Megan Burns

Megan Burns Biography

Megan Burns (born June 25, 1986), also known as Betty Curse, is an English musician and actress. Burns was born in Liverpool, England. When Burns was 11 her grandmother sent her to acting classes. From there she received a part in the film Liam (2000). She won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival for her performance. Danny Boyle saw this and cast her in his film 28 Days Later, where she played Hannah, one of the survivors of a deadly epidemic.

Megan was cast in the film In2ruders, directed by Naeem Mahmood, also starring Tony Hadley and Caprice Bourret. Burns has since worked as a singer under the pseudonym Betty Curse. Her first single release was a double A-side, "Met on the Internet" and "Excuse All the Blood", released 29 May 2006. Her first album Hear Lies was released on 31 October 2006 via iTunes.

The CD version, Here Lies Betty Curse, was released in April 2007. The album's first single, "God This Hurts", was released in August 2007, shortly followed by "Girl with Yellow Hair" on 13 November. In 2006 she performed and won on a Halloween special of the children's television programme The Slammer with "Girl With Yellow Hair"

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Disappointment Over Bad Eggs in Rations

Major West: Jones, did you notice while cooking that these eggs were off?

Private Jones: I-I thought the salt might cover the taste, sir.

Major West: Get rid of it.

Private Bedford: What a fuckin disappointment. When I saw those eggs, I thought it was Christmas.

Private Bell: We'll have eggs again, soon as everything's back to normal.

Corporal Mitchell: Aw, you muppet. I mean, look at him, oi? He's still waiting for Marks & Spencer to reopen! Listen, mate, you don't know nothing-

Sergeant Farrell: [pauses] Well, I think Bell's got a point. When you look at the whole life of the planet, we- you know, man- has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out- that is a return to normality. That what you meant, Bell?

Private Bell: [Laughter breaks out among the men] Uh, yeah- yeah.

Major West: [To Jim, Selena, and Hannah; Farrell, aware he is being mocked, scowls and says nothing.] Have you met our new age sergeant? Our spiritual guru? Tell me, Farrell, why exactly did you join the Army in the first place? This is what I've seen in the four weeks since infection: people killing people. Which is much what I saw in the four weeks before infection, and the four weeks before that, and before that, as far back as I care to remember- people killing people. Which, to my mind, puts us in a state of normality right now.

Selena: Hannah, you're not eating.

Hannah: I don't want to eat.

Major West: You must eat, Hannah.

Hannah: I don't want to eat. I want to bury my dad. He's one of the people you're talking about.

Sergeant Farrell: STAND TO! STAND TO!