Michelle Terry

Michelle Terry is an English actress and writer, known for her work on stage and for portraying Sara on Reunited.

Background

Born in Weston-super-Mare, she was raised in Kewstoke, and attended Priory Community School and Broadoak Sixth Form Centre.

Terry aspired to be an actress from an early age. She attended an amateur dramatic society and took LAMDA exams at school in poetry, prose and spoken verse. At the age of fourteen she joined the National Youth Theatre. She read English literature at Cardiff University before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2004.

Career

Terry made her professional debut in the touring and subsequent West End production of Blithe Spirit, playing the Maid and understudying Elvira. Her other theatre credits include The War on Terror, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Tribes and As You Like It. Her work at the National Theatre includes London Assurance, All's Well That Ends Well and England People Very Nice.

For the Royal Shakespeare Company, Terry has appeared in productions of Days of Significance, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, The Crucible and Love's Labour's Lost, playing Rosaline. She was among the writers of Sudden Loss of Dignity, staged at the Bush Theatre in 2009.

Terry has appeared in broadcast versions of London Assurance and All's Well That Ends Well, as part of National Theatre Live, and in the Globe Theatre production of Love's Labour's Lost, which was released on DVD in 2010. Her television credits include episodes of Extras, Law & Order: UK and the Mike Bullen pilot Reunited, playing "Sara". She was co-writer, with Ralf Little, of the comedy drama TV series, The Cafe, which aired on Sky1 from 2011-13, in which she played "Sarah Porter". The series was set and filmed in her own hometown, Weston-super-Mare.

Theatre credits

• Blithe Spirit Savoy Theatre: London (2005)
• As You Like It New Vic Theatre: Newcastle-under-Lyme (2005)
• The Crucible Royal Shakespeare Theatre: Stratford Upon Avon (2006)
• Pericles Swan Theatre: Stratford Upon Avon (2006/7)
• The Winter's Tale Swan Theatre: Stratford Upon Avon (2006/07)
• Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: London (2007)
• The War on Terror Bush Theatre: London (2008)
• 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Bush Theatre: London (2008)
• The Man Who Had All the Luck Donmar Warehouse: London (2008)
• Tribes Royal Court Theatre London (2010)
• England People Very Nice National Theatre: London (2009)
• All's Well That Ends Well National Theatre: London (2009)
• London Assurance National Theatre: London (2010)
• The Light Shining in Buckinghamshire Arcola Theatre: London (2010)
• Comedy of Errors National Theatre: London (2011/12)
• In The Republic of Happiness Royal Court Theatre: London (2012/13)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: London (2013)
• Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing (Love's Labour's Won) Royal Shakespeare Theatre: Stratford Upon Avon (2014)
• As You Like It Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: London (2015)

Awards

Terry won Best Actress in a Visiting Production at the 2008 Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, for the Donmar Warehouse production of The Man Who Had All the Luck.

She won Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2011 Olivier Awards, for her portrayal of Sylvia in the Royal Court Theatre production of Tribes.

Filmography

List of television performances

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Extras	Female Extra	1 episode: "Patrick Stewart"
2009	Law & Order: UK	Debbie Grove	1 episode: "Unloved"
2010	Reunited	Sara	Television pilot
2011	The Café	Sarah Porter	Co-writer

External links

• Michelle Terry at the Internet Movie Database