Juliet Stevenson: Last News

Family and friends of Ashley Dale gathered for the funeral of the 28-year-old 'rising star', who was murdered by a gunman in her Liverpool home in August.

Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough, 2 September-1 October. At the National Theatre in 2019, Inua Ellams adapted Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, transposing its drama to the Biafran war with virtuosity. Now he turns to Sophoclean tragedy with this play in the Theban cycle about rebel children, tyrant kings and divine interventions.

British actor Christopher Eccleston believes that white, middle-class, male, straight actors like him are “the new pariahs of the industry.”

Acting Your Age Campaign (AYAC), which was founded four years ago by Nicky Clark, is calling for equal representation in the UK between men and women aged over 45.Women in the UK only have a “shelf life” on screen while their male colleagues have a “whole life”, the letter claims while outlining the campaign’s wishes for a “parity pledge” to help tackle “entrenched” ageism in the entertainment industry.Juliet Stevenson, Meera Syal, David Tennant, Lesley Manville and Sanjeev Bhaskar are also among the letter’s 100+ signatories.“Today’s in-demand young actress is tomorrow’s unemployed middle-aged actress,” part of the letter reads. “We are fighting to ensure that our generation of excluded women is the last generation of excluded women.“Ageism targeting women is an entrenched industry staple that is outdated, harmful and neglects the millions of audience members who appreciate seeing women over 45 telling the stories of our lives.AYAC has laid out multiple recommendations for broadcast and production company commissioners, as well as for those working in news and current affairs.

More than 100 actors and public figures in the UK have put their name to an open letter calling for better onscreen representation of older women, to help fight “entrenched ageism” of the entertainment industry.

Juliet Stevenson, who has married Hugh Brody, her partner of 29 years, on December 11 last year, the Londoner can reveal. The two tied the knot “at a small registry office in Suffolk,” before Christmas Stevenson tells us. Previously the Truly, Madly, Deeply star, above , has said she has never “seen the point” of marriage, calling it an “old-fashioned idea”.

Harry Potter star died.Speaking of her Truly, Madly, Deeply co-star, Juliet said she continues to sense the influence of Alan ‘on my shoulder’ every day.Alan, who was known for his roles as Severus Snape, as well as in Love Actually, died in 2016 aged 69, following a battle with cancer.Now 63-year-old Juliet, who starred alongside Alan in 1991, has told the Daily Telegraph: ‘He was always telling me how to live and what not to do, how to behave better.‘It’s still the case absolutely that, all the time, he is on my shoulder.’Juliet has long spoken about her love of Alan, previously labelling Truly, Madly, Deeply as her favourite role due to working with the actor.She told The Stratford Herald earlier this year: ‘…I suppose I’d say Truly

"You'd look around and think, 'Everybody's temporary'."Even the most brilliant actors there can last for just five years, but in the UK you can have a career that goes from 26 to 96, if you're careful and you have a gift."The actress was originally planned to be starring in the West End before lockdown, as the lead in the transfer of Almeida Theatre's hit production of The Doctor.However, due to social distancing measures that saw theatres shut, she has remained at her second home in Suffolk "pottering about her garden".Juliet spoke of feeling nervous before leaving her residence in London, as she imagined the city could turn into "Armageddon".She asked her partner Hugh Brody if they should "board up the windows" of their home, as she had