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Ashley Walters

December 2023

  • ‘Human powder keg’ … Kane Robinson as Sully in Top Boy

    2023 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2023: No 8 – Top Boy

    Adrenaline-packed gangster drama, spot-on political critique and a final scene so stunning it will be talked about for years – this is the revolutionary show’s best outing ever

September 2023

  • Kane ‘Kano’ Robinson as Sully in Top Boy, hood up, pointing a gun

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Top Boy; The Lovers; Love & Death; Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero – review

  • Kane Robinson and Ashley Walters in Top Boy

    From council estates to celebrity superfans: farewell Top Boy, the drama that changed TV for ever

May 2022

  • Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode photographed by David Vintiner for the Observer New Review.

    You ask the questions
    Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’

    Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits

April 2022

  • Starburst

    ‘That’s it? It’s over? I was 30. What a brutal business’: pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on

  • Messages of condolence on commemorative Grenfell sign

    Charity single recalls human cost of Grenfell tragedy five years on

March 2022

  • Top Boys Season 2. Ashley Walters as Dushane in Top Boys Season 2. Cr. Chris Harris/Netflix © 2021

    TV review
    Top Boy review – this brilliant crime drama always leaves you guessing

    Netflix’s show about London drug gangs is back, adding instantly engaging new characters to an incredibly impressive cast. It’s at its peak – and not moving from that spot
  • Back on top: Ashley Walters wears suit by prada.com; knitted top by Nick Fouquet (matchesfashion.com).

    ‘My life is all boom and bust’: Ashley Walters on Top Boy, his lost father and sudden wealth

    For Ashley Walters, life has had its ups and downs. Now, ahead of a new season of Top Boy – not to mention directing and musical projects – the pieces are finally falling into place. He talks to Tim Lewis about loyalty, prison – and his new life on the Kent coast
  • From left: Top Boy; Upload; WeCrashed; Master; Catherine Cohen: The Twist … ? She’s Gorgeous.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Top Boy to WeCrashed: the seven best shows to stream this week

    The Drake-backed crime epic returns for an excellent fourth season, while Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway star in a drama about the founders of co-working business WeWork

February 2022

  • Top Boy.

    The stars of Top Boy: ‘Are drug dealers going to Black Lives Matter marches? I doubt it’

    Britain’s edgiest crime drama is about to return – and this time its scope is bigger than ever. Ashley Walters, Little Simz, Kano and more discuss turning Drake down, the call of Hollywood and not being able to depict BLM

February 2021

  • Not quite a holiday ... Pike (Ashley Walters) and Bishop (Noel Clarke) in South Africa.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters conclude their South African sojourn

    The Bulletproof miniseries finale sees Bishop and Pike go after the kidnapping mastermind. Plus: The Repair Shop. Here’s what to watch this evening

January 2021

  • Ashley Walters

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Ashley Walters: 'Kids make mistakes. I know that now as a father of eight'

    The Top Boy star on making his directorial debut, becoming a grandfather and hiding his ballet skills from the boys in Peckham

March 2020

  • Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens and Bedlam

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens and Bedlam; Penance; Westworld and more

    A fine documentary on Miss World shows how far we have come since 1970

December 2019

  • Milk ladies by Murdo MacLeod

    Best culture 2019
    The faces of 2019 – in pictures

    Dick and Dom on the decks, Skin from Skunk Anansie, Ben Stokes in the Lords pavilion, Dafne Keen from Her Dark Materials … Guardian photographers look back at their portraits of the year

August 2019

  • Kane Walters and Ashley Robinson in the new series of Top Boy.

    Autumn arts preview 2019
    Ronan Bennett: ‘Top Boy was special to me... I poured it all into the scripts’

  • Ashley Walters (Asher D) and Kane Robinson AKA Kano.

    'The show needed to come back': how Drake rescued the druglords of Top Boy

November 2016

  • Ashley Walters with his wife Danielle Isaie, daughter Amiaya-Love and son River.

    Ashley Walters – so solid dad

    The actor and former So Solid Crew rapper had his first child as a teenager. He was determined not to repeat his own father’s mistakes. Now, a dad for the eighth time, he explains why he’s stopped looking for a rulebook

June 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for Ashley Walters self-portrait: 'I don't get as much female attention as I'd like' video

    My self-portrait
    Ashley Walters' self-portrait: 'I don't get as much female attention as I'd like' – video

    Musician and actor Ashley Walters analyses his reflection while looking down the lens of the camera and drawing his self-portrait on an iPad

April 2015

  • Viv Albertine

    My big break: Ken Loach, Caitlin Moran, Lennie James, Grayson Perry and more explain how they made it

    Are the arts today really closed off to anyone who doesn’t have the right background or financial support? We asked musicians, film-makers, actors, artists, architects and others at the top of their field how they got there

December 2011

  • Protesters riot In Tottenham

    Film&Music: the Live magazine issue
    Keeping it reel: urban film and the riots

    This year's UK riots made gritty dramas such as Kidulthood and Shank look all too real. But could these films be part of the problem, asks Live magazine's Zindzi Rocque-Drayton

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