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Madeleine Potter (born Washington DC, circa 1964) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress who has played supporting roles in over twenty films and TV shows, including four productions directed by James Ivory
James Ivory (director)

James Francis Ivory is an award-winning United States film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both India Film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....
. She has also appeared in numerous stage productions in the United States and United Kingdom. She made her New York stage debut in Loves Labor's Lost at The Shakespeare Center
The Shakespeare Center

The Shakespeare Center was the home of the Riverside Shakespeare Company, an Equity professional theatre company in New York City, beginning in 1982, when the then six-year-old theatre company established its center of theatre production and advanced actor training at the 90 year-old West Park Presbyterian Church on Amsterdam at West 86th St...
, produced by the Riverside Shakespeare Company
Riverside Shakespeare Company

The Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City was founded in 1977 as a professional theatre company on the Upper West Side of New York City by W....
 in 1981..

She is the daughter of Philip Barton Key Potter Jr, a diplomat, and his wife, the former Madeleine Mulqueen Daly.






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Madeleine Potter (born Washington DC, circa 1964) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress who has played supporting roles in over twenty films and TV shows, including four productions directed by James Ivory
James Ivory (director)

James Francis Ivory is an award-winning United States film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both India Film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....
. She has also appeared in numerous stage productions in the United States and United Kingdom. She made her New York stage debut in Loves Labor's Lost at The Shakespeare Center
The Shakespeare Center

The Shakespeare Center was the home of the Riverside Shakespeare Company, an Equity professional theatre company in New York City, beginning in 1982, when the then six-year-old theatre company established its center of theatre production and advanced actor training at the 90 year-old West Park Presbyterian Church on Amsterdam at West 86th St...
, produced by the Riverside Shakespeare Company
Riverside Shakespeare Company

The Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City was founded in 1977 as a professional theatre company on the Upper West Side of New York City by W....
 in 1981..

She is the daughter of Philip Barton Key Potter Jr, a diplomat, and his wife, the former Madeleine Mulqueen Daly. She is a first cousin, once removed, of the 1960s tastemaker and fashion designer Pauline de Rothschild
Pauline de Rothschild

Pauline de Rothschild was a fashion icon and tastemaker who also was known as a writer, a fashion designer, and a translator of both Elizabethan poetry and the plays of Christopher Fry....
. She is also a great-great-granddaughter of Episcopal bishop Alonzo Potter
Alonzo Potter

The Right Rev'd Alonzo Potter was an United States bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States who served as the third Diocese of Pennsylvania....
 and a great-grand-niece of Episcopal bishop Henry Codman Potter
Henry Codman Potter

Henry Codman Potter was a bishop of the The Episcopal Church. He was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York....
.

Potter's only child, Madeleine Daly
Madeleine Daly

Madeleine Daly is the daughter of United States actress Madeleine Potter. She made her screen debut for Merchant Ivory in the film The White Countess with her mother....
, appeared as her character's niece in 2005's The White Countess
The White Countess

The White Countess is a 2005 in film United Kingdom/United States/China drama film directed by James Ivory . The screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro focuses on a disparate group of displaced persons attempting to survive in Shanghai in the late 1930s....
.

She was married to Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick Fitzgerald

Patrick J. Fitzgerald is the current United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel in charge of the investigation of the Plame affair, which led to the prosecution, and conviction, of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby....
, an Irish-born American actor, whom she wed circa 1988.

Filmography

  • The White Countess
    The White Countess

    The White Countess is a 2005 in film United Kingdom/United States/China drama film directed by James Ivory . The screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro focuses on a disparate group of displaced persons attempting to survive in Shanghai in the late 1930s....
     (2005, Merchant Ivory) - Greshenka
  • Muffin - Carole
  • Refuge (2002) - Sylvia Oakes
  • The Golden Bowl
    The Golden Bowl (film)

    The Golden Bowl is a US-UK co-produced Merchant Ivory film, adapted from Henry James' novel The Golden Bowl....
     (2000, Merchant Ivory) - Lady Castledean
  • Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns (1996) - Morgan de la Fey/Nula
  • Two Evil Eyes
    Two Evil Eyes

    Two Evil Eyes is a 1990 portmanteau film horror film written and directed by the Italian people Dario Argento and United States George A. Romero....
     (1990) - Annabel (segment "The Black Cat")
  • Bloodhounds of Broadway
    Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989 film)

    Bloodhounds of Broadway was a 1989 film based on four Damon Runyon stories. It was directed by Howard Brookner, and starred Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Julie Hagerty, Rutger Hauer, Madonna , and Randy Quaid....
     (1989) - Widow Mary
  • Slaves of New York
    Slaves of New York

    Slaves of New York is a 1989 comedy-drama Merchant Ivory Productions film. It was directed byJames Ivory , produced by Ismail Merchant, and starred Bernadette Peters, Adam Coleman Howard, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt, Madeleine Potter, and Steve Buscemi....
     (1989, Merchant Ivory) - Daria
  • The Suicide Club
    The Suicide Club (Stevenson)

    The Suicide Club is a cycle of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in London Magazine in 1878 in literature, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the New Arabian Nights....
     (1988) - Nancy
  • Hello Again
    Hello Again (film)

    Hello Again is a 1987 comedy film, directed by Frank Perry, written by Susan Isaacs and staring Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Sela Ward, Austin Pendleton, Carrie Nye, Robert Lewis, Madeleine Potter and Illeana Douglas....
     (1987) - Felicity Glick
  • The Bostonians
    The Bostonians (film)

    The Bostonians is 1984 in film's Merchant Ivory, based on Henry James' The Bostonians. The film starred Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter and Jessica Tandy....
     (1984, Merchant Ivory) - Verena Tarrant


Television

  • Midsomer Murders
    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders is a United Kingdom Television program drama that has aired on ITV 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 List of fictional counties of Midsomer ....
     "Country Matters" (2006) - Celia Patchett


Audio

  • Doctor Who
    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
     - Assassin in the Limelight
    Assassin in the Limelight

    Assassin in the Limelight is a Big Finish Productions List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish based on the long-running United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who....
     (2008) - Lizzie Williams


Stage


London

  • Southwark Fair, directed by Nicholas Hytner
    Nicholas Hytner

    Nicholas Robert Hytner is an English film and theatre producer and director, regarded by some as one of the most prolific and accomplished of his generation on either side of the Atlantic....
     (2006) at Royal National Theatre
    Royal National Theatre

    The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
  • An Ideal Husband
    An Ideal Husband

    An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour....
    , directed by Peter Hall (1996) at Haymarket Theatre
    Haymarket Theatre

    The Theatre Royal Haymarket or Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre is a West End theatre in The Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use....


Broadway

  • The Master Builder
    The Master Builder

    The Master Builder is a Play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was first published in 1892 in literature and first performed in Berlin on 19 January 1893....
     (1992) - Hilde Wangel
  • A Little Hotel on the Side (1992) - Victoire
  • The Crucible
    The Crucible

    The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on the actual events that, in 1692, led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693....
     (1991) - Abigail Williams
  • Getting Married (1991) - Leo
  • Metamorphosis
    The Metamorphosis

    The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect ....
     (1989) - Greta, Gregor Samsa's sister
  • Coastal Disturbances
    Coastal Disturbances

    Coastal Disturbances is a play by Tina Howe, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1986 and transferred to Broadway theatre. It received a Tony Award nomination as Best Play....
     (1987) - Holly Dancer
  • Ibsen's Ghosts
    Ghosts (play)

    Ghosts is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882.Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality....
     (1982) - Regina Engstrand, Mrs. Alving's maid


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