There is some suggestion, from a poem dated to 1681, again of doubtful accuracy, that Nell's father died at Oxford, perhaps in prison.

One way or another, Nell's father seems to have been out of the picture by the time of her childhood in Covent Garden, and her " dipsomaniac mother, notorious sister ", Rose, were left in a low situation.

* Ralph Morris as Nell's father

The Diamond Age is characterized by two intersecting, almost equally developed story lines: Nell's education through her independent work with the Primer, and the social downfall of engineer and designer of the Primer, John Percival Hackworth, who has made an illegal copy of the Primer for his own young daughter, Fiona.

He makes an illicit copy of the Primer for his daughter Fiona, who is Nell's age.

It is this bond that makes the Primer a transformative agent in Nell's life.

As Nell's first employer points out, there exist only the business of things and the business of entertainment, and the business of things is not very interesting when nanotechnology can produce anything.

Nell's situation is that a single ractor, Miranda, devotes herself full time to performing the various roles of Nell's primer.

The series includes Godfrey Norton as Irene's supportive barrister husband ; Penelope " Nell " Huxleigh, a vicar's daughter and former governess who is Irene's best friend and biographer ; and Nell's love interest Quentin Stanhope as supporting characters as well.

" But in Berlin he felt that the most important sentence is Nell's: " Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

London is the simplest choice, perhaps, since Nell's mother was born there and that is where she raised her children.

The time of Nell's birth is given in a horoscope, with perhaps spurious accuracy, as Saturday, 2 February 1650, at six o ' clock in the morning, though it has also been suggested that a birth around 1642 may be more likely.

Nell's is also a frequent haunt of Patrick Bateman, in the book American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

Though the setting is a whorehouse, and the lens through which we see everything is Violet, who ... herself becomes one of Nell's chief attractions, Pretty Baby is neither about child prostitution nor is it pornographic.

The text also includes fully narrated educational tales from the Primer that map Nell's individual experience ( e. g. her four toy friends ) onto archetypal folk tales stored in the primer's database.

The story follows Nell's development under the tutelage of the Primer, and to a lesser degree, the lives of Elizabeth and Fiona, girls who receive similar books.

* Harv ( Harvard ) — Nell's older brother, who plays an important role in the beginning as her protector ; he obtains the Primer for his sister by mugging John Percival Hackworth.

* Miranda — A " ractor " ( actor in interactive movies ) who, by performing in the stories of Nell's Primer, effectively becomes a mother figure for Nell.

With modern progress and some personal hardships came change for Kate and Nell's businesses.

He played Nell's grandfather in ITV's Christmas 2007 adaptation of The Old Curiosity Shop, and returned to the stage to play Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ( 2009 ) for the Donmar Warehouse at Wyndham's Theatre in London.

However, a running gag throughout the series was Nell's showing such interest in his horse ( called Horse ), that she rarely noticed Dudley's interest in her at all.

The details of Nell's background are somewhat obscure.

From the mid-1980s to 1998, Campbell owned three nightclubs in New York: Kiosk, E & O, and most famously Nell's.

Nell's was sold in 1998 to Noel Ashman and his business partner actor Chris Noth, right before she gave birth to daughter Matilda Violet in June 1998 to ex-boyfriend and business partner Eamonn Roche.

* Bud — A petty criminal and “ thete ,” or tribeless individual, Bud is Tequila's boyfriend and Nell and Harv's father.

* A son named after his father ( but not after his grandfather ) is often referred to as Junior, Chip ( also a diminutive of Charles, but in this case in reference to " a chip off the old block "), Skip, Sonny, Bud, Buddy, or Deuce.

Realizing that Gekko may not do business with him, a desperate Bud provides him some inside information about Bluestar, which Bud learned in a casual conversation from his father.

Bud persuades his father, who dislikes Gekko, to get union support for the plan and push for the deal.

Although this would leave Bud very rich, he is angered by Gekko's deceit, and racked with the guilt of being an accessory to Bluestar's destruction, especially after his father suffers a heart attack.

Bud chooses his father over his mentor and resolves to disrupt Gekko's plans.

In one scene, Gekko scoffs at Bud Fox's question as to the moral value of hard work, quoting the example of his ( Gekko's ) father, who worked hard his entire life and died in relative mediocrity.

In turn, Bud reluctantly follows the advice of his father, Ace ( Pat Hingle ), who suggests that he find another kind of girl with whom to satisfy his desires.

In the next scene, Bud's father encourages him to abstain from sex with Deanie, because, if Deanie were to conceive a child by Bud, they would have to marry.

Shaun then reaches out to his wealthy father Bud ( John Lithgow ), who had left his wife and family to marry a much younger woman ( Leslie Mann ), pleading him to donate money to Stanford in order to increase his chances of being accepted.

Johnson and Betty Parker ( Allen ) fall in love, causing her to leave home, throwing George Parker ( Macy ), Bud and Mary Sue's father, into complete confusion.

When he comes of age, he plans to marry Rosa Bud and go to Egypt, doing engineering with the firm where his father had been a partner.

He was hired by the Houston Texans on January 5, 2011 as their new defensive coordinator almost 30 years after his father was terminated by Bud Adams on December 28, 1980, after the Oilers failed to advance past the first round of the playoffs.

The family moved from Wallace down to Lewiston in 1959 and up to Moscow in 1962, when his father, Bud Riley, became a collegiate assistant coach for his alma mater, the Idaho Vandals, under new head coach Dee Andros.

His grandfather, Harry Jackson ( who calls him " Bud "), played by actor John Anderson, acted as his father, but moved away in 1967 when MacGyver was sixteen, worked for a period in Alaska, sending money to MacGyver and his mother, and eventually settled down as a farmer in Minnesota after MacGyver had left.

Along with her sister, Nancy Walton Laurie, Kroenke inherited stock from father, Bud Walton ( died 1995 ), who was an early business partner and brother of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.

At the birthday party, Bud's high school sweetheart and now sister-in-law, P. J., invites Bud out for a walk, which is met with curious suspicion by Bud's father, Speck.

and humbled by his father and the accident, Bud now realizes what's most important in his life.

He was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy in 2001, making him and his father Norman ' Bud ' Poile one of six father-son combinations to win the award.

He later wrote several other notable ragtime piano compositions, all published by his father, including a few under the alias " Bud Manchester ".

Her father Bud Selig is the commissioner of baseball and, until 1998, owner of the Brewers, and her husband, Laurel Prieb, served in various capacities with the team, including — until 2004 — vice president of corporate affairs.

He disdains his football-obsessed father ( Thomas F. Duffy ) and dreads playing it under legendary coach Bud Kilmer ( Jon Voight ), a verbally abusive, controlling authority who believes in winning " at all costs ".