In 2000, Frears adaptated Nick Hornby's novel, "High Fidelity," into a feature film with John Cusack, whom he had previously directed in The Grifters; and in 2002 he directed the drama "Dirty Pretty Things" with Audrey Tautou and Chiwetel Ejiofor, which addressed the exploitation of illegal immigrant workers in London. In 2006, Frears directed "The Queen", that focused on the reaction to the sudden death of Princess Diana in 1997. The film received its debut at the Venice International Film Festival to critical acclaim, with Helen Mirren eventually winning many awards for playing the title role, and Frears himself received his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Frears continued to work with exceptional talents such as Judi Dench in the drama "Philomena" (2013), based on the true story of a woman searching for a child she gave up for adoption in her youth; and Meryl Streep in "Florence Foster Jenkins" (2016), as a delusional socialite who embarks upon a career as opera singer despite a manifest lack of vocal talent. He also reunited with Dench in "Victoria and Abdul" (2017), a film about the unlikely friendship between the aging Queen Victoria and her young Indian servant, Abdul Karim.