Maureen Beattie {born 1953) is an Irish-born Scottish actress of both stage and screen. Her most notable role is that of Sandra Nicholl in medical drama Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

 from November 1991 until February 1993.

Beattie trained at Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a conservatoire of music, drama, and dance in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Educational Association, it is the busiest performing arts venue in Scotland...

. She is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

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...

's "Histories Ensemble", where her roles have included Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester in Henry VI Part II, and the Duchess of York in Richard III

Richard III (play)

Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified...

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She is the daughter of Scottish actor and comedian Johnny Beattie

Johnny Beattie

Johnny Beattie MBE is a Scottish actor and comedian.He began his career in the music hall and variety show tradition, similar to Scottish figures such as Rikki Fulton, Jack Milroy and Stanley Baxter, all of whom knew each other and were of a similar age to each other.He has appeared in television...

, who appears as Malcolm Hamilton in Glasgow drama River City

River City

River City is a Scottish television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow...

, and is the elder sister of Louise Beattie who appeared in Emmerdale

Emmerdale

Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...

in 2000 as Chris Tates' lawyer Laura Johnstone.

In 2007, Maureen appeared in the feature film Finding Bob McArthur as Russian actress - Svetlana. The film, also starring John Stahl, Bob Edwards and Alan Bell, was directed by Jim Hickey and produced by Robin Mitchell

Robin Mitchell

Robin Mitchell, born in the village of Letham, Fife, Scotland on the 27th May 1963, is a Tour Guide, Writer and Film Producer.-Education:He attended Parkhill Primary School in Leven and Buckhaven High School. At Edinburgh Napier University, he studied Hotel Catering and Institutional Management...

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External links

• http://www.maureen-beattie.co.uk