Bessie Carter exclusively opened up to PEOPLE about starring in the West End revival of 'Mrs. Warren’s Profession' alongside ...

open image in gallery Mirror image: Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter star opposite one another for the first time in ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession’ (Johan Persson) There was never any question ...

Staunton and Carter play a battling mother and daughter in George Bernard Shaw's melodrama about prostitution.

When her daughter Bessie was small, Imelda Staunton would read her bedtime stories. “I’d say something like, ‘And then the witch came in,’” says Staunton, cackling away like a wrinkled old woman. “And ...

“We are mother and daughter!” cries Imelda Staunton at one of the agonising pinch points in Mrs Warren’s Profession. It’s a line that acquires even more sting than usual as the implacable ...

She's designed sets and costumes for everyone from Ben Whishaw to Ncuti Gatwa and won awards for War Horse now Rae Smith is revealing her ...

The big draw is the casting of real life mother and daughter - Imelda Staunton and Bessie (Bridgerton) Carter - as wealthy ’businesswoman’ Mrs Kitty Warren and her estranged daughter Vivie.

Imelda Staunton is magnificent as the titular Mrs Warren, who’s bought respectability for her daughter (played by her real-life offspring Bessie Carter) by selling herself – and a horde of ...

Actor Imelda Staunton and director Dominic Cooke have enjoyed a fruitful creative relationship in recent years, collaborating on acclaimed revivals of the musicals Follies and Hello, Dolly!.

There couldn’t be a more capable cast to navigate the gravity shifts. Imelda Staunton reunites with Cooke after last year’s Hello Dolly! – all feline scowl and vinegary jabs until the ...