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Byline: Tim Walker Alan Cumming raised eyebrows when he bought a property in Edinburgh so that he could vote Yes in the referendum on Scottish independence. The actor's neighbour Ian [...]

Byline: Tim Walker BACK TO BASICS The glamour of opening on Broadway in Mike Nichols's production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, alongside Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz (left) would not appear [...]

Byline: Tim Walker BACK TO BASICS The glamour of opening on Broadway in Mike Nichols's production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, alongside Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz (left) would not appear [...]

Byline: Tim Walker JOY UNDIVIDED In the 2007 film Control, Sam Riley played the selfdestructive pop singer Ian Curtis, known for the song Love Will Tear Us Apart. His role [...]

Byline: Tim Walker JOY UNDIVIDED In the 2007 film Control, Sam Riley played the self-destructive pop singer Ian Curtis, known for the song Love Will Tear Us Apart. His role [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Olivia Wilde was born and raised in New York, but is the daughter of the British journalist Andrew Cockburn and a descendant of the politician George Arbuthnot. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker After Mandrake disclosed that a female star of Game of Thrones had refused to disrobe again for the series, Equity, the actors' union, has raised concerns about [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Sir Donald Sinden, who celebrates his 90th birthday in October, has received an early present from his granddaughter, Kezia - a 6 lb13 oz girl. 'How thrilling [...]

Byline: Tim Walker OTHELLO **** National Theatre: Olivier, to Sep 26 nationaltheatre.org.uk 020 7452 3000 There are few, if any, actors who are better at communicating youthful idealism than Adrian [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Most British actors may hanker after parts in Hollywood blockbusters, but Tom Hollander, who is best known for playing the priest in Rev, says the experience left [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Roy Hudd, the veteran actor, says: 'Last year, I thought I'd cracked it when I had a terrific part in Call the Midwife. Sadly, my character died [...]

Byline: Tim Walker HEDGING BETS While Jonathan Rhys Meyers has found love with the Australian model Victoria Keon-Cohen, his former girlfriend Reena Hammer is enjoying her own new relationship. 'His [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Although there is no question of actors actually 'yellowing up' to appear in the Royal Shakespeare Company's forthcoming production of The Orphan of Zhao, Gregory Doran, the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Although there is no question of actors actually 'yellowing up' to appear in the Royal Shakespeare Company's forthcoming production of The Orphan of Zhao, Gregory Doran, the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SPYING A CHANCE As Max Brown prepares to marry the model Annabelle Horsey, pictured, in Dorset, the star of Spooks tells Mandrake that there will be no [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Keira Knightley has criticised her fellow Hollywood stars for talking about their private lives in public. 'I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema [...]

Byline: Tim Walker BLISSFUL IGNORANCE Keira Knightley has criticised her fellow Hollywood stars for talking about their private lives in public. 'I hate knowing too much when I'm going to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker LONGDAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT *** Apollo, to Aug 18 0845 505 8500; londontheatredirect.com The last production I saw of Long Day's Journey into Night starred the late [...]

Byline: Tim Walker and Richard Eden Michael Fassbender has won acclaim from the film critics for his performance as a sex addict in Shame. The 34–year–old actor made even more [...]

Byline: Tim Walker NOISES OFF ** Old Vic, to Mar 10 0844 871 7628; oldvictheatre.com Sir Christopher Lee favours 'dreaming to order' as a definition of acting, while David Warner [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Kwame Kwei–Armah, the actor and playwright, and Paterson Joseph, who starred in The Emperor Jones at the National, may both have been much in demand in recent [...]

Byline: Tim Walker With a script that was originally branded as a 'Left–wing fantasy' and at least one member of the cast admitting that he 'loathed' Margaret Thatcher's premiership, The [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Moonlight * Donmar Warehouse, London WC2 (0844 871 7624) to May 28 As uncharitable as it might seem, I wondered, after Harold Pinter died on Christmas eve [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Seven years after Dame Harriet Walter's fiancé Peter Blythe died before their wedding, the distinguished actress has become engaged again. Dame Harriet, 60, is to marry Guy [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Seven years after Dame Harriet Walter's fiancé Peter Blythe died before their wedding, the distinguished actress has become engaged again. Dame Harriet, 60, is to marry Guy [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER A Flea in her Ear * Old Vic, London (020 7907 7071) to Mar 5 Six years ago, I recall placing a telephone call to Sir John [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE GREATEST It's a tough time of year for some publications to fill their pages. Even so, Mandrake wonders if The Stage didn't do its reputation more [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER King Lear ***** Donmar Warehouse, London WC2 (0844 871 7624) to Feb 5 Love Story ** Duchess Theatre, London WC2 (020 7907 7071) to Feb 26 Grand [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Actors d'un certain âge are often reluctant to give up doing their own stunt work because it is bound up with a certain machismo in the film [...]

Byline: Tim Walker LIFE IMITATES ART Toby Hemingway, the British-born actor, was delighted to be cast as Taylor Swift's bridegroom in the pop video for the American singer's latest release, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker WHITE LIE They say you should never lie on your CV - a lesson Annabelle Wallis, star of The Tudors, learnt to her cost on the set [...]

Inspired, apparently, by Kevin Spacey, whom he is directing at the Old Vic theatre, Sir Trevor Nunn wants to stage a play by William Shakespeare with only American actors in [...]

So many people are now being subjected to the very public agonies and ecstasies of television talent shows that John Barrowman - a judge on How Do You Solve a [...]

STAGE FRIGHT While promoting their latest films in London, Hollywood stars can usually be relied upon to nod enthusiastically when they are asked if they would like to appear on [...]

It amuses Toby Stephens to see himself occasionally mooted as a successor to Daniel Craig as James Bond. 'God knows, I could use the money, but it won't happen,'' the [...]

There was a heartbreaking absence at the memorial service for the actor Paul Scofield at St Margaret's, Westminster. Vanessa Redgrave had been due to read from T S Eliot's Little [...]

In language that is hardly becoming, Margaret Tyzack, the Olivier award-winning actress, has condemned the ageism that she feels is blighting the career of women in her profession. Miss Tyzack, [...]

Read my lips She may claim to feel like a native after living in London for five years, but Gwyneth Paltrow would still do well to brush up on her [...]

Joseph Fiennes has a peculiarly challenging role as an Iowa sheriff in 2,000 Feet Away, Anthony Weigh's new drama at the Bush Theatre in west London. The problem isn't about [...]

Rupert's Italian Coward After resurrecting the St Trinian's franchise at the cinemas over Christmas, Rupert Everett is to return to his roots as a serious stage actor this winter when [...]

An actor playing the same part over many months can go one of two ways: either he gets into an ever more intimate relationship with it or he simply switches [...]

When one thinks of the other actresses who have been made dames - Dench, Atkins, Plowright, Smith - it is hard not to feel that Diana Rigg got lucky. I [...]

WHEN DAVID WARNER WALKED DOWN THE RED CARPET at the London premiere of Titanic, in which he played Billy Zane's brutish, menacing butler, very few flashguns went off. But one [...]