Suite in Three Keys review – Noël Coward hotel trilogy stares stylishly into the abyss
Tara Fitzgerald, Emma Fielding and Stephen Boxer deftly juggle roles in this marathon of marital malaise
March 2024
Stars in disguise: behind the scenes with Gary Oldman, Jennifer Lopez and Jerry Lewis – in pictures
Gary Oldman as Cary Grant, J-Lo doing the tango … The photographs of Funny Bones director Peter Chelsom capture his actors in a different light
October 2023
The Undertaker review – Paul McGann offers buried feelings in shady period thriller
Paul McGann takes on extra business while Tara Fitzgerald brings sparkle to this low-key tale of a funeral director who gets mixed up with a local gangster
April 2023
Kindling review – male friendship shines through in convincing cancer tale
Connor O’Hara’s low-key, sensitive story about a young man with incurable testicular cancer doesn’t try too hard to pull at the heartstrings
The reader interview
Tara Fitzgerald: ‘People don’t ask me to take my clothes off any more’
The actor on playing trouser billiards with Hugh Grant, bonding with the flugelhorn in Brassed Off, and the magic of working with Peter O’Toole
The reader interview
Post your questions for Tara Fitzgerald
Got something you’d like to ask the flugelhorn-tooting forensic scientist and all-round star of stage and screen? Send it our way and we’ll put it to her
February 2023
Duet for One review – Kempinski’s combative probe into parental tensions
Tara Fitzgerald plays the former violinist in a restaging of Tom Kempinski’s play that pits patient against doctor in a furious battle of wills
March 2022
‘Wow, there’s a lot of sex and swearing’: Channel 4’s top-rated drama ever, 30 years on
Partner-swapping, nudity, Felicity Kendal: it’s three decades since raunchy wartime series The Camomile Lawn broke TV ratings records. How does it hold up?
February 2020
Women Beware Women review – excess all areas with Tara Fitzgerald
Thomas Middleton’s play seems perfect for the #MeToo era, but this over-stylised production misses the mark
January 2020
The Runaways review – confused family tragicomedy
The Runaways review – a bumpy escape … by donkey
April 2019
Tara Fitzgerald: 'I didn't think I was very talented. I didn't have that fight'
In the 1990s, she was everywhere – on film and TV and in the theatre – but then she almost disappeared. She talks about eschewing Hollywood, and being close to Harvey Weinstein
April 2017
How we made
How we made Brassed Off
‘I spent months learning the flugelhorn – and I didn’t even have to play it’
October 2015
The Q&A
Q&A: Tara Fitzgerald, actor
‘My most treasured possession? My sanity’
Gaslight review – Tara Fitzgerald impresses in taut psychological thriller
Patrick Hamilton’s melodramatic play is superbly acted and grippingly directed
Gaslight review – Tara Fitzgerald plays it straight in enjoyably ludicrous potboiler
Patrick Hamilton’s atmospheric melodrama, revived by Lucy Bailey, is creaky old tosh but hugely entertaining
June 2015
My self-portrait
Tara Fitzgerald's self-portrait: 'People think I'm a bit posh' – video
Actor Tara Fitzgerald, best known for her role in Brassed Off, analyses her reflection while looking down the lens of the camera and drawing her self-portrait on an iPad
January 2013
The Zero Hour – review
The Winter's Tale – review
February 2012
Portrait of the artist
Portrait of the artist: Tara Fitzgerald, actor
'At my first audition, they asked me things like: How are you? It didn't seem hard enough'
