Cheryl Campbell

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Cheryl Campbell (born 22 May 1949, St. Albans, Hertfordshire) is an English actress of stage, film and television.

Early life

Cheryl 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 (LAMDA). Her repertory theatre experience includes the Palace Theatre, Watford, Birmingham Rep and the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow.[1]

Career

Campbell is known for her starring role as Vera Brittain in the BBC's television dramatisation of Testament of Youth (1979), for which she received Best Actress awards from the British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) and the Broadcasting Press Guild Award.

Her first BAFTA nomination, Campbell earned the previous year for Eileen Everson, a very different character, opposite Bob Hoskins in Dennis Potter's television serial Pennies from Heaven (1978). Campbell's one other role in a work by Potter is as Janet in Rain on the Roof (1980).[2]

Stage

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Campbell is 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 (for which she was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival). 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 [3] 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 (starring Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Dame Wendy Hiller) 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 (and London) revival of Noises Off.[citation needed]

Campbell's other stage performances in London have encompassed the classics as well as new plays; they include You Never Can Tell (Lyric, 1979); Miss Julie (1983) in the title role; Little Eyolf (1985) as Asta; The Daughter-in-Law (1985) as Minnie; The Sneeze (a Chekhov selection) (1988) in various roles; Betrayal (1991) as Emma; The Strip (1995) as Loretta; Some Sunny Day (1996) as Emily; The Seagull (1997) as Arkadina; Passion (2000) as Nell; and Life After George (2002) as Beatrix.

In provincial theatre, she has appeared in: The Country Wife (Manchester Royal Exchange) as Margery Pinchwife; The Constant Wife (Theatr Clwyd) as Constance; A Streetcar Named Desire (Leicester Haymarket) as Blanche (for which she received a Regional Theatre Best Actress award); and So Long Life (touring production) as Wendy.

Television

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. She has appeared regularly on British television:

Films

On film, her roles have included: Sheila McVicar in McVicar (1980); Jennie Liddell in Chariots of Fire (1981);[4] Lady Aline Hartlip The Shooting Party (1984; with Dorothy Tutin, James Mason and John Gielgud); and Lady Alice Clayton in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).[citation needed]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Looks Worth Yards of Dialog", Independent.co.uk, 18 October 1992.
  2. ↑ Looks Worth Yards of Dialog, independent.co.uk, 18 October 1992.
  3. ↑ Looks Worth Yards of Dialog, Independent.co.uk, 18 October 1992.
  4. ↑ The Right Accent For Cheryl Campbell, The Glasgow Herald, 7 April 1981.

External links

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