Dolly Wells
- 52 years old
- British
- Actor, writer and director
Press clippings Page 2
The Outlaws review
Christopher Walken runs riot in brilliantly silly crime comedy.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 25th October 2021The Pursuit Of Love is bold, barmy and never boring
Her adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel features subtitles, freeze-frames and loud blasts of T Rex.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 10th May 2021Stephen Merchant's The Offenders gets second series
Stephen Merchant's new BBC One comedy, co-starring Christopher Walken, has been renewed for a second series whilst filming on the first is ongoing.
British Comedy Guide, 13th January 2021Christopher Walken confirmed for Stephen Merchant's The Offenders
Christopher Walken has been confirmed as leading the cast of Stephen Merchant's BBC comedy drama The Offenders, which has resumed filming.
British Comedy Guide, 14th December 2020Filming starts on BBC comedy drama The Pursuit Of Love
Production is underway on The Pursuit Of Love, Emily Mortimer's BBC One comedy drama adaptation of Nancy Mitford's celebrated novel. Lily James, Emily Beecham and Dominic West star.
British Comedy Guide, 28th July 2020Sisterly rivalry looms large in this offbeat British comedy. Alice Lowe is the kooky Lisa, who, with sister Claire (Dolly Wells), steals a car and heads for a poets' retreat in the Black Mountains on the England-Wales border. Awkwardly affecting poetic sensibilities, the pair fall for the spiritual grittiness of Tom Cullen's Richard.
Paul Howlett, The Guardian, 24th July 2018Black Mountain Poets review
Alice Lowe, Dolly Wells and Tom Cullen excel in this flimsy, funny tale of siblings who impersonate beat poets at a retreat in the Black Mountains.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 31st March 2016Alice Lowe interview
Alice Lowe is set to return to the big screen this week with her new film Black Mountain Poets, which sees her star alongside Dolly Wells and Tom Cullen and work with filmmaker Jamie Adams.
Helen Earnshaw, Female First, 31st March 2016Black Mountain Poets review
Indeed, for all its Five Go Mad in Dorset-esque, decidedly British humour, this is fundamentally a moving study of the nature of adult sisterhood.
Nikki Baughan, The List, 28th March 2016Created by Emily Mortimer, daughter of Rumpole author John Mortimer, and Dolly Wells, whose father was satirist John Wells, this semi-improvised series could be dismissed as an exercise in self-indulgent showbiz nepotism. However, while not wildly funny, it is richly nuanced and observational, drawing on a deeply embedded real-life friendship between the pair. In the final episode of the current series, it's the opening night of the off-Broadway play the pair have been planning. Inevitably, however, crisis strikes at the last minute.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 8th July 2015