Rita Wolf

Rita Wolf (born Rita Ghose^[1]) is an American British actress born in Kolkata, India.

Recipient of a Beinecke Fellowship at The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale College in early 2024 where she appeared in Caryl Churchill’s play “ Escaped Alone” at Yale Rep Theatre. US theatre credits include premieres of work by Tony Kushner ("Homebody/Kabul" at NY Theatre Workshop, also at BAM) and Richard Nelson ("The Michaels" at The Public Theatre and "The Michaels Abroad" at Hunter College). She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her role in "The American Pilot" by David Greig at Manhattan Theatre Club and appeared most recently with NAATCO in "Out of Time" at The Public Theatre directed by Les Waters. Wolf moved from Kolkata, India to London as a child and began her professional acting career with Joint Stock Theatre Company at The Royal Court Theatre, London in Hanif Kureishi's Borderline. She appeared on British television and in several London theatre productions, including the first professional production of pioneering S. Asian Theatre Company Tara Arts, then had her first leading film role in Retake Film and Video Collective's 1984 movie Majdhar, where she played, Fawzia a young Pakistani woman in 1980's Britain. Since then, she has had major parts on stage and screen in both the United States and the United Kingdom. After playing Tania in Kureishi/ Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette, she had television roles in Albion Market, Coronation Street, Tandoori Nights, Farrukh Dhondy's Romance, Romance, Calling the Shots, and Wing and a Prayer. She also appeared in Jack Gold's film The Chain, Steven Lisberger's Slipstream and Pratibha Parmar's Khush.^[2] Recent theatrical work in New York includes Richard Nelson's The Michaels and Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance.

In 1989, Wolf and writer

Wolf has lived in New York City for three decades. As a child, her daughter, Anjeli Chapman had a major role in the independent film The War Within. Her son, Kiran Chapman was featured as a child in A Heartbeat to Baghdad, a play about the Iraq War at The Flea Theatre NYC.

Filmography

• Majdhar (1984) as Fawzia Khan
• The Chain (1984) as Carrie
• My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) as Tania
• Slipstream (1989) as Maya
• Khush (1991)
• Girl 6
  (1996)
• Second Generation (2003)

Television

• Wing and a Prayer (UK)
• Calling the Shots (UK)
• Coronation Street (UK) (1990) as Felicity 'Flick' Khan
• Law & Order (US)
• Tandoori Nights (UK)
• The Good Wife (US)

Theatre

• Borderline
• Homebody / Kabul
• The House of Bernarda Alba
• The American Pilot
• Chaos Theory
• An Ordinary Muslim
• The Michaels
• Out of Time
• A Delicate Balance

Escaped Alone

References

• BBC: "The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy", accessed 15 October 2005
• The Kali Theatre: "About Us: The People: Rita Wolf", accessed 14 October 2005
• The New York Times: "The New York Times: Movies: Rita Wolf", accessed 15 October 2005

The American Pilot

External links

• Rita Wolf at
  IMDb