Billy Elliot is a 2000 film about a working-class boy who discovers ballet and faces disapproval from his family and community. Billy's character is fictional, but inspired by real-life figures ...

Place is essential to this world. A layer of unease marks the undertone of “Billy Elliot” and its relationship with its setting. It is 1984 in the fictional town of Everington in Durham County ...

Actress Barbara Leigh-Hunt, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy, and was known for her roles in Billy Elliot and Pride and Prejudice, has died at her home in Warwickshire at the age of 88 ...