Stephen Frears
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.
75 directing credits · 46 acting credits
Directing · 75
Play for Today
1970
Playhouse
1974
Screen Two
1985
ITV Playhouse
1967
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
The Regime
2024
State of the Union
2019
The Loudest Voice
2019
A Very English Scandal
2018
Quiz
2020
Hero
1992
High Fidelity
2000
The Queen
2006
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Brian and Maggie
2025
Follyfoot
1971
Victoria & Abdul
2017
Dirty Pretty Things
2002
The Grifters
1990
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
Tamara Drewe
2010
The Lost King
2022
Mary Reilly
1996
The Hit
1984
The Program
2015
Philomena
2013
Lay the Favorite
2012
Fail Safe
2000
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
The Snapper
1993
Chéri
2009
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005
The Deal
2003
The Van
1996
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Le court des grands
2005
Gumshoe
1971
The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
1984
Bloody Kids
1980
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Liam
2001
Wilder & Me
—
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Afternoon Off
1979
The Route V50
2004
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
A Day Out
1972
Play Things
1976
Three Men in a Boat
1975
Walter and June
1983
Walter
1982
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
One Fine Day
1979
Black Christmas
1977
Able's Will
1977
Going Gently
1981
Doris and Doreen
1978
Early Struggles
1976
Long Distance Information
1979
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
Sunset Across the Bay
1975
The Burning
1968
A Visit from Miss Prothero
1978
December Flower
1984
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
Brian and Maggie
2025
Last Summer
1977
Match of the Day
1974
Cold Harbour
1978
Song of Experience
1986
Brian and Maggie
2025
Acting · 46
Omnibus
1967
Great British Menu
2006
Kulturplatz
2004
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
Reel Britannia
2022
Chéri
2009
Back to Barrytown
2021
The Making of 'The Queen'
2007
A Look Through His Lens
2024
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Director: Alan Clarke
1991
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
Heavy Rain
2010
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
Forever Ealing
2002
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020
Long Shot
1978
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985
Great Directors
2009
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
Robert Altman in England
2002
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
She's French
2018
Michael Powell
2005
Cast & Crew: If....
2004
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
2025
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
2001
Hooray For Holyrood
1986
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015
Incident
1971
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019