie Lawrence

Yasmin Paige

Yvette Monreal

Zoe Sugg

80s

Abbey Clancy

Agam Darshi

Aiysha Hart

Alexa Chung

Alice Coulthard

Alice Eve

Alix Wilton Regan

Amber Rose Revah

Amelia Warner

Amy Nuttall

Amy Winehouse

Amy Wren

Anna Passey

Anna Popplewell

Antonia Thomas

April Pearson

Asha Bromfield

Ashley Madekwe

Billie Piper

Brooke Burfitt

Carey Mulligan

Celina Sinden

Charlotte Ritchie

Claire Foy

Claudia Jessie

Cynthia Erivo

Daisy Lowe

Elarica Gallacher

Elizabeth Henstridge

Elizabeth Knowelden

Ella Smith

Emilia Clarke

Emily Barclay

Emily Bridges

Emily O'Brien

Emma Rigby

Felicity Jones

Gabriella Wilde

Emily Blunt

Emily O'Brien

Georgina Moffat

Gugu Mbatha Raw

Hannah Murray

Hannah New

Hannah Reid

Hannah Ware

Haruka Abe

Hayley Atwell

Holliday Grainger

Imogen Poots

India de Beaufort

Jade Ramsey

Jaime Winstone

Janet Montgomery

Jaye Jacobs

Jenna Coleman

Jessica Brown Findlay

Jessica Clark

Jessica Fox

Jessie Cave

Jing Lusi

Julia Chan

Juno Temple

Kate Phillips

Kathryn Drysdale

Katrina Kaif

Klariza Clayton

Lara Pulver

Larissa Wilson

Lauren Cohan

Lauren McAvoy

Lily Cole

Lily James

Margaret Clunie

Mickey Sumner

Nazanin Boniadi

Nichola Burley

Nikki Sanderson

Nikita Ramsey

Olivia Llewellyn

Natalie Dormer

Poppy Corby-Tuech

Poppy Delevingne

Rebecca Humphries

Ritu Ayra

Samantha Baines

Sophia Di Martino

Sophie Austin

Sophie Colquhoun

Sophie McShera

Sophie Rundle

Susan Wokoma

Tamsin Egerton

Tuppence Middleton

Tracy Ifeachor

Vicky McClure

Victoria Ekanoye

Yasemin Kay Allen

Zoe Boyle

Zoë Tapper

70s

Alesha Dixon

Alison King

Alison Wright

Amanda Abbington

Anastasia Griffith

Andi Osho

Anna Friel

Carmen Ejogo

Christine Adams

Claire Forlani

Clare Calbraith

Emily Bergl

Emily Mortimer

Emma Heming

Eve Best

Fay Masterson

Hattie Morahan

Katherine Parkinson

Keeley Hawes

Joanna Bobin

Leanne Best

Louise Brealey

Lucy Akhurst

Marsha Thomason

Olivia Colman

Parminder Nagra

Rachel Weisz

Rebecca Mader

Rosamund Pike

Sharon Duncan Brewster

Shelley Conn

Stephanie Waring60s

Alex Kingston

Alice Amter

Cate Blanchett

Catherine Tate

Elizabeth Hurley

Jane Horrocks

Kristin Scott Thomas

Morwenna Banks

Pippa Haywood

Rebecca Naomi Jones

Sarah Alexander

Sarita Choudhury

Sophie Thompson

Susy Kane

Tilda Swinton

Zoie Palmer

Zuleikha Robinson

60s

Adjoa Andoh

Anna Chancellor

Helen McCrory

Helena Bonham Carter

Josette Simon

Lorraine Ashbourne

Naomi Watts

Polly Walker

Ruth Gemmell

50s

Celia Imrie

Emma Thompson

Harriet Walter

Imelda Staunton

Julie Walters

Lesley Manville

Patti Boulaye

40s

Helen Mirren

Jane Lapotaire

Penelope Wilton

30s

Elizabeth Taylor

Judi Dench

Julia Blake

Julie Andrews

20s

Audrey Hepburn

Unknown Birthday

Adelle Leonce

Amanda Fairbank Hynes

Amelia Calley

Daniela Norman

Eve Austin

Faith Alabi

Jenny Walser

Lucy Davenport

Lydia West

Manal El-Feitury

Nancy Farino

Natasha Atherton

Razan Nassar

Sophia Brown

Sophie Fletcher

T'Nia Miller

Tafline Steen

Tanya Moodie

Violet Verigo

Zainab Jah

#masterlist #masterlist: female english #2000s fem english #90s fem english #80s fem english #70s fem english #60s fem english #50s fem english #40s fem english #30s fem english #20s fem english

[braddersbangerz]

Oh thanks =). It was my favorite show to watch during my freshman year of college -- Friday Nights on BBC America. But then timeslots changed, etc and I lost track of the show after Freema left

Alesha Phillips is my bae and the episode Alesha destroyed me

my friend @sapphichymns watched the US version of that episode to compare them and it didn’t nearly have the same hitting potential as Alesha did

not sure if that was because I love Freema though

I do know the writing to ‘Alesha’ was a woman though which makes me glad to be honest

#randomnessoffiction