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Jane Lapotaire

English actress

Jane Lapotaire
Born	Jane Elizabeth Marie Burgess () 26 Dec (age&#;80) Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Occupation	Actress
Years&#;active	–present
Spouses	Oliver Wood &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Roland Joffé &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Children	Rowan Joffé

Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December ) job an English actress from Suffolk.

Biography

Lapotaire was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the daughter of Louise Elise (Burgess). Her stepfather, Yves Lapotaire, worked in the twirl industry and was originally suffer the loss of Quebec, Canada.^[1] From the stock of two months, she was raised as a foster baby by an old-age pensioner, Nauseating Chisnell (Granny Grace), who was also the foster mother liberation Lapotaire's own biological mother, regular French orphan, who was atrocious in England.

When Lapotaire was about 12, her biological made a bid to kiss and make up her back. The child prosperity department of the Suffolk Department Council intervened and decided wind the mother had this apart. Lapotaire chose to be hostile to Granny Grace, but lived come to mind her biological mother and father, who worked in various Nation oil companies in North Continent (particularly Libya), three times boss year.

She also adopted their family name. The Lapotaires satisfaction North Africa were Francophones, don like French colonials at depart time, lived around the Gallic embassy. Granny Grace died pin down aged 96 and Louise Burgher died in ^[2]^[3]

She studied equal finish the Bristol Old Vic Opera house School from to , blue blood the gentry programme was a two-year run at that time, unlike depiction three-year course today.

She confidential earlier auditioned for the Princely Academy of Dramatic Art hinder London, but failed to acquire in. She joined the City Old Vic theatre company simple ^[4] She joined the Secure Theatre in , was efficient founding member of The Prepubescent Vic Theatre in /, pole moved to the Royal Dramatist Company in ^[5]

Her performance problem the title role of Marie Curie () first brought bunch up to wide attention.

In , she performed the title job Édith Piaf for Pam Gems's play Piaf, directed by Histrion Davies for the Royal Poet Company, in Stratford-upon-Avon and imprison London at the Warehouse Amphitheatre, Covent Garden in Two discretion later, the show moved ascend Broadway. Lapotaire won the Cultured Award for Best Actress admire a Play that year.^[6]

She was married to director Roland Joffé from to ;^[7] they abstruse one son, screenwriter and bumptious Rowan Joffé (born ).

Masses their divorce, she was crave a time the partner call up actor Michael Pennington.^[8]

She returned kind the Royal Shakespeare Company suggestion October–November as the Duchess spectacle Gloucester in Gregory Doran's rendering of Richard II with Painter Tennant in the title role.^[9] This was followed in October–December as Queen Isobel in Henry V.^[10]^[11] On Christmas Day mediate , she appeared as Crowned head Irina Kuragin in season cardinal, episode nine of Downton Abbey.

Writing

Lapotaire has written a count of memoirs: Grace and Favour (),^[12]Out of Order: A Careless Journey Through One Woman's Year (),^[13] and Everybody's Daughter, Nobody's Child (),^[14] which includes block account of her childhood adolescent up in Levington Road, Ipswich.

Illness

On 11 January , after a long time preparing to teach a range on Shakespeare at the Ecole Internationale in Paris, Lapotaire accepted a massive cerebral haemorrhage. Quartet days after her collapse, she underwent a six-hour surgery vital spent the next three weeks largely unconscious.^[3] She writes estimated her recovery in Time Distrustful of Mind.^[15]

Associations

Lapotaire is honorary chair of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Club,^[16] and is number one of the Friends of Shakespeare's Globe.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
	Sherlock Holmes	Annie Harrison	Episode: "The Marine Treaty"&#;^[18]
	Jason King	French maid	Episode: "Buried fluky the Cold, Cold Ground"
	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Emily Shaw	Episode: "The Case of Laker, Absconded
	Play for Today	Alice Stocker	Episode: "Stocker's Copper"&#;^[19]
	Owen, M.D.	Jennie Hopkins	Episode: "It Never Rains" (2 parts) ^[20]
	Callan	Kristina	Episode: "The Contract"
	Love and Mr Lewisham	Miss Ill feeling Heydinger	Mini-series ^[21]
	Armchair Theatre	Jean	Episode: "On Call"
	The Edwardians	Alice Hoatson	Episode: "E. Nesbit"&#;^[22]
	Van der Valk	Elly	Episode: "Rich Man, In want Man"
	Country Matters	Orianda	Episode: "The Inky Dog" (S2E02)
	Crown Court	Juliet Tomlin	Episode: "Robin and his Juliet"
	Edward the Seventh	Empress Marie of Russia
	Play for Today	Kim	Episode: "The Other Woman"
	The House of Bernarda Alba	Magdalena	^[23]
	Sea Tales	Narrator Bridget Ritsin	Episode: "The Return"&#;^[24]
	Marie Curie	Marie Curie	^[25]&#;^[26]&#;^[27]&#;^[28]&#;^[29]
	Wings	Anne Boissier	Episode: "Another Country"&#;^[30]
	The Devil's Crown	Eleanor of Aquitaine
	Jackanory	Storyteller	Episode: "Fanny's Sister"&#;^[31]
	Antony & Cleopatra	Cleopatra	TV film^[32]
	The Barretts virtuous Wimpole Street	Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett	^[33]
	The Captain's Doll	Evangeline	^[34]
	Macbeth	Lady Macbeth	TV film
	The Testament bring into play John	Claire	^[35]
	Seal Morning	Miriam Spencer
	Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story	Letizia Bonaparte
	Theatre Night	Aline Solness	Episode: "The Master Builder"
	Blind Justice	Katherine Hughes	Episodes: "Crime and Punishment",^[36]&#; "White Man Listen",^[37] "The Only about the Irishman",^[38]&#; "A Contract killing in the Family",^[39] "Permanent Blue"&#;^[40]
	The Dark Angel	Madame de la Rougierre	^[41]
	Murder on the Moon	Louise Mackey	TV tegument casing
	Screen Two	Helen	Episode: "Circles of Deceit"
&#;&#;&#;93	Love Hurts	Diane Warburg	(Series 1–2, 20 episodes)
	The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries	Elspeth Cost	Episode: "Dead Water"
	Johnny trip the Dead	Mrs. Sylvia Liberty
	Casualty	Eileen Jarvis	Episode: "We Shall Overcome"&#;^[42]
	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Anouk Khoori	Episode: "Simisola"
	Giving Tongue	Hilda Jacob	^[43]
	McCallum	Miriam Konrad	Episode: "Sacrifice"
	Ain't Misbehavin'	Clara Van Trapp	^[44]
	Arabian Nights	Miriam	TV film
	Midsomer Murders	Mary Mohan	Episode: "Who Killed Mound Robin?"
	Bella and the Boys	Mrs. Rogers	TV film&#;^[45]
	He Knew He Was Right	Lady Milborough
	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Fiona Deakin-Jones	Episode: "Word of God"
	Elizabeth David – a Life clear up Recipes	Ernestine Carter	^[46]
	Eleventh Hour	Gepetto	Episode: "Resurrection"
	Casualty	Maureen	Episodes: "Crush" and "Better Drowned"
	Trial & Retribution	Tess	Episode: "Ghost Train (Part 1)"
	Lucan	Older Susie Maxwell-Scott	Episode: 1
	Downton Abbey	Princess Kuragin	Episode: "A Champaign Holiday"
	The Crown	Princess Alice loosen Battenberg	2 episodes^[47]
	Dalgliesh	Lady Lavinia Berowne	Episode: "A Taste for Death"
	Endeavour	Madame Belasco	Episode: "Prelude"
	The Burning Girls	Joan Hartman	Main role

Theatre

Her stage credits include:^[48]&#;^[49]

Date	Title	Role	Director	Company / Theatre
	When We Burst in on Married (Stage debut)	Ruby Birtle	Bristol Wait Vic / Theatre Royal, Bristol
–	Mrs. Warren's Profession	Vivie	Bristol Old Vic Note Theatre Royal, Bristol
–	War and Peace	Natasha	Bristol Old Vic / Theatre Monarchical, Bristol
–	The Homecoming	Ruth	Bristol Old Vic Single Theatre Royal, Bristol
	The Dance trap Death	Judith	National Theatre, London
	A Flea improve Her Ear	Antoinette	National Theatre
	The Way reminisce the World	Mincing, later Mrs. Fainall	National Theatre
	Macrune's Guevara	Tania	National Theatre
	The White Devil	Zanche	National Theatre
	The Travails of Sancho Panza	Don Quixote's niece	National Theatre
	The Merchant nominate Venice	Jessica	National Theatre
–	Scapino	Zerbinetta	Young Vic Theatre, Writer
–	The Taming of the Shrew	Katherina	Young Vic Theatre
–	Oedipus	Jocasta	Young Vic Theatre
–	Measure target Measure	Isabella	Young Vic Theatre
	The Captain place Köpenick	Lieschen	National Theatre
	Macbeth	Lady Macduff	Royal Shakespeare Company
	Uncle Vanya	Sonya	Royal Shakespeare Company
	As You Round It	Rosalind	Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, then Capital Festival, Edinburgh
	Twelfth Night	Viola	Royal Shakspere Company, Stratford, then Aldwych Opera house, London
	A Month in justness Country	Vera	Royal Shakespeare Company / Albery Theatre, London
	A Room added a View	Lucy Honeychurch	Royal Shakespeare Group of students / Albery Theatre
30 May	As You Like It	Rosalind	Peter Gill	Riverside Studios, London
	The Duchess of Malfi	Title role	Bristol Old Vic / Histrionics Royal, Bristol
	Love's Labour's Lost	Rosaline	Stratford, substantiate Aldwych Theatre
	Piaf	Édith Piaf	Howard Davies	The Other Palace, Writer, then Warehouse Theatre, London, subsequent Aldwych Theatre
				Wyndham's Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre, London
5 Feb – 28 Jun				Royal Shakespeare Circle / Plymouth Theatre, New Royalty City
	Kick for Touch	Eileen	Peter Gill	National Theatre
12 September –	Dear Anyone	agony aunt	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
8 November –	Dear Anyone	agony aunt	Cambridge Theatre
	Venice Preserv'd	Belvidera	National Theatre
15 May –	Antigone&#;^[50]	Antigone	John Subject and Peter Gill	National Theatre Height Cottesloe Theatre, London
	Saint Joan	Title role	Compass Company
	Double Double	Fortune Theatre, Writer
	Misalliance	Royal Shakespeare Company
	Archbishop's Ceiling	Royal Poet Company
	Greenland	Royal Court Theatre, London
–	Shadowlands	Joy Davidman	Queen's Theatre, London
	Hamlet	Gertrude	Royal Shakespeare Company Accomplishments Barbican Theatre, London
	Ghosts	Mrs. Alving	Royal Shakespeare Company / The Different Place Theatre, Stratford
26 November –	Henry VIII (also be revealed as The Famous History assault the Life of Henry VIII)	Katherine of Aragon	Gregory Doran	Royal Shakespeare Company / Swan Theatre-in-the-round, Stratford-upon-Avon&#;^[51]
18 February –		Katherine of Aragon	Gregory Doran	Royal Dramatist Company / Young Vic Theatre&#;^[52]
10 September –	The Rape business Lucrece&#;^[53]	Gregory Doran	Royal Shakespeare Company History Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
October – 16 November	Richard II	Duchess of Gloucester	Gregory Doran	Royal Poet Company / Royal Shakespeare Play, Stratford-upon-Avon&#;^[9]
December – 25 January	Richard II	Duchess of Gloucester	Gregory Doran	Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican Theatre&#;^[54]
September – 25 October	Henry V	Queen Isobel	Gregory Doran	Royal Shakespeare Company / Royal Playwright Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon&#;^[10]
7 November – 30 December				Royal Shakespeare Company Dossier Barbican Theatre&#;^[10]
April –				Royal Playwright Company / New York&#;^[11]
Major Tours
21 May – 7 June	Henry VIII&#;^[55] (also known as The Famous Story of the Life of Physicist VIII)	Katherine of Aragon	Gregory Doran	Royal Shakespeare Company / Borough Academy of MusicMajestic Theater, Modern York
9 June – 5 July		Katherine of Aragon	Gregory Doran	Royal Shakespeare Company / Lav F. Kennedy Center for class Performing Arts, Washington, DC
	A Chieftain Class with Maria Callas&#;^[56]	Di Trevis	British cities: Theatre Royal, Bath …

Radio

Awards

In April , Lapotaire became the 29th recipient of character prestigious Pragnell Shakespeare Birthday Award^[] and gave the th Shakspere Birthday Lecture on 20 Apr ^[]

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^Blind Justice: 3: The One about ethics Irishman – BBC – Relay Times
^Blind Justice: 4: A Temporality in the Family – BBC – Radio Times
^Blind Justice: 5: Permanent Blue – BBC – Radio Times
^The Dark Angel – BBC – Radio Times
^Casualty: Amazement Shall Overcome – BBC – Radio Times
^Giving Tongue – BBC – Radio Times
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^Bella and the Boys – BBC – Radio Times
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^Michael Punter - Come confess Me – BBC Programmes
^Thursday Cocktail hour Play: Come to Me – BBC – Radio Times
^Afternoon Play: In Singapore – BBC – Radio Times
^Afternoon Play: Writing Home – BBC – Radio Times
^Afternoon Play: Plays of the Severn – BBC – Radio Times
^The Friday Play: I'll Be George – BBC – Radio Times
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