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Shirley Henderson

January 2025

  • Shirley Henderson as Elizabeth Laine in Girl from the North Country at Noël Coward theatre, London.

    ‘Completely staggering’: how Shirley Henderson mastered Like a Rolling Stone

    In Girl from the North Country, Bob Dylan’s songs fuelled a tale of 1930s America. Todd Almond, who starred in the play on Broadway, revisits one of its most electrifying numbers in this extract from his oral history of the show

April 2024

  • Shirley Henderson in The Trouble With Jessica

    The Trouble With Jessica review – Shirley Henderson leads satire on London liberals

    Henderson, Indira Varma, Rufus Sewell and Olivia Williams attend a Hampstead dinner party that takes a dark turn in a play-like sendup that could go harder

March 2024

  • ‘What I look for in a script is a feeling. A nervous feeling. But good nervous’ ... Shirley Henderson.

    Shirley Henderson: ‘I start off thinking: ‘How will I ever be able to do this?’

    The Harry Potter and Bridget Jones star is a dazzlingly versatile performer, with a string of Michael Winterbottom films under her belt, as well as Star Wars, TV’s Happy Valley and an Olivier award. She explains how she keeps on top of it all

September 2019

  • Steve Coogan as Sir Richard ‘Greedy’ McCreadie in Greed.

    First look review
    Greed review – Steve Coogan gleams in knockabout satire of the mega-rich

    Michael Winterbottom’s entertaining mockumentary about a high-street fashion tycoon presents a hideous carnival of obscene wealth, vanity and moral squalor

April 2018

  • Conflicted … Jamie (Théodore Pellerin), who plays Shirley Henderson’s son in Never Steady, Never Still.

    Never Steady, Never Still review – tough sledding in the snows of Alberta

    This drama about a mother who has Parkinson’s and her teenage son who is struggling with his sexuality, is unsatisfying despite heartfelt moments
  • Bryan Cranston, winner of best actor (for Network), at the Olivier awards

    'It’s very difficult to be mad as hell': the Olivier awards' best quotes

    Highlights from the speeches given by Bryan Cranston, Jez Butterworth, Sheila Atim and others at the 2018 Oliviers
  • Host Catherine Tate speaks on stage during The Olivier Awards.

    Theatreland stars turn out for Olivier awards – in pictures

    London’s Royal Albert Hall hosts the UK’s most prestigious theatre awards

March 2018

  • Cleve September, Giles Terera, Jason Pennycooke Michael Jibson and Rachel John from the cast of the musical Hamilton.

    Sing when you might be winning: 2018 Olivier award nominees, from Hamilton to Network

    The nominations for this year’s Olivier awards are out and Guardian and Observer photographer David Levene captured some of the key contenders backstage

January 2018

  • Shirley Henderson

    Culture webchats
    Shirley Henderson webchat – your questions answered on Trainspotting, Moaning Myrtle and singing Dylan

  • Shirley Henderson and Arinzé Kene in Girl from the North Country

    Girl from the North Country lets us hear Bob Dylan's mysteries anew

July 2017

  • ‘The stage equivalent of a radio ballad’: the cast of Girl From the North Country has ‘no weak link’ at the Old Vic

    Girl from the North Country; Mosquitoes; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – bringing it all back home

  • Shirley Henderson (Elizabeth Laine) and Arinze Kene (Joe Scott) in Girl From The North Country, written and directed by Conor McPherson @ Old Vic, London. Music and Lyrics by Bob Dylan. (Opening 26-07-17) ©Tristram Kenton 07-17 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Girl from the North Country review – Dylan's songs are Depression-era dynamite

January 2017

  • T2: Trainspotting film still

    First look review
    T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint

    Danny Boyle’s followup to the cult 1996 hit isn’t quite as quick and extraordinary as the original, but it is a funny, moving ode to middle-aged male disillusion whose risks pay off in spades

December 2016

  • Unshowy, unsentimental and acute … Sarah Lancashire as Sergeant Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley.

    2016 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2016: No 4 Happy Valley

    The second series of Sally Wainwright’s Calder Valley cop drama was devastating, satisfying – and even more brutal than the astonishing first

September 2016

  • Letitia Wright as Jamie in Urban Hymn

    Urban Hymn review – UK riots drama learns to sing a better tune

    Michael Caton-Jones’s film about a delinquent diva, starring the excellent Letitia Wright, works towards a place of quiet power

June 2016

  • Toby Jones as the King of Highhills

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Tale of Tales review – bawdy and fantastical

    Inspired by 17th-century Italian fairytales, Matteo Garrone’s thrilling circus of sex and violence is definitely not one for the children
  • Shirley Henderson, photographed in London for the Observer Newspaper

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Shirley Henderson: ‘There’s a need to understand how to write for women at any age’

    The actor on her new film, a fairytale for adults, her creepy character in Happy Valley and feeling lost in drama school
  • Salma Hayek stars as Queen of Longtrellis in Tale Of Tales

    Tale of Tales: ‘Don’t try to understand it - just feel it’

    Italian director Matteo Garrone made his name with realist mob movie Gomorrah, but for his new film he turned to 17th century fairytales

March 2016

  • WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 08/03/2016 - Programme Name: Happy Valley series 2 - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 6) - Picture Shows: **EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 00:01 HRS ON TUESDAY 8TH MARCH** Frances Drummond (SHIRLEY HENDERSON), Catherine (SARAH LANCASHIRE) - (C) Red Productions - Photographer: Ben Blackall

    Happy Valley showcases the rich lives of ‘older women’

    Penny Anderson
    The acclaimed BBC drama was notable for casting women in their 40s and 50s. Perhaps that might change perceptions of us

July 2013

  • eddie marsan and shirley henderson

    Shirley Henderson: 'I know how it feels to be lost in the world'

    Shirley Henderson and Eddie Marsan, co-stars of new drama Southcliffe, talk to Kate Kellaway about portraying disturbane and the importance of being ordinary

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