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Lady Macbeth is a 2016 British period drama film directed by William Oldroyd and produced by Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly. Written for the screen by Alice Birch, it is based on the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. It stars Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie (in her film debut) and Christopher ...
Kate Fleetwood (born 24 September 1972) is an English actress. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, at Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End and Broadway and an Olivier Award nomination in 2012 for her performance as Julie in London Road at the National Theatre.
Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). As the wife of the play's tragic hero, Macbeth (a Scottish nobleman), Lady Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide, after which she becomes queen of Scotland. Some regard her as becoming more powerful than Macbeth when she does this ...
After Lady Macbeth she played Desdemona, Rosalind, Ophelia, and Volumnia, all with great success; but it was as Queen Catherine in Henry VIII that she discovered a part almost as well adapted to her acting powers as that of Lady Macbeth. [1] She once told Samuel Johnson that Catherine was her favourite role, as it was the most natural. [19]
Lady Macbeth: Katherine Lester: Emily Beecham: Daphne: Daphne Frances McDormand: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Mildred Hayes Maggie Mulubwa I Am Not a Witch: Shula Ruth Wilson: Dark River: Alice 2018 [36] [37] Olivia Colman: The Favourite: Queen Anne: Gemma Arterton: The Escape: Tara Jessie Buckley: Beast: Moll Maxine Peake: Funny ...
Her stage career flourished after the war, and as a Shakespearean leading lady at Stratford, in London's West End and on tour in Australia, she had her pick of star parts. . Between 1948 and 1952, she played Portia, Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Katherine the shrew, Desdemona, Katherine of Aragon, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, and Beatrice to Gielgud's Benedick in Much Ado About Nothi
Aikaterini Hadjipateras [1] [2] [3] (Greek: Αικατερίνη Χατζηπατέρα; born 9 April 1957 [4] [5] [6]), known professionally as Kathryn Hunter, is a British–American actress and theatre director, known for her appearances as Arabella Figg in the Harry Potter film series, Eedy Karn in the Disney+ Star Wars spinoff series Andor, as the Three Witches in Joel Coen's The Tragedy ...
Charles Kean (left) and Ellen Terry in The Winter's Tale, 1856. Terry was born in Coventry, England, the third surviving child born into a theatrical family. [2] Her parents, Benjamin (1818–1896), of Irish descent, and Sarah (née Ballard; 1819–1892), of Scottish ancestry, were comic actors in a Portsmouth-based touring company, [3] [4] (where Sarah's father was a Wesleyan minister) and ...