Biography
Stephen Frears
Directing
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 televisio…
Career works
47
Movies
41
Series
6
Career average
5.9/10
Birth date
06/20/1941
Place of birth
Leicester, England, UK
Filmography highlights
Movies
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Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
2026
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
2025 · 7.0
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · 6.0
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A Look Through His Lens
2024
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022 · 7.3
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020 · 2.0
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Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018 · 5.0
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
She's French
2018
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Il 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
Series
