Celebrated film director Sir Stephen Frears has had another three points for speeding added to his current driving disqualification.
Hat's All: Frears & Rothenstein leaving court
The award-winning filmmaker, who directed Helen Mirren in ‘The Queen’, is currently off the road until next year after multiple driving offences.
The 84 year-old appeared at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court today and was photographed getting into a black cab afterwards with artist wife Anne Rothenstein, 76.
He pleaded guilty to speeding in his ten year-old 1.8 litre black hybrid electric Toyota Auris in Park Road on December 12, last year, a short distance from his £2.4m terraced house in Homer Street, Marylebone.
A speed camera caught him driving at 29mph in a 20mph zone near Regent's Park.
Prosecutor Caroline Cross told the short hearing BAFTA-winner Sir Stephen was recorded speeding at 11.04am.
The court heard that on July 9 he received a six-month driving disqualification for repeated motoring offences that reached at least twelve penalty points.
His disqualification lasts until January, next year.
Sir Stephen was not legally represented and declined to address the magistrates, who imposed another three penalty points that will remain on his driving licence after the current disqualification.
He was also fined £194, with £130 costs and must pay a £78 victim surcharge.
The Leicester-born filmmaker, a Cambridge graduate, received a knighthood in 2023.
He was an assistant stage manger for the university’s 1963 Footlights Revue, which starred the likes of John Cleese and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
Sir Stephen’s films include ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’; ‘Prick Up Your Ears’; ‘Dangerous Liaisons’; ‘The Grifters’; ‘Mary Reilly’; ‘High Fidelity’; ‘Dirty Pretty Things’; and ‘Philomena’.
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