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Thomas Edward Seymour (born January 20, 1977, in New Britain, Connecticut) is an American filmmaker and actor.
Tom Seymour is known for the New York Times celebrated VHS Massacre documentaries. Over the course of his career he has won over 50 Independent film awards including five Telly Awards, a National Board of review student nomination and he shares Emmy and YouTube Award nominations with the Black20 Studios team (net_work).
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Jun 9, 2022 · The Royal Scandal That Rocked Elizabeth I’s Teenage Years. A new Starz series, “Becoming Elizabeth,” dramatizes the future queen’s controversial relationship with her much-older stepfather,...
- Meilan Solly
- Finding The Voice of Queen Elizabeth I
- Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour’s Relationship
- Redemption For Catherine Parr
- Exploring The Alleged Sins of Elizabeth’s Mother, Anne Boleyn
To find the voices of Elizabeth (played by Alicia von Rittberg) and the other royals, Reiss read lots of letters and speeches from the era. She recalls that one note from Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset who served as his nephew King Edward VI’s head of state, to the Royal Army in Scotland really unlocked these characters for her. “He kept sayi...
Becoming Elizabethfocuses on exploring the young future queen’s relationship with the older Sir Thomas Seymour, brother of her dad’s third wife, Jane Seymour, and the uncle of King Edward VI, who went on to marry Henry’s fourth and final wife, Catherine Parr. Elizabeth and Seymour were said to have had a romantic affair while the future queen lived...
Catherine Parr (played by Jessica Raine) was the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII, and the Queen Consort of England and Ireland. Over the course of her four-year marriage to Henry VIII, she became very close to Elizabeth, and was personally involved in her education. Considering their close relationship, Reiss wanted to portray Catherine wit...
Elizabeth lost her mother, Anne Boleyn, when she was just two years old, when her father had his second wife beheaded for crimes of incest and adultery. “She was known as the great whore,” Reiss says, noting she was shocked that the English public was allowed to refer to the the former Queen this way. “Anne is kind of ground zero for that kind of h...
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, KG, PC (c. 1508 – 20 March 1549) was a brother of Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. [1] With his brother, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England, he vied for control of their nephew, the young King Edward VI (r. 1547–1553).
In 1547, Katherine Parr, Elizabeth's stepmother, married Thomas Seymour, the Lord Admiral and King Edward's younger Seymour uncle. Thomas was vain, handsome, ambitious and extremely jealous of his elder brother's power as Lord Protector to the young king.
Jul 20, 2023 · One of the most controversial figures of the Tudor age, Thomas Seymour’s relentless bid for power and famous feud with his brother, Lord Protector Somerset, condemned him to a traitor’s death in the reign of his nephew, Edward VI.
