Janie Dee

Janie Dee
Born	1966 U.K.
Spouse	Rupert Wickham

Janie Dee (born 1966) is an English actress and singer.

She is married to the actor Rupert Wickham.

Theatre

Dee is presently part of the Globe Theatre 2011 season playing The Countess of Roussillion in Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends Well" and in October she goes to Nottingham Playhouse to play Amanda in Noel Coward's "Private Lives". She has performed a wide range of stage productions, from modern comedy to Shakespeare, contemporary drama to musical theatre and opera. She has also directed drama school productions. In 2010, She won great critical acclaim for her performances as Natalia Petrovna in "A Month in the Country"(Brian Friel's adaptation of Turgenev) at Chichester for Director Jonathan Kent, Susan in Nancy Mitford's "The Little Hut" dir. Tim Luscombe, Anna in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I" Curve, Leicester for Paul Kerryson and Annie in Calendar Girls West End dir. Hamish McColl. 2008 and 2009 were mostly taken up with her reunion with Alan Ayckbourn to play Susan in his play "Woman in Mind" at Scarborough and then in the West End. Although latterly in 2009 she returned to work with Sir Peter Hall on George Bernard Shaw's "The Apple Cart" playing the King's 'Muse' "Orinthia"The End of 2007 and beginning of 2008 the West End saw her as Joy Gresham in a critically acclaimed production of William Nicholson's "Shadowlands" opposite Charles Dance as C.S. Lewis. At The Wyndhams Theatre and then extended at The Novello Theatre. Dir Michael Barker Caven. In 2007, she played Kate in the Harold Pinter play Old Times, alongside Neil Pearson and Susannah Harker. In 2005 she starred as Beatrice in Sir Peter Hall's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Theatre Royal in Bath. Hall remarked in a radio interview that the reason he had chosen to produce that play was to see Dee perform the role. Early in 2003,she had worked with Sir Peter on Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" and Noel Coward's "Design for Living". she played the role of Nurse Fay in the premiere production of Sondheim'sAnyone Can Whistle at the Bridewell Theatre.

Dee presented her one woman show at the Divas at the Donmar in 2002. In the same year she also played Edythe Herbert in the UK premiere of the Gershwin musical My One and Only at the Chichester Festival Theatre (and when it transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre, again to wonderful reviews and much praise). As the season's guest lead at Chichester, Dee also demonstrated her classical range, earning high praise for her performance as Masha in Chekov's Three Sisters. Prior to Chichester she played the lead Lydochka in Opera North's production of Paradise Moscow, by Dmitri Shostakovitch, in Leeds, London and throughout England.

In 2000 Dee appeared in the lead role Jacie Triplethree in Sir Alan Ayckbourn's new comedy Comic Potential at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. This was a virtuoso performance for which she was rewarded with the three most prestigious drama awards for theatre in the capital, an achievement only ever matched by Dame Judi Dench: the Olivier, London Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Theatre Best Actress Awards. This remarkable performance and reaction to it was repeated at The Manhattan Theatre Club in New York, where she received the following award and honours: OB Awards, Theatre World Awards, Lucille Lortel Nomination, Drama League Citation and Drama Desk Nomination for 'Best Actress'.

Work in other plays written and directed by Ayckbourn includes, Dreams From A Summerhouse, and House And Garden, originating the roles of Amanda and Joanna respectively. She also starred in the 2008-2009 revival of and Woman in Mind. Ayckbourn also directed her own show, which began its life at the NT studio, with songs by some of Britain's new song writers.

Her work at the National Theatre includes - Helen of Troy in The Women of Troy, Julie in Johnny On A Spot, and a platform exploring The Children's Hour as part of NT200. For the Royal Shakespeare Company she appeared in The Shakespeare Revue (1995), and Ellie in the musical Showboat (a coproduction with Opera North). Other theatre includes Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, A Connecticut Yankee (New Shakespeare Company at Regent's Park), A Chorus Of Disapproval (Salisbury Playhouse), Parallel Vision, You Can't Take It With You (King's Head Theatre), Cinderella (Tokyo), Glory Of Gershwin, Oklahoma! (National Tour), The Sound Of Music and South Pacific (The Crucible, Sheffield), Enter The Guardsman (Donmar Warehouse), They're Playing Our Song, Love Songs For Shopkeepers, Figuring Things, Bolt From The Blue. (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough).

Cinema

The Virtuoso, Me and Orson Welles

BBC Radio 2

• The Vicissitudes of Evangaline
• Paradise Moscow
• Finian's Rainbow
• Carousel
• Salad Days

Television

• House of Cards
• The Live Show
• Midsomer Murders
• Heartbeat
• London's Burning
• Love Hurts
• The Boot St Band (BBC)
• Little White Lies
• The Murder Room

Dee also starred as Emma Lavenham in the BBC's adaptation of PD James's Death in Holy Orders (one in the series of the Adam Dalgliesh books) transmitted in the Spring of 2003.

Recordings

In 2008 Dee recorded a song for the CD Act One - Songs From The Musicals Of Alexander S. Bermange, an album of 20 brand new recordings by 26 West End stars, released in November 2008 on Dress Circle Records.

External links

• Janie Dee at the Internet Movie Database