Abigail Thaw
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Abigail Thaw is a British actress. She was born in London to actor John Thaw
John Thaw
John Edward Thaw, CBE was an English actor, who appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles, his most popular being police and legal dramas such as Redcap, The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC.-Early life:Thaw came from a working class background, having been born in Gorton,...

 (1942–2002) and his first wife, Sally Alexander. Her stepmother is actress Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Cameron Hancock, CBE is an English actress and author.-Early life:Sheila Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a publican. Her sister Billie is seven years older...

. She is now married to the actor Nigel Whitmey.

Early years

An only child (she has a half-sister, a half-brother and a stepsister), she was raised in Pimlico
Pimlico
Pimlico is a small area of central London in the City of Westminster. Like Belgravia, to which it was built as a southern extension, Pimlico is known for its grand garden squares and impressive Regency architecture....

 with her mother, a feminist
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

 and active member of the women's movement, and her mother's partner, Gareth Stedman Jones
Gareth Stedman Jones
Professor Gareth Stedman Jones is a British academic and historian.Educated at St Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read History, Stedman Jones went on to Nuffield College, Oxford to take a DPhil....

. She sporadically attended Pimlico Comprehensive, achieving an undistinguished academic record. Young Abigail often marched with her mother. Sally Alexander was involved in the infamous flour-bombing of the 1970 Miss World contest. Alexander studied at Ruskin College and taught modern history at Goldsmiths College
Goldsmiths College
Goldsmiths, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom which specialises in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute...

.

Career

After school Abigail spent a year in Italy where she was in a car accident. When she returned to England she decided to attend RADA
Rada
Rada is the term for "council" or "assembly"borrowed by Polish from the Low Franconian "Rad" and later passed into the Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages....

 where she meet her fiancee Nigel Whitmey
Nigel Whitmey
Nigel Whitmey is a British Canadian-born actor who was born in Alberta, Canada, who has appeared in TV series and films. He is also the husband of the actress Abigail Thaw, whom he met whilst training at RADA.-Early life:...

. She worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre stage production of Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England...

in 1991. In 2003, she performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in Road to the Sea She has also appeared in films and television.

Children

In 1986, she married Nigel Whitmey and in 1997 she gave birth to a daughter,their first child, Molly Mae Whitmey. Shortly after Molly's birth, Abigail appeared in a BBC1 production of Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial)
Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1998. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies....

. In 2003 she gave birth to her second daughter, Talia.

From 10 March to 24 April 2010, she is performing as Ms. Capulet in Tom Morris' Juliet and her Romeo at the Bristol Old Vic.

External links

  • http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857173
  • http://johnthaw.topcities.com
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