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{{short description|English actress (born 1963)}}
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| name = Alex Kingston
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| image = Alex Kingston Photo Op GalaxyCon Minneapolis 2019.jpg
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| caption = Kingston at the 2019 [[GalaxyCon]] Minneapolis
| birth_name = Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston
| birth_name = Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|3|11|df=y}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|3|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Epsom]], [[Surrey]], England, UK
| birth_place = [[Epsom]], [[Surrey]], England
| alma_mater = [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]
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| years_active = 1980–present
| years_active = 1980–present
| occupation = Actress
| occupation = Actress
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| spouse = [[Ralph Fiennes]] (1993–1997; divorced) <br/> Florian Haertel (1998–present; 1 child)
| {{marriage|[[Ralph Fiennes]]|1993|1997|reason=divorced}}
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| {{marriage|Florian Haertel|1998|2013|reason=divorced}}
| {{marriage|Jonathan Stamp|2015}}
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'''Alexandra Elizabeth''' "'''Alex'''" '''Kingston'''<ref name=peerage/> (born 11 March 1963)<ref name=peerage>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p18418.htm |title=Person Page 18418 |publisher=thePeerage.com |date= |accessdate=2009-07-20}}</ref> is an English actress. She is most widely known for her roles as [[Elizabeth Corday|Dr. Elizabeth Corday]] on the [[NBC]] medical drama ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]'' and as [[River Song (Doctor Who)|River Song]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
| relatives = [[Walter Renneisen]] (maternal uncle)
}}
'''Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston''' (born 11 March 1963)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/03/happy-birthday-alex-kingston-river-song-top-10|title=Happy Birthday, Alex Kingston: A River Song Top 10}}</ref> is an English actress. Active from the early 1980s, Kingston became noted for her television work in both Britain and the US in the 1990s, including her regular role as [[Elizabeth Corday|Dr. Elizabeth Corday]] in the [[NBC]] medical drama ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]'' (1997–2004) and her title role in the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] miniseries ''[[The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders]]'' (1996), which earned her a [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA]] nomination for [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]].


Kingston's later credits include the recurring role of [[River Song (Doctor Who)|River Song]] in the [[BBC]] science fiction series ''[[Doctor Who]]'' (2008–2015), [[Bennet family#Mrs. Bennet|Mrs. Bennet]] in the ITV period-drama fantasy ''[[Lost in Austen]]'' (2008), [[List of supporting Arrow characters#Dinah Lance|Dinah Lance]] in [[The CW]]'s [[superhero fiction]] drama series ''[[Arrow (TV series)|Arrow]]'' (2013–2016), and Sarah Bishop in ''[[A Discovery of Witches (TV series)|A Discovery of Witches]]'' (2018–2022).
==Biography==
===Early life and education===
Kingston was born and raised in [[Epsom, Surrey]], [[England]]. She is the eldest of three daughters of a butcher, Anthony Kingston,<ref name=peerage/> and her German mother. Kingston's uncle is actor [[Walter Renneisen]], her mother's younger brother.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.echo-online.de/suedhessen/template_detail.php3?id=422895 |title=(article in German) |language=German | publisher=Echo-online.de |date= |accessdate=2010-04-10}}{{dead link|date=May 2011}}</ref>


==Early life==
Kingston was inspired to pursue acting by one of her teachers at her all-girls school [[Rosebery School for Girls]]. She later completed a three-year programme at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and went on to join the prestigious [[Royal Shakespeare Company]].
Kingston was born and brought up in [[Epsom]], [[Surrey]], to Anthony Kingston, an English butcher and his German wife, Margarethe (née Renneisen).<ref name=Lee>{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Veronica |title='I wouldn't say I was strong...' |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date= 9 March 2006 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3650818/I-wouldnt-say-I-was-strong....html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3650818/I-wouldnt-say-I-was-strong....html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=14 January 2012 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mxvn2 |title=Alex Kingston: Who Do You Think You Are? |date=19 September 2012 |series=Who Do You Think You Are? |time=29:53 |publisher=BBC One |access-date=4 July 2013}}</ref> Kingston's paternal great-great-grandmother was [[Jewish]], an ancestry Kingston explored on the series ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (UK TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]''<ref name="distant background">{{cite news |last1=Dysch |first1=Marcus |date=20 September 2012 |title=Alex Kingston discovers her Jewish Background |newspaper=[[Jewish Chronicle]] |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/alex-kingston-discovers-her-jewish-background-1.36331 |access-date=25 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Jon |last=Bauckham |url=http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/alex-kingston |title=Alex Kingston |publisher=Who Do You Think You Are Magazine |date=18 September 2012 |access-date=27 July 2014}}</ref> Kingston's uncle, her mother's younger brother, is actor [[Walter Renneisen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.echo-online.de/suedhessen/template_detail.php3?id=422895 |title=(article in German) |language=de |publisher=Echo-online.de |access-date=10 April 2010 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201051112/http://www.echo-online.de/suedhessen/template_detail.php3?id=422895 |archive-date=1 December 2008 }}</ref> Her younger sisters are Susie, who is mentally and physically disabled as a result of being deprived of oxygen at birth,<ref>{{cite magazine |last= Cochrane |first= Lindsay |date= 20 November 2014 |title= Alex Kingston: "I'd like carers to be heard and respected" |magazine= enable |url= https://enablemagazine.co.uk/alex-kingston-id-like-carers-to-be-heard-and-respected/ |access-date= 3 July 2024 }}</ref> and Nicola, a former actress who appeared in the 1996 British TV production of ''[[The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (TV series)|The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders]]'', in which Kingston starred.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}


Kingston was inspired to pursue acting by one of her teachers at [[Rosebery School for Girls]]. Kingston auditioned and performed in the Surrey County Youth Theatre production of ''[[Tom Jones (Edward German)|Tom Jones]]'' as Mrs. Fitzpatrick, alongside [[Sean Pertwee]] as Captain Fitzpatrick, and Thwackum played by Tom Davison. She later completed a three-year programme at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and went on to join the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]].{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
===Career===
Kingston has appeared in a number of British-produced television dramas, including ''[[Grange Hill]]'', ''[[Crocodile Shoes]]'', ''[[The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders]]'', ''[[The Knock]]'' and a guest role on ''[[The Bill]]''.


==Career==
Kingston's film credits include ''[[The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover]]'' (1989), ''A Pin for the Butterfly'' (1994), ''[[Croupier (film)|Croupier]]'' (1998), ''[[Essex Boys]]'' (2000), ''[[Boudica (film)|Boudica]]'' (''Warrior Queen'' in the USA) (2003) in which she played the eponymous [[Boudica]], ''[[Sweet Land]]'' (2005), and ''Crashing'' (2007).


=== 1980–2007: Early career and breakthrough with ''ER'' ===
In September 1997, Kingston gained North American television fame after being cast on the long-running medical drama ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''. Her first appearance was in the premiere of the fourth season in the award-winning live episode "[[Ambush (ER episode)|Ambush]]". She portrayed [[Elizabeth Corday]], a surgeon arriving from England. Kingston played this role for just over seven seasons until leaving in October 2004, in the fourth episode of the eleventh season called "[[List of ER episodes#Fear|Fear]]". In Spring 2009, Kingston returned to ''ER'' during its fifteenth and final season for two episodes: "[[List of ER episodes#Dream Runner|Dream Runner]]" and the two-hour series finale "[[And in the End...]]".
In 1980, Kingston made her television debut in three episodes of the children's drama series ''[[Grange Hill]]'', while also appearing as an uncredited extra in the film ''[[The Wildcats of St Trinian's]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Alex Kingston {{!}} A Brief History Of Time (Travel) |url=http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/bio/alex-kingston.html |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=www.shannonsullivan.com}}</ref> From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, she performed on stage in twenty different theatrical productions, working extensively with the [[Birmingham Repertory Theatre]] and the Royal Shakespeare Company.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search {{!}} RSC Performances {{!}} Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |url=https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/search/rsc_person:kingston-alex-28586 |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=collections.shakespeare.org.uk}}</ref> Her classic Shakespearean roles included [[Calpurnia (wife of Caesar)|Calpurnia]] in ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' (1987), [[Cordelia (King Lear)|Cordelia]] in ''[[King Lear]]'' (1990), [[Hero (Much Ado About Nothing)|Hero]] in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' (1990–1991), [[Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Titania]] in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (1992) and [[Desdemona]] in ''[[Othello]]'' (1993).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alex Kingston {{!}} Theatricalia |url=https://theatricalia.com/person/6td/alex-kingston |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=theatricalia.com}}</ref>


Around the same time, she could be seen playing small parts in television shows like ''[[A Killing on the Exchange]]'' (1987), ''[[Hannay (TV series)|Hannay]]'' (1989), ''[[Covington Cross]]'' (1992), ''[[Soldier Soldier]]'' (1993) and ''[[Crocodile Shoes]]'' (1994), and also had various guest roles in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s long-running [[police procedural]] ''[[The Bill]]'' (1988–1995). In film, she appeared in ''[[The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover]]'' (1989) with [[Helen Mirren]], ''[[The Infiltrator (1995 film)|The Infiltrator]]'' (1995) with [[Oliver Platt]] and ''[[Carrington (film)|Carrington]]'' (1995) with [[Emma Thompson]], where she played writer [[Frances Partridge]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Review by Kate MacDonald |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/deepsouth/vol1no3/macdonald_issue3.html |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=www.otago.ac.nz}}</ref>
In November 2005, Kingston guest-starred in the long-running mystery drama ''[[Without a Trace]]'' in season 4: episode 6 called "[[Without a Trace (season 4)#Viuda Negra|Viuda Negra]]" (Spanish for "black widow"). The episode was directed by Kingston's former ''ER'' cast mate [[Paul McCrane]]. She played Lucy Costin, one of two wealthy vacationers from the U.S. whose husband is kidnapped by a Mexican [[street gang]] on the last night of their honeymoon.


In April 1996, she got her first regular television role as [[customs]] officer Katherine Roberts in the ITV crime drama ''[[The Knock]]'', appearing in all thirteen episodes of the second series. In December, she played the lead role opposite [[Daniel Craig]] in ''[[The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders]]'', an ITV adaptation of [[Daniel Defoe]]'s novel ''[[Moll Flanders]]''. She received a nomination for [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for her performance at the following year's [[1997 British Academy Television Awards|British Academy Television Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Television in 1997 {{!}} BAFTA Awards |url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/1997/television |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref>[[File:Alex Kingston (7702442302).jpg|thumb|Kingston at the 2012 [[Florida Supercon]]]]In September 1997, Kingston gained North American television fame after being cast as a main character in the long-running medical drama ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''. She made her first appearance as British surgeon [[Elizabeth Corday]] in the premiere of the [[ER (season 4)|fourth season]], the [[Primetime Emmy Awards|Emmy Award]]-winning [[Live television|live episode]] "[[Ambush (ER)|Ambush]]". Having appeared in the show for just over seven seasons, she left it in October 2004, in the [[ER (season 11)|eleventh-season]] episode "[[ER (season 11)#ep227|Fear]]", after her contract was not renewed. Being 41 at the time, she criticised the move as [[ageism]], stating that "apparently, I, according to the producers and the writers, am part of the old fogies who are no longer interesting."<ref name=":1">{{cite news| url=http://www.eonline.com/news/47599/er-cans-dr-corday| title=ER Can Dr. Corday| author=Bridget Byrne| publisher=E News| date=2004-06-07 |access-date=2018-01-06}}</ref> Despite that, she said that she was "very proud of the work [she had] done over the past eight years" and "grateful for the professional associations and friendships [she had] made through ''ER''".<ref name=":1" />
In 2006, Kingston revealed that she was turned down for a role on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', as [[Lynette Scavo]], for being too curvy.<ref>{{cite web|author=2:45 a.m. ET |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12904596/ |title=Dissing the desperately skinny ‘Housewives – Gossip Archive – MSNBC.com |publisher=MSNBC |date=2006-05-31 |accessdate=2010-04-10}}</ref> In the same article, she admitted to considering and nearly attempting suicide after her separation from her ex-husband [[Ralph Fiennes]].


The ''ER'' role helped propel Kingston's career to new heights, which led to a number of big-screen appearances in films like the [[Clive Owen]] [[neo-noir]] drama [[Croupier (film)|''Croupier'']] (1998)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maher |first=Kevin |title=Croupier (1998) review — Clive Owen's modern noir holds all the cards |newspaper=[[The Times]] |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/croupier-1998-review-clive-owens-modern-noir-holds-all-the-cards-xmmzgwpsh |access-date=2022-09-29 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC - Films - review - Croupier |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/05/29/croupier_2001_review.shtml |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> and independent period drama ''[[Sweet Land]]'' (2005), as well as the crime dramas ''[[Essex Boys]]'' (2000) and ''[[Alpha Dog]]'' (2006).<ref name=":0" /> In 2003, she battled [[Roman Empire|Romans]] as the warrior queen of Britain in ITV's biopic ''[[Boudica (2003 film)|Boudica]]'', which was also released in the USA on [[PBS]] under the title ''Warrior Queen'' and marked the screen debut of [[Emily Blunt]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Oh |first=Sheryl |date=2021-06-15 |title=An Exploration of The Splendid Allure of Emily Blunt |url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/emily-blunt-filmography/ |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Film School Rejects |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2008 Kingston guest-starred in the fourth series of the long-running science fiction television programme ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in the two-part story "[[Silence in the Library]]"/"[[Forest of the Dead]]" as [[River Song (Doctor Who)|River Song]]. She reprised the role in 2010, playing a younger version of River Song in the two-parter "[[The Time of Angels]]"/"[[Flesh and Stone]]", and again in the two-part series finale "[[The Pandorica Opens]]"/"[[The Big Bang (Doctor Who)|The Big Bang]]". She returned for the two-part [[Doctor_Who_(series_6)|series 6]] premiere "[[The Impossible Astronaut]]"/"[[Day of the Moon]]" and the mid series finale "[[A Good Man Goes to War]]" in 2011. When the series returned in Autumn she appeared in "[[Let's Kill Hitler]]", playing a [[River Song]] that had only just regenerated. In the end of "[[Closing Time]]", where she was put into the space suit ready to kill the Doctor, and finally in the series finale "[[The Wedding of River Song]]". Kingston says she thought her role was simply a one-off, but was delighted that she would be a returning character.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/blog/2011-08-27/doctor-who-alex-kingston-interviewed|title=Doctor Who: Alex Kingston interviewed|author = Andrew Duncan|date=2011-08-27|publisher=[[Radio Times]]|accessdate=2011-08-29}}</ref>


In November 2005, Kingston guest starred as a vacationer whose husband gets kidnapped by a Mexican [[street gang]] in an episode of the [[CBS]] crime drama ''[[Without a Trace]]'', titled "[[Without a Trace (season 4)#ep76|Viuda Negra]]" and directed by her former ''ER'' co-star [[Paul McCrane]]. The following year, she returned to the stage after ten years in the [[West End theatre|West End]] production of ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'', starring as [[Nurse Ratched]] opposite [[Christian Slater]] as [[Randle McMurphy]].<ref name="londontheatre.co.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/news/feb06/oneflewoverthecuckoosnest15feb06.htm |title="One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" returns with Christian Slater at Garrick from 21 March 2006 |date=15 February 2006 |access-date=3 January 2013 |archive-date=30 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233050/http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/news/feb06/oneflewoverthecuckoosnest15feb06.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> She then revealed that she auditioned for the role of [[Lynette Scavo]] on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' but was turned away for being too curvy.<ref name="fametastic">{{cite news|url=http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/20060523/1328/alex-kingston-slams-skinniness-of-the-desperate-housewives/ |title=Alex Kingston slams skinniness of the Desperate Housewives |date=23 May 2006 |publisher=Fametastic |author=Heather |access-date=2009-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127083139/http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/20060523/1328/alex-kingston-slams-skinniness-of-the-desperate-housewives/ |archive-date=27 January 2010 |url-status = dead}}</ref>
In September 2008, Kingston took the part of Mrs. Bennet in [[ITV]]'s acclaimed four-part production ''[[Lost in Austen]]'' which is based on [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''. In October that same year, Kingston appeared in the crime drama ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' in season 9: episode 3 called "[[Art Imitates Life]]" where she portrayed Patricia Alwick, a psychiatrist and grief counsellor who helps the team cope with the recent death of CSI member [[Warrick Brown]].


=== 2008–2015: ''Doctor Who'' and further television and stage work ===
In February 2009, Kingston portrayed Miranda Pond, a defence attorney in two episodes of the legal drama ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''. This guest spot reunited Kingston with her former cast mate from ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]'', [[Mariska Hargitay]]. Hargitay had a recurring role during the fourth season of ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''. In June, Kingston starred as the lead character Ellie Lagden, one of four former convicts in the [[BBC One]] drama series ''[[Hope Springs (TV series)|Hope Springs]]'' until its cancelation in July. In September that year, she had a recurring role in ''[[FlashForward (TV series)|FlashForward]]'', playing Inspector Fiona Banks.
In 2008, Kingston guest starred as Professor [[River Song (Doctor Who)|River Song]] in the [[Doctor Who (series 4)|fourth series]] of the BBC's long-running [[Science fiction on television|science fiction]] television series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', in the two-part story "[[Silence in the Library]]" / "[[Forest of the Dead]]", starring [[David Tennant]] as the [[Tenth Doctor]]. She thought it was simply a one-off guest role but was delighted to find out that she would be a returning character after the story's writer, [[Steven Moffat]], succeeded [[Russell T Davies]] as the ''Doctor Who'' [[showrunner]].<ref name="radiotimes">{{cite web |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/blog/2011-08-27/doctor-who-alex-kingston-interviewed |title=Doctor Who: Alex Kingston interviewed |first=Andrew |last=Duncan |date=27 August 2011 |work=[[Radio Times]] |access-date=29 August 2011 |archive-date=9 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009094331/http://www.radiotimes.com/blog/2011-08-27/doctor-who-alex-kingston-interviewed |url-status=dead }}</ref> She reprised the role in thirteen episodes between 2010 and 2015, appearing on screen opposite two more incarnations of the [[The Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]] played by [[Matt Smith]] and [[Peter Capaldi]].<ref name="2015DoctorWhoChristmas" /> Kingston has also portrayed the role in a number of audio dramas from [[Big Finish Productions]], including her solo series ''[[The Diary of River Song]]'' (2015–2023).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/doctor-who---the-diary-of-river-song|title=The Diary of River Song|website=Big Finish|access-date=11 December 2018}}</ref>
[[File:Catherine Tate, Alex Kingston and Karen Gillan at GalaxyCon Minneapolis 2019.jpg|left|thumb|Kingston with her ''Doctor Who'' co-stars [[Catherine Tate]] and [[Karen Gillan]] at the 2019 [[GalaxyCon|GalaxyCon Minneapolis]]]]
In September 2008, Kingston took the part of [[Mrs. Bennet]] in ITV's acclaimed four-part drama ''[[Lost in Austen]]'', based on [[Jane Austen]]'s novel ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''. In October, she appeared in the episode "[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 9)#Episodes|Art Imitates Life]]" of the police procedural drama ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' as psychiatrist and [[grief counseling|grief counsellor]] Patricia Alwick, who helped the team cope with the recent death of one of their members.


In both 2009 and 2010, Kingston had recurring roles as [[MI6]] agent Fiona Banks in the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] science fiction drama ''[[FlashForward]]'' and [[Lawyer|defence attorney]] Miranda Pond in the [[NBC]] legal drama ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'', in which she reunited with her former ''ER'' castmates, [[Mariska Hargitay]] and [[Maria Bello]]. In spring 2009, Kingston returned to ''ER'' itself during its [[ER (season 14)|fifteenth and final season]] for two episodes, "[[ER (season 15)#ep321|Dream Runner]]" and the two-hour series finale, "[[And in the End...]]".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-03 |title=With the 'ER' finale, it's all about endings |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-03-et-er-finale3-story.html |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> In June, she starred as the lead character Ellie Lagden, one of four former [[convict]]s, in the [[BBC One]] eight-part drama series ''[[Hope Springs (TV series)|Hope Springs]]''.
In 2010, Kingston returned to ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' in season 12: episode 7 entitled "[[List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes#Trophy|Trophy]]", which reunited Kingston with her former ''ER'' castmate [[Maria Bello]].
[[File:Alex Kingston (27473695521).jpg|thumb|Kingston at the 2016 [[Phoenix Fan Fusion|Phoenix Comicon]]]]
In the early 2010s, Kingston played a housewife in the five-part supernatural drama ''[[Marchlands]]'' (2011), an archaeologist in the second series of the revived ''[[Upstairs Downstairs (2010 TV series)|Upstairs Downstairs]]'' (2012)<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC One - Upstairs Downstairs - Dr Blanche Mottershead |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/YGdWdKvvRVXw9YsXsm5JGH/dr-blanche-mottershead |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> and an analyst working for a [[missing person]]s unit in the four-part crime drama ''[[Chasing Shadows (TV series)|Chasing Shadows]]'' (2014).''<ref>{{cite web |date=29 September 2014 |title=Chasing Shadows on DVD - A Chat With Alex Kingston |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/roger-crow/chasing-shadows-alex-kingston_b_5828388.html |work=The Huffington Post UK}}</ref>'' In the US, she appeared in the romantic film ''[[Like Crazy]]'' (2011) and the ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' spin-off series ''[[Private Practice (TV series)|Private Practice]]'' (2011), in the guest role of a psychiatrist writing book reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvline.com/2011/02/04/private-practice-exclusive-shrink-role-fits-er-alum/|title=Private Practice Exclusive: Shrink Role Fits ''ER'' Alum Alex Kingston|date=4 February 2011|first=Matt Webb |last=Mitovich|publisher=TVLine.com|access-date=21 May 2013}}</ref> She also starred in the [[Arrow season 1|first season]] of [[The CW]]'s [[Superhero fiction|superhero]] drama series ''[[Arrow (TV series)|Arrow]]'' (2013) as Professor Dinah Lance, the mother of [[Laurel Lance (Arrowverse)|Laurel]] and [[Sara Lance]],<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/01/22/arrow-alex-kingston/ |title='Arrow' scoop: 'ER' actress is Laurel's mom |date=22 January 2013 |first=James |last=Hibberd |magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=21 May 2013}}</ref> and later reprised the role in a few episodes over the next three seasons.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Canary Cry - Arrow |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/canary-cry-arrow/ |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=www.cbsnews.com |date=25 April 2016 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Trumbore |first=Dave |date=2016-04-28 |title=Arrow Recap: Canary Cry Is a Canary in the Coal Mine |url=https://collider.com/arrow-recap-canary-cry/ |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Collider |language=en-US}}</ref> On stage, she participated in the [[Donmar Warehouse]] production of [[Friedrich Schiller]]'s play ''[[Intrigue and Love|Luise Miller]]'' (2011), directed by [[Michael Grandage]].


In July 2013, she played [[Lady Macbeth]] opposite [[Kenneth Branagh]] in the [[Manchester International Festival]]'s production of ''[[Macbeth]]'', which was broadcast live in cinemas worldwide as part of the [[National Theatre Live]] programme.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mif.co.uk/event/macbeth |title=Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston "MACBETH" |publisher=[[Manchester International Festival]] |year=2014 |access-date=27 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921193954/http://www.mif.co.uk/event/macbeth/ |archive-date=21 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Following a nomination for Best Actress at the [[Manchester Theatre Awards]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-01-14 |title=The 2013 Manchester Theatre Awards nominations |url=https://oughttobeclowns.com/2014/01/the-2013-manchester-theatre-awards-nominations.html/ |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=There Ought To Be Clowns |language=en-US}}</ref> she reprised her role with Branagh at the [[Park Avenue Armory]] in June 2014, making her New York stage debut.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/branaghs-macbeth-coming-to-new-yorks-park-avenue-armory-in-2014/?_r=0 | work=The New York Times | first=Daniel | last=Mcdermon | title=Branagh's 'Macbeth' Coming to New York's Park Avenue Armory in 2014 | date=20 August 2013}}</ref> Earlier in April, Branagh and Kingston took other classic Shakespearean lead roles in the two-and-a-half-hour adaptation of ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'', broadcast on [[BBC Radio 3]] as part of its celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Antony and Cleopatra |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0414fq4 |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
In 2011, Kingston was a cast member on British supernatural series ''[[Marchlands]]''. She played the character Helen Maynard. The series ended on March 3. She also guest-starred in the ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' spin-off ''[[Private Practice (TV series)|Private Practice]]'' as Marla Tompkins, a psychiatrist who writes book reviews for newspapers. Kingston is currently cast in [[Friedrich Schiller]]’s ''[[Luise Miller]]'' at the [[Donmar Warehouse]] in London.


=== 2016–present: Recent work ===
===Personal life===
Kingston met English actor [[Ralph Fiennes]] while they were both students at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]. They were together for ten years before marrying on 28 October 1993. They divorced in December 1997.


During the late 2010s, she took a prominent role as Sarah Bishop in [[Sky UK|Sky]]'s fantasy drama ''[[A Discovery of Witches (TV series)|A Discovery of Witches]]'' (2018–2022), while also appearing in shows like ''[[Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life]]'' (2016),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who Is Naomi In The 'Gilmore Girls' Revival? Alex Kingston's Character Brings Some Drama For Rory |url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/196463-who-is-naomi-in-the-gilmore-girls-revival-alex-kingstons-character-brings-some-drama-for-rory |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Bustle |date=25 November 2016 |language=en}}</ref> ''[[Shoot the Messenger (TV series)|Shoot the Messenger]]'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nealon |first=Sarah |date=2016-11-16 |title=Doctor Who star Alex Kingston in new thriller Shoot The Messenger |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/86538558/doctor-who-actress-stars-in-new-tv-thriller |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Stuff |language=en}}</ref> and ''[[The Widow (TV series)|The Widow]]'' (2019).<ref name=":0" /> In 2021, she wrote a River Song novel called ''Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse'' for [[BBC Books]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/alex-kingston-pens-river-song-novel/|title=Alex Kingston pens new Doctor Who novel|website=Radio Times|access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref> and reprised the role for pre-recorded elements of the [[Immersive theater|interactive theatrical]] experience ''Time Fracture''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alex Kingston confirmed to reprise River Song role for Doctor Who: Time Fracture |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/alex-kingston-river-song-time-fracture-newsupdate/ |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Radio Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-15 |title=Doctor Who star returning as River Song for Time Fracture event |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a36731138/doctor-who-alex-kingston-river-song-cameo-time-fracture/ |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}}</ref> The following year, she starred as [[British Prime Minister]] candidate Audrey Gratz in the [[Netflix]] spy miniseries ''[[Treason (TV series)|Treason]]'' and as the villainous Lucifer in the ''[[Oliver Twist]]''-inspired [[Children's television series|children's television]] series ''[[Dodger (TV series)|Dodger]]'', also starring the [[Ninth Doctor]] actor, [[Christopher Eccleston]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dodger |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/proginfo/2022/09/bbc.com/mediacentre/proginfo/2022/09/dodger/ |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-19 |title='Dodger' starring Christopher Eccleston comes to CBBC in February |url=https://cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/dodger-starring-christopher-eccleston-comes-to-cbbc-in-february |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=CultBox |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=TVZone |date=2022-09-01 |title=DODGER RETURNS TO CBBC FOR NEW ADVENTURES |url=https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/dodger-cbbannsep1 |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=TVZoneUK |language=en}}</ref>
In 1998, Kingston married her second husband, German [[writer]] and [[freelance journalist]] Florian Haertel. They met the previous year on a blind date arranged by friends.<ref>{{cite news|author=Hilary Freeman |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1244227,00.html |title='At my age, if we want to have another child, this is the time to do it' &#124; Society |work=The Guardian |date= 2004-06-22|accessdate=2010-04-10 | location=London}}</ref> They have a daughter together, Salome Violetta Haertel, born on 28 March 2001. As of 2011, Kingston continues to reside in the US.<ref>{{cite interview |last= Kingston |first= Alex |subjectlink= Alex Kingston |interviewer= [[Craig Ferguson]] |program= [[The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson]] |callsign= [[CBS]] |city= [[Los Angeles]] |date=2011-01-06}}</ref>


In January 2023, she returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time since the early nineties in the role of [[Prospero]] in ''[[The Tempest]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New RSC season to include The Tempest starring Alex Kingston {{!}} WhatsOnStage |url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/rsc-2023-season-summer_57468.html |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=www.whatsonstage.com |date=27 September 2022 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Filmography==


==Personal life==
{| class="wikitable"
Kingston met English actor [[Ralph Fiennes]] while they were both students at the [[RADA|Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]. They were together for ten years before marrying in 1993. In 1995, Fiennes began an affair with his ''[[Hamlet]]'' co-star [[Francesca Annis]] and left Kingston the following year; they were divorced in 1997.<ref name=Sheldon>{{cite news |last=Sheldon |first=Michael |title='I'm not afraid to take risks' |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=14 August 2003 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3600438/Im-not-afraid-to-take-risks.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3600438/Im-not-afraid-to-take-risks.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=30 December 2011 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In a 2006 interview, she admitted to considering and nearly attempting suicide after her separation from Fiennes.<ref>{{cite web|last=Walls|first=Jeannette|date=31 May 2006|title=Dissing the desperately skinny 'Housewives'|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/dissing-desperately-skinny-housewives-wbna12904596|access-date=10 April 2010|publisher=Today.com}}</ref>

At the end of 1998,<ref name="Sheldon"/> Kingston married Florian Haertel, a German writer and freelance journalist, having met him the previous year on a blind date arranged by friends;<ref>{{cite news|first=Hilary |last=Freeman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,1244227,00.html |title=At my age, if we want to have another child, this is the time to do it |work=The Guardian |date= 22 June 2004|access-date=10 April 2010 | location=London}}</ref> they had a daughter, Salome Violetta Haertel, born 28 March 2001.<ref>{{cite news |title=Salome Violetta Haertel |date=5 June 2001 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=http://stage.variety.com/article/VR1117800777.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120627113220/http://stage.variety.com/article/VR1117800777.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 June 2012 |access-date=4 June 2012 }}</ref> Kingston and Haertel separated in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|first=Nick |last=Curtis |title=Doctor Who is the closest thing to theatre on TV |date=1 June 2011 |work=thisislondon |publisher=[[Evening Standard]] |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23955391-doctor-who-is-the-closest-thing-to-theatre-on-tv.do |access-date=14 January 2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818172841/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23955391-doctor-who-is-the-closest-thing-to-theatre-on-tv.do |archive-date=18 August 2011 }}</ref> On 30 October 2009, Haertel sued Kingston for dissolution of the marriage, and the divorce was finalised in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://unicourt.com/case/urc-FFCBQHBDIFBDMEECMYYV7ATHLVFBA1009|title=FLORIAN HAERTEL VS ALEXANDRA KINGSTON|website=UniCourt|date=20 December 2018|access-date=20 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219021955/https://unicourt.com/case/urc-FFCBQHBDIFBDMEECMYYV7ATHLVFBA1009|archive-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>

Kingston appeared on the [[BBC]] genealogy series ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'' in September 2012, investigating the lives of her great-grandfather Will Keevil and her four-times great-grandmother, Elizabeth Braham.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Alex Kingston|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mxvn2|access-date=5 July 2020|series=Who Do You Think You Are?|network=BBC|station=BBC One|date=19 September 2012|series-no=9|number=6|minutes=59|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Alex Kingston: The ER and Doctor Who star discovers a forebear who made a small fortune from houses of ill repute|magazine= Who Do You Think You Are?|url=http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/alex-kingston|access-date=5 July 2020}}</ref>

In 2015, Kingston married Jonathan Stamp, a television producer, in an Italian ceremony.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/doctor-who-star-alex-kingston-6099403|title=Doctor Who star Alex Kingston marries TV producer Jonathan Stamp in romantic Italian ceremony|work=[[Mirror.co.uk]]|date=19 July 2015|access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref>

Kingston has lived in the United States,<ref>{{cite interview |title=Alex Kingston |interviewer= [[Craig Ferguson]] |work= [[The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson]] |publisher= [[CBS]] |location= Los Angeles |date=6 January 2011}}</ref> and moved back to the UK in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/interviews/2019/alex-kingston-king-lear-new-roles-for-women/|title=Alex Kingston: 'I don't want to play King Lear – let's create new heavy hitting roles for women' |work=[[The Stage]] |date=16 September 2019 |access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref>

==Filmography==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
|-
! Year
! Year
! Film
! Title
! Role
! Role
! Notes
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1980
| 1980
| ''[[The Wildcats of St. Trinian's]]''
| ''[[The Wildcats of St. Trinian's]]''
| Schoolgirl
|
| Uncredited
| Uncredited
|-
|-
| 1989
| ''[[The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover]]''
| Adele
|
|-
| 1994
| ''[[A Pin for the Butterfly]]''
| Mrs. Solomon
|
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Carrington (film)|Carrington]]''
| [[Frances Partridge]]
|
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Saint-Ex]]''
| Chic Party Guest
|
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Croupier (film)|Croupier]]''
| Jani de Villiers
|
|-
| 1999
| ''[[This Space Between Us]]''
| Peternelle
|
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Essex Boys]]''
| Lisa Locke
|
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Sweet Land]]''
| Brownie
|
|-
|2005
|''[[The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]''
|Suzanne Harrison
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Alpha Dog]]''
| Tiffany Hartunian
|
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Crashing (film)|Crashing]]''
| Diane Freed
|
|-
| 2009
| ''Sordid Things''
| Eve Manchester
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|2011
| ''[[Like Crazy (2011 film)|Like Crazy]]''
| Jackie
|
|-
| ''Ghost Phone: Phone Calls from the Dead''
| Sheila
|
|-
|2013
| ''[[Charles Bukowski#In film|Bukowski]]''
| Katharina Bukowski
| Unreleased
|-
| 2016
| ''Happily Ever After''
| Ria
|
|-
| 2018
| ''Deadpan''
| Tamara
| Short film
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Grange Hill]]''
| ''[[Grange Hill]]''
| Jill Harcourt
| Jill Harcourt
| TV series (3 episodes)
| 3 episodes
|-
|-
| 1986
| rowspan="1"| 1987
| ''Henry's Leg''
| ''A Killing on the Exchange''
| Noreen
| Miniseries
|-
| 1987
| ''[[A Killing on the Exchange]]''
| Ellen
| Ellen
| Miniseries
| TV mini-series (2 episodes)
|-
|-
| 1988–1995
| rowspan="1"| 1988
| ''[[The Bill]]''
| ''[[The Bill]]''
| Dr. Howard / Lisa / Maggie Fisher
| Various
| TV series (4 episodes: 1988-1995)
| 4 episodes
|-
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1989
| rowspan="2"| 1989
| ''[[Hannay (TV series)|Hannay]]''
| ''[[Hannay (TV series)|Hannay]]''
| Kirsten Larssen
| Kirsten Larssen
| TV series (1 episode: "The Terrors of the Earth")
| Episode: "[[Hannay (TV series)#Series Two|The Terrors of the Earth]]"
|-
|-
| ''The Play on One''
| ''[[The Play on One]]''
| Daniella
| Daniella
| TV series (1 episode: "These Foolish Things")
| Episode: "These Foolish Things"
|-
|-
| 1992
| ''[[The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover]]''
| Adela
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| 1992
| ''[[Covington Cross]]''
| ''[[Covington Cross]]''
| Helen
| Helen
| TV series (1 episode: "Cedric Hits the Road")
| Episode: "[[Covington Cross#ep4|Cedric Hits the Road]]"
|-
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1993
| rowspan="2"| 1993
| ''[[Foreign Affairs (TV movie)|Foreign Affairs]]''
| ''[[Foreign Affairs (TV movie)|Foreign Affairs]]''
| Actress
| Actress
| TV movie
| TV film
|-
|-
| ''[[Soldier Soldier]]''
| ''[[Soldier Soldier]]''
| Ursula Kröhling
| Ursula Kröhling
| TV series (1 episode: "Camouflage")
| Episode: "[[Soldier Soldier#Series 3|Camouflage]]"
|-
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1994
| rowspan="2"| 1994
| ''Woman of the Wolf''
| ''Woman of the Wolf''
| Woman
| Woman (voice)
| Voice only, TV movie
| TV film
|-
| ''[[A Pin for the Butterfly]]''
|
|
|-
|-
| ''[[Crocodile Shoes]]''
| ''[[Crocodile Shoes]]''
| Caroline Carrison
| Caroline Carrison
| TV series (5 episodes)
| 5 episodes
|-
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1995
| 1995
| ''[[Carrington (film)|Carrington]]''
| ''[[The Infiltrator (1995 film)|The Infiltrator]]''
| Frances Partidge
|
|-
| ''[[The Infiltrator]]''
| Anna
| Anna
| TV film
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1996
| rowspan="3" | 1996
| ''[[The Knock]]''
| ''[[The Knock]]''
| Katherine Roberts
| Katherine Roberts
| TV series (13 episodes)
| 13 episodes
|-
|''Last of the Czars''
|Alexandra (voice)
|3 episodes
|-
|-
| ''[[The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders]]''
| ''[[The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders]]''
| Moll Flanders
| [[Moll Flanders]]
| Miniseries
| TV movie
|-
| ''[[Saint-Ex]]''
| Chic Party Guest
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1997
| 1997
| ''[[Weapons of Mass Distraction]]''
| ''[[Weapons of Mass Distraction]]''
| Verity Graham
| Verity Graham
| TV movie
| TV film
|-
|-
| 1997–2009
| ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''
| ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''
| [[Elizabeth Corday|Dr. Elizabeth Corday]]
| [[Elizabeth Corday|Dr. Elizabeth Corday]]
| TV series (Series regular: 160 episodes: 1997-2004, 2009)
| 160 episodes
|-
|-
| 2003
| rowspan="1"| 1998
| ''[[Croupier (film)|Croupier]]''
| ''[[Boudica (2003 film)|Boudica]]''
| [[Boudica]]
| Jani de Villiers
| TV film; a.k.a. ''Warrior Queen''
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="1"| 1999
| rowspan="2"| 2005
| ''This Space Between Us''
| Peternelle
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| 2000
| ''[[Essex Boys]]''
| Lisa Locke
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| 2003
| ''[[Boudica (film)|Boudica]]''
| Boudica
| ''Warrior Queen'' in the U.S.A.
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2005
| ''[[The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]''
| ''[[The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]''
| Suzanne Harrison
| Suzanne Harrison
| TV movie
| TV film
|-
| ''[[Sweet Land]]''
| Brownie
|
|-
|-
| ''[[Without a Trace]]''
| ''[[Without a Trace]]''
| Lucy Costin
| Lucy Costin
| TV series (1 episode: "Viuda Negra")
| Episode: "[[Without a Trace (season 4)#ep76|Viuda Negra]]"
|-
| rowspan="1"| 2006
| ''[[Alpha Dog]]''
| Tiffany Hartunian
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| 2007
| ''Crashing''
| Diane Freed
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="4"| 2008
| rowspan="3"| 2008
| ''[[Freezing (TV series)|Freezing]]''
| ''[[Freezing (TV series)|Freezing]]''
| Serena Wilson
| Serena Wilson
| TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.3")
| Episode #1.3
|-
|-
| ''[[Lost in Austen]]''
| ''[[Lost in Austen]]''
| Mrs. Bennett
| [[Mrs. Bennet]]
| Miniseries
| TV mini-series (4 episodes)
|-
|-
| ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]''
| ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]''
| Dr. Patricia Alwick
| Patricia Alwick
| TV series (1 episode: "[[Art Imitates Life]]")
| Episode: "[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 9)#ep185|Art Imitates Life]]"
|-
|-
| 2008, 2010–2013, 2015
| ''[[Doctor Who]]''
| ''[[Doctor Who]]''
| [[River Song (Doctor Who)|River Song]]
| [[River Song (Doctor Who)|River Song]]
| 15 episodes<ref name="2015DoctorWhoChristmas">{{cite web|title=The Doctor and River Song Reunite for a Spectacular Christmas|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/32369834-a751-4dca-8829-b1a9ec3fb1cb|website=BBC|publisher=The Doctor Who Team|access-date=2 September 2015|date=2 September 2015}}</ref>
| Appeared in a total of twelve episodes:
** Two in [[Doctor Who (series 4)|series four]]: [[Silence in the Library]]; [[Forest of the Dead]] (and one minor flashback appearance in [[Journey's End]])
** Four in [[Doctor Who (series 5)|series five]]: [[The Time of Angels]]; [[Flesh and Stone]]; [[The Pandorica Opens]]; [[The Big Bang]]
** Six in [[Doctor Who (series 6)|series six]]: [[The Impossible Astronaut]]; [[Day of the Moon]]; [[A Good Man Goes to War]]; [[Let's Kill Hitler]]; [[Closing Time]]; [[The Wedding of River Song]]
|-
| rowspan="4"| 2009
| ''Sordid Things''
| Eve Manchester
|
|-
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Hope Springs (TV series)|Hope Springs]]''
| ''[[Hope Springs (TV series)|Hope Springs]]''
| Ellie Lagden
| Ellie Lagden
| TV series: Lead role (8 episodes)
| 8 episodes
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2009–2010
| ''[[FlashForward]]''
| ''[[FlashForward]]''
| Inspector Fiona Banks
| Fiona Banks
| TV series (3 episodes)
| 3 episodes
|-
|-
| ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''
| ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''
| Miranda Pond
| Miranda Pond
| TV series (4 episodes)
| 4 episodes
|-
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2010
| 2010
| ''[[Ben Hur (TV miniseries)|Ben Hur]]''
| ''[[Ben Hur (miniseries)|Ben Hur]]''
| Ruth
| Ruth
| Miniseries
| TV series (2 episodes)
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2011
| ''[[Private Practice (TV series)|Private Practice]]''
| Dr. Marla Thomkins
| 2 episodes
|-
| ''[[Marchlands#Marchlands|Marchlands]]''
| Helen Maynard
| Miniseries
|-
| rowspan="3"| 2012
| ''[[Upstairs Downstairs (2010 TV series)|Upstairs Downstairs]]''
| [[List of Upstairs Downstairs (2010 TV series) characters#Dr Blanche Mottershead|Dr. Blanche Mottershead]]
| 5 episodes
|-
| ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]''
| Herself
| Episode: "[[Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)#Series 9 (2012)|Alex Kingston]]"
|-
| ''[[NCIS (TV series)|NCIS]]''
| Miranda Pennebaker
| Episode: "[[Gone (NCIS)|Gone]]"
|-
| 2013–2016
| ''[[Arrow (TV series)|Arrow]]''
| [[List of supporting Arrow characters#Dinah Lance|Dinah Lance]]
| 7 episodes
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Chasing Shadows (TV series)|Chasing Shadows]]''
| Ruth Hattersley
| Miniseries<ref>{{cite web|title=Reece Shearsmith, Alex Kingston and Noel Clarke to star in Chasing Shadows|url=http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/reece-shearsmith-alex-kingston-and-noel-clarke-star-chasing-shadows#.U8qxBfldWSo|website=ITV Presscentre|access-date=19 July 2014}}</ref>
|-
| 2015
| ''[[American Odyssey]]''
| Jennifer Wachtel
| 2 episodes
|-
| 2016, 2021
| ''[[Blue Bloods (TV series)|Blue Bloods]]''
| Commander Sloane Thompson
| 2 episodes
|-
| rowspan="4"|2016
| ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots]]''
| Quickshadow (voice)
| 5 episodes
|-
| ''[[Shoot the Messenger (TV series)|Shoot the Messenger]]''
| Mary Foster
| 8 episodes
|-
| ''[[Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life]]''
| Naomi Shropshire
| Miniseries
|-
| ''Crushed''
| Cricket Stella
| Unaired [[Hulu]] pilot<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/02/colm-feore-alex-kingston-jacob-vargas-hulu-comedy-crushed-1201698952/|title=Colm Feore, Alex Kingston & Jacob Vargas Join Hulu Pilot 'Crushed'|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=9 February 2016|access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref>
|-
| 2017
| ''[[Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero]]''
| Vlurgen (voice)
| Episode: "[[List of Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero episodes#ep33b|Mr. Rippen]]"
|-
| 2018–2022
| ''[[A Discovery of Witches (TV series)|A Discovery of Witches]]''
| Sarah Bishop
| 20 episodes
|-
| 2019
| ''[[The Widow (TV series)|The Widow]]''
| Judith Gray
| 8 episodes
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2022
| ''[[Dodger (TV series)|Dodger]]''
| Lucifer
| 2 episodes
|-
| ''[[Treason (TV series)|Treason]]''
| Audrey Gratz
| 5 episodes<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/treason-cast-netflix/|title=Meet the cast of Treason on Netflix|website=[[RadioTimes]]|date=25 December 2022|access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2024
| ''Callers''
| ''[[Douglas Is Cancelled]]''
| Sheila
| Sheila
| Main role
| ''Post-production''
|}

=== Radio ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
|-
! Year
| rowspan="3"| 2011
! Title
| ''[[Like Crazy]]''
! Role
| Jackie
! Production
| (completed)
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|-
|1992
| ''[[Private Practice (TV series)|Private Practice]]''
|''[[Père Goriot]]''
| Marla Tompkins
|Delphine / Victorine
| TV series
|[[BBC Radio 4]]
|Four-part dramatisation
|-
|-
|1994
| ''[[Marchlands]]''
|''John Dollar''
| Helen Maynard
|Charlotte
| TV series (5 episodes)
|[[BBC Radio 3]]
|Self-adapted by author [[Marianne Wiggins]]
|-
|2006
|''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]''
| rowspan="2" |Narrator
|[[BBC Radio 2]]
|Abridged eight-part version
|-
|2007
|''Murder She Thought''
|BBC Radio 4
|Story: "Dear George" by Cathy Ace
|-
|2014
|''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]''
|Cleopatra
|BBC Radio 3
|Two-and-a-half-hour adaptation starring [[Kenneth Branagh]]
|-
|2021
|''[[Nuremberg trials|Nuremberg]]''
|{{interlanguage link|Madeleine Jacob|fr}}
|BBC Radio 4
|Story: "He Pointed to the Sky" by [[Jonathan Myerson]]
|}
|}


== References ==
=== Audio ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Production
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|2007
|''[[Mary Stuart (Schiller play)|Mary Stuart]]''
|[[Mary, Queen of Scots|Mary Stuart]]
| rowspan="2" |[[L.A. Theatre Works]]
|Recorded before an audience at the [[Skirball Cultural Center]]
|-
|2010
|''[[Tartuffe]]''
|Elmire
|Recorded at The Invisible Studios, [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]]
|-
|2012
|''[[The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery]]''
|Narrator
|[[AudioGO]]
|
|-
|2015–2023
|''[[The Diary of River Song]]''
|[[River Song (Doctor Who)|River Song]]
|[[Big Finish Productions]]
|Series 1–12
|-
|2016
|''Five Short Stories by Women''
|Narrator
|L.A. Theatre Works
|Story: "Once Upon a Time"
|-
|2016–2017
|''[[Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures#Doom Coalition|Doom Coalition]]''
|River Song
|Big Finish Productions
|5 stories
|-
|2017
|''[[Seven (play)|Seven]]''
|[[Inez McCormack]]
|L.A. Theatre Works
|Recorded before an audience at the [[University of California, Los Angeles|James Bridges Theater]]
|-
|2020
|''[[Peter Pan]]''
|Narrator
|[[Penguin Random House|Penguin Audio]]
|
|-
| rowspan="6" |2019
|''[[List of Doctor Who spin off audio plays by Big Finish#The Eighth of March (2019–present)|The Eighth of March]]''
| rowspan="3" |River Song
| rowspan="5" |Big Finish Productions
|Story: "Emancipation"
|-
|''[[Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures#Series 3 (2019) 2|Ravenous]]''
|Story: "Companion Piece"
|-
|''[[UNIT (audio drama series)#The New Series|UNIT: The New Series]]''
|Story: "The Power of River Song"
|-
|''Transference''
|Sam Ross
|Non-''Doctor Who'' eight-part psychological thriller
|-
|''[[List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish#Special Releases (2001–present)|The Legacy of Time]]''
|River Song
|Story: "Lies in Ruins"
|-
|''[[The Other Queen]]''
|Narrator
|[[Simon & Schuster|Simon & Schuster Audio]]
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |2020
|''[[List of Doctor Who spin off audio plays by Big Finish#The Lives of Captain Jack (2017–2020)|The Lives of Captain Jack]]''
|River Song
|Big Finish Productions
|Story: "R&J"
|-
|''[[Lovecraft Country|Arkham County]]''
|Henrietta
|[[Audible (service)|Audible]]
|Original seven-hour drama with [[Stanley Tucci]] in the lead role
|-
|''[[Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures#The Tenth Doctor and River Song (2020)|The Tenth Doctor and River Song]]''
|River Song
|Big Finish Productions
|3 stories
|-
| rowspan="3" |2021
|''A Narrow Door''
| rowspan="2" |Narrator
|[[Orion Publishing Group|Orion Books]]
|
|-
|''Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse''
|AudioGO
|Also writer
|-
|''[[Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures#Episodes (2021)|Dalek Universe]]''
| rowspan="2" |River Song
| rowspan="2" |Big Finish Productions
|Story: "The First Son"
|-
| rowspan="2" |2022
|''[[List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish#Special Releases (2001–present)|Peladon]]''
|Story: "The Poison of Peladon"
|-
|''[[Miss Marple|Marple: Twelve New Mysteries]]''
|Narrator
|[[HarperCollins|HarperAudio]]
|Story: "Evil in Small Places"
|}

===Video games===
{| class="wikitable unsortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock]]''
| [[River Song (Doctor Who)|River Song]] (voice)
|}

== Stage work ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Venue
|-
|{{N/a}}
|''[[The Idiot]]''
|[[Nastasya Filippovna]]
|[[Contact Theatre]]
|-
|1986
|''[[The Alchemist (play)|The Alchemist]]''
|Dol Common
| rowspan="4" |[[Birmingham Repertory Theatre]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1987
|''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]''
|[[Calpurnia (wife of Caesar)|Culpurnia]]
|-
|''Travelling Players''
|Mad Ophelia
|-
| rowspan="3" |1988
|''Saved''
|Pam
|-
|''[[French Without Tears]]''
|Diana Lake
|[[Leicester Haymarket Theatre]]
|-
|''[[The Tutor]]''
|Fraulien Muller
|[[The Old Vic|Old Vic Theatre]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1989
|[['Tis Pity She's a Whore|''<nowiki/>'Tis A Pity She's A Whore'']]
|Hippolita
| rowspan="2" |[[The Dukes, Lancaster|Dukes Playhouse]]
|-
|''[[The Country Wife]]''
|Marjorie Pinchwife
|-
| rowspan="3" |1990–1991
|''[[King Lear]]''
|[[Cordelia (King Lear)|Cordelia]]
| rowspan="5" |[[Royal Shakespeare Company]]
|-
|''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''
|[[Hero (Much Ado About Nothing)|Hero]]
|-
|''[[Love's Labour's Lost|Love's Labours Lost]]''
|Jaquenetta
|-
|1991
|''[[Curse of the Starving Class]]''
|Emma
|-
|1991–1992
|''The Bright and Bold Design''
|Grace Rhys
|-
| rowspan="2" |1992
|''Bad Blood''
|Dolores
|[[Gate Theatre (London)|Gate Theatre]]
|-
|''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''
|[[Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Titania]] / [[Hippolyta]]
|[[Crucible Theatre]]
|-
|1993
|''[[Othello]]''
|[[Desdemona]]
|Birmingham Repertory Theatre
|-
|1994
|''Darwin's Flood''
|[[Emma Darwin]]
|[[Bush Theatre]]
|-
|1995
|''[[Morning and Evening]]''
|Cecilie / Johanne
|[[Hampstead Theatre]]
|-
|1996
|''[[The Lady from the Sea|The Lady From The Sea]]''
|Ellida Wangel
|[[Bridewell Theatre]]
|-
|2006
|''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play)|One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest]]''
|[[Nurse Ratched|Nurse Rachet]]
|[[Garrick Theatre]]
|-
|2011
|''[[Intrigue and Love|Luise Miller]]''
|Lady Milford
|[[Donmar Warehouse]]
|-
|2013
| rowspan="2" |''[[Macbeth]]''
| rowspan="2" |[[Lady Macbeth]]
|[[Manchester International Festival]]
|-
|2014
|[[Park Avenue Armory]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |2019
|''Admissions''
|Sherri Rosen-Mason
|[[Trafalgar Theatre]]
|-
|''[[An Enemy of the People]]''
|Dr. Stockmann
|[[Nottingham Playhouse]]
|-
|2021
|''Doctor Who: Time Fracture''
|[[River Song (Doctor Who)|River Song]]
|Immersive LDN
|-
|2022
|''The Fall''
|Dr. Greta Portius
|[[Riverside Studios]]
|-
|2023
|''[[The Tempest]]''
|[[Prospero]]
|Royal Shakespeare Company
|}

==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Award
! Category
! Work
! Result
|-
| [[1997 British Academy Television Awards|1997]]
| [[British Academy Television Awards]]
| [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| ''[[The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (TV series)|The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[4th Screen Actors Guild Awards|1998]]
| rowspan="4"|[[Screen Actors Guild Awards]]
| rowspan="4"|[[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series|Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series]] <small>(shared with the cast)</small>
| rowspan="4"|''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[5th Screen Actors Guild Awards|1999]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[6th Screen Actors Guild Awards|2000]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[7th Screen Actors Guild Awards|2001]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' Awards
| Best Guest Actress
| ''[[Doctor Who]]'' <small>(episodes: "[[Silence in the Library]]" / "[[Forest of the Dead]]")</small>
| {{won}}
|-
| [[TV Land Award#Recipients|2009]]
| [[TV Land Awards]]
| Icon Award
| ''ER''
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |2010
|[[Airlock Alpha#Portal awards|Airlock Alpha Portal Awards]]
|Best Special Guest
|''Doctor Who'' <small>(episode: "[[The Time of Angels|Time of Angels]]")</small>
|{{Won}}
|-
| ''Doctor Who Magazine'' Awards
| Best Supporting Actress
|''Doctor Who''
| {{won}}
|-
|2011
|Airlock Alpha Portal Awards
|Best Special Guest
|''Doctor Who'' <small>(episode: "[[Day of the Moon]]")</small>
|{{Nominated}}
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2012
| [[SFX (magazine)|''SFX'' Awards]]
| Best Actress
|''Doctor Who''| ''Doctor Who''
|{{Won}}
|-
|Airlock Alpha Portal Awards
|Best Special Guest
|''Doctor Who'' <small>(episode: "[[Let's Kill Hitler]]")</small>
|{{Nominated}}
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2013
| Anglophenia's Fan Favorites Women's Tournament
| Woman of the Year
| {{N/a}}
| {{won}}
|-
|[[Manchester Theatre Awards]]
|Best Actress
|''[[Macbeth]]''
|{{Nominated}}
|-
| [[42nd Saturn Awards|2016]]
| [[Saturn Awards]]
| [[Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television|Best Guest Performance in a Television Series]]
| ''Doctor Who'' <small>(episode: "[[The Husbands of River Song]]")</small>
| {{nom}}
|}

==Bibliography==
'''Novels'''
* ''[[Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse]]'' (2021) {{ISBN|978-1-78594-713-1}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


== External links ==
==External links==
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Alex Kingston
Kingston at the 2019 GalaxyCon Minneapolis
Born
Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston

(1963-03-11) 11 March 1963 (age 61)
Epsom, Surrey, England
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
OccupationActress
Years active1980–present
Spouses
  • ​
    ​
    (m. 1993; div. 1997)​
  • Florian Haertel
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1998; div. 2013)​
  • Jonathan Stamp
    ​
    (m. 2015)​
Children1
RelativesWalter Renneisen (maternal uncle)

Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston (born 11 March 1963)[1] is an English actress. Active from the early 1980s, Kingston became noted for her television work in both Britain and the US in the 1990s, including her regular role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the NBC medical drama ER (1997–2004) and her title role in the ITV miniseries The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress.

Kingston's later credits include the recurring role of River Song in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2008–2015), Mrs. Bennet in the ITV period-drama fantasy Lost in Austen (2008), Dinah Lance in The CW's superhero fiction drama series Arrow (2013–2016), and Sarah Bishop in A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022).

Early life

[edit]

Kingston was born and brought up in Epsom, Surrey, to Anthony Kingston, an English butcher and his German wife, Margarethe (née Renneisen).[2][3] Kingston's paternal great-great-grandmother was Jewish, an ancestry Kingston explored on the series Who Do You Think You Are?[4][5] Kingston's uncle, her mother's younger brother, is actor Walter Renneisen.[6] Her younger sisters are Susie, who is mentally and physically disabled as a result of being deprived of oxygen at birth,[7] and Nicola, a former actress who appeared in the 1996 British TV production of The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, in which Kingston starred.[citation needed]

Kingston was inspired to pursue acting by one of her teachers at Rosebery School for Girls. Kingston auditioned and performed in the Surrey County Youth Theatre production of Tom Jones as Mrs. Fitzpatrick, alongside Sean Pertwee as Captain Fitzpatrick, and Thwackum played by Tom Davison. She later completed a three-year programme at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and went on to join the Royal Shakespeare Company.[citation needed]

Career

[edit]

1980–2007: Early career and breakthrough with ER

[edit]

In 1980, Kingston made her television debut in three episodes of the children's drama series Grange Hill, while also appearing as an uncredited extra in the film The Wildcats of St Trinian's.[8] From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, she performed on stage in twenty different theatrical productions, working extensively with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.[9] Her classic Shakespearean roles included Calpurnia in Julius Caesar (1987), Cordelia in King Lear (1990), Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (1990–1991), Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1992) and Desdemona in Othello (1993).[10]

Around the same time, she could be seen playing small parts in television shows like A Killing on the Exchange (1987), Hannay (1989), Covington Cross (1992), Soldier Soldier (1993) and Crocodile Shoes (1994), and also had various guest roles in ITV's long-running police procedural The Bill (1988–1995). In film, she appeared in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) with Helen Mirren, The Infiltrator (1995) with Oliver Platt and Carrington (1995) with Emma Thompson, where she played writer Frances Partridge.[11]

In April 1996, she got her first regular television role as customs officer Katherine Roberts in the ITV crime drama The Knock, appearing in all thirteen episodes of the second series. In December, she played the lead role opposite Daniel Craig in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, an ITV adaptation of Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders. She received a nomination for Best Actress for her performance at the following year's British Academy Television Awards.[12]

Kingston at the 2012 Florida Supercon

In September 1997, Kingston gained North American television fame after being cast as a main character in the long-running medical drama ER. She made her first appearance as British surgeon Elizabeth Corday in the premiere of the fourth season, the Emmy Award-winning live episode "Ambush". Having appeared in the show for just over seven seasons, she left it in October 2004, in the eleventh-season episode "Fear", after her contract was not renewed. Being 41 at the time, she criticised the move as ageism, stating that "apparently, I, according to the producers and the writers, am part of the old fogies who are no longer interesting."[13] Despite that, she said that she was "very proud of the work [she had] done over the past eight years" and "grateful for the professional associations and friendships [she had] made through ER".[13]

The ER role helped propel Kingston's career to new heights, which led to a number of big-screen appearances in films like the Clive Owen neo-noir drama Croupier (1998)[14][15] and independent period drama Sweet Land (2005), as well as the crime dramas Essex Boys (2000) and Alpha Dog (2006).[8] In 2003, she battled Romans as the warrior queen of Britain in ITV's biopic Boudica, which was also released in the USA on PBS under the title Warrior Queen and marked the screen debut of Emily Blunt.[13][16]

In November 2005, Kingston guest starred as a vacationer whose husband gets kidnapped by a Mexican street gang in an episode of the CBS crime drama Without a Trace, titled "Viuda Negra" and directed by her former ER co-star Paul McCrane. The following year, she returned to the stage after ten years in the West End production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, starring as Nurse Ratched opposite Christian Slater as Randle McMurphy.[17] She then revealed that she auditioned for the role of Lynette Scavo on ABC's Desperate Housewives but was turned away for being too curvy.[18]

2008–2015: Doctor Who and further television and stage work

[edit]

In 2008, Kingston guest starred as Professor River Song in the fourth series of the BBC's long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, in the two-part story "Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead", starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. She thought it was simply a one-off guest role but was delighted to find out that she would be a returning character after the story's writer, Steven Moffat, succeeded Russell T Davies as the Doctor Who showrunner.[19] She reprised the role in thirteen episodes between 2010 and 2015, appearing on screen opposite two more incarnations of the Doctor played by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi.[20] Kingston has also portrayed the role in a number of audio dramas from Big Finish Productions, including her solo series The Diary of River Song (2015–2023).[21]

Kingston with her Doctor Who co-stars Catherine Tate and Karen Gillan at the 2019 GalaxyCon Minneapolis

In September 2008, Kingston took the part of Mrs. Bennet in ITV's acclaimed four-part drama Lost in Austen, based on Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. In October, she appeared in the episode "Art Imitates Life" of the police procedural drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as psychiatrist and grief counsellor Patricia Alwick, who helped the team cope with the recent death of one of their members.

In both 2009 and 2010, Kingston had recurring roles as MI6 agent Fiona Banks in the ABC science fiction drama FlashForward and defence attorney Miranda Pond in the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in which she reunited with her former ER castmates, Mariska Hargitay and Maria Bello. In spring 2009, Kingston returned to ER itself during its fifteenth and final season for two episodes, "Dream Runner" and the two-hour series finale, "And in the End...".[22] In June, she starred as the lead character Ellie Lagden, one of four former convicts, in the BBC One eight-part drama series Hope Springs.

Kingston at the 2016 Phoenix Comicon

In the early 2010s, Kingston played a housewife in the five-part supernatural drama Marchlands (2011), an archaeologist in the second series of the revived Upstairs Downstairs (2012)[23] and an analyst working for a missing persons unit in the four-part crime drama Chasing Shadows (2014).[24] In the US, she appeared in the romantic film Like Crazy (2011) and the Grey's Anatomy spin-off series Private Practice (2011), in the guest role of a psychiatrist writing book reviews.[25] She also starred in the first season of The CW's superhero drama series Arrow (2013) as Professor Dinah Lance, the mother of Laurel and Sara Lance,[26] and later reprised the role in a few episodes over the next three seasons.[27][28] On stage, she participated in the Donmar Warehouse production of Friedrich Schiller's play Luise Miller (2011), directed by Michael Grandage.

In July 2013, she played Lady Macbeth opposite Kenneth Branagh in the Manchester International Festival's production of Macbeth, which was broadcast live in cinemas worldwide as part of the National Theatre Live programme.[29] Following a nomination for Best Actress at the Manchester Theatre Awards,[30] she reprised her role with Branagh at the Park Avenue Armory in June 2014, making her New York stage debut.[31] Earlier in April, Branagh and Kingston took other classic Shakespearean lead roles in the two-and-a-half-hour adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of its celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.[32]

2016–present: Recent work

[edit]

During the late 2010s, she took a prominent role as Sarah Bishop in Sky's fantasy drama A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022), while also appearing in shows like Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016),[33] Shoot the Messenger (2016)[34] and The Widow (2019).[8] In 2021, she wrote a River Song novel called Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse for BBC Books,[35] and reprised the role for pre-recorded elements of the interactive theatrical experience Time Fracture.[36][37] The following year, she starred as British Prime Minister candidate Audrey Gratz in the Netflix spy miniseries Treason and as the villainous Lucifer in the Oliver Twist-inspired children's television series Dodger, also starring the Ninth Doctor actor, Christopher Eccleston.[38][39][40]

In January 2023, she returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time since the early nineties in the role of Prospero in The Tempest.[41]

Personal life

[edit]

Kingston met English actor Ralph Fiennes while they were both students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. They were together for ten years before marrying in 1993. In 1995, Fiennes began an affair with his Hamlet co-star Francesca Annis and left Kingston the following year; they were divorced in 1997.[42] In a 2006 interview, she admitted to considering and nearly attempting suicide after her separation from Fiennes.[43]

At the end of 1998,[42] Kingston married Florian Haertel, a German writer and freelance journalist, having met him the previous year on a blind date arranged by friends;[44] they had a daughter, Salome Violetta Haertel, born 28 March 2001.[45] Kingston and Haertel separated in 2009.[46] On 30 October 2009, Haertel sued Kingston for dissolution of the marriage, and the divorce was finalised in 2013.[47]

Kingston appeared on the BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? in September 2012, investigating the lives of her great-grandfather Will Keevil and her four-times great-grandmother, Elizabeth Braham.[48][49]

In 2015, Kingston married Jonathan Stamp, a television producer, in an Italian ceremony.[50]

Kingston has lived in the United States,[51] and moved back to the UK in 2019.[52]

Filmography

[edit]

Film

[edit]
Year Title Role Notes
1980 The Wildcats of St. Trinian's Schoolgirl Uncredited
1989 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Adele
1994 A Pin for the Butterfly Mrs. Solomon
1995 Carrington Frances Partridge
1996 Saint-Ex Chic Party Guest
1998 Croupier Jani de Villiers
1999 This Space Between Us Peternelle
2000 Essex Boys Lisa Locke
2005 Sweet Land Brownie
2005 The Poseidon Adventure Suzanne Harrison
2006 Alpha Dog Tiffany Hartunian
2007 Crashing Diane Freed
2009 Sordid Things Eve Manchester
2011 Like Crazy Jackie
Ghost Phone: Phone Calls from the Dead Sheila
2013 Bukowski Katharina Bukowski Unreleased
2016 Happily Ever After Ria
2018 Deadpan Tamara Short film

Television

[edit]
Year Title Role Notes
1980 Grange Hill Jill Harcourt 3 episodes
1986 Henry's Leg Noreen Miniseries
1987 A Killing on the Exchange Ellen Miniseries
1988–1995 The Bill Dr. Howard / Lisa / Maggie Fisher 4 episodes
1989 Hannay Kirsten Larssen Episode: "The Terrors of the Earth"
The Play on One Daniella Episode: "These Foolish Things"
1992 Covington Cross Helen Episode: "Cedric Hits the Road"
1993 Foreign Affairs Actress TV film
Soldier Soldier Ursula Kröhling Episode: "Camouflage"
1994 Woman of the Wolf Woman (voice) TV film
Crocodile Shoes Caroline Carrison 5 episodes
1995 The Infiltrator Anna TV film
1996 The Knock Katherine Roberts 13 episodes
Last of the Czars Alexandra (voice) 3 episodes
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders Moll Flanders Miniseries
1997 Weapons of Mass Distraction Verity Graham TV film
1997–2009 ER Dr. Elizabeth Corday 160 episodes
2003 Boudica Boudica TV film; a.k.a. Warrior Queen
2005 The Poseidon Adventure Suzanne Harrison TV film
Without a Trace Lucy Costin Episode: "Viuda Negra"
2008 Freezing Serena Wilson Episode #1.3
Lost in Austen Mrs. Bennet Miniseries
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Patricia Alwick Episode: "Art Imitates Life"
2008, 2010–2013, 2015 Doctor Who River Song 15 episodes[20]
2009 Hope Springs Ellie Lagden 8 episodes
2009–2010 FlashForward Fiona Banks 3 episodes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Miranda Pond 4 episodes
2010 Ben Hur Ruth Miniseries
2011 Private Practice Dr. Marla Thomkins 2 episodes
Marchlands Helen Maynard Miniseries
2012 Upstairs Downstairs Dr. Blanche Mottershead 5 episodes
Who Do You Think You Are? Herself Episode: "Alex Kingston"
NCIS Miranda Pennebaker Episode: "Gone"
2013–2016 Arrow Dinah Lance 7 episodes
2014 Chasing Shadows Ruth Hattersley Miniseries[53]
2015 American Odyssey Jennifer Wachtel 2 episodes
2016, 2021 Blue Bloods Commander Sloane Thompson 2 episodes
2016 Transformers: Rescue Bots Quickshadow (voice) 5 episodes
Shoot the Messenger Mary Foster 8 episodes
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Naomi Shropshire Miniseries
Crushed Cricket Stella Unaired Hulu pilot[54]
2017 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero Vlurgen (voice) Episode: "Mr. Rippen"
2018–2022 A Discovery of Witches Sarah Bishop 20 episodes
2019 The Widow Judith Gray 8 episodes
2022 Dodger Lucifer 2 episodes
Treason Audrey Gratz 5 episodes[55]
2024 Douglas Is Cancelled Sheila Main role

Radio

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Year Title Role Production Notes
1992 Père Goriot Delphine / Victorine BBC Radio 4 Four-part dramatisation
1994 John Dollar Charlotte BBC Radio 3 Self-adapted by author Marianne Wiggins
2006 Rebecca Narrator BBC Radio 2 Abridged eight-part version
2007 Murder She Thought BBC Radio 4 Story: "Dear George" by Cathy Ace
2014 Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra BBC Radio 3 Two-and-a-half-hour adaptation starring Kenneth Branagh
2021 Nuremberg Madeleine Jacob [fr] BBC Radio 4 Story: "He Pointed to the Sky" by Jonathan Myerson

Audio

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Year Title Role Production Notes
2007 Mary Stuart Mary Stuart L.A. Theatre Works Recorded before an audience at the Skirball Cultural Center
2010 Tartuffe Elmire Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
2012 The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery Narrator AudioGO
2015–2023 The Diary of River Song River Song Big Finish Productions Series 1–12
2016 Five Short Stories by Women Narrator L.A. Theatre Works Story: "Once Upon a Time"
2016–2017 Doom Coalition River Song Big Finish Productions 5 stories
2017 Seven Inez McCormack L.A. Theatre Works Recorded before an audience at the James Bridges Theater
2020 Peter Pan Narrator Penguin Audio
2019 The Eighth of March River Song Big Finish Productions Story: "Emancipation"
Ravenous Story: "Companion Piece"
UNIT: The New Series Story: "The Power of River Song"
Transference Sam Ross Non-Doctor Who eight-part psychological thriller
The Legacy of Time River Song Story: "Lies in Ruins"
The Other Queen Narrator Simon & Schuster Audio
2020 The Lives of Captain Jack River Song Big Finish Productions Story: "R&J"
Arkham County Henrietta Audible Original seven-hour drama with Stanley Tucci in the lead role
The Tenth Doctor and River Song River Song Big Finish Productions 3 stories
2021 A Narrow Door Narrator Orion Books
Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse AudioGO Also writer
Dalek Universe River Song Big Finish Productions Story: "The First Son"
2022 Peladon Story: "The Poison of Peladon"
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Narrator HarperAudio Story: "Evil in Small Places"

Video games

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Year Title Role
2012 Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock River Song (voice)

Stage work

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Year Title Role Venue
— The Idiot Nastasya Filippovna Contact Theatre
1986 The Alchemist Dol Common Birmingham Repertory Theatre
1987 Julius Caesar Culpurnia
Travelling Players Mad Ophelia
1988 Saved Pam
French Without Tears Diana Lake Leicester Haymarket Theatre
The Tutor Fraulien Muller Old Vic Theatre
1989 'Tis A Pity She's A Whore Hippolita Dukes Playhouse
The Country Wife Marjorie Pinchwife
1990–1991 King Lear Cordelia Royal Shakespeare Company
Much Ado About Nothing Hero
Love's Labours Lost Jaquenetta
1991 Curse of the Starving Class Emma
1991–1992 The Bright and Bold Design Grace Rhys
1992 Bad Blood Dolores Gate Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania / Hippolyta Crucible Theatre
1993 Othello Desdemona Birmingham Repertory Theatre
1994 Darwin's Flood Emma Darwin Bush Theatre
1995 Morning and Evening Cecilie / Johanne Hampstead Theatre
1996 The Lady From The Sea Ellida Wangel Bridewell Theatre
2006 One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Nurse Rachet Garrick Theatre
2011 Luise Miller Lady Milford Donmar Warehouse
2013 Macbeth Lady Macbeth Manchester International Festival
2014 Park Avenue Armory
2019 Admissions Sherri Rosen-Mason Trafalgar Theatre
An Enemy of the People Dr. Stockmann Nottingham Playhouse
2021 Doctor Who: Time Fracture River Song Immersive LDN
2022 The Fall Dr. Greta Portius Riverside Studios
2023 The Tempest Prospero Royal Shakespeare Company

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Work Result
1997 British Academy Television Awards Best Actress The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders Nominated
1998 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (shared with the cast) ER Won
1999 Won
2000 Nominated
2001 Nominated
2008 Doctor Who Magazine Awards Best Guest Actress Doctor Who (episodes: "Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead") Won
2009 TV Land Awards Icon Award ER Won
2010 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards Best Special Guest Doctor Who (episode: "Time of Angels") Won
Doctor Who Magazine Awards Best Supporting Actress Doctor Who Won
2011 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards Best Special Guest Doctor Who (episode: "Day of the Moon") Nominated
2012 SFX Awards Best Actress Doctor Who Won
Airlock Alpha Portal Awards Best Special Guest Doctor Who (episode: "Let's Kill Hitler") Nominated
2013 Anglophenia's Fan Favorites Women's Tournament Woman of the Year — Won
Manchester Theatre Awards Best Actress Macbeth Nominated
2016 Saturn Awards Best Guest Performance in a Television Series Doctor Who (episode: "The Husbands of River Song") Nominated

Bibliography

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Novels

  • Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse (2021) ISBN 978-1-78594-713-1

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