Dame Maggie Smith: Young actresses are under a lot of pressure

The ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ star praised the young women who join the film industry nowadays for being so “brave” about having to “strip off every second”. Appearing with Dame Judi Dench at a fundraising talk for the Tricycle Theatre in north London, she said: “I think they are so brave, the young actresses of today.

New tickets on sale for Rowan Atkinson, Lee Mack, Freida Pinto and many more stars at t…

Due to overwhelming demand, we are selling more tickets for all events at the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival, where you can catch Rowan Atkinson on the reinvention of Maigret, Lee Mack and Barry Cryer debating comedy, and Freida Pinto and Babou Ceesay premiering Guerrilla, to name but a few. Other highlights include a look back at the making of Sir David Attenborough’s Planet Earth II and a masterclass in How to Become a Social Media Star with food and fitness gurus Joe Wicks and the Hemsley Sisters, while the star-studded bill also features Dame Maggie Smith*, Aidan Turner, Jenna Coleman, Charlie Brooker, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Michael Palin, Julie Walters and Keeley Hawes .