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Olivia Colman is an Oscar-Winning actor known for her roles in The Favourite and The Crown. She has performed at Letters Live more than ten times, reading letters by all sorts of writers, from Queen Victoria to Eric Idle.
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Ophelia Lovibond is an actor perhaps best known for her appearances in Guardians of the Galaxy and the television show Elementary. She first performed at Letters Live in 2017, and has made several appearances since.
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One of the letters Oscar Isaac has performed at Letters Live was from Alec Guiness complaining about the filming of the first Star Wars, 40 years before Isaac became swashbuckling hero Poe Dameron in the series.
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Event
21 November 2026
Letters Live returns to the Royal Albert Hall for its tenth appearance at the iconic venue. For one night only, an extraordinary cast of actors, writers, musicians and public figures will take to the stage to read remarkable letters from history. Funny, heartbreaking, revealing and sometimes surprisingly timely, each offers a glimpse into another person's life through the words they once put on paper. As always, the line-up will remain a closely guarded secret until the performers walk on stage.
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Peter Capaldi is an actor known for his time (-travelling) as the Doctor in Doctor Who, and as the relentlessly sweary Malcom Tucker in The Thick of It.
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Reggie Watts is a comedian known for his absurd and brilliant improvised musical performances. He is one of a handful of people at Letters Live to have given both a muscial performance and a reading.
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Rose McGowan is an actor and activist. At Letters Live she has read letters by Yayoi Kusama and Dorothy Parker, as well as her own letter to Hollywood, calling on people in the film industry to stop supporting and defending abusers.
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Archive event
8 July 2019
Letters Live at the Royal Academy of Arts with Jaeger-LeCoultre, in support of First Story
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Archive event
3 October 2019
On October 3rd, 2019, on the back of another sold out London run, Letters Live brought its star-studded show to the Royal Albert Hall, in its most ambitious night to date
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