As a UNICEF UK Ambassador, I am driven by a profound responsibility to support children worldwide confronting cancer. Their bravery demands more than sympathy it demands action. Through advocacy, awareness, and collective compassion, I strive to help deliver vital care and ensure that every child is given the chance not only to survive, but to live with dignity and hope.
I’m very pleased to share that I’ll be making my opera-directing debut at the Paris Opera with Eugene Onegin a production that also marks Semyon Bychkov’s first project since being named the company’s next Music Director.
Tchaikovsky’s beautiful and intimate work will open at the Palais Garnier on 26 January 2026 and run through 27 February. I’m deeply grateful for the extraordinary response all performances are already sold out.
My sincere thanks to the artists, the company, and to all of you for your continued support. It means a great deal.
If my work has touched you, know that it came from a place in me that still believes in quiet miracles, unexpected connections, and the kind of beauty that finds you when you’re not even looking.
I’ve played kings and monsters, poets and priests. But off the screen, I remain someone still learning, still searching. The beauty of life, I’ve found, lies not in grand gestures but in quiet endurance in the moments we dare to feel deeply despite knowing how easily life can undo us.
There are moments in life when silence becomes a kind of punishment. Not the calm, golden silence of morning light through an open window but the heavier kind, the one that presses against the chest like the weight of memory.
There’s something about dogs that humbles me every time. Their loyalty, their joy in the smallest of things—it’s a kind of wisdom we humans often overlook. I’ve always felt they remind us of what truly matters: presence, trust, and love without conditions.
I’ve always believed that animals carry a kind of wisdom we often overlook—a quiet loyalty, an unspoken grace. This little companion reminds me that love and connection don’t always need words, sometimes it’s enough simply to be present. May we all learn to cherish the small guardians of our days.
BTW a fan sent me this ..what’s your opinion on this ?
Antes de que Nolan lleve La Odisea al espacio de sus visiones monumentales, ya existe una versión que está haciendo historia: visceral, humana y brutal. 👉#LaOdiseaElRegreso#AntesDeNolan 🧵👇
I’ve carried both triumph and tragedy in my life. The year Schindler’s List brought me worldwide recognition was the same year I lost my mother to cancer — joy and grief colliding in ways I could hardly bear.
Gospel of the Day (Matthew 20,1-16a)
"What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? (Or) am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?' Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last."
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Journey back to a time long before Eggsy and Galahad for a refined but brutal, civilised but merciless Kingsman prequel that spills the bloody secrets of the world’s first secret service.
Matthew Vaughn’s explosive #TheKingsMan starring Ralph Finnes is on our screens Dec 22nd!
Yeah your politicians are cringe but are they "Serbian president giving Ralph Finnes Serbian citizenship and saying 'Voldemort's Serb now' with a crappy animation of Finnes apparating next to the president" cringe?