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Kelly Macdonald

October 2023

  • Shifting power balance … Macdonald, left, and Dolan in Typist Artist Pirate King.

    ‘Bring knickers and a toothbrush!’ Kelly Macdonald on making ‘a Sunderland Thelma and Louise’

    Audrey Amiss spent 30 years as a civil service typist – but led a secret life as an artist. Macdonald, Monica Dolan and Carol Morley relive the hectic shoot that turned her amazing life into a quirky road movie

March 2023

  • Kelly Macdonald and Monica Dolan in Typist Artist Pirate King.

    Typist Artist Pirate King review – generous portrait of neglected artist Audrey Amiss

    Carol Morley’s warm and sympathetic film imagines the artist, whose mental illness curtailed her ambitions, on a tragicomic road trip to exhibit her work

August 2022

  • I Came By. Hugh Bonneville as Hector in I Came By. Cr. Nick Wall/Netflix © 2022

    I Came By review – Hugh Bonneville gets nasty in silly Netflix thriller

    The Downton Abbey star plays a believably sinister villain in an otherwise underwhelming tale of a judge with a horrific secret in his basement

April 2022

  • Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen in tOperation Mincemeat.

    Operation Mincemeat review – Blimpish take on Ben Macintyre’s spy thriller

  • Dressed to impress … Matthew Macfadyen, Colin Firth and Johnny Flynn in Operation Mincemeat.

    Operation Mincemeat review – Colin Firth heads starry cast in wartime spy caper

January 2022

  • Kelly Macdonald wears shirt by emiliawickstead.com and trousers by paulsmith.com

    ‘I’m used to flying under the radar’: Kelly Macdonald on fame, family and being herself

    Kelly Macdonald loves to keep her audience guessing. After the drama of Line of Duty, the actor is now playing a secret agent in a wartime thriller. She tells Tim Lewis about big breaks and avoiding the spotlight

November 2021

  • Stephen Fry, pictured on 3 November

    Stephen Fry joins celebrities urging people to switch to green pensions

    Actors, politicians and firms lend support to 21x Club’s call to pull investments out of industries that harm planet

October 2021

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    Trainspotting: behind the scenes by Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor, Irvine Welsh and more

    The bust-up with Harvey Weinstein, Irvine Welsh’s verdict on the script (‘too effete’), the problem with the excrement scene … the cast and crew relive the making of the classic 1996 film

May 2021

  • Kate Fleming and Jo Davidson

    Will they, won’t they?: Line of Duty ‘Flemson’ dynamic draws in fans

    Show has turned UK into nation of detectives, not least to dissect Kate Fleming and Jo Davidson’s relationship

March 2021

  • Cold hands, Kate?.. Vicky McClure as DI Kate Fleming and Kelly Macdonald as DCI Joanna Davidson.

    Line of Duty: episode-by-episode
    Line of Duty recap series six episode one – oh AC-12, how we've missed you

    Hastings, Arnott and Fleming are back with some new faces – and yet more bent coppers – but it’s far from happy families for the anti-corruption trio
  • Martin Compston by Mark Harrison

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Martin Compston: 'Steve Arnott thinks he's Sherlock Holmes, one of the great detectives'

    The Line of Duty star on how the new series goes back to basics, the thrill of working with Kelly Macdonald, and why he wouldn’t go to drama school
  • Actor Kelly Macdonald on the banks of Loch Lomond

    Kelly Macdonald: ‘I’m beyond sex scenes now. I just play detectives’

    She shot to fame in Trainspotting, and has starred in Gosford Park, Boardwalk Empire and even as a Disney princess. So why did the Scottish actor panic about her new role in Line Of Duty?

August 2019

  • From left: Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK; Catherine the Great; Pose; Queer Eye; His Dark Materials; The Crown; World On Fire; The Good Place; Watchmen; Rob Delaney Special

    The 40 best TV shows coming this autumn

    From royal saga The Crown to Cardi B’s rap-battling Rhythm and Flow, here are this season’s best comedy, drama and reality series

April 2019

  • Kelly Macdonald in The Victim

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Victim; The Widow; Fleabag; Derry Girls; Don’t Forget the Driver – review

  • Kelly Macdonald.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Kelly Macdonald: ‘I give good grief face’

September 2018

  • Kelly Macdonald in Puzzle.

    Puzzle review – Kelly Macdonald excels in gentle jigsaw drama

    Little Miss Sunshine producer Marc Turtletaub directs a warm-hearted film full of carefully observed detail

June 2018

  • Kelly Macdonald and Irrfan Khan Film in Puzzle.

    Puzzle review – Kelly Macdonald sees the big picture in jigsaw indie

    A suburban New York mother hemmed in by chores finds unfashionably analogue freedom in jigsaw puzzles in this modest yet touching drama

October 2017

  • Star Trek: Discovery Michelle Yeoh as Han Bo and Sonequa Martin as Rainsford

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Star Trek: Discovery; The Deuce; The Child in Time and more

    The new Star Trek made perfect sense, while David Simon captured the smell and the sleaze of 1970s New York

September 2017

  • Goodbye Christopher Robin film still

    Goodbye Christopher Robin review – Winnie the Pooh's hunny pot joylessly stirred

  • The worst news in the world ... Benedict Cumberbatch in The Child in Time.

    TV review
    The Child in Time review – an agonising portrayal of panic and guilt

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