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Sheila Atim: ‘Six wings, chips and a drink. That’s my guilty pleasure’

The actor, 30, tells Michael Hogan about learning tenacity, gaining an MBE, meeting Tom Hanks and her pole-dancing addiction

Stephen Graham on his dramatic year: prison officer, care home … and now a kitchen nightmare

The in-demand actor’s latest role? Playing a stroppy chef on the busiest night of the year in the single-take drama Boiling Point

Olivia Colman: ‘Portraying a murderer? It was less pressure than playing the Queen’

From supporting parts on TV to Hollywood stardom to her darkest role yet: the Oscar winner reveals why even the toughest jobs can’t compare to her role in The Crown

David Chase: I was annoyed that fans wanted Tony Soprano dead

Series showrunner tells podcast that ambiguous ending rankled with viewers who wanted to see the character ‘face-down in linguini’

Tamzin Outhwaite: post your questions for the EastEnders, Bull and Masked Dancer star

We’ll put your questions to the actor known for Mel in EastEnders and the Scarecrow in The Masked Dancer, who is now in new movie Bull

Bergerac 2.0: Jersey detective’s return is a remake too far

With searches under way for the next Bond and a regenerated time lord, it’s time they gave us new heroes

Surprise pandemic hit and now talk of a new series, Sopranos is still the boss

With writer David Chase apparently in discussions with HBO Max, my inner Tony can’t help but wonder ‘whadayagunnado?’

Alec Baldwin profile: a versatile but troubled star

Tragic shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins happened on set of actor’s latest movie

Degrees of separation: what links The Many Saints of Newark to Hamilton?

The Sopranos, Nicole Holofcener, Matt Damon and a duel: join the dots to get up to speed on what everyone’s talking about this week

Guy Pearce: ‘There’s always someone you want to punch’

Neighbours launched him, and since then the star of Memento and Zone 414 has seized his Hollywood roles with a unique intensity. He talks about death, drugs, being a dad and divorce

The Many Saints of Newark review – Sopranos prequel keeps it in the family

Michael Gandolfini is goosebump-inducing as the young Tony Soprano, amid race riots and antagonism towards rival African American gangs

Rose Plays Julie review – identity quest goes to truly dark places

A student’s search for her birth mother has haunting results in this tale from the innovative Irish directing team of Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor

From United 93 to Worth: how Hollywood grappled with 9/11

In the two decades since the terror attack on New York City, films and TV shows have tried to revisit or reflect on a culturally traumatic event

‘I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase’ – how The Wire’s Omar changed TV

He was the terrifying stick-up man who loved his gran, shopped in his pyjamas and tenderly kissed his boyfriend. We remember Omar’s great scenes – and pay tribute to Michael K Williams, the actor who brought him to life

Michael K Williams obituary

American actor best known for playing Omar Little in the TV crime series The Wire

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