Known For
Directing
Born
Jun 20, 1941
Place of Birth
Leicester, England, UK
Credits
130 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Self (archive footage)
Brian and Maggie
Director
Brian and Maggie
Director
Brian and Maggie
Director
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
The Regime
Executive Producer
A Look Through His Lens
Self
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Self
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Self
The Lost King
Director
Reel Britannia
Self
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
Original Film Writer
Back to Barrytown
Self
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self
Quiz
Executive Producer
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
The Loudest Voice
Director
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Self
State of the Union
Executive Producer
Who Killed British Cinema?
Self
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
A Very English Scandal
Director
She's French
Victoria & Abdul
Director
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Self
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
Florence Foster Jenkins
Director
The Program
Director
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
Night Will Fall
Executive Producer
Philomena
Director
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Director
30 Years of Comic Strip
Lay the Favorite
Director
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
Tamara Drewe
Director
Heavy Rain
Himself
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Self
Jean Charles
Executive Producer
Great Directors
Self
Chéri
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
The Making of 'The Queen'
Self
The Queen
Director
Great British Menu
Self - Guest Judge
Le court des grands
Director