
Lesley Manville Discusses Reading Reviews
Actress Lesley Manville shares her perspective on reading reviews, stating that she accepts criticism and remains committed to her craft regardless of platform.
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Actress Lesley Manville shares her perspective on reading reviews, stating that she accepts criticism and remains committed to her craft regardless of platform.

The 2026 Tony Awards celebrated 'Schmigadoon!' as Best Musical and 'Liberation' as Best Play, with John Lithgow making history as the oldest acting Tony winner. The event also featured a review of the best and worst dressed attendees, including performances by stars like Pink.

The head of BBC Proms has suggested that audiences should be more relaxed about mobile phone use during performances, a comment that follows Olivier-winning actress Lesley Manville's criticism of smartphone use during curtain calls.

British actress Lesley Manville has revealed her reasons for disliking the popular series 'Game of Thrones'.

Stranger Things’ Joe Keery is joined by a stellar cast battling an outbreak of virulent brain spores, but the film doesn’t offer much more than endless wisecracks and a splatterhouse grossfest ‘Pay attention! This shit is real!” screams an on-screen warning at the start of this overstuffed horror-comedy-action outing. As much as the deadly fungus it foists on Earth, an outbreak of sardonic attitude runs rampant here. It falls to two bantering storage facility workers, played by Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and Barbarian’s Georgina Campbell, to contain a potential apocalypse event – with intermittent high-grade thespian help from Lesley Manville, Vanessa Redgrave and old faithful Liam Neeson. (Somebody clearly called in a few favours here.) Things kick off as the Skylab space station falls out of orbit in 1979 – one of its research containers winds up in the Australian outback. Fast-forward to the early 00s and a team of bioterror operatives, including Robert (Neeson) and Trini (Manville), wipe out the virulent fungus that escapes – though not before it turns one of them into a human smoothie. But the Kansas facility where they stow a sample is later decommissioned, and the ground floor converted into storage lockers. Before you can say “heinous government negligence”, night-shifters Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell) are itching to check out the random alarm sounding somewhere behind the walls. Continue reading...

Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds portray an Irish couple grappling with secrets during a holiday in Amsterdam in Polly Findlay's adaptation of Bernard MacLaverty's novel 'Midwinter Break'.

The Monte-Carlo Television Festival will feature a star-studded lineup for its Business Forum, including actors Lesley Manville, Aldis Hodge, and Kevin McKidd, with headline sessions focusing on filmmaking.

Veteran stage actor Lesley Manville made her long-awaited and highly praised Broadway debut, which has been described as a classic performance.
A review highlights that Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds, portraying a long-established couple, make 'Midwinter Break' a worthwhile experience.

With her 70th birthday around the corner, we assess the greatest screen outings by the indisputable doyenne of dour British drama – and plenty more asides Among the bold choices in Luca Guadagnino’s…
Movie Review: In ‘Midwinter Break,’ a quiet marriage story with Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds Associated Press News

Acclaimed actress Lesley Manville has been cast in Brett Goldstein's upcoming Amazon Prime Video comedy series, 'Escorted.' She will star alongside Goldstein in the new romantic comedy.

British theater star Lesley Manville has described audience filming during performances as an "insult," sparking debate despite facing criticism for her stance.
This article from The Times discusses the on-screen chemistry between Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner, questioning whether their "sexual heat" in a performance is effective. It likely reviews a specific show or film.

The director, Polly Findlay (an acclaimed British stage director making her first feature), presents all of this in a stately and fastidious prestige-teleplay-of-the-week way. Adapting a 2017 novel by Bernard MacLaverty (the script is by MacLaverty and Nick Payne), she creates a generous space for her actors, who turn what might have been a rather staid movie — and still at times is — into a meticulous duet.

The Irish literary adaptation 'Midwinter Break' is reviewed as sedate and too cold to emotionally resonate, despite strong performances from Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds.