In honor of his birthday, Stephen Frears was appointed a knight.
One of his most well-known movies is The Queen, which earned Dame Helen Mirren an Oscar and Frears a nomination for best director.
For My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, Philomena, and The Grifters, for which he was also nominated for an Oscar, he has also received praise.
A Very English Scandal, Quiz, and The Deal, a documentary about Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, are among the television projects of Leicester-born Frears.
Before making his feature film debut with Gumshoe in 1971, Frears, who was born and raised in the city and attended Cambridge, worked in theater and for the BBC.
He first gained notoriety with the inter-racial drama My Beautiful Laundrette from 1985, which starred Daniel Day Lewis and was based on a Hanif Kureishi story.
Since then, his career has been filled with tales of real people, such as Mrs. Henderson Presents with Dame Judi Dench, Victoria and Abdul, in which Dame Judi reprised her role as Queen Victoria, and Philomena, in which Dame Judi collaborated once more with Frears and played an Irish woman on a mission to learn what happened to the baby boy taken from her in the 1950s.
In addition, he produced a film about Muhammad Ali's opposition to participating in the Vietnam War, titled Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight.
The Queen, in which Dame Helen played the late monarch in the days following the passing of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, is, however, arguably his most important and well-regarded work.
In addition, Michael Sheen reprises his Tony Blair character from The Deal.
The film received nominations for best picture, best screenplay, and best costumes, while Frears received a nomination for directing. Dame Helen won the best actress Oscar.
His most recent movie, The Lost King, which was released in 2022, was about amateur historian Philippa Langley who discovered King Richard III's long-lost remains in a parking lot in Leicester.
For his contributions to film and television, he has received a knighthood.
