Roxanne Purley
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Roxanne Purley is the young Black woman at the heart of Mike Leigh’s film "Secrets & Lies," whose search for her birth mother exposes long-buried family tensions and emotional truths.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adoptiveParents | middle-class Black couple ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
1996 film Secrets & Lies
NERFINISHED
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Secrets & Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hortense Cumberbatch’s adoptive family
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Purley family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| biologicalMother | Cynthia Purley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralCharacterOf | Secrets & Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Mike Leigh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emotionalArc | from guarded and skeptical to more open and connected ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Black ⓘ |
| familyBackground | adopted ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | British social realist drama ⓘ |
| firstMeetingWithMotherLocation | Cynthia Purley’s home ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | catalyst for family revelations ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | optometrist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Marianne Jean-Baptiste NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| searchesFor | birth mother ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
class and race in Britain
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family secrets ⓘ identity ⓘ transracial adoption ⓘ |
| timePeriod | contemporary Britain of the mid-1990s ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Maurice Purley