Stephen Frears
Directing
- Born:
- 1941-06-20
- Place of birth:
- Leicester, England, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Brian and Maggie
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
The Regime
A Look Through His Lens
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
The Lost King
Reel Britannia
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
Back to Barrytown
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Quiz
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
The Loudest Voice
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
State of the Union
Who Killed British Cinema?
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
A Very English Scandal
She's French
Victoria & Abdul
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Program
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
French Cinema Mon Amour
Henri Langlois vu par...
Night Will Fall
Philomena
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
30 Years of Comic Strip
Lay the Favorite
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Tamara Drewe
Heavy Rain
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Jean Charles
Great Directors
Chéri
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
The Making of 'The Queen'
The Queen
Great British Menu
Le court des grands
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Eletrodoméstica
Michael Powell
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Kulturplatz
Cast & Crew: If....
The Route V50
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
The Deal
Forever Ealing
Dirty Pretty Things
Robert Altman in England