Marcia Warren is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 stage, film and television actress. On stage, she appeared in Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to...

 as Madame Arcati, and The Sea

The Sea (play)

The Sea is a play written by the English dramatist Edward Bond in 1973. It is a comedy set in a small village in rural East Anglia in the Edwardian period. The play draws on some of the themes of Shakespeare's The Tempest....

 (2008) at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.

Partial filmography

• No Place Like Home
  No Place Like Home (sitcom)
  No Place Like Home is a BBC situation comedy written by Jon Watkins and stars William Gaunt and Patricia Garwood as Arthur and Beryl Crabtree, a middle-aged couple who plan for a quiet life once their children have left home...
  
   (1983–86) - Vera Botting
• We'll Think of Something
  We'll Think of Something
  We'll Think of Something is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1986. Starring Sam Kelly, it was written by Geoff Rowley, who had also written episodes of Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart...
  
   (1986) - Maureen Brooks
• Don't Get Me Started
  Don't Get Me Started (1994 film)
  Don't Get Me Started is a 1994 movie directed and written by Arthur Ellis. The movie was released in 1994 in both United Kingdom and Italy, but in the United States it was released in June 2, 1995...
  
   (1994) as Pauline Lewis
• My Dad's the Prime Minister
  My Dad's the Prime Minister
  My Dad's the Prime Minister is a British sitcom written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It centres around the life of the Prime Minister, his family and his spin doctor...
  
   (2003–04) - Granny Philips
• Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
  Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
  Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is a 2005 comedy-drama film made by Claremont Films and distributed by Picture Entertainment Corporation. It was directed by Dan Ireland and produced by Lee Caplin, Carl Colpaert and Zachary Matz from a screenplay by Ruth Sacks, based on the novel by Elizabeth...
  
   (2005) - Vera Post
• The Jealous God
  The Jealous God
  The Jealous God is a novel by John Braine which was first published in 1964. Set in the early 1960s among the Irish Catholic community in a small Yorkshire town, the book is about a 30 year-old mummy's boy and his attempts at liberating himself from his domineering mother...
  
   (2005) - Mrs Dungarvan
• Housewife, 49
  Housewife, 49
  Housewife, 49 was a 2006 television drama based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last. Written by and starring English actress and comedian Victoria Wood, it follows the experiences of an ordinary housewife and mother in the Northern English town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria during the Second World...
  
   (2006) - Mrs Lord
• Jam & Jerusalem (2006, 2008) - Lady Anne Crump
• Midsomer Murders (2007) - Melissa Shrike
• The Long Walk to Finchley
  The Long Walk to Finchley
  Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley, subtitled in the initial credits How Maggie Might Have Done It, is a 2008 BBC Four television drama based on the early political career of the young Margaret Thatcher , from her attempts to gain a seat in Dartford in 1949 via invasion to her first...
  
  , 2008 - Old Dear
• Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas (2009) - Arnica
• Hattie
  Hattie (television film)
  Hattie is a television film on the life of the British comic actress Hattie Jacques, played by Ruth Jones, her marriage to John Le Mesurier and her affair with their lodger John Schofield...
  
   (2011) - Esma Cannon
  Esma Cannon
  Esma Ellen Charlotte Cannon was a diminutive Australian-born character actress, who moved to England in the early 1930s.-Career:...
  
  
• The Ladykillers
  The Ladykillers
  The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy film made by Ealing Studios. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, it stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner and Katie Johnson...
  
  (UK stage) (2011) - Mrs Wilberforce

Awards

She has won two Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

See Olivier Awards for more information about the awards and a full list of categories and winners.The Laurence Olivier Awards are a series of awards presented annually by The Society of London Theatre. They are presented in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre, most notably...

 - one in 1984 for Stepping Out

Stepping Out (play)

Stepping Out is a play written by Richard Harris in 1984. It was produced in the West End, London, where it received the Evening Standard Comedy of the Year Award, and on Broadway, New York.-Plot:...

, and the other in 2002 for Humble Boy

Humble Boy

Humble Boy is a 2001 English play by Charlotte Jones. The play was presented in association with Matthew Byam Shaw and Anna Mackmin, and was first performed on the Cottesloe stage of the Royal National Theatre on August 9, 2001. [1]-Background:...

 at the 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...

. She was also nominated for another in 2001 for In Flame

In Flame

In Flame is a 2000 play by Charlotte Jones. Its premiere at the Bush Theatre was directed by Anna Mackmin and featured Marcia Warren, Kerry Fox, Rosie Cavaliero, Ivan Kaye, Jason Hughes and Emma Dewhurst. It is set in 1908 and 2000 and centred around two men and three women....

 at the New Ambassadors Theatre

New Ambassadors Theatre

The Ambassadors Theatre , is a West End theatre located in West Street, near Cambridge Circus on the Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster...

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External links

• The Sea - biography