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The Bible has proven to be a surprisingly solid source for film and television adaptations over the years. Whether it's the surprising success of The Chosen or classic epics like The Ten Commandments, people have been drawn to the stories within the Old and New Testaments. But some people might not know about The Red Tent, a Lifetime miniseries based on the book by Anita Diamant. The Red Tent is unique among Biblical adaptations for two reasons: it came from Lifetime, the network that's best known for sappy Christmas movies & reality shows like Project Runaway, and it features Rebecca Ferguson in the lead role. Yes, the same Rebecca Ferguson who headlined Silo was part of a Lifetime Bible miniseries - but that's only part of what makes The Red Tent an interesting watch.

Mission: Impossible is one of Hollywood’s priciest franchises, loved by millions. And it’s ot just for the jaw-dropping stunts that Tom Cruise insists on doing himself, but also for the heart-pounding action and adventure stories set around the globe. The spy plot always gets audiences hyped, but to keep the well-crafted storyline moving, it’s crucial to bring in other key characters.

Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible franchise (Credits: Paramount Pictures)

Rebecca Ferguson is one of the stars who joined the cast, but according to her, the way she got the role was pretty unusual. Then again, it’s exactly the kind of thing Cruise would do to get her in his movies. Not surprising, given how much he pours into the project.

How Rebecca Ferguson Got Cast In The Mission: Impossible Franchise Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Credits: Paramount Pictures)

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Sean Teale has been cast as a series regular in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming ABC series “Dr. Odyssey,” Variety has learned.

Teale will star in the series alongside previously announced lead Joshua Jackson as well as fellow cast members Don Johnson and Phillipa Soo. Plot and character details for the show are being kept under wraps, but sources say the series is a medical procedural set on a cruise ship. It is slated to premiere during the 2024-2025 broadcast season.

Teale first broke out as a cast member in the popular UK series “Skins,” holding a main role in the series during its fifth and sixth seasons. He went on to star in shows like “Mr. Selfridge” and “Reign.” His other recent credits include leading the Syfy series “Incorporated” as well as starring in shows like “The Gifted” at Fox, “Little Voice” at Apple TV+, and “Who Is Erin Carter?” at Netflix.

Rebecca Ferguson has been in the headlines amid the press tour for her new movie Dune: Part Two and fans might be curious to know more about her personal life.

The 40-year-old actress stars as Lady Jessica in the Dune movies and she’s also well known for her roles as Ilsa Faust in the Mission: Impossible movies, Jenny Lind in The Greatest Showman, as well as movies like The Girl on the Train, Life, The Snowman, and Doctor Sleep.

Rebecca also stars in the Apple TV+ series Silo and she was previously seen in the series The White Queen and The Red Tent.

So, what do you need to know about Rebecca‘s personal life?

Keep reading to find out more…

Rebecca Ferguson husband is Rory St. Clair Gainer

Rebecca started dating Rory St. Clair Gainer in 2016 and they got secretly married at the end of 2018, which she confirmed...

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The Writers Guild of America has just announced the nominations for their annual awards for Best Screenplays (by writers who are guild signatories). That’s right, before you get nervous thinking that your favorite may have been left off the list, you must remember that the WGA is the group that is not all-inclusive and leaves out several of the top contenders each year due to them not being part of the guild or not following their very specific rules. For this reason, you won’t see Inside Out, The Hateful Eight, and Ex Machina in the Original Screenplay category or Room, Brooklyn, or Anomalisa in the Adapted screenplay category.

Taking a look at what’s left over for the nominations, we find many that were expected to make a showing, including Spotlight and Bridge of Spies for Original Screenplay, though they apparently had to sink to really low depths...

The Writers Guild of America announced some of its nominees for its 2015 awards on Thursday, including television, new media, and radio, and among the TV nominees are series both new and old, and all beloved.

In the comedy series category, freshman Netflix show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" scored a nomination for best series, as well as an overall best new series nod. "The Last Man on Earth" also landed in that latter category, and was singled out for its pilot episode writing, too.

On the drama side of the equation, lauded "Breaking Bad" spinoff "Better Call Saul" also got best series and best new series nominations, in addition to a an episode writing nod. Newly-minted Emmy winner "Game of Thrones" also scored a best drama citation, as well as an episodic writing nomination.

The full list of nominees released this week are below. Nominations in the theatrical and documentary categories will...

Lifetime's two-part mini-series "The Red Tent" continues Monday night on the network, starring Morena Baccarin, Rebecca Ferguson and Iain Glenn.

Based on the best-selling book by Anita Diamant, the story tells the tale of Dinah (Rebecca), the daughter of Israelite father Jacob (Iain), and his four wives, including her birth mom Leah (Minnie Driver), and her influential second mom, Rachel (Morena).

Part 1 focused on Jacob's marriages and Dinah's upbringing, as Jacob's only daughter took after Rachel, falling in love with her passion for midwifery. She took after her in other ways as well, including following her heart.

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Minnie Driver played grown-up Wendy Darling in NBC's Peter Pan Live!, but unfortunately, she didn’t get to fly. Instead, the About a Boy star provided the show’s narration and in the end, watched as Peter and her character's young daughter flew off into the night.

Despite a flurry of Internet reactions during the telecast, the three-hour musical event pulled in 9.1 million viewers – a good showing for a primetime program, but still less than half the number of people who tuned in for last December’s The Sound of Music Live! with Carrie Underwood.

Though she was backstage at the show, Driver is keeping quiet about any technical mishaps that might have happened during NBC’s second live musical event.

"I’ll never tell," she told Et, but insisted there were no major malfunctions. "Astonishingly, there was hardly anything that went wrong."

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At times, you might mistake Lifetime's enjoyably earnest Biblical epic The Red Tent (Sunday-Monday, 9/8c) for an Old Testament version of Call the Midwife. Adapted from Anita Diamant's novel, this saga of revisionist her-story focuses on willful Dinah (The White Queen's Rebecca Ferguson), the only daughter of Jacob (Game of Thrones' Iain Glen) — he of the many sons, including the sartorially infamous Joseph.

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Sometimes associated with more “futuristic” fare — either as V‘s fierce alien queen or Firefly‘s outer-space Companion — Morena Baccarin with one of her latest roles traveled back in time, to the days of the Old Testament, for Lifetime’s The Red Tent miniseries.

Based on the best-seller by Anita Diamant and airing Sunday and Monday at 9/8c, The Red Tent spins a tale told through the eyes of Dinah (The White Queen‘s Rebecca Reguson), the daughter of Leah (Minnie Driver, About a Boy) and Jacob (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones). The mini opens with Dinah’s childhood spent...

When author Anita Diamant’s novel The Red Tent was published, readers praised the book for giving a voice to women who had been all but ignored in ancient and sacred texts. The bestseller has become a book club favorite because of its cross-generational appeal and frank exploration of the lives of women — especially concerning ancient fertility and birthing rituals. Now Lifetime gives history’s forgotten women a face in the four-hour, two-night miniseries The Red Tent by re-envisioning the lives of biblical women whose actual histories have been lost to the sands of time. In The Red Tent, the bond … Continue reading →

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From NBC’s charming rom-com About a Boy to Lifetime’s biblical miniseries The Red Tent (debuting Dec. 7), Minnie Driver is having one very busy fall—and that’s not even including her surprising role in the sleeper hit Beyond the Lights or her appearance in Peter Pan Live! on NBC. EW asked Driver to share memories of the projects that paved her path through Hollywood: Circle of Friends (1995) "I had been working pretty consistently in television in England, but that was my first big film role. I was so broke. I was trying to be a musician. I had...

As our favorite shows are entering hiatus, you're probably wondering how to spend your free time (aside from eating Thanksgiving leftovers 24/7). Well, you're in luck: December is serving up a surprising number of must-see television premieres, not to mention even more holiday specials than usual (Peter Pan, anyone?)! Moviefone's rounded up a day-by-day schedule of shows on our watch-list, so you can plan your entire month around television. Consider this an early Christmas present.

Note: brand new shows / specials are in bold, and we included previews from a few shows we're especially excited about.

December 2

8/7c Toy Story That Time Forgot (ABC)

9/8c The Little Couple (TLC)

10/9c Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (Bravo) 10/9c True Life Presents: Crazy Young Love (MTV)

December 3

8/7c Christmas in Rockefeller Center (NBC)

9/8c Mob Wives (VH1)

10/9c Suave Says (VH1)

December 4

8/7c The Taste (ABC)

8/7c Peter Pan Live (NBC)

December 5

8/7c How Murray...

The Flash‘s Gideon is… Black Canary??

TVLine has confirmed that Morena Baccarin — whose previous voice work includes such DC Comics characters as Dinah Lance (in the animated Justice League series), Talia al Ghul (Son of Batman) and Cheetah (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) — is voicing S.T.A.R. Labs honcho Dr. Harrison Wells’ AI assistant/confidante.

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Have “The Walking Dead” fans become numb to all the atrocities? "'The Walking Dead' has always lived in uncharted television territory, and you can’t say that viewers weren’t warned that this season was determined to go even further beyond Thunderdome,” says Jeff Labrecque, adding: "But is it too far? And is 'The Walking Dead' getting a free pass because its explicit depictions of violence are framed within a zombiefied landscape?” “The Real World" Season 30 is going with a "Skeletons” format The Chicago-set "Real World: Skeletons" will feature "skeletons" from the housemates’ past, who move in to "drum up secrets and dark memories.” “Gossip Girl’s” Penn Badgley will romance Mary-Louise Parker on NBC’s “The Slap” He’ll play her much-younger boyfriend on the NBC miniseries about a slap gone wrong. Click Read Full Post For More Ryan Murphy was wrong to claim he's...

Tom Cruise has a new love interest - at least in theory. Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson, who won a Golden Globe nod for her performance in last year's BBC/Starz miniseries "The White Queen," has won the coveted female lead in "Mission: Impossible 5," according to Deadline. The actress joins returning stars Cruise, Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner in the Christopher McQuarrie-directed sequel, which (as we found out earlier today) Alec Baldwin is also reportedly in talks for. The followup is set to begin filming in August. In addition to her role in the forthcoming Dwayne Johnson action vehicle "Hercules," Ferguson's credits include Swedish soap opera "Nya tider," "Wallander" and Ridley Scott's scrapped Showtime pilot "The Vatican." Other upcoming films include "Despite the Falling Snow" opposite Charles Dance and "The Red Tent" co-starring Morena Baccarin, Minnie Driver, Iain Glen and Debra Winger. The last entry in the series,...

Lifetime is the latest network to order Bible-themed programming, announcing a miniseries adaptation of Anita Diamant’s bestselling novel, The Red Tent.

The two-night event stars Minnie Driver (About a Boy), Morena Baccarin (Homeland), Rebecca Ferguson (The White Queen), Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment), Iain Glen (Game of Thrones), and Will Tudor (Game of Thrones) in the expanded saga of Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob, who was only briefly mentioned in the Old Testament. Production begins this month in Morocco.

Ferguson plays Dinah, who spends her formative years in her tribe’s red tent, a women-only sanctuary where...

Another bible-themed longform project is heading to the small screen. Lifetime is going into production with The Red Tent, a two-night miniseries adaptation of the best-selling novel by Anita Diamant published in 1997. The White Queen star Rebecca Ferguson, Minnie Driver (About A Boy) and Homeland alumna Morena Baccarin lead the cast of the four-hour mini, produced by Sony TV and executive produced by Paula Weinstein. Co-starring in the project, which begins production this month in Morocco, are Game Of Thrones‘ Iain Glen and Will Tudor as well as Debra Winger. The Red Tent tells the story of Dinah (Ferguson), the daughter of Leah and Jacob, who is only briefly referenced in the Old Testament. The miniseries begins with Dinah’s happy childhood spent inside the red tent where only the women of her tribe are allowed to gather and share the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood. Told through Dinah’s eyes,...