After attending drama school at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Friend's professional acting career got off to a fast start with roles opposite Johnny Depp in Laurence Dunmore's The Libertine (2004) and his future girlfriend, Keira Knightley, in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005). But as with every good coming-of-age story, there's a time when the protagonist must step up and be his own man. That moment appears to have arrived for the 27-year-old Friend. Having recently done duty in the British WWII drama The Boy in the StripedPajamas (2008), Friend stars with Michelle Pfeiffer in Stephen Frears's upcoming Chéri, based on theColette novel of the same name, and is the male lead in The Young Victoria, a film about the life of Britain's Queen Victoria, in which he plays Prince Albert to his interviewer here Emily Blunt's Queen V. EMILY BLUNT: Tell me about growing up in Oxfordshire. I remember taking a little tour around there and you showed me the corner store where there used to be a girl who you pined for.
New York education commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced Monday, July 15, 2019, that she will leave her job at the end of August to take a position with a national education group. Joseph Spector, Albany Bureau Chief