Deborah Findlay

Deborah Findlay

Nascimento : 1947-01-01, Surrey, England, UK

História

Deborah Findlay is an English actress. Her TV credits include the recurring character Greer Thornton in 4 of the 6 episodes of State of Play, and in the episode The French Drop (2004) in Foyle's War. She also appeared in 4 episodes of the 2001 series of The Armstrong and Miller Show. In Autumn 2007 she appeared with Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis in the BBC1 costume drama series Cranford playing the role of the endless spinster Miss Augusta Tompkinson as well as in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale. She portrayed Home Secretary Denise Riley in Torchwood's 2009 third series Children of Earth, and featured as lawyer Gemma King in one episode of the BBC1 series Silent Witness in January 2010. In 2008 she starred in the US premiere of Vincent River by Philip Ridley. In 2009 she appeared, again alongside Judi Dench in a Donmar West End revival of Madame de Sade, and reprised her (in this case more prominent) role as Augusta Tompkinson in the two-part Christmas special Return to Cranford. She also played Gillian in the acclaimed 1999 ITV Drama The Last Train She won the 1997 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (sharing the award with Allison Janney and Celia Weston) as well as the Olivier Award for her formance in Stanley. Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Findlay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Deborah Findlay

Filmes

Up on the Roof
Claire
Two old lovers reunite many years later after a chance meeting.
From A Strange Land
Margaret
An inquisitive retiree surprises her new neighbours to say hello; what she wasn’t expecting is that they would all be naked. A short about over-stepping the line and how we find common ground.
Romeo & Juliet
Nurse
An adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy set in modern-day Italy where two young lovers strive to transcend a violent world where Catholic and secular values clash.
Making Noise Quietly
Helene
Three stories of strangers meeting on the edge of war. A conscientious objector and a roaming artist find tenderness as the carnage of the Second World War unfolds across the English Channel. A bereaved mother struggles with bitterness and love in recollecting her estranged son, lost in the Falklands. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany, an ageing holocaust survivor seeks to bring peace to disturbed young boy and his equally wild stepfather.
National Theatre Live: Allelujah!
Sister Gilchrist
Alan Bennett’s sharp and hilarious new play is ‘just what the doctor ordered’ (Daily Telegraph). Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run, don’t miss this acclaimed production full of ‘singalongs and stinging wit’ (Guardian). The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir. One of Britain’s most celebrated writers, Alan Bennett’s plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George III, all of which were also seen on film. Allelujah! is his tenth collaboration with award-winning director Nicholas Hytner.
Caleidoscópio
Maureen
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
Hampstead: Nunca é Tarde para Amar
Mary Neal
Uma viúva americana reencontra o amor inesperadamente com um homem que vive de maneira selvagem em Hampstead Heath. Ao mesmo tempo, um grupo de empresários querem destruir a casa dele.
Jackie
Maud Shaw
Cinebiografia sobre os primeiros quatro dias na vida da primeira-dama após o assassinado do marido John. F. Kennedy. Jacqueline Kennedy luta contra o sofrimento e o trauma para recuperar a sua fé, consolar os seus filhos, e definir o legado histórico do marido.
Na Companhia de Estranhos
Tessa
Kate (Clémence Poésy) e Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) são um casal rico que moram no subúrbio de Londres e estão esperando não só seu primeiro filho, mas também a mudança dos novos inquilinos para o apartamento do andar debaixo. Quando Jon (David Morrissey), um confiante homem de negócios, e Teresa (Laura Birn), uma autônoma, se mudam eles tentam ser amigos. Os novos vizinhos tem muito em comum com Kate e Justin, inclusive, também estão esperando um filho, mas, o envolvimento acaba se tornando uma batalha psicológica de vontades.
A Senhora da Van
Pauline
Escritor forma uma ligação inesperada com uma mulher que vive em um carro que está estacionado em frente a sua garagem.
Coalition
Harriet Harman
Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.
Suite Francesa
Madame Joseph
Durante os primeiros anos da ocupação alemã da França na Segunda Guerra Mundial, um romance floresce entre Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), um aldeã francesa e Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), um soldado alemão. França, 1940. Nos primeiros dias da ocupação alemã, a linda Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams) está presa em uma existência sufocada com sua controladora madrasta (Kristin Scott Thomas), pois ambas esperam por notícias de seu marido, um prisioneiro de guerra. Refugiados parisienses começam a surgir em sua pequena cidade, logo seguidos por um regimento de soldados alemães que se estabelecem nas próprias casas dos moradores. Lucile inicialmente tenta ignorar Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), o bonito e refinado oficial alemão que ficou em sua casa. Mas logo, um poderoso amor os faz ficar juntos e também os leva a uma tragédia da guerra.
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
Volumnia
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people.
Arthur Christmas
General (voice)
Uma história com todos os ingredientes necessários para o tornar num clássico de Natal: Uma família num estado disfuncional e um herói improvável - o filho mais novo do Pai Natal, Arthur. Quando esta surpreendente operação se esquece do presente de uma das centenas de milhões de crianças, o menos apto da família do Pai Natal embarca numa hilariante e incrível missão contra o relógio para conseguir entregar o último presente antes da manhã de Natal.
Gunrush
Set against the rising wave of gun crime in Britain, Gunrush sees a father driven to take the law into his own hands after his daughter is shot dead.
Summer
Doctor Price
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to confront his past.
Who Gets the Dog
Pamela Wilson
A drama about a couple on the edge of divorce, their solicitors, their daughter and of course, their dog.
Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale
Susan Owen
Jeremy Paxman tells the tragic story of World War One poet Wilfred Owen.
The Yellow House
Madame Roulin
John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosive housemates in art history. For just nine weeks, in late 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin share a home, The Yellow House, in Arles, southern France.
This Life +10
A decade on, This Life's Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg has become a successful writer, Milly a full-time mum and Anna is still a lawyer, while Warren and Miles have pursued 'business' careers. Egg's latest book is based on the group's lives in the nineties when they shared a house. A TV production company, fronted by documentary film-maker Clare, is at the launch of Egg's book and suggests she films a reunion of the group. The reunion takes place in Miles' Mansion over a long weekend and the five old friends discover each other again.
This Life +10
Doctor
A decade on, This Life's Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg has become a successful writer, Milly a full-time mum and Anna is still a lawyer, while Warren and Miles have pursued 'business' careers. Egg's latest book is based on the group's lives in the nineties when they shared a house. A TV production company, fronted by documentary film-maker Clare, is at the launch of Egg's book and suggests she films a reunion of the group. The reunion takes place in Miles' Mansion over a long weekend and the five old friends discover each other again.
Feira das Vaidades
Mrs. Sedley
Reese Witherspoon, vencedora do Oscar de Melhor Atriz, é Becky, uma órfã que sonha fazer parte da alta sociedade de Londres. Depois de trabalhar como governanta numa propriedade rural, ela é convidada a viver na cidade por Matilda, uma tia da família a quem serve. Unida com uma amiga que nasceu em berço de ouro, ela tenta a todo custo se integrar na alta sociedade. Acaba se envolvendo com um membro da família de Matilda e se casa secretamente com ele. Mas Matilda descobre e expulsa os recém-casados de sua casa. Grávida, Becky vai morar com sua amiga enquanto seus maridos vão para a guerra. Quando seu marido volta, a situação está difícil para todos por causa da guerra. É quando Becky conhece um benfeitor que pode realizar seu maior sonho, mas pode custar-lhe muito, muito caro.
Home
Margaret Ballantyne
The ostensibly calm and courteous Gerald Ballantyne lives in and embodies modern suburbia. But he is haunted by the memory of a recent car crash and hounded by his estranged wife and her demands for divorce. Slowly, a festering insanity takes over and unwilling to face the outside world he embarks on a lunatic experiment. Confining himself to his middle-class home, he eschews contact with others and survives entirely off 'food' which he can find in his house. Based on JG Ballard's The Enormous Space.
State of Mind
Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his wife.
Eu Sem Você
Judith
Num verão de Londres no final da década de 1970, as crianças Holly e Marina fazem um pacto de amizade eterna. Para Marina, dividida entre o glamouroso pai e a mãe viciada em remédios, Holly é uma das poucas referências de estabilidade frente a uma rotina familiar de brigas, drogas e auto-destruição. Holly, por sua vez, vive no mundo dos livros, frustrada com a mãe superprotetora e insegura diante da bonita e possessiva Marina. Com o passar dos anos, elas experimentam sexo, amor e drogas, mas para Holly a amizade começa a se tornar uma armadilha.
Fim de Caso
Miss Smythe
Numa noite chuvosa de 1946, o novelista Maurice Bendrix encontra Henry Miles, marido de sua ex-amante Sarah. Maurice e Sarah tiveram um tórrido caso dois anos antes, até que, sem qualquer explicação, Sarah terminou o romance. O encontro com Henry reacende a obsessão de Maurice por Sarah, num misto de ciúme e desejo em reencontrá-la. Para tanto, começa uma investigação, para poder entender o porquê do rompimento do romance entre os dois.
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Reed
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.
Jack e Sarah
Miss Cartwright
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.
Milner
Sylvia Milner
Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors.The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes.Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
Cheryl Morris
A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.
Natural Lies
An advertising executive investigating the death of an old girlfriend uncovers a conspiracy to cover up the spread of BSE in humans.
The House of Bernarda Alba
Martirio
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Top Girls
Isabella Bird / Joyce / Mrs Kidd
Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.
All Good Things
Doll
A marriage and home can be made complete with the arrival of a new baby, but Shirley Frame (Brenda Blethyn) feels a need to share her good fortune by going out into the world and helping others - driving husband Phil (Warren Clarke) up the wall. Shirley (39) gives birth to her third child and is over the moon. Intent on sharing her delight with the world she embarks on a plan to make life a better place for as many people as possible. Husband Phil and their two teenagers aren't easily convinced. Very quickly she learns that it's not easy being a Good Samaritan, especially in a world of tower blocks, drug abuse and homelessness, even if your own life is rosy.
Um Romance do Outro Mundo
Claire
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
First and Last
Lisa
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
Busted
Angela
A ringing phone after midnight can be a disturbing experience but until Simon, a successful barrister, hears from Macy, his friend from university days, he doesn't know just how disturbing.
Commitments
Ingy
Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to be enough for the unexpected demands the new life makes of him?