Current residence: Windsor
and Clerkenwell, London
First experiences of acting: Performed in 8 productions for the Oldham Theatre Workshop. Also appeared at Liverpool Empire, Oldham Colliseum, Duke Of
York.
Television: In Their
Shoes, 8:15 From Manchester, GBH, Coronation Street, Going Live, In Suspicious
Circumstances, Medics, Brookside, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Holiday
Programme, Cadfael, You Drive Me, Tales From The Crypt, Our Mutual Friend, The
Fear, Fields of Gold, Watermelon, The Jury, Pushing Daisies.
Films: The Tribe, The Land Girls,
St Ives (All For Love), The Stringer, Rogue Trader, Mad Cows, A Midsummer
Nights Dream, Sunset Strip, An Everlasting Piece, The War Bride, Me Without
You, TimeLine, Perfect Strangers, Goal!, Niagara Motel, Irish Jam,
Goal! 2, Bathory
Plays: Look Europe
(London), Closer (Broadway), Lulu (London & Washington)
Awards: 1994
Best Newcomer (TV Quick Magazine)
1995
Best Actress
(TV Times Awards)
1995
Best Actress
(Smash Hits Poll Winners)
1999
Outstanding Featured Actress in a
Play (Drama Desk Award ) - for "Closer"
2002
Nominee-Outstanding
Lead Actress,Non-resident Production (Helen Hayes Award) -for "Lulu"
(Closer's
additional Broadway Production Awards were: Best Play - 1999 Tony AwardŽ Nomination, Special Achievement Award to the cast of CLOSER for Ensemble Performance - 1999
Outer Circle Critics' Award, Best Foreign Play - New York Drama Critics' Circle Award 1999
)
(Our Mutual
Friend (BBC) won 4 BAFTAs in 1999 for Design, Make Up/Hair, Sound and Best Drama
Serial as well as being nominated for 5 other Awards. The series also won the
1998 Royal TV Society Award for Best Production Design & Drama, 2 1999
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards (Best Actor & Drama Serial) and the 1999 San
Francisco International Film Festival Certificate of Merit for TV Drama Series.)
Agents: Finch & Partners (UK) /
United Talent Agency (US)
