Actors of the series “My Crazy Diary” fully justified the British reputation of masters of “black humor”. Their work will become a model of tragicomedy on the air.
Plot
In the distant 1996, the values ​​of tolerance now familiar were not yet so common; in those years, a schoolgirl in adolescence was expensive for overweight. She does not have to count on peer popularity.
In those difficult times, a fat woman named Ray was discharged from the hospital for mentally ill patients. The girl is 16 years old, and at her age it is very important to rely on loyal friends and friends. And, of course, do not forget about the excitement of love. But she is unlikely to be lucky in "amorous" affairs.
Ray was not going to tell her friend Chloe about her unhealthy psyche, and she nonchalantly introduces a sad fatty to her friends. If she knew how it would end ...
In the work on the series “My Crazy Diary”, actors and screenwriters are not shy about joking on complex topics and do not regret their characters.
Jody Comer
After the broadcast of the first episode of the series “My Crazy Diary”, the actors and the roles played by them remained under the attention of not only critics and spectators. Many directors in this project discovered new faces, including Jody Comer, the very girlfriend of the main character named Chloe, who received her recognition. The girl worthily played a difficult role, she received an invitation to shoot the series at age 20.
Komer was born in 1993 in Liverpool, tried herself as an actress already on the stage of school theater productions. Later, she intensified her participation in one of the roles of a radio show, and she was noticed. From that moment on, Jody’s career start date should be counted down.
For some time, the girl was content with episodic modest roles. Later, in the image of Chloe, she will announce herself on the project “My Crazy Diary”. Actors and roles in it will be discussed for a long time in directorial circles.
Ian Hart
He will play the first role on the big screen at the age of 27, but he accumulated acting experience on the stage much earlier. His first acquaintance with lyceum art occurred in his teens.
Hart was born in England in 1964, but he comes from a family of Irish immigrants. He grew up in an educated and religious Greek Catholic family. The boy received a good education, studied art and drama in a prestigious educational institution. Even before adulthood, the guy had accumulated tangible experience on the stage. Later, in working on roles in film and television, directors will rely on his good acting school and accumulated skills.
In the work on the series “My Crazy Diary”, actors from the number of shooting partners recognized him as an authority and followed his advice on the set. In this, Hart is similar to his character. Ian played Kester, the doctor of the main character, who had the right to interfere in her life.
His character from episode to episode in frank conversations with Ray gradually gains her confidence in herself.
At the moment, for 26 years remains one of the most recognizable and popular British actors.
Sharon Rooney
She played the main role and became a real discovery not only of British, but also of world television. A complex character character allows her to fully express herself.
For her, the series “My Crazy Diary” was both a debut and the best project on the track record. With the choice of a future profession, Sharon decided on her own free will at 16 years old, it is unlikely that her parents were happy about her daughter's decision to leave school one day to prepare for a theatrical and cinematic career.
Future performer Ray Earle attends acting classes and deliberately takes the experience from as many teachers as possible in her homeland - in Scotland.
Rooney's career and abilities
Born in 1988, on the big screen, the girl became one of the most promising British actresses. She is trusted with difficult characteristic roles in serious projects.
Although Rooney decides to be an actress relatively early (at 16) and stubbornly “follows her dream,” she will have a screen debut at only 25 years old. And already from the first role she receives recognition. On the set of the first episode of the series “My Crazy Diary”, the actors noted Rooney's good school. Her performance of the leading role largely determined the success of the audience.
After that, critics and directors predict her great success in her future career. In their opinion, the girl is likely to become not only the star of television series - she will achieve a lot in the cinema.
about the project
The series could be popular with a teenage audience of television viewers, if it did not address such complex and gloomy topics. The main characters will not become a model of behavior for their peers on the other side of the screen. Instead, the creators of the project relied on connoisseurs of sophisticated "black humor", the authors of the script placed the main character in unenviable conditions.
In the "core" of the plot, a teenage girl with a clear overweight and mental deviation was entered. At the same time, the events around her become a source of bright jokes. On the set of the series “My Crazy Diary”, the actors prove the British reputation as masters of “black humor”. Actors themselves almost all are British subjects, as well as carriers of the English television and cinematic tradition.
The full cast of the main roles:
- Sharon Rooney - 16-year-old fat lady Ray after treatment in a psychiatric clinic is trying to stay in the company of popular peers.
- Jody Komer - the best friend of the main character Chloe, a beauty of easy virtue.
- Her mother was played by Claire Rushbrook - a woman obsessed with her own appearance cannot find a “common language” with her daughter.
- Ian Hart played the main character's psychotherapist.
- Dan Cohen is one of Ray's friends.
- Nico Mirallegro as a friend of the main character named Finn.
And:
- Jordan Murphy
- Darren Evans.
- Sophie Wright.
- Thurlow Convery.
Each of the list is a product of the British acting school of the last two decades, critics and viewers have the opportunity to assess its level. Also on screen, screenwriters and a team of directors tried to compete with their American counterparts.