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Anne Reid

December 2023

  • ‘Watching it, I was visited by all these demons. But we all now know that it went down very well’ … Sally Wainwright.

    ‘Oh my God, was Happy Valley slow and wrong?’ The demons of writer Sally Wainwright

    She finally said goodbye to her Calder Valley classic this year. But why did her star beg for the ending to be changed? And why is she so excited about menopausal punks?

July 2023

  • Better than you’ve ever seen him … Timothy Spall as Peter Farquhar in the Sixth Commandment.

    TV review
    The Sixth Commandment review – as immaculate a piece of TV as you will ever see

    This true-crime tale of a predator poisoning two vulnerable victims is harrowing and intense – but it is impossible to look away

March 2023

  • Delightfully unearthly … Richard Fleeshman as Walter Prime and Anne Reid as Marjorie.

    Marjorie Prime review – gently uncanny sci-fi shows us how to love an AI

    Menier Chocolate Factory, London
    Anne Reid shines in this delicately written drama about a woman with dementia living with a robot re-creation of her late husband as a young man

October 2022

  • ‘A hallucinatory experience’ … Frances Barber with Amanda Abbington and Reece Shearsmith in The Unfriend.

    ‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

    The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

March 2020

  • Anne Reid, 68, and Daniel Craig, 35, in The Mother

    Shortcuts
    Sex and the sixtysomethings: the steamiest scenes starring older actors

    The actor Amanda Redman says British viewers are too uptight about onscreen sex between the over-50s. This is what they are missing …

February 2020

  • WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 18/02/2020 - Programme Name: Last Tango In Halifax Series 5 - TX: 23/02/2020 - Episode: n/a (No. 1) - Picture Shows: Celia (ANNE REID), Alan (DEREK JACOBI) - (C) Lookout Point - Photographer: Matt Squire

    Last Tango in Halifax review – a brilliant, bittersweet Sunday comfort

    While there are trying times for late-in-life lovebirds Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi, Sally Wainwright’s family drama remains as warm and familiar as a reunion with old friends

August 2019

  • Sanditon’s stars Theo James, Rose Williams, Crystal Clarke, Anne Reid and Kris Marshall

    TV review
    Sanditon review – every period drama box is ticked

    It’s clear where Andrew Davies takes over from Jane Austen in this adaptation of her unfinished novel

November 2017

  • Toby Jones in Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope review – slippery psychological thriller

    Anne Reid and Toby Jones face off as mother and son in a study of a poisoned relationship
  • ‘I play the mother of Toby Jones – it’s a great part’ ... Anne Reid in Kaleidoscope.

    Anne Reid: 'Why am I cast as dreadful mothers? I’m adorable!’

    She’s played Valerie Tatlock in Coronation Street and Daniel Craig’s lover in The Mother, and now stars in the thriller Kaleidoscope. Anne Reid talks to Rebecca Nicholson about awards, Victoria Wood and why it’s good to show older people falling in love on screen
  • Kaleidoscope film still

    Kaleidoscope review – Toby Jones glows in a nightmarishly gloomy thriller

    Rupert Jones harks back to the golden age of paranoid dramas with a disturbing tale that makes up for shaky plotting with an angst-ridden mood and classy cast

October 2017

  • Eve Best in A Woman of No Importance

    A Woman of No Importance review – Eve Best takes a feminist grip on Wilde's melodrama

    Best brings fierce emotional intensity, Eleanor Bron is a velvet-voiced aristo and Anne Reid delivers Victorian ballads in Dominic Dromgoole’s fine revival

July 2016

  • Oliver Chris (Joe), James Bolam (Jack), Anne Reid (Elizabeth) in Fracked! Or: Please Don't Use The F-Word by Alistair Beaton @ Minerva Theatre, Chichester. (Opening-15-07-16) ©Tristram Kenton 07/16 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Fracked! review – Alistair Beaton’s nimble eco-comedy hits home, up to a point

  • Oliver Chris as Joe, James Bolam as Jack and Anne Reid as Elizabeth in Fracked! Or: Please Don’t Use The F-Word by Alistair Beaton at the Minerva, Chichester.

    Fracked! review – Alistair Beaton's environmental satire has rampant energy

February 2016

  • Anti-fracking campaigners in Blackpool.

    Anne Reid and James Bolam to play anti-fracking campaigners

    Fracked! Or: Please Don’t Use the F-Word, by Alistair Beaton, to debut as part of final season at Chichester Festival theatre

December 2014

  • Celia (Anne Reid) and Alan (Derek Jacobi) in Last Tango in Halifax.

    TV review
    Last Tango in Halifax review – jealousy, resentment, class and love, all beautifully written and observed

    Sam Wollaston: Sally Wainwright’s drama about family and relationships is so good it makes you think about your own

November 2014

  • Q&A: Anne Reid

    The Q&A
    Q&A: Anne Reid

    The worst thing anyone has said to me? ‘You’re amazing, for your age’

September 2014

  • Lee Ingleby and Liz White as the Mottersheads, with their new lodger - a camel

    TV review
    Our Zoo review – it's hard not to like this sentimental, animal-happy drama

    Rebecca Nicholson: I found myself rooting for George's idealism, scoffing at his cynical mother and hoping they wouldn't shoot the monkey

December 2013

  • Last Tango In Halifax

    Last Tango in Halifax recommissioned

    BBC signs up for third series of Bafta-winning drama starring Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid. By John Plunkett

November 2013

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