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Charles Edwards was born on 1 October 1969 in Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022), The Crown (2016) and The Duke (2020).

Rachel Portman, Composer

British composer Rachel Portman became the first female composer to win an Academy Award, which she received for the score of Emma. She was also the first female composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, which she received for the film, Bessie. She has received two further Academy Nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination. Rachel was given an OBE in 2010 and is an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. She's also a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. Rachel has written stage and concert commissions including a musical of Little House on the Prairie, and an opera of Saint Exupery's, The Little Prince for Houston Grand Opera. For the BBC Proms, she wrote The Water Diviner, a dramatic choral symphony. She also wrote 'Endangered' performed at the World Environment Day Concert, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing. Other works include Earth Song for the BBC Singers, a solo piano album Ask The River and most recently for Joyce Di Donato, The First Morning of the World as part of her Eden programme.

Lucy Prebble was born in 1980 in Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK. She is a writer and producer, known for Succession (2018), I Hate Suzie (2020) and Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007).

Robin Phillips was born on 28 February 1942 in Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Broome Stages (1966), Doctor Who (1963) and The Forsyte Saga (1967). He died on 25 July 2015 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

Hugh Latimer was born on 12 May 1913 in Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel (1949), Someone at the Door (1950) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). He was married to Sheila Murray Gairns. He died on 12 June 2006 in London, England, UK.

Guy is an award-winning film composer whose outstanding body of work includes over 40 feature films, flagship television series and collaborations with multi-platinum selling artists.

Guy's recent and most notable works include That Good Night, starring John Hurt and Charles Dance; additional music with Hans Zimmer on Netflix The Crown; Anthropoid (nominated for best music in the 2017 Evening Standard Film Awards) directed by Sean Ellis and starring Jamie Dornan; Friedrich Moser's award-winning documentary feature A Good American (nominated for best film score at the 2017 Austrian Film Awards); Bear Grylls' sold out 2016 arena tour, Endeavour; and Academy Award winning Peter Fudakowski's film of Joseph Conrad's Secret Sharer.

In addition to The Crown, Guy's television scores include BBC's Planet Earth series Growing Up Wild and Nature's Miracle Orphans; the multi-award winning feature documentary Faberge: A Life Of Its Own; and History Channel's South Africa: A Miracle Rising. Guy also arranged and produced channel Four's multi-award winning We Are The Superhumans for the 2016 Paralympics and produced music for both seasons of the series True Justice for Voltage Pictures.

Guy has also achieved great success collaborating with artists and producers, producing and arranging music for the likes of Emeli Sande, Eliza Doolittle, Paloma Faith, Amy Winehouse, Tokio Myers, Petite Meller, Fiona Bevan, Mica Paris and Stephen Fretwell.

Grant Baynham was born on 3 November 1954 in Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK. He died on 29 July 2022.

Paul Goble was born on 27 September 1933 in Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK. He is known for The Singing Revolution (2006). He was married to Janet and ???. He died on 5 January 2017 in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.

Alf Bicknell was born on 28 October 1928 in Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK. He died on 8 March 2004 in Oxford, England, UK.