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Acting

February 2025

  • Sheila Hancock shot for OM for her 92nd birthday

    ‘You name it, I did it’: Sheila Hancock on comedy, age and anxiety

    You might think Dame Sheila Hancock would be taking life a little easy – no chance. She talks about her working-class roots, being lucky in love, the frustration of being passed over for serious roles – and why she’s fed up
    with feeling anxious

January 2025

  • ‘She sort of glowed’ … Joan Plowright photographed in 1999.

    ‘Impish, tremendously warm, never grand’: Sheila Reid pays tribute to Joan Plowright

  • "An Ideal Husband" At The Vaudeville Theatre In London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 3: British actor Charles Kay performing as Earl of Caversham in a dress rehearsal for a production of Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband", directed by Lindsay Posner (not in picture) at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England on 3rd November, 2010. (Photo by Nobby Clark/Popperfoto via Getty Images)

    Charles Kay obituary

  • The Three Musketeers, New Vic

    All for one and one for all! The joint joys of in-the-round theatre

  • Olivia Colman, seen at the Wicked Little Letters film premiere in London, trained at Bristol Old Vic theatre school.

    Bristol Old Vic theatre school to stop its undergraduate courses

December 2024

  • Ilan Reichel

    Other lives
    Ilan Reichel obituary

  • a prophet<br>2BDNW8T NIELS ARESTRUP a prophet

    Niels Arestrup obituary

November 2024

  • Dame Penelope Keith shakes hands with King Charles III at a fancy reception

    ‘You should be afraid’: poison pen letters reignite UK actors’ fund feud

    Police notified after former trustees and current chief executive of Actors’ Benevolent Fund were sent notes
  • A collage of, from left to right, actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman and Mark Rylance

    Leading British actors call on chancellor to boost green investment in pensions

    Oscar winners Mark Rylance and Olivia Colman among those writing to Rachel Reeves about excluding fossil fuels

    • Timothy West – a life in pictures

    • Muskets, chain mail and medieval laundry: behind the boom in historical re-enactment

    • Other lives
      Maggie Forsyth obituary

October 2024

  • The prosthetic nose in a box next to a note suggesting it was sent to him for his 80th birthday

    Laurence Olivier’s Richard III prosthetic nose among hundreds of actor’s items to be auctioned

  • Richard E Grant hugging a tree

    ‘Does time heal? I don’t think so’: Richard E Grant on love, loss – and bonking

  • Dame Maureen Lipman

    This much I know
    Dame Maureen Lipman: ‘I was afraid of being forgotten’

  • Leonard Rossiter, photographed outside the Saville theatre in London, 4 July 1969.

    From the Guardian archive
    ‘Mr Rossiter says he is good at madmen’: Leonard Rossiter interviewed by the Guardian in 1969 – from the archives

  • Other lives
    Clare Jarvis obituary

  • ‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter

September 2024

  • Nicholas Hytner, Maggie Smith and Alan Bennett at a London Film Festival photocall

    ‘She found life hysterically funny and unbearably painful’: Maggie Smith remembered by Nicholas Hytner

  • Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall dancing with Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    Mike Newell on Maggie Smith: ‘She never bit me, but if she did bite, you stayed bitten’

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