TAKE A BOW: Cellists on screen

Requiem (9pm, BBC1) follows a concert cellist as she investigates the mystery surrounding her mother’s suicide. Here are some more cellists who have taken centre stage on screen…

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Afternoon (1957) Audrey Hepburn (left) apparently did her own basic cello playing in Billy Wilder’s romantic comedy. She’s the music student falling for

Gary Cooper’s older playboy. Fame (1982) Lori Singer starred as bookish cellist Julie Miller in the TV series. Singer is a classical cellist who trained at Juilliard. She also plays cello in the 1993 film Short Cuts, and continues to perform as a soloist – including at last year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)

In this moving fantasy drama, Alan Rickman is the cellist who defies death to return as a ghost and help his girlfriend (Juliet Stevenson) to

overcome her grief.

Hilary And Jackie

(1998) Biopic of celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pre, starring Emily Watson as Jackie (centre) and Rachel Griffiths as her devoted sister, Hilary.

The Soloist (2009) Factbased drama about a journalist (Robert Downey Jr) who discovers a talented cellist called Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx, right) living on the streets of LA. Ayers’s talent was undimmed, even as he struggled with mental illness.