The stand-up and TV favourite has a fund of anecdotes, is passionate about food and would make the ideal dinner-party guest. But it's perhaps best not to let him drive there"Hellooooo!" The …
The two 'vice girls', as the tabloids called them, were misled by the promises of older men, say the actresses playing them in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, Stephen Ward"They were… fr…
Keeley Hawes will be hard to miss this autumn. As well as appearing onstage in Barking in Essex, the Spooks star will be all over our screens " often in unfamiliar rolesThey say you can lear…
The actor on Blackadder, the Women's prize for fiction " and why she'll be reading Samuel Beckett in a boat on Lough ErneYou're about to appear at the Samuel Beckett festival in Enniskillen.…
As he returns to the stage, the actor sets out his approach to work, tattoos, and the terror of playing Allen GinsbergYour latest role is in Martin McDonagh's play The Cripple of Inishmaan. …
One maths boffin + one funny man = a stand-up comedian who jokes about dominoes, algorithms and Rubik's Cubes"I'm obsessed with spreadsheets at the moment," says Matt Parker, a maths fellow …
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The English actress on going clubbing with her mum, her new role in a 'neo-feminist vampire movie' and why she has no regrets about playing Bond girl Strawberry FieldsThe first time we see G…
The Harry Potter star talks frankly about the demands of her profession as she returns to the West End in Peter Nichols's 'brutal' Passion Play"It's called 'bob and weave'," says Zoë Wana…
The playwright on the revival of The Judas Kiss, the loneliness of writing and this year's Oscar nominationsWhat are you working on?I'm trying to write but where I work I've got somebody kno…
The film and TV star on her new stage role in Uncle Vanya, the trouble with wrinkles and being part of our national heritage because of that Brookside kissYour new play, Anton Chekhov's Uncl…
The actor has triumphed in the cinema with My Week with Marilyn, commanded the stage as Richard II and is about to explode on to our TV screens in BirdsongHe certainly does not look it, but …
David Shrigley on his tattoo-crazy fans and his latest work " an operatic faux MasterChef"It's weird, really weird actually," says David Shrigley, sitting in his studio at home in Glasgow. T…
Anna Chancellor has rarely been cast in lead roles. That hasn't stopped her starring in the current BBC drama The Hour and a double bill of Rattigan and David Hare at Chichester. But life di…
Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr are fans, but Francesca Martinez, who has cerebal palsy, still can't get a gig on TVAt the end of an hour's interview in a bar in north-west London, comedian Fra…
Kristen Schaal talks about her brief encounter with Spider-Man, her sex book and the perils of Irn-BruYou are preparing for your fourth Edinburgh festival " what is it that keeps drawing you…
The master of mind-control on fainting fans, pooing parrots and his new-found love of cravatsOne of your greatest feats of mass mind control might just be the veil of secrecy around your cur…
Fresh from BBC1's South Riding, the newly-bearded actor takes on the role of Macbeth in his home town of LiverpoolIn the Latimer Road area of west London, where the Range Rovers give way to …