Gillian Hanna

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Gillian Hanna
Born(1944-06-20)20 June 1944
Buxton, Derbyshire, England
Died18 August 2019(2019-08-18) (aged 75)
London
, England
OccupationActress

Gillian Hanna (20 June 1944 – 18 August 2019)[1] was an Irish stage, film, TV and voice actress. She founded the feminist Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company about which she wrote a book that was published in 1991.

Early life

Hanna graduated with a First Class degree in Modern Languages from

Trinity College, Dublin. She went on to work as an actor as well as a translator.[2][3]

Career

In 1975, Hanna founded the feminist

Tricycle Theatre, a Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company production, with original music by Tony Haynes. The play was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1982.[6][7]

She later published a book about the company, Monstrous Regiment: A Collective Celebration.[8][9][10][11] An essay of hers, "An Age Of Innocence", was published in the collection Trinity Tales: Trinity College In The Sixties.[12] She has extensive credits on stage as well as on TV and film.[13]

Hanna also had a bit part playing the very fragile and somewhat 'delicate' typist teacher Mrs Gossage in the sixth series of

Brookside during the infamous 'body under the patio' storyline in the 1990s.[1]

Books

Partial filmography

  • Full House (1973, TV Series) - Actress in Plugged Into History
  • Grange Hill (1983, TV Series) - Mrs. Gossage
  • Brookside (1983-1995, TV Series) - Brenna Jordache / Mrs. Brown
  • The Fear (1988, TV Series) - Mrs. Broderick
  • All Creatures Great and Small (1988, TV Series) - Betty Sanders
  • The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989) - Mrs. Shubunkin
  • Making News (1990, TV Series) - Mrs. Gurney
  • EastEnders (1991, TV Series) - Mrs. Desmond
  • All Good Things
     (1991, TV Series) - Mrs. Grant
  • The House of Bernarda Alba (1991, TV Movie) - Maid
  • Poirot (1993, TV Series) - Margaret Baker
  • The Marshal (1993) - Maria Pia
  • 15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight (1995, TV Movie) - Margareth Knight
  • Desmond's (1993, TV Series) - Pamela
  • Screenplay (1993, TV Series) - Eileen
  • Drop the Dead Donkey (1994, TV Series) - Mrs. Babcock
  • Casualty (1995-2007, TV Series) - Sal Rhodes / Mrs. Mohan
  • The Heart Surgeon (1997, TV Movie) - Margot
  • Dangerfield (1997, TV Series) - Julie Hanson
  • Les Misérables (1998, directed by Bille August) - Mme. Thénardier
  • All the Queen's Men (2001, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky) - Nettie
  • Weirdsister College
     (2001, TV Series) - Josie Foster
  • The Heart of Me (2002, directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan) - Betty / Maid
  • Oliver Twist (2005, directed by Roman Polanski) - Mrs. Sowerberry
  • Doctors (2006, TV Series) - Pat Bishop
  • The Kindness of Strangers (2006, TV Movie, directed by Tony Smith) - Hannah
  • Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy (2006, TV Movie) - Swift
  • Mist: Sheepdog Tales (2007-2009, TV Series) - Swift / Queenie Creamer / MacPhereson Sister
  • Inspector George Gently (2008, TV Movie) - Mabs Hardyment
  • Mr. Nice
     (2010, directed by Bernard Rose) - Irish Phone Operator
  • Married Single Other (2010, TV Series) - Mrs. Kelly
  • Strike Back (2011, TV Series) - Joanna Heath
  • National Theatre Live: Treasure Island (2015, directed by Polly Findlay) - Grandma
  • The Amazing World of Gumball (2015-2019, TV Series) - Betty McArthur (Season 4-6)
  • Genius (2016, directed by Michael Grandage) - Julia Wolfe
  • Ethel & Ernest (2016, directed by Roger Mainwood) - Midwife / Aunty Flo (voice)

References

  1. ^ a b Lavery, Bryony (29 August 2019). "Gillian Hanna obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  2. ISBN 978-1-135-45529-3
  3. ISBN 978-1-4081-4863-1
  4. ISBN 978-90-272-7967-5
  5. ISBN 978-1-349-09930-6
  6. ^ Radlin, Victoria (15 March 1981). "An anatomy of death". The Observer.
  7. ^ Ferris, Paul (30 May 1982). "A portrait of death". The Observer.
  8. ISBN 978-0-521-49322-2
  9. ISBN 978-1-134-90696-3
  10. ISBN 978-0-252-06323-7
  11. ISBN 978-1-134-38133-3
  12. ^ "Biography of Gillian Hanna". The Playwrights Database. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  13. ISBN 0-472-06479-7

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