Anna Madeley

Anna Madeley

  • Birthday: 1976-03-08
  • Place of birth: London, England, UK

Biography

Anna Madeley is an English actress. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". She grew up in London and started her career as a child actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in BBC TV films and on Channel 4. Anna has also done work in radio and film. Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company: 2001-2002; and 2003-2004. She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher. In 2005 she appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist (directed by David Grindley) and The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy. In 2006, Madeley starred in two BBC TV films - as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, and in the original drama Aftersun - and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders. In 2007, Madeley appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, Madeley played Nina in a production of The Seagull for a time, when the main actress fell ill. She was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist. In 2010 she appeared The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010. In January 2013 Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw. In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.

Filmography

The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton

2006

As Isabella Beeton

Consent

2007

As Rebecca 'Becky' Palmer

Sitting in Limbo

2020

As Amelia Gentleman

Affinity

2008

As Margaret

Strawberry Fields

2012

As Gillian

We Are Happy

2015

As Sarah

The Old Curiosity Shop

2007

As Betsy Qulip

One Wrong Word

2013

As Victoria

The Outsiders

2006

As Erica Chapman

The Last Front

2024

As Brigitte Janssens

Aftersun

2006

As Esther

Words of the Titanic

2012

As Reader

The Crucible

2014

As Elizabeth Proctor

Vindicta

0000

As Eliza Svoboda

The Little Stranger

2018

As Anne Granger

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

2019

As Dr. Martha Gotterling

Brideshead Revisited

2008

As Celia

The Child in Time

2018

As Rachel Murray

In Bruges

2008

As Denise

Stoned

2005

As Stones' Receptionist

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

2018

As Marie Stahlbaum

The Ones Below

2016

As Abi

Back Home

1989

As School Girl

The Mercy

2018

As Sara Milburn

Guest House Paradiso

1999

As Saucy Wood Nymph

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