Anna Madeley


Anna Madeley is an English actress. 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. She has also done work in radio and film.

Biography

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, 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 as an understudy when the original 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.
In 2018, she played the role of Marie Stahlbaum, the late mother to the protagonist, Clara, and the queen of the magical land Clara discovers in the fantasy/adventure film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.

Selected credits

Filmography

YearFilmRoleNotes
1985ClaudiaLittle Girl
1990Back HomeSchool GirlTV film
1998Cold FeetEmmaTV series
1999DadTasminTV series
1999Guest House ParadisoSaucy Wood Nymph
2000A Dinner of HerbsFlorrie RoystanTV mini-series
2001An Unsuitable Job for a WomanPetraTV series
2003The RoyalNurse Samantha BeaumontTV series
2004The RivalsLydia LanguishVideo
2005StonedStones' Receptionist
2006AftersunEstherTV film
2006The OutsidersErica ChapmanTV film
2006The Secret Life of Mrs. BeetonIsabella BeetonTV film
2007ConsentRebecca "Becky" PalmerTV film
2007LewisAnne SadikovTV series
2007UninvitedJaneShort film
2007The Old Curiosity ShopBetsy QuilpTV film
2008Sense and SensibilityLucy SteeleTV series
2008In BrugesDenise
2008AffinityMargaret Prior
2008Waking the DeadAnna VaspovicTV series
2008Brideshead RevisitedCelia Ryder
2008The ChildrenPollyTV mini-series
2008Agatha Christie's Marple: A Pocket Full of RyeAdele FortescueTV film
2008Crooked HouseKatherineTV series
2009Kayleigh GainesTV series
2010HustleJennifer HughesTV series
2010The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne ListerMariana BelcombeTV film
2011The ReckoningVictoria SturridgeTV mini-series
2012A Fantastic Fear of EverythingWPC Taser
2012Strawberry FieldsGillian
2012Secret StateGina HayesTV mini-series
2013Agatha Christie's PoirotBarbara FranklinTV series
2013Silent WitnessAnnette KellyTV series
2013UtopiaAnyaTV series
2013Mr SelfridgeMiss RavilliousTV series
2015Code of a KillerSue Jeffreys2 episodes
2016The CrownClarissa EdenTV series
2018Patrick MelroseMary MelroseTV miniseries
2020Deadwater FellKate KendrickTV miniseries
2020All Creatures Great and SmallMrs HallTV series

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