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Lashana Lynch

February 2024

  • Kingsley Ben-Adir in Bob Marley: One Love.

    Bob Marley: One Love review – the reggae superstar deserves a better film than this

  • Anaesthetised … Lashana Lynch and Kingsley Ben-Adir in Bob Marley: One Love .

    Bob Marley: One Love review – reverential biopic of reggae superstar struggles to stir it up

January 2024

  • Portrait of Lashana Lynch against green background wearing black hat and tailored jacket

    ‘It was buy eggs or put money on my travel card’: actor Lashana Lynch on Bond, Bob Marley and being broke

    She shot to fame as the first female 007 and is now tackling reggae royalty as Marley’s wife, Rita. But the actor hasn’t always had it easy in an industry hostile to people without a safety net

November 2022

  • Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. Emma Thompson as Agatha Trunchbull in Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. Cr. Dan Smith/Netflix © 2022. Film still

    Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical review – immensely enjoyable reworking of the stage hit

    Newcomer Alisha Weir and a game Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull excel in Matthew Warchus’s highly stylised screen adaptation

October 2022

  • Viola Davis as Nansica in The Woman King.

    The Woman King review – Viola Davis leads the line in stirring warrior tale

    Davis is the general of an elite team of female fighters, based on the Agojie of 19th-century west Africa, as colonialists seek to exploit tribal conflict

June 2022

  • Emma Thompson as Agatha Trunchbull.

    Matilda musical movie starring Emma Thompson to open London film festival

    World premiere of the film version of the Roald Dahl-based musical also stars Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough

February 2022

  • Lashana Lynch in No Time To Die

    Bond actor Lashana Lynch nominated for Bafta rising star award

    The Briton is up against Kodi Smit-McPhee, Millicent Simmonds, Ariana Debose and Harris Dickinson

October 2021

  • ear for eye (US white male, Demetri Goritsas & US female, Lashana Lynch)

    ear for eye review – Lashana Lynch goes head to head with structural racism

  • Football pundit Ian Wright and author Musa Okwonga.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

September 2021

  • Simran Hans

    Never mind the explosions – how sexist is No Time to Die?

    Simran Hans
    The new Bond movie is keen to highlight more positive gender credentials, while keeping the Bond-girl glamour. Does it work?
  • James Bond: royal premiere for Daniel Craig's final film in the franchise No Time To Die – video

    The latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, finally holds its delayed world premiere in London 

    • We’ve been expecting you, Mr Bond … No Time to Die premieres in London – in pictures

    • It’s No Time to Die: but is it time to revoke James Bond’s licence to kill?

    • Lashana Lynch, the first female 007: ‘I never had a plan B’

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