Selina Giles
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Selina Giles | |
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| Born | March 5, 1972 |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, Writer |
| Notable work | Until Death, V for Vendetta |
Selina Giles (born March 5, 1972) is an English actress and writer. She is best known for playing Valerie Stowe in Until Death with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Stephen Rea and Evey's mother in the Wachowskis V for Vendetta (film)
Film and telvsision
Giles began her acting career with minor roles in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles with Sean Patrick Flannery, Restoration with Robert Downey Junior and Highlander: The Series with Adrian Paul. She went on to star in the Simon Rumley directed British film The Truth Game. The Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler St.Urbain's Horseman (TV series) with Andrea Martin and Elliott Gould. The Butcher Brothers vampire horror film The Thompsons, James Fair's The Confusion of Tongues. She appears in the John Mckay directed 2004 film Piccadilly Jim with Sam Rockwell the BBC series Holby Blue playing Sally Lewis and the successful children's show The Dumping Ground.
Theatre
On the stage she's played the role of Renee in David Henry Hwang's M Butterfly at the Singapore Repertory Theatre. Miss Julie in the August Strindberg play Miss Julie at the Tristian Bates Theatre. Claire Macneill in Bluebird by Simon Stephens at the Tabard Theatre. Shelley Long in The Two Faces of Agent Lacey written by Giles and staged at The Arts in the ' Above The Arts' space. In 2013 she set up Two Shillings and Six Pence Productions which is a company of actors who meet weekly perform quarterly and raise money for a local charity.
Writing
In 2015 she wrote produced and acted in the short film Pickled. In 2016 she wrote, produced and acted in the play The Two Faces of Agent Lacey, directed by Simon Fellows.
[1] Bluebird review from London Theatre 1.
[2] Bluebird review by View From The Gods.
[3] A younger theatre's review of The Two Faces of Agent Lacey[4]
[5] London Theatre1's review of The Two Faces of Agent Lacey
http://www.remotegoat.com/uk/review/12509/tragicomedy-of-competition-love-showbiz/
References
- ^ Ruth Gledhill. "Review of Bluebird at the Tabard Theatre London". London Theatre 1.
- ^ "views from the gods - plays - bluebird".
- ^ Ellie Bannerman. "Review: The Two Faces of Agent Lacey, Arts Theatre". A Younger Theatre.
- ^ info@blue-compass.com. "Review of The Two Faces Of Agent Lacey". www.remotegoat.com. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ^ Alan Franks. "The Two Faces of Agent Lacey by Selina Giles". London Theatre 1.
- ^ "Selina Giles". IMDb.