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Connecting Keeley Hawes and Richard Branson
Keeley Hawes
British actress
The following month, Hawes appeared as actress Patricia Neal in 2021 film '' To Olivia'', which revolves around her marriage to Roald Dahl and the death of their daughter.
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
He also wrote for the satirical BBC comedy programme ''That Was the Week That Was'', which was hosted by David Frost.
David Frost
British television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer (1939–2013)
Frost had been part of an unsuccessful consortium, CPV-TV, with Richard Branson and other interests, which had attempted to acquire three ITV contractor franchises prior to the changes made by the Independent Television Commission in 1991.
Keeley Hawes
British actress
She has also provided the voice of Lara Croft in '' Tomb Raider'' video games, including ''Tomb Raider: Legend'', ''Tomb Raider: Anniversary'', ''Tomb Raider: Underworld'', and ''Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light''.
In 2006, Hawes replaced Jonell Elliott as the voice of Lara Croft in the action-adventure video game, '' Tomb Raider: Legend''.
She reprised her voiceover role as Lara Croft in the video games '' Tomb Raider: Anniversary'', a remake of the original ''Tomb Raider'', released in 2007, followed by 2008's ''Tomb Raider: Underworld''.
The 2010 release of the arcade-style Tomb Raider game, ''Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light'', again featured Hawes as the voice of Lara Croft.
She also guest-starred in 2014 as Ms. Delphox in the eighth series of '' Doctor Who'', and returned as Lara Croft in the voiceover role for that year's release of the game '' Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris''.
Lara Croft
Bands and artists including Depeche Mode, Moby, Faith No More, Jimi Tenor, and Apollo 440 donated their songs for the album.
Moby
American musician
Moby's fifth album, ''Play'', was released by Mute and V2 Records, founded by Richard Branson three years prior, in May 1999.
Keeley Hawes
British actress
Hawes has had leading roles in the 2010 revival of ''Upstairs, Downstairs'', the limited series '' The Casual Vacancy'' (2015), '' The Missing'' (2016), the ITV comedy-drama ''The Durrells'' (2016–2019), the Russell T Davies drama serial '' It's a Sin'' (2021) and in '' The Midwich Cuckoos'' (2022).
Russell T Davies
The first three episodes of ''Dark Season'' feature three young teenagers in a contemporary secondary school, Reet (Kate Winslet), Marcie (Victoria Lambert), and Tom (Ben Chandler), who discover a plot by the villain Mr Eldritch (Grant Parsons) to take over the world using school computers.
Kate Winslet
While holidaying at Richard Branson's estate on Necker Island in 2011, Winslet met his nephew Edward Abel Smith (legally known as Ned Rocknroll from 2008 to 2019) during a house fire, and Smith became her third husband.
Emma Bunton
English singer
In April 1999 she helped launch the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's anti-child abuse campaign with Tony Blair and Prince Andrew.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Andrew has been accused of child sexual abuse by Virginia Giuffre, who alleges that as a minor she was sex trafficked to him by American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which Andrew has categorically denied.
When Andrew was facing accusations in 2015 over his connection to Jeffrey Epstein, Stark came to his defence.
BBC News reported in March 2011 that Andrew's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and (from 2008) a convicted sex offender, was producing "a steady stream of criticism", and there were calls for him to step down from his role as trade envoy.
Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein was a longtime acquaintance of Prince Andrew and Tom Barrack, and attended parties with many prominent people, including Bill Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump, Katie Couric, Woody Allen, and Harvey Weinstein. His contacts included Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson, Michael Jackson, Alec Baldwin and the Kennedys.
