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British movie icon who won a BAFTA for gritty BBC drama series after starring in a string of rom-coms commands attention at West End opening of her new play - but can you guess who it is?

The actress, now 60, was joined by the likes of Deborah Findlay, Mark Strong, Sonia Friedman and Romola Garai for the photocall at Sophie's Soho to promote the theatre adaptation.

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Four performances of David Tennant's West End production of Macbeth were cancelled after he and cast were struck down with swine flu

Audiences hoping to see the Doctor Who star as the Shakespeare anti-hero at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London last year were disappointed as shows were cancelled due to 'company illness'.

Hayley Atwell on theatre, Tom Cruise and the tabloids: ‘I’ve reached the point where I’m OK if I’m not liked’

From shooting guns in Mission: Impossible films to appearing in a new West End production of Shakespeare, the actor has proved there’s nothing she can’t do. But, she says, there are now a few things …

Two Just Stop Oil protesters are charged after Sigourney Weaver's West End performance of The Tempest was stopped by on-stage demo

Two Just Stop Oil protesters, Richard Weir, 60, and Hayley Walsh, 42 have been charged after a West End play of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver was stopped by a demo.

Just Stop Oil eco-clowns who stormed West End play are university lecturer and retired plumber who claimed the government was carrying out 'mass genocide' with fossil fuels

The eco-group revealed Hayley Walsh, 42, and Richard Weir, 60, were behind the stunt which took place at the Theatre Royal in London 's Covent Garden last night.

The Kyoto climate treaty is hailed on stage but reality tells a different story

A gripping play in London’s West End tells how agreement of the first climate protocol in 1997 was a triumph, as scientists share new warnings about the scale of the crisis

As material for a West End …

‘Everything I wanted was offered to me. But I felt nothing’: singer Self Esteem on stardom, self-doubt, and making it in a man’s world

Her dreams came true when she went from indie land to lauded pop star. But Self Esteem – aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor – only ended up feeling ‘miserable, depressed and crazy’. Now she’s back with a new lo…

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End

• Michael Billington: Plowright was a dynamic force
• Joan Plowright: a life…

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