Mary Reilly News

From slavery and hypocrisy to a lighthearted trip to Tuscany: novelist Valerie Martin talks to Marianne Brace Few people had heard of Valerie Martin until last year.

IMAGES Main American actress in full Julia Fiona Roberts born Oct. 28, 1967, Smyrna, Ga., U.S. American actress whose deft performances in varied roles helped make her one of the highest-paid and most influential actresses in the 1990s and early 2000s.

In a game of seduction, never fall in love. "I can't criticize his character, mainly because he doesn't seem to have one." Lea is a highly-regarded courtesan living in early 20th Century France.

Michael Sheen never felt he was playing second fiddle as British leader Tony Blair or TV interviewer David Frost.

Michael Sheen was well known on London's dramatic stages for nearly a decade when his Broadway lead in "Amadeus" in 1999 unleashed one of the U.K.'s best kept secrets on international audiences.

The Orange prize-winning Valerie Martin sets her sights on Broadway in her new novel.

Much ado has often been made about movie accents that have unforgivably missed the mark -- such as Julia Roberts' maligned Irish lilt in Mary Reilly .

Power Outage Michelle Pfeiffer as an aging courtesan by Jason Blair CHERI: Directed by Stephen Frears.

Most theater troupes take a siesta in the middle of summer, leaving theater critics with little more to do than ponder the inefficiency of adverbs.

Christopher Hampton could be considered the king of adaptations, having brought the words of writers as varied as Graham Greene, Ian McEwan, and now Colette to the screen.

Armed with a keen visual awareness and compelling ability to tell a story, Stephen Frears became established as a leading director in British cinema and TV in the 1980s.