Other lives: Voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Shakespeare Company and Rada
Olivier awards 2025: complete list of nominations
From Adrien Brody up for best actor for The Fear of 13 to Hello, Dolly! up for best musical revival, see who else is in the running at this year’s awards
This much I know
Paul Ready: ‘ I wanted to be a tennis player – but I was crap’
The actor, 48, on stage fright, dashed tennis dreams, meeting a naked Harvey Keitel and why he loves Mortherland
February 2025
Gene Hackman: the star of every scene he was in
Peter Bradshaw
Other lives
Louanne Tranchell obituary
‘They now put trigger warnings on Hi-de-Hi!’ Jeffrey Holland on starring in British comedy classics
The Guardian picture essay
‘A dream come true’: Syrian twin actors return home after 14 years of exile in France
Geneviève Page obituary
‘I’m an actor, not a mouthpiece’: Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey on fame and the pressure to speak out
Other lives
Bill Roberts obituary
‘You name it, I did it’: Sheila Hancock on comedy, age and anxiety
January 2025
‘Impish, tremendously warm, never grand’: Sheila Reid pays tribute to Joan Plowright
Charles Kay obituary
All for one and one for all! The joint joys of in-the-round theatre
Bristol Old Vic theatre school to stop its undergraduate courses
December 2024
Other lives
Ilan Reichel obituary
Niels Arestrup obituary
November 2024
‘You should be afraid’: poison pen letters reignite UK actors’ fund feud
Police notified after former trustees and current chief executive of Actors’ Benevolent Fund were sent notes
Leading British actors call on chancellor to boost green investment in pensions
Oscar winners Mark Rylance and Olivia Colman among those writing to Rachel Reeves about excluding fossil fuels
Timothy West – a life in pictures
The actor Timothy West has died at the age of 90. We look back at his greatest stage and screen roles, from the BBC to the Royal Shakespeare Company