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Andrew Lincoln

March 2026

  • Andrew Lincoln as Egg with Amita Dhiri as Milly in 90s cult classic TV show This Life.

    Booze, drugs and Egg in the buff! How This Life sexed up the world of TV

    Thirty years since the cult show about sweary lawyers swaggered on to our screens in a fug of cigarette smoke, creator Amy Jenkins talks F-bombs, fellatio … and giving Ricky Gervais his big break

October 2025

  • The young ones … l to r, Nathan Valente as Matt, Richard Hanson as Steve, Andrew Lincoln as Ted and John Simm as Phil in Boston Kickout.

    Boston Kickout review – John Simm and Andrew Lincoln among 90s teens tearing around Stevenage

    Some now famous faces – Lincoln, Simm, Marc Warren – bring plenty of youthful zing to this tale of teenage life in new-town Hertfordshire

September 2025

  • Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander in The Lady from the Sea.

    The Lady from the Sea review – Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander make waves in magnificent rewrite

    Ibsen’s mysticism and mermaids are thrown out as director Simon Stone amps up the 1888 play’s psychological intensity with his eco-focused update
  • Andrew Lincoln and Ewen Bremner

    TV review
    Coldwater review – Andrew Lincoln’s wild Scottish thriller is top quality nonsense

    The Walking Dead star plays a total berk who stumbles into a terrifying confrontation in the woods. It’s like Deliverance in the Highlands
  • Lincoln, Vikander and Stone

    ‘It will be frightening but you have to do it’: Andrew Lincoln and Alicia Vikander’s nerve-shredding stage return

    Can two world-famous actors and auteur Simon Stone bring 19th-century Norway screaming into the modern world? They talk mean directors, bathtub revelations and reinventing Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea

July 2025

  • Shaun Parkes and John Simm in Human Traffic.

    Human Traffic review – one-crazy-night 90s clubbing comedy provides euphoric rush of nostalgia

    This loved-up ensemble piece is cheerfully apolitical, pro-drugs and pro-hedonism – and features a very funny film debut from Danny Dyer

December 2024

  • Andrew Lincoln in Love Actually.

    ‘It is quite creepy’: Keira Knightley flagged ‘stalkerish’ aspects while shooting Love Actually

    The actor has commented on the ‘creep factor’ of the cue cards scene in Richard Curtis’s festive romance film, in which she featured as a 17-year-old

August 2024

  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markIt’s 2024 and I might be the last person on earth to watch The Walking Dead. What a loser!

    Zoe Williams
    All I want to talk about is zombie lore and character arc – but everyone else is over it, writes Zoe Williams

April 2021

  • ‘The lion in the boys’ toilet was real’ … from left, Navin Chowdhry, Raquel Cassidy, Andrew Lincoln, Adrian Bower and Nina Sosanya.

    How we made
    ‘It just got madder and madder’ – how we made Channel 4’s Teachers

    ‘The alcohol and the cigarettes were all fake. We couldn’t drink that fast and manage all the different takes’

December 2020

  • ‘A Christmas Carol’ Rehearsal - The Old Vic<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 11: Andrew Lincoln (Scrooge) seen during a rehearsal for ‘In Camera A Christmas Carol’ at The Old Vic Theatre on December 11, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Manuel Harlan - The Old Vic/Old Vic via Getty Images)

    Lockdown culture
    A Christmas Carol review – Andrew Lincoln's Scrooge is a tearjerking gem

    The Old Vic’s zoom-broadcast version of the Dicken classic is full of heart and pulls back the curtain on Covid-era theatre

November 2020

  • Andrew Lincoln as Scrooge

    Old Vic to livestream full production of A Christmas Carol

    Show would be most ambitious and complicated yet attempted during Covid pandemic in UK

September 2020

  • Naomi Watts as Sam Bloom in Penguin Bloom Film Still

    First look review
    Penguin Bloom review – Naomi Watts saved by a magpie in charming drama

    An Australian family moves on from tragedy with the help of a bird in a modest and warm-hearted true story

September 2018

  • Teachers cast.

    Jump the shark
    See me after class: how Teachers flunked out

    The 00s comedy started as an anti-aspirational portrait of twentysomething life. However, a car crash and a Christmas wedding sparked its demise
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