Dawn Archibald

Nacimiento : 1961-01-01, Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Historia

Actress known for her roles in the Derek Jarman movies, Caravaggio and The Garden. Other credits include roles in The Company of Wolves, Scrubbers, Mona Lisa and My Beautiful Laundrette.

Películas

The Garden
Nature Spirit
Interpretación personal de la pasión de Cristo a través de la mirada de Jarman. Dos amantes son humillados, arrestados y torturados en este collage no lineal que expresa las profundas y más personales emociones del director.
Blood Red Roses
Catriona
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Caravaggio
Pipo
El pintor Michelangelo Merisi, nacido en Caravaggio, se está muriendo lejos de su hogar. En el lecho de muerte recuerda los comienzos de su vida como pintor. El niño Michelangelo dejó su Caravaggio natal al quedar huérfano, y se traslada a Milán, donde se inicia como pintor en diferentes talleres, hasta que establece un taller propio, en la Roma de los Papas, ganándose el favor de la Iglesia, que le encarga numerosas obras. Llegan entonces la fama, el dinero, sus amores homosexuales, las intrigas políticas y religiosas, la envidia y el crimen.
Mona Lisa
Wig Girl in Club
George es el chófer de una prostituta negra, alta y delgada, llamada Simone, cuyos clientes son hombres de negocios y árabes millonarios. Enamorado perdidamente de ella, George acepta buscar a una vieja amiga de Simone que se ha metido en un buen lío. Está dispuesto a ayudarlas aunque ello suponga enfrentarse a un chulo mafioso y a un obseso rey del porno que no deja de ser la sombra de su pasado. Pronto descubrirá algo que jamás podía imaginar, algo que podría destruir su propia vida.
Murder by the Book
Sally
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.
Mi hermosa lavandería
Gang Member #1
Omar, un joven inglés de origen paquistaní, empieza a dirigir la lavandería de su tío con la ayuda de Johnny, un antiguo compañero de clase, el típico hooligan inglés que no quiere trabajar y se dedica a amenazar a los inmigrantes. Además de dirigir la lavandería, Omar y Johnny reanudan la amistad que los unía cuando eran estudiantes. Su relación de amantes profundamente enamorados escandaliza a sus respectivas familias.
En compañía de lobos
Witch Woman
Tras presenciar la muerte de su hermana bajo las garras de un lobo, la joven Rosaleen regresa a casa de su abuela, lugar donde ella acostumbra a contar historias acerca del hombre lobo y del peligro que entrañan los hombres cejijuntos.
The Bad Sister
Jane
Jane is the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish landowner. She is disowned and expelled from his estates, but although she settles down to a new life in London, she is still haunted by the memory of her childhood and her mother's mysterious death. In a trance, she sets out on dreamlike journeys in search of freedom and revenge.
The Missionary
Mission Girl
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Remembrance
Jill
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
Scrubbers
Mary
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Isobel
After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.