‘The Queen’ director Sir Stephen Frears has been convicted of speeding near his £2.4million London home.
The veteran filmmaker, 84, is already serving a six-month driving ban handed down in July.
He had racked up at least 12 penalty points for previous offences and is barred from getting back behind the wheel until January.
But the BAFTA-winning director was caught doing 29mph in a 20mph zone on Park Road, close to his Marylebone house, on December 12 last year while at the wheel of his ten-year-old black Toyota Auris hybrid.
Sir Stephen admitted the offence at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where he appeared alongside his wife, artist Anne Rothenstein, 76. He was later spotted leaving in a taxi.
Prosecutor Caroline Cross told the short hearing Sir Stephen was recorded speeding at 11.04am.
Sir Stephen was not legally represented and declined to address the magistrates, who handed him a further three penalty points, which will be added to his licence once his ban is lifted.
The veteran filmmaker, 84, is already serving a six-month driving ban handed down in July and appeared alongside his wife, artist Anne Rothenstein, 76, pictured
Sir Stephen directed the 2006 docudrama ‘The Queen’ is a 2006 docudrama film, which was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards
He was seen leaving Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court and getting into a taxi with wife, Anne, pictured
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 manager 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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The Queen director Stephen Frears convicted of speeding near his £2.4million London home