4 h. ago Helen Mirren and Ian Mckellen celebrate launch of RSC Shakespeare curriculum app

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) unveiled its new digital learning app on Wednesday, 12 November, at Middle Temple, the historic site of the first Twelfth Night performance in 1604.

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4 h. ago Helen Mirren: ‘I used to think Shakespeare should be banned’

Dame Helen Mirren has jokingly suggested that Shakespeare’s plays should be banned for teenagers, in order to make young people more eager to read them.

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4 h. ago Ian McKellen admits he struggles to perform Shakespeare roles

Speaking at the launch of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new digital learning app on Wednesday (12 November), Sir Ian McKellen confessed that he still grapples with the complexities of Shakespeare’s language, even after more than 60 years on stage.

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4 h. ago Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen launch new Shakespeare curriculum

Dame Helen Mirren has expressed her profound excitement over a new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) curriculum, designed to revolutionise the teaching of Shakespeare in UK secondary schools.

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6 h. ago Helen Mirren joins Ian McKellen to launch RSC’s new Shakespeare curriculum for schools

Dame Helen Mirren has expressed her profound excitement over a new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) curriculum, designed to revolutionise the teaching of Shakespeare in UK secondary schools.

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8 h. ago Helen Mirren ‘unbelievably excited’ to help launch RSC’s Shakespeare curriculum

The curriculum is a teaching and learning platform that is free for all state and Send schools.

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6 d. ago Celebrity Traitors star Cat Burns: I don’t think I’m a good liar

The singer has been a ruthless traitor in the series.

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7 d. ago Sir Ian McKellan: 'I thought I was a goner, but I'm coming back as Gandalf'

Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellen confirms he will reprise his role as Gandalf in the new Middle Earth blockbuster

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7 d. ago Helen Mirren announced as recipient of prestigious Golden Globes award

Actor was credited for being a ‘force of nature’ whose career has been ‘nothing short of extraordinary’

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7 d. ago Helen Mirren to receive Golden Globe lifetime achievement award

The multiple Bafta, Emmy, Globe and Oscar-winning actor will receive the film prize in recognition of her ‘transcendent performances and commitment to her craft’Helen Mirren, the British actor who is already the winner of awards including an Oscar, four Baftas, three Golden Globes, five Emmys and a Tony is to add another to the shelf: the Cecil B DeMille Golden Globe for lifetime achievement.Mirren, 80, who was given a damehood in 2003 and made a Bafta fellow in 2014, will pick up the award in a ceremony on 8 January, three days before the main Golden Globes take place, as part of an event billed by the Globes as the “Golden Eve”. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Helen Mirren announced as 2025 recipient of Golden Globes’ prestigious Cecil B DeMille award

Actor was credited for being a ‘force of nature’ whose career has been ‘nothing short of extraordinary’

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7 d. ago Helen Mirren will receive the Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille award

Helen Mirren's latest role is Golden Globe lifetime achievement honoree

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1 week ago Rachel Zegler praises 'sisters' Dame Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu as she leads Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2025 winners

The Evita star, 24, honoured her Hollywood mentors while joining fellow winners including the Sugababes, Adwoa Aboah and Tyla at the London ceremony

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2 w. ago In Pictures: Prunella Scales was an actress, campaigner and documentary maker

Although her most famous role was Sybil Fawlty, she charmed many with travelogues detailing her canal journeys with actor and husband Timothy West.

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2 w. ago Sir Ian McKellen and Graham Norton to star at Alan Cumming's Scottish 'celebration of queer culture'

The new festival will take place in January and will feature acting great Sir Ian McKellen, as well as BBC host Graham Norton

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2 w. ago Hollywood star addresses Celebrity Traitors snub as BBC fans fume

The Celebrity Traitors viewers were left stunned when singer Cat Burns revealed she doesn't know who Helen Mirren or Dame Judi Dench are

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3 w. ago Bret McKenzie reveals how Ian McKellen made him break character on The Hobbit

Exclusive: New Zealand musician and actor recalls working with the mischievous British legend, and also speaks about the prospect of a Flight of the Conchords reunion

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3 w. ago 'I ate fish and chips in Ian McKellen's pub — three words sum it up'

This pub has centuries of history and is owned by the Lord of the Rings star, a knight of the realm

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3 w. ago Bret McKenzie reveals how Ian McKellen got him in trouble with Peter Jackson on The Hobbit set

Exclusive: New Zealand musician and actor recalls working with the mischievous British actor and also speaks about the prospect of a Flight of the Conchords reunion

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