The actress was in therapy at 14, and survived X Files mania. Now she’s the star who elevates everything from a second volume of sexual fantasies to a film adaptation of The Salt Path

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The actor on the ‘astonishing’ success of Mr Bates vs the Post Office, not watching himself on screen and his new film about the young Richard Burton

The Gruffalo author talks about life after losing her husband and collaborator, Malcolm — and her chart-topping niece Lola Young

The hotelier recalls the Valentine's Day fire that destroyed his beloved London hotel—and says not to write it off just yet.

The Strictly Come Dancing winner always knew that he, like his mum and sister, would one day go blind. He tells Laura Pullman how he went off the rails, stumbled into comedy and found his dancing feet

The Mayfair hairdresser Jo Hansford has been granted a royal warrant by the Queen, who has been a regular customer for years. Laura Pullman books an appointment with ‘the best tinter on the planet’

Feeling shortchanged by Spotify royalties, the singer is selling risqué pictures to pay her band. She says her mum and boyfriend don’t mind

Sean Dilley is inundated with abuse on social media whenever he posts about discrimination issues.

The decorator and bon vivant dishes on the tacky and unsophisticated.

The bestselling author’s gutsy female pathologist Kay Scarpetta is finally arriving on screen in a starry new drama. If she were a man, would it have happened years ago?

The Game of Thrones actress drew on her own experience to play a notorious Eighties diamond thief in ITV’s new drama Joan

A radio producer is turning loved one’s lives into an hour of memories, music and news clips. It was a hilarious and hugely emotive experience for our writer

The Danish Oscar and Emmy winning director on the second series of The Night Manager, fighting bad behaviour in Hollywood and her latest full-fat, Nicole Kidman-starring mini-series set on an island...

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