Richard Hawley on beating drugs and bullies

Bullied at school, addicted to drugs, washed up by Britpop — Hawley is now one of our most celebrated singer-songwritersJuly 14 2012As the lights go down in the Bouffes du Nord, a dilapidated 18th-century theatre in a bleak, unloved area behind Gare du Nord in...

Adam Deacon: from Hackney to Hollywood

May 2 2012 He grew up on an estate and paid for drama lessons by stacking shelves. When the film industry shunned Adam Deacon, he made his own movie – and won a Bafta It’s a sharp, damp April day in East London and Adam Deacon is huddling against a wall,...

Jon Hamm: I’m not Don Draper

March 24 2012: Amy Raphael meets the 41-year-old actor and finds he has all the looks but none of the attitude of his Mad Men character. Plus, are you cool at 40? Take our test Jon Hamm is six minutes late. I pace up and down a Soho hotel corridor. I keep thinking of...