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The Observer's faces of 2013

Headline makers of the past year talk about the highs and lows of their time in the spotlight
  • Isabel Marant photographed in her Paris studio by Rannjan Joawn for the Observer.

    Isabel Marant: 'Sometimes we give an image of life that will never exist'

  • Musharaf Asghar

    Musharaf Asghar: 'Mum asked me: how will you manage on TV?'

  • Olivia Colman photographed in London by Pal Hansen for the Observer.

    Olivia Colman: 'At the Bafta dinner, I said to my husband: Can we go home? I want a cup of tea'

  • Mick Jagger, faces of 2013

    Mick Jagger: 'If you start thinking how pretty the sunset is, you get lost'

  • Charlotte Green: 'The football results have their own cadences and rhythms'

  • Ruby Tandoh: 'I would never usually cry over a cake at home'

  • Christine Ohuruogu: 'I find myself apologising to people who are like, you gave me a heart attack'

  • Abdul Haji: 'The thought that I might die at Westgate mall never crossed my mind'

  • Caroline Criado-Perez: 'I don't know if I had a kind of breakdown'

  • Philippa Langley: I just felt I was walking on Richard III's grave. I can't explain it'

  • Richard Madden: 'You get a lot of terrified actors tearing through the script, going, Do I die?'

  • Andrew Mitchell: 'I was spat at in the street'

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