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Penelope Wilton

July 2024

  • ‘Life is short. I try to enjoy everything: sitting in the park, looking at the trees, seeing friends and family’: Penelope Wilton.

    This much I know
    Penelope Wilton: ‘My street cred went up when I did Shaun of the Dead’

    The actor, 78, talks about her mean headmistresses, collection of paintings, getting lost in north London and the perks of being a dame

November 2023

  • Penelope Wilton as the Queen Mother, with Luke Evans as William ‘Billy’ Tallon, in Backstairs Billy.

    The week in theatre: Backstairs Billy; The Box of Delights; Brenda’s Got a Baby – review

  • Backstairs Billy by Marcelo Dos Santos at the Duke of York’s theatre.

    Backstairs Billy review – anodyne comedy about the Queen Mother and her servant

October 2023

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    ‘Delicate, dangerous, anarchic’: Daniel Craig, Michael Mann, Matthew Macfadyen and more remember Michael Gambon

    He wasn’t just a magnificent actor – he was also a raconteur, mentor, joker, engineer and pilot. Friends including Tom Hollander, Penelope Wilton, Simon Callow, Nicholas Hytner, Matthew Warchus and Rupert Goold pay tribute to the star

July 2023

  • Brian Cox at the Equity rally in Leicester Square

    UK stars hold London rally in support of striking US actors

  • Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans

    Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans to star in Queen Mother comedy in the West End

April 2023

  • Jim Broadbent standing by a finger post with a rucksack slung over his shoulder

    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review – a long, cathartic walk for Jim Broadbent

  • Jim Broadbent in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review – Jim Broadbent hits the road

April 2022

  • Hugh Bonneville, left, and Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey: A New Era.

    Downton Abbey: A New Era review – cheerfully risible second helping of snobby melodrama

    The second – and hopefully last – film spun off from Julian Fellowes’s successful TV series is as hammy, silly, and undeniably entertaining as ever

October 2020

  • David Thewlis and Sally Hawkins.

    Eternal Beauty review – Sally Hawkins shines in audacious, offbeat triumph

    Craig Roberts’ story of a traumatised woman piecing her life together is a tonally bold work of enduring charm

July 2020

  • A blend of fizzy sherbet lemons and humbug … Gemma Arterton in Summerland.

    Summerland review – Gemma Arterton war drama warms the cockles

    Arterton’s cantankerous bluestocking is landed with a tousle-haired evacuee in Jessica Swale’s bucolic picture of 1940s Kent

April 2019

  • Alan Ayckbourn

    Alan Ayckbourn at 80: 'He's up there with Shakespeare and Fawlty Towers!'

    On his 80th birthday, actors Penelope Wilton, Ben Miles and Nina Sosanya celebrate an achingly funny playwright

March 2019

  • Penelope Wilton as Valentina and Ophelia Lovibond as Sophie in David Hare’s The Bay at Nice.

    The Bay at Nice review – David Hare's battle of duty and desire

    Penelope Wilton gives a fine turn as an understated heroine in this revival of Hare’s play about a one-time pupil of Matisse

April 2018

  • Michiel Huisman and Jessica Brown Findlay in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.

    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society review – an outbreak of world war twee

    Populated by Downtown Abbey graduates, this glutinous postwar rom-dram is a load of cobblers

March 2018

  • Penelope Wilton, centre, in Fanny and Alexander at the Old Vic

    Fanny and Alexander review – Bergman classic staged with superb performances

    Penelope Wilton leads a top-notch cast in this gothic family drama that only fleetingly captures the brilliance of the film

February 2018

  • 'Fanny And Alexander' film - 1982<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by c.Embassy/Everett / Rex Features ( 679551a ) 'Fanny And Alexander' - Bertil Guve As Alexander 'Fanny And Alexander' film - 1982

    Chaos, conflict – and conga: Fanny and Alexander takes the stage

    Ingmar Bergman saw the sumptuous period drama as his masterpiece, the movie he should be remembered by. We ask: would he enjoy the stage version?

December 2017

  • ‘Oh, Mother, let me in!’ … a Victorian engraving of ruined Lochmaben Castle in Scotland by W Brown.

    Horrors and heart-warmers: Sarah Waters, Mel Giedroyc and more pick great winter's tales

    Mel Giedroyc chooses a Christmas pud whodunnit, Sarah Waters a ghostly spinetingler. Andrew O’Hagan reads a psychic shocker – and Penelope Wilton nabs Winnie the Pooh. But what will Emeli Sandé and Tom Hollander choose?

June 2017

  • Brexit shorts - Penelope Wilton

    Brexit shorts: dramas from a divided nation
    Brexit Shorts: The End by Abi Morgan, starring Penelope Wilton – video

    ‘There’s no coming back from this’ … After 43 years together, Helen is shocked that her husband is leaving
  • Penelope Wilton as Helen

    Brexit shorts: dramas from a divided nation
    The End, a new play by Abi Morgan – read the script

    After 43 years of union, Helen’s husband is leaving. She’d always thought they were stronger together but forget regret – it’s payback time
  • Four of the playwrights behind Brexit Shorts, clockwise from top left: Stacey Gregg, Abi Morgan, Meera Syal and Dave Hare

    Brexit shorts: dramas from a divided nation
    Leading playwrights create Brexit dramas for the Guardian

    As the Guardian launches Brexit Shorts, a series of films about the seismic effects of the EU referendum, playwrights David Hare and Abi Morgan assess the UK’s political turmoil
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