Catherine Russell is a British

United Kingdom

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 stage, television and screen actress.

Personal

Catherine Russell is the daughter of actor Nicholas Smith and his wife Mary. She is married to film producer Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes (producer)

Richard Holmes is UK/US citizen and a notably successful independent film producer working in the United Kingdom today, producing award-winning films that have been both commercially and critically successful. He is married to actress Catherine Russell....

 and they have two children, Sam and Poppy. Trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama from 1983 to 1986 under George Hall.

Theatre

Credits are extensive and varied including being nominated for an Ian Charleson Award for her performance in Chekhov

Chekhov

- People :* Alexander Chekhov, older brother of Anton Chekhov* Anton Chekhov , Russian writer** Chekhov Gymnasium, school, and now museum in Taganrog** Chekhov Library, public library in Taganrog** Anton Chekhov class motorship...

's Three Sisters

Three Sisters (play)

Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...

. She has played leads in The West End; at The National

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...

; The Royal Court

The Royal Court

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; Soho Theatre

Soho Theatre

Soho Theatre is a theatre in the eponymous Soho district of the City of Westminster. It presents new works of theatre, together with comedy and cabaret....

; Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....

; Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith); Royal Exchange, Manchester

Royal Exchange, Manchester

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 and Almeida Theatre

Almeida Theatre

The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...

. She regularly works with the visionary director Max Stafford-Clark

Max Stafford-Clark

Maxwell Robert Guthrie Stewart Stafford-Clark is an English Theatre Director.-Life and career:He went to school at Felsted and Riverdale Country School in New York City. He has worked as a theatre director since he left Trinity College, Dublin.His directing career began as associate director of...

 for his acclaimed theatre company Out of Joint where, as well as Masha in Three Sisters

Three Sisters (play)

Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...

, she created roles such as Tess in Timberlake Wertenbaker

Timberlake Wertenbaker

- Biography :Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque Country of France near Saint-Jean-de-Luz. She attended schools in Europe and the US before settling permanently in London...

's The Break of Day; Rima and Phoebe in Robin Soans

Robin Soans

Robin Soans is an actor, and a playwright specialising in verbatim and documentary plays. These plays include Across the Divide ; A State Affair which looked at life on a Bradford estate, produced by Out of Joint theatre company; The Arab Israeli Cookbook ; Talking to Terrorists Robin Soans (born...

' Talking to Terrorists

Talking to Terrorists

Talking to Terrorists is a play written by Robin Soans. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds, England, on 21 April 2005. The play is written in the style of verbatim theatre where all of the dialogue is taken from real interviews and then recreated on stage...

; Mrs Peacham and Bett Rock in Stephen Jeffreys

Stephen Jeffreys

Stephen Jeffreys is a British playwright.His plays include Like Dolls or Angels ; Carmen 1936 ; Valued Friends ; The Clink ; The Libertine - also a screenplay filmed with Johnny Depp; A Going...

' The Convict's Opera and Hildy in Stella Feehily

Stella Feehily

Stella Feehily is a London-born Irish playwright and actor. Her plays include "Game" 2003 produced by Fishamble Theatre company-Dublin -published in an anthology of first plays by New Island. ISBN 978-1-84840-020-7...

's Dreams of Violence. Other new work includes leading roles in Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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 winner Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

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's The Last Carnival and award winning Kevin Elyot

Kevin Elyot

Kevin Elyot is a British playwright and screenwriter. His most notable works include the play My Night with Reg and the film Clapham Junction.-Sources:*-External links:...

's The Day I Stood Still; the later directed by the renowned Ian Rickson

Ian Rickson

Ian Rickson is a British theatre and film director. He was the Artistic Director at the Royal Court Theatre in London from 1998 to 2006, and currently works freelance....

. Recently she played Rosie in the West End's production of Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

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Television

Catherine has starred in several television series including playing Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, known professionally as Hugh Bonneville , is an English stage, film, television and radio actor.-Education:...

's sister, Rachel Cazalet, in The Cazalets

The Cazalets

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; Gemma Jones

Gemma Jones

Gemma Jones is an English character actress on both stage and screen.-Early life:Jones was born in London, England, the daughter of Irene and Griffith Jones, an actor. Her brother, Nicholas Jones, is also an actor...

' daughter in Chelworth; the title role of Elly Chandler in Chandler & Co

Chandler & Co

Chandler and Co was a UK television programme, made 1993–96, about two female private detectives. It starred Catherine Russell as Elly Chandler. Her partner was played by Barbara Flynn in the first series by Susan Fleetwood in the second....

 with Barbara Flynn

Barbara Flynn

Barbara Flynn is an English actress. She first became known for her appearance in the ITV drama A Family at War, that followed the fortunes of a lower middle class family living in Liverpool from 1938 and through World War II.During the 1980s Flynn's acting skills led to her being cast in several...

 and subsequently Susan Fleetwood

Susan Fleetwood

Susan Maureen Fleetwood was a British stage, film and television actress, best known as a star of the classical theatre companies of England. She received popular acclaim in the television series Chandler & Co and The Buddha of Suburbia.-Personal life:Fleetwood was born in St...

; Nathaniel Parker

Nathaniel Parker

Nathaniel Parker is an English actor best known for playing Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley in the BBC crime drama series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.-Personal life:...

's wife in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

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 and Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in shows such as The Professionals, The Chief, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently.-Theatrical background:...

's wife in Always and Everyone

Always and Everyone

Always and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the hectic everyday lives of the doctors and nurses running the Accident and Emergency department of the large, busy city hospital, St. Victor's. The series has never been released commercially on VHS or...

. Other television includes guest appearances in Messiah; Poirot; Waking the Dead; Sherlock Holmes; Maigret; Silent Witness; Holding On and most recently Pete versus Life

Pete versus Life

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 (series one and two) with Rafe Spall

Rafe Spall

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.

Film

Catherine starred opposite Ian Hart

Ian Hart

Ian Hart is an English stage, television and film actor.-Early life:Hart, the grandson of Irish immigrants, was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He is one of three siblings and was brought up in a Roman Catholic family...

 in the British cult film Clockwork Mice

Clockwork Mice

Clockwork Mice is a 1995 British drama film directed by Vadim Jean and starring Ian Hart, Catherine Russell and James Bolam.-Cast:* Ian Hart ... Steve* Catherine Russell ... Polly* Rúaidhrí Conroy ... Conrad* Art Malik ... Laney...

 directed by award winning director Vadim Jean

Vadim Jean

Vadim Jean is an award-winning English film director, producer, and executive producer.After graduating with a degree in History from Warwick University, he found work on Mike Figgis' Stormy Monday, before establishing his own production company in 1989 covering a wide variety of subjects, from...

. She also made a comic, cameo appearance playing a work colleague of 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...

's in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a 1999 novel by Helen Fielding, a sequel to her popular Bridget Jones's Diary. It chronicles Bridget Jones's adventures after she begins to suspect that her boyfriend, Mark Darcy, is falling for a rich young solicitor who works in the same firm as him, a woman...

. Other films include Solitaire for Two and Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Soft Top Hard Shoulder is a 1993 British comedy drama film directed by Stefan Schwartz, produced by Richard Holmes and starring Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Jeremy Northam and Richard Wilson. A man has to reach his estranged father's birthday party in time to inherit a large sum of money. Winner...

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External links

• Catherine Russell's page in The Internet Movie Database
• Dreams of Violence