Carmen du Sautoy
Encyclopedia
Carmen Du Sautoy is an award-winning leading actress who has worked extensively in theatre, television and film. She has played a wide variety of roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company
, Royal National Theatre
, in London's West End
, and in New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Madrid, Berlin and in many other major theatres worldwide.
She is known to film audiences for her role as belly-dancing Lebanese
temptress Saida in the 1974 James Bond
film The Man with the Golden Gun
. Her numerous television and film appearances include starring roles in: Lost Empires
with Colin Firth
and Laurence Olivier
, directed by Alan Grint; a Granada Television
serial, Praying Mantis; Poor Little Rich Girl
, the ITC
US miniseries - the story of Barbara Hutton
; La Ronde
BBC
(Play of the Month); Poirot; The Citadel
by A.J. Cronin; The Orchid House; A Dance to the Music of Time
; Chessgame
; Midsomer Murders
; Hammer House of Horror
; Absolutely Fabulous
(Christmas Special); and The South Bank Show
Special - At the Haunted End of the Day (playing Dame Edith Sitwell).
She married theatre director and writer Charles Savage in 1974
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
, Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
, in London's West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
, and in New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Madrid, Berlin and in many other major theatres worldwide.
She is known to film audiences for her role as belly-dancing Lebanese
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
temptress Saida in the 1974 James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
. Her numerous television and film appearances include starring roles in: Lost Empires
Lost Empires
Lost Empires is a 1986 television adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel of the same name, and starred Colin Firth, John Castle and Laurence Olivier. It was shown as a miniseries, and premiered on UK TV in October 1986.-Plot:...
with Colin Firth
Colin Firth
SirColin Andrew Firth, CBE is a British film, television, and theatre actor. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...
and Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...
, directed by Alan Grint; a Granada Television
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
serial, Praying Mantis; Poor Little Rich Girl
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story is a 1987 television biographical drama starring Farrah Fawcett. The film chronicles the life of Barbara Hutton, who was one of the richest American socialite women, but was never happy. Released in two versions, as a TV miniseries and TV movie, the...
, the ITC
ITC Entertainment
The Incorporated Television Company was a British television company largely involved in production and distribution. It was founded by Lew Grade.-History:...
US miniseries - the story of Barbara Hutton
Barbara Hutton
Barbara Woolworth Hutton was an American socialite dubbed by the media as the "Poor Little Rich Girl" because of her troubled life...
; La Ronde
La Ronde (play)
La Ronde is a 1900 play by Arthur Schnitzler. It scrutinizes the sexual morals and class ideology of its day through a series of encounters between pairs of characters . By choosing characters across all levels of society, the play offers social commentary on how sexual contact transgresses...
BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
(Play of the Month); Poirot; The Citadel
The Citadel (TV series)
The Citadel is a 1983 BBC television adaptation written by Don Shaw from A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel, which was originally published in 1937. It was produced by Ken Riddington. Other television versions include a British and two Italian adaptations.The BBC dramatisation stars Ben Cross as...
by A.J. Cronin; The Orchid House; A Dance to the Music of Time
A Dance to the Music of Time
A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim...
; Chessgame
Chessgame
Chessgame is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1983.Based on a series of novels by Anthony Price, the series dealt with the activities of a quartet of counter-intelligence agents: David Audley , Faith Steerforth , Nick Hannah and Hugh Roskill .One...
; Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
; Hammer House of Horror
Hammer House of Horror
In 1980, Hammer Films created a series for British television, the Hammer House of Horror, which ran for 13 episodes with 51 minutes per episode...
; Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character. It also stars Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks...
(Christmas Special); and The South Bank Show
The South Bank Show
The South Bank Show was a television arts magazine show, originally made by London Weekend Television , presented by Melvyn Bragg, broadcast on ITV and seen in over 60 countries worldwide — including Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States...
Special - At the Haunted End of the Day (playing Dame Edith Sitwell).
She married theatre director and writer Charles Savage in 1974
Filmography
- The Man With The Golden GunThe Man with the Golden Gun (film)The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
(Film) 1974 Saida - The Brothers (TV Series) 1974 Ika
- Astronauts (TV Series) 1980 Dr Gentian Foster
- The Barretts of Wimpole StreetThe Barretts of Wimpole StreetThe Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning , despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett . The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture...
(TV Movie) 1982 Arabel - La Ronde (TV Movie) 1982 The Young Wife
- The CitadelThe Citadel (TV series)The Citadel is a 1983 BBC television adaptation written by Don Shaw from A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel, which was originally published in 1937. It was produced by Ken Riddington. Other television versions include a British and two Italian adaptations.The BBC dramatisation stars Ben Cross as...
(TV Mini Series) 1983 Frances Lawrence - Praying Mantis (TV Movie) 1983 Vera Canova
- ChessgameChessgameChessgame is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1983.Based on a series of novels by Anthony Price, the series dealt with the activities of a quartet of counter-intelligence agents: David Audley , Faith Steerforth , Nick Hannah and Hugh Roskill .One...
(TV Series) 1983 Faith Steerforth - At the Haunted End of the Day (TV Film) 1984 Dame Edith Sitwell
- Strangers and BrothersStrangers and BrothersStrangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, published between 1940 and 1974. They deal with – amongst other things – questions of political and personal integrity, and the mechanics of exercising power....
(TV Series) 1984 Ann Simon - Deadly Recruits (TV Movie) 1986 Faith Audley
- Cold War Killers (TV Movie) 1986 Faith Steerforth
- The Alamut Ambush (TV Movie) 1986 Faith Steerforth
- Hammer House of Mystery and SuspenseHammer House of Mystery and SuspenseHammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios similar to the format now used by Masters of Horror in which several directors under contract to Hammer produced thirteen 69-73 min films for television. It is known in the United States as Fox...
(TV Series) 1986 Suzy Kendrick - Lost EmpiresLost EmpiresLost Empires is a 1986 television adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel of the same name, and starred Colin Firth, John Castle and Laurence Olivier. It was shown as a miniseries, and premiered on UK TV in October 1986.-Plot:...
(TV Mini Series) 1986 Julie Blane - Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton StoryPoor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton StoryPoor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story is a 1987 television biographical drama starring Farrah Fawcett. The film chronicles the life of Barbara Hutton, who was one of the richest American socialite women, but was never happy. Released in two versions, as a TV miniseries and TV movie, the...
(TV Movie) 1987 Roussie - It Couldn't Happen HereIt Couldn't Happen HereIt Couldn't Happen Here is a 1988 musical film starring the British pop duo Pet Shop Boys and based around their music. It was originally conceived as an hour-long video based around their album Actually, but it turned into a surreal full-scale feature film directed by Jack Bond and co-starring...
(TV Movie) 1987 - BergeracBergerac (TV series)Bergerac was a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and screened on BBC1, it starred John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in "Le Bureau des Étrangers" Bergerac was a British television show...
(TV Series) 1988 Marie Chantal - Elders and Betters (TV Movie) 1988 Anna
- Bert Rigby, You're a FoolBert Rigby, You're a FoolBert Rigby, You're a Fool is a 1989 American musical film directed by Carl Reiner, and starring Robert Lindsay in the title role.-Plot:Bert Rigby is a miner in a small dying town of Langmore in northern England, with aspirations to show business. He tells the story in flashback, while sitting in a...
(Film) 1989 Tess Trample - Agatha Christie's PoirotAgatha Christie's PoirotAgatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios...
(TV Series) 1989 Mrs Vanderlyn - A Quiet Conspiracy (TV Mini Series) 1989 Nicole Deladoey
- The Stone Age (TV Movie) 1989 Lizzie Stone
- Perfect Scoundrels (TV Series) 1990 Eva
- The Orchid House (TV Series) 1991 Mamselle - The Tutor
- BoonBoon (TV series)Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV...
(TV Series) 1991 Ann Fielding - Anglo Saxon Attitudes (TV Mini Series) 1992 Marie-Helene Middleton
- Paparazzo (TV Movie) 1995 Marjorie
- BugsBugs (TV series)Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers...
(TV Series) 1995 Irene Campbell - Kavanagh QCKavanagh QCKavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. It has been shown on ITV3 as recently as August 2011; series 1–6 are available on Region 2 DVDs....
(TV Series) 1996 Marcia Jacobs - Absolutely FabulousAbsolutely FabulousAbsolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character. It also stars Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks...
(TV Series) 1996 Kalishia - HighlanderHighlander: The SeriesHighlander: The Series is a fantasy-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander. It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985...
(TV Series) 1997 Anna Hidalgo - A Dance to the Music of TimeA Dance to the Music of TimeA Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim...
(TV Mini Series) 1997 Miss Weedon - Heartbeat (TV Series) 1998 Dorothea Cliveden
- Aristrocrats (TV Mini Series) 1999 Older Mary Third Duchess of Richmond
- DreamDreamDreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, philosophical intrigue and religious...
(Film) 2001 Compere - Midsomer MurdersMidsomer MurdersMidsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
(TV Series) 2002 Rosalind Parr - Ultimate ForceUltimate ForceUltimate Force is a British television drama series that was shown on ITV, which deals with the activities of the fictional Red Troop of the SAS...
(TV Series) 2002 Mrs Leonard - Telling LiesTelling Lies"Telling Lies" is a single by David Bowie written in 1996 and in 1997 released for the album Earthling.Three versions of "Telling Lies" were released on beginning September 11, 1996 — one version was released for each of three weeks — constituting the first ever downloadable single by a major artist...
(Film) 2003 Doctor Meyers - MethodMethod (film)Method is a 2004 thriller film directed by Duncan Roy. The international co-production is a film within a film about a cast and crew who are in Romania to make a film about serial killer, Belle Gunness.-Plot:...
(Film) 2004 Mona - Doctors (TV Series) 2003-2006 Linda Larchmont and Stella Dale
- The Line of BeautyThe Line of BeautyThe Line of Beauty is a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst.-Plot introduction:Set in Britain in the early to mid-1980s, the story surrounds the post-Oxford life of the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest....
(TV Mini Series) 2006 Elena - The Worst Week of My LifeThe Worst Week of My LifeThe Worst Week of My Life is a British comedy television series, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004. A second series was aired between November and December 2005 and a three-part Christmas special, The Worst Christmas of My Life was shown during December 2006...
(TV Series) 2006 Daphne - Hughie Green, Most Sincerely (TV Movie) 2008 Christina Sharples
Stage
- The Comedy of ErrorsThe Comedy of ErrorsThe Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors is one of only two of Shakespeare's...
, The Courtesan, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre London, The Courtesan - Troilus and CressidaTroilus and CressidaTroilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was also described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus...
, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre London, Cassandra - The Way of the WorldThe Way of the WorldThe Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London...
, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre London, Mrs Fainall - Love's Labour's LostLove's Labour's LostLove's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.-Title:...
, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford/Aldwych Theatre London, The Princess of France - Pillars of the Community, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre London, Mrs Lynge
- A Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford/Aldwych Theatre London, Hippolyta - Captain SwingCaptain SwingCaptain Swing was the name appended to some of the threatening letters during the rural English Swing Riots of 1830, when labourers rioted over the introduction of new threshing machines and the loss of their livelihoods...
, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford/Warehouse Theatre London, Lady Cummings - PiafPiafPiaf is a French word:* Édith Piaf* Musée Édith Piaf* Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, à Paris: Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record* Piaf * 3772 Piaf , a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1982 by L. G. Karachkina...
, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford, Madeleine - Children of the Sun, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre London, Eliena
- Once in a LifetimeOnce in a Lifetime (play)Once in a Lifetime is a play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the first of eight on which they collaborated in the 1930s.-Plot:The satirical comedy focuses on the effect talking pictures have on the entertainment industry...
, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford/Aldwych Theatre London/Piccadilly Theatre London, Miss Leighton - MacbethMacbethThe Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
, Old Vic Tour, USA, Lady Macbeth - Antony and CleopatraAntony and CleopatraAntony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony...
, Mermaid Theatre London, Cleopatra - Desire Under the ElmsDesire Under the ElmsDesire Under the Elms is a play by Eugene O'Neill, published in 1924, and is now considered an American classic. Along with Mourning Becomes Electra, it represents one of O'Neill's attempts to place plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting. It is essentially a...
, Greenwich Theatre London, Abbie - Candy Kisses, Bush Theatre London, Bobby
- Peace in Our TimePeace in Our TimeFor the Eddie Money song, see Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money.Peace in Our Time is the fourth studio album by Scottish band Big Country, released in 1988...
, UK Tour, Lyia Vivian - FacadeFacadeA facade or façade is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front. The word comes from the French language, literally meaning "frontage" or "face"....
, London Symphony Orchestra, Wind Harmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Narrator - Hay FeverHay FeverHay Fever is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924 and first produced in 1925 with Marie Tempest as the first Judith Bliss. Laura Hope Crews played the role in New York...
, Albery Theatre London, Myra - SalomeSalomeSalome , the Daughter of Herodias , is known from the New Testament...
, Royal National Theatre London/Phoenix Theatre London/BAM Theatre New York/World Tour , Herodias - Mind Millie For Me, Haymarket Theatre London, Countess Irene
Awards and Nominations
- Won the London Theatre Critics' Award 1979 for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Once in a Lifetime
- Nominated for the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award 1979 for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Once in a Lifetime