- Primrose Hill set
The Primrose Hill set is a name often applied to a group of British film and television actors who achieved celebrity in the mid-1990s. The term grew in use in the
British media to identify the group as socially homogeneous and also as a convenient label similar to theYoung British Artists andBritpop labels of the same period. Many of the groups members appeared with each other in film and television productions in the mid-nineties and later cast each other in their own productions.The group was named after
Primrose Hill inNorth London . The core members of the group had lived close to each other as young actors in that area, as well asBelsize Park andHampstead ; the social focus for the group was really theNotting Hill area.Core members
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Damon Bryant
*Holly Davidson
*Sadie Frost
*Rhys Ifans
*Jude Law
*Steven MacKintosh
*Ewan McGregor
*Jonny Lee Miller
*Kate Moss
*Sean Pertwee
*Davinia Taylor
*Sienna Miller Frost and Law later married. Frost, Law, Pertwee and Miller set up their own production company "
Natural Nylon " that made feature films starring many members of the original set. Although he had no locational ties to the group,Robert Carlyle has also consistently appeared alongside thePrimrose Hill actors and has come to be synonymous with this era ofBritish cinema .Films
Films generally thought of as fitting into the
Primrose Hill set include:*"
Blue Juice " (1995 )
*"Trainspotting" (1996 )
*"Final Cut" (1998 )
*"Love, Honour and Obey " (2000 )
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