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Lennie James

June 2022

  • Effectively banned for almost three years … Pressure, the first black British feature film.

    Once banned, now knighted: how Horace Ové became the godfather of black British film-making

    From skateboarding to reggae, from carnivals to police brutality, Ové blazed a trail through cinema. As the director picks up a title, actor Lennie James pays tribute to his mentor, friend and inspiration

February 2022

  • Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu in A Number.

    A Number review – Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu scintillate as father and sons

    The powerhouse duo’s effortless chemistry and emotional realism brings Caryl Churchill’s cloning tragedy blazing into new life

January 2022

  • Lennie James

    Lennie James: ‘I wasn’t willing to let somebody else decide what my ambition should be’

    The Walking Dead and Save Me actor and writer on his return to theatre, why he left to work in the US, and what his mum would think of his career choice

December 2020

  • Composite of actors Paapa Essiedu (left) and Lennie James

    Real talk: a conversation special
    Lennie James meets Paapa Essiedu: ‘I was probably in the last wave of actors who needed to go to the US’

  • Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You.

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

June 2020

  • Pete Postlethwaite as Macbeth in 1997

    Foul is fair: stunning shots of Shakespeare's Macbeth – in pictures

    As the RSC’s production starring Christopher Eccleston is broadcast on BBC Four, take a look back at some of the most arresting stagings of the ‘Scottish play’

May 2020

  • Clockwise from bottom left, Feel Good, Bojack Horseman, Save Me Too, Tiger King, This Country

    The best TV shows of 2020 so far

    The Nest rose above other primetime thrillers, the bizarre world of Tiger King captivated us, while Feel Good brought some much-needed laughs to our screens

April 2020

  • Gemma Arterton, one of the stars of the ‘virtual festival of the arts’.

    Lockdown culture
    Gemma Arterton and James Norton among 50 UK actors to star in coronavirus plays

    Digital series Unprecedented: Theatre from a State of Isolation will focus on upheaval in British life caused by the pandemic
  • Save Me Too, created by and starring Lennie James.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Save Me Too, Ozark, Money Heist, Pen15 and more

    Lennie James’s brilliant stolen child thriller returns
  • ‘Weary, in spite of his dogged determination’ ... Lennie James in Save Me Too.

    TV review
    Save Me Too review – a gripping thriller with emotional heft

    Twisty plots and tough subject matter come together, as Lennie James’s excellent drama about a father’s quest to find his missing daughter returns

March 2020

  • Lennie James

    On my radar
    On my radar: Lennie James’s cultural highlights

    The actor and writer on Muhammad Ali, Uncut Gems and why Desert Island Discs is an essential for a Brit in the US

June 2019

  • Lennie James, photographed at the Guardian Photo studios in London for the Observer New Review. James has a new Drama coming out called “Save Me”, which he wrote and starred in. Lennie James is an English actor, screenwriter, and playwright. He is best known for playing Morgan Jones on The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, and has appeared in many films, including Snatch (2000), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Among James’ more notable roles in television is Mr. Glen Boyle on the current medical drama Critical on Sky 1. On American television, he portrayed the mysterious Robert Hawkins in the CBS series Jericho and Detective Joe Geddes in the AMC television series Low Winter Sun. James has received praise for The Walking Dead, making guest appearances in the first, third and fifth seasons before being upgraded to main cast for the sixth season. James will also appear in the fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead.

    The Q&A
    Lennie James: The love of my life? Tottenham. And my wife

    The actor on a first kiss in the rehearsal room, not becoming a footballer, and all he learned from his mother

March 2018

  • Martin Luther King pictured in Washington after delivering his ‘I have a dream’ speech on 28 August 1963.

    From Lennie James to Akala, black Britons celebrate Martin Luther King

  • Lennie James as Nelson ‘Nelly’ Rowe in Save Me

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Save Me; Strike; The Assassination of Gianni Versace, and more

February 2018

  • Lennie James.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Lennie James: ‘We all need to create demand for working-class actors’

    The Walking Dead star on his new TV drama, Save Me, being a Spurs fan and being taught by a Ninja Turtle

May 2015

  • Lennie James

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    Lennie James’s favourite TV

    The Critical and Line Of Duty actor on his Hill Street Blues expertise and why he’d bring back The Six Million Dollar Man

February 2015

  • Lennie James: 'I had to make a really big effort to raise my kids in a way that didn't punish them for the life I had.'

    Line of Duty's Lennie James: ‘I was 12 when I was first called the n-word – by a policeman’

    He got his big break as a bent cop in Line of Duty. As he prepares to play a surgeon in ‘real-time’ drama Critical, Lennie James talks about Ukip, Terry Wogan, being stopped by the police – and his new life in Los Angeles

February 2014

  • Jed Mercurio

    Media interview
    Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio: 'I like to write characters who are conflicted'

    Maggie Brown: The creator of the BBC2 hit on his fascination with corruption in public service – and why Lennie James is a great leading man

July 2012

  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale and Matt Walsh

    Observer TV reviews
    Rewind TV: Veep; Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life; Line of Duty; Richard II; Walking and Talking – review

    Armando Iannucci makes a mockery of US politics, Alan Partridge returns to Norfolk and BBC2 has a great new cop series, writes Euan Ferguson

June 2012

  • Lennie James, star of Line of Duty, smiling

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Lennie James: 'I like to play guys with a slightly ambiguous moral centre'

    The star of BBC2's Line of Duty talks to Andrew Anthony about parts for black actors, growing up in a children's home – and Spurs
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