Stephen Frears
Director
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
Chéri
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) 2009
Great Directors
as Self 2009
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
as Self 2022
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self 2007
Forever Ealing
as Self 2002
Howard Hawks: American Artist
as Narrator 1997
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
Heavy Rain
as Himself 2010
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
as Self 2003
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as Self 2011
French Cinema Mon Amour
as Self 2015
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
as Self 2000
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
as Self 2020
Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self 2018
Henri Langlois vu par...
as Self 2014
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self 2024
The Making of 'The Queen'
as Self 2007