Morag Siller

Morag Siller

Nacimiento : 1969-11-01, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Muerte : 2016-04-15

Historia

Born in Edinburgh in 1969, Morag Siller was an actress of stage, cinema and TV, a voice artist, radio personality and writer. A graduate of Sylvia Young and RADA, in theatre Siller starred in musicals such as Grease, Mamma Mia!, The Wizard of Oz, Les Misérables and Sweeney Todd and in Shakespearean productions such as A Comedy of Errors, Tis Pity She's a Whore and Hamlet, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch. On television she had semi-regular roles in Casualty (for which she won the AOL award for Best Dramatic Performance in 2000), Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Monarch of the Glen, and appeared in the films Memphis Belle, Secret Society and House of Mirth. Famously she appeared in the pop video for Morrissey's single You're The One For Me Fatty. In 2005, Siller married her long term partner, classical musician Tim Nicholson, and the pair set up home in Cheshire. Siller died following a battle with breast cancer in April 2016 at the age of 46.

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Morag Siller

Películas

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Voltemand
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
Summer Solstice
Jessie
Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.
Secret Society
Sarah/Raging Bull
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.
La casa de la alegría
4th Millinery Girl
Lily Bart es una conocida belleza que hace furor entre los caballeros de la alta sociedad, pero acaba dándose cuenta de la precariedad de su posición cuando sus encantos empiezan a provocar la envidia ajena. Indecisa entre sus sentimientos y lo que le dicta la razón, Lily siempre hace lo que debe en los peores momentos. La búsqueda de un marido rico que cumpla con las expectativas sociales, no sólo le hará perder la posibilidad de un amor verdadero con Lawrence Selden, sino que la llevará a ser acusada falsamente de mantener una relación con un hombre casado. El escándalo hará que sus amigos y la sociedad la repudien.
Memphis Belle
Farm Girl / Jitterbugger
Drama ambientado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial basado en los documentales realizados durante 1943 por el director americano William Wyler. La historia se centra en la tripulación de "Memphis Belle", un enorme bombardero del ejército aliado. Los diez jóvenes americanos que componen su tripulación han sobrevivido a veinticuatro incursiones, y esperan recibir instrucciones para su última misión antes de volver a casa. Piensan que se tratará de algo sencillo, pero para su sorpresa, reciben la orden de bombardear Dresden, Alemania. Ésto supone un gran riesgo, y posiblemente alguno de ellos pierda la vida.