45 h. ago The Traitors winner signs up for first acting role in Netflix's upcoming supernatural thriller

The Body is a coming-of-age drama that follows a dance troupe in a Catholic school who trigger mass hysteria in their town when they begin to experience prophetic visions

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46 h. ago The fury at home left me terrified of anger. Until a teacher showed me how to use it as a force for good | Marisa Bate

In an eye-opening drama class, Miss Smith taught me that rage didn’t only belong to menWe always knew it was coming. There were signs we’d learned to read: a change in atmosphere, the sound of the fridge door opening, wine glugging into a glass. And then it would arrive. My stepfather’s anger filled the house, even the rooms he wasn’t in. We breathed it in and out silently, waiting for the storm to pass, waiting to see if we would all make it out OK. As a young girl growing up in that house, I was used to feeling that dark, threatening clouds were constantly looming on the horizon. And I learned that anger – even the smell of it on the air – was terrifying.And then I met Miss Smith*. Miss Smith was my A-level drama teacher at my brilliant secondary school in the home counties. She was full of ideas and passion and, I suspect, had an ambition to open the eyes of her overwhelmingly sheltered pupils. One Wednesday morning, she asked us to work on our improv skills, while exploring the ...

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8 d. ago TV Choice Awards 2026 nominations longlist revealed: Adolescence's Owen Cooper goes head

Comedian Jason Manford returns as host with the star-studded evening honouring the best in TV from the last 12 months.

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1 week ago Stunning ‘Norwegian’ house was watched by millions in popular Netflix drama – but do you recognise it?

AN ICONIC Norwegian-style house featured in a TV show watched by millions - but do you recognise it? Nestled in the picture postcard landscape of the Wye Valley in Hertfordshire, the wooden home appeared in a hit Netflix series. The Edwardian building features in Netflix's high school comedy drama, Sex Education, which first aired in...

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1 week ago ‘They were so feral’: Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman and cast on nose

In the acclaimed new film about boys written off by the system, Murphy drew on his own past as a troublesome schoolboy while Little Simz played a teacher – and wrote a 90s-style banger of a songMonths before the publication of his latest book, Max Porter went on holiday with Cillian Murphy and a mutual friend. “I said, ‘I’ve just finished another novel,’” recalls Porter. “And they said, ‘You’ve only just done one.’ I said, ‘Well, I bang them out fast, then edit them slowly.’” He ended up reading it out aloud, giving them their first glimpse into the “sensejumbled” head of a teen delinquent named Shy, resident of a “shite old mansion converted into a school for badly behaved boys in the middle of bumblefuck nowhere”.Murphy had become close friends with Porter after starring in a stage adaptation of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, his debut novel. It wasn’t that Porter was angling for another collaboration. On the contrary: “I felt it was unadaptable because of it being a kind of we...

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2 w. ago Joanna Page recounts frightening time she was 'locked in some fella's room'

The Welsh actress went to the prestigious RADA and says her time at the drama school 'was kind of like abuse for two and a half years'

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Adolescence cleaning up at the Emmys: the importance of grassroots drama training | Editorial

Theatre schools are in crisis. More must be done to nurture young talent like Owen Cooper across the countryAs well as the urgent social problems raised by Adolescence – online misogyny and radicalisation – the show’s phenomenal success has drawn attention to a growing cultural issue: the importance of grassroots drama schools and clubs, and working-class representation on TV.Last Sunday, 15-year-old Owen Cooper became the youngest male actor to win an Emmy, for his performance as the teenage murder suspect Jamie Miller. Amid the celebrations, the founders of Drama MOB in Manchester, where Cooper attended weekly classes for two years, rightly pointed out the crucial part this training played in landing him the role, an impact the young actor acknowledged in his acceptance speech.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here...

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3 w. ago Owen Cooper, 15, joins his parents in the smoking area after scooping gong for Best Supporting Actor and making history as the youngest male Emmy winner ever for Netflix's Adolescence

The actor, 15, who shot to fame earlier this year in Netflix 's Adolescence, won Best Supporting Actor on Sunday night.

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3 w. ago Owen Cooper’s Emmy sends message to ‘look outside the box’, drama school says

Co-head of Manchester school where Adolescence actor trained says she hopes win will encourage casting of ‘raw northern talent’The co-director of the drama school where Adolesence star Owen Cooper trained has said she hopes his Emmy win will encourage producers to “look outside the box” when it comes to casting working-class and northern talent.Cooper, 15, became the youngest ever male recipient of an Emmy on Sunday, when he won the best supporting actor in a limited series award for his role as the teenage murder suspect Jamie Miller in the Netflix drama. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Real reason Adolescence star Owen Cooper won't take his Emmy award to school

Owen Cooper became the youngest male winner of an acting Emmy award on Sunday night when the young Brit was recognised for his role in Netflix drama Adolescence

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3 w. ago Netflix's Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 15, makes history as youngest male Emmy winner

Owen Cooper, 15, has made history as the youngest male actor to win an Emmy, taking home the award for his role in the British Netflix drama Adolescence

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3 w. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 15, celebrates Emmy win at Netflix bash

Adolescence star Owen Cooper was the man of the hour at Sunday's Emmy Awards. 

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3 w. ago Owen Cooper's Manchester drama school with Coronation Street link speaks out after Emmy success

The 15-year-old became the youngest male actor to win an Emmy for his performance in the Netflix drama, Adolescence

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3 w. ago ‘Our biggest achievement’: Owen Cooper’s former drama school celebrates Emmy win

The Adolescence star attended The Drama MOB school in Manchester for two years.

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3 w. ago Owen Cooper reveals truth behind Adolescence improvised moment that made it into the show

After Emmy Awards glory for Adolescence, young star Owen Cooper shared an impromptu moment that made it to screen - and it wasn't the only unscripted line that producers loved

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3 w. ago Our golden boy: Owen Cooper shares a hug with his devoted parents to celebrate his historic Emmy win after meteoric rise to fame from humble Warrington council estate beginnings

Looking on with pride, Owen's carer mum Noreen, 51, and IT worker dad Andy, 44, gripped their son as he prepared to accept the award for the role

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3 w. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper becomes youngest ever male Emmy winner for breakout role

Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 15, has become the youngest male actor to win an Emmy, taking home the award for his role in the British Netflix drama

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3 w. ago Netflix star says 'I was nothing' as he becomes Emmy winner after Coronation Street star's drama classes

Owen Cooper became the youngest ever male Primetime Emmy Award winner after his starring role in Netflix's Adolescence

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3 w. ago Netflix star Owen Cooper reacts as he's named youngest male acting Emmy winner

Owen Cooper was recognised for his role in huge hit Adolescence, one of five Emmy Awards the Netflix miniseries picked up at the ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday.

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3 w. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 15, makes history at Emmys as he becomes youngest

The British drama, which dominated Netflix’s most-watched list earlier this year, swept the awards

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