Zoë Wanamaker
'In Conversation' 6This week's guest:
Zoë Wanamaker, currently appearing as Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday in the Olivier.
Zoë Wanamaker is an NT Associate, and has received a total of three Tony, eleven Olivier and three Bafta Award nominations. Theatre credits include Battle Royal, The Crucible, Mrs Klein, The Bay at Nice, Wrecked Eggs and The Importance of Being Earnest at the National; Boston Marriage at the Donmar Warehouse and Ambassadors; Electra at Chichester, the Donmar, the
Barrymore Theatre New York and McCarter Theatre, Princeton and for which she received a Variety, Olivier and Tony Award; The Old Neighbourhood at the Royal Court; Sylvia at the Apollo Theatre; The Glass Menagerie at the Donmar and Comedy Theatres; Dead Funny at Hampstead and the Vaudeville Theatre; The Last Yankee at the Young Vic. For the RSC, Othello (also at the Young Vic), Mother Courage (for which she won a Drama Award), Time Of Your Life, A Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Piaf (also in the West End and New York and for which, with Loot, she received a Tony nomination), Once in a Lifetime (also at Wyndhams and Piccadilly, directed by Trevor Nunn, and for which she won a SWET Award), The Taming of the Shrew, Captain Swing, Wild Oats, Ivanov and The Devil¹s Disciple, Trumpets and Drums, Servant of Two Masters, Pygmalion and A Streetcar Named Desire at Nottingham Playhouse, the latter two directed by Richard Eyre; Guys and Dolls and A Midsummer Night¹s Dream for Manchester 69 Company. TV credits include My Family (Series 1,2,3 and 4), David Copperfield, Leprechauns, Gormanghast, A Dance to the Music of Time, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (directed by Katie Mitchell), The English Wife, Countess Alice, Memento Mori, Blackheath Poisonings, Love Hurts, Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse and Othello. Film credits Harry Potter and the Philosopher¹s Stone, Swept from the Sea, Wilde, The Raggedy Rawney, The Hunger, Inside the Third Reich and The Last Ten days of Hitler. Zoë has been awarded two Honorary Doctorates of Literature, is a trustee of The Globe theatre and was honoured with a CBE by the Queen.
'In Conversation' - A Summer series of informal conversations with National Theatre actors, chaired by Al Senter. Your chance to ask questions and find out more about their work over afternoon tea in the Terrace Café.
Doors open at 2.30pm (90 mins)
Tickets £8 (including tea)
Zoë Wanamaker finished on: 5 September 2003
