‘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
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
Laurence Olivier’s Richard III prosthetic nose among hundreds of actor’s items to be auctioned
‘Does time heal? I don’t think so’: Richard E Grant on love, loss – and bonking
This much I know
Dame Maureen Lipman: ‘I was afraid of being forgotten’
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
‘She found life hysterically funny and unbearably painful’: Maggie Smith remembered by Nicholas Hytner
The stage and screen director, who filmed Smith in The Lady in the Van, recalls her unblinking wit at work on stage in A German Life
Mike Newell on Maggie Smith: ‘She never bit me, but if she did bite, you stayed bitten’
Director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire says formidable actor brought many things to a set, including ‘terror’Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
Black actor who faced abuse over role in Romeo & Juliet calls for industry-wide action
Other lives
John Burgess obituary
Working-class parents do not see film and TV as viable career for their children
August 2024
‘I wanted to be seen as the greatest actor of all time. Then I realised that was nonsense’: Michael Sheen on pride, parenting and paying it forward
Other lives
Desmond Jones obituary
July 2024
‘As good as playing to a packed theatre’: the actors who perform for stroke survivors
