Celia Bannerman
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Celia Bannerman is an English
actress and director, born 3 June 1944 at Abingdon, Berkshire, trained at the London Drama Centre. She started her professional career with Ralph Richardson
as Dolly in Bernard Shaw’s You Never Can Tell
and Lucy in Sheridan’s The Rivals
at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London. She played a number of major television roles early on in her acting career notably Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice
, Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest
and Lady Diana Newbury in Upstairs, Downstairs
. She starred in the film Biddy
for which she received an award from Moscow Film Festival and continues to have a long association with Sands Films
working on Little Dorrit
, The Fool
, As You Like It
and A Dangerous Man
.
Bannerman was Associate Director at the Bristol Old Vic
directing The Price, Translations, Quartermaine’s Terms, The White Devil, Good Fun and La Ronde. At Stratford East she directed, Sleeping Beauty and The Proposal. She was the Staff Director at the Royal National Theatre
on The Passion, Larkrise, Fruits of Enlightenment and Strife. She also devised and directed a programme of erotic poetry called Making Love, and was the first woman to direct a play at the National Theatre, Lies in Plastic Smiles devised by the company and written by Gawn Grainger. In the West End she directed September Tide at the Comedy Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
, Jack and the Beanstalk at the Shaw Theatre
and three world premieres Beached, Sinners and Saints and Bet Noir at the New Vic and Warehouse Theatre
.
She has been a Dialect Coach and a Children’s Acting Coach on several movies including Seven Years in Tibet
, Two Brothers
, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
and Nanny McPhee
.
She is married to Edward Klein.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
actress and director, born 3 June 1944 at Abingdon, Berkshire, trained at the London Drama Centre. She started her professional career with Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson
Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films....
as Dolly in Bernard Shaw’s You Never Can Tell
You Never Can Tell
You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by G. Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of Shaw's plays entitled Plays Pleasant....
and Lucy in Sheridan’s The Rivals
The Rivals
The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775.- Production :...
at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London. She played a number of major television roles early on in her acting career notably Elizabeth Bennet in 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...
, Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...
and Lady Diana Newbury in Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British drama television series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975, and a sixth series shown on the BBC on three consecutive nights, 26–28 December 2010.Set in a...
. She starred in the film Biddy
Biddy
Biddy is a given name which may refer to:People:* Biddy Anderson , South African cricketer* Biddy Baxter , English television producer* Biddy Dolan , American Major League Baseball player* Biddy Early Biddy is a given name which may refer to:People:* Biddy Anderson (1874–1926), South African...
for which she received an award from Moscow Film Festival and continues to have a long association with Sands Films
Sands Films
Sands Films is a small British film production company, founded by producer Richard Goodwin and director Christine Edzard in the early 1970's, and based in Rotherhithe, London. The company is particularly noted for its production of costumes for period dramas...
working on Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period....
, The Fool
The Fool (film)
The Fool is a British film, produced and directed by Christine Edzard in 1990 from a script by Edzard and Olivier Stockman.The plot examines the double life of a humble clerk posing as a businessman and moving in upper social circles...
, As You Like It
As You Like It
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
and A Dangerous Man
A Dangerous Man
A Dangerous Man is a 2009 American direct-to-DVD action film directed by Keoni Waxman. It stars Steven Seagal as a man who's released from prison after spending 6 years locked up for a crime he did not commit.-Plot:...
.
Bannerman was Associate Director at the Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic
The Bristol Old Vic is a theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, King Street, in Bristol, England. The theatre complex includes the 1766 Theatre Royal, which claims to be the oldest continually-operating theatre in England, along with a 1970s studio theatre , offices and backstage facilities...
directing The Price, Translations, Quartermaine’s Terms, The White Devil, Good Fun and La Ronde. At Stratford East she directed, Sleeping Beauty and The Proposal. She was the Staff Director at the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
on The Passion, Larkrise, Fruits of Enlightenment and Strife. She also devised and directed a programme of erotic poetry called Making Love, and was the first woman to direct a play at the National Theatre, Lies in Plastic Smiles devised by the company and written by Gawn Grainger. In the West End she directed September Tide at the Comedy Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, in the City of Westminster, London, is a permanent venue with an annual sixteen-week summer season. It was founded in 1932 by Sydney Carroll and Robert Atkins.-The theatre:...
, Jack and the Beanstalk at the Shaw Theatre
Shaw Theatre
The Shaw Theatre is a theatre in Somers Town, in the London Borough of Camden. It is located near the Euston Road, beside the British Library and St Pancras Chambers , equidistant from King's Cross station and Euston station....
and three world premieres Beached, Sinners and Saints and Bet Noir at the New Vic and Warehouse Theatre
Warehouse Theatre
The Warehouse Theatre is a professional producing theatre with one hundred seats in the centre of the London Borough of Croydon, south London, England based in an oak-beamed former cement Victorian warehouse...
.
She has been a Dialect Coach and a Children’s Acting Coach on several movies including Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet is an autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet in...
, Two Brothers
Two Brothers
Two Brothers is a 2004 adventure family film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is about two tigers who are separated as cubs and then reunited years later.-Plot:...
, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 novel from the point of view of an innocent young boy, written by Irish novelist John Boyne. Unlike the months of planning Boyne devoted to his other books, he said that he wrote the entire first draft of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in two and a half...
and Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee is a 2005 fantasy film starring Emma Thompson and Colin Firth. Thompson also wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books.-Plot:...
.
She is married to Edward Klein.
External links
- The Fool
- Little Dorrit
- A Dangerous Man
- Biddy
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052348/
- http://www.actingforcamera.co.uk/cbannerman.htm
- http://www.filmreference.com/film/56/Celia-Bannerman.html
- http://www.fandango.com/celiabannerman/filmography/p3749