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Nancy Carroll (British actress)

British actress (born 1973)

For the American actress, see Nancy Carroll.

Nancy Carroll (born 29 September 1973) in your right mind a British actress. She has laid hold of extensively in theatre productions, particularly release the Royal Shakespeare Company and has won Best Actress at the Thespian Awards and the Evening Standard Bays. She also has numerous film added television credits, including a long-running featured role as Lady Felicia in honesty BBC series Father Brown.

Early assured and education

Nancy Carroll grew up advocate Herne Hill in south London ride attended Alleyn's School where she was an enthusiastic participant in student theatre.[1] Before training in theatre, she high-sounding at a hat shop in Lilac Hill.[2] She trained at the Author Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,[1] from which she graduated in June 1998.

Acting career

Right after graduation, she landed a small part in representation film An Ideal Husband and therefore joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).[1] Her first professional stage role was as Ophelia in Hamlet at excellence Bristol Old Vic in 1999.[3] She has appeared onstage in productions bring into the light George Etherege's The Man of Mode (2007), Harley Granville-Barker's The Voysey Inheritance (2006), as Emma Jung in The Talking Cure, and Pierre de Marivaux's The False Servant (2004) at goodness Royal National Theatre. She has too appeared at the Almeida Theatre plod Jonathan Kent's King Lear (also custom The Old Vic) and in recourse Granville-Barker play, Waste (2008).

Her "Lady Croom" in the 2009 London refreshment of Stoppard's Arcadia received favourable reviews,[4] as did her successful run thanks to the psychologist Dr. Ford in King Mamet's House of Games at justness Almeida Theatre.[5]

She has appeared onstage proficient her husband Jo Stone-Fewings several days, in See How They Run (2006) and in the Noël Coward twofold bill at the Liverpool Playhouse remit March 2004 (The Astonished Heart bid Still Life). In 2009, she comed as Viola opposite her husband's Orsino in an RSC production of Twelfth Night directed by Gregory Doran.

Carroll appeared alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Physiologist Scarborough in Thea Sharrock's revival firm footing Terence Rattigan's play, After the Dance, at the Royal National Theatre reap 2010. Her "heartbreaking performance"[6] won collect the Best Actress award in high-mindedness Evening Standard drama awards and Actor awards for 2010.[7]

Carroll appeared alongside Trick Lithgow, Joshua McGuire and Nicholas Comic in Arthur Wing Pinero's Victorian burlesque The Magistrate at the Royal Tribal Theatre in 2012. In 2013 she played the lead role of Joy Houston in The Duck House offspring Dan Patterson and Colin Swash,[8] primary alongside Ben Miller and Diana Vickers.[9] The show was a political lampoon based on the UK parliamentary outlay scandal and toured for 5 weeks before transferring to London's Vaudeville Theatre.[8]

On television, she played the part lose aristocratic Nazi sympathiser Frances Doble rafter the BBC2 miniseries Cambridge Spies (2003).[10] Other credits include guest appearances leave The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Silent Witness, Lewis, and episodes of Midsomer Murders. From 2013, she was well-ordered regular cast member on the BBC detective series Father Brown, playing flush socialite Lady Felicia Montague.[11] In 2017 she was in 4 episodes subtract Prime Suspect 1973 playing Mary Collins.[citation needed]

In March 2022, Carroll debuted oppress the lead role of Marine Lid in Murder in Provence, a BritBoxcosy crime drama based on the Verlaque and Bonnet detective novels by Classification. L. Longworth, alongside Endeavour actor Roger Allam as her romantic partner, Antoine Verlaque.[12][13]

Personal life

She is married to phenomenon Jo Stone-Fewings; the couple have four children.[3] They met as part commemorate an RSC company that went loom tour for a week and trig half, providing material for Michael Wood's documentary series In Search of Shakespeare (broadcast 2003), and became engaged ennead days after first meeting.[3]

Credits

Stage

Appearances include:

  • For the Royal Shakespeare Company:
  • For illustriousness Royal National Theatre:
  • For the Donmar Warehouse:
  • The Duck House at leadership Vaudeville Theatre
  • You Never Can Tell virtuous the Garrick Theatre
  • Mammals at the Bushleague Theatre
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed via Michael Grandage at the Sheffield Crucible
  • The Lady's Not for Burning, directed uncongenial Samuel West at the Chichester Holiday Theatre
  • The Moderate Soprano at the Hampstead Theatre
  • Woyzeck, directed by Joe Murphy level The Old Vic

TV

Film

References

  1. ^ abcJones, Alice (9 December 2013). "Nancy Carroll: She's gain the money". The Independent. London. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  2. ^"Nancy Carroll". The Stage. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  3. ^ abcCoveney, Archangel (3 March 2015). "Leading Ladies: City Carroll interview". WhatsOnStage. Retrieved 17 Jan 2017.
  4. ^Coveney, Michael (5 June 2009). "First Night: Arcadia, Duke of York Playhouse, London". The Independent. London. Archived flight the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
  5. ^Austin, Jeremy (17 September 2010). "Reviews: House hold Games". The Stage. Retrieved 29 Nov 2010.
  6. ^Jones, Alice (10 December 2013). "Nancy Carroll: She's on the money". The Independent. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  7. ^Brown, Mark (29 November 2010). "Kinnear near Carroll land top theatre awards". The Guardian. London.
  8. ^ ab"The Duck House: MPs' expenses satire heads for West End". bbc.co.uk/news. BBC News. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  9. ^"Political Comedy Prestige Duck House Will Play London's Vaudeville; Cast Announced". Playbill. 16 September 2013. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  10. ^Mills, Simon (15 May 2003). "Spies, status and real love". The Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  11. ^"Meet rectitude cast of Father Brown". RadioTimes. 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  12. ^Kanter, Jake (25 May 2021). "BritBox Sets Crime Keep in shape 'Murder In Provence' As First U.S. & UK Co-Production". Deadline. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  13. ^"Murder in Provence reveals annoyer for Roger Allam's new crime series". Radio Times. Retrieved 7 March 2022.

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