Dame Joan Plowright obituary

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

Jeff Baena obituary

Director of enjoyably twisted films including Life After Beth, The Little Hours and Spin Me Round

US director whose wildly unconventional films burrowed into the unsavoury depths of his nation’s psyche

Comedian and actor who found television fame in the 1980s on Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Broadway actor who became a television star in the sitcom Alice as a single mother working as a waitress in a diner

Oscar-nominated cinematographer who helped create the look of Tim Burton’s Batman and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, as well as two Harry Potter films

Other lives: Advocate for parents of LGBTQ+ children, passionate community volunteer and actor

Other lives: Accountant who was passionate about theatre and combined this with a talent for making personal tax less daunting

Film director and producer whose hit comedies, co-written with his second wife Nancy Meyers, drew on their relationship

Pioneering director with a vital role in India’s ‘parallel cinema’ movement who used his films to explore difficult issues

Other lives: Bafta award-winning film editor and author

Actor who was catapulted to fame as one of the teen stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet in 1968

Film director and producer who worked with Salvador Dalí and the Pet Shop Boys

American singer best known as a vocalist with the 1970s disco group Chic whose hits included Le Freak

Spanish star of films by Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro and Roberto Benigni, and a champion of leftwing causes