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David Harewood

July 2024

  • Clockwise from top left: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Anish Kapoor, India Amarteifio, Sir Lenny Henry, Kamila Shamsie, David Harewood, Adjoa Andoh and Paterson Joseph.

    UK voter ID laws attack ‘democratic rights of people of colour’, say artists in open letter

    Exclusive: Lenny Henry, Anish Kapoor and Marianne Jean-Baptiste among those calling for Keir Starmer to scrap rules

April 2024

  • David Harewood portrait

    Weekend
    ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out – podcast

    Beware of ‘Tetchy Rishi’ – the prime minister struggles to control his anger during the Rwanda bill press briefing; David Harewood on acting, racism and mental health; the surprisingly simple solution to insomnia hell; and the dangerous fallout from Netflix’s Baby Reindeer
  • David Harewood poses for a portrait at Rada

    Brief letters
    David Harewood’s Romeo presaged greatness

    Brief letters: Acting royalty | Angela Rayner’s insult | Stereotyping librarians | Guardian’s sports writing | Liz Truss
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    ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

    He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school

March 2024

  • Actor David Harewood.

    Sunday with David Harewood: ‘I sit with a sneaky beer, watching the world go by’

  • Annie McNamara and Sullivan Jones in a Broadway production of Slave Play.

    The Guardian view on theatre pricing: an issue of cultural democracy

February 2024

  • David Harewood

    David Harewood: teach young actors resilience to face industry’s brutal side

    Exclusive: Incoming Rada president says he wants to pass down what he learned from mental health struggles as a graduate

December 2023

  • The ultimate Christmas TV guide.

    Christmas crackers! It’s your ultimate guide to the UK’s best festive TV

    From the rush of seeing Ncuti Gatwa as the new Doctor, to the tearjerking final ever episode of Ghosts – here’s your authoritative guide to the finest television

September 2023

  • Ghosts with gusto … The Canterville Ghost.

    The Canterville Ghost review – spooky Halloween animation reunites Fry and Laurie

    Oscar Wilde’s short story is the basis for this energetic family cartoon, with a spirited ghost voiced by Stephen Fry and a brief visit from confrere Hugh Laurie
  • David Harewood with his photographic portrait by Ashley Karrell in Harewood House, Leeds.

    The Guardian view on political portraiture: putting faces to history

    Editorial: The motives behind new pictures of the former prime minister Theresa May and the actor David Harewood may be different, but both use art to serve reputation
  • David Harewood’s portrait at Harewood House in Leeds

    David Harewood says portrait stands for ‘resilience of my people’ after Leeds unveiling

    Portrait unveiled at country house once owned by plantation owner who enslaved actor’s relatives in 18th century

July 2023

  • David Harewood and academic Renée Landell.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: David Harewood retraces the disturbing history of blackface

  • Andy Murray waves to a Wimbledon crowd

    Celebrities back Unicef UK appeal for urgent government child support

March 2023

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    TV review
    Get On Up: The Triumph of Black America review – David Harewood’s interviews are puzzlingly shallow

    This look at the icons of Black creativity in the US sees the actor on infectious form. But he fails to offer any insight on complex issues – leaving this documentary feeling jolly, but bland
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    ‘This celebrates a coming of age’: David Harewood on how Black American culture took over the world

    The actor’s new documentary series salutes 50 years of African American creativity, from Sidney Poitier and Stevie Wonder to Beyoncé and Black Panther
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    ‘Complex emotions’: Harewood House commissions portrait of David Harewood

    The work will be part of the estate’s Missing Portraits series, while the actor’s lineage traces back to people enslaved on Harewood property in the Caribbean

December 2022

  • Brian May, Grayson Perry, Frank Skinner and Denise Lewis

    New year honours 2023: Mary Quant and Lionesses among those recognised

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    Prominent black and Asian Britons warn against BBC local radio cuts plan

November 2022

  • Immense intelligence … David Harewood as William F Buckley Jr and Zachary Quinto as Gore Vidal in Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward theatre.

    Best of Enemies review – stylish staging of a landmark TV clash

    The 1968 debate between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr is depicted with verve and feels uncomfortably up-to-date

October 2022

  • Star names read from the 2022 Booker prize shortlist.

    The Booker prize 2022: watch shortlist readings by Jarvis Cocker, Sharon Horgan and more

    Performers read from the novels in contention for this year’s prestigious fiction prize in a series of films made by director Kevin Thomas
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