Billy Elliot Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer. It is set in North East England during the 1984–85 coal miners' strike. It was produced by Greg Brenman and Jon Finn, music composed by Stephen Warbeck, co-produced by BBC Films, Tiger Aspect Pictures and Working Title Films, distributed by Universal Pictures and Focus Features, written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the negative stereotype of the male ballet dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner
Jane Elliot the role in 1981. The same year, she landed the recurring role of Judy Trent on the prime time CBS series "Knots Landing". From 1981 to 1982, Elliot appeared on the CBS soap opera "Guiding Light" as Carrie Todd, a character who turns about to be a murderer suffering from a split personality. From 1984 to 1986 she played "All My Children" Cynthia Chandler Preston Cortlandt, who marries a wealthy older man for his money while having an affair with his son. Elliot portrayed Anjelica Deveraux on "Days of Our Lives" from 1987 to 1989; her character has an affair