Romola Garai

‘Still a work in progress’: what has #MeToo done for women in theatre?

The Harvey Weinstein scandal was supposed to usher in a reckoning for the industry. But while some headway has been made, meaningful change has proved elusive

Ella Fox-Martens

07, Apr, 2022 @1:00 PM

Amulet review – Romola Garai’s room at the top holds untold horrors

An ex-soldier renovating an old house finds more than just refuge in the actor turned writer-director’s pulsating gothic shocker

Mark Kermode, Observer film critic

30, Jan, 2022 @8:00 AM

Amulet review – Romola Garai makes directorial debut with smart upscale horror

Garai’s first feature as director is a classy chiller where a haunted war veteran is offered uneasy solace by a twinkly-eyed nun

Peter Bradshaw

26, Jan, 2022 @10:00 AM

‘Women like to be afraid watching horror’: why Romola Garai swapped costume dramas for gore

Best known for starring in Atonement and Suffragette, the actor has now turned to writing and directing with a spine-chilling film. What possessed her?

Zoe Williams

21, Jan, 2022 @11:00 AM

Miss Marx review - Romola Garai shines as Marx's daughter gets a punk makeover

Susanna Nicchiarelli’s audacious retelling of the life of Eleanor Marx is in competition in Venice

Jonathan Romney

05, Sep, 2020 @8:32 PM

The week in theatre: The Writer; Absolute Hell – review

A thrillingly shifting feminist drama will send audiences out of the theatre arguing, but a plunge into postwar Soho is stifling

Susannah Clapp

29, Apr, 2018 @7:00 AM

The Writer review – Romola Garai blazes into the battlefield of desire

Almeida, London
Ella Hickson’s riveting play about a writer exploring the sexual revolution boasts a shining performance from Romola Garai

Michael Billington

25, Apr, 2018 @11:03 AM

On my radar: Romola Garai’s cultural highlights

The actor on Viv Albertine’s punk memoirs, why St Vincent’s music tears her up, and a podcast so good she even bought the T-shirt

Kathryn Bromwich

22, Apr, 2018 @9:00 AM

Actor Romola Garai felt 'violated' after Harvey Weinstein encounter

Exclusive: British star adds to allegations against film mogul, describing encounter in which he wore only a dressing gown

Hannah Ellis-Petersen

10, Oct, 2017 @6:56 AM

Queen Anne review – beware the Duchess of Marlborough

Romola Garai is the scheming, glamorous Sarah Churchil in Helen Edmundson’s absorbing but uneven study of 18th-century intrigue

Susan Sheahan

16, Jul, 2017 @7:00 AM

Queen Anne review – Romola Garai is a sensational schemer in gripping history play

Helen Edmundson’s account of the power struggle between the pious monarch and her ambitious friend Sarah Churchill is a rousing hymn to female agency

Michael Billington

11, Jul, 2017 @10:57 AM

Romola Garai: ‘It’s a weird time for feminism’

Romola Garai has a solution for almost everything: sexism, Hollywood, natural childbirth, the Daily Mail, Freud, social media, domestic violence and Brexit… And Eva Wiseman only met her for an hour

Eva Wiseman

16, Apr, 2017 @8:05 AM

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