biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1956– )
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| biography:
| Actress, born in London, UK. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Productions with the RSC include Measure For Measure (1978), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1985), As You Like It (1985), and Troilus and Cressida (1985). She was made an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988. Other theatre work includes Yerma (1987), Hedda Gabler (1989), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1997), and Private Lives (1999), all for the Royal National Theatre, as well as Burn This (1990) and Death and the Maiden (1992, Olivier Award, Best Actress). She is well known to a wider audience through her work in film and television, including The Mallens (1978, TV), Drowning by Numbers (1988), Truly Madly Deeply (1991, Evening Standard British Film Awards, Best Actress), Frank Kafka's The Trial (1993) adapted by Harold Pinter, The Politician's Wife (1995, TV), an adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma (1996), and Cider With Rosie (1998, TV). |
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