Acting credits
34
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Stephen Frears
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.6
Moderate attention
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Movies: 90Series: 15Crew credits: 74
TMDB ID: 3224
IMDb ID: nm0001241
Known for: Directing
Born: June 20, 1941
Age: 84
Place of birth: Leicester, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1966 - 2025
Years active: 60
Average TMDB rating: 6.54
Wikidata: Q55258
Also known as
스티븐 프리어즈 • Stephen Arthur Frears
Other jobs
Director (64)Executive Producer (6)Assistant Director (1)Director of Photography (1)Original Film Writer (1)Producer (1)
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 (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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Stephen Frears.
8.0
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
as Self (archive footage)
2025 Movie
6.0
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
2024 Movie
The Rise of the Comic Strip
as Self
2023 Movie
7.2
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
as Self
2022 Movie
6.5
The Lost King
Director
2022 Movie
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
Original Film Writer
2021 Movie
2.0
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
as Self
2020 Movie
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
as Self
2019 Movie
5.0
Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self
2018 Movie
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018 Movie
6.9
Victoria & Abdul
Director
2017 Movie
She's French
2017 Movie
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self
2016 Movie
6.7
Florence Foster Jenkins
Director
2016 Movie
6.4
The Program
Director
2015 Movie
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015 Movie
5.3
French Cinema Mon Amour
as Self
2015 Movie
4.0
Henri Langlois vu par...
as Self
2014 Movie
7.6
Night Will Fall
Executive Producer
2014 Movie
7.3
Philomena
Director
2013 Movie
6.3
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Director
2013 Movie
5.0
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012 Movie
5.2
Lay the Favorite
Director
2012 Movie
1.0
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as Self
2011 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Stephen Frears.
7.3
Brian and Maggie
Director • 2 eps
2025 Series
6.2
The Regime
Executive Producer • 6 eps
2024 Series
8.7
Reel Britannia
as Self • 4 eps
2022 Series
Back to Barrytown
as Self • 2 eps
2021 Series
6.9
Quiz
Executive Producer • 3 eps
2020 Series
7.4
The Loudest Voice
Director • 1 eps
2019 Series
7.0
State of the Union
Executive Producer • 20 eps
2019 Series
7.1
A Very English Scandal
Director • 3 eps
2018 Series
6.0
Kulturplatz
as Self • 1 eps
2004 Series
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self • 1 eps
1993 Series
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
Director • 3 eps
1982 Series
7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
Director • 2 eps
1977 Series
7.0
Playhouse
Director • 2 eps
1974 Series
5.5
Follyfoot
Director • 3 eps
1971 Series
6.3
Play for Today
Director • 3 eps
1970 Series