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Alexandra Pollard

Alexandra Pollard is the former deputy culture editor of The Independent

<p>Nash has a new album in the works, her first since 2018’s ‘Yesterday Was Forever’ </p>
Interview

Kate Nash: ‘I’ve never fit into the music industry’

The ‘Foundations’ singer speaks to Alexandra Pollard about ‘never fitting’ into the music industry, the tabloid headlines she had to deal with and the untimely cancellation of her Netflix series ‘Glow’

<p>‘Somewhere’? ‘I Feel Pretty’? ‘I Could Have Danced All Night’? ‘Getting to Know You’? All Nixon</p>

How Audrey Hepburn’s ghost singer was sworn to secrecy by Hollywood

As the voice of Maria in ‘West Side Story’ and Eliza Doolittle in ‘My Fair Lady’, Marni Nixon should have been one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Instead, other actors got the credit and she became American cinema’s ‘most unsung singer’, writes Alexandra Pollard

How Audrey Hepburn’s ghost singer was sworn to secrecy by Hollywood

As the voice of Maria in ‘West Side Story’ and Eliza Doolittle in ‘My Fair Lady’, Marni Nixon should have been one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Instead, other actors got the credit and she became American cinema’s ‘most unsung singer’, writes Alexandra Pollard

<p>‘Somewhere’? ‘I Feel Pretty’? ‘I Could Have Danced All Night’? ‘Getting to Know You’? All Nixon</p>
<p>Elijah Wood: ‘If you don’t have a stable home life, then you’re suddenly defining yourself by what everyone else tells you you are’</p>
Interview

Elijah Wood: ‘It’s a fine line between titillation and confrontation’

The Hobbit star plays the FBI agent who interviewed serial killer Ted Bundy on Death Row in a new film. He talks to Alexandra Pollard about the importance of not exploiting his crimes

Interview

Elijah Wood: ‘It’s a fine line between titillation and confrontation’

The Hobbit star plays the FBI agent who interviewed serial killer Ted Bundy on Death Row in a new film. He talks to Alexandra Pollard about the importance of not exploiting his crimes

<p>Elijah Wood: ‘If you don’t have a stable home life, then you’re suddenly defining yourself by what everyone else tells you you are’</p>
‘They say you have to like every character you play – I don’t’
Interview

Jared Harris: ‘I would try to avoid my father’s pitfalls’

After a star-making role in ‘Mad Men’, the English actor made television behemoths out of ‘The Crown’ and ‘Chernobyl’. He tells Alexandra Pollard why you don’t have to like the characters you play – especially when it comes to his new series, ‘The Beast Must Die’

Interview

Jared Harris: ‘I would try to avoid my father’s pitfalls’

After a star-making role in ‘Mad Men’, the English actor made television behemoths out of ‘The Crown’ and ‘Chernobyl’. He tells Alexandra Pollard why you don’t have to like the characters you play – especially when it comes to his new series, ‘The Beast Must Die’

‘They say you have to like every character you play – I don’t’

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