Harriet Mary Walter,
CBEThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions...
, (born 24 September 1950) is a
Tony AwardThis is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The award has been presented since 1947, and is for performance in new productions or revivals.-1940s:...
-nominated
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
actress.
She is the niece of renowned British actor
Christopher LeeSir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor. He initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...
., as the daughter of his elder sister
Xandra LeeSir Dermot Humphrey de Trafford 6th Bt. born on 19 January 1925 is a British businessman and aristocrat. The son of Sir Rudolph de Trafford, 5th Baronet. and June Isabel Chaplin.-Early Life and Education:...
. She was educated at the
Cranbourne Chase SchoolCranborne Chase School for Girls was an independent boarding school originally opened in Crichel House in Moor Crichel, Dorset. In 1960, the school moved to the New Wardour Castle near Tisbury, Wiltshire....
. After training at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic ArtThe London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London.The institutions that combined to form LAMDA date from 1861 and include the London Academy of Music founded by Henry Wylde in 1867...
, she gained early experience with the Joint Stock touring theatre company,
Paines PloughPaines Plough is a London-based British touring theatre company founded in 1974 by writer David Pownall and director John Adams. They named the company after their favourite pub, the Plough, where they would drink pints of Paines.
...
touring, and the Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster. Her partner, until his death in 2004, was actor
Peter BlythePeter Blythe was a British character actor, best known as Samuel "Soapy Sam" Ballard on Rumpole of the Bailey.-Early life:...
.
She has worked many times throughout her career with the
Royal Shakespeare CompanyThe Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
, in productions including
Nicholas Nickleby (1980),
A Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. It was suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and written around 1594 to 1596...
(1981),
All's Well That Ends WellAll's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written between 1601 and 1608, and it was first published in the First Folio in 1623....
(1981),
The CastleThe Castle is a novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist, known only as K., struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village where he wants to work as a land surveyor...
(1985),
Three SistersThree Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first produced in 1901.-The Prozorovs:...
(1988),
The Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14...
(1989),
MacbethThe Tragedy of Macbeth, commonly just Macbeth, is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
(1999), and
Much Ado about NothingMuch Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week. To pass the time before their wedding day, they conspire with Don Pedro, the prince of Aragon, to trick their...
(2002).
She was made an associate artist of the
Royal Shakespeare CompanyThe Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
in 1987.
Harriet Mary Walter,
CBEThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions...
, (born 24 September 1950) is a
Tony AwardThis is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The award has been presented since 1947, and is for performance in new productions or revivals.-1940s:...
-nominated
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
actress.
Personal life
She is the niece of renowned British actor
Christopher LeeSir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor. He initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...
., as the daughter of his elder sister
Xandra LeeSir Dermot Humphrey de Trafford 6th Bt. born on 19 January 1925 is a British businessman and aristocrat. The son of Sir Rudolph de Trafford, 5th Baronet. and June Isabel Chaplin.-Early Life and Education:...
. She was educated at the
Cranbourne Chase SchoolCranborne Chase School for Girls was an independent boarding school originally opened in Crichel House in Moor Crichel, Dorset. In 1960, the school moved to the New Wardour Castle near Tisbury, Wiltshire....
. After training at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic ArtThe London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London.The institutions that combined to form LAMDA date from 1861 and include the London Academy of Music founded by Henry Wylde in 1867...
, she gained early experience with the Joint Stock touring theatre company,
Paines PloughPaines Plough is a London-based British touring theatre company founded in 1974 by writer David Pownall and director John Adams. They named the company after their favourite pub, the Plough, where they would drink pints of Paines.
...
touring, and the Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster. Her partner, until his death in 2004, was actor
Peter BlythePeter Blythe was a British character actor, best known as Samuel "Soapy Sam" Ballard on Rumpole of the Bailey.-Early life:...
.
Career
She has worked many times throughout her career with the
Royal Shakespeare CompanyThe Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
, in productions including
Nicholas Nickleby (1980),
A Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. It was suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and written around 1594 to 1596...
(1981),
All's Well That Ends WellAll's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written between 1601 and 1608, and it was first published in the First Folio in 1623....
(1981),
The CastleThe Castle is a novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist, known only as K., struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village where he wants to work as a land surveyor...
(1985),
Three SistersThree Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first produced in 1901.-The Prozorovs:...
(1988),
The Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14...
(1989),
MacbethThe Tragedy of Macbeth, commonly just Macbeth, is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
(1999), and
Much Ado about NothingMuch Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week. To pass the time before their wedding day, they conspire with Don Pedro, the prince of Aragon, to trick their...
(2002).
She was made an associate artist of the
Royal Shakespeare CompanyThe Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
in 1987. Other theatre work includes
Three Birds Alighting on a Field (1991),
ArcadiaArcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge.-Synopsis:...
(1993),
Hedda GablerHedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama...
(1996),
IvanovIvanov is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.Ivanov was first performed in 1887, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a comedy. Chekhov, however, responded with a four-act drama, which he wrote in ten days. Despite the success...
(1997), and
Mary Stuart (2005). Her films include
Sense and SensibilitySense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. Published in 1811, it was Austen's first published novel, which she wrote under the pseudonym "A Lady"....
(1996),
Bedrooms and HallwaysBedrooms and Hallways is a 1998 film about the fluidity of sexuality. It was written by Robert Farrar and directed by Rose Troche, starring Kevin McKidd, James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Julie Graham, Simon Callow and Hugo Weaving.-Plot:...
(1998),
Onegin (1999),
Villa des Roses (2002), and
Bright Young ThingsBright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians, as well as society in general, in the late 1920s...
(2003).
On New Year's Eve 1999 she was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her performance in
Mary Stuart at the
Donmar WarehouseDonmar Warehouse is a small not-for-profit theatre in the Covent Garden area of the London Borough of Camden, with seating for 250 playgoers.-History:...
transferred to Broadway, where it was nominated for numerous
Tony AwardThe Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are for Broadway productions and...
s, including Best Actress nods for herself and her co-star
Janet McTeerJanet McTeer, OBE is a British actress.-Biography:Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, Europe, McTeer attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began her successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating.McTeer's television work includes the BBC...
.
Stage — notable performances
- 1981, Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
, Helena in All's Well That Ends WellAll's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written between 1601 and 1608, and it was first published in the First Folio in 1623....
- 1987, Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
, ImogenImogen was the daughter of King Cymbeline, in Shakespeare's play, Cymbeline. She was described by William Hazlitt as "perhaps the most tender and the most artless" of all Shakespeare's women.-Name:...
in CymbelineCymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance. Like Othello, Measure for Measure, and The Winter's Tale, it deals with the...
- 1987, Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
, Duchess in John WebsterJohn Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.- Biography :Webster's life is obscure, and the dates of his...
's The Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14...
- 1993, 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....
, Lady Croom in ArcadiaArcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge.-Synopsis:...
by Tom StoppardSir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll...
- 2002 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....
Paige in DinnerDinner is a 2002 play by the British dramatist Moira Buffini. It premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London on 18 October 2002.-Original Production:It was first performed at the Royal National Theatre in 2002, with the following cast:...
by Moira Buffini, co-starring Nicholas FarrellNicholas Farrell is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park...
and Catherine McCormackCatherine McCormack is an Olivier Award-nominated English actress, known for her stage acting as well as her screen performances in films such as Braveheart, Spy Game and Dangerous Beauty.-Early life:...
.
- 2005, Donmar Warehouse
Donmar Warehouse is a small not-for-profit theatre in the Covent Garden area of the London Borough of Camden, with seating for 250 playgoers.-History:...
and West EndWest End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking world...
, Mary StuartMary Stuart is a play by Friedrich Schiller based on the life of Mary I of Scotland. The play is subdivided in five acts and each act is divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Weimar, Germany on 14 June 1800...
by Schiller
- 2006, Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
, Antony and CleopatraAntony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to...
- 2009, Mary Stuart
Mary Stuart is a play by Friedrich Schiller based on the life of Mary I of Scotland. The play is subdivided in five acts and each act is divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Weimar, Germany on 14 June 1800...
, Broadway transfer
Documentary
- London (2004) (TV) (BBC) - Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....
- George Eliot
Mary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era...
: A Scandalous Life (2002) (TV) - Mary Ann Evans/George Eliot
Drama
- Law and Order: UK (2009) DI Natalie Chandler
- A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009) - Clare
- Cat Among the Pigeons (2008) - Honoria Bulstrode
- Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit is a 2008 British television serial directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the serial novel of the same title by Charles Dickens, originally published between 1855 and 1857....
(2008) - Mrs. Gowan (guest appearance)
- The Palace
The Palace is a British drama television series that aired on ITV1 in 2008. Produced by Company Pictures for the ITV network, it was created by Tom Grieves and follows a fictional British Royal Family in the aftermath of the death of King James III and the succession of his 24-year-old son, Richard...
(2008) - Joanna Woodward (guest appearance)
- Ballet Shoes
Ballet Shoes is a 2007 British television movie, adapted by Heidi Thomas from Noel Streatfeild's 1936 novel Ballet Shoes. It was produced by Granada Productions and premiered on BBC One on 26 December 2007...
(2007) - Dr Smith
- Messiah: The Harrowing (2005) - Prof Robb
- New Tricks - Episode #2.3 (2005) - Madeline (guest appearance)
- Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a British television drama that has aired on ITV1 since 1997. A detective drama, it focuses on the main character of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, played by John Nettles, and his efforts to solve the various crimes that take place in the fictional English county of...
- Orchis Fatalis (2005) - Margaret Winstanley (guest appearance)
- Spooks
Spooks is a BAFTA award-winning British television drama series produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 intelligence officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters,...
- aka MI-5 (USA) - Who Guards the Guards? (2004) - Deep Throat (guest appearance)
- My Uncle Silas
My Uncle Silas is the name of a book of short stories about a bucolic elderly Bedfordshire man, written by H.E. Bates. The subject and title of Bates's story probably alludes to a contrast with the eponymous subject of the thriller by Sheridan Le Fanu....
II (2003) - Pamela Farrell (guest appearance)
- Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead may refer to:* Waking the Dead , an album by US rock band, L.A. Guns* Waking the Dead , a US film, produced in 2000, and starring Jennifer Connelly and Billy Crudup based on the Scott Spencer novel...
- A Simple Sacrifice (2001) - Annie Keel (guest appearance)
- Black Cab - Busy Body (2000) - Jane (guest appearance)
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) - Queen Morag
- Dalziel and Pascoe
Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe, known together as Dalziel and Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill and a BBC television series.-The novels:*A Clubbable Woman *An Advancement of Learning *Ruling...
Time to Go (1999) - Mary Waddell (guest appearance)
- Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle (1998) - Felicity Ormal
- Unfinished Business (1998, TV Series) - Amy
- A Dance to the Music of Time
A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim...
: segment two (1997, miniseriesA miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
)- Mildred Blaides
- The Maitlands (1993) - Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
- Hard Times
Hard Times - For These Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is a condition-of-England novel, aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times....
(1994) - Rachel
- The Hour of the Pig(1993) - Jeannine Martin
- Inspector Morse
Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a fictional character in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, as well as the 33 episode television series produced by Central Independent Television from 1987–2000, in which he was portrayed by John Thaw...
- The Day of the DevilThe Day of the Devil is the name of an Inspector Morse mystery dramatized on ITV in the United Kingdom. It was first broadcast in 1993.-Set-Up:...
(1993) - Dr. Esther Martin
- Ashenden (1991, miniseries) - Giulia Lazzari
- The Men's Room (1991, miniseries - Charity Walton
- Bye Bye Columbus (1991) - Queen Isabella
- La Nuit miraculeuse (1989)
- Gaudy Night
Gaudy Night is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the twelfth in her popular series about gentleman sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane.-Synopsis:...
(1987) - Harriet VaneHarriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers ....
- Have His Carcase
Have His Carcase is a 1932 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her seventh featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and her second novel in which Harriet Vane appears.-Plot outline:Harriet Vane, author of crime and mystery novels, goes off on a hiking holiday...
(1987) - Harriet VaneHarriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers ....
- Strong Poison
Strong Poison is a 1931 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.-Plot introduction:It is in Strong Poison that Lord Peter first meets Harriet Vane, an author of detective fiction...
(1987) - Harriet VaneHarriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers ....
- The Price (1985, mini series) - Frances Carr
- Amy (1984) - Amy Johnson
- Play for Today
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. Over three hundred original plays, most between an hour and ninety minutes in length, were transmitted during the fourteen-year period the series aired, and it is by far the...
: The Imitation Game (1980) - Cathy Raine
- Rebecca (1979) - Clarice
- Play For Today: Licking Hitler (1974)
Film
- Cheri
Cheri is a French/British/German drama film directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend, it is an adaptation of the novel by French author Colette...
(2009) - La Loupiote
- The Young Victoria
The Young Victoria is a 2009 British costume drama film based on the young life of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. It stars Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, and Jim Broadbent. The film is produced by Graham King, Martin Scorsese, Sarah, Duchess of York, and Tim Headington...
(2009) - Queen AdelaidePrincess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and of Hanover as spouse of William IV of the United Kingdom. The Australian city of Adelaide is named after her.-Early life:Adelaide was born on 13 August 1792 at Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany...
- Atonement
Atonement is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel of the same name, directed by Joe Wright, and based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton. It starred Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006 in England and France...
(2007) - Emily Tallis
- Babel (2006) - Lilly
- Chromophobia
Chromophobia is an ensemble film which debuted at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in France. The films crew was made up of a brother-sister trio - Martha Fiennes wrote and directed in the film, Ralph Fiennes starred in the film, and Magnus Fiennes conducted the music for the film...
(2005) - Penelope Aylesbury
- Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians, as well as society in general, in the late 1920s...
(2003) - Lady Maitland
- Villa des roses (2002) - Olive
- Onegin(1999) - Mme. Larina
- Bedrooms and Hallways
Bedrooms and Hallways is a 1998 film about the fluidity of sexuality. It was written by Robert Farrar and directed by Rose Troche, starring Kevin McKidd, James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Julie Graham, Simon Callow and Hugo Weaving.-Plot:...
(1998) - Sybil
- The Governess
The Governess is a 1998 British period drama film written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher. The screenplay focuses on a young Jewish woman of Sephardic background, who reinvents herself as a gentile governess when she is forced to find work to support her family.-Plot synopsis:Set in the 1830s,...
(1998) - Mrs. Cavendish
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a grimly comic novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is the protagonist's romantic ambition to give up money and status, and the dismal life that results.-Background:...
(1997) - Julia Comstock
- The Leading Man
The Leading Man is drama film directed by John Duigan. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 1996.- Main cast :* Jon Bon Jovi - Robin Grange* Anna Galiena - Elena Webb* Lambert Wilson - Felix Webb* Thandie Newton - Hilary Rule...
(1996) - Liz Flett
- Sense and Sensibility (1995) - Fanny Dashwood
- A Man You Don't Meet Every Day (1994) - Charlotte
- Milou en mai
Milou en mai is a 1990 film by Louis Malle. It is released as Milou in May in the UK and as May Fools in North America. The film portrays the impact of the French revolutionary fervour of May 1968 on a French village....
(1990) - Lily
- They Never Slept (1990) - Amelia Cleverly
- The Good Father
The Good Father is a 1985 British film directed by Mike Newell and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Fanny Viner, Simon Callow, Joanne Whalley, and Michael Byrne....
(1985) - Emmy Hooper
- Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary is a 1984 British drama about "people rediscovering the joys of life and love," based on a screenplay adapted by Harold Pinter from Russell Hoban's novel Turtle Diary, directed by John Irvin, and starring Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, and Michael Gambon.-Synopsis:Two lonely Londoners -...
(1985) - Harriet Sims (bookstore clerk)
- Reflections
Reflections may refer to:*the plural of reflection*The Reflections, a 1960s musical group*Reflections Interactive, a video game developer*Reflections, Lubbock Christian University's alumni publication...
(1984) - Ottilie Garinger
Radio
- Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation is a BBC Radio 4 series of comedy lectures, hosted by Jeremy Hardy. This has been running since the mid 1993...
- Desmond Olivier Dingle
Patrick Barlow is an English actor, comedian and playwright. His comedic alter ego, Desmond Olivier Dingle, is the founder, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the two-man National Theatre of Brent, which has performed on stage, on television and on radio.-Radio:Barlow is the scriptwriter, as...
(as herself), broadcast on BBC7 on 28 February 2007, episode 2 of 6, duration 30 minutes
- The Arts and How they was done (Radio Show)
The Arts and How They Was Done was a comedy radio program that aired from April 2007-May 2007, featuring Desmond Olivier Dingle and the entire National Theatre of Brent, Raymond Box. There were six half-hour episodes and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4...
(as herself), broadcast on BBC Radio4 between 4 April and 9 May 2007, episodes 1 and 6 out of 6, duration 30 minutes
Books
- Macbeth (Actors on Shakespeare) (2002). Faber and Faber, London. ISBN 057121407X
- Other People's Shoes (2003). Nick Hearn Books, London. ISBN 1-85459-751-5. Autobiography.