From carrying a computer between flat shares in her 20s to working with a Hollywood director on a screen adaptation of Hamnet ...

A US study found that when a group of people were asked to read poetry by famous authors and poetry written by Chat GPT, they ...

And Judi (Dench).” Cher starred in Tea With Mussolini with Dame Helen, Dame Judi and Dame Maggie Smith in 1999. “I kind of just wanted to listen to those girls, because there are all kinds of ...

As we approach the end of another year, The Independent is reflecting on some of the famous faces we lost in 2024. Over the ...

It's the images that linger in the mind as I think back on a bustling theatre year just gone. Sure, the year fielded ...

He went on to play Captain Smith in the Oscar-winning 1997 epic romance Titanic and Theoden, King of Rohan, in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Morgan Spurlock, whose 2004 documentary Super Size Me was ...

One Direction star Liam Payne, Oscar-winning Harry Potter and ‘Downton Abbey’ actor Maggie Smith and ‘Charmed’ star Shannen Doherty were among the notable figures who died this year ...

2024 saw the passing of cultural icons whose timeless contributions to music, film, literature and the arts will continue to ...

Yet, sometimes strengths of character are not seeded in the glare of a political campaign or in gilded seats of power. Sometimes they are forged in a desolate, dirty jail cell. For Russian ...

Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and ...

Dame Maggie Smith’s son, actor Toby Stephens, once made a disheartening forecast about his professional path, proclaiming the unlikelihood of working with his legendary mother. Best recognised ...

The American actor and comedian died on June 29, aged 80, after what his daughter Maggie Mull described as a “valiant fight against a long illness”. Best known for starring in MASH and The ...