A blue plaque has been unveiled in Bradford’s historic Little Germany to honour a “powerhouse of British Theatre.” ...

Esmé Church was an actor and director who founded the Northern Theatre School on Chapel Street, training future stars like Billie Whitelaw, Edward Petherbridge, and Robert Stephens. Born in ...

An "unsung" actress and director who founded a theatre school that taught future stars including three-time Bafta winner Billie Whitelaw has been honoured with a blue plaque. The recognition in ...

An “unsung” actress and director who founded a theatre school that taught future stars including three-time Bafta winner Billie Whitelaw has been honoured with a blue plaque.

A pioneer of theatre in the north of England has been honoured with a Blue Plaque in Bradford. Actress Esmé Church was born in 1893 in London and joined the Old Vic Company in 1927, where she ...

Billie Honor Whitelaw (6 June 1932 – 21 December 2014) was an English stage and screen actress. She worked in close collaborration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and wass ...

Billie Whitelaw’s performance as Violet Kray has been called one of the most chilling and complex portrayals of motherhood ever put on film. “The movie is not simply a catalog of stabbings ...

including Billie Jean King, Billie Holiday, Billie Joe Armstrong, Billie Lourd, Billie Burke, Billie Whitelaw and Billie Dove.

The Irish dramatist was well known for obsessing over the performances in his work of some of the finest actors of the twentieth century — Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Pat Magee, Buster Keaton.