Directing
Stephen Frears
1941-06-20 · Leicester, England, UK
Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English director and producer. He has directed numerous acclaimed films since the early 1980s, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Grifters (1990), High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006), Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. Frears is also known for his work on various television programs, including Fail Safe (2000), The Deal (2003), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), A Very English Scandal (2018), State of the Union (2019), and Quiz (2020). He has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with one win. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph named Frears among the 100 most influential people in British culture.
Known for
High Fidelity
Philomena
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Queen
Dangerous Liaisons
Victoria & Abdul
The Program
Hero
Dirty Pretty Things
The Grifters
Tamara Drewe
Mary Reilly
My Beautiful Laundrette
Lay the Favorite
The Hit
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Movie credits · 105
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
A Look Through His Lens
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
The Lost King
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Who Killed British Cinema?
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
She's French
Victoria & Abdul
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Program
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
French Cinema Mon Amour
Henri Langlois vu par...
Night Will Fall
Philomena
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
30 Years of Comic Strip
Lay the Favorite
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Tamara Drewe
Heavy Rain
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Jean Charles
Great Directors
Chéri
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
The Making of 'The Queen'
The Queen
Le court des grands
Mrs. Henderson Presents
TV credits · 25
Brian and Maggie
The Regime
Reel Britannia
Back to Barrytown
Quiz
The Loudest Voice
State of the Union
A Very English Scandal
Great British Menu
Kulturplatz
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Screen Two
The Comic Strip Presents...
The South Bank Show
BBC2 Play of the Week
Playhouse
Sporting Scenes
Second City Firsts
Full House
Follyfoot
Play for Today
Parkin's Patch
Tom Grattan's War
Omnibus
ITV Playhouse
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