111-485: Veronica Beatrice "Sally" Lockhart (later Goldberg) is a fictional character in a series of books by Philip Pullman . Sally Lockhart is a dazzling 16-year-old, middle-class orphan in Victorian England whose father taught her a variety of useful things: accounting, marksmanship, finance and shooting. Sally's high intelligence opens a career path for her as a financial consultant, an extremely difficult job for
222-592: A 2006 episode of the show in which the Doctor carried the torch. On 1 June 2013, the BBC announced that Smith would be leaving Doctor Who at the end of the 2013 Christmas special . He was succeeded by Peter Capaldi . Reflecting upon his decision to leave in a 2016 interview, he expressed regret for not staying longer, stating that he wanted to work longer with co-star Jenna Coleman . In 2018, while appearing on Desert Island Discs , he revealed that he nearly turned down
333-558: A dual role in the science fiction film Womb (2010), the physical forms of Skynet in the cyberpunk action film Terminator Genisys (2015), a 1960s pimp in the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (2021) and Milo Morbius in the superhero film Morbius (2022). Matthew Robert Smith was born in Northampton , England on 28 October 1982, the son of Lynne and David Smith. He has an elder sister named Laura Jayne, who
444-667: A "public interest first" test to ensure that power was taken away from "remote interest groups". The declaration was also signed by 56 academics, writers, trade unionists and politicians from the Labour Party , the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party . In October 2011, Pullman backed a campaign to stop 600 library closures in England, calling it a "war against stupidity". London Borough of Brent claimed that it
555-655: A 2004 BBC poll, he was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature. Northern Lights , the first volume in His Dark Materials , won the 1995 Carnegie Medal of the Library Association as the year's outstanding English-language children's book. For the Carnegie's 70th anniversary, it was named in
666-549: A brilliant photographer; and his sister Rosa, a caring actress. Sally's high intelligence opens a career path for her as a financial consultant, an extremely difficult job for a woman to obtain considering women at this point still were refused the right to vote. Sally Lockhart realizes she loves Frederick Garland almost too late in The Shadow in the North ; they consummate their love and conceive their child hours before Frederick
777-633: A clear demarcation between children's and adult literature. In a talk at the Royal Society of Literature , he quoted C. S. Lewis in "On Three Ways of Writing for Children": "I now like hock , which I am sure I should not have liked as a child. But I still like lemon-squash . I call this growth or development because I have been enriched: where I formerly had only one pleasure, I now have two." Pullman says that "It would be nice to think that normal human curiosity would let us open our minds to experience from every quarter, to listen to every storyteller in
888-559: A court case in The Tiger in the Well . Rosa and her brother, Fred, were originally disowned by their parents for taking up career choices that their parents did not agree with and were supported by their father's brother, Webster Garland. Rosa was accepted by her parents after giving up the stage and marrying Reverend Bedwell. Although she loves her husband, Rosa still longs for the stage and puts on parish pageants and pastorals ( The Tiger in
999-457: A daughter. The stereographic picture of Trembler with Adelaide on his knee is a clue to the true identity of the 'Cockney Queen' in "The Tin Princess". Trembler and Mrs. Molloy are one of Sally's ports of call in The Tiger in the Well as they now own a boarding house, and she arranges to hide with them after running from her court appearance with Harriet. Trembler is not seen or mentioned in
1110-399: A fire caused by Axel Bellmann midway through The Shadow in the North , causing Sally to murder Bellmann. He is an important character as he supports Sally throughout almost all of the book 'Ruby In The Smoke' and fight a villainous 'Mr Berry' to protect their friends. Sally's pain for most of The Shadow in the North and The Tiger in the Well revolves around the fact that had Fred survived
1221-872: A football player and believed acting would damage his social life. His teacher persisted, eventually persuading him to join the National Youth Theatre in London. After leaving school, Smith studied Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia , graduating in 2005. With the National Youth Theatre, he played Thomas Becket in Murder in the Cathedral (2003) and Bassoon in The Master and Margarita (2004). His role in
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#17327758853391332-408: A limp for the rest of his life, although he is still physically capable in a fight. In The Tin Princess , he accompanies the long-lost Adelaide and her new husband to her husband's kingdom, with Jim eventually marrying Adelaide after her husband is killed and Adelaide removed from the throne. Jim is in all of the books, although his appearance in The Tiger in the Well is only brief as he was away on
1443-442: A line like a monkey climbing a stick: now you're seven, so you read these books; and now you're nine so you read these." More than 1,200 authors, booksellers, illustrators, librarians and teachers joined the campaign; Pullman's own publisher, Scholastic , agreed to his request not to put the age bands on his book covers. Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller , said: "The steps taken by Mr Pullman and other authors have taken
1554-526: A long-time enthusiast of William Blake , and president of the Blake Society, Pullman led a campaign in 2014 to buy the Sussex cottage where the poet lived between 1800 and 1803, saying: Surely it isn't beyond the resources of a nation that can spend enormous amounts of money on acts of folly and unnecessary warfare, a nation that likes to boast about its literary heritage, to find the money to pay for
1665-551: A poor urchin during Sally's first encounter with danger and finds that she has married into the royal family of Razkavia, a small country near Germany. However, resentment is rife within the palace, and plots develop to dethrone the family and join Germany. Only the Eagle can stop them. A loveable Cockney ragamuffin, Jim is an avid theatergoer who loves stories and regularly falls in love, his adult career alternating between working at
1776-565: A professional footballer , but spondylolysis forced him out of the sport. After joining the National Youth Theatre and studying drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia , he became an actor in 2003, performing in plays including Murder in the Cathedral , Fresh Kills , The History Boys and On the Shore of the Wide World in London theatres. Extending his repertoire into West End theatre, he has since performed in
1887-507: A proper memorial and a centre for the study of this great poet and artist. Not least because this is the place where he wrote the words now often sung as an alternative (and better) national anthem, the poem known as Jerusalem : "And did those feet in ancient time". Blake's feet walked in Felpham . Let's not let this opportunity pass by. As president of the Blake Society, on 11 August 2018, Pullman inaugurated Blake's new memorial gravestone on
1998-584: A quiet, sensible, unobtrusive sort of monarchy because of the mistakes the Windsors have made, and because of the disgusting and unredeemable nature of the tabloid press; so we shall have to have a republic. The one thing to avoid is a political president. Let's have a well-respected figure from some other walk of life, and leave politics to the prime minister and parliament." In 2010, The Atlantic described Pullman's Jesus in The Good Man Jesus and
2109-447: A romantic outlook of the political world while being cynical elsewhere. He talked about his character's emotional and intellectual maturity; emotionally, he lacks confidence around women, though Smith portrays him as a caring and sensitive but "wry, sarcastic, [and] witty" romantic. Intellectually, Danny is portrayed as attentive and possessing a strong work ethic. During Smith's tenure in On
2220-499: A similar award that authors may not win twice. While working on His Dark Materials , he wrote two novellas, The Firework-Maker's Daughter (1995) and Clockwork, or All Wound Up (1996), which he calls fairy tales. The trilogy continued with The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000). Pullman has been writing full-time since 1996. He continues to deliver talks and writes occasionally for The Guardian , including writing and lecturing about education, in which he
2331-671: A state visit" to the UK; the letter argued that the Pope had led and condoned global abuses of human rights, leading a state which has "resisted signing many major human rights treaties and has formed its own treaties (" concordats ") with many states which negatively affect the human rights of citizens of those states". New Yorker journalist Laura Miller described Pullman as one of England's most outspoken atheists . He has characterised atheist totalitarian regimes as religions. Matt Smith (actor) Matthew Robert Smith (born 28 October 1982)
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#17327758853392442-442: A statement and an interview with Chair of Management Committee Joanne Harris which were described by The Guardian as the society "distancing" itself from Pullman. Pullman resigned his presidency, later stating that the management committee urging him to apologise for something he hadn’t done had been a factor in his decision to stand down. He later criticised Harris for her "facetious and flippant" public comments and stated that
2553-491: A theatre and submitting self-penned plays and working as a private detective. He is courageous and outgoing and has an ability to see a person's true nature long before anyone else. He looks up to Sally and Fred. In The Shadow in the North, he breaks his leg when he falls from a window whilst trying to save Fred. While looking for Sally in the ruins of the North Star factory, he strains his leg too much and causes him to have
2664-510: A trip with Webster Garland for much of the novel. Jim was played by Matt Smith in the TV series. A photographer with an imaginative streak and a wonderful personality. Although he has feelings for Sally, they almost always argue, Sally torn between her admiration for his strength and compassion and her frustration at his occasionally childish behavior, but their friendship is still strong. Although they accept their feelings for each other, he dies in
2775-602: A woman to obtain considering women at this point still were refused the right to vote. She has since childhood been plagued by frightening nightmares. Sally is also a very curious person. Sally Lockhart is first introduced in The Ruby in the Smoke , the first of the four novels in the Sally Lockhart Quartet. The book begins in London in 1872, where Pullman states Lockhart is "sixteen or so". Physically, Lockhart
2886-473: Is 1881. A trap has been sprung, a trap which has been in preparation for years. The barely human Tzaddik is behind this, and his demons are far greater than anything Sally Lockhart can muster. With the law, the Tzaddik's henchmen, and luck against her, she is forced to go undercover, leaving behind her family and friends as she is sucked into the well... It is 1882. Jim finds Adelaide, a girl who went missing as
2997-595: Is a God, and he is as the Christians describe him, then he deserves to be put down and rebelled against." He has also acknowledged that the same could be said of all religions. Pullman has also referred to himself as knowingly "of the Devil's party", a reference to William Blake's revisionist view of Milton in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell . Pullman is a supporter of Humanists UK and an Honorary Associate of
3108-584: Is a servant of Mrs. Holland in The Ruby in the Smoke . Once Mrs. Holland dies, she is still not found until the later books. She appears in The Tin Princess as Crown Princess and later Queen of Razkavia. She later agrees to marry Jim after political strife forces her to abdicate her throne, with her friend Becky suggesting that Adelaide could become an actress. The first two novels were adapted into TV movies by BBC Drama and broadcast on BBC One in
3219-783: Is a trilogy consisting of Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass . Northern Lights won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the UK in 1995. The Amber Spyglass was awarded both 2001 Whitbread Prize for best children's book and the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in January 2002, the first children's book to receive that award. The series won popular acclaim in late 2003, taking third place in
3330-669: Is also a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival , a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres On 24 June 2009, Pullman was awarded the degree of D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters), honoris causa , by the University of Oxford at the Encænia ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre. In 2012, during a break from writing The Book of Dust , Pullman
3441-668: Is an English actor. He is known for playing the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who (2010–2014), Prince Philip in Netflix 's historical series The Crown (2016–2017)—for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination—and Daemon Targaryen in HBO 's fantasy drama series House of the Dragon (2022–present). Smith initially aspired to be
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3552-475: Is described as being "uncommonly pretty"; she has blonde hair, dark brown eyes and is "slender and pale". In the beginning, Sally is placed under the care of her father's second cousin, a widow named Caroline Rees who insists upon being called "Aunt Caroline". The two reside at Peveril Square, Islington, until Sally moves out during the beginning of The Ruby in the Smoke . She befriends Jim Taylor, an office boy at her father's old shipping firm; Frederick Garland,
3663-416: Is introduce them to the pleasures of the subtle and complex. One way to do that, of course, is to let them see us enjoying it, and then forbid them to touch it, on the grounds that it's too grown-up for them, their minds aren't ready to cope with it, it's too strong, it'll drive them mad with strange and uncontrollable desires. If that doesn't make them want to try it, nothing will." In 2002, to coincide with
3774-450: Is killed in a fire started by associates of Axel Bellmann. Sally mourns the fact she and Fred never had a chance to marry and that their daughter, named Harriet, is illegitimate. At the end of The Tiger in the Well , Sally realizes that Jewish-Hungarian socialist and journalist, Daniel Goldberg, is the only man who would ever measure up to Fred's bravery, understanding, and love, and that Fred would have liked Daniel very much. She decides at
3885-691: Is often critical of unimaginative education policies. He was awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours list in 2004. In 2004, he was elected President of the Blake Society. In 2004 Pullman also guest-edited The Mays Anthology , a collection of new writing from students at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge . In 2005, Pullman won the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, recognising his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in
3996-550: The Masterpiece Mystery! series. Philip Pullman Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman CBE FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ , a fictionalised biography of Jesus. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In
4107-454: The BBC 's Big Read poll. Pullman has written two companion pieces to the trilogy, Lyra's Oxford and Once Upon a Time in the North . He refers to a third, which will expand his character Will Parry , as the "green book". The Book of Dust , another trilogy, includes characters and events from His Dark Materials . Pullman has said that the new series is neither sequel, nor prequel, but an "equel". The first book, La Belle Sauvage ,
4218-524: The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). In an exchange with a journalist in 2008, Pullman said that, as a boy, he saw his father as "a hero, steeped in glamour, killed in action defending his country", and who had been "training pilots". Pullman was then presented with a report from The London Gazette of 1954 "which carried the official RAF news of the day [and] said that the medal was given for 'gallant and distinguished service' during
4329-590: The Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II , Pullman was interviewed for a feature in The Guardian on notable republicans. According to Pullman, "The present system is unsustainable, because it is cruel. No individual and no family should be subject to the pressures of publicity and expectation that have beset the Windsors ." Expressing sympathy for the young Prince William , Pullman added, "we can't have
4440-569: The HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon , a prequel to the fantasy drama series Game of Thrones . The series premiered on 21 August 2022. For his performance he received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2023. Smith joined the cast of Edgar Wright 's psychological horror-mystery Last Night in Soho starring opposite Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy . The film
4551-515: The Mau Mau uprising . 'The main task of the Harvards [the aircraft flown by his father's unit] had been bombing and machine-gunning Mau Mau and their hideouts in densely wooded and difficult country.' This included 'diving steeply into the gorges of [various] rivers, often in conditions of low cloud and driving rain.' Testing conditions, yes, but not much opposition from the enemy, the journalist in
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4662-636: The National Secular Society . In 2011, he was given a services to Humanism award by the British Humanist Association for his contribution as a longstanding supporter. On 15 September 2010, Pullman, along with 54 other public figures (including Stephen Fry , Professor Richard Dawkins , Terry Pratchett , Jonathan Miller and Ken Follett ), signed an open letter published in The Guardian stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI being given "the honour of
4773-541: The National Television Awards . Smith is the first actor in the role to garner a nomination for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor . Smith said of his character: "The Doctor is excited and fascinated by the tiniest of things. By everything. By every single thing. That's what's wonderful about him as a character. It's why children like him, I think. Because he doesn't dismiss anything. He's not cynical. He's open to every single facet of
4884-613: The Netflix royal drama The Crown . He played the role for the series' first two seasons, garnering a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2018. Smith reunited with his The Crown co-star Claire Foy in a production of the Duncan Macmillan play Lungs at The Old Vic beginning in October 2019. In 2020, Smith was cast as Daemon Targaryen in
4995-730: The Oxford Student , he noted that he "did not really enjoy the English course", and that "I thought I was doing quite well until I came out with my third class degree and then I realised that I wasn't – it was the year they stopped giving fourth class degrees otherwise I'd have got one of those". Pullman married Judith Speller in 1970 and they have two sons. At the time of his marriage he began teaching children aged 9 to 13 at Bishop Kirk Middle School in Summertown, North Oxford , as well as writing school plays. His first published work
5106-756: The Polly Stenham play That Face at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in Chelsea . The play transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2008 and became Smith's second role there. That Face focuses primarily upon alcohol and drug addiction in an upper-middle-class family after the paternal figure in the family leaves. As Henry, Smith portrayed an aspiring artist who left school to take care of his mother. To prepare for
5217-530: The BBC adaptations. He is an amazing character and helps Sally greatly even helping her buy a gun (after her gun that her deceased 'Father' had given her was stolen by a thief). Fred's sister. She was a small-time actress, and later married a clergyman, Nicholas Bedwell, the twin brother of Matthew Bedwell, the unfortunate opium-addicted sailor from The Ruby in the Smoke . She and Reverend Bedwell went on to have two children, May and Matthew Bedwell. She helps Sally and Harriet (Sally's daughter, Rosa's niece) through
5328-473: The Labour government for its attacks on basic civil rights. Later, he and other authors threatened to stop visiting schools in protest at new laws requiring them to be vetted to work with youngsters—though officials claimed that the laws had been misinterpreted. In July 2011, Pullman was one of the lead campaigners signing a declaration that called for a 1,000-strong "public jury", selected at random, to draw up
5439-411: The North . His first major television role came in the television series Party Animals , a BBC drama series about fictional parliamentary advisors and researchers . Smith portrayed Danny Foster, a parliamentary researcher who was described as an intelligent but timid "politics geek" who should have moved on from researching at his age. In an interview in 2007, Smith summarised the character as having
5550-466: The Scoundrel Christ as "a proper republican in the Pullman sense of the word: instinctively fraternal and anti-institutional, spreading his rough-and-ready enlightenments across the horizontal axis." In 2008, Pullman led a campaign against the introduction of age bands on the covers of children's books, saying: "It's based on a one-dimensional view of growth, which regards growing older as moving along
5661-610: The Shore of the Wide World , the play transferred to the Royal National Theatre in London. After finishing the play, he took on the role of Lockwood, a pupil in the Alan Bennett play The History Boys . After The History Boys , he acted in the teen play Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship and with Christian Slater in Swimming with Sharks , the latter being his West End début. In 2007, Smith appeared as Henry in
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#17327758853395772-475: The Society of Authors had become a "vehicle for gesture politics" and called for external review and reform of the organisation. Although Pullman has stated he is "a Church of England atheist , and a 1662 Book of Common Prayer atheist, because that's the tradition I was brought up in", he has also said he is technically an agnostic . He has singled out elements of Christianity for criticism: "if there
5883-548: The UK and by Random House Children's in the US. The second title in The Book of Dust , The Secret Commonwealth , published in October 2019, includes a character named after Nur Huda el-Wahabi, a 16-year-old victim of London's Grenfell Tower fire . As part of the charity auction Authors for Grenfell Tower, Pullman offered the highest bidder a chance to name a character in the upcoming trilogy. Ultimately, he raised £32,400. Pullman
5994-498: The UK, with Billie Piper cast in the role of Sally Lockhart. The first story, The Ruby in the Smoke , aired on 27 December 2006. The second, The Shadow in the North , aired on 30 December 2007. Although all four novels were expected to be adapted into TV movies, to date there has been no indication of plans to follow up with productions of the final two novels. In the United States, the first two stories aired as part of
6105-491: The Well ). Born in Razkavia, Becky is employed by a man called Herr Strauss to teach Miss Bevan German. After the first lesson she discovers the danger that Prince Rudolf (a.k.a. Herr Strauss) is in. She befriends Jim Taylor (a consulting detective), Sally Goldberg (a financial consultant), Prince Rudolf (the crown prince of Razkavia), and his Cockney wife Adelaide Bevan (an old friend of Jim and Sally's). East end orphan who
6216-431: The West End to star in a modern retelling of the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People . He portrayed Dr. Thomas Stockmann acting opposite Jessica Brown Findlay portraying his daughter, Petra Stockmann. Time Out wrote, "In a fine cast, it often feels like Smith is happy to keep it low-key, a largely charming stage presence who doesn't attempt to upstage [the cast]". Nick Curtis of The Evening Standard gave
6327-416: The actors then speculated about possibly taking on the role, who included Paterson Joseph , David Morrissey , Sean Pertwee , James Nesbitt , Russell Tovey , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Chiwetel Ejiofor , Robert Carlyle , and Billie Piper . Smith was first named as a possible successor less than a day before he was announced as the Eleventh Doctor, on the edition of 3 January 2009 of BBC Breakfast , among
6438-400: The anthology ( Donald Allen ’s The New American Poetry 1945-1960 : still in print, still irreplaceable) that contained Howl – thanks to those things, I discovered what I believed in. My mind and my body reacted to certain lines from the Songs of Innocence and of Experience , from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , from ' Auguries of Innocence ', from Europe , from America with
6549-412: The best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity. Beware of anyone who tries to make books harder to get at. And that is exactly what these closures are going to do – oh, not intentionally, except in a few cases; very few people are stupid intentionally; but that will be
6660-404: The broadest sense". According to the presentation, "Pullman radically injects new life into fantasy by introducing a variety of alternative worlds and by allowing good and evil to become ambiguous." In every genre, "he combines storytelling and psychological insight of the highest order." In 2006, he was one of five finalists for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal , and he
6771-430: The cover of any book the sort of readers the book would prefer. Let the readers decide for themselves." Pullman has a strong commitment to traditional British civil liberties and is noted for his criticism of growing state authority and government encroachment into everyday life. In February 2009, he was the keynote speaker at the Convention on Modern Liberty in London and wrote an extended piece in The Times condemning
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#17327758853396882-410: The door, and blew us away with a bold and brand new take on the Time Lord, we knew we had our man. Executive producer Steven Moffat on Smith's casting. Smith was revealed as the Eleventh Doctor in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who in January 2009 to follow David Tennant , who announced his departure in October 2008. Smith was a relatively unknown actor compared to
6993-571: The effect. Books will be harder to get at. Stupidity will gain a little ground. In advance of becoming president of the Society of Authors in August 2013, Pullman led a call for authors to be fairly paid for ebook library loans. Under arrangements in force at the time, authors were paid 6p per library loan by the government for physical books, but nothing for ebook loans. In addition, the Society found that publishers had possibly been inadvertently underpaying authors for ebook loans. Altogether, this may have resulted in authors losing up to two-thirds of
7104-451: The end of the book that she should marry Daniel. It is unknown whether Sally Goldberg, née Lockhart, converts to Judaism on her marriage to Daniel. She also appears in the book The Tin Princess. Sally appears in all four of the books, although her appearance in The Tin Princess is only brief, and the importance of her role is considerably diminished compared to previous titles. In 1872, Sally becomes involved in numerous intrigues involving
7215-455: The epigraph of The Amber Spyglass , Pullman writes that "I have stolen ideas from every book I've ever read. My principle for researching a novel is 'Read like a butterfly, write like a bee,' and if this story contains any honey, it is because of the quality of the nectar I have found in the work of better writers." He acknowledges his primary influences as Heinrich von Kleist 's essay "On the Marionette Theater", Milton 's Paradise Lost and
7326-528: The exchange continued. Very few of the Mau Mau had guns that could land a blow on an aircraft." Responding to that new information, Pullman wrote: "My father probably doesn't come out of this with very much credit, judged by the standards of modern liberal progressive thought", and he accepted the revelation as "a serious challenge to his childhood memory." In the 2017 BBC series documentary Imagine , Pullman said that he has since become aware that his father could have crashed his plane deliberately, saying "There
7437-444: The fire, the couple would have married and brought up their daughter, Harriet Rosa Lockhart, together. Frederick appears in The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North . A ruthless pirate and murderer, of Dutch/Chinese descent, who illegally ships low-quality opium to Europe from the East. Sally thought that she killed him in The Ruby in the Smoke, but did not. As we later discover, her bullet pierced his spinal cord, and he
7548-411: The first book in the Sally Lockhart tetralogy. Between 1988 and 1996, Pullman taught part-time at Westminster College, Oxford , continuing to write children's stories. He began His Dark Materials in about 1993. The first book, Northern Lights , was published in 1995 ( The Golden Compass in the U.S., 1996). Pullman won both the annual Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize ,
7659-425: The identity of her father, the British opium trade in India, and a mysterious ruby. It is 1878. Following a fraudulent medium's ramblings, a Scottish magician's visions, and a transport ship's disappearance, Sally finds that she must seek help from old friends, and finds herself losing all she holds dear trying to uncover the truth behind the North Star, the Steam Gun, and the mysterious businessman Axel Bellmann. It
7770-423: The income they would have received on the sale and loan of a physical book. Addressing this issue, Pullman said: New media and new forms of buying and lending are all very interesting, for all kinds of reasons, but one principle remains unchanged: authors must be paid fairly for their work. Any arrangement that doesn't acknowledge that principle is a bad one, and needs to be changed. That is our whole argument. As
7881-399: The industry by surprise and I think these proposals are now in the balance." In 2014, Pullman supported the Let Books Be Books campaign to stop children's books being labelled as "for girls" or "for boys", saying: "I'm against anything, from age-ranging to pinking and blueing, whose effect is to shut the door in the face of children who might enjoy coming in. No publisher should announce on
7992-510: The initials right but not the name. I don't know if the result would be the same in a hundred years' time; maybe Philippa Pearce would win then." In 2011, Pullman gave the Philippa Pearce Lecture. He is also an admirer of Leon Garfield , "someone who put the best of his imagination into everything he wrote", particularly praising The Pleasure Garden . In a lecture, he said that "one of the things we need to do for children
8103-435: The joyful immediacy of a flame leaping to meet a gas jet. What these things meant I didn’t quite know then, and I’m not sure I fully know now. There was no sober period of reflection, consideration, comparison, analysis: I didn’t have to work anything out. I knew they were true in the way I knew that I was alive." From 1965, Pullman attended Exeter College, Oxford , receiving a Third-class BA in 1968. In an interview with
8214-468: The latter earned him an agent and his first professional jobs, Fresh Kills and On the Shore of the Wide World , which led him to seek an agreement with his university so that he could graduate without attending lectures in his final year. Smith's first television role was as Jim Taylor in the BBC adaptations of the Sally Lockhart quartet books The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in
8325-464: The marketplace. It would be nice too, occasionally, to read a review of an adult book that said, 'This book is so interesting, and so clearly and beautifully written, that children would enjoy it as well.'" He is an admirer of Philippa Pearce ; when Pullman's Northern Lights won the Carnegie of Carnegies , Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden was the runner-up. Pullman said "Personally, I feel they got
8436-415: The mixed review writing, "The casually charismatic Smith and a fine supporting cast can't stop it falling apart in the second half." Smith was in a relationship with Brazilian actress and singer Mayana Moura from 2008 to 2009. He also had an on-off relationship with model Daisy Lowe from 2010 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019, he was in a relationship with actress Lily James . Smith is an atheist . He
8547-574: The monkey's place as his personal servant as part of his revenge against Sally, but the plan fell through. He himself is killed in the Blackbourne River Flood. Ah Ling/Hendrik van Eeden/Tzaddik is in The Ruby in the Smoke and The Tiger in the Well . An ex-pickpocket, Trembler works for the Garlands in The Ruby in the Smoke and is characteristically nervous, hence his nickname. He takes to Adelaide very quickly and loves her like
8658-411: The most lifelike simulacra of real human beings in real human situations. In fact the more profound and powerful the imagination, the closer to reality are the forms it dreams up." He said he wanted to write fantasy realistically, or write fantastic characters with psychological depth: "Because when I thought about it, there was no reason why fantasy shouldn't be realistic, in a psychological sense – and it
8769-433: The names speculated about. His obscurity prompted the news headline "Doctor Who?", a riff on the show's title. Smith was one of the earliest actors to audition for the role, performing on the first day. The production team, consisting of incoming producer Steven Moffat and BBC Wales Head of Drama and executive producer Piers Wenger , immediately singled him out based on his performance. Smith additionally auditioned for
8880-576: The play was nominated for the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre , and Smith garnered an Evening Standard Theatre Award nomination for Best Newcomer for his role. Upon its transfer to the West End, Smith's performance as Henry was highlighted as one of the positive aspects of the play by critics for the Evening Standard , Daily Express , The Guardian and The Times . Smith auditioned for
8991-476: The poor remuneration of writers. On 10 August 2021 Pullman tweeted a response to what he wrongly thought was criticism of Kate Clanchy 's teaching memoir Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me . His tweet said that those who condemn a book without reading it would be at home with "Boko Haram and the Taliban." Pullman later deleted the tweet and apologised. On the 11th of August The Society of Authors put out
9102-487: The role of John Watson in the Moffat-created Sherlock , undergoing auditions at the same time; he was unsuccessful, as Moffat believed his eccentric acting style was closer to Holmes , a role that had already been given to Benedict Cumberbatch . At 26 years old, Smith was three years younger than Peter Davison was at the time of his casting as the Doctor in 1981, making him the youngest Doctor and
9213-518: The role of Will McKenzie in the comedy series The Inbetweeners , with the part eventually being given to comedian and actor Simon Bird . The show's writer Iain Morris said, "We auditioned literally 1000 people [...] He was brilliant - down to the last two for Will, I think. I think he was a bit too dashing!" Smith was cast in Martin McDonagh 's black comedy crime In Bruges (2008), as
9324-622: The role of the Doctor. Smith's directorial debut, the short film Cargese , was aired on Sky Arts in May 2013. Smith portrayed Patrick Bateman in the musical adaptation of American Psycho at London's Almeida Theatre from 2013 to 2014. Smith was cast in Ryan Gosling 's directorial debut Lost River , which was released in 2014. Smith had a supporting role as the embodiment of Skynet in Terminator Genisys (2015). He
9435-585: The role, the cast interviewed alcoholics and their families. Smith discussed his character's relationship with his mother in a May 2008 interview with the Evening Standard , saying, "The thing I find tricky to get my head round is why doesn't he just leave? An awful lot of it is co-dependency. ... With Henry there's a real belief—or denial maybe—that he can change his mother. When she is finally pulled away from him to go to rehab, his identity collapses. His sacrifice has been for nothing." The entire cast of
9546-576: The same sentiment but thought Smith had proven his acting quality in Party Animals , which Wenger thought highlighted Smith's "mercurial qualities". Some fans of the show believed that Smith was inexperienced and too young for the role, while others supported him by citing his demonstrated acting ability. For his performance in his first series, he was nominated in the Outstanding Drama Performance Category of
9657-568: The site of his grave in Bunhill Fields , following a long campaign by the society. In January 2020, Pullman called for literate people to boycott the newly minted Brexit 50p coin due to the omission of the Oxford comma in its slogan "Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations". The viewpoint was supported by some, while lexicographer Susie Dent indicated it was optional and Baroness Bakewell said she had been "taught that it
9768-491: The stage adaptation of Swimming with Sharks with Christian Slater , followed a year later by a critically acclaimed performance in That Face . Smith's first television role came in 2006 as Jim Taylor in the BBC adaptations of Philip Pullman 's The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North , while his first major role in television came as Danny in the 2007 BBC series Party Animals . In film, he has played
9879-459: The top ten by a panel tasked with compiling a shortlist for a public vote for an all-time favourite. It won that public vote and was named all-time " Carnegie of Carnegies " in June 2007. It was filmed under the book's US title, The Golden Compass . In 2003, His Dark Materials trilogy ranked third in the BBC's The Big Read , a poll of 200 top novels voted by the British public. Philip Pullman
9990-766: The universe." In June 2010, Smith appeared on stage with Orbital , and performed with them a version of the Doctor Who theme , at the Glastonbury Festival . Smith hosted the Doctor Who Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on 24–25 July 2010. On the morning of 26 May 2012, Smith carried the Olympic torch in Cardiff , an activity which was noted by Doctor Who fans for its resemblance to
10101-451: The works of William Blake . He says his favorite book is probably Robert Burton 's The Anatomy of Melancholy , describing it as "a funny book about depression written in a very prolix, ornate style." In a lecture at the Sea of Faith conference, Pullman said that "the writers we call the greatest of all – Shakespeare , Tolstoy , Proust , George Eliot herself, are those who have created
10212-437: The younger version of Ralph Fiennes ' character, but his scenes did not appear in the final cut of the film. He starred in the 2009 short film Together and the film Womb (2010). The Doctor is a very special part, and it takes a very special actor to play him. You need to be old and young at the same time, a boffin and an action hero, a cheeky schoolboy and the wise old man of the universe. As soon as Matt walked through
10323-456: The youngest actor to be suggested for the role. After three weeks of auditions, Moffat and Wenger agreed that it had "always been Matt" and approached him to accept the role. Smith made his debut as the Doctor in the episode " The Eleventh Hour " in April 2010. The BBC were cautious about casting Smith because they felt that a 26-year-old could not play the Doctor adequately; Wenger shared
10434-486: Was The Haunted Storm , which was joint-winner of the New English Library's Young Writer's Award in 1972, but which he refuses to discuss. Galatea , an adult fantasy-fiction novel, followed in 1978, but it was his school plays which inspired his first children's book, Count Karlstein , in 1982. He stopped teaching shortly after the publication of The Ruby in the Smoke (1986), a Victorian mystery and
10545-593: Was asked by Penguin Classics to curate 50 of Grimms' classic fairytales , from their compendium of over 200 stories. "They are not all of the same quality", said Pullman. "Some are easily much better than others. And some are obvious classics. You can't do a selected Grimms' without Rumpelstiltskin , Cinderella and so on." On 19 October 2017, the first volume of The Book of Dust was published by Penguin Random House Children's and David Fickling in
10656-638: Was born in Norwich , England, the son of Audrey Evelyn Pullman (née Merrifield) and Royal Air Force pilot Alfred Outram Pullman . The family travelled with his father's job, including to Southern Rhodesia , though most of his formative years were spent in Llanbedr in Ardudwy , Wales . In 1954, when Pullman was seven, his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in a plane crash in Kenya , being posthumously awarded
10767-456: Was closing half of its libraries to fulfil its "exciting plans" to improve its library service. Pullman said: "All the time, you see, the council had been longing to improve the library service, and the only thing standing in the way was – the libraries." Speaking at a conference organised by The Library Campaign and Voices for the Library , he added: The book is second only to the wheel as
10878-586: Was educated at Ysgol Ardudwy in Harlech , Gwynedd , spending time in Norfolk with his grandfather, a clergyman. Around that time, Pullman discovered John Milton 's Paradise Lost , which would become a major influence on His Dark Materials : "I found, in that classroom so long ago, that it had the power to stir a physical response: my heart beat faster, the hair on my head stirred, my skin bristled. Ever since then, that has been my test for poetry, just as it
10989-499: Was for A. E. Housman , who dared not think of a line of poetry while he was shaving, in case he cut himself." As a teenager, Allen Ginsberg 's poetry led him to William Blake : "Thanks to those books, and thanks to my encounter with Ginsberg, and thanks further back to the enlightened local education authority that sent a library van around to the secondary schools in Merionethshire so that I could choose from their shelves
11100-462: Was named a Knight Bachelor in the 2019 New Year's Honours list. In March 2019, the charity Action for Children's Art presented Pullman with their annual J. M. Barrie Award to mark a "lifetime's achievement in delighting children". A lifelong fan of Norwich City F.C. , Pullman penned the foreword to the club's official history, published in 2020. He was a joint-winner of the New English Library's Young Writer's Award in 1972. Northern Lights ,
11211-443: Was one of the dancers featured in the music video for Eric Prydz 's 2004 song " Call on Me ". Smith attended Northampton School for Boys . His grandfather had played football for Notts County and Smith had also planned to play football, having played for the youth teams of Northampton Town , Nottingham Forest , and Leicester City , becoming captain of the latter's youth team. A serious back injury resulted in spondylolysis ; he
11322-495: Was paralyzed. In The Tiger in the Well , he has assumed the name "Tzaddik" and, amongst other organized criminal activities, runs a prostitution ring throughout Europe. He also has a mysterious tiny servant, rumoured to be a dybbuk , an evil spirit with its origins in Jewish mythology, although it is later revealed to be a monkey. The dybbuk is killed by the Tzaddik's valet, Michelet; he had been intending to abduct Harriet to take
11433-497: Was published in 1995 (entitled The Golden Compass in the U.S., 1996). Pullman won both the annual Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize , a similar award that authors may not win twice. He was awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours list in 2004. In 2004, he was elected President of the Blake Society. In 2013, he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bath . His Dark Materials
11544-424: Was published in October 2017 and the second book, The Secret Commonwealth , in October 2019. Pullman has narrated unabridged audiobooks of the three novels in the His Dark Materials trilogy; the other parts are read by actors, including Jo Wyatt , Steven Webb , Peter England, Stephen Thorne and Douglas Blackwell . Pullman has been a vocal campaigner on a number of issues related to books and politics. In
11655-676: Was released in 2021. In 2021, Smith appeared in the music videos for the songs "We're On Our Way Now" and "Flying on the Ground" by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds . Smith joined the Sony's Spider-Man Universe spin-off film Morbius (2022) as Lucien / Milo , a living vampire, although he was initially announced to be portraying the supervillain Loxias Crown / Hunger . It received negative reviews, although Smith's performance garnered some praise from critics. In 2024 Smith returned to
11766-406: Was set to have more screen time in the sixth and seventh films in the series , but these proposed films were cancelled in the wake of Terminator Genisys ' commercial and critical failure. On 20 November 2014, it was announced that Smith would star in the action-thriller film Patient Zero . It was released in 2018, and received negative reviews. In June 2015, Smith was cast as Prince Philip in
11877-466: Was something odd about the crash ... he just took his plane up and flew into the side of a hill", citing rumours of his father having debt troubles and a problematic love affair. His mother remarried the following year and, following a move to North Wales, Pullman discovered comic books, including Superman and Batman , a medium which he continues to enjoy. In his early years, Pullman attended Taverham Hall School and Eaton House and, from 1957, he
11988-496: Was the British nominee again in 2012. In 2008, he started working on The Book of Dust , a companion trilogy to his His Dark Materials , and "The Adventures of John Blake", a story for the British children's comic The DFC , with artist John Aggs. On 23 November 2007, Pullman was made an honorary professor at Bangor University . In October 2009, he became a patron of the Palestine Festival of Literature . He
12099-602: Was the lack of that sort of realism that I objected to in the work of the big Tolkien and all the little Tolkiens." He says David Lindsay 's A Voyage to Arcturus "shows that fantasy is capable of saying big and important things." He concludes that fantasy is "a great vehicle when it serves the purposes of realism, and a lot of old cobblers when it doesn't." Pullman says that he sees His Dark Materials as "stark realism", not fantasy. He has praised fantasy authors like Alan Garner and Neil Gaiman . Pullman believes that children deserve quality literature, and that there isn't
12210-447: Was unable to continue with a footballing career. Smith's drama teacher introduced him to acting by signing him up for theatrical productions without his consent. After failing to participate on the first two occasions, his teacher arranged for him to play the tenth juror in an adaptation of Twelve Angry Men . Although he took part, he refused to attend a drama festival for which his teacher had also signed him up, as he saw himself as
12321-551: Was wrong to use the comma in such circumstances". In 2013 Pullman was elected President of the Society of Authors – the "ultimate honour" awarded by the British writers' body, and a position first held by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In January 2016, Pullman resigned as patron of the Oxford Literary Festival in support of the Society of Author's campaign for writers to be paid fees at festivals and drew attention to
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