Fay Ripley
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| Fay Ripley | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 (age 43–44) Wimbledon, London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel Lapaine (2001–present) |
Fay Ripley (born 1966) is an English actress. She was born in Wimbledon, London. After her parents' separation, when she was two years old, she was raised between two families and attended various convent schools in Surrey before taking her A-levels at a local college. At the age of 20, Ripley was accepted into the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her first professional role after graduating was in the chorus of a pantomime version of Around the World in 80 Days. Her early film and television appearances were limited, so she supplemented her earnings by working as a children's entertainer and by selling menswear door-to-door. After her scenes as a prostitute were cut from Frankenstein (1994), Ripley won her first major film role playing Karen Hughes in Mute Witness (1995).
In 1996, Ripley was cast in her breakthrough role of Jenny Gifford in ITV's Cold Feet. Initially a supporting part in the pilot episode, Ripley's character was expanded when a series was commissioned in 1998. She stayed with the show for three full series before quitting to take more varied roles and to spend more time with her family. She returned for a guest appearance in the fifth series. After leaving Cold Feet, Ripley played a succession of leading roles in comedies and dramas such as Green-Eyed Monster (2001), I Saw You (2002), The Stretford Wives (2002), and Dead Gorgeous (2002). Each role won her critical acclaim. In 2006, she filmed a leading role in the ITV drama Bon Voyage, before taking time away from acting after the birth of her second child. Ripley returned to television screens in 2009, starring as human resources manager Christine Frances in the ITV comedy drama Monday Monday, and Nicola Perrin alongside Martin Clunes in BBC One's Reggie Perrin. In 2009, her first recipe book, Fay's Family Food, was published to a warm reception. Ripley is married to actor Daniel Lapaine, with whom she has a daughter and son, and is an advocate of several charities and causes.
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[edit] Early life
Fay Ripley was born in Wimbledon, London in 1966 to Bev and Tina Ripley (née Forster).[1][2] Her father was a successful businessman, and the brother of 1960s pop singer Twinkle, and her mother an antiques dealer.[3] They separated when she was two years old and both remarried, so Ripley spent her childhood moving around Surrey between two families. She was the only child from her parents' marriage but had several half-brothers and sisters from their new relationships. In her early life, she lived in various Surrey towns, including Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge, Esher and Cobham.[4] Her father wanted her to have a good education so, despite the family being Protestant, sent her to various Catholic convent schools around the county.[5] One was St Maur's convent school in Weybridge, which she attended with Liza Tarbuck. Ripley did not feel academically challenged there, and later declared the school "mediocre".[3]
One thing she did enjoy at school was drama lessons, spurred on by the positive remarks she received from her drama teacher Susan Ford.[6] She said of Ford, "When I was 15, one of the few people who said, 'Well done', was my drama teacher, and she was really brilliant. She was a powerful woman. Those women change your life. You always remember them. There was something about her. She basically made me feel very good about myself as a 15-year-old girl."[4] Abandoning her childhood ambition to become a nurse, Ripley decided to go into acting.[3] Her father wanted to send her to a finishing school in Switzerland but, in an effort to rebel from her middle-class Home Counties background, Ripley instead went to a local state college in Surrey, where she studied for A-levels in communication studies, art, and drama.[7] During her time there, Ripley performed her own small shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, trying to "bring Brecht to the masses";[4] she performed The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the 1983 festival.[8][9]
After completing her A-levels, Ripley sought entry to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. It took her three attempts before she was accepted onto an acting course at the age of 20.[4][7] While at drama school, Ripley lived in a flat in Streatham, South London, which she described as "horrible and penniless".[4] To support herself financially, she sold menswear door-to-door, timeshares on Kensington High Street and Oxford Street, worked as a receptionist at a health club, and spent five years as children's entertainer "Miss Chief the Clown".[10][11] As Miss Chief, Ripley performed magic tricks and painted faces at children's parties.[7] The work paid off when she was able to get a mortgage on her first flat, stating "clown" as her occupation.[8]
[edit] Acting career
[edit] Early performances
Ripley graduated from drama school in 1990.[12] Her first role afterwards was playing Osatko in the chorus of Around the World in 80 Days at the Liverpool Playhouse during the 1990–91 pantomime season. She had ten lines in Japanese.[4][13] Her next role came at the end of the year in the Manchester Royal Exchange's production of Medea.[4][14] Ripley recalled, "It was only my second job, and I took it all very seriously, in my Greek sarong and my torch of fire, having to burble in tongues."[4]
Ripley's early television and film career was characterised by minor roles as prostitutes or mistresses;[4][8] in what was to be her film debut, she filmed two scenes as a prostitute in Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh, 1994). In the first scene, her character was strangled by the creature (played by Robert De Niro's stand-in). The second scene featured De Niro himself, though Ripley's character was lying dead in a mortuary throughout. Pleased with what looked like her breakout role, Ripley bought a dress for the premiere. However, she was distraught when Kenneth Branagh sent her a card with a written message apologising for cutting her scenes from the finished film.[4] The same year she filmed the role of Karen Hughes in the low-budget film Mute Witness (Anthony Waller, 1995). Of the role, the sister of a mute character who believes she sees a murder, Ripley said, "I was thrilled. I thought it was marvellous."[4] On Mute Witness's British television premiere in 1999, a Daily Record critic wrote that Ripley's dramatic scenes were not as good as her comic ones.[15]
In 1995, she appeared in an episode of Channel 4's Alan Davies vehicle One for the Road and made her last theatre appearance as a cast member in the Bush Theatre's Two Lips, Indifferent Red.[16] In 1996, she had a role in Stephen Poliakoff's Frontiers, and played a club barmaid in Dennis Potter's final television series Karaoke. The next year, she appeared in the comedy film Roseanna's Grave (Paul Weiland, 1997), an episode of The Bill as a woman whose nanny is accused of stealing from her, and a two-part episode of the Kevin Whately series The Broker's Man as a police officer. Her role in The Broker's Man was one of the few times she has played a police officer; she frequently turns down similar offers, and has said, "I wouldn't want to go to work having to summon up the misery of being in forensics, cutting up bodies or investigating murders when I could [be] making something believable and funny."[17]
[edit] Breakthrough roles
In 1996, Ripley auditioned for Granada Television's Cold Feet, a one-off comedy about the romances of three couples living in Manchester. She believed she was reading for the role of Rachel, the "young, pretty one", and was surprised to discover that she was wanted for Jenny, the "northern housewife". In the audition, she performed with an inelegant approximation of a local Manchester accent. The producers found her approach to the role refreshing from other actresses, who were seen as too "finger-wagging". Ripley won the role, and performed opposite John Thomson and James Nesbitt in the programme.[18] After the pilot won an award, ITV programmers commissioned a series of Cold Feet, so Ripley worked on improving her character's accent by speaking to locals and mimicking their speech.[19] Her supporting character from the pilot episode was given bigger stories in the series; in the first episode, Jenny gives birth to her first child. At that time, Ripley had not experienced childbirth, so copied birth scenes she had seen in other television series.[20] An Independent preview of the first series in November 1998 noted, "Fay Ripley has a range of quirky mannerisms that are more reminiscent of Elaine in Seinfeld than of any other Brit-com woman."[21] The character also provided Ripley with public recognition; after being noticed by a member of staff in Marks & Spencer, she was so pleased that she invited the woman to dinner.[2]
Ripley's performance in the first series won her a Best TV Comedy Actress nomination at the British Comedy Awards 1999.[22] For her performance in the third series (2000), in which her character separates from her husband and dates another man (played by Ben Miles), she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress,[23] thus making her the only Cold Feet cast member to be nominated for a BAFTA award for their role in the series. During pre-production of the fourth series (2001), Ripley announced to the producers that she would be leaving the show, partly because she did not want to spend five months living in Manchester away from her home in London and wanted to spend more time with her husband, and partly to take other roles which she would otherwise not be able to do. She asked the writer Mike Bullen to kill off Jenny, or at least have her lose a limb. Bullen refused and instead he had Jenny move to New York.[4] Ripley returned to the series for a guest appearance in the final episode (2003). She had originally planned never to return to the show, but reprised the role so she could have an on-screen record of the final stages of her pregnancy with her first child.[2]
In 2000, Ripley appeared in the British dogme film The Announcement.[4] The same year, she played lead character Grace Bingley in the Granada television pilot I Saw You, which utilised many of the same production staff as Cold Feet. The Herald's critic David Belcher called Ripley "perfectly scatty, tousled and self-sufficient".[24] Joe Joseph in The Times complimented her comic timing.[25] Ripley returned to I Saw You for a three-episode miniseries in 2002. She considers I Saw You, in which she acted alongside her husband Daniel Lapaine, the television show she is most proud to have worked on.[26]
[edit] Leading roles
Ripley's first role after leaving Cold Feet was playing housewife Deanna in the BBC thriller Green-Eyed Monster in September 2001. She researched her character, a murderer, by visiting a coroner.[5] Guardian critic Gareth McLean wrote of her performance, "Ripley did a good job of exorcising the ghost of Jenny Gifford [...] by coolly cranking up the insane desperation and needy malevolence to an impressive degree."[27] In 2002, she played domestic abuse victim Donna Massey in Danny Brocklehurst's The Stretford Wives. Initially not eager to play another character from around Manchester so soon after leaving Cold Feet, Ripley changed her mind after reading the script. She did not research spousal abuse to play her character, a woman struggling to bring up her two children in a run-down house while her husband is imprisoned, because she did not find it difficult to "work out what it's like to be scared and want to protect your kids".[28] The same year, she played Rose Bell in the ITV post-war period drama Dead Gorgeous, alongside Helen McCrory. The following year, she provided the voice of Meg in the ITV adaptation of the Meg and Mog children's books. At the end of 2003, she played Jill in the third series of the BBC One sitcom Bedtime.[29]
In 2004, Ripley made her first of three on-screen partnerships with Martin Clunes, playing Jane White in the CBBC adaptation of Fungus the Bogeyman.[30] The following year she played a guest role as corrupt police inspector Sam Phillips in the TV series Hustle. Her appearance was praised in The Times and The Sun.[31][32] In 2006, Ripley filmed the role of child abductor Linda Holder in the two-part ITV drama Bon Voyage, appearing alongside Ben Miles, Rachael Blake and Daniel Ryan. She was offered the role without being invited to audition. She took the role as an opportunity to play an antagonist and because she liked Canadian director John Fawcett's style, as compared with that of other British thrillers, which she believed were poorly filmed. She filmed the role in Canada during the later weeks of her second pregnancy, so was dressed in baggy clothes to hide her bump. Her pregnancy also necessitated changes to the script; originally her character was to run through a forest, fall off a cliff and "die a gruesome death".[33] Independent critic Thomas Sutcliffe and Guardian critic Gareth McLean noted that Ripley's pregnancy was badly disguised.[34][35] In complimenting the performance of the whole cast, Daily Record critic Brian McIver praised Ripley's portrayal of Linda as "scary but sympathetic".[36]
Bon Voyage marked Ripley's last television acting appearance until 2009. During that time she appeared as a guest on panel shows and talk shows. In 2009, she returned to television screens playing Nicola Perrin alongside Martin Clunes' eponymous character in the BBC One sitcom Reggie Perrin, a remake of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. The series was Ripley's first studio sitcom, and she approached the role with apprehension; she told The Independent on Sunday "I basically just hung off Martin's coat-tails and hoped for the best."[37] Ripley compared Nicola to Reggie's house-bound wife Elizabeth in the original series, noting that the modern character needed a job and independence from her husband because of changes in society.[30] 2009 also saw the broadcast of Monday Monday, an ITV comedy drama series in which Ripley plays Christine Frances, an alcoholic human resources manager at a supermarket head office that moves from London to Leeds. She took the role because it was different to characters she had previously played.[38]
[edit] Other work
During her time on Cold Feet, Ripley hosted the Channel 4 show Sofa Melt, a relationships chat show in the vein of Trisha. The show lasted for one series of 60 episodes, broadcast in 1999. In Scotland on Sunday, critic Stewart Hennessey called Ripley's presenting "fantastic" and called the show "utterly without any intelligent merit whatsoever. It is just unmissable because the people on it are hilariously stupid. Set the vid, show it at parties."[39] Retrospectively, Ripley said of the show, "It was the most terrifying thing I've ever done."[40] In 2003, she presented a short documentary advocating Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for the BBC's Big Read series.[41] In 2009, she presented an episode of the Blighty documentary series My Brilliant Britain.[42]
In 2004, she appeared on the "Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car" segment of Top Gear, where she discussed her car history with Jeremy Clarkson. On her celebrity lap of the Top Gear test track, she achieved a lap time of 1:53, making her 38th on the Suzuki Liana leader board.[43] The same year she participated in a major advertising venture by The National Lottery, playing "Lady Luck" alongside a unicorn voiced by Graham Norton.[44] In 2008, she starred alongside Martin Clunes in a series of advertisements for Tesco Direct.[45] The following year, she starred with Mark Addy in a series of adverts for the relaunched Tesco Clubcard.[46]
In 2007, Ripley announced that she would be writing a cookbook about family food: "I want to help people prepare good food for their kids, really practical stuff that's easy, quick, healthy and you can whizz up in the blender for the baby."[47] Fay's Family Food was published by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, in April 2009.[48] Marie-Claire Digby of The Irish Times selected it as a "summer read".[49] Ripley is planning a second book and has been approached by production companies to make a television series.[50] She also wrote a children's book in 2003, which was never published.[51]
[edit] Personal life
Ripley met actor James Purefoy when they were starring in the title roles in Romeo and Juliet in 1983. They began an 11-year relationship that ended when Ripley was 27.[2][4] Of the relationship, Ripley said in 2006, "We were just kids when we met and, therefore, the relationship had more than run its course."[2] She was single for five years before being introduced to Australian actor Daniel Lapaine at a party hosted by mutual friends. Neither of them thought the other was interested in dating and they drifted apart. After meeting again on a trip in New York, they began dating.[2][52] They married in October 2001 in a ceremony in Tuscany, Italy. In October 2002, Ripley gave birth to their first child, a daughter called Parker.[53] She gave birth to their first son, Sonny, in October 2006.[10]
Ripley is a patron of numerous charities and causes. In 2007 she took part in a Women's Aid campaign to highlight domestic abuse against women.[54] In October 2008 she visited Tanzania with ActionAid to raise awareness of child sponsorship. While in the country, Ripley visited community projects set up by ActionAid in Bagamoyo and Mkuranga.[55] Ripley was already sponsoring a child and had been asked by ActionAid to participate in a visit but had always declined because of conflicts with her work.[56] In 2008, she led a "Climate Action Now" protest with novelist Rebecca Frayn and actress Rula Lenska, opposing government support of the planned third runway at Heathrow Airport.[57]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Frankenstein | Prostitute | Feature film. Scenes deleted |
| 1995 | Mute Witness | Karen Hughes | Feature film. Film debut |
| Rumble | Marissa | 1 episode: Episode 4 | |
| One for the Road | Jane | 1 episode: "Overdraft" | |
| 1996 | Karaoke | Club Barmaid | 2 episodes: "Tuesday" and "Friday" |
| Frontiers | Elizabeth Kirsten | ||
| 1997 | Comedy Premieres: Cold Feet | Jenny Gifford | Pilot for Cold Feet |
| The Bill | Rose Milne | 1 episode: "Black and Blue" | |
| The Brokers Man | DS Wendy Atkins | 2 episodes: "Dangerous Bends Part 1" and "Dangerous Bends Part 2" | |
| Roseanna's Grave | Francesca | Feature film | |
| 1998 | How Do You Want Me? | Sophie | 1 episode: "Woof" |
| Cold Feet | Jenny Gifford | 3 series, 1998–2000; 3 episodes, 2001 and 2003 Nominated, British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, 2001 Nominated, British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress, 2002 |
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| 1999 | Sofa Melt | Host | Chat show |
| 2000 | I Saw You | Grace Bingley | Pilot for I Saw You |
| The Announcement | Alex | Feature film | |
| 2001 | Green-Eyed Monster | Deanna | |
| 2002 | I Saw You | Grace Bingley | |
| The Stretford Wives | Donna Massey | ||
| Dead Gorgeous | Rose Bell | ||
| 2003 | Meg and Mog | Meg | Voice role |
| Bedtime | Jill | 1 series, 2003 | |
| 2004 | Fungus the Bogeyman | Jane White | |
| 2005 | Hustle | Sam Phillips | 1 episode: "Missions" |
| 2006 | Bon Voyage | Linda Holder | |
| 2009 | Reggie Perrin | Nicola Perrin | 1 series, 2009 |
| My Brilliant Britain | Presenter | 1 episode: Series 1, Episode 10 | |
| Monday Monday | Christine Frances | 1 series, 2009 | |
| New Tricks | Anna Greening | 1 episode: "The War Against Drugs" |
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