Julia St John

Julia St John
Born	Hammersmith, London, England
Education	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1982–present
Spouse	Peter McEnery [1] ​ ​ (m. 2007)​

Julia St John is an English actress and theatre director. Her television credits include A Touch of Frost , The Brittas Empire , Agatha Christie's Poirot , Lovejoy , Minder , Harry Enfield and Chums , Lewis , and Victoria Wood , appearing in the episode "Over to Pam".

Directing credits include Walter and Lenny at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, ^[2] and Shakespeare, his Wife & the Dog at the Liverpool Playhouse. ^[3]

Stage

• Ludmilla in Alasdair Gray's McGrotty and Ludmilla at Tron Theatre (1986) ^[4]
• Natasha in Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester (1994) ^[5]
• Regan in King Lear directed by Peter Cheeseman at New Vic Theatre (1996) ^[6]
• Lady Pembroke in Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III at West Yorkshire Playhouse (2003) ^[7]
• Maya in Arthur Miller's The Archbishop's Ceiling at the Southwark Playhouse (2004) ^[8]
• Sheila in Charlotte Keatley's Our Father at Watford Palace Theatre (2012) ^[9]
• Mrs Lintott in Alan Bennett's The History Boys at the Sheffield Crucible (2013) ^[10]
• Martha/Nelly Rose in Jefferson's Garden at Watford Palace Theatre (2015) ^{[11] [12]}
• Mrs Cotton in I Capture the Castle musical at Watford Palace Theatre and Octagon Theatre Bolton (2017)
• Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals at the Watermill Theatre in Bagnor, Newbury (2018) ^[13]

Selected film and television roles

• Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story (1982) – as Jane Ward
• Victoria Wood, Over to Pam (1989) – as Caroline
• The Blackheath Poisonings (1992) – as Beatrice Vandervent
• Lovejoy, The Colour of Mary (1993) – as Rosemary
• The Brittas Empire (36 episodes, 1991–1994) – as Laura Lancing
• Searching (1995) – as Chancy
• Agatha Christie's Poirot – Dumb Witness (1996) – as Bella Tanios
• Princess in Love (1996) – as Camilla Parker Bowles
• The Grand (12 episodes, 1997–1998) – as Sarah Bannerman
• Harry Enfield and Chums (4 episodes, 1997) – as Arguing Wife / David's Mother
• Brand Spanking New Show (11 episodes, 2000) – as Various characters
• High Stakes, The Poacher (2001) – as Christabel Webster
• A Touch of Frost (7 episodes, 2003–2010) – as Pathologist Amanda Chase
• Doc Martin, Blood Is Thicker (2005) – as Sandra Mylow
• Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder – The Case of the Earl of Erroll (2005) – as Gwladys Delamere
• The Line of Beauty (2 episodes, 2006) – as Greta Timms
• Lewis, And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea (2008) – as Naomi Norris
• Doctors, (2 episodes, 2008–2011) – as Alice Connor / Agnes Fricke
• Casualty (2006–2011) – as Sarah Evans

Radio

• Legal Affairs (1996), five-part series on BBC Radio 4 ^[14]

References

1. "A very Chichester tale in the Minerva". Littlehampton Gazette . 2 November 2015.
2. Hall, Duncan (6 November 2015). "How an unlikely Anglo-American friendship led to the Chichester Psalms 50 years ago". The Argus (Brighton) .
3. "Shakespeare, his Wife & the Dog". Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. 2016.
4. Hemming, Sarah (31 March 1986). "Theatre: Review of 'McGrotty and Ludmilla' at the Tron, Glasgow". The Times .
5. Kingston, Jeremy (16 August 1994). "Mess in need of a good tidy-up". The Times . p. 30.
6. Peter, John (9 November 1986). "Arts (Theatre): Straight down the farce lane". Sunday Times .
7. Walker, Lynne (2 October 2003). "REVIEW: THEATRE THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III West Yorkshire Playhouse Leeds". The Independent . London.
8. Johns, Ian (11 May 2004). "Theatre". The Times . p. 17.
9. Gardner, Lyn (22 February 2012). "Our Father – review". The Guardian .
10. Sheffield Theatres (2013). "The History Boys at Sheffield Theatres" . Retrieved 5 September 2013.
11. Billington, Michael (10 February 2015). "Jefferson's Garden (Review)". The Guardian .
12. "Jefferson's Garden – Theatre – Watford Palace Theatre". Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
13. Woodward, David (23 March 2018). "Julia St John" . Retrieved 16 May 2021.Some of the best lines are spoken by the eponymous Mrs Malaprop, played with a wicked sense of fun by Julia St John.
14. Davalle, Peter (12 June 1996). "Baby talk, but very mature". The Times . p. 50.

External links

• Julia St John at IMDb