Living legend

Thanks to the old Sherlock Holmes films that we used to watch on TV every week after the children’s programme Crackerjack had finished, I have known about my family’s “Hollywood relative” since my chi

Traditionally, grandmas aren’t supposed to look like Twiggy. With her blonde shoulder-length hair, youthful complexion and trim figure garbed in a trendy burgundy-hued leather biker-style jacket, hot-

Ariana Grande is certainly the woman of the moment. A pop singer with a back catalogue of smash-hit albums and chart-topping songs turned movie star with Oscar and Bafta nominations to her name. As sh

MAE WEST was a trailblazer in more ways than one. Born in 1893, her stage career began at five years old. By the age of fourteen, academia already a distant memory, she was known as the “Baby Vamp” fo

As a child, I was very creative and always drawing, painting or making a mess at the dinner table, but my other love was theatre. I was a dancer and performer first, but as a person of colour, I didn’

Playing formidable women means fans are sometimes intimidated by actress Vanessa Williams – which can have its advantages. “Many people are scared to approach me,” she says. “It’s actually quite good.