Rebecca Saire
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Rebecca Saire is a British actress and writer who achieved early notability when, at the age of fourteen, she played Juliet for the BBC Television Shakespeare
series.
for Girls in Hammersmith, London. She is married to the actor Roger Allam
, with whom she has two children.
Eliante in "The Misanthrope" (Piccadilly Theatre),
Mabel in "An Ideal Husband" (Gielgud Theatre),
Gwendolen in "Travesties" (RSC and Savoy Theatre),
Diana in "All's Well That Ends Well" (RSC),
Audrey Walsingham in "The School of Night" (RSC),
Rachel in "A Jovial Crew" (RSC).
She was "a beautiful and truly tragic Ophelia" (Time Out) to Mark Rylance's Hamlet at the RSC in 1989.
Most recently she played Princess Mary in "Crown Matrimonial" (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre/Tour)
She also made guest appearances in A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
BBC Television Shakespeare
The BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.-Origins:...
series.
Personal life
Saire was educated at the Godolphin and Latymer SchoolGodolphin and Latymer School
The Godolphin and Latymer School is an independent school for 700 girls aged eleven to eighteen in London. Ms Margaret Rudland was the head mistress of the school for over 20 years before being succeeded by Ms Ruth Mercer.-History:...
for Girls in Hammersmith, London. She is married to the actor Roger Allam
Roger Allam
Roger Allam is an English actor, known primarily for his stage career, although he has performed in film and television. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical Les Misérables....
, with whom she has two children.
Theatre
Sybil in "Private Lives" (National Theatre)Eliante in "The Misanthrope" (Piccadilly Theatre),
Mabel in "An Ideal Husband" (Gielgud Theatre),
Gwendolen in "Travesties" (RSC and Savoy Theatre),
Diana in "All's Well That Ends Well" (RSC),
Audrey Walsingham in "The School of Night" (RSC),
Rachel in "A Jovial Crew" (RSC).
She was "a beautiful and truly tragic Ophelia" (Time Out) to Mark Rylance's Hamlet at the RSC in 1989.
Most recently she played Princess Mary in "Crown Matrimonial" (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre/Tour)
Television
- Dr. Jenkins in My Dad's the PM,
- Aline Hemmingway in Jeeves and WoosterJeeves and Wooster-External links:*—An episode guide to the series, including information about which episodes were adapted from which Wodehouse stories.*—Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series....
, - Theresa Nolan in A Taste for Death,
- Amelia Sedley in Vanity Fair,
- Rebecca Saire had a recurring role as Shona, the high-flying executive wife of DC Duncan Lennox in the long running ITV Drama, The BillThe BillThe 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...
.
She also made guest appearances in A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
Radio
- Caroline, Princess of Wales in "The People's Princess",
- Philippa in "The Experiences of an Irish RM",
- Sue in "The Small Back Room",
- Joan Geenwood in "Kind Hearts"
Writing
Saire has written three plays for BBC Radio 4, all produced by Eoin O'Callaghan:- "Standing on Tiptoe"
- "The Detox"
- "Clapham Junction" (Radio Times - Pick of the Week)
Select filmography
- Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet on screenWilliam Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet may be one of the most-screened plays of all time. The most notable theatrical releases were George Cukor's multi-Oscar-nominated 1936 production, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version, and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired Romeo + Juliet. The latter two were both,...
(1978, BBC Television ShakespeareBBC Television ShakespeareThe BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.-Origins:...
) - QuatermassQuatermass (TV serial)Quatermass is a British television science fiction serial produced by Euston Films for Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network in October and November 1979. Like its three predecessors, Quatermass was written by Nigel Kneale...
(1979, TV) - The Shooting PartyThe Shooting PartyThe Shooting Party is a 1985 film directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book of the same name by Isabel Colegate. The film is set in 1913 and shows the way of life of English aristocrats, gathered for pheasant shooting and general self-indulgence. Their way of life is contrasted with the...
(1985, film) - A.D.A.D. (film)A.D. is a British/Italian miniseries from 1985 in 6 parts which tells the Acts of the Apostles. Considered as the third and final installment in a TV miniseries trilogy which began with Moses the Lawgiver and Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth , it was adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The...
(1985, TV film) - Vanity Fair (1987, TV)
- Jeeves and WoosterJeeves and Wooster-External links:*—An episode guide to the series, including information about which episodes were adapted from which Wodehouse stories.*—Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series....
(1991, TV) - TravestiesTravestiesTravesties is a play by Tom Stoppard.The play centres on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the...
(1993, stage) - The People’s PrincessThe People’s PrincessThe People's Princess was a radio play written by Shelagh Stephenson. Directed in Belfast by Eoin O'Callaghan, it premiered as the Afternoon Play on 11 December 2008 at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4. It was based around the marriage and divorce of George IV and Caroline of Brunswick...
(2008, radio)