Among the celebrities and political figures to lend their support were actresses Juliet Stevenson and Romola Garai, alongside Labour peer Baroness Kennedy QC and Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty.
Harris's excellent Moneypenny came to the fore in Bond hit Skyfall recently but her performance as Winnie Mandela opposite Idris Elba's Nelson in Justin Chadwick's film looks set to catapult her to the front rank of actresses.
I had to go to MS centres in Glasgow and Bristol, asking people: What did it feel like when you were told you had MS? That was the only time Ive felt like a parasite. The gay sex scene with Linus Roache in Antonia Birds Priest was easier than clinches with actresses, he says (With women, you want subtitles saying: I hope you dont think Im enjoying this).
The 1977 swansong of surrealist maestro Luis Buñuel, That Obscure Object of Desire, was beaten by a French film rarely mentioned today, Madame Rosa – perhaps because the latter didn't baffle voters by having two actresses play one part.
History also picks up four out of five best actor nominations, two out of five best actresses, and three out of five directors.
Unlike most actresses who say this, you get the impression she means it.
It's about two actresses who go to New York - because that's what I know about.
While the specific brand of the Page 3 woman – a young, usually unknown model, in a studio, plus tits – may have gone, in the last couple of days the same page space has been devoted to model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and the actresses from Hollyoaks, all in their skimpies.
Big US TV shows were already becoming more diverse, with Orange Is The New Black's female-dominated cast hitting every sexual, economic and ethnic base, and Scandal/How To Get Away With Murder showrunner Shonda Rhimes proving that black actresses can lead mainstream hits.
This distressed the on-set hairdresser who, like the rest of Hollywood, expected all good actresses to have neat, uptight Grace Kelly dos.
All those tales of newsreaders being shunted off-screen, and actresses considered too ancient for romantic leads in their 30s, are shocking but not that relevant to the vast majority of ordinary employees whose faces were never their fortune yet who still wonder about knocking a few years off on their CVs.
