Stephen Frears
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday20 June 1941 (85 years old)
Place of birthLeicester, England, UK
Known credits129
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 (2…
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
2026
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Brian and Maggie
2025 · Executive Producer
Brian and Maggie
2025 · Director
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · self
The Regime
2024 · Executive Producer
The Regime
2024 · Director
A Look Through His Lens
2024 · Self
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023 · Self
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022 · Self
The Lost King
2022 · Director
Reel Britannia
2022 · Self
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
2021 · Original Film Writer
Back to Barrytown
2021 · Self
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020 · Self
Quiz
2020 · Executive Producer
Quiz
2020 · Director
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
The Loudest Voice
2019 · Director
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019 · Self
State of the Union
2019 · Executive Producer
State of the Union
2019 · Director
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018 · Self
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
A Very English Scandal
2018 · Director
A Very English Scandal
2018 · Executive Producer
She's French
2018
Victoria & Abdul
2017 · Director
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017 · Self
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016 · Self
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · Director
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · Writer
The Program
2015 · Director
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015 · Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014 · Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014 · Director
Night Will Fall
2014 · Producer
Night Will Fall
2014 · Executive Producer
Philomena
2013 · Director
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013 · Director
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Lay the Favorite
2012 · Director
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011 · Self
Tamara Drewe
2010 · Director
Heavy Rain
2010 · Himself
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009 · Self
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