Natasha Radski

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Natasha Radski
Natasha Radski London 2018.jpg
Radski in London in 2018
Alma mater Drama Studio London
Website www.natasharadski.com

Natasha Radski is a British actress.

Career

Radski has played lead roles in theatre productions [1] including Antigone in the tragedy Antigone by Jean Anouilh, Yvonne in My Wife's Dead Mother by Georges Feydeau, Lucile in Love and the Piano by Georges Feydeau, Lidia Astafieva in The House with a View in the Field. [2] by Alexander Vampilov.

Contents

Natasha Radski got her first TV role in David Croft's sitcom Here Comes the Queen , 2007. She has played Mrs. Kominski, [3] a guest appearance in Citizen Khan BBC series, 2016, and has worked in a guest role of the Eastern-European character Daga opposite British comedian Jo Brand in Damned [4] Channel 4 series, 2018, produced by Lionsgate and What Larks! Productions. She has appeared in a tragic role in Dracula (2020 TV series) for BBC/Netflix.

She has played the role of Russian News Reader in HBO / Sky Atlantic Chernobyl. [5] [6]

Natasha has played a distressed immigrant Irina in "Café Mirage", [7] 2020, directed by Neilson Black, and the nosy Eastern-European neighbour Anna in British-Indian comedy "Little English", 2022.

Radski has worked for BBC Radio 4 drama and played the variety of characters. She was a sole reader of the comedy Woman of Your Dreams, [8] [9] played a title role, Chechen terrorist Yara in Forty-Three Fifty-Nine: Yara, Russian trafficked girl Anya in Ariel, Ukrainian nuclear scientist Tanya Moroz in The King of Pripyat, and Polish immigrant Magda who had to make difficult life choices in Dreaming in English. [10] She was also a supporting character Edita, a Croatian friend in Josh Howie's Losing It.

She has voiced the BAFTA award-winning computer game Half-Life 2 (Russian version) and Sniper Elite 5. Radski has also played Lena Korolev in "Doctor Who, Singularity", [11] an audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007 Here Comes the Queen MagdaPilot episode
2011 Rev CaretakerComedy series
2015 The Royals Garden Party GuestComedy
2016 Citizen Khan' Mrs. KominskiEpisode: "Cricket"
2018 Damned DagaEpisode 2.3
2019 Chernobyl Russian News ReaderEpisode: "Please Remain Calm"
2019WaitingNinaEpisode: "Dungeon"
2019 Dracula MotherEpisode: Blood Vessel"
2020 The Duchess MidwifeEpisode 1.6
2020Café MirageIrinaComedy
2022 Little English AnnaComedy

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2004 Half-Life 2 HEV Suit / Overwatch (Voice)(Russian Version)
2022 Sniper Elite 5 Monika (Voice)

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