Stephen Frears

Director

Born: June 20, 1941 (age 85)
From: Leicester, England, UK

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…

Filmography (100)

Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything (2026)
Innes Lloyd: The Producer (2025)
Self (archive footage)
Brian and Maggie (2025)
Director
Alec Guinness: A Class Act (2024)
self
A Look Through His Lens
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
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat (2020)
Self
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit (2019)
Memories of Lindsay Anderson (2019)
Self
Who Killed British Cinema? (2018)
Self
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters (2018)
She's French (2018)
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
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Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Il était une fois... « The Queen » (2017)
Self
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016)
Self
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Director
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)
Director
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
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment (2012)
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood (2011)
Self
Tamara Drewe (2010)
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Heavy Rain (2010)
Himself