Cheryl Campbell


Cheryl Campbell is an English actor of stage, film and television. She starred opposite Bob Hoskins in the 1978 BBC drama Pennies From Heaven, before going on to win the 1980 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Testament of Youth and Malice Aforethought, and the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for A Doll's House. Her film appearances include Chariots of Fire, and The Shooting Party.

Early life

Born in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Campbell is the daughter of an airline pilot. She was educated at Francis Bacon Grammar School, St Albans, and at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her repertory theatre experience includes the Palace Theatre, Watford, Birmingham Rep and the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow.

Career

Campbell is known for her starring role as Vera Brittain in the BBC's television dramatisation of Testament of Youth, for which she received Best Actress awards from the British Academy Television Award and the Broadcasting Press Guild Award.
Campbell had earned her first BAFTA nomination the previous year for her portrayal of Eileen Everson, a very different character, opposite Bob Hoskins in Dennis Potter's television serial Pennies from Heaven. Campbell's one other role in a work by Potter was as Janet in Rain on the Roof.

Stage

Campbell is a stage performer of considerable note and great range. She has been twice a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. At the RSC in 1982, she played Nora Helmer in Adrian Noble's memorable production of Ibsen's A Doll's House. In that same season, she also appeared as Diana in All's Well That Ends Well.
She returned to the RSC in the 1992–94 season, playing Lady Macbeth to Sir Derek Jacobi's lead in Noble's controversial production of Macbeth; Beatrice-Joanna in The Changeling; Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Natasha in Misha's Party. She worked at the Royal National Theatre: playing as a junior member of the company in 1975, as Freda in Sir Peter Hall's Old Vic production of John Gabriel Borkman and as Maggie in W. S. Gilbert's Engaged; in 1995, as Lady Politic Would-Be in Matthew Warchus's Volpone; and in 2003 as Dotty Otley in the NT's touring revival of Noises Off.
Campbell's other stage performances in London have encompassed the classics as well as new plays; they include You Never Can Tell ; Miss Julie in the title role; Little Eyolf as Asta; The Daughter-in-Law as Minnie; The Sneeze in various roles; Betrayal as Emma; The Strip as Loretta; Some Sunny Day as Emily; The Seagull as Arkadina; Passion as Nell; and Life After George as Beatrix.
In provincial theatre, she has appeared in: The Country Wife as Margery Pinchwife; The Constant Wife as Constance; A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche ; and So Long Life as Wendy.

Filmography

Film

Television