The British actor is up for best actress at the Oscars this Sunday for her role in To Leslie. But how does that compare with her other key turns?
There’s a fascination in seeing an actor of Andrea Riseborough’s class cast as the straight woman in a wacky comedy but she deadpans it out with style. Richard Thorncroft, played by Julian Barratt, is a washed-up actor who in the 80s played a cop with a mind-reading bionic eye called Mindhorn. Now in the present day, a crazed serial killer who thinks Mindhorn is real demands to negotiate with him, and so Thorncroft gets back into character – and all this to the exasperation of the real investigating officer played by Riseborough.
