Blair Brown

Bonnie Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American theater, film, and television actress. She has had a number of high-profile roles, including a Tony Award-winning turn in the play Copenhagen on Broadway, as well as a run as the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, which ran from 1987 to 1991. Brown is well known for her recent role as Nina Sharp in the television series Fringe, broadcast on Fox.

Personal life

Brown was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Elizabeth Ann (née Blair), a teacher, and Milton Henry Brown, a U.S. intelligence agent. She graduated from The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, before going on to pursue acting at the National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 1969. She gained notice as a participating actor at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and spent several years honing her work on the stage.

Brown had a relationship with actor Richard Jordan, whom she met while filming the miniseries Captains and the Kings in 1976. The couple lived together from 1976 to 1985; they had one son, Robert Anson Jordan III, born in 1983.

Blair–Brown deal

The Blair–Brown deal (or Granita Pact) was an alleged gentlemen's agreement struck between Shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair and Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown in May 1994. It is widely believed that the two met in the now-defunct restaurant Granita in Islington, London, following the death of Labour Leader John Smith on 12 May, and that Brown agreed, in return for certain promises, to not stand for the leadership in order to allow Blair a better chance of victory. The existence of any deal was denied for many years by both Blair and Brown.

Summary

It was widely believed that Gordon Brown agreed not to stand in the 1994 Labour leadership election in order to allow Tony Blair an easy victory. In return, Brown would be granted wide powers over domestic policy in any Blair Government; Blair would go on to lead Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election. It was also widely believed that Blair agreed, if he was appointed Prime Minister, to stay in the job for only two terms and then resign in Brown's favour.

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The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
Spring is the season of growth ... Yet in her Mais Lecture on March 19, 2024, Reeves – presumably to distance herself from the Thatcherite economic legacy that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had accommodated rather than trashed – declared ... DOMINIC LAWSON ... .
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My plan to get Britain back on track

AOL 22 Mar 2025
The Leftist revolution began with Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide victory ... The administrations of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson introduced laws that, while well-intentioned, have had catastrophic consequences.
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Inside Team Kemi’s plan for power

The Spectator 20 Mar 2025
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown first won their seats in 1983, the year of Labour’s ‘longest suicide note in history’; William Hague’s landslide defeat in 2001 gave us David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson ... She quickly made allies ... .
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REO Speedwagon set for fitting farewell this summer in Champaign

Journal Gazette 20 Mar 2025
Besides keyboardist Doughty and drummer Gratzer, original band members were Joe Matt (guitar and lead singer) and Mike Blair (bass guitar). Matt and Blair left the group at the end of the semester.
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Will Labour fight for net zero?

New Statesman 20 Mar 2025
Some liken it to the Blair and Brown governments’ approach to the EU – talking up the benefits of membership without ever making the fundamental argument for the project.
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How years of Tory failure left Labour with an open goal on welfare cuts

AOL 20 Mar 2025
‘Starmer is sounding pretty conservative’ ... There were no grand plans ... Up to that point the percentage of working-age people claiming benefits for incapacity had been reduced and kept steady under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and then Cameron ... .
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Tory failure on welfare left Labour with an open goal

The Daily Telegraph 20 Mar 2025
‘Starmer is sounding pretty conservative’ ... There were no grand plans ... Up to that point the percentage of working-age people claiming benefits for incapacity had been reduced and kept steady under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and then Cameron ... Reuters ... email.
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Cutting welfare goes against Labour’s core values – that’s the point

The Conversation 19 Mar 2025
Going all the way back to the MacDonald and Attlee governments, through the Wilson era, and into the Blair and Brown years, Labour governments have often seen fit to talk and act tough to prove to ...
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Taunton Daily Gazette 18 Mar 2025
Taunton, Franklin baseball talk about rivalry, mutual respect. Franklin coach Zach Brown, Taunton coach Blair Bourque and Taunton OF Andrew Cali talk about what their rivalry means to them and their programs ... 11 Durfee in the Round of 16 ... 6 Tantasqua.
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Cuts to welfare. Cuts to international aid. Has Labour lurched too far to the right?

AOL 16 Mar 2025
Last Wednesday, as he was approaching the Houses of Parliament for a meeting, a senior Labour figure who has worked at high levels inside the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, described what ...
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Nik Simon's team of the Six Nations: How many England stars make the cut? Who ...

The Daily Mail 16 Mar 2025
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Jack Straw urges Starmer to back away from ECHR

AOL 15 Mar 2025
The Cabinet veteran, who also served as foreign secretary and justice secretary under Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, criticised the lack of a “democratic override” on the Strasbourg court that enforces the convention ... .
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There’s a Whole Lotta Political Engineering Goin’ On

The Daily Sceptic 15 Mar 2025
Here is a short history of political science. It was ... R ... He was apparently involved in Blair’s Strategy Unit in 2001. But Blair disliked psychological controls, once they got a bad press ... Blair disliked it, as I say; and Brown wasn’t interested in it ... 3..
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Is the government really igniting growth?

New Statesman 14 Mar 2025
Elsewhere David Blunkett, a veteran of the Blair and Brown governments, says that given private investment is going to play a key part in any growth strategy, the UK must reacquaint itself with privatepublic partnerships ... She writes.
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