JONNY LEE MILLER NEWS 2004

TRAINSPOTTING JONNY FALLS FOR SEXY CO-STAR Apr 11 2004 By Dan Evans


MOVIE hunk Jonny Lee Miller has fallen for his on-stage lover in a West End play.

Friends say Jonny, who played "Sick Boy" in cult movie Trainspotting, and 28-year-old Ruth Millar are inseparable. And the affair has put paid to rumours that Jonny was getting back with his ex-wife, Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie.

Jonny, 31, and Ruth, who has starred in TV's Footballers' Wives, have been appearing together in an adaptation of the Danish play Festen at London's Almeida Theatre. They started to get close during rehearsals in February and friends say they are planning a future together.

Last night a theatre source said: "Jonny and Ruth are playing lovers but the emotions between them are as real as it gets. There's been no need to act. "This is a very serious relationship for Jonny. He and Ruth have become inseparable and are always spending nights at each other's homes. When they are together they look very much in love. They are always laughing and joking with each other. She seems really besotted and can't stop telling friends how much she loves him."

Jonny has a habit of dating his co-stars. He met Angelina when they were working on the 1995 film Hackers, although they got divorced four years later. Then in 1999 he fell for Jennifer Esposito, his co-star in Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000. That was followed by an eight-month affair with All Saints singer Natalie Appleton and an ill-fated engagement to ex-Holby City actress Lisa Faulkner. But Jonny and Angelina remained friends, and there were rumours they could become an item again when they were spotted together at the launch of the Tomb Raider sequel last August.

Although Jonny and Ruth have not moved in together they divide their time between his home in Highbury, North London, and hers in Bethnal Green. Ruth starred as the unhinged stalker Sheena in Footballers' Wives. She has also had parts in Auf Weidersehn Pet, Sweet Medicine and The Bill.

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No snickers at the celebrity marathon

With the Flora London Marathon little more than two weeks away, Ladbrokes have opened a book on what they describe as “a celebrity challenge”. Film stars, soap stars, famous chefs, veteran sporting characters and politicians are members of the 30-strong field for the celebrity race. Ladbrokes are offering prices on the first celebrity to finish, and although this is primarily a fun market there may well be some value to be had.

Jonny Lee Miller, who appeared in the film Trainspotting, is 2-1 favourite, and for one who has clocked just over three hours in the race that is not a bad price.

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March 9, 2004 -- ANGELINA Jolie doesn't have a man in her life - she has several.

The twice-divorced Oscar-winner - who two years ago adopted a Cambodian orphan she named Maddox - is redefining single motherhood by taking lovers in the evenings, then going home to tuck her toddler in.

"I went for about two years with absolutely no man around me and then decided to get closer to men who were already very close friends of mine," says the 28-year-old beauty with characteristic frankness. "It's kind of an adult way of having adult relationships."

On a drizzly New York day, the lush-lipped actress, who plays a crack FBI profiler in the upcoming serial-killer thriller "Taking Lives," spoke to The Post with disarming honesty about how contented she is flying solo. Dressed casually in skinny jeans and a taupe knit top, Jolie sounded like so many successful women when she talked about her unwillingness to settle for less than the "perfect man," who must also be a perfect father. The devoted mom says she's "realistic" enough to doubt that man's existence, and so she's happy to have occasional trysts that remain "very, very separate" from her home life.

"As crazy as that sounds, meeting a man in a hotel room for a few hours and then going back and putting my son to bed and not seeing that man again for a few months is about what I can handle now," she says. "I can feel like a woman and get close to a man but it's not a relationship that interferes with my family. I've never had a one-night stand in my life - these are people that I know very well." She pauses, then laughs: "It's a certain kind of modern woman, anyway."

Jolie declined to name names, but she and her first husband Jonny Lee Miller are firm friends - the "Trainspotting" star accompanied her to the New York premiere of her last movie, "Beyond Borders."

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5 March 2004 - Sadie: My year of hell. Sadie still friends with Jonny after divorce from Jude

Some of the people around them were a little too quick to give advice, she says, but her best friends - her artist friend Zoe, Kate Moss, model Rosemary Ferguson, fashion PR Jaz Morris, singer Pearl Goffey - "just listened and gave me big hugs" while she worked it out for herself. She insists the divorce hasn't divided their close-knit group. "I'm still friends with Jonny Lee Miller, for instance, and he's Jude's best friend. It's the shallow people who take sides, and I'd rather not be with them anyway."

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JOLIE WISHES SHE HADN'T DIVORCED MILLER

Movie beauty Angelina Jolie regrets divorcing first husband Jonny Lee Miller -- because he was the perfect spouse.

The buxom star divorced British actor Jonny in 1999 and has since married and divorced Billy Bob Thornton. And although Angelina and Jonny remain good friends, the actress now wishes they'd fought through their differences and stayed together. She says, "I have no regrets about our marriage -- divorcing Jonny was probably the dumbest thing I've ever done. He's the greatest husband a girl could ask for -- we were simply too young."

Angelina, 28, dismisses tabloid reports she's recently dated Jonny, Colin Farrell and Nicolas Cage, and finds it difficult to understand why people can't believe she's single.

She says, "That's what happens when you're single and working with men. But I don't even have the time to shave my legs and feel sexy. I'm happy where I am right now. I don't need to be with someone other than my son. Have I been sleeping with people? No. It's funny that's shocking to people. I've gone without sex for a long time before. I had my first boyfriend when I was 14 and then I didn't sleep with anybody until I met my first husband at 19."

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February 19, 2004 Angelina Jolie has 'taken a lover'!

Actress Angelina Jolie has finally ended the mystery about her love life, by announcing that she has taken a lover.
The "Tomb Raider" star has been linked to a host of celebrities, including Nicolas Cage and her 'Alexander' co-star Colin Farrell following her divorce from Billy Bob Thornton last year.

Angelina was clicked on camera last week kissing her first husband, Jonny Lee Miller, and she has now confirmed that there is a new man in her life, but refused to reveal his identity.

"I have now taken a lover. I've been relieved every time it's been speculated on in the press, because nobody's got the right guy," Angelina was quoted by imdb.com, as saying. (ANI)

Sat Feb 7, 2004 Us Weekly article : Angelina's Back with Her First Husband!

A month after a fling with Colin Farrell, the sexy mom reunites with ex Jonny Lee Miller - and tells Us [Weekly] it's love. Will their romance last as long as their tattoos?

By Kevin O'Leary

Last year, Angelina Jolie removed the tattoo of ex-hunband Billy Bob Thornton's name from her left arm. But on January 28, after a late dinner with pals, the Oscar winner decided she was ready for more ink - only this time she brought a different ex along for the ride. Jolie, 28, and British actor Jonny Lee Miller, 31 - whom she met filming 1995's Hackers, married in 1996, then separated from the following year - rooled into West Hollywood's Shamrock Social Club, where they engaged in some serious smooching before she put down $150 for a new tattoo reading "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS". "They were very into each other", says Christian Cervantes, a Shamrock employee. "They weren't hiding." Four days later, when the couple shared breakfast with her son, Maddox, 2, at Hollywood's the Griddle Cafe, Jolie (who was last linked to Colin Farrell in December) made official what friends had suspected. "I love him," she told Us [Weekly].

After filing for divorce from Thornton in July 2002, Jolie reached out for a reunion with Miller, according to one of his friends, by leaving a number of messages for him that initially went unreturned (she has even said, "Divorcing Jonny was probably the dumbest thing I've ever done"). By August 2003, the pair were spotted at the London after-party for Tomb Raider's sequel. "They've been spending time with each other pretty constantly since then," says the source. But a pal of Jolie's wonders if it will last: "He seems like a nice guy - but she doesn't know what to do with a nice guy."

Tattoos: Jolie had KNOW YOUR RIGHTS tattooed between her shoulder blades, and Miller had one small word inked on his left wrist. "It was something like REVENGE," Shamrock employee Cervantes recalls.

31st Jan 2004 Angelina is black in love

THESE pictures prove ANGELINA JOLIE is back in the arms of her ex-hubby JONNY LEE MILLER. Tomb Raider beauty Angelina was all in black as she and Jonny visited a tattoo parlour in LA – where they bumped into JACK OSBOURNE.

My exclusive snaps show the lovebirds have picked up where they left off after divorcing in 1999. Angelina and the Trainspotting star met on the set of Hackers in 1994. Maybe the pair were getting matching tattoos to show their commitment, although that’s tame by Angelina’s standards. She wrote Jonny’s name in blood on her shirt when she married him in 1995. And she swopped little tubes of blood with her next husband BILLY BOB THORNTON. Give me an old-fashioned wedding ring any day.

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Jonny to appear on stage in Festen at the Almeida theatre, London

18 March - 24 April 2004
The World Première of FESTEN A Dramatisation By David Eldridge. Based on the Dogme film and play by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov and Bo hr. Hansen

Helge is sixty. His family return home to celebrate. His eldest son, the surviving twin, will raise the first toast. "Do you think you could say a few words about your sister this evening? I couldn't manage it." "Actually Dad, I've prepared something." Let the festivities begin.

Directed by Rufus Norris. Designed by Ian MacNei.l Costume Design by Joan Wadge. Music by Orlando Gough. Sound by Paul Arditti

Cast includes Jonny Lee Miller, Andrew Maud, Ruth Millar, Lisa Palfrey & Patrick Robinson

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Summary of the films plot here

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Jonny Lee Miller to Celebrate at the Almeida

Escapist and Byron released on dvd

The escapist is FINALLY seeing the light of day, going direct to dvd with a release date slated for either the 16th or 23rd Feb 2004 (depending on which site you visit!)

Technical Details for The escapist
Actors Jonny Lee Miller ; Andy Serkis ; Gary Lewis ; Jodhi May ; Paloma Baeza ; Vas Blackwood ; Paul Burke
Director Gillies MacKinnon
Certificate 15 years and over
Year 2001
Screen Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic
Languages English - Dolby Digital Surround
Duration 1 hour and 26 minutes (approx)

Meanwhile Byron is already available from many online stockists and features animated menus, picture gallery and scene selection. Shame there's no lovely extra footage or interviews with cast though ... With a running time of 2 hours 26 minutes and priced at under £20 in most shops this is a very worth while purchase!