Pandora Clifford
Encyclopedia
Pandora Clifford is a British actress who has appeared in various roles on stage and screen including Agatha Christie's Poirot
, Wallander, Taggart
and New Tricks
"
Born in London
, brought up near Edinburgh
, she read Classics at Bristol University before training at LAMDA. She wrote for the Art Sales Page of the Daily Telegraph. She is the daughter of Sir Timothy Clifford, former Director of the National Galleries of Scotland and Jane Clifford, previously the Principal Designer for Laura Ashley and Zoffany.
in "The Railway Children".
She was most recently seen on television as Vivienne Baxter in BBC 1's New Tricks
with Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam and Anna Calder Marshall, and before that as Elizabeth Carlen in BBC1's Wallander with Kenneth Branagh, which won Best Drama BAFTA 2009; and on film as HRH The Duchess of Kent in Telstar
, starring Kevin Spacey
and Con O'Neill
.
... Vivienne Baxter (dir Kenny Glenaan, BBC) Wallander... Elizabeth Carlen (dir Philip Martin, BBC)
Taggart
... Penny Forsyth (dir Ian Madden, SMG) Family Affairs
... TV Reporter (dir Gill Wilkinson, Thames TV) Family... Jenny Macloed (dir David Drury, LWT)
Chambers... Barrister (dir Gareth Carrivick, BBC)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
... Sheila Maitland (dir Tom Clegg) The Bill
... Geraldine Hobart (dir Jo Johnson, Thames TV) Dunroamin... Horsewoman (dir Edi Stark & Moira Armstrong
, BBC) The People are the Forest... Ensemble Cast (dir Douglas Hodge, BBC)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agatha 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 It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios...
, Wallander, Taggart
Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...
and New Tricks
New Tricks
New Tricks is a BBC television drama series which follows the work of the Metropolitan Police Service's Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad . Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes...
"
Born in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, brought up near Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
, she read Classics at Bristol University before training at LAMDA. She wrote for the Art Sales Page of the Daily Telegraph. She is the daughter of Sir Timothy Clifford, former Director of the National Galleries of Scotland and Jane Clifford, previously the Principal Designer for Laura Ashley and Zoffany.
Career
Pandora is currently appearing on stage with Marcus BrigstockeMarcus Brigstocke
Marcus Alexander Brigstocke is an English comedian, actor and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television, radio and in 2010-2011 musical theatre. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, having frequently appeared on several of its shows...
in "The Railway Children".
She was most recently seen on television as Vivienne Baxter in BBC 1's New Tricks
New Tricks
New Tricks is a BBC television drama series which follows the work of the Metropolitan Police Service's Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad . Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes...
with Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam and Anna Calder Marshall, and before that as Elizabeth Carlen in BBC1's Wallander with Kenneth Branagh, which won Best Drama BAFTA 2009; and on film as HRH The Duchess of Kent in Telstar
Telstar (film)
Telstar is a film adaptation of James Hicks' play of the same name. It stars Con O'Neill as Joe Meek and Kevin Spacey as Meek's business advisor, Major Banks...
, starring Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...
and Con O'Neill
Con O'Neill (actor)
Robert "Con" O'Neill is a British actor. He began his acting career at Liverpool's Everyman Youth Theatre....
.
TV
New Tricks
New Tricks is a BBC television drama series which follows the work of the Metropolitan Police Service's Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad . Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes...
... Vivienne Baxter (dir Kenny Glenaan, BBC)
Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...
... Penny Forsyth (dir Ian Madden, SMG)
Family Affairs
Family Affairs was a British soap opera broadcast on Five, from 1997 to 2005. It was the second programme to be broadcast on the channel on 30 March 1997, the channel's launch night...
... TV Reporter (dir Gill Wilkinson, Thames TV)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agatha 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...
... Sheila Maitland (dir Tom Clegg)
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
... Geraldine Hobart (dir Jo Johnson, Thames TV)
Moira Armstrong
Moira Armstrong is an English television director who has worked mainly for the BBC..Her credits include episodes of Armchair Thriller , Lark Rise to Candleford, Where the Heart Is, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, Something in Disguise, The Wednesday Play, and Adam Adamant Lives!, as well as the film...
, BBC)
Film
- TelstarTelstar (film)Telstar is a film adaptation of James Hicks' play of the same name. It stars Con O'Neill as Joe Meek and Kevin Spacey as Meek's business advisor, Major Banks...
... HRH The Duchess of Kent (dir Nick Moran) - 2 Days, 9 Lives... Annabelle (dir Simon Monjack)
- Fortunes of War... Lead (dir Hamish Barber, Pop Video for Marillion)
- Sympathy with the Devil... Sandra (dir Rodney Griffiths)
- Superwoman... Emma (dir Rory Gilmartin)
Stage includes
- The Railway ChildrenThe Railway ChildrenThe Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906...
... Mother (dir Damian CrudenDamian Cruden-Career:Damian Cruden trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, 1982–1986. He then worked for the Tron Theatre and the TAG Theatre Company, and was tutor for the Scottish Youth Theatre. Moving to England, he became Co-artistic Director for the Liverpool Everyman Youth...
, Waterloo Station Theatre, London) - Private LivesPrivate LivesPrivate Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in neighbouring rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for...
... Amanda (dir Nick Green, Oxford Shakespeare Company, Oxford) - W for Banker... Louise (dir Ray Kilby, New End Theatre, Hampstead, London)
- The Ones That Flutter... Rachel Brooks (dir Abbey Wright, Theatre 503, London)
- Romeo and JulietRomeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
... Lady Capulet (dir Polly Findlay, Battersea Arts Centre, London) - The Good Woman of Nohant... Solange (dir Chris McCullough, Royal National Theatre rehearsed reading)
- Noises OffNoises OffNoises Off is a 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of Chinamen, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave...
... Brooke Ashton (dir Jeremy Sams, Comedy Theatre, West End, London) - The Ecstatic Bible... 15 year-old Boy (dir Howard Barker, Adelaide Festival)
- Ride Down Mt Morgan... Bessie (dir David Taylor, Derby Playhouse)
- FrankensteinFrankensteinFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...
... Elizabeth (dir Damien Cruden, York Theatre Royal) - Look Back in AngerLook Back in AngerLook Back in Anger is a John Osborne play—made into films in 1959, 1980, and 1989 -- about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man , his upper-middle-class, impassive wife , and her haughty best friend . Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace...
... Alison (David Lightbody, tour of Scotland, Stray Theatre Company)
Radio
- Separate TablesSeparate TablesSeparate Tables is the collective name of two one-act plays written by Sir Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, a seaside town on the south coast of England. The first play, entitled "Table by the Window", focuses on the troubled relationship between a...
... Jean Stratton (BBC Radio 4) - Britannia's Wives... 1930's Diplomat's Wife (BBC Radio 4)