From Paddington to 3D speeches: the Queen’s dazzling seven-decade TV career
Be it her iconic speech in lockdown, or her landmark decision to televise her coronation – against Churchill’s advice – the Queen embraced TV in a way that helped her connect to her subjects
June 2022
The Queen in culture: how art puts a public face to a private life
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Streaming: the Queen in film
April 2021
Helen McCrory remembered: ‘She had a brightness about her. She was a star’
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Helen McCrory: looking back at the life of the 'fearless' star – video obituary
Helen McCrory: engaging, enthralling, always magnetically watchable
Helen McCrory, star of Peaky Blinders and Harry Potter, dies aged 52
July 2020
Finding Freedom: 10 things we learned from Harry and Meghan's book
Helen Mirren at 75: wild costumes, blazing performances – and a spell as a rock banshee
May 2017
The Tony awards: who are the best and worst onscreen Blairs?
From The Queen to The Journey and even The Simpsons, Labour’s divisive former PM has been a frequent figure in film and TV over the years. Here’s how his fictional counterparts have fared
November 2016
Netflix’s The Crown ‘mapped out for three seasons’
Lavish £100m drama starts on 4 November and is designed to attract older viewers to the channel – in 190 countries
December 2015
Gotham awards: Helen Mirren and Rosie Perez provide gags alongside gongs
Veteran stars stole the limelight at the Gotham independent film awards on Monday night in Manhattan, while Rosie Perez took a swipe at Donald Trump
September 2015
Guardian Weekend fashion special autumn/winter 2015
Helen Mirren: ‘Do I feel beautiful? I hate that word’
She swears like a trooper, won’t have her photographs retouched and couldn’t care less what anyone thinks. Actor Helen Mirren talks modelling, marriage and why manners matter
November 2014
Netflix confirms epic drama The Crown, about No 10 and Buckingham Palace
Peter Morgan, who wrote The Queen, and Billy Elliot’s Stephen Daldry, team up for broadcaster’s first UK production. By John Plunkett
May 2014
Netflix plans £100m epic on the Queen
The Crown, inspired by Peter Morgan play The Audience, will span Queen Elizabeth II's six decades on the throne. By John Plunkett
August 2010
Stephen Frears: 'Audiences aren't fools – their judgement is crucial'
As his new film, Tamara Drewe, opens to rave reviews in France, director Stephen Frears talks to Nick Fraser in a rare interview
May 2009
In the director's chair
In the director's chair: Stephen Frears
The director of The Queen and Dangerous Liaisons tells Jason Solomons why he chose to make a movie about a courtesan in belle époque Paris, the debt he owes to his writers and why he's drawn to strong female characters
May 2007
'His modesty comes from putting himself at the service of the idea that he wants to explore in each film he makes'
Mirren 'too busy' to meet the real Queen
March 2007
The Queen
Rental and retail: Stephen Frears' movie skilfully provides something for everyone in a picture that never descends to caricature.
