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HISTORICAL FACTS: Rada | History Defined

Oscar-nominated Wunmi Mosaku says she didn’t enjoy ‘isolating’ time at Rada

‘Sinners’ actor says she was mocked for her accent and was never given any parts

The Independent UK

‘Every role I do, I’m going to be a Black man first’: David Jonsson on winning Baftas, rebooting Alien and leaving TV’s hottest show

He went from being the east London boy who was expelled from school to becoming the Bafta award‑winning star of Alien: Romulus. Ahead of his prison drama Wasteman, David Jonsson discusses the pressures of being a leading Black British actor

The Guardian - UK

‘I’d come back to the UK – but I’m not playing a cop’: Oscar-tipped Wunmi Mosaku on sensational vampire smash Sinners

She grew up on a Manchester council estate. Now she’s gone stratospheric for her pivotal role in Sinners. The star talks about leaving Britain for LA – and the £30 bus trip that changed her life

The Guardian - UK

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Elizabeth Kay obituary

Other lives: Actor who later wrote for girls’ magazines, taught keep fit and joined the WI

The Guardian - UK

Jill Freud obituary

Other lives: Actor and theatre producer whose company brought hundreds of plays to coastal Suffolk

The Guardian - UK

Actor Dylan Llewellyn looks back: ‘I warned Mum that Big Boys was a bit raw. Thankfully she never commented on the glory hole scene’

The Derry Girls star and his mother, Jackie, on an unfortunate vomiting incident, struggling at school and ‘bare bottom’ scenes

The Guardian - UK

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I’d work for Mike Leigh again in a heartbeat – in fact, I’ll pay him!’

The actor moved to LA 22 years ago. Now she’s back in the UK to star alongside Bryan Cranston in All My Sons. She talks about the frightening rehearsal schedule, how she’d work again with Mike Leigh in a heartbeat, and why she’s taking up boot-making

The Guardian - UK

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We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins review – a legend with a temper

The Oscar-winning actor’s autobiography combines vulnerability with bloody-mindedness and belligerence

The Guardian - UK

Actor Alexandra Roach looks back: ‘I’m from a small town – when I snuck into a nightclub underage, 11 people told my dad’

The Utopia and No Offence star on her love of electronic music, how she shakes off heavy roles, and channelling her righteous younger self

The Guardian - UK

Actor Marisa Abela drinks at The Bar with No Name, parties in Old Compton Street and loves caviar in Mayfair

Meals in Bocca di Lupo and proposals on Primrose Hill: the actor chats about her side of London

Evening Standard

Coronation Street’s Katherine Kelly looks back: ‘My friends were very accepting of me being a bit different’

The actor on wearing men’s clothes, her bohemian family and the six-week soap job that turned into six years

The Guardian - UK

Anne Reid on fame, desire and ambition at 90: ‘The most wonderful things have happened since I was 68!’

In her 20s, the actor says, casting directors didn’t rate her. In her 60s, she got her big break. She discusses fun, family, optimism, regrets – and wild sex on screen with Daniel Craig

The Guardian - UK

‘To hell with RP’ … how surprise Olivier nominee Rosie Sheehy is following in Richard Burton’s footsteps

To survive in acting, she thought she had to nail received pronunciation. Then she remembered Port Talbot’s extraordinary lineage, reverted to her native accent – and everything changed

The Guardian - UK

Tom Hunsinger obituary

Other lives: Actor with the Cherub theatre company who co-wrote and co-directed three films and taught at Rada

The Guardian - UK

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Romford, Rada and now a starring role with Sean Bean: keep your eye on Hannah Onslow

With This City is Ours now on screens, we chat to the actor about accents, monologues and a potential pivot to the stage

The Guardian - UK

‘A kitchen film with no food porn’: how Alonso Ruizpalacios sold Rooney Mara on his abortion drama

The Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios on making movies under the Trump-Vance administration, why Oscars don’t matter and his time as a khaki-shorted waiter at the Rainforest Cafe

The Guardian - UK

‘Cancer gave me clarity’: Industry star Marisa Abela on surviving serious illness, playing posh and on-screen nudity

She’s the breakout star of the cult banking drama who went on to play Amy Winehouse and has now been handpicked by Steven Soderbergh for his latest thriller. But at 23, a shock diagnosis changed her world

The Guardian - UK

Bardy Thomas obituary

Other lives: Voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Shakespeare Company and Rada

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A Cruel Love: from Toby Jones to Lucy Boynton, who plays who in the Ruth Ellis drama?

The show tells the tragic story of the last woman in the UK to be hanged for murder

The Guardian - UK

Julian Holloway obituary

Stage and screen actor who appeared in eight of the saucy Carry On films of the 1960s and 70s

Evening Standard

My London: Gugu Mbatha-Raw sips coffee in Greek Street and dines at J Sheekey

The star of Apple TV+ show Surface on her go-to places for coffee stops, spa days and martinis...

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“Perpetual Victim”: Cynthia Erivo Sparks Controversy With Claim About Drama School Treatment

"Narcissist." Netizens reacted with annoyance at Cynthia Erivo’s interview in which she accused her drama school teachers of dismissing her as “lazy,” and that she had to "work much harder than other students." The post “Perpetual Victim”: Cynthia Erivo Sparks Controversy With Claim About Drama School Treatment first appeared on…

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Cynthia Erivo feels like she 'doesn't fit in'

'Wicked' star Cynthia Erivo admits she often feels like an outsider because she doesn't "fit in" and it helped her connect with her character in the big screen movie-musical.

The Independent UK

Cynthia Erivo accuses Rada of classism after ‘tough experience’ she’s never talked about before

‘The people running the place don’t necessarily understand people who aren’t given everything,’ she said

The Guardian - UK

Cynthia Erivo on fame, fear and not fitting in: ‘I’ve never talked about how tough my journey has been’

She is one of the world’s most acclaimed performers – going stratospheric as Elphaba in the hit film adaptation of Wicked. Now she’s up for a best actress Oscar. What next for Britain’s brightest star?

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