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Actor Rupert Everett is urging gay stars not to 'come out' and to keep their sexuality a secret as it could end their film career.

By Simon Neville When you're a national treasure with a career spanning almost 50 years, it's understandable how a 10-minute skit might have slipped from memory.

Nigel Hawthorne gives an inspired, funny and deeply moving performance in the title role of this celebrated, Oscar-winning film of Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III .

Dame Helen Mirren is due to receive an award for her contribution to both big and small screen.

Academy Award winner Helen Mirren will receive the Career Achievement Award Jan.

Alan Bennett has a lot on his mind in his latest play, "The Habit of Art," including creativity, aging, fame, anonymity and sex, and it hangs together because of his gift for language and fine stagecraft, and some splendid performances.

Alan Bennett is that peculiarly British thing, a writer who is both barbed and beloved, contrary and cuddly.

Dame Helen Mirren has denied that she feels certain film roles are beneath her. The Oscar-winning star said that she will continue to play a variety of parts in both blockbuster and small-budget films.

WASHINGTON a ' Helen Mirren never went in much for prophecy and all that supernatural jazz, but as a self-conscious young actress in London, she found herself in the living room of a palm-reader. Though she'd later report that most of the session passed in a blur, one of his prognostications stayed with her long after a ' and not because it gave ...

In the introduction to a lavishly illustrated autobiography, "In the Frame," Helen Mirren recalls that a palm reader once informed her, "You will be successful in life, but you will see your greatest success later, after the age of 45." She quips, "Not something you want to hear at the age of 23, but it turned out he was right." Miss Mirren was ...

WRITER Alan Bennett is often referred to as a a oenational treasurea for his prosaic gift for insightful writing about the human spirit, at the same time managing to infuse gentle humour into a multitude of situations.

A handsome, charismatic, dark-haired player equally at home in period or contemporary dramas, Rupert Graves first gained international attention as the younger brother of Lucy Honeychurch in the.... A handsome, charismatic, dark-haired player equally at home in period or contemporary dramas, Rupert Graves first gained international attention as the ...

An ebullient, poshly elegant leading lady, Amanda Donohue was seen at her best in "The Lair of the White Worm" , Ken Russell's slice of contemporary Gothic ham.

The playwright and author Alan Bennett has revealed for the first time the reason for his steadfast refusal to accept an honour from the Queen.