Emily Richard

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Emily Richard
Born (1948-01-25) 25 January 1948 (age 76)
London
Other namesEmily Petherbridge
OccupationActress
Years active1968–1997
SpouseEdward Petherbridge

Emily Richard (born 25 January 1948) is a British actress and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

One of three sisters, Richard was born in London, where she attended drama school in 1966, aged 18, but she was asked to leave after a year as she was "too timid". She then sold programmes in theatres in London's West End. Having acquired an agent, her first professional role was as Mole in a theatre production of Toad of Toad Hall.[1] A former member of the BBC Radio Repertory Company, Richard has worked extensively for radio, and once played 'Tess' in Tess of the d'Urbervilles in that medium.[2]

Theatre

In 1971, Richard appeared at the

The Admirable Bashville and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew. Also in 1982 Richard appeared in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Donmar Warehouse in London with Ian McKellen, Edward Petherbridge and Edward Hardwicke.[1][4]

For the Royal Shakespeare Company Richard appeared in Chekhov's The Three Sisters (April 1980) at the Donmar Warehouse with Roger Rees, Edward Petherbridge, Bob Peck and Timothy Spall; and as Kate Nickleby[5] in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (November 1980) at the Aldwych Theatre, an epic eight-hour stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickleby with Roger Rees, Timothy Spall, John Woodvine, Edward Petherbridge, Ben Kingsley, Fulton Mackay, David Threlfall, Bob Peck, Rose Hill and Christopher Benjamin.[4]

In June 1981 she reprised her role as Kate Nickleby in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for the

Barbican Theatre with Derek Jacobi and Cheryl Campbell.[4]

Film and television

Among her film and television appearances are

Constance Wilde) (1985), Casualty (1996) and Wycliffe (1997). Her films include Hansel and Gretel (1987), and Empire of the Sun (1987) directed by Steven Spielberg, and in which she played Mary Graham, the mother of Jim (Christian Bale).[4] In 1976 she was one of sixty actresses who auditioned for the role of Leela in Doctor Who. Although she was the first choice of producer Philip Hinchcliffe, she was unavailable, and the role went to Louise Jameson
.

Personal life

Richard is married to actor Edward Petherbridge, with whom she appeared in Nicholas Nickleby for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980, as well as in the Lord Peter Wimsey play Busman's Honeymoon (1988), and in Pomp and Circumstance.[4] They have two children and live in West Hampstead.

References

  1. ^ a b Richard's interviewed in Cocktails and Feminism 31 October 2010
  2. ^ "Cast notes from A Slight Hangover". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  3. ^ "Rob Wilton's Theatricalia – RSC Programmes 1975–79". Archived from the original on 7 January 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  4. ^
    IMDb
  5. ^ The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby on the BBC website (2008)

External links

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