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Шаблоны, которые можно распечатать, являются отличным способом сэкономить время и деньги при создании документов. Это заранее разработанные шаблоны, которые вы можете загрузить и распечатать бесплатно. В интернете доступно множество различных видов печатных шаблонов, включая календари, списки дел, планировщики бюджета и многое другое.

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Красота печатаемых шаблонов заключается в их универсальности. Они соответствуют широкому спектру профессиональных потребностей, обеспечивая то, чтобы лица из различных отраслей могли воспользоваться их функционалом. Возможности обширны – от шаблонов для управления проектами до повесток дня встреч, отчетов о расходах и оценок производительности. Эти готовые к использованию шаблоны экономят время и обеспечивают последовательность и точность в документации.

Управление временем – это навык, который может повлиять на успех профессионала. Печатаемые планирующие шаблоны, такие как календари, списки дел и отслеживатели целей, помогают эффективно управлять задачами и сроками. Визуально организуя приоритеты и разбивая сложные проекты на составные части, профессионалы могут оставаться сосредоточенными, соблюдать сроки и снижать стресс.

Для профессионалов, работающих с большими объемами данных, таблицы представляют собой настоящий прорыв. Будь то финансовые отчеты, проектные бюджеты или прогнозы продаж, готовые к использованию таблицы обеспечивают точность данных и упрощают сложные расчеты. Это дает профессионалам возможность принимать информированные решения и эффективно распределять ресурсы.

Печатаемые шаблоны стали неотъемлемыми для профессионалов, стремящихся оптимизировать свою продуктивность и эффективность. От организации ежедневных задач до создания впечатляющих презентаций эти шаблоны соответствуют различным потребностям и экономят драгоценное время. Будь то владелец бизнеса, менеджер или сотрудник, вложение в эти ценные ресурсы позволит раскрыть ваш потенциал и достичь успеха в динамичном и конкурентном профессиональном мире.

All Creatures Great and Small: Who Played Helen Throughout the Years

The next actor to play Helen in All Creatures Great and Small was the late Lynda Bellingham OBE who took over as the character from season 4 until the original 1978 show ended with season 7 in 1990. For many people, it’s likely that Lynda was the actor most strongly associated with Helen given her tenure in the drama. She was also well-known for her roles in everything from Doctor Who and Second Thoughts, to the stage production of Calendar Girls and for playing the “Oxo Mum” in the iconic 1980s TV adverts.

Lynda was also a panellist on ITV’s Loose Women and competed on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2009. Fans were devastated when it was announced that Lynda Bellingham had very sadly passed away in October 2014 after being diagnosed with cancer in 2013.

During her many years playing Helen on All Things Great and Small, the character was bed-ridden for a time as this was how the show covered up Lynda’s real-life pregnancy. According to IMDB, the storyline involved Helen having a slipped disc in her back and Lynda had a hole cut in the mattress for her to sit in to help disguise her pregnancy. She gave birth to her second son Robbie earlier in 1988, five months before season 5 aired.

Who played Helen in All Creatures Great and Small? (2020 TV show)

Rachel Shenton is the actor who currently plays Helen in All Creatures Great and Small’s 2020 reboot series which is broadcast on Channel 5. Fans might also recognise Rachel for her amazing Oscars win for the powerful short film, The Silent Child, in 2018, which she starred in as well as writing and producing it.

She has played Helen in the Channel 5 reboot of the 1978 drama since it first landed. According to Rachel herself she hadn’t initially watched the original show, but was aware of how much of an impact it had as her mum had been a fan.

“I was aware of the series. It was before my time, so I’d never seen it, but I knew it was a success,” she told Town&Country. “My mum watched it and some of my family, so there’s always that idea of ‘Oh, goodness, these are quite big boots to fill’.”

Knowing that Helen in All Creatures Great and Small was somewhat inspired by author Alf’s wife, Joan, Rachel revealed that she had the privilege of meeting the couple’s children and doing more research.

“We also had the privilege of meeting Rosie and Jim Wight, who were Alf Wight’s children. Wight’s pseudonym was James Herriot. And in meeting the children, actually hearing about them mum from their perspective just gave us a real peek behind the curtain, because in the book, we learn about my character through James,” Rachel said.

Who plays Helen in All Creatures Great and Small? (1975 movie)

Carol, Lynda and Rachel are the only three actors who have played Helen in All Creatures Great and Small shows over the years, but there was also a 1975 movie also based on Alf Wright’s book series. It starred Lisa Harrow as Helen alongside Anthony Hopkins as Siegfried Farnon and Simon Ward as James Herriot.

The movie is understood to have been based on the first two novels and a sequel called It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet was released a year later, starring the same three main cast members and based on the next two novels.

Born in New Zealand, Lisa went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has also appeared in the likes of Inspector Morse, Omen III: The Final Conflict and, more recently, The Brokenwood Mysteries.

All Creatures Great and Small seasons 1-4 are available to watch via Channel 5’s on-demand service My5. The original 1978 All Creatures Great and Small series can be watched with an ITVX Premium account.

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Helen Gibson once remarked, “I certainly do get angry when I hear someone say, ‘I bet she didn’t do that herself.’” The Gayla Johnson Collection

Helen Gibson had a problem. She needed to leap from a standing position atop a pair of racing horses to a rope dangling from a bridge, which she would then use to swing onto a moving train engine. Once on board, she hoped to capture a gang of railroad bandits.

None of these daring stunts was the issue; in fact, the entire sequence—filmed for an episode of the silent serial “The Hazards of Helen”—was Gibson’s idea. The complications arose from an anxious insurance adjuster, who flatly refused the actress coverage by declaring her “an unsound risk.”

Gibson filming an episode of "The Hazards of Helen" Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

She did the jump anyway, striking herself hard against the engine cab while falling. Despite a doctor’s suggestion that she spend a week in an infirmary, Gibson shrugged the injury off, much as she did throughout her career. “Life is just cluttered up with perils,” she observed. And she didn’t get to be the film industry’s first professional stuntwoman by avoiding them.

In 1910, Gibson started traveling the country with the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show. A quick learner, she thrilled audiences by grabbing a handkerchief off the ground while astride a galloping horse, dismissing all the rodeo veterans convinced this novice would get her head kicked in. “Such things might happen to others,” she later said, “but could never happen to me.”

The rodeo ended its 1911 season in Venice, California, where the performers found temporary employment with filmmaker Thomas Ince. For $8 a week, Gibson rode her horse five miles each way to movie sets that offered her work as an extra. After she landed a screen test, her salary went up to $15. Her first credited role was in 1912’s evocatively titled “Ranch Girls on a Rampage.”

"The Wrong Train Order" (1915) starring Helen Gibson

Back on the rodeo scene in 1913, the future star met Edmund “Hoot” Gibson, another up-and-coming champion who was soon to be her partner in the ring. It was a tough life, but she saw it as a dream. The downsides were largely practical: In Pendleton, Oregon, for instance, she and Hoot encountered other entertainers sleeping on benches and in hallways, as the town’s limited lodgings were saved for married couples. Figuring they’d rather sleep in a bed than on a bench, the friends got married—a hasty decision that wound up shaping both their personal and professional lives.

Upon the couple’s return to Los Angeles after rodeo season, Hoot was hired as a stunt double for Western superstar Tom Mix, while Gibson was selected as a double for Helen Holmes, star of the popular series “The Hazards of Helen.” Holmes was, at the time, one of Hollywood’s silent film serial queens, a broad, beloved cadre that also included women like Pearl White, Ruth Roland and Grace Cunard. Moviegoers had regular dates with these shockingly daring “New Women,” whose adventures unfolded in short, weekly installments known as serials and whose exploits paved the way for the freedoms won by flappers in the 1920s.

Gibson in 1915 The Gayla Johnson Collection

Off screen, suffragists were still pushing to earn the right to vote. On screen, however, the serial queens were mistresses of their own fates. They succeeded personally and professionally, raced cars and rode motorcycles, saved themselves and rescued others. They casually dismissed doubters and left rapt audiences dangling each week, wondering how these brave heroines could possibly outdo their previous predicaments.

One answer, for Holmes, was that she could rely on a stunt double to perform some of her most perilous scenes.

Holmes was no stranger to taking risks herself. Indeed, Stamp, author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon, says the serial queens were “cinema’s first action-adventure heroes.”

“The Hazards of Helen” premiered in November 1914, with Holmes as the titular telegraph operator, who is underestimated by her male colleagues and constantly called upon to save passengers from robbers and runaway trains.

Holmes worked on many of the serial’s scripts and regularly put herself in harm’s way. But when it came to stunts that made insurance agents nervous, Gibson stepped in to take the (literal) fall, creating a brand-new position in the process. In “A Girl’s Grit,” for example, she jumped from a station roof to the top of a fast-moving train. “I landed right,” she later recalled, “but the train’s motion made me roll toward the end of the car. I caught hold of an air vent and hung on, allowing my body to dangle over the edge to increase the effect on the screen.” True to form, she downplayed the injuries she’d sustained, adding, “I suffered only a few bruises.”

Helen Holmes, the original star of "The Hazards of Helen," in 1916 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

After Holmes and her husband left the series to form their own production company in 1915, her stuntwoman became the star of the show.

“The Hazards of Helen” was such a popular serial that the studio insisted Gibson change her name from Rose to Helen when she took over the role. Though the women played the same character and closely resembled each other, management had no intention of hiding the change. Holmes was too famous, and Gibson too talented, to pull a bait-and-switch. Now, there was just one more serial queen to revere.

And so audiences did. Soon, both Gibson and her husband were celebrated in fan magazines, their joint wattage doubled as they became stars in their own right and celebrities together.

Proclaimed the “most daring actress in pictures,” Gibson lived up to her billing with episodes like “In Death’s Pathway” (one of several “Hazards of Helen” installments in which she jumped from a bridge onto a moving train), “A Plunge From the Sky” (a jump from a flying biplane into a river) and “Ablaze on the Rails” (a jump from a speeding motorcycle to a burning box car).

"The Escape on the Fast Freight" (1915) starring Helen Holmes

“The Hazards of Helen” ended in February 1917 after 119 episodes, becoming the longest-running serial in history. (Whether it’s technically a serial or a more traditional film series is a matter of debate.) Over the next two years, Gibson appeared in several other serials, as well as melodramas and Westerns. She also founded a production company, though she ran out of money before she was able to release her first picture—the defiantly named No Man’s Woman. The film was eventually picked up by a different company and released with the less-caustic title Nine Points of the Law.

Gibson was starting to feel the pinch of a tightening industry. In the early, anything-goes years, serial queens were used to having creative freedom, serving as writers or producers of the works they starred in. From the early 1920s onward, however, as the industry solidified, Gibson and her peers discovered that the men running the Hollywood studios were ready to wrest control, profits and power for themselves. As a result, roles for women—both on screen and behind the scenes—began to constrict.

In 1920, Gibson was also unceremoniously dumped by her husband, whose own success was growing exponentially. Since she’d come to hate being identified as “Mrs. Hoot Gibson,” she accepted their divorce in typically sanguine fashion. While Hoot still listed himself as married on a census form soon after they separated, Gibson went ahead and declared herself a widow.

Advertisement for Gibson’s No Man’s Woman film Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Yet Gibson was never one to rest on her laurels. When leading roles dried up, she turned back to her roots. By 1924, she was working as a trick rider with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where she spent three happy years. She returned to Hollywood in 1927 to rebuild her career as a reliable—though often uncredited—stunt double for celebrated actresses like Marie Dressler, Marjorie Main and Ethel Barrymore. She shot her final stunt when she was nearly 70, driving a team of horses in John Ford’s 1962 classic, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Gibson died in 1977 at age 85.

Gibson performed her last stunt in John Ford’s 1962 classic, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Collection of the Margaret Herrick Library

As April Wright, director of the 2020 documentary Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, says:

There is still a push for representation, and sometimes the wigs are still going on men. But when the ability of female stunt performers is questioned, and some stunts are deemed “too dangerous” for women to perform, we have to look back at a trailblazer like Helen Gibson and ask ourselves, “If she was doing amazing stunts over a hundred years ago, why would we ever wonder if women are capable of doing them today?”

Gibson said as much a century ago, concluding, “I certainly do get angry when I hear someone say, ‘I bet she didn’t do that herself.’”

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Helen Mirren’s Big Break

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Mirren got her big break in theater playing Cleopatra with the National Youth Theater in Antony and Cleopatra in 1965.

"I loved the power and the passion of that role, and of course, it’s always good to be Queen," she wrote in her 2008 memoir In the Frame.

"This was the role that launched my career," she added.

The success of the show and her performance landed the actress, who was 19 at the time, an agent and a future with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Helen Mirren on Stage

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As she grew in popularity, she starred in Troilus and Cressida as Cressida in 1968 and in Macbeth as Lady Macbeth in 1974. Then after four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mirren joined renowned director Peter Brook and his theater company and toured the United States and Africa.

Helen Mirren Is Made a Dame

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Mirren was appointed Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth in 2003, three years before she would star in The Queen and win her first Oscar for Best Actress.

Helen Mirren in ‘Cal’

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Starring opposite John Lynch in 1984’s Cal, Mirren captivated audiences with her first serious role as Marcella Morton. She dyed her hair brown to play Marcella, who has a complicated love affair with Lynch’s character Cal. Her performance won her best actress at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

Helen Mirren for L’Oréal Paris

In 2014, Mirren was made the newest face of L’Oréal Paris. The then 69-year-old joined Karlie Kloss and Naomi Watts as a spokeswoman for the iconic beauty brand.

"I am not gorgeous and I never was, but I was always OK looking and I’m keen to stay that way," Mirren told the Daily Mail of her new job at the time. "I have always loved the L’Oréal Paris brand, and I hope I can inspire other women toward greater confidence by making the most of their natural good looks. We are all worth it!"

In 2019, Mirren lit up the catwalk at the L’Oréal Paris show alongside celebrities Eva Longoria and Andie MacDowell. She then made a return to the L’Oréal Paris runway in 2021, sporting an edgy look during the "Le Defile L’Oreal Paris 2021" Womenswear Spring/Summer 2022 show as part of Paris Fashion Week.

Awards and honours

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Why did Helen change her original name?

1. She wanted to break her tribe traditions.

2. People found it difficult to pronounce it.

3. She did not like its meeting.

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It was not easy for my teachers and classmates to pronounce it as our system — I mean the Navaho system — of vowel sounds is so much different for people around, which makes it problematic both for ear and tongue. (Моим учителям и одноклассникам было нелегко его произносить, так как наша система — я имею в виду систему навахо — гласных настолько сильно отличается для окружающих, что делает ее проблематичной и для слуха, и для языка)

На экзамене это задание принесло бы тебе 2/2 баллов.

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Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson

While shooting the film, Mirren met an unknown actor named Liam Neeson on set and the two began a years-long romance.

Neeson revealed on The Graham Norton Show that the first time he saw Mirren in her full Morgana costume, he "was smitten." The two dated between 1980 and 1985 and lived together for four years.

Neeson went on to marry actress Natasha Richardson in 1994 until her unexpected death in 2009 after a skiing accident. Mirren has been married to Taylor Hackford since 1997.

Helen Mirren’s Children

Playing house keeper Mrs. Wilson in the Robert Altman-directed film Gosford Park (2001) earned Mirren her second Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The star-studded cast of the dramedy mystery included, Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon, Bob Balaban and more.

Helen Mirren’s Early Life

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Helen Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in 1945. Her father Anglicized the family name to "Mirren" when Helen was around 9 years old. The actress was raised in Southend-on-Sea outside of London by an English mother and Russian father, alongside two siblings, Katherine and Peter.

Helen Mirren in ‘Catherine the Great’

In one of her more recent projects, Mirren took on another royal project: the role of Catherine the Great in a four-part limited series of the same name for HBO, which debuted in October 2019.

Helen Mirren’s Life Achievement

On Feb. 27, 2022, Mirren was presented with the SAG Life Achievement Award at the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Mirren then continued "Thank you S-A-G so much for this, I hate to say SAG at my age, it’s always S-A-G for me," she said as the crowd laughed.

"I am simultaneously enormously proud and yet with the understanding that I do not deserve this and there is the conflict I believe you all understand: insecurity versus ego. That cocktail I believe most actors sip in the evening as they contemplate on the gift they received the moment they decided to become an actor," she said.

Helen Mirren in ‘The Queen’

Playing Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frear’s The Queen in 2006 has become arguably her most famous and celebrated role. Her recognition for the part, in addition to her first Oscar, included a Golden Globe and SAG Award for best performance by an actress.

Helen Mirren in ‘Elizabeth I’

The same year she won a SAG Award for The Queen, she also won outstanding performance by a female actor for the TV miniseries Elizabeth I.

Helen Mirren’s Awards for ‘Gosford Park’

For Gosford Park, she also won a SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role and won with her costars for outstanding performance by the cast of a theatrical motion picture in 2002.

Helen Mirren Covers PEOPLE’s Beautiful Issue

She’s one cool cover girl! Mirren graced the cover of PEOPLE’s 2022 Beautiful Issue, opening up about standards and the industry.

Helen Mirren Is Honored by USC

Outside of film and television, the Dame was honored in 2017 by the University of Southern California, alongside fellow actor-comedian Will Ferrell. During his commencement speech, Ferrell teased Mirren by acting surprised to see her receive her degree as well.

"Even now I still lose out on parts that I want so desperately," he joked during his speech. "The most painful one was losing the role of Queen Elizabeth in The Queen. Apparently, it came down to myself and Helen Mirren. The rest is history."

"Dame Helen Mirren, you stole my Oscar!" he exclaimed as the audience and Mirren laughed.

Helen Mirren in ‘Prime Suspect’

Playing Prime Suspect’s DCI Jane Tennison made Mirren a household name in television. What started as a single TV drama grew into several series, ending in 2006 with Prime Suspect: The Final Act, which earned her an Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a miniseries or movie.

Helen Mirren in ‘Excalibur’

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In director John Boorman’s extravagant sci-fi classic Excalibur (1981), the star played Morgana, King Arthur’s estranged and evil half-sister.

Helen Mirren in ‘Phil Spector’

In 2014, the actress won another SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actor for playing attorney Linda Kenney Baden opposite Al Pacino in David Mamet’s 2013 TV movie Phil Spector.

Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford

"We got married in the end because we realized that we were going to be together forever," she told the outlet. "We got married, ultimately, for legal reasons more than anything else. Estate planning and other complicated things like that. And our families, we sensed, wanted us to be married. I always said I have nothing against marriage; it just wasn’t to my taste, like turnips. It took me a very long time to come round to acquiring the taste. I just had to meet the right turnip."

Hackford won a Best Short Film Oscar in 1979 for Teenage Father and was nominated in 2005 for Best Achievement in Directing and Best Motion Picture of the Year for the award-winning Ray Charles biopic, Ray, starring Jamie Foxx.

Helen Mirren in ‘Fast & Furious’

The star joined the Fast & Furious franchise as Magdalene Shaw, the mother of Deckard (Jason Statham) and Owen Shaw (Luke Evans). She appeared in The Fate of the Furious in 2017, F&F Presents: Hobbs & Shaw in 2019 and F9 in 2020.

Hogwarts Tournament of Houses’

These days, fans can test their Harry Potter knowledge as host Mirren fires off Hogwarts trivia on the competition series Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses.

And for the record, if Mirren could choose a house, she would choose Slytherin "because there’s a punkishness about Slytherin that appeals to me," she told PEOPLE in 2021.

"You know, the bad boys on the motorbikes kind of thing," she added.

Helen Mirren in ‘The Mosquito Coast’

The Mosquito Coast (1986) was one of the first times Mirren felt like she had broken through as a Hollywood actress.

"It’s funny when I got that role, and I never expected to get it, with Harrison Ford, you know, in a film by Peter Weir. Hollywood movie!" Mirren recalled during an interview with 2007’s Hollywood Greats. "I remember I heard about it in New York and I left the meeting and I was walking on air. I thought, ‘I’ve cracked it. I’ve cracked it. I’m a Hollywood film actress.’ "

"And the exact opposite happened, the film got sunk without a trace and I was back to square one," she laughed.

Mirren played Harrison Ford’s wife in the film that earned $14,302,779 at the box office, seen as a commercial flop.

Helen Mirren in ‘The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover’

In The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Mirren played Georgia, the wife of crime boss Albert Spica (Michael Gambon), who comes to La Hollandaise to be entertained every night. Georgia grows tired of her husband and their nightly trips to the fancy French restaurant and decides to have an affair with another man at another table (Alan Howard).

Mirren’s character transformation in the Peter Greenaway-directed crime drama was described as "almost frightening" by celebrated film critic Roger Ebert.

"She changes from submissive wife to daring lover to vicious seeker of vengeance. And watch the way she and Howard handle their sex scenes together, using sex not as joy, not as an avenue to love, but as sheer escapism; lust is their avenue to oblivion."

Helen Mirren in ‘The Madness of King George’

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Mirren’s first major movie was director Michael Powell’s Age of Consent (1969). The then-22-year-old actress played Cora, a beautiful Queenslander and muse of Australian painter Bradley Morahan (James Mason).