Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1941-06-20 (Age: 85)
Place of Birth
Leicester, England, UK
Stephen Frears
Biography
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.
Filmography (40)
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
2025
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024A Look Through His Lens
2024
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
She's French
2018Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015
