Saskia Reeves
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| Saskia Reeves | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 49–50) London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Saskia Reeves (born 1962) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and ID (1995), and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune.
Born and brought up in London by a Dutch mother and English father, Reeves studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since worked with directors such as Mike Leigh, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Winterbottom and Nicholas Hytner.
Early in her career she performed in puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre.
Her television credits include Spooks and the Bodies finale. Her stage work includes productions at London's National and Royal Court theatres as well as on international tour.
In addition to her acting career, Reeves does voice work, including commercial and narration (book readings) for VocalPoint.net.
In 2008, she starred in English Touring Theatre's revival of Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye at the Trafalgar Studios in London.
In 2010 she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of the famous disappearing canoeist John Darwin (played by Bernard Hill) in Canoe Man, a dramatisation of the John Darwin disappearance case for BBC4.[1] and in the BBC1 series Luther.
In 2011 Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC4.[2]
[edit] Screen credits
- Close My Eyes (1991)
- December Bride (1991)
- Antonia and Jane (1991)
- The Bridge (1992)
- ID (1995)
- Butterfly Kiss (1995)
- Christmas Carol (1999, TV film)
- Heart (1999)
- Frank Herbert's Dune (2000, TV miniseries)
- The Tesseract (2003)
- City of Birds (2008)
- The Fixer (2008, TV series)
- Canoe Man (2010, TV drama)
- Luther (2010, TV series)
- Wallander (2010, TV series)
- Women in Love as Anna Brangwen (2011) in the first part of BBC television's two-part series
- Lewis: Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things (2011, TV series) as Alison McLennan
- Page Eight (2011, TV movie) as Anthea Catcheside
[edit] References
- ^ "Canoe Man". BBC Online. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rs2kc. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ [1], The Telegraph 24th March 2011.
[edit] External links
- 1962 births
- Audio book narrators
- English people of Dutch descent
- English film actors
- English radio actors
- English stage actors
- English television actors
- English voice actors
- Living people
- Royal National Theatre Company members
- Royal Shakespeare Company members
- Shakespearean actors
- Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- People educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School
