A rebus () is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words and/or phrases. For example: the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter "n". It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames. For example, in its basic form, three salmon (fish) are used to denote the surname "Salmon". A more sophisticated example was the rebus of Bishop Walter Lyhart (d. 1472) of Norwich, consisting of a stag (or hart) lying down in a conventional representation of water.
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It is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words and/or phrases. It is a British television detective drama series based on the "Inspector Rebus" novels A British television detective drama series . Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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Karen Gillan returned in the fifth series to play Amy Pond.
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It is the second episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who".
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The Tenth Doctor and Donna arrive in Pompeii the day before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79.
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who is the aforesaid actress mentioned in the series?
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She is a Scottish actress, filmmaker and former model.
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Inverness.
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how did she begin her career as an actress?
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Her early television acting career included guest appearances on several television shows, with her first role being in an episode of ITV crime drama "Rebus".
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Rebus is a British television detective drama series based on the "Inspector Rebus" novels by the Scottish author Ian Rankin. The series was produced by STV Studios for the ITV network, and four series were broadcast between 26 April 2000 and 7 December 2007. The first series starred John Hannah as DI John Rebus; and was co-produced by Hannah's own production company, Clerkenwell Films. After Hannah quit the series, the role of Rebus was re-cast, with Ken Stott appearing as Rebus in three subsequent series, which were produced in-house by STV. The first series is very different in both format and style.
Rebus (TV series) | Introduction
She appeared in school plays, and was with the National Youth Theatre until the age of 18, when she signed to play the younger version of Dame Judi Dench's character in the BBC Films/HBO co-production for television, "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells". After her A-levels, she studied English literature at Queen Mary University of London before transferring and graduating with a first-class degree from the Open University. She originally intended only to focus on her studies but later began acting full-time during the summer holiday.
Romola Garai | Early life
Born in Leek, Staffordshire, her family then moved to Shrewsbury, and aged nine to Penkridge, Staffordshire. She attended Wolgarston High School, and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
Rebekah Staton | Early life
Rosemary Frances Rees was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1875 or 1876 to William Lee Rees, a barrister and MP. From a young age she was determined to become an actress.
Rosemary Frances Rees | Early life
Gillan's early television acting career included guest appearances on several television shows, with her first role being in an episode of ITV crime drama "Rebus", a role for which she had to drop out of school. Gillan undertook a two-year stint as a member of the ensemble cast of the sketch comedy series "The Kevin Bishop Show", in which she played multiple characters including celebrities such as Katy Perry and Angelina Jolie. Gillan also appeared on TV in a leading role in a horror project entitled "The Well", which was broadcast as a series of episodic short films on BBC Two and later as a web series on BBC.co.uk.
Karen Gillan | 2008–2013: Early roles and British stardom
She found her first professional acting experience "terrifying" as a result of the live audiences, recalling that, "because I wore a bathing costume in some of the scenes, I got heckled!" She also realised that taking risks or underperforming could have had consequences for her acting career. Her role as Denise in "The Beauty Game" earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards.
Sarah Lancashire | Early life and career beginnings (1964–1990)
Reh began acting at a young age with the Emerson Players, a community theatre company based out of the unitarian church which she participated in with her parents in New York. She attended the University of Berkeley as a French major but soon transitioned to Dramatic Arts major after her first audition. In her studies at Berkeley, it was required for her to take directing courses for her masters, which then lead her to the Scholar Director PHD program. She dropped out of the PHD program so that she could pursue acting in a small theatre company in California. The company did not have enough directors, so she volunteered.
Virginia Reh | Early life
She began her acting career in 1989 after graduating from college. Her television appearances include "Ultimate Force", "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries", "The Bill", "EastEnders", "Doctors" and "New Tricks". Cinque played three characters in the program "Casualty" for 3 different episodes. She portrayed Rita in the BBC miniseries "Man in an Orange Shirt".
Flaminia Cinque | Career
The fourth and final episode was originally due for broadcast on 20 September 2001 but was indefinitely postponed following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 and didn't air until four years later during a re-run of the series on ITV3 and the subsequent repeats on Alibi, Drama, and STV2 (formerly STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh) having never been broadcast on ITV.
Rebus (TV series) | Series 1 (2000–2004)
For the latter role, she also won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. In April 1991, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Lee Remick | Introduction
Eva Britt Remaeus (13 February 1950 - 29 January 1993) was a Swedish actress.
Eva Remaeus | Introduction
Gonshaw began her television acting career in the early 1980s. In 1982 she appeared in a BBC television play entitled "Shades". She appeared as the character Arsinoe in the 1983 BBC television classical Roman history drama series "The Cleopatras". That same year, she played a rape victim in Ian Richardson's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1983). From 1984 to 1985, she played the character "Lisa Walters" in the Central soap-opera "Crossroads". From 1984 to 1986, she appeared as Maria Recamier in the BBC's "'Allo 'Allo!" television situation comedy series set in occupied France during World War II. She left the cast of "Allo 'Allo" after its third series to take up the role of Amanda Parker in the third series of the BBC television drama series "Howards' Way" in 1987.
Francesca Gonshaw | Acting career
Rethel mainly appeared in boulevard theatre plays and had roles in numerous television series such as "Der Kommissar", "Derrick", "The Old Fox", "Schöne Ferien" and "Diese Drombuschs".
Simone Rethel | Biography
Remus also appeared in other early silent films, including "Mary: Ten Nights in a Bar Room" and "The Four-Footed Hero". When Chicago's film studios relocated to Hollywood, her parents decided that she should stay in Chicago, and her film career ended.
Romola Remus | Silent film career
Crosbie was born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, to Presbyterian parents who disapproved of her becoming an actress. Nevertheless, she joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School while still in her teens. Her big break came in 1970 when she was cast as Catherine of Aragon in the BBC television series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII", for which she won the 1971 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. In 1973, she starred alongside Vanessa Redgrave in the BBC serial "A Picture of Katherine Mansfield". In 1975, Crosbie made a similar impact as another queen, Queen Victoria, in the ITV period drama "Edward the Seventh", for which she won the 1976 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress.
Annette Crosbie | Early life and career
Yates was born in St Helens, Lancashire, on 16 June 1929. She began her acting career by joining Oldham Rep straight after leaving Childwall Valley High School for Girls. At the age of 17 she made her stage debut in a dramatised version of "Jane Eyre", playing Grace Poole. In 1957 Yates was cast in the role of Estelle Waterman on "Emergency Ward 10", after which she became a regular face on British Television and also appeared in a few British films. In the 1960s she made guest appearances on "Armchair Theatre", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Z-Cars", "Gideon's Way", "Nightingale's Boys", "The Human Jungle" and "The Ronnie Barker Playhouse", among others.
Pauline Yates | Early life and career
A Question of Blood is a 2006 episode of STV's "Rebus" television series. It was the second episode broadcast in the show's third season, and starred Ken Stott in the title role. The episode was based on the Ian Rankin novel of the same name.
A Question of Blood (Rebus) | Introduction
Price was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Her parents, John Price and Andree Evans, also acted. Her grandfather was the Worcestershire cricketer John Price. Her nephew is actor Charlie Rowe. She is known for her portrayal as DS Siobhan Clarke in the TV drama "Rebus" broadcast on the ITV network. She played opposite Ken Stott (DI John Rebus) in the adaptations of the Inspector Rebus novels by Scottish author Ian Rankin. Price was made to pass her driving test before filming series 3 of "Rebus" in order to allow Siobhan Clarke to drive Rebus around. in 2015, Price also plays for her role as Miriam Brindsley in the ITV's World War II TV series "Home Fires".
Claire Price | Life and career
Retford appeared in Royal Variety Performances in 1912, 1921 and 1938. She also made film appearances as a character actress in "Darby and Joan" (1937), "Poison Pen" (1939), "I'll Be Your Sweetheart" (1945), "Paper Orchid" (1949), and "Shadow of the Past" (1950). She continued to perform on stage in pantomimes until 1949, and appeared in 1954 on BBC television as a judge in the contest "Top Town".
Ella Retford | Biography
Norris made her professional stage debut in a 1989 production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", which earned her her Equity card. She made her television debut in the 1991 BBC serial "The Men's Room", playing the daughter of Bill Nighy's character. Other early television roles include appearances in "Agatha Christie's Poirot", the television serial "Clarissa", and a 1991 episode of "Drop the Dead Donkey". She continued to make guest appearances in series such as "Between the Lines" and "Casualty". In 1995 she played Helen in the Royal Exchange, Manchester's production of "Look Back in Anger". After being out of work for four months in 1996, Norris considered quitting acting and reading for a degree in law, intending to become a solicitor.
Hermione Norris | Career
Eileen Dennes, born Eileen Amhurst Cowen was an Irish silent film actress who was born in 1898 in Dublin, Ireland. She began on the stage in the early 1910s. She travelled to America in 1917. She found work at the Empire Al Star Film Co. and was offered the role of Ethel Fielding in her first film ‘The Unforseen’. She made more than one film in Hollywood that year with Olive Tell. She then decided to find work in England, it was there that Cecile Hepworth offered her a contract and she made her first English film as Rhoda Meredith in ’Sheba’ starring Alma Taylor in 1919.
Eileen Dennes | Early life
Iturbide was an early performer in television, having her first part in 1955, playing Clare Graham in an episode of "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle". In 1965, she practiced her hand at writing and wrote the script for the film, "Raíces en el infierno", which was directed by Myron J. Gold.
Rebeca Iturbide | Biography
Plans were afoot in the late 1980s and early '90s to bring Rebus to television in an adaptation of "Knots and Crosses" with Leslie Grantham in the lead but this came to nothing. Ian Rankin believes that it was likely they would have made Rebus English or relocated the entire story to London. Rankin has revealed the BBC were also keen to cast Robbie Coltrane as Rebus in a mooted adaptation of the series in the 1990s. Rankin "smiled a bit", imagining flashbacks to Rebus's SAS training with Private Robbie Coltrane running over the assault course! In the "Rebus" television adaptations he was played by John Hannah in the first series, a casting decision in which Hannah felt he was forced.
John Rebus | TV
After studying at the Guildford School of Acting, she went onto the London stage in 1976, performing several seasons at the Royal National Theatre. The shows she participated in during the following three years, included "Troilus and Cressida", "Tamburlaine the Great", "The Fruits of Enlightenment" opposite Sir Ralph Richardson, "Bedroom Farce", "The Passion" and "Strife".
Brenda Blethyn | Early life
Reina Reech studied classical dance, but the field started in show business as a dancer revue. Over the years became a showgirl in various "magazines" in Buenos Aires. In film-starred in seven films from Argentina, but always in supporting roles during the 80's. 101 Dalmatians in 1999 was on stage, playing the role of the villainous Cruella de Vil, with great success and great performance. Since 2000 was an actress and choreographer in several musicals and revue. On television children's program led the Queen's Colours.
Reina Reech | Career
All three Stott series were released on DVD in the United Kingdom in 2007. In Region 1, Koch Vision released the first series on DVD on 10 January 2006. Series two through four were later released by Acorn Media between 2006 and 2008. In 2008, Delta released the Hannah series in a four-disc box set.
Rebus (TV series) | Introduction
Before she became an actress, Rea left UCLA to attend business school. She landed a job as a production secretary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s. Later, she was an assistant to writer-musician Kay Thompson until Thompson dropped her in April 1948. Some of the points of discord apparently included Rea's insistence on staying at the Algonquin Hotel (rather than Essex House, where Thompson was staying), and disappearing, on at least one occasion, on the eve of their New York opening to see "Born Yesterday" on Broadway without telling Thompson. She quickly landed on her feet with a supporting role in the National Road Company production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" (as Eunice Hubbell, 1948–1949) starring Anthony Quinn.
Peggy Rea | Life and career
Wolf moved to London as a child and trained at the Royal Court Youth Theatre alongside Tim Roth. She began her professional acting career in Hanif Kureishi's "Borderline", a response to the 1981 race riots. She appeared on British television and in several London theatre productions, including the first professional production of Tara Arts, then had her first leading film role in Retake Film and Video Collective's 1984 movie "Majdhar", where she played a young Pakistani woman abandoned by her husband in Britain. Since then, she has had major parts on stage and screen in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Rita Wolf | Life
In the course of nine years at Brock she directed seven main stage.
Virginia Reh | Introduction
She did not give serious thought to the performing arts until the age of 18. After winning a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Lancashire realised that she enjoyed acting. She graduated in 1986, describing her time as a student there as "tremendous" but "seriously hard work and quite intimidating". After rejection from several repertory theatre companies, Lancashire was given her first acting role by Howard Lloyd-Lewis, artistic director of the Manchester Library Theatre Company, which provided her with an Equity Card. Lancashire performed two plays with the company, "Pacific Overtures" and "The Beauty Game", which she states formed "the start of my career as an actor".
Sarah Lancashire | Early life and career beginnings (1964–1990)
Her TV credits include playing Jenny in the 2007 "Doctor Who" two-part "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", and Althea in two episodes in the series "Rome". She played Louise in the BBC Three award-winning sitcom "Pulling". She also plays Kristina in the BBC One version of the "Wallander" series. Other appearances include two episodes of "The Amazing Mrs Pritchard", six of "State of Play", and the film "Bright Young Things". She had a small part in the 2006 mini series "Jane Eyre". She plays the character of the superhero "She-Force" in the 2008 ITV2 series "No Heroics" and played the character of Kelly in the BBC comedy "Home Time".
Rebekah Staton | Career
Imogen Stubbs was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, Hampshire, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on a vintage river barge on the Thames. She was educated at Cavendish Primary School, then at two independent schools: St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School, where Stubbs was one of the girls in the mixed sixth form, and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a First Class degree. Her acting career started at Oxford, where she played Irina in a student production of "Three Sisters" at the Oxford Playhouse. After graduating, she enrolled at RADA, and while there had her first professional work, playing Sally Bowles in "Cabaret" at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.
Imogen Stubbs | Early life
Remick made her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with "Be Your Age". She began guest starring on episodes of TV anthology series such as "Armstrong Circle Theatre", "Studio One in Hollywood", "Robert Montgomery Presents", "Kraft Theatre" and "Playhouse 90".
Lee Remick | Broadway and television
Rea gained her first professional role via a telephone call. After learning about a plan to produce 20 opera revivals in New York, she called the producer, who told her that no roles were available. She offered, however, to sing for him over the phone; when she had finished, he told her to take the first available train to New York. Still singing as Virginia Murphy, she performed in operas and had a national concert tour. Soon after those accomplishments, she began to use her mother's family name and became Virginia Rea.
Virginia Rea | Career
Selway was born in Norwich in 1936, daughter of a cinema manager and impresario, and enrolled at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London at the age of 13 to study acting. By 19 she had decided not to become an actress, and went to work as a production assistant at ITV before starting to work in casting, first under Miriam Brickman and then, from 1969, under Lindsay Anderson at the Royal Court Theatre in London. By the age of 34 she had started casting films, which she continued for the rest of her life.
Mary Selway | Life
Rees made her television debut as a parlour maid in 1968 in an adaptation of Shaw’s "Man and Superman", appearing alongside Eric Porter and Maggie Smith. Other appearances in various television dramas and comedy series quickly followed, including "The Way We Live Now", "The Avengers", "The Wednesday Play", "Doctor in the House", "Crown Court", and "Within These Walls". Her most notable early roles included the daughter of Winston Churchill (played by Richard Burton) in "The Gathering Storm" (1974), Lucy in Dennis Potter's television play "Joe's Ark" (also 1974), and as Celia in "As You Like It" opposite Helen Mirren (1978).
Angharad Rees | Acting career
Williams started performing at the age of three and became a professional dancer and actress. She starred in several British films, including 'Steffi' in "Thin Ice" with Ian McKellen and James Dreyfuss, and was a regular face in many British television series including an appearance as Lise Yates in episode "Thanks for the Memory" of the sci-fi comedy, "Red Dwarf".
Sabra Williams | Early career
Born into a well-known family of Austrian actors, she was the daughter of actor and director Rudolf Retty. Trained by her father, she began her stage career in 1890 at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater in Berlin, where she successfully performed in the title role of "Minna von Barnhelm". She was also known for breeches roles in Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Merchant of Venice. In 1895, she went to the Volkstheater in Vienna and in 1903 joined the Burgtheater ensemble, where she received the title of "Hofschauspielerin" (Actress of the Court) in 1905. She became an honorary member of the Burgtheater in 1928 and in 1958 she gave her final performance.
Rosa Albach-Retty | Life
Born in Highgate, to Bertie Russell, a P&O clerk, and his wife, Alicia (née Quinn) It was only by including a stage management element to her course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama that Russell was able to her father's resistance to her pursuing such a career. She began her brief career as an actress while still a student working on productions supervised by Michael Barry who cast her in "Toad of Toad Hall", and later in the same year in "The Insect Play" (both 1950). She became more interested in working in television than acting, preferring a three-week assignment in the medium over a ten-week touring production in Ireland.
Paddy Russell | Early life and career
After joining Central Junior Television Workshop at the age of 13, she was soon being offered small-screen roles such as Clare Anderson in the first series of Lucy Gannon's "Soldier Soldier" and also Mandy, in an episode of "Boon" —both were ITV Central productions. Moving to London at sixteen, Morton applied to numerous drama schools, including RADA, without success. In 1991, she attended Clarendon College of Performing Arts to gain a BTEC award but subsequently left for personal reasons. She made her stage début at the Royal Court Theatre, and continued her television career with appearances in "Peak Practice" and in an episode of "Cracker".
Samantha Morton | Beginnings (1991–1998)
At 13, Brun started acting in Church Plays. Her first television appearance was on the ITV TV series "Judge Rinder".
Princess Brun Njua | Career
Rebekah Robertson began her career with an appearance in the television show, "Problem Creek" as Min, in 1988. Robertson began appearing in multiple Zootango Theatre Company shows, including "Alice in Wonderland" as the Queen of Hearts, "As You Like It" as Phoebe, "The Comedy of Errors" as Adrianna and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as Hermia, amongst others. In 1995, Robertson played Greer in the play "Wilful Blue" at the Victorian Arts Centre. In 1992, she appeared in theatre shows such as "The Legend of the Muse" and "Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell". Robertson also appeared on television shows "Fridge Door" and "Elvis Was Greek" in 1994 and 1995 respectively.
Rebekah Robertson | Acting
In 1990, during her time at Cranbrook Kingswood, Blair was involved in a production of T.S. Eliot’s "Murder in the Cathedral". According to Blair, it was a failure, but her English teacher told her not to give up; that was the first time she thought she could be an actress. In 1993, she began training at acting schools in New York. She was discovered by an agent in acting class; subsequently, Blair signed with her. After 75 auditions, she got her first advertising contract for a television spot ad for a theater in Virginia, for which she received her Screen Actor's Guild membership.
Selma Blair | 1990–1998: Career beginnings
Abigail began her career in show business in her native UK, appearing in the TV shows "Robin Hood" and "Continental Theatre". After arriving in Perth, Australia in 1968, she originally studied civil engineering at university and acted on the side, she made her major entry in to show business when she was given the female lead in a theatrical production of the British comedy "There's a Girl in My Soup". She then moved from Perth to Sydney, New South Wales and appeared in a television advertisement with Phil Silvers and the TV series "Delta".
Abigail (actress) | Early career
Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954. She first appeared in the West End, playing opposite her brother, in 1958. In 1959, she appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre under the direction of Peter Hall as Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" opposite Charles Laughton as Bottom and "Coriolanus" opposite Laurence Olivier (in the title role), Albert Finney and Edith Evans. In 1960, Redgrave had her first starring role in Robert Bolt's "The Tiger and the Horse", in which she co-starred with her father. In 1961, she played Rosalind in "As You Like It" for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Vanessa Redgrave | Early stage and film career
She began her acting career in various theatre productions including playing Paola in a production of "There's a Girl in My Soup", and she was part of a company at the Wayside Chapel, Sydney. Late 1960s Australian television appearances include "The Mavis Bramston Show", and "Contrabandits". She made many television appearances throughout the 1970s, appearing several times in guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4" and "Matlock Police". She also worked in the UK, starring in the comedy feature film shot there "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" (1972), and making appearances in the TV anthology series "Thriller" in 1973, "Moonbase 3" in 1973, and "Father Brown" in 1974.
Mary Ann Severne | Career
In the early 1990s she was a regular guest panellist on the ITV morning quiz show "Crosswits".
Mary Tamm | Acting career
Among Antrobus' television appearances are "Dixon of Dock Green" (1963), "Redcap" (1965), "Emergency - Ward 10" (1967), "The Benny Hill Show" (1967), "The First Churchills" (1969), "Z-Cars" (1970), "Steptoe and Son" (1972), "The Protectors" (1973), "Wessex Tales" (1973), "Within These Walls" (1974), "Thomas & Sarah" (1979), "The Bill" (1989), "The Chief" (1990), and "On Dangerous Ground" (1996). Antrobus' other work includes appearances in London's West End (she was the winner of a London Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Supporting Actress) and in the films "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965), "The Pleasure Girls" (1965), "Mister Quilp" (1975), and was interviewed as herself in the 1995 Dalek-film documentary "Dalekmania".
Yvonne Antrobus | Acting
Sarah Caroline Olivia Colman was born in Norwich on 30 January 1974, the daughter of nurse Mary (née Leakey) and chartered surveyor Keith Colman. She was privately educated at Norwich High School for Girls and Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk. Her first role was Jean Brodie in a school production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" at the age of 16. She cites her mother's interrupted career as a ballet dancer as an inspiration to pursue acting professionally. Colman spent a term studying primary teaching at Homerton College, Cambridge before studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, from which she graduated in 1999.
Olivia Colman | Early life
Rebekah Gibbs (17 March 1973 – 11 November 2014) was an English television and musical theatre actress. Born in Torquay, Devon, Gibbs attended Cockington Primary School, Torquay Academy and the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup. She appeared in West End musical productions including "Starlight Express", "Grease", and "Fame" before getting the part of Nina Farr, a paramedic, in the BBC medical drama "Casualty" in 2004. She played the role for more than 100 episodes (2004–6). Earlier television roles include an appearance in "The Bill". She left "Casualty" in 2006 to start a family, but was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008.
Rebekah Gibbs | Introduction
She continually showed the range of her abilities as an actress: in 1887 in "Allô-Allô" she played a scene grappling with the difficulties of the new-fangled telephone, which, Meunier recalled, was so funny "that from the gallery to the stalls the theatre was one roar of laughter and applause". In the following year she appeared at the Odéon in a stage adaptation of "Germinie Lacerteux" by the Goncourt brothers. The actor and director André Antoine described her performance: Among those who saw the performance was Marcel Proust who became a devoted admirer, and later friend; his character Berma, the great actress in "À la recherche du temps perdu", is partly based on Réjane.
Gabrielle Réjane | Variétés and stardom
Taylor was born in London and came to live in Adelaide, South Australia with her family at the age of five. As a child she had several film roles, including in "For the Term of His Natural Life" (miniseries) (1983) and the Scott Hicks film, "Sebastian and the Sparrow" (1988).
Rebe Taylor | Early life
In 1908 she returned to New Zealand. In 1909 she presented, at His Majesty's Theatre in Gisborne, an evening's entertainment which included three of her own one act plays: the comedy "'A Judicial Separation'," the drama "'The New Gun"" and the comedietta "'Her Dearest Friend'." Rees returned to England in 1911 where she continued to act, write and produce plays. In 1913 she produced and acted in her comedy sketch, "Uncle Bill," at the Grand Theatre, Clapham. It was also produced at The Globe Theatre in London and The Vaudeville Theatre in The Strand, London (as a curtain raiser to Jerome K.
Rosemary Frances Rees | Career
In 1985 Sykes Rellie left Kent to attend the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Lucy Sykes | Early life and family
Gabrielle Réjane (), "née" Gabrielle Charlotte Réju (6 June 1856 – 14 June 1920), was a French actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The daughter of a former actor, Réjane studied at the Paris Conservatoire and made her stage debut in 1875. After eight seasons at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in increasingly prominent roles, she became leading lady at the Théâtre des Variétés, a position she combined with appearances in more substantial plays at other theatres. She became known chiefly for her roles in comedies, but made an impression in serious character parts from time to time.
Gabrielle Réjane | Introduction
Richardson began acting when she was 10. At the age of 13, she performed in A Christmas Carol at the Gate Theatre. In 1968, she played Hedvig Ekdal in an RTÉ television production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck with Ann Rowan, Christopher Casson, T. P. McKenna, Blánaid Irvine, Geoffrey Golden, and Maurice Good. She worked for a period as a waitress in "Captain America's" on Grafton Street. In the 1970s, she moved to London, working as a freelance journalist for the BBC. After returning to Ireland, she presented the popular children's television series Bosco on Raidió Teilifís Éireann for 12 years.
Marian Richardson | Career
Jenkins became an actress at the age of eighteen having studied at drama college. She worked in repertory theatres across the UK for the first 11 years of her career, performing in many productions, playing everything from Alan Ayckbourn to Shakespeare. Alan Bleasdale wrote the lead female role in "Having a Ball" for Jenkins. She then started to work more on television including "How We Used To Live" and the cult TV programme, "The Beiderbecke Affair". She first came to prominence in 1985 when she joined the cast of top-rated British soap opera, "Coronation Street", playing barmaid Gloria Todd in 238 episodes.
Sue Jenkins | Career
Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play "Harlequin and Columbine". She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her début in the corps de ballet in "Prometheus". After various walk-on parts in Shakespeare productions at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London, she joined the Oxford Playhouse repertory company in 1940, playing, "inter alia", "Margaret" in "Dear Brutus" and "Patty Moss" in "The Two Bouquets". Kerr's first film role was in the British production "Contraband" in 1940, aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were edited out.
Deborah Kerr | Early Theatre and Film
Against the wishes of her parents, she chose to become an actress when she joined the non-professional touring company Scottish National Players in 1938. She subsequently toured with the semi-professional Rutherglen Repertory Company. In 1942 she moved to England to work as a professional actress. Her first role in the London theatre in 1942 was as the second Mrs de Winter in Daphne du Maurier's stage adaptation of her own novel Rebecca. In 1945, at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon she played the role of Gertrude for the first of three times, opposite the Hamlet of Peter Glenville, who also directed the production.
Eileen Herlie | Career
Deciding she wanted to be an actress she studied drama at the Arts Educational School and RADA in London and quickly became one of the busiest actresses of her generation, early roles included an appearance as Roberta in the second TV version of "The Railway Children" in 1957. Her other film roles included appearances in "Some People" (1962) and "The Pleasure Girls" (1965). Her other television credits include appearances in "The Avengers" and as Evelyn in "Strange Report" (1969–70).
Anneke Wills | Career
Lambert was born in London, the daughter of a Jewish accountant, and was educated at Roedean School. She left Roedean at sixteen and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for a year and at a secretarial college in London for eighteen months. She later credited her interest in the structural and characterisational aspects of scriptwriting to an inspirational English teacher. Lambert's first job was the typing of menus at the Kensington De Vere Hotel, which employed her because she had been to France and could speak French. In 1956, she entered the television industry as a secretary at Granada Television's press office.
Verity Lambert | Early career in independent television
James was born in 1947, shortly after her parents moved to the UK from South Africa. Her father was the actor Sid James. During her teenage years she played in a folk group before marrying and starting a family. In her late 20s she appeared in the stage play "John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert" by Willy Russell, and later appeared in Russell's musical "Blood Brothers".
Reina James | Early life
Caroline Dowdeswell (born 7 March 1945, Oldham, Lancashire) is a former English television actress. She attended theatre school from age 12 and joined the Bromley Rep at 17. Dowdeswell first appeared on television in 1961, and her first role was in "The Villains" in 1964. Her television career includes appearances in "Crossroads"; "Softly, Softly"; "Z-Cars"; "Our's Is A Nice House"; "Dad's Army" in the recurring role of Janet King; "On The Buses"; "Casanova" and "Man About The House". She also played Sandra in the films of "On the Buses" and "Mutiny on the Buses". She retired from acting in 1978.
Caroline Dowdeswell | Introduction
Rethberg was born Lisbeth Sättler in Schwarzenberg. She studied at the Dresden Royal Conservatory with Otto Watrin, and she made her operatic debut in that German city opposite Richard Tauber on 16 June 1915 as Arsena in the operetta "Der Zigeunerbaron" by Johann Strauss II.
Elisabeth Rethberg | Early years
Robson first appeared on screen in the 1970 film "Junket 89" produced by Children's Film Foundation alongside other actors from The Anna Scher Children's Theatre in Islington, including Pauline Quirke. Robson had a non-speaking role as a young girl amidst a group of roaming 'survivors' in the second series of the original BBC Survivors drama screened in 1976 and then appeared in "Pauline's Quirkes" (her first regular appearance with Pauline Quirke) and the drama series "The Crezz", the comedy drama "Shine on Harvey Moon" in 1982 and the IRA drama "Harry's Game".
Linda Robson | Early career
Jones began acting professionally aged 16. Andrew Billen of "The Times", acknowledging her professional career beginnings at 16, wrote that "she took to the stage at 8". Jones later said that her first role was at the age of 8, in "Wait Until Dark" as Gloria. Upon joining the trade union Equity, Jones took on the stage name 'Suranne', as her birth name was already taken, and union rules dictate that each union member must have a different name. Having obtained an agent at 15, she began to act in the theatre. Jones's television career began in 1997, with a small role in "Coronation Street" in April 1997 as Mandy Phillips, a girlfriend of Chris Collins (Matthew Marsden).
Suranne Jones | Early career
Barbara Jane Reams (a.k.a. Barbara Jane Calchera; born April 7, 1976 in Burley, Idaho), is a former American television actress.
Barbara Jane Reams | Introduction
Beaumont's father was a Marine Commando who became the chief herdsman at the Hatfield House and her mother was an opera singer from New Zealand. She began dancing at three, trained with Ivy Baker, an original director of Laine Theatre Arts, and at age 16 began teaching dance to other children who would otherwise not have had the opportunity. She studied acting at Drama Centre London in her mid-20s. She was signed to her first talent agency before graduating from the Drama Centre and was cast in Lynda LaPlante's crime drama Trial and Retribution. More roles followed with Holby City, Casualty, The Bill, Coronation Street, Grange Hill, a drama series on BBC One, and a 2004 drama Murder in Suburbia.
Linette Beaumont | Career Beginnings
Romola Remus Dunlap (April 7, 1900 – February 17, 1987) was an American actress who was the first to play Dorothy Gale in film, in the 1908 multimedia stage/film production "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays", an adaptation of the Oz books. She worked directly with author L. Frank Baum, the creator of the character.
Romola Remus | Introduction
Warren trained as an actress at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 1963. From there on she took the path of many of her performing contemporaries, acting in repertory throughout the country – beginning as an assistant stage manager in "David Copperfield" in Salisbury.
Marcia Warren | Early life
Her first acting role was as Juliet in an otherwise white cast performing Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" at Oxford University, where her siblings were studying.
Akosua Busia | Family and early life
Originating from the Dennistoun area of Glasgow, she started her main career in the late 1960s, with her first credited roles in television shows such as The Revenue Men, Sutherland's Law and "Garnock Way". She also featured in the film Micheline's Mother, which was presented at the 2005 film "Festival". After many successful years with various stage performances, including "Dorothy Paul: Live", she had made guest appearances in "Still Game" and "Taggart".
Dorothy Paul | Acting career
Textorius started her acting career by answering an advertisement by theater leader Emil Hillberg, and made her stage debut in 1901 at Halmstad theater in Halmstad as Paula in the play "Fri vilja". After studies with Hillberg and actress Josefina Gullberg, she worked for a few years at different theaters in the countryside. It was during these years that she had the opportunity to work with the famous Dramaten actor J. Gustaf Fredrikson (1832-1921). Her favorite part during these years was as Käthe in the play "Gamla Heidelberg". At about this same time she also met her future husband.
Ester Textorius | Career
Clara Rousby (1848–1879) was an actress who made notable appearances on the London stage.
Clara Rousby | Introduction
Quirke began her career as a child actress aged eight with an appearance in "Dixon of Dock Green." Another early role was that of an autistic teenager in the 1975 TV drama "Jenny Can't Work Any Faster". By 1976 she had her own TV show, "Pauline's Quirkes", on Thames Television, which featured pop music, teenage topics, and comedy sketches. In 1976 she played the lead role in the "Special Offer" episode of ATV's "Beasts", by Nigel Kneale, also starring Geoffrey Bateman, Wensley Pithey and Ruth Goring. Quirke also had a small role in the movie "The Elephant Man" in 1980, with future "Emmerdale" colleague Lesley Dunlop.
Pauline Quirke | Career
Reuten was born in Bussum, Netherlands, the daughter of a Dutch father, Joost Reuten, and an Italian mother, who was born in Benabbio near Bagni di Lucca. She studied acting at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam. During the last year of her studies, she assumed leading roles in Dutch film and theatre productions. Early in her career, she won the "Shooting Star Award" of the Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival) for her portrayal of Lotte in the film "Twin Sisters", which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Subsequent roles included "In Bruges" with Colin Farrell, "Hotel Lux" with Bully Herbig, and "The American" alongside George Clooney, as well as the political thriller "Waffenstillstand" ("Ceasefire").
Thekla Reuten | Life and career
In 1965, she starred with her good friend Sheila Hancock in the sitcom "The Bed-Sit Girl" and appeared in the West End comedy "Say Who You Are". In 1975, she co-starred with Reg Varney in a failed sitcom called "Down the 'Gate" and, in 1981, appeared in and co-wrote, the ITV comedy series "Chintz". In 1985, she played Nurse in "Romeo and Juliet" with the Royal Shakespeare Company and her other credits with the RSC in the mid to late-1980s included Maria in "Twelfth Night", First Witch in "Macbeth", Glinda/Aunt Em in "The Wizard of Oz" and Parthy Ann in an Opera North version of "Show Boat".
Dilys Laye | Career
Rosalind Eleazar is an English stage and screen actress. She trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2015. Her TV roles include Christine in the BBC series "Rellik", Jacky Bast in "Howards End", Kate in the ITV series "Deep Water", as well as roles in "NW", "National Treasure" and "Harlots". Eleazar has appeared in "The Starry Messanger" at the Wyndham's Theatre and "Plaques and Tangles" at The Royal Court Theatre. Eleazar's debut feature film role was as Agnes in "The Personal History of David Copperfield" by Armando Iannucci.
Rosalind Eleazar | Introduction
She started directing seriously in the early 1980s, at a time when a movement of women playwrights and directors was beginning.
Virginia Reh | Early life
She returned to the English stage, while also performing parts for the British Broadcasting Corporation, and appeared in a cameo role in the 1949 film, "Eureka Stockade". Ward returned to Australia again in the early 1950s, and made her first television appearance as a minor character in detective series "The Vise" - originally titled "Saber of London" - in 1954, and in the television movie "The High-Flying Head" the following year. She had starring roles in the television movies "Marriage Lines" and "The Tower".
Mary Ward (actress) | Early life and career in England
She was given two weeks to recuperate by Charlot. He saw Lawrence at an opening night party at Ivor Novello's invitation two days before she was cleared to return to work by her doctor. Charlot immediately fired her. When the apparent reason for her dismissal became common knowledge among other West End theatrical producers, she was unable to find work.
Gertrude Lawrence | Early stage career
She was born on 18 November 1967 in the commune (or town) of Le Vigan in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon, in the department of Gard. She decided to be an actor when she was 17. Proust initially worked in theatre. She has described herself as a child of Edward Bond, and she cites the directors Patrice Chéreau, Peter Brook, Giorgio Strehler and Deborah Warner among her inspirations.
Caroline Proust | Early life and career
Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1962 film "Days of Wine and Roses", and for the 1966 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway theatre performance in "Wait Until Dark". Remick made her film debut in 1957 in "A Face in the Crowd". Her other notable film roles include "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959), "Wild River" (1960), "The Detective" (1968), "The Omen" (1976), and "The Europeans" (1979). She won Golden Globe Awards for the 1973 TV film "The Blue Knight", and for playing the title role in the 1974 miniseries "".
Lee Remick | Introduction
In England she had to learn the language and attended Dartington Hall school. She went on to train at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Jasia Reichardt | Beginnings
Pinkus made her television acting debut in 1975 with guest spots on "Division 4" and "Homicide", making a second appearance on the latter series a year later. She also appeared in the television miniseries "Against the Wind", "Cop Shop" and "Chopper Squad" in 1978. She also performed with the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory. Following this came her first major role, a storyline spanning 11 episodes (of which she appears in 9) in the cult soap opera "Prisoner" playing "Melinda Cross". Melinda, a university friend of "Karen Travers" (Peta Toppano), is arrested when she attempts to blackmail a married university lecturer with whom she had been having an affair.
Lulu Pinkus | Career
She began playing the guitar at the age of ten, and started her musical career busking, first in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street, then in the early 1980s in London and around Europe (where she also worked with circus and performance artists). Back in Scotland, while finding factory work in Irvine and working part-time in Sirocco Recording Studio in Kilmarnock, she answered an advert in the music press and travelled to London to audition and join the punk band Gang of Four, who needed a backing singer for their appearance on British television music show "The Old Grey Whistle Test" and for their UK tour.
Eddi Reader | Early career
Mary's Catholic College. In July 1893, 17-year-old Cissy Loftus made her début at the Oxford Music Hall in London, followed by an appearance at the Palace Theatre of Varieties. After an early career in music hall and variety performing impersonations of well-known actresses of the day, such as Yvette Guilbert, she appeared at the Gaiety Theatre in musical comedy for one season.
Cecilia Loftus | Early life
Her early TV career highlights included appearances on "Emmerdale" in 1973 (as Sharon Crossthwaite).
Louise Jameson | Early life and career
Elisa Severi was born in Ravenna. She trained as an actress in Rome, where she debuted in the 1889-1890 season.
Elisa Severi | Early life
While she was a drama student, she was a regular in the audience at the Gate Theatre.
Georgina Rylance | Early life
Born in Camberwell, south London, Coombs was one of three children; her father worked in insurance for the Employers' Liability, the forerunner of Commercial Union. Coombs attended the County School for Girls in Beckenham, Kent. After leaving school she began her working life as a student kindergarten teacher, but soon a keenness to act prompted her to take drama lessons during the Second World War with her friend and neighbour Vivien Merchant. At the age of 19 she won a scholarship to train as an actress at LAMDA, where she subsequently taught dialect.
Pat Coombs | Early life
Making her stage debut in 1931, her theatre work included appearances at The Old Vic, the Malvern Festival and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her TV acting credits include: "Out of the Unknown", "The Avengers", "Paul Temple", "The Lotus Eaters", "Ace of Wands", "The Tomorrow People", "Z-Cars", "Public Eye", "Sutherland's Law", "Dixon of Dock Green", "The Onedin Line", "Doctor Who" (in the serial "The Seeds of Doom"), "Survivors", "Armchair Thriller" (in the serial "Quiet as a Nun"), "Blake's 7" (in the episode "Gambit" as the Croupier), "Shoestring", "The Flipside of Dominick Hide", "Angels", "Funny Man", "Rumpole of the Bailey", "Artemis 81", "Bleak House" and the sitcom "Maggie and Her".
Sylvia Coleridge | Career
Prinsloo has stated that she never expected to become an actress. “I was a ballet dancer from a very early age and I remember that I occasionally ushered at the Breytenbach Theatre in Pretoria when I was in high school. That’s the first time I came into contact with professional stage acting, but I never thought I’d be an actress . . . . I think I was far too shy in those days to ever think I could be an actress. So it wasn’t like I had this great big burning passion to become an actress, not at all.
Sandra Prinsloo | Early life and career
Reba began to perform in the circus from the early fifties. One of her astonishing feats was lifting elephants upon her chest. She continued this act till the mid 1960s. She was associated with Kamala Circus, International Circus and Gemini Circus. She also used to perform at the local clubs in Kolkata during the Durga Puja. She was also a good shooter. In her later life, she became a physical trainer and was associated with social works.
Reba Rakshit | Career
Rous was born in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey. Before pursuing a career in acting, she was a competitive ice dancer for 14 years and trained as an ice dancer at the University of Delaware's Ice Skating Science Development Center in Newark, Delaware when she was 15. She graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University with a BFA in Acting and also holds a certificate from the London Academy of Theatre.
Bess Rous | Early life and education
Tamm began acting on the stage with the Birmingham Repertory Company in 1971. She moved to London in 1972 and appeared in the musical "Mother Earth". Her first TV role for the BBC was as Sally in "The Donati Conspiracy" shown in 1973. This was followed by an episode of "Warship" in 1974. In 1975, she featured in Muriel Spark's "The Girls of Slender Means" on BBC2. Before her association with "Doctor Who", Tamm acted in a few films, including "Tales That Witness Madness" (1973), "The Odessa File" (1974) and "The Likely Lads" (1976). In 1981, she took the part of Rhoda Dawes in Agatha Christie's "Cards on the Table" at London's Vaudeville Theatre.
Mary Tamm | Acting career
She started her career at 14, in Chukku movie as Sheela's daughter. She started production company, V.I.C and produced movies "Druvasankamam","Ente Kadha" and Janapriyan. Now she is acting in Tele films and soap operas. Currently she is acting in Ammayariyathe serial in Asianet.
Reena (actress) | Career
She started modelling for a clothing company before she left her career in fashion to become an actress. She was studying at National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris, when she was cast in "The Returned". The French edition of "Grazia" reported that she rejected a role in "" to complete her studies. She has also appeared in the French film "Salaud, on t'aime".
Jenna Thiam | Career
Friebus first acted professionally in 1929 in New York City, appearing in "The Cradle Song" with the Civic Repertory Theater. She appeared on television in such programs as "The Joseph Cotten Show", "The Ford Theatre Hour", "Perry Mason", "Bachelor Father", "Father Knows Best", "The Rookies", "Peyton Place", "Ironside", "Gunsmoke", "Sanford and Son", "Ben Casey", "The Doris Day Show", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "Room 222", "The Partridge Family", "Chico and the Man", "Barnaby Jones", "Alice", and "Rhoda". She also read stories to children on "Look and Listen" on KNXT in Los Angeles, California.
Florida Friebus | Career
Valdis began acting in the late 1950s. She appeared in bit parts in films and guest starred in several television shows including "The Wild Wild West" and "Kraft Television Theatre". She appeared in one episode of "Hogan's Heroes" as a different character before landing the role of Hilda, Colonel Klink's secretary, replacing Cynthia Lynn ("Helga") who played the role in the first season.
Sigrid Valdis | Early life and career