Respected actor and proud Welshman Jonathan Pryce will be a special guest at the inaugural SOUNDTRACK Film and Music Festival.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, during the 1970's, Holywell born Jonathan Pryce would established himself on the London stage with appearances in The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and Measure for Measure among other plays. In 1977 he won a Tony Award for his Broadway debut in Comedians, for which he also earned the 1977 Theatre World Award and the 1977 nomination for Drama Desk Outstanding Actor Award. Pryce earned his second Tony Award 15 years later for the role as The Engineer in Miss Saigon.  

In 1976 Pryce made his big screen debut in Voyage of the Damned; but it wasn't until 1983 that he made a strong impression with his scary performance as the manipulative Mr. Dark in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. Pryce later shot to fame as Sam Lowry in Terry Gilliam's Orwellian fantasy Brazil. He also filled such strong and authoritative roles, as Dictator Juan Peron opposite Madonna in Evita, and opposite Pierce Brosnan as Bond villain Elliot Carver, in Tomorrow Never Dies.
                                                                                                                                                                        Always adept at playing characters marked with sophistication and depth, his subtle and nuanced portrayal of author Lytton Strachey in Carrington, scooped Pryce the Best Actor Award at Cannes. A versatile and multifaceted talent, Pryce made numerous works for television ranging from costume dramas to comedy, and from narrations to singing. In January 2006, he replaced John Lithgow as Lawrence Jameson in the acclaimed musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He appeared as the timid Jamaican Governor Wetherby Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and subsequent franchise follow up's Dead Man's Chest, and At World's End. 

Jonathan Pryce at SOUNDTRACK

Prior to the screening of Very Annie Mary, there will be an In Conversation with Jonathan Pryce, who will discuss the movie as well as his distinguished career as one of Britain's most respected actors. 

Jonathan Pryce Screenings 

Very Annie Mary

Dir: Sara Sugarman - 2001

Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Rachel Griffiths, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys

Captivating and heart-warming, when it was released in 2001 Very Annie-Mary was greeted as the latest in a long line of small, quirky British comedies. In fact, Very Annie-Mary is a proudly Welsh film, celebrating the eccentricity of a small town in the valleys.

Annie-Mary is a 30-year-old woman trapped in gawky adolescence by the death of her mother and subsequent years of repression by her father, the Pavarotti-obsessed town baker. But when her father has a stroke and she is thrown on her own awkward resources to fulfill both her personal dreams and those of her mortally sick friend Bethan, she finds unique comic ways to cope with disaster. Redemption comes with the return of her ability to sing.

Friday 28^th November / 17.30 / Cineworld Cardiff, Mary Ann St

 Brazil

Dir: Terry Gilliam - 1985

Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Bob Hoskins

Brazil is set in a futuristic Orwellian society, where Sam Lowry, a civil servant, chooses to blind himself to the decaying, drone-like world around him. It's a world marred by oppressive automatization, towering bureaucracy and populated by tyrannical guards who strong-arm lawbreakers.

When a bug gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedom, and the woman he loves; however, the system has other plans.

Saturday 29^th November / 14.00 / Cineworld Cardiff, Mary Ann St