Media Professionals (1): Film, Television, Theatre and Radio
- David Baddiel, Comedian and television presenter
- Brooke Burfitt, Actress and radio presenter
- Nat Coombs, presenter, writer & comedian
- Andrew Davenport, co-creator of the Teletubbies
- Naamua Delaney, UCL (LLB): news presenter
- Jonathan Dimbleby, writer and television presenter
- Frank Dunlop, formerly Festival Director, the Edinburgh International Festival; Founder and formerly Director, The Young Vic.
- Jane Fallon, English producer and novelist, most famous for her work on popular series Teachers, 20 Things To Do Before You're 30, EastEnders and This Life.
- Trey Farley, television presenter.
- Abla Freelance, actress and journalist
- Daniel R. Fung (馮華健), UCL (LLB, LLM): former Solicitor General of Hong Kong, Chairman of Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority
- Ricky Gervais, comedian/actor, co-writer and director of The Office (studied biology and philosophy)
- Rachel Hurd-Wood, actress; best known for playing Wendy Darling at the 2003 film Peter Pan
- Amy Jenkins, creator of This Life
- Christian Jessen, medical doctor and television presenter
- James Robertson Justice, actor
- Dominic Keating, actor, including in Star Trek: Enterprise
- Trevor Lock, comedian and actor
- Jeremy Marre, film director
- Oliver Messel, influential leading stage designer
- Michael J. Mosley, psychiatrist and television presenter
- Maryam Moshiri, BBC newsreader
- Mary Nighy, actress
- Christopher Nolan, film director, including Memento and The Dark Knight. (UCL English 1993)
- Raj Persaud, psychiatrist and broadcaster
- Jonathan Ross – Presenter
- Adam Rutherford, TV presenter and editor for the journal Nature
- Michael Smith (writer) and broadcaster
- Suzie Templeton, writer, director and animator, including Peter and the Wolf
- Emma Thomas (UCL History 1993), producer at Warner Brothers.
- Alex Trippier, actor (Queer as Folk), gay rights activist
- Mat Whitecrosx, film director
- Patrick Wymark, actor
- Alex Zane, presenter, radio DJ and stand-up comedian
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Famous quotes containing the words media, theatre and/or radio:
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Denouement to denouement, he took a personal pride in the
certain, certain way he lived his own, private life,
but nevertheless, they shut off his gas; nevertheless,
the bank foreclosed; nevertheless, the landlord called;
nevertheless, the radio broke,
And twelve o’clock arrived just once too often,”
—Kenneth Fearing (1902–1961)