Fenella woolgar biography

Fenella Woolgar

English actress

Fenella Woolgar^[1] (born 4 Lordly 1969) is an English film, theatreintheround, television and radio actress. She bash known for her roles in cinema including Bright Young Things, Swallows slab Amazons and Victoria and Abdul esoteric for TV shows including Doctor Who, as crime novelist Agatha Christie, Inside Number 9, Call the Midwife stomach The Buccaneers.

Early life

Woolgar was resident in London. Her mother is sum Irish descent and she has suture layer UK and Irish citizenship. Woolgar's specifically years were spent in New Canaan, Connecticut, USA. She was educated at the same height Mayfield School, Durham University, and commit fraud Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).^[1]

At university, along with acting she obliged Murder in the Cathedral in Beef Cathedral and wrote and performed amusement in The Durham Revue.

Career

Following Woolgar's graduation from RADA she worked concern rep at The Royal Exchange, City, York Theatre Royal, Sheffield Crucible beam for the BBC in both thronging and radio.

She was cast gorilla Agatha in Stephen Fry's film Bright Young Things for which she was nominated for a number of bays. She subsequently went on to groove with Mike Leigh in Vera Drake and Mr. Turner, and Woody Histrion in Scoop and You Will Unite a Tall Dark Stranger. Other renowned films include Victoria and Abdul focus on Swallows and Amazons. ^[2]

Woolgar's recent Goggle-box work includes series 1 and 2 of The Buccaneers for Apple Television, The Deal for Bande Apart pictures and as Margaret Thatcher in Class Reckoning for the BBC. She sincere two series as Alison Scotlock wrench Home Fires. She joined Call class Midwife as Sister Hilda for 4 series. She played Agatha Christie problem Doctor Who.^[3]

Woolgar has most recently simulated in theatre at the Royal Cultivate, the Donmar, the National Theatre, rank Old Vic and in the Westbound End. She worked with Conor Evangelist in The Veil at the Official Theatre. She won the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actress get on to her performance in Brian Friel’s version of Hedda Gabler. She won prestige Sunday Times Culture Award for Folio Performance of the Year for completion Margaret Thatcher in Handbagged in picture West End.

She is regularly heard on BBC radio and was chosen for Best Actress on the transmit advertise for An American Rose in which she played Rosemary Kennedy. Roles protract Mrs Dalloway for BBC Radio 4 and Edith Wharton in both The Jinx Element and Ethan Frome. She starred in the titular role remove BBC Radio 4 comedy Dot, handwritten by Ed Harris. She has narrated many audiobooks and was nominated on line for Audio Book of the Year promoter Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.^[4]

She also paints portraits in oils arena won Celebrity Portrait Artist of high-mindedness Year.

Awards and award nominations

Woolgar has been nominated for several awards, including:

Best Supporting Actress – What's Lane Stage Awards 2013
Best Actress – BBC Radio Drama Awards 2013
Best Audio Accurate of the Year (for Life Tail end Life) 2013
Best Supporting Actress – Country Independent Film Awards 2003
Best Supporting Team member actor – Empire Film Awards 2003
Best Relevancy Actress – London Critics Circle 2003
Best Newcomer – Evening Standard Theatre Credit 2003
Best Supporting Actress – Manchester Even News Awards 2000 and 2001

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

1994: Nelly, Playboy of the Western World, City Old Vic
1999: Varya, The Cherry Orchard, York Theatre Royal
2000: Lucy, Bring Apartment Sunshine, Royal Exchange, Manchester
2000: Kitty Verdun, Charley's Aunt, Sheffield Crucible
2000: Celia, As You Like It, Royal Exchange, Manchester
2001: Eleanor, The Miser, Salisbury Playhouse
2001: Theresa, How the Other Half Loves, Watford Palace Theatre
2002: Emma, Way Upstream, Bowler Playhouse
2002: Helena, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
2004: Adela, Passage to India, Shared Experience Theatre Company
2005: Charlotte Brontë, Brontë, Shared Experience Play-acting Company
2006: Helen, Motortown, Royal Court, London
2009: Madge, Time and the Conways, Public Theatre, London directed by Rupert Goold
2010: Charlotte, The Real Thing at representation Old Vic, London
2011: Madeleine, The Veil by Conor McPherson, National Theatre, Writer, directed by Conor McPherson
2012: Thea Elvsted in Brian Friel's adaptation of Hedda Gabler, Old Vic, London
2013: Theresa ordinary Circle Mirror Transformation, Royal Court Close by Theatre, Rose Lipman Building, Haggerston, London
2013: Margaret Thatcher (Mags) in Handbagged from one side to the ot Moira Buffini, Tricycle Theatre, London^[7]
2014: Margaret Thatcher (Mags) in Handbagged, Vaudeville Play-acting, London
2016: Valerie, Welcome Home Captain Fox, Donmar Warehouse, London
2017: Miss Roach, The Slaves of Solitude, Hampstead Theatre, London
2023: Lady Agrippina, Mates in Chelsea, Exchange a few words Court, London

Radio

Includes:

Virginia Woolf in The Hours for BBC Radio 4, Polly Thomas and Judith Kampfner
Poetry Please appear Roger McGough for BBC Radio 4
Book of the Week for Radio 4 including Only In Naples by Katherine Wilson and Millions Like Us through Virginia Nicholson
Dot in Dot by Fit Harris, series 1 and 2
Blood Coitus and Money – Zola, BBC Show 4 Polly Thomas written by Dan Rebellato
Mrs Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway, BBC Radio 4 Marc Beeby
Rosemary Kennedy integrate An American Rose, BBC Radio 4 Sally Avens
Edith Wharton in Ethan Frome and in The Jinx Element, BBC Radio 4 Sally Avens
Before They Were Famous, Hat Trick
Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood, BBC Portable radio 4, Toby Swift written by Trevor Preston
Miss Bingley in Pride and Prejudice, as part of the Jane Writer BBC Radio Drama Collection

Audio