Ms Zoë Wanamaker, CBE's Biography

Ms Zoë Wanamaker, CBE's Professional Career

Career

actress; tstee and hon pres Globe Theatre; vice-pres Dignity in Dying; Hon DLitt: Southbank Univ 1995, Richmond American Int Univ 1999; Theatre Manchester 69 Co incl: A Midsummer Night's Dream 1970, Guys and Dolls 1972; Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre incl: The Cherry Orchard 1971 (also at the Stables Theatre Club 1970), Dick Whittington 1971-72; Young Vic 1974 incl: Tom Thumb, Much Ado About Nothing; Nottingham Playhouse 1975-76 incl: A Streetcar Named Desire, Pygmalion, The Beggar's Opera, Trumpets and Drums; Piccadilly Theatre incl: Wild Oats 1977, Once in a Lifetime 1979-80 (RSC 1978-79, SWET Award 1979); RSC Stratford and London 1976- incl: The Devil's Disciple, Wild Oats (also West End), Ivanov, The Taming of the Shrew, Captain Swing, Piaf (also West End and Broadway, Tony nomination 1981), A Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night and The Time of Your Life 1983-85 (all Olivier Award nominations), Mother Courage (Drama Award 1985), Othello (Olivier Award nomination 1989); NT incl: The Importance of Being Earnest 1982-83, The Bay at Nice and Wrecked Eggs 1986-87, Mrs Klein (also West End, Olivier Award nomination) 1988-89, The Crucible 1990-91 (Olivier Award nomination), Battle Royal 1999-2000; other credits incl: Twelfth Night (Leeds Playhouse 1971, Cambridge Theatre Co 1973-74), Cabaret (Farnham) 1974, Kiss Me Kate (Oxford Playhouse) 1974, The Taming of the Shrew (New Shakespeare Co Round House) 1975, Loot (Manhattan Theatre Club, Music Box Theatre Broadway, Tony nomination 1986), Made in Bangkok (Mark Taper Forum LA) 1988, The Last Yankee (Young Vic (Olivier Award nomination)) 1993, Dead Funny (Hampstead and West End (Variety Club Best Actress Award)) 1994, The Glass Menagerie (Donmar and Comedy (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress 1996)) 1995, Sylvia (Apollo) 1996, Electra (Chichester Festival and Donmar (Olivier Award for Best Actress 1998, Variety Club Award for Best Actress 1998)) 1997, The Old Neighbourhood (Royal Court) 1998, Electra (McCarter Theatre Princeton, Barrymore Theatre Broadway (Tony nomination Best Actress 1999)) 1998, Boston Marriage (Donmar Warehouse and New Ambassadors (Olivier Award nomination Best Actress 2002)) 2001, His Girl Friday (RNT) 2003, Awake & Sing! (Belasco Theatre NY) 2006 (NY City Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance, Calloway Award, nomination Tony Award for Best Performance), The Rose Tattoo (RNT) 2007, Much Ado About Nothing (RNT) 2007-08, All My Sons (Apollo) 2010 (Best Actress in a Play What's On Stage Award 2011), The Cherry Orchard (RNT) 2011; Television Sally For Keeps 1970, The Eagle Has Landed 1972, Between the Wars 1973, The Silver Mask 1973, Lorna and Ted 1973, The Confederacy of Wives 1974, The Village Hall 1975, Danton's Death 1977, Beaux Strategem 1977, The Devil's Crown 1978-79, Strike 1981, Baal 1981, All the World's A Stage 1982, Richard III 1982, Enemies of the State 1982, Edge of Darkness 1985, Paradise Postponed 1985, Poor Little Rich Girl 1987, Once in a Lifetime 1987, The Dog it was that Died 1988, Ball Trap on the Côte Sauvage 1989, Othello 1989, Prime Suspect (BAFTA nomination) 1990, Love Hurts (BAFTA nomination) 1991, 1992 and 1993, Dance to the Music of Time 1997, Gormenghast 1999, David Copperfield (BBC) 1999, Adrian Mole, The Cappuccino Years 2000, My Family (BBC series) 2002-10 (2 BAFTA nominations, Best Actress Rose d'Or 2005), Marple: A Murder is Announced 2004, Dr Who: The End of the World 2005, Johnny and the Bomb (BBC) 2005, A Waste of Shame (BBC) 2005, Poirot: Cards on the Table 2006, Dr Who: New Earth (BBC) 2006, Poirot: Mrs McGinty's Dead 2008, Poirot: The Third Girl 2008, Who Do You Think You Are? 2009, Poirot: A Halloween Party 2009; as narrator: Testimony Films, Veterans - `Last Survivors of the Great War' (BBC) 1998 (Gold Hugo Award); Radio incl: The Golden Bowl, Plenty 1979, Bay at Nice 1987, A February Morning 1990, Carol (book reading) 1990, Such Rotten Luck 1991 (series I & II 1989); Films incl: Inside the Third Reich 1982, The Raggedy Rawney 1987, Wilde (BAFTA nomination) 1997, Swept From The Sea, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2001, Five Children and It 2004, It's a Wonderful Afterlife 2009, My Week With Marilyn 2011; TV films: The Blackheath Poisonings (Central) 1991, Memento Mori (BBC) 1991, Countess Alice (BBC) 1991, The English Wife 1994, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (BBC) 1995, Leprechauns (Hallmark) 1999; Computer Games voice of Theresa in Fable 2 and 3

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