‘I’m still proud of it’: Parminder Nagra on Bend It Like Beckham and pushing the envelope

The ER star, whose new role is in Sky’s Intergalactic, on changing attitudes to actors of colour

She saw a goy in a white coat and shouted, ‘Hero!’ And he was like, ‘Er, I work in Kiehl’s’

Honor restorts the economy while Sorcha’s Zoom call proves fatal to Ro’s alibi

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Damascus Cover: Jonathan Rhys Meyers can't save this spy thriller

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is sauve and calculating but it’s not enough amid clanging dialogue

‘Punish me, ravish me, cleanse me’ – Vikings returns

I know what happens next. They kidnap the Irish, send them to Iceland and create Bjork

Television: Wolf Hall is not your usual bodice ripper

The BBC’s Tudor drama is literate and atmospheric; an Irish documentary on being gay is quietly powerful when it stays on home ground; and the last word on RTÉ’s ‘Charlie’

Celebrities party to mark Barretstown’s 20th anniversary

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Gordon D’Arcy and Glen Hansard among 950 guests

Ireland’s men ranked among the ugliest in the world

Less than one in 10 who submitted profiles to website were accepted

Television: Pelts’n’ponytails – a historical epic that bucks the sex and nudity trend

It’s got the film-star looks, but ‘Vikings’, featuring Gabriel Byrne, Travis Fimmel and Katheryn Winnick, mainly hides them behind grime and gore

Jonathan Rhys Meyers: ‘Imagine what it takes to suck the entire blood system out of somebody’

The Cork actor prepared for the role of Dracula in full-blooded fashion: by staring at strangers in Budapest ‘until they wanted to call the police, thinking I was a lunatic’

The Tunnel: Scandi noir takes on an Anglo-French aspect

‘The Tunnel’, a remake of Danish-Swedish murder drama ‘The Bridge’, begins with a dead body being found half in England, half in France

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones