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Helen Elizabeth McCrory (17 August 1968 – 16 April 2021) was an English actress. After studying at the Drama Centre London, she made her professional stage debut in The Importance of Being Earnest in 1990.
The following year, she played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with Liev Schreiber, as part of the Shakespeare in the Park. [15] Ehle returned to Broadway portraying three characters in Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia triptych, which ran from October 2006 until May 2007. [16] Ehle starred alongside Billy Crudup, Martha Plimpton, and Ethan Hawke.
Her portrayal of Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles' all-Black "Voodoo" Macbeth in 1936 was much acclaimed. She was an influential figure in Black theater, and was a member of the Alhambra Players and the Harlem Experimental Theatre. She only appeared on screen once, in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire.
In 2022, she received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Shakespearean Performance. [19] Starting on 8 December 2023, Jumbo played the role of Lady Macbeth opposite David Tennant, in Donmar Warehouse's production of Macbeth, directed by Max Webster. She played the role until the show's ...
For her Broadway debut as Lady Macbeth in a production of Shakespeare's Macbeth in 2022, she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Negga has also appeared in the films Isolation (2005), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), Warcraft (2016), Ad Astra (2019) and Passing (2021). [ 4 ]
She later returned to Doctor Who through Big Finish Productions as the Eighth Doctor's companion Lady Audacity Montague. Griffiths played consultant Elle Gardner in Casualty from 2016 [4] to 2019. [5] Griffiths has also starred in theatre productions of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, where she played the role of Lady Macbeth. [6]
Amanda Root (born 1963) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Anne Elliot in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Persuasion.A familiar face on both stage and screen, she worked regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company during her early career, performing as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, among other roles.
Hannah Taylor-Gordon (born 6 March 1987) is a retired English actress. She made her film debut in the 1993 film The House of the Spirits.She is best known for her role as Anne Frank in the TV miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story for which she received both an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination.