Stephen Frears
Biography
Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English director and producer. He has directed numerous acclaimed films since the early 1980s, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Grifters (1990), High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006), Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. Frears is also known for his work on various television programs, including Fail Safe (2000), The Deal (2003), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), A Very English Scandal (2018), State of the Union (2019), and Quiz (2020). He has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with one win. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph named Frears among the 100 most influential people in British culture.
Directed Films
Brian and Maggie
The Lost King
Victoria & Abdul
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Program
Henri Langlois vu par...
Philomena
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Lay the Favorite
Tamara Drewe
Chéri
The Queen
Le court des grands
Mrs. Henderson Presents
The Route V50
The Deal
Dirty Pretty Things
Liam
Fail Safe
High Fidelity
The Hi-Lo Country
The Van
Mary Reilly
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
Also Appeared In
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Who Killed British Cinema?
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
She's French
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
