Cultural depictions of Tony Blair
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...

 onstage, in film and in other forms of fiction
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Television drama and film

  • The Tony Blair Witch Project
    The Tony Blair Witch Project
    The Tony Blair Witch Project is a 2000 horror spoof of The Blair Witch Project which also pokes fun at then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair.- Synopsis :...

    (2000) - Mike Martinez
    Mike Martinez
    Mike Martinez is an elected city councilman and mayor pro tempore in the city of Austin, Texas as well as the chairman of the Capital Metropolitan Transit Authority. First elected in 2006 and subsequently reelected in 2009, Martinez is a former fireman and union official...

  • The Deal (2003) - Michael Sheen
  • The Government Inspector
    The Government Inspector (television drama)
    The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom...

    (2005) - James Larkin
    James Larkin (actor)
    James Larkin is an English actor, most notable for his portrayal of the character Dylan in EastEnders and as Tony Blair in the 2005 The Government Inspector. He has also written Int...

  • A Very Social Secretary (2005) - Robert Lindsay
  • The Queen
    The Queen (film)
    The Queen is a 2006 British drama film directed by Stephen Frears, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Helen Mirren as the title role, HM Queen Elizabeth II...

    (2006) - Michael Sheen
  • The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
    The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
    The Amazing Mrs Pritchard was a British drama series that aired on BBC One in 2006. Produced by Kudos, it was written by Sally Wainwright and stars Jane Horrocks in the title role of a woman with no previous political experience who becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.-Background:Sally...

    (2006) - John Brolly
  • The Alastair Campbell Diaries (2007) - Michael Sheen
  • The Trial of Tony Blair
    The Trial of Tony Blair
    The Trial of Tony Blair is a satirical drama, based around the notion that the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair is to face charges of war crimes by an international tribunal, following his departure from 10 Downing Street...

    (2007) - Robert Lindsay
    Robert Lindsay (actor)
    Robert Lindsay is an English actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles of Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Michael Murray in G.B.H., Captain Sir Edward Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family which has been on television screens since 2000.-Early life:Lindsay was...

  • Confessions of a Diary Secretary (2007) - Damian Lewis
    Damian Lewis
    Lewis was born in St John's Wood, London, the son of Charlotte Mary and J. Watcyn Lewis, a City broker. His paternal grandparents were Welsh. His maternal grandfather was Lord Mayor of London Ian Frank Bowater and his maternal grandmother's ancestors include Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of...

  • W
    W. (film)
    W. is a 2008 American film based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as Bush, with a cast that includes Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Scott...

    (2008) - Ioan Gruffudd
    Ioan Gruffudd
    Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor.Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he started off in Welsh language film productions, then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic , and as Lt. John Beales in Black Hawk Down...

  • Quantum of Solace (2008) - Mathieu Amalric
    Mathieu Amalric
    Mathieu Amalric is a French actor and film director, perhaps best known internationally for his performance as the lead villain in Bond film Quantum Of Solace and for his role in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he drew critical acclaim...

     based his portrayal of Dominic Greene
    Dominic Greene
    Dominic Greene is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. He is portrayed by French actor Mathieu Amalric.-In the film:...

     on Blair
  • The Ghost Writer (2010) - Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...

     plays British Prime Minister Adam Lang who is based on Tony Blair
  • The Special Relationship
    The Special Relationship (film)
    The Special Relationship is a 2010 American-British political film directed by Richard Loncraine from a screenplay by Peter Morgan. It is the third film in Morgan's informal "Blair trilogy", which dramatizes the political career of British Prime Minister Tony Blair , following The Deal and The...

    (2010) - Michael Sheen
    Michael Sheen
    Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE , is a Welsh stage and screen actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England and made his professional debut opposite Vanessa Redgrave in When She Danced at the Globe Theatre in 1991...


Satire

  • Spitting Image
    Spitting Image
    Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Television. The series was nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards, winning one for editing in 1989....

    (1994–1996)
  • Sermon from St. Albion's (1998) - Harry Enfield
    Harry Enfield
    Henry Richard "Harry" Enfield is a BAFTA-winning English comedian, actor, writer and director.-Early life:...

  • The Big Impression (2001) - Rory Bremner
    Rory Bremner
    Roderick "Rory" Keith Ogilvy Bremner, FKC is a Scottish impressionist, playwright and comedian, noted for his work in political satire...

  • 2DTV
    2DTV
    2DTV is a British satirical animated television show that was broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom, directed by Tim Searle.2DTV employs the same satirical style as Spitting Image, but using animation rather than puppets. The animation was produced on computer, frequently with animators working up...

    (2001) - Jon Culshaw
  • Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
    Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
    Jeffrey Archer: The Truth was a 2002 BBC satirical comedy drama on the life of Jeffrey Archer, with the title role played by Damian Lewis. Its duration was 90 minutes and its premiere occurred on 1 December 2002. It was written and directed by Guy Jenkin....

    (2002) - Steven Pacey
    Steven Pacey
    Steven Pacey is an English actor, best known for his role as Del Tarrant in the third and fourth seasons of the sci-fi series Blake's 7....

  • The Simpsons
    The Simpsons
    The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...

    : The Regina Monologues
    The Regina Monologues
    "The Regina Monologues" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season, and originally aired November 23, 2003 in the United States. It was written by John Swartzwelder, and directed by Mark Kirkland. The episode sees the Simpson family travel to the United Kingdom on holiday. There, they...

    (2004) - Himself in cameo role
  • TONY! The Blair Musical
    TONY! The Blair Musical
    TONY! The Blair Musical is a satirical comedy musical written in 2007 by Chris Bush, director of the White Rose Theatre, with music composed by Ian McCluskey...

    (2007) - James Duckworth
  • Red Nose Day 2007 Catherine Tate Show Sketch (2007) - Himself
  • Dead Ringers
    Dead Ringers (comedy)
    Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It starred Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Kevin Connelly and Mark Perry...

    (2006–2007) - David Tennant
    David Tennant
    David Tennant is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the 2005 TV serial Casanova and as Barty Crouch, Jr...

     and Jon Culshaw
    Jon Culshaw
    Jonathan Peter Culshaw is an English impressionist and comedian. He was educated at St Bede's RC High School, Ormskirk and St John Rigby College, in Orrell, Wigan....

  • Headcases
    Headcases
    Headcases was an ITV satirical animation show based on current affairs. It employed the same satirical style as Spitting Image, 2DTV and Bo' Selecta! but using 3D animation created by UK Visual Effects and animation house Red Vision...

    (2008)
  • The Hunt for Tony Blair
    The Hunt for Tony Blair
    The Hunt for Tony Blair is a one-off episode of The Comic Strip Presents..., a British television comedy, which aired on Channel 4 on 14 October 2011. The 60 minute film was written by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens and presented in the style of a 1950s film noir...

    (2011) - Stephen Mangan
    Stephen Mangan
    Stephen Mangan is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in the television series Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge and as Holistic Detective Dirk Gently in the 2010 BBC adaptation of Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, as well as Sean Lincoln...


Literature

  • St Albion Parish News
    St Albion Parish News
    St Albion Parish News was a regular feature in the British satirical magazine Private Eye during the premiership of Tony Blair. It was in the Private Eye tradition of featuring a fortnightly column lampooning the Prime Minister of the day and their close associates, seemingly written in a gossipy...

    (1997–2007), column in Private Eye
  • Alan Clark Diaries: Volume 3: The Last Diaries 1993-1999
    Alan Clark Diaries
    Alan Clark started keeping a regular diary in 1955 which lasted until August 1999, during his second spell as a Member of Parliament, when he was incapacitated due to the onset of the brain tumour which was to be the cause of his death a month later...

    (2002) by Alan Clark
    Alan Clark
    Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative MP and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade, and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991...

  • Number Ten (2002) by Sue Townsend
    Sue Townsend
    -Adrian Mole series:* The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ , her best selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s.* The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole * The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole...

     in which the British prime minister Edward Clare is based on Tony Blair
  • The Blunkett Tapes
    The Blunkett Tapes
    The Blunkett Tapes: My life in the bear pit is a book version of the audio diaries of the British MP David Blunkett. The diary details his time as a cabinet minister in the Labour government from 1997 to 2004....

    (2006) by David Blunkett
    David Blunkett
    David Blunkett is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, having represented Sheffield Brightside from 1987 to 2010...

  • The Blair Years
    The Blair Years
    The Blair Years is a book by Alastair Campbell, featuring extracts from his diaries detailing the period during which he worked for Tony Blair. Published by Random House, the book was released on 9 July 2007, only two weeks after Blair stood down as Prime Minister...

    (2007) by Alastair Campbell
    Alastair Campbell
    Alastair John Campbell is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003, having first started working for Blair in 1994...

  • The Ghost
    The Ghost (novel)
    The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris.In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book...

    by Robert Harris
    Robert Harris (novelist)
    Robert Dennis Harris is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter.-Early life:Born in Nottingham, Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits to the local...

     in which the British prime minister Adam Lang is based on Tony Blair
  • A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin (2009) by Chris Mullin
    Chris Mullin (politician)
    Christopher John Mullin is a British Labour Party politician and diarist who was the Member of Parliament for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010...


Radio

  • The News Huddlines
    The News Huddlines
    The News Huddlines was a long-running BBC Radio 2 topical comedy sketch show starring Roy Hudd that ran for fifty one series from 1975 until 2001. Each episode lasted for half an hour and consisted of topical sketches, songs and one-liners.-Performers:...

    (1997–2001)
  • House 7 (a Russian radio soap) (1997) - Himself in cameo role
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