Heavy black hair, a low voice and a weakness for films made long before she was born.
Photographs compared with Danielle in person · listing checked September 2026 · Photo policy
Some evenings want a slower reel, and this is what that looks like. Danielle is 170 cm, curvy, and dresses almost entirely in dark colours because she decided years ago that it saves time. Her black hair is straight and heavy enough to swing when she turns her head. Her brown eyes are steady in a way that quietens a table. Late twenties, and comfortable in it, which shows in how little she fusses: one very good coat, a heavy fragrance, nothing that rattles or catches the light when she moves.
She is calm rather than cool, and the difference matters within about a minute. Her attention settles on one person and then stays there for the evening. She speaks English carefully, with a habit of pausing before she answers that makes whatever follows worth the wait, and she never rushes to fill a gap. Old cinema is the genuine passion, poetry is the private one she rarely mentions first, and museums are the reason she moved her afternoons around.
Her WC2 evening belongs to the Prince Charles Cinema, the double bill house a few steps off Leicester Square where the print is often thirty five millimetre and the audience applauds the projectionist by name. Dinner comes first, somewhere low lit with no music playing, and the argument about what you have just watched happens on the walk back rather than in the lobby, because she refuses to judge anything within fifty yards of the screen.
South Kensington is home, and she is travelling until Thursday the 24th, so late evenings near Leicester Square reopen from her return. Ask booking to pencil in the first of them and it will be held.
Her home stage is South Kensington, and she travels from there to the venues this house covers. Her full listing sits with the rest of the company on the companions page.
She is back on Thursday the 24th and the desk is already holding dates beyond it. Dinner and a screening fit comfortably inside three hours at £700, with room left for the argument on the way back. Nothing goes on the sheet until your room number has been confirmed in the thread.
Each length on the ladder, the travel rule and the terms for a change of plan are set out line by line on the rates page, and the wording to send sits on the booking page.
// Time and companionship only · travelling anywhere across Zones 1 and 2 adds nothing · the figure is settled with her in person
Dinner is booked for seven, because the film starts at nine and she will not be the reason anybody misses the titles. She eats slowly, drinks one glass, and spends most of the table talking about something other than cinema, which is her way of saving it for later. If you ask what you are seeing, she gives you the plot in two sentences and nothing more.
In the auditorium she does not whisper, does not rustle anything and does not once look at the time. Afterwards is the real event: twenty minutes of walking while she takes the film apart generously, then asks what you thought before she offers what she thought. If the night runs on from there it tends to end somewhere with a short wine list, a long last conversation and no particular finishing time.
Anything in black and white with a miserable ending. I will also defend a film I know to be terrible, provided somebody lit it beautifully.
A few pages every night. It is the only reliable method I have found for switching off the day, and it works better than wine.
Never once. Afterwards you will struggle to stop me, so consider two silent hours an entirely fair trade.
Danielle is away from the board until 24 September 2026. Travelling, late screenings resume on her return Ask us who is carrying a pass tonight and we will name three who suit the same evening.
No moderated note has been left for Danielle on this site so far. We publish first names, the month and the words themselves, we never invent a line, and we never print anything a companion would rather keep private. When guests do write in, their notes appear here exactly as they arrived.
Each card opens a pass of its own, with the same rail, the same photo call and a message already written in her name.
Tap WhatsApp and a message with Danielle named in it is already waiting. Add the day, the hour, how long you would like her and the house you are staying in, and the desk writes back inside a quarter of an hour with whether she is free.
