Rob Brydon Laurence Olivier. His character Bryn West in "Gavin & Stacey", written by Ruth Jones and James Corden, allowed him to return to his South Wales roots. In this role Brydon performed the 2009 Comic Relief charity single, "(Barry) Islands in the Stream", with Ruth Jones (both actors appearing as their characters from "Gavin & Stacey") and singer Tom Jones. It reached No.1 in the UK singles chart on 15 March 2009. In 2010 Brydon starred alongside Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom's partially improvised BBC Two sitcom series "The Trip," in which both actors played fictionalized versions of their public personas
Ruth Hale (playwright and actress) of theaters featuring a center stage (arena theaters or Theater in the round) throughout Utah and Arizona. The Hales were also playwrights. They wrote their first play together, "Handcart Trails," to save on the budget of a ward play production in Granger in the 1930s. This play was published in the "MIA Book of Plays" in 1940. Their play, "Melody Jones", was shown to a national audience by Kurt Television Theatre. Ruth Hale's grandchildren include: Ruth Hale (playwright and actress) Ruth Hale (October 14, 1908 – April 20, 2003) was an American playwright and actress. Hale was born in Granger,