" The Washington Post was similarly impressed with Malkovich's performance: " There's a sublime perversity in Frears ' casting, especially that of Malkovich ... brings a fascinating dimension to his character that would be missing with a more conventionally handsome leading man.

It has sold over a million copies and was adapted into a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack.

Frears read Hornby's book and enjoyed it but did not connect with the material because it was not about his generation.

Director Stephen Frears cast him because " he was in Mary Reilly and I knew he was brilliant.

The film focused on the differing reactions of the British Royal Family and the newly appointed Prime Minister following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 ; it was Sheen's third collaboration with director Stephen Frears and his second with screenwriter Peter Morgan.

It was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Stephen Frears in 2010 which starred Gemma Arterton who also played Tess Durbyfield in BBC's adaption of Hardy's Tess of the D ' Urbervilles.

Her last Hollywood film was The Hi-Lo Country ( 1998 ), directed by Stephen Frears.

The director Stephen Frears originally wanted to cast a Scottish actor as Brown but was persuaded by other production staff to cast Morrissey.

The company's first production was Walter, directed by Stephen Frears, which was released in 1982.

Frears was born in Leicester, England.

His father, Russell E. Frears, was a general practitioner and accountant, and his mother, Ruth M. ( née Danziger ), was a social worker.

Frears was raised Anglican, and did not find out that his mother was Jewish until he was in his late 20s.

Frears was educated at Gresham's School from 1954 to 1959, and later went on to study law at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1960 to 1963.

Frears ' film debut was Gumshoe, but it was his production of the Hanif Kureishi screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette, that unexpectedly led to his wider notice.

Frears next directed another successful British film, the Joe Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears, another collaboration with Alan Bennett, which was followed by a second film from a Kureishi screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.

It received numerous nominations for Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards, and Frears himself was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction.

Frears had another critical success with The Grifters, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.

Frears was also nominated for a Razzie Award for his direction of Mary Reilly.

The proceeds from these sales have been ploughed back into the Leicester City Campus, which has consequently seen a large amount of development including the construction of two new buildings and the extensive refurbishment of a third, the Edith Murphy building ( formerly Bosworth House ) to house the students and staff of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, previously based at Charles Frears.

The Faculty underwent a major change in 2000 when the School of Biology, based at Scraptoft Campus, moved to the Leicester Campus, and the faculty will become fully centred around the university's City campus in 2011 when the School of Nursing relocates from the Charles Frears campus.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has been hosted at the National Theater, with screenings at the Open-air theater Metalac and the Bosnian Cultural Center, all located in downtown Sarajevo and has been attended by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Steve Buscemi, Jeremy Irons, Bono Vox ( Bono holds dual Bosnian and Irish citizenship and is an honorary citizen of Sarajevo ), Nick Cave, Coolio, Stephen Frears, Michael Moore, Gérard Depardieu, Darren Aronofsky, Sophie Okonedo, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Spacey, Eric Cantona, Victoria Abril, James Floyd and many others.

A caption in the opening titles ( directly inspired — according to Frears — by the identical epigraph at the start of the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ) informed viewers that " much of what follows is true ".

The film received a further eight nominations, in the categories of Best Direction ( Stephen Frears ), Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Close ), Best Cinematography ( Philippe Rousselot ), Best Costume Design ( Acheson ), Best Original Film Score ( Fenton ), Best Editing ( Mick Audsley ), Best Make Up Artist ( Jean-Luc Russier ) and Best Production Design ( Craig ).

Stephen Frears won the César Award for Best Foreign Film for Dangerous Liaisons.

High Fidelity is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack and Danish actress Iben Hjejle.

He also found time in 2006 to appear in Stephen Frears ' The Queen, starring Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren, as the Queen's private secretary.

Hero ( also known as Accidental Hero ) is a comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and starring Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy García, Chevy Chase, and Joan Cusack.

* 1988-Dangerous Liaisons ( play author / screenwriter / co-producer ) directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman.

* 1996-Mary Reilly ( screenwriter ) based on the Valerie Martin novel about Dr. Jekyll's housemaid, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich

He also explored notions of Englishness in the twentieth century with productions such as England, Their England ( directed by Stephen Frears ), East of Ipswich ( written by Michael Palin ) and An Englishman's Castle ( 1978 ) starring Kenneth More ; a dystopian vision of the consequence of losing the second world war.

The Snapper was made into a film directed by Stephen Frears and starring Tina Kellegher and Colm Meaney.

Janvrin was portrayed by Roger Allam in Stephen Frears ' The Queen ( 2006 ) starring Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren.

Another film adaptation by Stephen Frears had been released the previous year and received much acclaim.

Katy had a cameo in the film The Hi-Lo Country by the filmmaker Stephen Frears, who called for his first Western as his " lucky charm.

He had some minor success appearing in the film Private Road, the soap opera Emmerdale Farm and in Alan Bennett's first television play A Day Out directed by Stephen Frears and broadcast in 1972.

In 1968 Wilmers married film director Stephen Frears, with whom she had two sons, Sam and Will Frears ( a stage and film director ).

Beckinsale had expressed worries about his cholesterol to friend Stephen Frears over dinner just days earlier, but he seemed healthy and fit and had no cardiac problems in his medical records.

In 1985, Frears had also directed a Comic Strip parody of Rebecca with the usual Comic Strip ensemble.

Early in his career, Frears made a programme featuring the band The Scaffold and is name-checked (" Mr Frears had sticky out ears ...") in their hit song " Lily the Pink ".

Moreover, Keitel has worked for other acclaimed directors such as: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Dario Argento, Luc Besson, Fernando Colomo, Brian De Palma, Stanley Donen, Philip Kaufman, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, Jack Nicholson, Robert Rodriguez, George A. Romero, Paul Schrader, Ettore Scola, Luis Sepúlveda and Bertrand Tavernier ; and for TV productions with Stephen Frears, Clint Eastwood, and Joel Schumacher.

Huston earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of an iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears ' The Grifters ( 1990 ).

Broadbent has worked with Stephen Frears ( for television and in The Hit ( 1984 )) and Terry Gilliam ( in Time Bandits ( 1981 ) and Brazil ( 1985 )) before establishing himself in Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet ( 1990 ).

In 1985, he appeared in the television film Murder with Mirrors opposite Bette Davis, John Mills and Helen Hayes and in 1984, Roth played an apprentice hitman in Stephen Frears ' The Hit with Terence Stamp and John Hurt, earning an " Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer ".

Previous film mentors for the initiative include Mira Nair ( 2004 ), Stephen Frears ( 2006 ), Martin Scorsese ( 2008 ) and Zhang Yimou ( 2010 ).

Fenton also collaborated regularly with the director Stephen Frears, composing for his television productions of Bloody Kids ( 1979 ), Going Gently ( 1981 ), Saigon: Year of the Cat ( 1983 ), and Walter and June ( 1983 ).

Frears contributed to several high-profile anthology series such as the BBC's Play for Today, and produced a series of Alan Bennett's plays for LWT, taking responsibility for working in the gallery on The Old Crowd while Lindsay Anderson worked with the actors.

In 1987, Frears worked with comedian Adrian Edmondson for Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, for a 45-minute programme from the cult series The Comic Strip Presents.

Frears has also occasionally returned to directing for television, perhaps most notably The Deal, that depicts an alleged deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to decide which of them should become leader of the Labour Party in 1994.