Oscar winner Olivia Colman – who played Queen Anne in The Favourite – was named in the current Queen’s list of “favourites” as she was made a CBE.
The actress said she was “totally thrilled” to be honoured for services to drama, under her real name Sarah Sinclair.
She joined other names from the entertainment world including Elvis Costello, 64, former frontman of The Undertones Feargal Sharkey, 60, who are both made OBEs, and fellow actor Simon Russell Beale who is knighted.
Colman, 45, said: “I’m totally thrilled, delighted and humbled to be in the company of these incredible people, most of whom have been nowhere near as visible as I have, but should be – and hopefully now will be. It’s such an honour.”
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Author Sarah Waters, famed for her raunchy novels such as The Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet is made an OBE for services to literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, while Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread, who became the first woman to win the contemporary art prize in 1993 after casting the interior of a condemned terraced house in London’s East End, is made a dame.
Authors Joanna Trollope and Lee Child are made CBEs. Actress Cush Jumbo, 33, who is best known for starring in the US legal drama series The Good Wife, is made an OBE, while journalist and broadcaster Dan Snow, 40, becomes an MBE.
Rapper MIA, and singer-songwriter Andrew Roachford, are made MBEs for services to music. Roachford said: “To be recognised for the work you’re doing, which is also your passion, from such a high level, is indeed an honour.”
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The honours list also recognises those involved with the wave of worldwide success for the British TV industry, with Blue Planet and Planet Earth producer Alistair Fothergill made an OBE after both series, particularly Blue Planet, made a major impact on viewers and public awareness of environmental issues.
The same honour goes to Andrew Harries, chief executive and co-founder of Left Bank Pictures – the production firm behind The Crown – for services to film and television.
Richard Williams, boss of Northern Ireland Screen, which is best known for its involvement in the making of Game Of Thrones, is also made an OBE for services to the country’s screen industries.
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The list also celebrates those working relatively anonymously to improve people’s lives.
Nimco Ali and Dr Leyla Hussein, who have both dedicated their time to campaigning against female genital mutilation after being subjected to the practice as children, are made OBEs.
Sonia Watson, the chief executive of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, is made an OBE for her work helping disadvantaged people from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds to pursue a career in architecture – the chosen career of the murdered teenager.
Meanwhile, 15 foster carers who have looked after more than 1,000 children between them are made MBEs, while seven Holocaust survivors receive British Empire Medals (BEMs).
Of the 1,073 people honoured across the UK in this year’s list, 47 per cent are women, while 10.4 per cent come from a BAME background – the highest ever, by a small margin, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, although the figure was 12 per cent in this year’s New Year Honours list.
The oldest recipient is John Haymen, 100, who receives a BEM for services to the community in Binsted and Alton, Hampshire and the youngest is 17-year-old Richard Collins, who is also given a BEM for services to the community in Cookstown, County Tyrone.
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