Rebecca Night
Rebecca Night | |
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| Born | Rebecca Hardwick 13 July 1985 |
| Alma mater | Rose Bruford College |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2005–present |
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| Children | 3 |
Rebecca Night (born Rebecca Hardwick; 13 July 1985)[1] is an English actress who starred in the title role of James Hawes's BBC Four adaptation Fanny Hill.[2] Night and Stockard Channing co-starred as Jessie and Thelma in Marsha Norman's Pulitzer-Prize-winning play 'night, Mother at Hampstead Theatre. On her performance, described by lead theatre critic Mark Shenton: "Night is like a young Julia Roberts... with natural stage chops... It turns out to be a riveting, revealing evening."
Background
Rebecca Night was born in
She is married to fellow actor Harry Hadden-Paton, whom she met while performing The Importance of Being Earnest. They have been married since 2010 and have three children together.
Career
Night came to prominence playing the title role in Andrew Davies' BBC production of Fanny Hill. Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian wrote, "Her freshness disinfects her story. It is a delightful debut."[4]
She has since played a wide range of roles including Catherine Linton in ITV's Wuthering Heights, alongside Tom Hardy, Sarah Jones in the Mike Figgis film Suspension of Disbelief and Yvonne Moncin in Maigret, with Rowan Atkinson.
Theatre roles include Jessie in
Selected credits
Film
- Academy Award nominee Mike Figgis' Suspension of Disbeliefas Sarah
- Dartmoor Killing as Susan
- Leopard as The Girl, directed by Eoin Macken
Television
- Andrew Davies Fanny Hill as Fanny Hill, directed by James Hawes
- "Maigret Sets a Trap", Maigret, as Yvonne Moncin
- Starlings as Bell[5]
- Wuthering Heights as Catherine Linton
- Lark Rise to Candleford as Nan Carter
- Agatha Raisin with Ashley Jensen
- This September as Laura Aird
- The Sandman as Esme
Stage
- 'night, Mother as Jessie - Hampstead Theatre, written by Marsha Norman
- American Airlines Theatre, Broadway, written by Oscar Wilde
- The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth – North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, written by David Seidler
- Prism as Lucy/Marilyn Monroe/Betty Bacall – Hampstead Theatre, written by Terry Johnson
- The Meeting as Ellen – Hampstead Theatre
- Uncle Vanya as Yelena – St James Theatre
- Grapes of Wrath as Rose of Sharon – Chichester Festival Theatre
- Spoonface Steinberg as Spoonface Steinberg – Etcetera Theatre and King's Head Theatre
- The Importance of Being Earnest as Cecily Cardew – Vaudeville Theatre and others[4]
- Sweet Charity as Charity – Rose Bruford Drama School at Battersea Arts Centre
Video games
- Mass Effect: Andromeda (2017) as Keri T'Vessa[6]
TV adverts
- BT Infinity Broadband (2012) as Anna
Audio drama and podcasts
- Gaslight as Bella Manningham - BBC Radio 4 / BBC Sounds, written by Patrick Hamilton, adapted by Jonathan Holloway, directed by Johnny Vegas, with James Purefoy and Cathy Tyson (2023)[7]
References
- ^ "Rebecca Night". BTVGuide. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
- ^ BBC Four gets turned on to Andrew Davies' steamy adaptation of Fanny Hill, BBC (13 July 2007)
- ^ "Rebecca Night". Playbill.
- ^ a b Power, Chris (13 January 2008). "Rising star: Rebecca Night, actor". The Observer. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014 – via The Guardian.
- ^ "Starlings - Rebecca Night interview (exclusive) - Your London Reviews". IndieLondon. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Rebecca Night". Behind The Voice Actors.
- ^ "Media Centre: Gaslight". BBC. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
External links
- Rebecca Night at IMDb
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