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Lesley Manville

March 2024

  • man and girl reading book

    The magic of audiobooks? Deep down, we still long to be read to

    Elizabeth Quinn
    An ill-matched narrator can ruin an otherwise rollicking book. But a good one can bring stories to life – and evoke our earliest childhood memories

December 2023

  • Claire Foy in The Crown

    Every episode of The Crown – ranked!

    From devastatingly poignant drama about unforgettable events to ghost Diana and a breakdancing Prince Charles – the royal saga has been a rollercoaster ride. Here are the highs and lows

November 2023

  • Lesley Manville (Helene Alving) and Jack Lowden (Oswald Alving) in Ghosts at Almeida Theatre in 2013.

    Ibsen’s Ghosts: a resounding flop that still returns to haunt us

    Despite being panned as ‘a dirty act done publicly’ on its London premiere, the tragedy is now regarded as a classic – here are three productions that radically shifted our perspective

September 2023

  • Ian McKellen in The Critic

    First look review
    The Critic review – a devious Ian McKellen anchors uneven thriller

    A delicious performance as a catty gay theatre critic in 1930s London almost saves this Patrick Marber-scripted drama

July 2023

  • The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, speaks behind a lectern at a press conference, with several young people standing behind him

    Leading actors and artists back Labour’s push for more creativity in schools

    Exclusive: Grayson Perry and Olivia Colman lead group of creative figures supporting Keir Starmer’s plan to improve “human” skills

April 2023

  • Lesley Manville, photographed in London last month. She is wearing a black dress and oversized corsage

    ‘Men my age aren’t good on their own. They’re needy’: Lesley Manville on being happily single and her big problem with Hollywood

    The Mike Leigh favourite has become an Oscar-nominated A-lister. She talks about her glamorous mother, her on-stage stamina and being left holding the baby by Gary Oldman

December 2022

  • LORRAINE ASHBOURNE in Sherwood, looking at an arrow in the door

    Observer critics' review of 2022
    TV: Barbara Ellen’s 10 best shows of 2022

    Fire-breathing fantasy, hot drama in the kitchen, a tale of five sisters, many arrows, a lone boy, the wide open plain – and delicious Sicilian excess

November 2022

  • Composite of images of Lesley Manville and Mick Jagger

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Lesley Manville to Nic Roeg and Vic Reeves?

    Go down the rabbit hole to discover how acting royalty meets the real thing, by way of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Verve

October 2022

  • Lesley Manville in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.

    Mrs Harris Goes to Paris review – Lesley Manville trades her duster for Dior in feelgood froth

    Manville and Isabelle Huppert are wasted in this tale of a 1950s London cleaner determined to buy a couture dress

September 2022

  • Lesley Manville in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.

    Mrs Harris Goes to Paris review – Lesley Manville is terrific in Mary Poppins-ish fun

    Manville is utterly convincing as a wide-eyed chirpy cleaner who comes into money and sets her heart on a Dior dress in this 1950s-set charmer

July 2022

  • This image released by Focus Features shows Lesley Manville in a scene from "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris." (Liam Daniel/Focus Features via AP)

    Mrs Harris Goes to Paris review – Lesley Manville charms in light soufflé

    The Oscar nominee is on reliably excellent form in a sweet-natured Cinderella tale about a cleaner on a mission to buy a Dior dress

June 2022

  • Ian St Clair (David Morrissey) and Mickey Sparrow (Phillip Jackson).

    Sherwood: episode by episode
    Sherwood finale recap – in the end, it wasn’t about the murderer at all

  • The healing of psychic wounds … Lesley Manville as Julie in Sherwood.

    TV review
    Sherwood finale review – every arrow hit its mark

  • Kevin Salisbury (Robert Glenister).

    Sherwood: episode by episode
    Sherwood recap: episode four – have we found our Keats?

  • Alun Armstrong and Lesley Manville in Sherwood.

    The week in TV: Sherwood; The Lazarus Project; Grenfell: Five Years, Five Stories; God’s Favorite Idiot

  • Sherwood: episode by episode
    Sherwood recap: episode two – oh no, Andy, no!

  • Sherwood: episode by episode
    Sherwood recap: episode one – welcome to Ashfield … mind the flying arrows

  • TV review
    Sherwood review – the cleverest, most compelling show I’ve seen in years

  • The watcher
    I’m trying to make your life easier here: Sherwood is your next must-watch show

May 2022

  • ‘That sense of physical danger stayed with me’ … Lesley Manville drew on buried memories for her role in Sherwood.

    ‘The police were terrified’: Sherwood, the TV drama about strikers, scabs, miners and murder

    The 1980s miners’ strike made foes of friends and families. Could it have bred killers? Writer James Graham reveals how his harrowing new six-parter drew on unforgettable events from his Nottinghamshire childhood
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