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Romola Garai

October 2024

  • John Lithgow sitting at a table reading a copy of the Literary Review.

    The week in theatre: Giant; Roots; Look Back in Anger – review

    John Lithgow as Roald Dahl towers over Nicholas Hytner’s production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her voice in a Wesker revival; and a John Osborne staging is a step backward

September 2024

  • Actor Romola Garai in black top against blue background

    The Q&A
    Romola Garai: ‘For a lot of my 20s, I was rude, annoying and a brat’

  • Alfred Enoch and Ian McKellen in The Critic.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Critic review – Ian McKellen’s poison pen sharpens 30s society cosy-crime drama

August 2024

  • Romola Garai in the years

    The week in theatre: The Years; Pericles – review

  • Deborah Findlay, Anjli Mohindra, Gina McKee, Harmony Rose-Bremner and Romola Garai in The Years.

    The Years review – Annie Ernaux’s faint-inducing masterpiece roars into devastating life

July 2024

  • The cast of The Years photographed for the Observer New Review: Deborah Findlay, Anjli Mohindra, Romola Garai, Gina McKee and Harmony Rose-Bremner.

    ‘Each time I read one of her books, I wanted to read more’: five actors on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir to the stage

    As a play of the Nobel prize-winner’s memoir The Years opens in the UK, the actors playing her at different ages – including Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee and Romola Garai – talk about what the work means to them

June 2024

  • Isabel Deroy-Olsen and Lily Gladstone in Fancy Dance.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Fancy Dance to Black Barbie: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Lily Gladstone stars in a poignant and arresting road movie, plus Shondaland’s fascinating look at Mattel’s first Black doll

January 2024

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    Observer New Review Q&A
    Actor Romola Garai: ‘It’s hard to just do plays, because, you know, you’ve got to live’

  • Johnny Flynn as the young Nicholas Winton in One Life

    One Life review – stirring tale of the ‘British Schindler’ predictably told

November 2023

  • Love Streams, Sweetie, Eraserhead, Last Summer, Chungking Express, On the Silver Globe.

    Lost reels: 15 directors pick great films you won’t find on UK streaming

    Many films – even classics such as Eraserhead and Chungking Express – remain surprisingly unavailable online to UK audiences. We asked film-makers from Martin McDonagh to Charlotte Wells to pick their favourites

April 2022

  • Sarah Milton, writer and star of 4.

    ‘Still a work in progress’: what has #MeToo done for women in theatre?

    The Harvey Weinstein scandal was supposed to usher in a reckoning for the industry. But while some headway has been made, meaningful change has proved elusive

January 2022

  • Carla Juri and Alec Secareanu in Amulet.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Amulet review – Romola Garai’s room at the top holds untold horrors

    An ex-soldier renovating an old house finds more than just refuge in the actor turned writer-director’s pulsating gothic shocker
  • Amulet.

    Amulet review – Romola Garai makes directorial debut with smart upscale horror

    Garai’s first feature as director is a classy chiller where a haunted war veteran is offered uneasy solace by a twinkly-eyed nun
  • Romola Garai.

    ‘Women like to be afraid watching horror’: why Romola Garai swapped costume dramas for gore

    Best known for starring in Atonement and Suffragette, the actor has now turned to writing and directing with a spine-chilling film. What possessed her?

November 2020

  • Susan Wokoma, Michaela Coel and Jahvel Hall in Three Birds by Janice Okoh

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Before they were famous: stars' early stage appearances – in pictures

    Tristram Kenton captures the debuts and breakthroughs of famous future faces including Emily Blunt, Martin Freeman, John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and many more

September 2020

  • Romola Garai as Eleanor Marx.

    Miss Marx review - Romola Garai shines as Marx's daughter gets a punk makeover

    Susanna Nicchiarelli’s audacious retelling of the life of Eleanor Marx is in competition in Venice

April 2018

  • Samuel West and Romola Garai in Ella Hickson’s divisive new play The Writer.

    The week in theatre: The Writer; Absolute Hell – review

    A thrillingly shifting feminist drama will send audiences out of the theatre arguing, but a plunge into postwar Soho is stifling
  • The Writer at the Almeida. Romola Garai. Photo credit Manuel Harlan (11)

    The Writer review – Romola Garai blazes into the battlefield of desire

    Almeida, London
    Ella Hickson’s riveting play about a writer exploring the sexual revolution boasts a shining performance from Romola Garai
  • BFI Luminous Fundraising Gala<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 03: Romola Garai attends the BFI Luminous Fundraising Gala at The Guildhall on October 3, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage)

    On my radar
    On my radar: Romola Garai’s cultural highlights

    The actor on Viv Albertine’s punk memoirs, why St Vincent’s music tears her up, and a podcast so good she even bought the T-shirt

October 2017

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    Actor Romola Garai felt 'violated' after Harvey Weinstein encounter

    Exclusive: British star adds to allegations against film mogul, describing encounter in which he wore only a dressing gown
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