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Hayley Squires

May 2024

  • a young woman stands in an industrial bin at night

    Hoard review – uncomfortable drama with a magnetic lead performance

    Saura Lightfoot-Leon stars as a traumatised, rubbish-fixated teen in British director Luna Carmoon’s admirable, if hard-going debut

October 2023

  • Sharon Duncan-Brewster, left, with Hayley Squires in Death of England: Closing Time.

    The week in theatre: Death of England: Closing Time; Sunset Boulevard – review

  • Hayley Squires in Death of England: Closing Time.

    Death of England: Closing Time review – riotous comedy with a serious sting

September 2023

  • Hayley Squires.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Hayley Squires’s cultural highlights

  • Saura Lightfoot Leon and Joseph Quinn in Hoard.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Hoard review – a haunting study of loneliness and thwarted sexuality

March 2022

  • TRUE THINGS, from left: Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, 2021. © Samuel Goldwyn Films /Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2HWWE7D TRUE THINGS, from left: Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, 2021. © Samuel Goldwyn Films /Courtesy Everett Collection

    True Things review – eroticism and unfulfilled yearning in a seaside town

    Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke are formidable in this tale of emotional self-harm, but elements of the film remain unconvincing

January 2021

  • This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Reece Shearsmith in a scene from “In the Earth,” an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. (Sundance Institute via AP)

    First look review
    In the Earth review – Ben Wheatley's patchy pandemic folk horror

    An ambitiously shot mid-lockdown B-movie boasts some eerie visuals and genuine suspense but stumbles with an overly convoluted mythology

December 2020

  • Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You.

    2020 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2020: 50-1

    Michaela Coel’s smart, subversive and taboo-breaking drama gave us absolutely unbeatable television – plus more of the year’s best

April 2020

  • Hayley Squires, 2017

    The Q&A
    Hayley Squires: 'Who do I most admire? Two friends who work for the NHS'

    The I, Daniel Blake star on her parents’ generosity, working in a call centre and her love of ice-cream

October 2018

  • Happy New Year Colin Burstead film still

    Happy New Year, Colin Burstead review – Ben Wheatley contrives a simmering hothouse of misery

    Neil Maskell is the standout performer in Wheatley’s drama of dysfunction, as a man inviting his family to a New Year party in the country

September 2018

  • Harold Pinter in 1960

    My favourite Pinter by Antony Sher, Hayley Squires and Paapa Essiedu

    Stars of the West End’s Pinter at the Pinter season pick plays by the dramatist that changed the way they thought about theatre

December 2017

  • ‘People don’t believe it, but I was very, very shy’: Hayley Squires wears a blazer by Paul Smith (fenwick.co.uk) and a T-shirt by Burberry.

    Hayley Squires: ‘I used to argue with everyone’

    She made her name in I, Daniel Blake – Ken Loach’s searing indictment of the welfare state. Now Hayley Squires is stealing the show in the BBC’s adaptation of The Miniaturist. But, finds Rebecca Nicholson, there are a few things she wants to get off her chest first

February 2017

  • A scene from I, Daniel Blake.

    I, Daniel Blake 'doesn’t represent reality', says jobcentre manager

  • Tom Rhys Harries as Cosmo Disney in The Pitchfork Disney at Shoreditch Town Hall.

    The Pitchfork Disney review – exhilarating chocoholic apocalypse

December 2016

  • Hayley Squires, Dave Johns and Rebecca O’Brien

    I, Daniel Blake sweeps Evening Standard film awards

    Ken Loach’s drama wins best British film, best actress and most powerful scene, while Hugh Grant and Kate Beckinsale take acting honours

October 2016

  • Dave Johns in I, Daniel Blake.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    I, Daniel Blake review – a battle cry for the dispossessed

  • I, Daniel Blake film still Cannes 2016

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    I, Daniel Blake review – Ken Loach's quiet rage against injustice

September 2016

  • "I, Daniel Blake" Photocall - The 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival<br>CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 13: (L-R) Actress Hayley Squires, director Ken Loach and actor Dave Johns attend the "I, Daniel Black (Moi, Daniel Black)" photocall during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 13, 2016 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

    I, Daniel Blake star: 'working-class actresses are cast as drug addicts and bad mothers'

    Hayley Squires, who features in Ken Loach’s latest, says she was passed over for roles because of her background and height

June 2016

  • I, Daniel Blake trailer screengrab

    Trailer park
    I, Daniel Blake: the trailer for Ken Loach's Palme d'Or-winner – video

    The trailer for the drama about an out-of-work carpenter wrestling with the welfare system after suffering a heart attack

May 2016

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Notebook
    How Ken Loach’s food bank scene made me – and Cannes – cry

    Peter Bradshaw
    There can be a reverse machismo in admitting you are prone to tears in the cinema. But I, Daniel Blake should fill us all with shame and anger
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