Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Haydn Gwynne

April 2024

  • Arifa Akbar

    2024’s Olivier awards remain too white, too male – and too safe

    Arifa Akbar
  • Nicole Scherzinger with the Best Actress in a Musical award.

    Sunset Boulevard wins big at Oliviers as celebrity talent largely overlooked

20 October 2023

  • Mark Lawson

    Haydn Gwynne was an inquisitive actor, charismatic company – and great fun

    Mark Lawson
  • Haydn Gwynne attending an awards ceremony in London, 2021.

    Haydn Gwynne obituary

  • Haydn Gwynne in Billy Elliot – The Musical

    Haydn Gwynne – a life in pictures

  • Haydn Gwynne.

    Haydn Gwynne, star of stage and screen, dies aged 66

June 2023

  • Adrian Scarborough in When Winston Went to War With the Wireless.

    When Winston Went to War With the Wireless review – radio is the star of BBC crisis drama

    Jack Thorne’s dramatisation of the power play between the UK government and the broadcaster in 1920s Britain is pacy and evocative

April 2023

  • Haydn Gwynne as Camilla and Harry Enfield as Charles in The Windsors coronation special.

    Harry Enfield on his King Charles TV portrayal: ‘We both have sausagey fingers’

    The comedian stars as the monarch in a coronation special of The Windsors – but parody is not without empathy, he says

March 2023

  • Sky Frances, Tala Gouveia and Ailsa Joy in Top Girls.

    The week in theatre: Top Girls; The Great British Bake Off Musical; Sleepova; Oklahoma! – review

    A revival of Caryl Churchill’s female power play has yet to settle; Paul and Prue become song-and-dance naturals; a fab four get ready for bed; and who can say no to this Rodgers and Hammerstein reinvention

September 2019

  • Having it all and still feeling empty... Haydn Gwynne as Hedda Tesman

    Hedda Tesman review – meet Ibsen's heroine, 30 years on

    A woman’s withering agency is examined through nostalgia and regret, in Cordelia Lynn’s rewrite of the tragedy

April 2018

  • Absurd and likable … Haydn Gwynne as Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World.

    The Way of the World review – sparkling restoration of Congreve's comic gem

    James Macdonald’s revival offers clarity and hilarity, with Haydn Gwynne on brilliant form as an amorous widow

May 2016

  • Give that man a knighthood … Harry Enfield as Prince Charles and Haydn Gwynne as Camilla Parker Bowles in The Windsors.

    TV review
    The Windsors review – Harry Enfield demolishes the monarchy

    Prince Charles is a deluded dolt and the Middletons swig Diamond White in a Morrisons car park in this hilarious new royal satire

April 2013

  • Michael Billington

    Margaret Thatcher casts a long shadow over theatre and the arts

    Michael Billington
    Michael Billington: She had little time for culture – and once hailed Andrew Lloyd Webber as a great British export. But Thatcher dominated playwrights' imaginations, along with so much else

December 2006

  • Judi stars in a pantocrime

    Theatre: Merry Wives is witless, but Dominic Cooke is on hand to show how Shakespeare should be done, says Susannah Clapp.

May 2005

  • Billy Elliot

    Victoria Palace, London

April 2002

  • Keep this to yourself

    The Secret | Ways of Hearing | 24
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：