Individual Actors & Performers

Doctor Who is the world's longest-running science fiction television series, and has had children hiding behind sofa's since it was first broadcast...

In celebration of his one-hundredth birthday, a charming, irresistibly readable, and handsomely packaged look back at the life and times of the gre...

In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River ...

Best known for Dad s Army, in which his Sergeant Wilson played the languid, rakish foil to Arthur Lowe s pompous, chippy Ca...

He was a suspected cold war spy. She became the glamorous KGB double agent in a Bond movie. When a prisoner writes to a movie star, the best he ca...

Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming of age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming float at her suburban Ne...

Omid Djalili''s childhood was unconventional, to say the least. He was raised in a beautiful, chaotic, cramped, colourful and legally dubious guest...

This is A study of Chinese stars and transnational stardom focussing on the career of Jet Li. Jet Li is arguably the best martial arts actor alive,...

With their silly puns, down-to-earth style and obvious affection for each other, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins were a defining part of 1990s popular...

Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumph...

The is the tale of a cheeky little sod from Salford called Jason growing up surrounded by his properly funny and most definitely shameless family a...

The double act has been at the heart of the British entertainment scene for over 150 years: from its start in the music halls, through radio shows ...

Basil Rathbone is synonymous with Sherlock Holmes. He played the Victorian sleuth in the fourteen Fox/Universal films of the 1930s and 40s, as well...

Steve Halliwell is best known as the loveable patriarch Zak Dingle in the hit TV show Emmerdale, a part he has played since 1994 and which has led ...

Did he really punch his producer? Was the 'Falklands-gate' license plate deliberate? And more importantly...does anybody really, honestly care? Je...

Charismatic, talented, intriguingly private and not forgetting devastatingly handsome, Johnny Depp is an actor who has captured the hearts and imag...

Jennifer Lawrence is the reigning queen of lots of things: Hollywood, the awkward award-ceremony-stumble, and hundreds of priceless Buzzfeed pages ...

Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. T...

Rome in the 1950s: following the darkness of fascism and Nazi occupation during the Second World War, the city is reinvigorated. The street cafés a...

Now is probably as good a time as any to make a full confession. . .Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The...

Most of the world remembers Ronald Reagan and Nancy (Davis) Reagan as geriatric figures in the White House in the 1980s. And it remembers Jane Wyma...

The Anatomy of an Actor series takes ten roles by a single actor, each studied in a dedicated chapter, and identifies the key elements that made th...

In his follow-up to A California Childhood, James Franco reflects on his life in Hollywood and beyond through an intimate and powerful series of po...

Amid the deprivation and despair of the Great Depression, Shirley Temple radiated a spirit of optimism and plucky good cheer. Her image appeared in...

Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of Americas outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and in...

Anatomy of an Actor titles are comprehensive studies on the craft of the world's greatest actors, through the analysis of ten of their most iconic ...

Woody Allen is a uniquely innovative performer, writer and director with nearly fifty movies to his credit, from cult slapstick films and romantic...