Catherine Bailey
| Catherine Bailey | |
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| Born |
2 January 1981 London, England, United Kingdom |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Catherine Bailey (born 2 January 1981) is an English actress.
Acting career
Television and Film appearances include: A Quiet Passion, And Then There Were None, Mr Selfridge, Midsomer Murders, The Sarah Jane Adventures, House of Anubis, Holby City, EastEnders, Peak Practice, Rosemary and Thyme, The Bill, My Family, Urban Gothic, 55 Degrees North, Egypt, The English Harem, The Wild House, Uncle Jack and Cleopatra's Mummy and Residents.
On stage she has appeared at the Royal Shakespeare Company (Spring Awakening), Young Vic (‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore), Tricycle Theatre (Walk Hard - Talk Loud), Hackney Empire (in Steven Berkoff’s Sit and Shiver), Theatre Royal Haymarket (The Country Wife) and the Oval House for Paines Plough (House of Agnes). She also appeared in a televised performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Middle Temple Hall, featuring The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Other notable stage appearances include the roles of Annabella, Margaret and Pamela in The 39 Steps at the Criterion in London and at Shakespeare's Globe as Portia in their production of The Merchant of Venice, as well as Portia in Dominic Dromgoole's production of Julius Caesar. To mark the centenary of the beginning of WW1 the Globe commissioned a new play by Howard Brenton called Doctor Scroggy's War, in which she appeared as The Honourable Penelope Wedgewood.
She has also worked in Radio, notably as Isabella in The Changeling Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Home Front directed by Jessica Dromgoole. She is an associate member of The Factory Theatre Company, having appeared in many of their productions including Hamlet, The Seagull, Round 1, Round 2 and As You Like It.
Agatha Christie's drama And Then There Were None, in which she played Olivia Hamilton, aired on BBC1 for 3 consecutive nights on Boxing Day 2015, and on Lifetime Network in the US in March 2016.
In February 2016 she attended the Berlin Film Festival for the world premiere of Terence Davies film A Quiet Passion, a critically acclaimed study of American poet Emily Dickinson, starring Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle, in which she plays Vryling Buffam. The film is expected to premiere in London in Autumn 2016.
She is currently performing the role of Goneril in the Royal and Derngate production of King Lear, starring Michael Pennington, which will tour the UK with ATG until July 2016.
External links
- Catherine Bailey at the Internet Movie Database
- London Theatre Interview with Catherine Bailey
- shakespearesglobe.com