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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · 11h

I do try! She is very good at being illusive ... on top of her myriad other talents!

Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · 14h

Sarah was photographed outside of Buckingham Palace for the Women of the World Festival back in March 2025. It's always a wonderful day when you find a new Sarah photo. Isn't she lovely? 👑
#SarahLancashire
📸: Anita Anand / Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · 1d

"I have confidence I didn't have before, which only comes with age."-Sarah Lancashire (Variety, 2024)
Happy Birthday, Sarah ... may your confidence only continue to bloom! 🤍🌸
📸: Camera Press / Getty / Edit: CE
#SarahLancashire #HappyBirthday

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · 1d

"I'll probably just ring up my twin, wish him a happy birthday like I do every year ..."-Sarah Lancashire (The Scotsman, 2004)
#SarahLancashire #HappyBirthday
📸: Sarah Lancashire / Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · 3d

“Her ability to mainline emotion through the camera and straight into the audience at home is extraordinary.” - Nina Sosanya (NTA, 2023)
#SarahLancashire
📸: BBC / Cap & Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · 8d

"I've always wanted to try and tell stories that haven't been told in a sense; just look between the paving stones, look in the cracks."-Sarah Lancashire (BBC Woman's Hour, 2024)
#SarahLancashire
📸: Spicer / Getty/ Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · 17d

“What was extraordinary about that final scene is that Sarah had a massive hand in the construction of it. I had written the episode & she came here actually, she came here to my house & she gave me the best notes I’ve probably ever had on a script.”-Sally Wainwright (NTA, 2023)
📸:BBC/Cap & Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · 20d

"We giggle like completely juvenile idiots."-Nina Sosanya (Independent, 2014)
#SarahLancashire #LastTangoinHalifax
📸: Kyte / Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · 25d

"The work doesn't end when the cameras stop rolling. You're prepping for the following day. It's a constant. You're on a treadmill. You're sitting there with a script in the car, being driven home, & then you get home ... it's a 24 hour a day job."-S. Lancashire (Women's Hour, 2024)
📸:Croot/Edit:CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Sep 11

Throwback Theatre Thursday! 🎭 Sarah in her dressing room at the Albery Theatre (now the Noël Coward Theatre) during her stint as Linda in "Blood Brothers."
#SarahLancashire #TBThursday #theatre
📸: Sarah Lancashire / Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Sep 9

"We're getting better at depicting women in a different light ... and I have to say, in all fairness, we really have moved on in terms of how we depict women in drama, that they are now a propelling force within drama."-Sarah Lancashire (BBC Woman's Hour, 2024)
#SarahLancashire
📸: BBC/Cap & Edit:CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Sep 6

"You can't turn off a creative brain. It's an unquiet mind. There is a quest to constantly try and find work so that you can really satisfy things."-Sarah Lancashire (BBC Woman's Hour, 2024)
#SarahLancashire
📸: Tracey Paddison / Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Aug 29

"It's actually about being entrusted with pieces."-Sarah Lancashire (Radio Times, 2018)
#SarahLancashire #acting #quote
📸: BBC/Pavao/HBO Max/Ch4
📸: Edits & Collage: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Aug 17

"I text Sarah when I've had a bad day. 'That was rubbish!' I'll write, & she'll send reassuring, but slightly offensive texts back. So she gets the slightly mewing messages from me & fires back something very positive."-Nicola Walker (Yours,17)
#SarahLancashire #NicolaWalker
📸: BBC / Cap & Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ambidextrous single tearing ... the woman is a wonder!
#SarahLancashire #HappyValley #acting
🎬: BBC / Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Aug 12

"We’ve both got a slightly warped sense of humour and we both like a cake. It’s always a joy to work with another actress who actually eats cake."-Siobhan Finneran (Guardian, 2022)
#SarahLancashire #SiobhanFinneran
📸: WFTV / Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Aug 6

“Because [Julia Child] is so elevating and she has such warmth and sunshine in her soul, you have to find that within yourself in order to play her, to capture that spirit, which is so genuine." -Sarah Lancashire (Vanity Fair, 2023)
#SarahLancashire #JuliaonMax
📸: Melanie Mayron

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Aug 3

"There is a personal cost to [acting] in terms of what you have to give in order to portray a particular person. But when you get it right and you feel you've got to the heart of somebody, it's incredibly satisfying."-Sarah Lancashire(Telegraph, 2018)
#sarahlancashire
📸: BBC / Cap & Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Jul 28

"[Sarah] is such a hard worker, but yet is so effortless on set. Is so brilliant, and great to be in a scene with, and is so believable and so emotional, and then you finish the scene and she's back to Sarah again. It was a real joy."-Fiona Glascott (Cinemadailyus, 2022)
📸: Tristan Fewlings Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Jul 18

Work with Sarah Lancashire again?-NTA , 2023
#SarahLancashire #acting
* "Yeah, in a heartbeat"- Nina Sosanya
* "I would love to work with her again"- Siobhan Finneran
* "Yes! [laughs] Obviously!"- Sally Wainwright
📸: BBC / Tony Johnson
📸: Caps / Edits / Collage: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Maybe Nicola and I should set up shop in a café and write something together. We'd probably end up just eating the cake though."-Sarah Lancashire (Woman and Home, 2017)
#SarahLancashire #NicolaWalker
📸: BBC / Edit: CE

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Jul 1

Things are heating up! Sarah enjoying Wimbledon on a very hot day. 🎾
#SarahLancashire #Wimbledon2025
📷: Kwang / EPA

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Jul 1

Peter and Sarah at the Wimbledon Championships today!
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📸: Jordan Pettitt / PA Wire

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Jun 26

"She's rarely wrong, Lancashire!"-Nicola Walker (BBC Radio Leeds, 2014)
#SarahLancashire #nicolawalker
📸: BBC / Cap & Edit: CE
#acting #quote

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Sarah Lancashire Spotlight @culturalepiph.bsky.social · Jun 16

Joy in the work. Joy in the friendships. 🤍
#SarahLancashire #NicolaWalker #NinaSosanya #davidhydepierce #LuCorfield #actorslife
📸: Gonon / Max / Alex Healey
📸: Inside Media Track/ Lu Corfield
📸: Collage & Edits: CE

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