Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter are both shortlisted for best actress for the Donmar Warehouse production of Mary Stuart.

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Benny Pearl (Aidan Quinn) is an auto mechanic who spends most of his time looking after his sister Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson).

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Mary Stuart was born at Linlithgow Palace on 7 December 1542.

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Don Carlos, Hedda Gabler and Mary Stuart have six nominations each.

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Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart, " as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues.

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In 1565, Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.

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