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    The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Oliver Parker, based on Oscar Wilde's classic 1895 comedy of manners...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest is a 1952 British comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1895 play by Oscar Wilde. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, who...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest is a 1992 American film adaptation of the 1895 play of the same name by Oscar Wilde, featuring an all-black cast. Director...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest is an 1895 play by Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest may also refer to: The Importance of Being Earnest (1932...
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    The Importance of Being Earnest is a three-act opera by Gerald Barry based on the 1895 play of the same name by Oscar Wilde. The opera was given concert...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest is a filmed version of the 2011 Broadway revival production of Oscar Wilde's 1895 play of the same name. The film is directed...
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    Woman of No Importance (1893, play) The Sphinx (1894, poem) An Ideal Husband (performed 1895, published 1898; play) The Importance of Being Earnest (performed...
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    George Alexander (actor) (category Deaths from diabetes in the United Kingdom)
    The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Alexander followed Robertson and the Kendals in preferring a naturalistic style of writing and acting to the extravagantly...
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  • Phoebe Campbell (category Alumni of RADA)
    production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Phoebe Campbell was born in England. In 2022, Campbell graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...
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  • Fiona Button (category Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art)
    in They Drink It in the Congo at the Almeida Theatre. In 2018 she played Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest in the West End. Button married...
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    Margaret Rutherford (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. She won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role as the Duchess of Brighton in The V.I.P.s (1963)...
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    Ncuti Gatwa (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
    that Gatwa was cast as Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest in the Lyttleton Theatre at the National Theatre, London from November 2024...
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  • Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    The Importance of Being Earnest, The Merchant of Venice The Moderate Soprano, Macbeth and Othello. He starred as Archbishop Francesco Salviati in the...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest (German: Liebe, Scherz und Ernst) is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Franz Wenzler and starring Charlotte Ander...
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    Timothy Innes (category Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School)
    film Ashes in the Snow and had a small role in The Favourite. Innes played Algernon Moncrieffe in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Theatre Royal...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest is a 1957 Australian TV performance of the 1895 play by Oscar Wilde. It was directed by Paul O'Loughlin. It was made at...
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    Frances O'Connor (category Australian expatriate actresses in the United States)
    She appears in roles in the films Mansfield Park, Bedazzled, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Timeline. O'Connor won...
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    Joan Greenwood (category Actors from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
    Grass Is Greener in the West End in 1952 and played Gwendolen in a film version of The Importance of Being Earnest released in the same year. She had leading...
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    Mary Millar (category Deaths from ovarian cancer in the United Kingdom)
    ISBN 9780491012317. Retrieved 4 July 2013. "The Importance of Being Earnest 1973". Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved...
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  • secondary to the social commentary thematically presented through the witty dialogue of the characters, e.g. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), by...
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  • prompted The Independent to name her as "One to Watch". Later in 2015 she starred opposite David Suchet in The Importance of Being Earnest at London's...
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  • Gabrielle Drake (category Alumni of RADA)
    during the inaugural season of the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, playing Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest. In 1966, she joined the Birmingham...
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    Geoffrey Rush (category Companions of the Order of Australia)
    productions of Waiting for Godot, The Winter's Tale and The Importance of Being Earnest. He made his Broadway debut in the absurdist comedy Exit the King in...
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  • Jenny Rainsford (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
    Theatre, Young Vic, Rose Theatre Kingston (The Importance of Being Earnest), and Prince of Wales Theatre (The Windsors: Endgame, as Princess Beatrice)....
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    Belvoir production, The Seagull, and acted opposite Geoffrey Rush in the Melbourne Theatre Company's The Importance of Being Earnest. In 2012, Barclay performed...
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  • directing the film adaptations of Shakespeare's Othello (1995) and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and for his role as Peloquin in the cult...
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  • Charles Kay (category Alumni of RADA)
    Orsini-Rosenberg in the Academy Award winning Amadeus. He also appeared in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, and the 2002 version of The Importance of Being Earnest. His numerous...
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    David Suchet (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    play. He has been starring as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde at the Vaudeville Theatre in London since June 2015 and...
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    Santino Fontana (category University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni)
    fiscal obligations to the family." In 2011, Fontana portrayed Algernon Moncrieff in the revival of The Importance of Being Earnest. Fontana received rave...
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