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Luke Treadaway

The latest news and comment on actor Luke Treadaway

September 2020

  • ‘I wasn’t sexually gauche, I was very ill’ … Treadaway, left, in The Singapore Grip.

    'Britain at its worst': Luke Treadaway on the shock of The Singapore Grip

    In ITV’s epic wartime drama, the actor plays an uptight colonialist caught in Britain’s biggest ever surrender. He talks about racist rulers, life in lockdown – and why you should never act with cats

February 2019

  • Traitors

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Traitors; Curfew; Flack; Baptiste – review

    Channel 4’s new espionage thriller suffers from excess hindsight, Curfew delivers a stellar dystopia, and Anna Paquin is perfection in the bittersweet Flack

November 2016

  • Bob, Luke Treadaway (James). Director and Co-producer Roger Spottiswoode. Producer Adam Rolston of Shooting Script Films. Screenplay adapted by Tim John and Maria Nation; based on the International Best Selling book A Street Cat Named Bob.

    A Street Cat Named Bob review – so much kitty litter

    James Bowen attributes his survival to an alley cat but as viewers we need more of his story than endless closeups of a nethers-licking feline

October 2016

  • Amma Assante photographed at the Observer studios.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: October 2016

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    Luke Treadaway: ‘If the cat looked grumpy we did the scene again’

February 2015

  • Marilyn Manson shot for the Observer

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: January 2015

    This month’s showcase of work commissioned by the Observer, features portraits of Sienna Miller, Stewart Lee, Laura Marling, Marilyn Manson.

April 2013

  • Heather Headley, nominated for best actress in a musical for The Bodyguard

    2013 Olivier award nominees: 'No, I haven't written a speech'

    Nerves, speeches, practising their fake-congratulation face – five nominees for this year's Olivier awards tell Laura Barnett about one of theatre's top honours

March 2013

  • curious incident of the dog

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review

    Luke Treadaway is if anything even more compelling in the West End transfer of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, writes Susannah Clapp

February 2013

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - video interviews

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time's director and star actor discuss the show ahead of its transfer to London's West End

November 2012

  • The Joy of Six – review

    A paranoiac Luke Treadaway and a pulp writer in decline star in the two standouts of this diverting half-dozen short films, says Mike McCahill

August 2012

  • Luke Treadaway … thoroughly convincing as Mix

    TV review
    TV review: Ruth Rendell's Thirteen Steps Down; The Riots; Escape from Colditz

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – review

May 2011

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    Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?

    Luke Treadaway could be about to eclipse his twin brother Harry – thanks to his role as a plummy stoner in space invasion movie Attack the Block. He talks to Patrick Barkham

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