The Lady in the Van

…the stage in 1999 and film in 2015. A best-selling collection of his diaries and reminiscences, titled Writing Home, appeared in 1994. In the memoir Untold Stories (2005), he looked back affectionately at his parents, poignantly reflected on his mother’s descent into senility and her death in a nursing home,…

…of the title character in The Lady in the Van. In 2017 Broadbent appeared on the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, a fantasy epic in which he portrayed an “archmaester” at the Citadel, home to scholars and healers. His film credits that year included The Sense of an Ending.…

…musical Into the Woods and The Lady in the Van (2015).

His film version of The Lady in the Van premiered that year.

…reprised the role in a 2015 film version.