Vicky McClure & Jonny Owen at The Glee Oxford

Vicky McClure and Jonny Owen will be playing a DJ set as part of the night with Stone Foundation
VICKY McCLURE is one of the country’s most exciting actors, and thanks to Shane Meadows’s THIS IS ENGLAND 86, she has already claimed a Best Leading Actress BAFTA for her mesmerising and heartbreaking performance as ‘Lol’. She was nominated again for the same role in THIS IS ENGLAND 88 and finished the story last year with THIS IS ENGLAND 90, which was the last chapter in the cult show. ‘Lol’ really struck a chord with audiences, and it was down to Vicky’s ability to remain so still, expressive and magnetic on screen.
Originally learning her craft at the Nottingham TV Workshop, an acting school responsible for launching the careers of Jack O’Connell, Samantha Morton, Toby Kebbell and Joe Dempsie, she was discovered by Shane and starred in one of his earlier films A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS then was asked to join the THIS IS ENGLAND family. Vicky has gone on to star in the best produced drama we’ve seen. She was unforgettable in the smash hit BBC2 crime thriller LINE OF DUTY, played a steely and driven journalist in the first series of BROADCHURCH, which was a record breaking drama for the channel; TRUE LOVE and THE SECRET AGENT.
JONNY OWEN is a Welsh producer, actor and writer who has appeared TV shows including Shameless, Murphy’s Law and My Family. Owen won a Welsh BAFTA for the documentary The Aberfan Disaster which he co-produced.
Owen played Richey in the Welsh drama Nuts and Bolts in, followed by parts Murphy’s Law with James Nesbitt and Dirty Work with Neil Pearson. His meeting with Irvine Welsh when filming the Gene video “Is it over?” proved pivotal. He has since worked with Welsh (and his writing partner Dean Cavanagh) on Dose (BBC), Wedding Belles (C4) and Good Arrows (ITV). His film Little White Lies won several awards and he also appeared as Banana Boat in Russell T Davies’s Torchwood. In 2009 Owen appeared as regular character Ady in Channel 4’s Shameless and in the independent film A Bit of Tom Jones?, with Owen in the lead role.
He is the writer and creator of Svengali, a cult internet series which the NME called ‘the best series on the net’. He plays ‘Dixie’ the manager of an up-and-coming band. Former Creation Records head Alan McGee plays the Svengali whom ‘Dixie’ pursues in an effort to get the band signed. In 2013 Svengali was turned into a feature-length film, directed by John Hardwick and written by Jonny Owen. The film stars Owen, Martin Freeman, Vicky McClure, Matt Berry, Michael Socha, Michael Smiley and Natasha O’Keeffe. It was selected to show at the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival.