Anna Madeley

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Anna Madeley
Born (1976-10-01) 1 October 1976 (age 48)
London, England
Alma mater Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
OccupationActress
Years active1985present

Anna Madeley (born 1 October 1976) [1] is an English actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in productions on each of the main British television channels and has also worked in radio and film. Madeley has appeared as Kate Kendrick in Deadwater Fell and as Audrey Hall in the remake of All Creatures Great and Small . [2]

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Early life and education

Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School. Her speech teacher set her up with some auditions, and she began her career as a child actress at age seven. [3] She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Career

She performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in its 2001–2002 and 2003–2004 seasons. [1] She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher. From 2003 to 2005, she was a regular cast member of ITV's The Royal in which she played Nurse Samantha Beaumont.

In 2005, Madeley appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist and The Cosmonaut's Last Message... , both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy . [4] In 2006, she starred in two BBC TV films – as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton , and in the original drama Aftersun – and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders. In early 2007 she was a central character in the second episode of “Lewis”, and she also appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, she played Nina in a production of The Seagull as an understudy when the original actress fell ill. Madeley was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist.

In 2010, Madeley appeared in The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister , based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010. In January 2013, Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw . In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown . In 2018, she played the role of Marie Stahlbaum, the late mother to the protagonist, Clara, and the queen of the magical land Clara discovers in the fantasy/adventure film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. In 2020, she played Kate Kendrick in Deadwater Fell and was cast as housekeeper Audrey Hall in the remake of All Creatures Great and Small .

Personal life

Madeley's partner is actor Geoffrey Streatfeild. [5]

Acting credits

Filmography

YearFilmRoleNotes
1985ClaudiaLittle Girl
1990Back HomeSchool GirlTV film
1998 Cold Feet EmmaTV series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.5")
1999 Dad TasminTV series (1 episode: "Reprodadtion")
Guest House Paradiso Saucy Wood Nymph
2000A Dinner of HerbsFlorrie RoystanTV mini-series (2 episodes)
2001 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman PetraTV series (1 episode: "Playing God")
2003 The Royal Nurse Samantha BeaumontTV series (20 episodes: 2003–2005)
2004 The Rivals Lydia LanguishVideo
2005 Stoned Stones' Receptionist
2006AftersunEstherTV film
The OutsidersErica ChapmanTV film
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton Isabella Beeton TV film
2007ConsentRebecca "Becky" PalmerTV film
Lewis Anne SadikovTV series (1 episode: "Whom the Gods Would Destroy")
UninvitedJaneShort film
The Old Curiosity Shop Betsy QuilpTV film
2008 Sense and Sensibility Lucy SteeleTV series (2 episodes)
In Bruges Denise
Affinity Margaret Prior
Waking the Dead Anna VaspovicTV series (2 episodes: "Pietà" – Parts 1 & 2)
Brideshead Revisited Celia Ryder
The Children PollyTV mini-series (3 episodes)
Agatha Christie's Marple Adele FortescueTV series, episode: "A Pocket Full of Rye"
Crooked House KatherineTV series (2 episodes)
2009 Law & Order: UK Kayleigh GainesTV series (1 episode: "Hidden")
2010 Hustle Jennifer HughesTV series (1 episode: "The Hush Heist")
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister Mariana BelcombeTV film
2011 The Reckoning Victoria SturridgeTV mini-series (1 episode: "Episode No.1.1")
2012 A Fantastic Fear of Everything WPC Taser
Strawberry Fields Gillian
Secret State Gina HayesTV mini-series (4 episodes)
Words Of The Titanic Violet Jessop TV documentary
2013 Agatha Christie's Poirot Barbara FranklinTV series (1 episode: "Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case")
Silent Witness Annette KellyTV series (2 episodes: "Change" – Parts 1 & 2)
Utopia Anya [3] TV series (6 episodes)
Mr Selfridge Miss RavilliousTV series (7 episodes)
2015 Code of a Killer Sue JeffreysTV Mini-Series, 2 episodes
2016 The Crown Clarissa Eden [3] TV series (1 episode)
2018 Patrick Melrose Mary MelroseTV miniseries
Silent Witness Anna LawsonTV series (2 episodes: "Moment Of Surrender" – Parts 1 & 2)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Queen Marie Stahlbaum
2020 Deadwater Fell Kate KendrickTV miniseries
2020 Sitting in Limbo Amelia GentlemanTV film
2020- All Creatures Great and Small Mrs HallTV series
2021 Time Anne WarrenTV miniseries
2022 Anatomy of a Scandal Ellie FriskTV miniseries (episodes 1 & 2)
2023 Secret Invasion Pamela LawtonTV miniseries (2 episodes)
2024 Vindicta Eliza Svoboda

Stage

Radio

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