Primrose Hill set


The Primrose Hill set is a name applied to celebrities who in the 1990s congregated in Primrose Hill near Camden Town in North London, and had, in the words of Andrew Johnson writing in The Independent in 2010, a reputation for "having a whale of a time with drink, drugs and bed-hopping".

History

The term grew in use in the British media to identify the group as socially homogeneous and also as a convenient label similar to the Young British Artists and Britpop labels of the same period. Many of the group's members appeared with each other in film and television productions in the mid-nineties and later cast each other in their own productions.
The core members of the group had lived close to each in that area, as well as in neighbouring Belsize Park and Hampstead; the social focus for the group was really the Notting Hill area.

Core members

According to her obituary in the New York Times, Annabelle Neilson became a mainstay of the set, which included the Gallagher brothers Liam and Noel, Kate Moss, and Jude Law and Sadie Frost.
Other members included:

Films

Frost, Law, Pertwee and Miller set up their own production company "Natural Nylon" that made feature films starring many members of the original set. Although he had no locational ties to the group, Robert Carlyle has also consistently appeared alongside the Primrose Hill actors and has come to be synonymous with this era of British cinema.
Films generally thought of as fitting into the Primrose Hill set include: