Sara Kestelman is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Lady Frances Brandon

Lady Frances Brandon

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk , born Lady Frances Brandon, was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, Dowager Queen of France...

, Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey , also known as The Nine Days' Queen, was an English noblewoman who was de facto monarch of England from 10 July until 19 July 1553 and was subsequently executed...

's mother, in Lady Jane

Lady Jane (film)

Lady Jane is a 1986 British costume drama romance film directed by Trevor Nunn, written by David Edgar, and starring Helena Bonham Carter as the title character in her first major film role. It tells the story of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days' Queen, on her reign and romance with husband Lord...

.

Biography

In 1994 she won a Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...

 Theatre Award. She has performed with 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...

 and 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...

. In 1982 she performed in the play Macbeth, playing as Lady Macbeth. Kestelman joined the latter in 1969 but left in 1973 when she had her first role in a movie as a scientist in Zardoz

Zardoz

Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction/fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman. It stars Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, and Sara Kestelman. Zardoz was Connery's second post-James Bond role...

.

She also voiced the character Kreia in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is a role playing video game released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows. The Xbox version of this sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was released on December 6, 2004, while the Windows version was released on February 8, 2005...

, and teaches acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama

Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in London in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students...

 on the BA (Hons) Acting for Musical Stage Strand as well as numerous workshops and summer courses.

Film

• Ex Memoria (Short) 2006 - Eva
• Love Story: Berlin 1942 ~ 1997 - Narrator
• Lady Jane
  Lady Jane (film)
  Lady Jane is a 1986 British costume drama romance film directed by Trevor Nunn, written by David Edgar, and starring Helena Bonham Carter as the title character in her first major film role. It tells the story of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days' Queen, on her reign and romance with husband Lord...
  
   ~ 1986 - Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk
• Break of Day ~ 1977 - Alice
• Lisztomania ~ 1975 - Princess Carolyn
• Zardoz
  Zardoz
  Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction/fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman. It stars Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, and Sara Kestelman. Zardoz was Connery's second post-James Bond role...
  
   ~ 1974 - May

TV

• Holby City
  Holby City
  Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
  
   ~ 2011 - Clarice Parker in "Old Habits" (# 13.42) 2/8/11)
• Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
  
   ~ 1997 - Bernie in "Hidden Depths" (# 9.1) 3/13/05
• 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...
  
   ~ 1986 - Mary Wynne in "Finding Faith" (# 18.29) 3/13/04
• Trial & Retribution VII ~ 2003 - Judge Emily Hilliard
• Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause ~ 2001 - Narrator
• Mind Games
  Mind Games
  Mind Games is John Lennon's fourth post-Beatles album, and was recorded and released in 1973. Like his previous album, the politically topical and somewhat abrasive Some Time in New York City, Mind Games was poorly received by music critics...
  
   ~ 2001 - Dr. Davina Ward
• Relic Hunter
  Relic Hunter
  Relic Hunter is an anglophone Canadian television series, starring Tia Carrere and Christien Anholt. Actress Lindy Booth also starred for the first two seasons; Tanja Reichert replaced her for the third...
  
   ~ 1999 - Simone DeGuerre in "Memories of Montmartre" (# 1.22) 5/22/00
• Anna Karenina
  Anna Karenina
  Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger...
  
   ~ 2000 (mini) - Countess Vronskaya
• The Going Wrong ~ 1998 - Tessa Mandeville
• Invasion: Earth
  Invasion: Earth (TV series)
  Invasion: Earth is a BBC science fiction TV series. It was made in collaboration with the Sci Fi Channel, and released in 1998 as six fifty minute episodes.-Creation and production:...
  
   ~ 1998 (mini) - Group Capt. Susan Preston
• Kavanagh QC
  Kavanagh QC
  Kavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. It has been shown on ITV3 as recently as August 2011; series 1–6 are available on Region 2 DVDs....
  
   ~ 1995 - Halina Birnbaum in "Ancient History" (# 3.3) 17/3/97
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel...
  
   ~ 1997 (mini) - Mrs. Wilkins
• Brazen Hussies ~ 1996 - Madame Zarene
• Cabaret
  Cabaret (musical)
  Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
  
   ~ 1993 - Fräulein Schneider
• Van der Valk ~ 1972 - Monika Hendricks in "Doctor Hoffmann's Children" (# 4.1) 1/16/91
• The Last Romantics] ~ 1991 - Queenie Leavis
• The War That Never Ends ~ 1991 (voice) - Presenter
• Somewhere to Run ~ 1989 - Magistrate
• Lady Windermere's Fan
  Lady Windermere's Fan
  Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893...
  
   ~ 1985 - Duchess of Berwick
• Bergerac
  Bergerac (TV series)
  Bergerac was a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and screened on BBC1, it starred John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in "Le Bureau des Étrangers" Bergerac was a British television show...
  
   ~ 1981 - Margaret Semple in "See You in Moscow" (# 1.5) 11/15/81
• Nationwide
  Nationwide (TV series)
  Nationwide was a BBC News and Current affairs television programme broadcast on BBC One each weekday following the early evening news. It followed a magazine format, combining political analysis and discussion with consumer affairs, light entertainment and sports reporting...
  
   ~ 1969 - in (#13.129) 7/16/81
• Kean ~ 1978 - Elena, Countess de Koefeld
• The New Avengers ~ 1976 - Tina in "Sleeper" (# 1.10) 12/19/76
• Under Western Eyes
  Under Western Eyes
  Under Western Eyes is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad being reputed to have detested Dostoevsky...
  
   ~ 1975
• Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration ~ 1975 - Ruth
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes ~ 1971 - Hagar in "The Mystery of the Amber Beads" (# 2.13) 4/16/73
• Dixon of Dock Green
  Dixon of Dock Green
  Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series that ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series. Despite being a drama series, it was initially produced by the BBC's light entertainment department.-Overview:...
  
   ~ 1955 - Sonia Watts in "The Executioners" (# 13.4) 10/22/66

Documentaries

• Reputations - Wiesenthal and Lord Kitchener ~
• Horizon Beyond a Joke ~
• National Geographic
• Discovery Channel
  Discovery Channel
  Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
  
  

Theatre

• Girl With a Pearl Earring
  Girl with a Pearl Earring (play)
  Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2008 play. Adapted from the novel of the same title by Tracy Chevalier, it premiered at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. It then received its London premiere at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 29 September 2008, directed by Joe Dowling and designed by Peter Mumford...
  
   ~ 2008 (Cambridge Arts Theatre; West End, London, England)
• The Shape of Metal ~ 2003 - Nell Jeffrey (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland)
• Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
   ~ 2001 - Queen Gertrude (Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA, US)
• All About Me ~ 2001 - one woman show (Royal National Theatre, The Firebird Cafe in New York, The Royal Academy of Art)
• Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn and Victorian Music Hall ~ 1999 - Dame Marten (Britten Theatre, London, England)
• Cabaret
  Cabaret
  Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
  
   ~ 1994
• Copenhagen
  Copenhagen (play)
  Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based around an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. It debuted in London in 1998...
  
   ~ 1998 - Margrethe Bohr (The Duchess Theatre, ; West End, London, England)
• Point Valaine ~ 1991 - Linda Valaine (Minerva Studio, Chichester, UK) (see Actor Connections - Theatre)
• Dalliance ~ 1986 - (Lyttelton Theatre, London, England)
• Four Repertoire Leaflets ~ 1986 - (National Theatre, London, England)
• The Threepenny Opera
  The Threepenny Opera
  The Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
  
   ~ 1986 - (Olivier Theater, London, England)
• Repertoire Leaflet ~ 1985/6 - (National Theatre, London, England)
• Love for Love ~ 1985 - (Lyttelton Theatre, London, England)
• Macbeth ~ 1982 - (Royal Shakespeare Company, England)
• Nine Repertoire Leaflets ~ 1980 - (National Theatre, London, England)
• Eleven Repertoire Leaflets ~ 1979 -
• Fruits of Enlightenment ~ 1979 - Lady with the Monocle (Royal National Theatre, London, England)
• Undiscovered Country ~ 1979 - (Olivier Theatre, London, England)
• As You Like It
  As You Like It
  As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
  
   ~ 1979 - Rosalind (National Theatre, London, England)
• The Double Dealer ~ 1978/9 - (Olivier Theatre, London, England)
• Twelve Repertoire Leaflets ~ 1978 - (National Theatre, London, England)
• State of the Revolution ~ 1977 - Kollontai (Repertory Theatre, Birmingham/The Lyttelton Theatre, London, England)
• Bedroom Farce
  Bedroom Farce (play)
  Bedroom Farce is a 1975 comedic play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It had a London production at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1978.-Overview:...
  
   ~ 1977 - (National Theatre, Lyttelton Theatre, London, England)
• Marquise of Keith ~ 1974 - Mona/Anna (Aldwych Theatre, London, England)
• Bitter Fruits of Palestine ~ 19?? - (Barons Court Theatre
  Barons Court Theatre
  Barons Court Theatre is a small theatre of only 57 cinema style seats located in the basement of The Curtains Up public house in Comeragh Road in West London...
  
  , London, England)
• Lettice and Lovage ~ - (West End, London, England)
• Three Tall Women
  Three Tall Women
  Three Tall Women is a play by Edward Albee, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Albee's third.-Characters:* A: She is a very old woman in her 90s. She is thin, autocratic, proud, and wealthy. She also has a mild case of Alzheimer's disease. * B: B is A's 52 year-old version, to whom she...
  
   ~ - (West End, London, England)
• Fiddler on the Roof
  Fiddler on the Roof
  Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
  
   ~ - (Donmar Warehouse, London, England)
• Nine
  Nine (musical)
  Nine is a musical with a book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. The story is based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8½...
  
   ~ - (Donmar Warehouse, London, England)
• Cabaret
  Cabaret (musical)
  Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
  
   ~ 1993 - Fraulein Schneider (Donmar Warehouse, London, England)
• The American Clock
  The American Clock
  The American Clock is a play by Arthur Miller. The play is about 1930s America during The Great Depression. It is based in part on Studs Terkel's Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. The play premiered on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on November 11, 1980; closing on November 30,...
  
   ~ - (Royal National Theatre, London, England)
• Anna Karenina
  Anna Karenina
  Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger...
  
   ~ - Countess Vronskaya
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
  
   ~ 1970 - Titania (Royal Shakespeare Theatre)
• The Physicist ~ - (Library Theatre, Manchester, England)
• The Crucible
  The Crucible
  The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
  
   ~ - (Library Theatre, Manchester, England)
• The Importance of Being Earnest
  The Importance of Being Earnest
  The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...
  
   ~ - (Library Theatre, Manchester, England)
• Enemies ~ - (Aldwych Theatre, London, England)

Audio books

• King Lear
  King Lear
  King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
  
   ~ 2002 - Regan
• Mill on the Floss
• Proto Zoe
• Quarantine
• The Siege
• When I Lived in Modern Times
• Full House

Video games

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
  Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
  Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is a role playing video game released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows. The Xbox version of this sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was released on December 6, 2004, while the Windows version was released on February 8, 2005...
  
   ~ 2004 - voice of Kreia
• Shattered Union
  Shattered Union
  Shattered Union is a turn-based tactics video game developed by PopTop Software and published by 2K Games in 2005.-Story:In an alternate timeline of 2009, following George W...
  
  ~ 2005

Awards, honors and nominations

• Australian Film Institute
• Nom 1977 Best Actress in a Lead Role for Break of Day
• Clarence Derwent Award
• Rec'd 1994 Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for Cabaret
• Irish Times ESB Awards
• Nom 2004 for The Shape of Metal
• Laurence Olivier Theatre Award
• Rec'd 1994 Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for Cabaret

External links

• Ex Memoria