British star honoured for her role as Queen Anne in Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s quirky period comedy The Favourite Olivia Colman has been named best actress at the Venice film festival for her role as a frail and volatile Queen Anne in the quirky period comedy _The Favourite_. Her performance has been described as showing “career-best form”. The film’s Greek director, Yorgos Lanthimos, also cast Colman in his first English-language film, _The Lobster_, a black comedy, for which she won best supporting actress at the British Independent film awards for her role as the hotel manager. In _The Favourite_, Colman stars opposite Rachel Weisz, who plays her close friend Sarah Churchill, who has to put up with the queen’s mercurial temper, and Emma Stone as Sarah’s cousin Abigail. The film also won the grand jury prize, the festival’s second-most prestigious. Continue reading...
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