2 h. ago Adolescence's Erin Doherty reveals telling off from mum after explosive Emmy's speech

Adolescence star Erin Doherty revealed her mum berated her for swearing during her Emmy Award speech despite sweeping the board during the coveted award season

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5 d. ago How Adolescence star Erin Doherty went from making the tough decision between drama and football to accepting her Golden Globe in front of Hollywood heavyweights

Standing on the podium in an elegant Louis Vuitton gown, clutching her golden statuette, Erin Doherty looked out on a sea of legendary actors and Hollywood heavyweights.

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6 d. ago Stephen Graham tells fans to 'stay tuned' for Adolescence sequel after Golden Globes wins

Netflix's Adolescence swept the Golden Globes, with Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Owen Cooper all winning and now there could be a second series

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6 d. ago Jessie Buckley and stars of Adolescence enjoy sparkling night at Golden Globes

The Irish star was named best actress in a drama.

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6 d. ago Adolescence continues awards season winning streak at Golden Globes

The show bagged four awards.

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7 d. ago The Crown's Erin Doherty reveals surprising connection to Romesh Ranganathan

Adolescence star Erin Doherty attended Hazelwick School in Three Bridges and has now said that comedian Romesh Ranganathan, a maths teacher, was her Head of Sixth Form

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1 week ago Adolescence does it again! Netflix hit scoops FOUR Critics Choice Awards as teenage star Owen Cooper, 16, becomes youngest

Adolescence cleaned up once again as awards season kicked off at the Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

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1 week ago Adolescence scoops FOUR Critics Choice Awards as teenage star Owen Cooper, 16, wins Best Supporting Actor gong alongside winners Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty

Adolescence cleaned up once again as awards season kicked off at the Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

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1 week ago Adolescence star Erin Doherty looks glam in a satin turquoise dress as she and co

Adolescence stars Erin Doherty and Owen Cooper were among the first to arrive on the red carpet at the Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

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3 w. ago ‘That’s a rare find!’ The casting genius who plucked this year’s biggest TV star out of 600 auditions

From Peaky Blinders to Sherwood, Shaheen Baig has cast some of the best shows on screen. But she struck gold with Owen Cooper for Adolescence – and won an Emmy. How does she spot such game-changing talent?At the Emmys in September, Adolescence all but swept the board. It won best limited series. It won awards for writing, for directing, for cinematography. Three of its actors – Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Owen Cooper – all took home awards. But Adolescence also earned another Emmy for a craft that often goes overlooked: best casting.Shaheen Baig was the woman responsible for casting Adolescence, and her Emmy is tucked away in the top right corner of the screen as we chat about her year over Zoom. She is mortified as soon as she realises this, immediately re-angling her webcam to keep it out of sight, lest anyone mistakes it for a boast. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘I wouldn’t answer Stephen Graham’s calls’: Erin Doherty on dreams, danger and ghosting Adolescence’s creator

She won an Emmy for her electric performance in the Netflix smash hit, but the casting process wasn’t exactly hiccup-free. The actor opens up about a year of success, struggle – and how she nearly became a footballerFor a while, Erin Doherty ignored Stephen Graham’s calls. Not deliberately, she stresses with a laugh. “I’m just really bad at my phone. I’m such a technophobe, and he knew that,” she says. They had made the Disney+ show A Thousand Blows together, in which Doherty plays an East End crime boss in Victorian London, and Graham had talked about an idea he wanted to dramatise, about a teenage boy who is catastrophically radicalised by online misogyny. A couple of months after they’d wrapped A Thousand Blows, Graham and his wife and producing partner, Hannah Walters, kept trying to get in touch. “I was getting voice notes from him and Hannah being like, ‘Erin, pick up your phone!’” Doherty’s girlfriend told her to ring him back and Graham offered her the role in Adolescence. S...

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