If Queen Elizabeth II's life seems vivid to us through movies and television, that's largely due to filmmaker Stephen Frears, who directed 2006's Oscar-winning The Queen, starring Helen Mirren.

Here’s a premise to snap awake the most jaded filmgoer: illegal immigrants trade their organs (as in kidneys) for money and a passport. This gruesome trade underpins the plot of “Dirty Pretty Things,” ...

Christopher Hampton marks his third collaboration with Frears, adapting Jonathan Coe's book about the Hollywood Golden Era legend. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Two-time Oscar winner Christoph ...

Director Stephen Frears talks about his movie, Cheri, a romantic drama based on a book by Collette, set in 1920s Paris. In the movie, Michelle Pfeiffer plays a woman who is persuaded to look after a ...

Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton stay they are struggling to get their previously announced adaptation of Jonathan Coe’s novel Mr Wilder & Me off the ground, but still hope to work together on ...

After the success of their Oscar-nominated collaboration on the 2013 drama “Philomena,” starring Judi Dench, director Stephen Frears and star-screenwriter Steve Coogan were eager to team up once again ...

Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz will portray legendary Old Hollywood director Billy Wilder in a biographical film from director Stephen Frears, the film’s producer Jeremy Thomas announced Monday. “Billy ...

Kate Winslet has found her latest HBO limited series. The Mare of Easttown star will star in and exec produce The Palace, a series that tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of an ...

Born and raised in Leicester, England during WWII, Stephen Frears had few aspirations of being a film and television director. Instead, he studied law at the University of Cambridge before working in ...