I recently got my hands on an old Japanese clipping. I don’t know what magazine it comes from or when exactly it was published but it was in 2004 to promote the release of ‘Thunderbirds‘. The signed portrait of Sophia Myles is one we haven’t previously seen but it must have been taken during the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.

001 Scans from 2004 > Unknown publication (Japan) – Unknown date

Thank you everyone for your lovely comments on the new layout! Luna and I really appreciated it. Speaking of which, Sophia Myles has sent a message to the website:

The new layout is beautiful Mia. My thanks to you and to the fantastic fans for giving life to such a wonderful site. Love Sophia

Thank you. How exciting! And to showcase how much life you guys are giving to the site I added some more fanart.

117 Icons – by Maike
008 Icons – by Luna
001 Banner, by Chrissy
001 Fanart, by moviefnatic
003 Wallpaper (1024 x 768), by Natalie
001 Wallpaper (1280 x 1024), by Chrissy

How time flies! It seems like yesterday that Absolutely Sophia Myles had been celebrating being online for half a decade and already another year’s passed. For the occasion I finished coding a new layout for the website.

A while ago members of the messageboard had the opportunity to create a layout for the site. In the end only one was submitted – but what a gorgeous layout this is! Luna designed the graphics – many thanks! – which in turn highly influenced my coding. I’ve been going over everything so I think it should all work – but please let me know if you encounter any problems.

What else is new? In the sidebar I replaced the random quotes by Sophia Myles with new orginal ones. Enjoy!

It was also time to change the poll question. Since January 2, 2009, 766 of the site’s visitors have answered the question ‘What’s your favourite character?‘. The result was overwhelmingly clear: 515 people (or 67%) chose Beth Turner from ‘Moonlight‘. The other top choices were Isolde (’Tristan & Isolde‘) with 18% and Reinette (’Doctor Who‘) with 9%. But only 1% or 10 people prefer the character of Kate Breck in ‘Hallam Foe‘ to all others. See all results here. As of now there’s a new poll open for voting in the sidebar: What kind of movie would you like to see Sophia in next?

A bit late but here’s the calendar for November 2009 – created by Maike:

Messageboard member Emily has once again contributed scans for our gallery. This time it’s a short but new interview with Sophia Myles from yesterday’s London Lite. Many thanks!

• An instant interview with… Sophia Myles, London Lite, October 14

001 Scans from 2009 > London Lite (UK) – October 14

It’s been a long time in the works but finally, the clips of Sophia’s little known guest appearance in the 2001 Christmas episode of British TV-series ‘Heartbeat‘ can be downloaded from our media vault. As my computer has been having trouble encoding video clips, our dear messageboard member Felicia has graciously agreed to encode all of Sophia’s scenes for our viewing pleasure! Thank you so much, we will never forget this!

015 Television > 2001 Heartbeat

Messageboard member Chrissy has made lovely new icons of one of my favourite performances of Sophia’s: in ‘Marple: Sleeping Murder‘. Enjoy!

The following are all uniqe pieces of fanart so DO NOT post them at another site etc. They’re strictly limited to personal use. Thank you!

026 Icons – by Chrissy

I finally went “Fanart hunting” in our messageboard and added all the lovely work that has been created since mid-December 2008 to our official photo & icon archive. A huge thank you to all the artists for sharing them with us!

The following are all uniqe pieces of fanart so DO NOT post them at another site etc. They’re strictly limited to personal use. Thank you!

038 Icons – by Chrissy
013 Icons – by Maike
006 Icons – by Mandi
071 Icons – by Natalie
017 Fanart & Wallpaper > Banner, by Maike, Natalie
001 Fanart & Wallpaper > Calendar, September 2009 by Maike
004 Fanart & Wallpaper > Drawings, by Maike
006 Fanart & Wallpaper > Fanart, by Maike, Chrissy, Luna, Natalie
004 Fanart & Wallpaper > Wallpaper (1280 x 1024), by Natalie
016 Fanart & Wallpaper > Wallpaper (1024 x 768), by Maike, moviefnatic, Rachel, Mandi
012 Fanart & Wallpaper > Wallpaper (800 x 600), by Maike, Luna

Thanks to our messageboard member Emily we have scans of the full ‘Moonlight‘ feature in the recent collection issue about vampires of UK’s SFX Magazine. Thanks a lot!!

I also added a scan of today’s The Daily Mail with the blurb about Sophia’s Asian adventure. Enjoy!

009 SFX Magazine (UK) – Collection Issue “Vampires”
001 The Daily Mail (UK) – August 24

Wondering what Sophia Myles is up to at the moment? The Daily Mail has the scoop:

• Lady Penelope leaves her pink Rolls behind as she goes on a backpacking adventure

‘I have ticked a lot of those material aspiration boxes – I’ve been in big movies, I’ve bought a house. But at the end of the day inner peace is the most important thing,’ says vicar’s daughter Sophia, 29, who appeared in the 2004 Thunderbirds film.

‘I’m going backpacking to Thailand on my own, and I hope to get across to Cambodia. I haven’t planned anything. I’ve just booked a ticket, and I’ll see what happens.

‘I would have been quite scared to do it ten years ago, but now is the time. I’m doing it on my own. It could be a really liberating adventure’

Isn’t this fabulous?! It makes me want to go on a similar adventure myself!