Birthplace in Burnley (Author’s own)
Childhood home in Bolton (Author’s own)
Docklands home (The Times/News Licensing)
With Sean Mathias in The Grapes (Eyevine/Adrian Lourie)
In Six Characters in Search of an Author (John Bulmer)
In Deutsches Haus with Margaret Drabble (John Bulmer)
In Richard II (Don Smith/Radio Times/Getty)
In Ruling the Roost with Caroline Blakiston (Photostage/Donald Cooper)
In Twelfth Night with Roger Rees (ArenaPAL/Chris Davis)
In Too True to Be Good with Judi Dench (Photostage/Donald Cooper)
In Romeo and Juliet with Francesca Annis (Photostage/Donald Cooper)
In ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore with Paola Dionisotti (Photostage/ Donald Cooper)
In Dr Faustus (Photostage/Donald Cooper)
In Macbeth with Judi Dench (Photostage/Donald Cooper)
In Coriolanus with Gregory Hicks (Alamy/Mirrorpix)
In The Alchemist with Paul Brooke (Photostage/Donald Cooper)
Meeting President Jimmy Carter while performing Amadeus in Washington (Shutterstock/Jeff Taylor/AP)
At Downing Street to meet Prime Minister John Major (The Times/News Licensing)
Protesting outside the Russian Embassy in London with Peter Tatchell (Alamy/Carol Moir)
In Priest of Love with Janet Suzman (Alamy/Everett Collection)
In Richard III (Alamy/Allstar Picture Library)
In Apt Pupil (Alamy/Sportsphoto)
In Gods and Monsters (Alamy/Everett Collection)
In X-Men 2 with Rebecca Romijn (Alamy/Moviestore Collection)
In The Fellowship of the Ring (Alamy/AF Archive)
In The Return of the King (Shutterstock/Pierre Vinet/New Line Cinema/Kobal)
In Uncle Vanya with Antony Sher (Photostage/Donald Cooper)
In Aladdin with Roger Allam (Shutterstock/Alastair Muir)
In Waiting for Godot with Patrick Stewart (Getty/Walter McBride)
At the Empire Awards with Patrick Stewart (Getty/Ian Gavan)
In Vicious with Derek Jacobi (Shutterstock/Alastair Muir)
In All Is True (Alamy/Entertainment Pictures)
In Mr. Holmes (Alamy/Everett Collection)
In King Lear with Romola Garai, 2007 production (Alastair Muir/Shutterstock)
In King Lear with Danny Webb, 2018 production (ArenaPAL/ Johan Persson)