Nick Moran

Nicholas James "Nick" Moran (born 23 December 1969) is an English actor, writer, producer and director, best known for his role as Eddy the card sharp in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. He appeared as Scabior in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2.

Personal life

Moran was born in the East End of London, to a hairdresser mother and an Automobile Association worker father. He grew up on the South Oxhey council estate near Watford and the Greater London boundary. In Moran's spare time he practices karate.

Moran fronts his own Frank Sinatra tribute band, often appearing at London's Cafe De Paris and various charity events.

Film career

Moran first hit film appearance was in 1990 alongside Roger Daltrey and Chesney Hawkes, in Buddy's Song (1990). He then went on to star with Britpack waifs Hans Matheson and Samantha Morton in a Coky Giedroyc short, The Future Lasts a Long Time (1996). In Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), he shared the screen with Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Vinnie Jones and British rocker Sting, the last of whom played the role of his father, JD.

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Puritan

by: Hatebreed

Bastard cries, feed the fire. The burning desire to rob human life. In this
world full of fear of the unknown. Twisting the perception of the weak.
Lying to progress. Only achieving greed. Seated behind the sun. Myths bleed
into one. Searching for a saviour to lead us through this life. Where our
sanity is undone. Killing against our will. Killing for the bastard maker.
The fairy tale. The non existent. Salvation so bittersweet the taste brought
fear to our tongues. Preying on the weak. Fatherless creation encased in the
depths of humanity. They continue to rape and call it purity. I will not bow




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Surely we can agree on fines for making the bus smell of Big Mac

The Times/The Sunday Times 27 Apr 2025
This is a singularly dangerous thing to say, but I have a suspicion that the Liberal Democrats have come up with a rather good idea ... Very few people do object ... Give me Picasso and all his flaws over today’s puritans ... .

Something to look up to: how Michelangelo’s love and humility could influence the Sistine Chapel conclave

AOL 27 Apr 2025
As if ... The Sistine contains warnings as well as inspirations from history, for Renaissance papal elections made the film look tame ... A puritanical backlash led to the male nudes being bowdlerised with draperies soon after Michelangelo’s death ... .

‘Andor’ Season 2 Finally Gives the Empire an Identity

The Wrap 27 Apr 2025
It is not just a symbol of fascism anymore. It is a hulking, lumbering machine fueled by a puritanical belief in colonialism and military might, a tank that seeks to flatten and homogenize an entire galaxy and all of its people ... .

Why SC said Urdu does not belong to Muslims, it belongs to India

The Times of India 27 Apr 2025
... met a roadblock in the form of puritans on both sides and Hindi became more Sanskritised and Urdu more Persian.“A schism exploited by the colonial powers in dividing the two languages on religion.

The Third Eye: Terror attack in Pahalgam calls for a new strategic response

Suryaa 27 Apr 2025
... want to strictly revive the puritanic Islam of the period of the four Pious Caliphs whereas the JeI line is that an Islamic State could live ‘in competition not conflict’ with the West.

A set of first editions of Shakespeare's plays could fetch $6 million at auction

York News-Times 27 Apr 2025
Sotheby's ... Sen ... Sotheby's ... #50 ... Year ... Director Jonathan Miller cast John Cleese, known for his comedy as part of Monty Python, as the male lead Petruchio—and Cleese plays the character as a staunch Puritan rather than the brash bully of other adaptations.

Living in China, by Walt King

The Unz Review 27 Apr 2025
When you hear the name of the country “China”, what is your immediate reaction?. It’s an authoritarian, aggressive state that oppresses its citizens, perhaps ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... WMG ... He’s a bit on the puritanical side, isn’t he? I wonder what he does for fun.

What Trump will never understand about the Kennedy Center

The Hill 26 Apr 2025
As one of the foremost performing arts institutions in the country, the John F ... Many artists canceled ... Like every other place on earth, the “puritans” in India can often be heard complaining when their notion of the “classical” changes ... Khan’s genius.

Phule is authentic biopic of social reformer couple

News India Times 26 Apr 2025
The film also subtly looks on Muslim puritanism vis-à-vis women as much as at Hindu orthodoxy and focuses also on how Brahmins took a perverted view of feminine progress as they felt that education ...

Pope Francis’ Artistic Taste: Alejandro Marmo, “Martin Fierro,” and Babette

Bitter Winter English 26 Apr 2025
by Massimo Introvigne. Francis meeting the artists in the Sistine Chapel, June 23, 2023 ... ... As Francis noted, “they belong to a Calvinist world and are so puritanical that even Christ’s redemption is seen as a denial of the things of this world ... ....

Learn about Purgatory Chasm, 15,000 years in the making

The Gardner News 25 Apr 2025
Purgatory Chasm in Sutton dates to a retreating glacier, some 15,000 years ago ... The Rev ... Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, at 198 Purgatory Road, Sutton, got its name from the Puritans, long-ago inhabitors of the land.

Tiny UK island dubbed 'Britain's secret paradise' with Caribbean-like waters and white sandy beaches | ...

The Daily Mail 25 Apr 2025
A stunningly beautiful island off the coast of Cornwall has been described as 'Britain's secret paradise' ... Read More ... Inmates held there in the 1600s included Dr Bastwick, an English Puritan, who even had his ears removed for his controversial sermons.

Oklahoma Is Asking the Supreme Court to Ignore History

The Atlantic 25 Apr 2025
Oklahoma is forcing the Supreme Court to choose ... They can’t do both ... [Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N ... A few years later, Connecticut, another state with Puritan roots, passed a similar law, similarly clarifying the role and funding of public schools ... .

Demi Moore reveals which role left her 'absolutely terrified' years before full-frontal Striptease nudity | ...

The Daily Mail 24 Apr 2025
Elmo’s Fire and in 1986's About Last Night ... Meaning that I didn't have to have another job ... Moore hasn't shied away from a full frontal nude scene - from playing a dancer in Striptease in 1996 to a 17th century Puritan in The Scarlet Letter in 1995 ... .

Pope Francis’s death reveals a hidden truth about public grief

The Conversation 24 Apr 2025
Cris Faga/Shutterstock. When a significant international public figure like Pope Francis dies, the world seems to pause ... Augustine was a little on the puritanical side about these matters, but his idea of disguised longing may be close to the truth ... .
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