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Thursday 11 Mar 2010
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Daily Mail 2008
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Zoe Tapper, 26, lives in Northwest London. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and will appear in The Last Van Helsing [now renamed "Demons"], a new six-part supernatural drama starring Life on Mars’s Philip Glenister, on ITV later this season.

THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR HAS BEEN…spending six weeks in Romania filming the Victorian drama Affinity. But I really can’t pick one. I love the variety my job offers. In the last 12 months I’ve been Desdemona in Othello at London’s Globe Theatre and filmed The Last Van Helsing – a high-concept vampire-slaying adventure. I was a bit of a wimp when it came to the fight scenes but I loved the challenge.

MY WORST AUDITION WAS… for a furniture company advert where they wanted me to construct a chair while wearing a red bikini. I didn’t know the first thing about assembling furniture and I really did not want to be prancing around on TV in a red bikini. I remember thinking, ‘This really isn’t me; stick to costume drama.’

Zoe Tapper as DesdemonaI FELT LIKE A STAR WHEN… I first stepped on to the stage at the Globe. There were 1,500 faces staring at me as I performed; I felt like a rock star and it was a huge buzz. Being cast in the film Stage Beauty with Claire Danes was a magical experience. I was fresh out of drama school, they took me under their wing and carried me away.  

IN FIVE YEARS’ TIME I’D LIKE TO BE…not a superstar, but a very successful actress. You soon learn that keeping in work is more important than status and fame. And you realise, too, that celebrity can be managed – it’s the way you live your life. Cate Blanchett manages it – she has children but still does her glam stint on the red carpet now and then. 

Original article here.
 


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Demons S1 on Bluray

Demons Series One released on Bluray Disc on April 9th 2009 (UK).  Release details in the Work Section. The disc is also available from the Online Shop.
 
Demons in America!

Demons, the British ITV-made Fantasy Drama, enjoyed it's premiere on BBC America, starting on Saturday 2nd January 2010 at 22:00.

Our Demons Section contains full episode synopses and the Gallery Section screencaps, video clips and reviews.
 

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Playing With Trains

Zoë is to play Roxanna in a new two-part radio adaptation of the Stephen Poliakoff play Playing With Trains on BBC Radio 4 from 20th March 2010.

More on the News Page.
 
Romantics in Australia

BBC drama Desperate Romantics is to be aired to audiences in Australia as part of a raft of sales down under. The 6 x 60-minute period drama, described as a 19th century Entourage, has been picked up by public broadcaster ABC TV in a deal with BBC Worldwide. More on the News Page.
 
Baseline

Baseline - a new film currently in production and co-starring Zoë as Jessica:

Minor update on the film on the News Page.
 

Survivors News

High Octane Interview

Total Sci-Fi Online interviewed Zoë and Robyn Addison about their experiences in Series 2 of Survivors and their characters, Anya and Sarah.

The interview is here: Total Sci-Fi Online Interview with Zoe Tapper and Robyn Addison - February 2010.
 
DVD Box Sets

The DVD box set for Survivors Series 2 release date has been put back to 1st March 2010 (due to transmission delays) and there is to be a box set containing both Series 1 and Series 2 of Survivors!

More details on the Survivors DVDs Page.
 
BBC America

BBC America have a section of their US-based website for Survivors Fans.

The Survivors pages are here.
 
Survivors on iPlayer

All six episodes of series two of Survivors will be available for streaming (or time-limited download) on the BBC iPlayer service. Rather than the standard seven-day access to a single episode (after which a new episode replaces the previous one) the entire series will be ’stacked’ on the iPlayer.

More on the News Page.
 
Monumental End!

In an interview on the Digital Spy website, Survivors actor Paterson Joseph (Greg) suggests that series two will conclude with a ‘monumental’ finale, as key storylines play out in episodes five and six.

Please note that the interview contains significant ***SPOILERS*** concerning end of series two plot developments.
 
Ratings

A new page in the Survivors Section called Ratings, reflects the UK ratings for each episode of Survivors just after they air.
 
Worlds Apart

The Survivorsbbctv blog announced yesterday the forthcoming publication of a new guidebook on the BBC’s remake of Survivors, written by the author of the blog and published by Classic TV Press. Full details here.
 
Daily Mail Interview - Jan 2010

A new interview with Zoë by UK newspaper The Daily Mail posted in the Interviews Section. In the interview, Zoë talks about her acting career from when she first started acting in Stage Beauty, to her current role in Survivors, Series 2 of which is to be aired in the UK on January 12th and Series 1 airing in the US on February 13th.

The complete interview is in the Interviews Section and the Survivors Section has the details about both Series of Survivors, including the UK trailer for Series 2 and a YouTube catch-up video for Series 1.

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Recently added to The Curse of Steptoe Gallery - pictures and video clips of Zoë as Shelia Steafel in the BBC play The Curse of Steptoe.