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Anna Madeley
Born (1976-10-01) 1 October 1976 (age 48)
London, England
OccupationActress
Years active1985–present

Anna Madeley (born 1 October 1976)[1] is an English actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in productions on each of the main British television channels and has also worked in radio and film. Madeley has appeared as Kate Kendrick in Deadwater Fell and as Audrey Hall in the remake of All Creatures Great and Small.[2]

Biography

Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in its 2001–2002 and 2003–2004 seasons.[1] She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher. From 2003 to 2005, she was a regular cast member of ITV's The Royal in which she played Nurse Samantha Beaumont.

In 2005, Madeley appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist and The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy.[3] In 2006, she starred in two BBC TV films – as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, and in the original drama Aftersun – and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders. In early 2007 she was a central character in the first episode of “Lewis”, and she also appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, she played Nina in a production of The Seagull as an understudy when the original actress fell ill. Madeley was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist.

In 2010, Madeley appeared in The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010. In January 2013, Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw. In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown. In 2018, she played the role of Marie Stahlbaum, the late mother to the protagonist, Clara, and the queen of the magical land Clara discovers in the fantasy/adventure film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. In 2020, she played Kate Kendrick in Deadwater Fell and is currently (December 2020) cast as housekeeper Audrey Hall in the remake of All Creatures Great and Small.

Selected credits

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1985 Claudia Little Girl
1990 Back Home School Girl TV film
1998 Cold Feet Emma TV series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.5")
1999 Dad Tasmin TV series (1 episode: "Reprodadtion")
Guest House Paradiso Saucy Wood Nymph
2000 A Dinner of Herbs Florrie Roystan TV mini-series (2 episodes)
2001 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman Petra TV series (1 episode: "Playing God")
2003 The Royal Nurse Samantha Beaumont TV series (20 episodes: 2003–2005)
2004 The Rivals Lydia Languish Video
2005 Stoned Stones' Receptionist
2006 Aftersun Esther TV film
The Outsiders Erica Chapman TV film
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton Isabella Beeton TV film
2007 Consent Rebecca "Becky" Palmer TV film
Lewis Anne Sadikov TV series (1 episode: "Whom the Gods Would Destroy")
Uninvited Jane Short film
The Old Curiosity Shop Betsy Quilp TV film
2008 Sense and Sensibility Lucy Steele TV series (2 episodes)
In Bruges Denise
Affinity Margaret Prior
Waking the Dead Anna Vaspovic TV series (2 episodes: "Pietà" – Parts 1 & 2)
Brideshead Revisited Celia Ryder
The Children Polly TV mini-series (3 episodes)
Agatha Christie's Marple Adele Fortescue TV Series, Episode: "A Pocket Full of Rye"
Crooked House Katherine TV series (2 episodes)
2009 Law & Order: UK Kayleigh Gaines TV series (1 episode: "Hidden")
2010 Hustle Jennifer Hughes TV series (1 episode: "The Hush Heist")
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister Mariana Belcombe TV film
2011 The Reckoning Victoria Sturridge TV mini-series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.1")
2012 A Fantastic Fear of Everything WPC Taser
Strawberry Fields Gillian
Secret State Gina Hayes TV mini-series (4 episodes)
Words Of The Titanic Violet Jessop TV Documentary
2013 Agatha Christie's Poirot Barbara Franklin TV series (1 episode: "Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case")
Silent Witness Annette Kelly TV series (2 episodes: "Change" – Parts 1 & 2)
Utopia Anya TV series (6 episodes)
Mr Selfridge Miss Ravillious TV series (7 episodes)
2015 Code of a Killer Sue Jeffreys TV Mini-Series, 2 episodes
2016 The Crown Clarissa Eden TV series (1 episode)
2018 Patrick Melrose Mary Melrose TV miniseries
Silent Witness Anna Lawson TV series (2 episodes: "Moment Of Surrender" – Parts 1 & 2)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Queen Marie Stahlbaum
2020 Deadwater Fell Kate Kendrick TV miniseries
2020 All Creatures Great and Small Mrs Hall TV series
2021 Time Anne Warren TV miniseries
2022 Anatomy of a Scandal Ellie Frisk TV miniseries (episodes 1 & 2)

Stage

  • The Merry Wives of Windsor (1986, RSC)
  • Be My Baby (1998, Pleasance Theatre)
  • Sense & Sensibility (2000, UK tour)
  • Eye Contact (2000, Riverside Studios)
  • Madness In Valencia (2001, RSC) as Erifila
  • Love in a Wood (2001, RSC) as Martha
  • A Russian In The Woods (2001, RSC) as Ilse
  • The Malcontent (RSC) as Maria
  • The Roman Actor (RSC) as Domita
  • Ladybird (2004, Royal Court Theatre) as Yulka
  • The Rivals (2004, Bristol Old Vic) as Lydia Languish
  • Colder Than Here (2005, Soho Theatre) as Jenna
  • The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (2005, Donmar Warehouse) as Nastasja/Claire
  • The Philanthropist (2005, Donmar Warehouse) as Celia
  • Coram Boy (2005–06, Royal National Theatre) as Aaron / Young Alexander Ashbrook
  • Contractions (2008, Royal Court Theatre) as Emma
  • Earthquakes in London (2010, Cottesloe Theatre at the National Theatre) as Freya
  • Becky Shaw (2011, Almeida Theatre) as Suzanna
  • The Turn of the Screw (2013, Almeida Theatre) as the Governess
  • The Crucible (2014, The Old Vic Theatre) as Elizabeth Proctor

Radio

References

  1. ^ a b Trowbridge, Simon. "Anna Madeley". A Dictionary of the RSC. Archived from the original on 18 September 2004. Retrieved 19 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "All Creatures Great and Small season 2 release date: cast, plot, and latest news". Radio Times. 23 February 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021. Hopefully, that means it'll air on Channel 5 in the UK towards the end of 2021.
  3. ^ "The First Night Feature: Coram Boy". London Theatre Guide. 16 November 2005. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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