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Daniel Mays

April 2024

  • Actor Daniel Mays photographed by Alun Callender for the Observer Magazine at The Mildmay Club, London.

    ‘I was always able to get away with things’: Daniel Mays on playing bent coppers, acting opposite Michael Douglas, and working-class bias

  • Hamad Abu Aliah stands in his torched home at al-Mughayier village in the West Bank.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

December 2023

  • Asa Butterfield and Cora Kirk Your Christmas or Mine 2.

    Your Christmas or Mine 2 review – sequel to culture-clash romcom has little to add

    He’s posh, she’s not. This cosy, chirpy comedy, starring Asa Butterfield, hits the ski slopes for a forgettable festive sequel

October 2023

  • A scene from Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

    Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget review – poultry derring-do boosted by some showstopping gags

    The sequel to the 2000 hit verges on formulaic, feeling a little like it’s been produced by AI. But it’s largely redeemed by decent jokes and a lively, likable cast

September 2023

  • Katherine Kelly in The Long Shadow.

    ‘The most responsibility I’ve ever felt’: the poignant drama giving Peter Sutcliffe’s victims a voice

    Starry new drama The Long Shadow takes an innovative approach to the murders that rocked 70s Yorkshire. Its creators talk crippling nerves, dodging stereotypes – and writing the Ripper out of the story

March 2023

  • Daniel Mays as Nathan Detroit and Andrew Richardson  as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls at the Bridge theatre.

    Guys and Dolls review – Nicholas Hytner’s gamble pays off

    This immersive production of the New York musical has a bold design, superb singing and chemistry between its stars

December 2022

  • YCOM JAME ON TRAIN TO KEMBLE

    Your Christmas or Mine? review – ho ho ho-hum festive Britcom

    A young couple end up with each other’s family for Christmas in a middling assortment of sitcom cliches and laboured farce

July 2021

  • Daniel Mays and David Thewlis in The Dumb Waiter

    The Dumb Waiter review – Thewlis and Mays’s supreme double act beefs up Pinter’s menace

    David Thewlis and Daniel Mays add rich new shades to the over-familiar 1957 two-hander in this filmed adaptation

November 2020

  • Susan Wokoma, Michaela Coel and Jahvel Hall in Three Birds by Janice Okoh

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Before they were famous: stars' early stage appearances – in pictures

    Tristram Kenton captures the debuts and breakthroughs of famous future faces including Emily Blunt, Martin Freeman, John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and many more

September 2020

  • Lunch with Daniel Mays illustration Observer Food Monthly OFM

    Lunch with...
    Daniel Mays: 'You leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of truthful, believable characters'

    The actor, relishing his first meal out in months, discusses lockdown, Line of Duty and playing opposite David Tennant in Des

July 2020

  • The Royal Court on 16 March, when the theatre shutdown began.

    Theatres that made us
    Theatres that made us: from London's Royal Court to Birmingham Rep

    Arts venues have been hit hard by the pandemic and are still unable to stage live performances. In a new series, we celebrate their essential role

May 2020

  • Daniel Mays, above, in White Lines.

    TV review
    The week in TV: White Lines, Little Fires Everywhere; Horizon; Becoming

  • Daisy Edgar Jones as Marianne and Paul Mescal as Connell in Normal People.

    TV review
    The week in TV: Normal People; Blood; Code 404; Hollywood; Museums in Quarantine – review

April 2020

  • Daniel Mays

    The Q&A
    Daniel Mays: ‘A critic said I had the face of a thwarted man cub on the cusp of a tantrum’

    The Line Of Duty actor on whisky and wonky teeth

September 2019

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    Sunday with Daniel Mays: ‘I make a mean fry-up – but that’s all I can cook’

    The actor on bed hopping, market stalls – and the perfect egg

March 2019

  • Daniel Mays: ‘I’m a very placid human being.’

    Daniel Mays: 'You're not getting a Liam Neeson soundbite out of me'

    The Essex-born actor, who stars in new film Fisherman’s Friends, says he is firmly in the non-racist camp, and doesn’t want to kill anyone. What else does he have to say?

September 2018

  • Two For Joy - film still

    Two for Joy review – heartfelt tale of a family facing calamity

    Samantha Morton and Daniel Mays star in Tom Beard’s beautifully shot drama about a fateful trip to the seaside

February 2018

  • Daniel Mays (main) and, clockwise from top left, Jon Finch, Rufus Sewell, Laurence Olivier and Paul Scofield, all as Macbeth

    Is this a dagger dangling before me? Staging the strange world of Macbeth

    With Christopher Eccleston and Rory Kinnear taking a stab at Shakespeare’s thane, we look at the trouble with one of its most famous – and weirdest – moments

September 2017

  • the limehouse golem

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    The Limehouse Golem review – dirty deeds done dead well

    Bill Nighy’s detective leads a fine cast in this deliciously atmospheric adaptation of Peter Ackroyd’s Victorian murder mystery

August 2017

  • Bill Nighy as detective inspector John Kildare in The Limehouse Golem.

    The Limehouse Golem review – lurid but literate Victorian serial-killer melodrama

    Bill Nighy plays the detective in this racy, feminist look at pre-Ripper London, cleverly adapted from Peter Ackroyd’s novel by Jane Goldman
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