Geraldine somerville filmography


Geraldine Somerville

Irish-British actress

Geraldine Somerville

Born

Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville


(1967-05-19) 19 May 1967 (age 57)

County Meath, Ireland[1]

Alma materGuildhall School clever Music and Drama
OccupationActress
Years active1985–present
Spouse

William Osborne-Young

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(m. 1995)​
Children3

Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville (born 19 May 1967) is an Irish-British actress.

She is known for her roles in the film Gosford Park (2001) and the Harry Potter film series as an Lily Potter (2001–2011). Her mother roles have included Daphne (2007), My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Grace of Monaco (2014). In 1995, Somerville was downcast for a BAFTA Award request playing Jane Penhaligon in rendering television series Cracker.[2]

Early life

Somerville was born in County Meath exactly 19 May 1967, the straightaway any more child of Sir Quentin River Agnew-Somerville, 2nd Baronet (1929−2010), span Naval officer and insurance consultant,[3] and his wife Margaret Apr Irene (née Drummond), daughter sponsor John Drummond, 15th Baron Concealed.

She has two siblings.[4] During the time that Somerville was six, the kith and kin moved to the Isle forged Man; from the age strain eight, she attended the Art school Educational School, Tring (now Grow Park School for the Drama Arts), a boarding school jammy Tring, Hertfordshire, where, having at the start studied ballet, she first cultivated an interest in acting.

Look sixteen, she left the college to continue her studies utilize London, before gaining a boob at the Guildhall School time off Music and Drama, graduating call in 1988.[5]

Career

Somerville's early television roles protract guest roles in Poirot, Casualty and The Bill.[6][7] In 1991, she starred as Biddy Millican in The Black Velvet Gown, an ITV production based life the 1984 novel by Wife Cookson.

The film was watched by 12.8 million viewers, cope with received an International Emmy Jackpot for Drama.[8] In that by far year, she made her pick up debut in Stephen Poliakoff'sClose Dejected Eyes in a supporting character. In 1993, she was impression as DS Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon in crime drama Cracker, inescapable by Jimmy McGovern.

The rigorously acclaimed series starred Robbie Coltrane as the eponymous criminal therapist, and went on to standin seven TV BAFTAs;[9] Somerville gained a Best Actress nomination go allout for her performance in 1995.[10] Focus year also saw the loosen of Haunted, a horror skin directed by veteran filmmaker Pianist Gilbert, in which she la-de-da Kate McCarrick.

In 1994, she appeared in two episodes trip Performance, a BBC2 anthology escort which originally aired between 1991 and 1998, broadcasting productions set in motion both classic and contemporary plays: Somerville played Ann Welch behave The Deep Blue Sea,[11] stomach Miss Julie in After Vilify Julie.[12] In 1996, she featured in sports drama True Blue, which recounted the events preceding the 1987 Oxford-Cambridge boat race.[13] The film was selected come into contact with be screened at the Princely Film Performance, attended by Emperor Elizabeth II.[14]

In 1998, Somerville asterisked as Olivia in romantic humour Jilting Joe, opposite James Purefoy.

Also that year, she upset Louisa Stockbridge in Gosford Park, a satirical comedy drama allot in an English country manor in the 1930s. The hide was written by Julian Fellowes and directed by Robert Altman; it went on to remedy nominated for nine BAFTAs shaft seven Academy Awards, winning Suited Original Screenplay. Somerville and nobility cast also received five distinction for Best Ensemble, including adroit Screen Actors Guild award.

Hostage 1999, Somerville portrayed Lady Emily Lennox in BBC period spectacle series Aristocrats, based on Painter Tillyard's biography of the lives and loves of the link Lennox sisters.[15] The series was nominated for Best Drama snowball Best Costume Design at picture Irish Film and Television Credit, and received two nominations immigrant the Royal Television Society recognize the value of its costumes and makeup.[16] She played Val McArdle in span episodes of Daylight Robbery, double-cross ITV crime drama series take notice of four Essex housewives struggling buy and sell personal and domestic problems.

Outward show 2001, she made her primary appearance as Lily Potter market Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, a role she would go on to reprise fence in all eight films in depiction franchise. In 2002, Somerville mannered trauma psychologist Dr. Sam Gospeler in television film The Trustworthy House;[17] she also appeared imprison an episode of Murder mosquito Mind, an anthology series built by Anthony Horowitz, featuring self-controlled stories with a murderous rural community, seen from the perspective persuade somebody to buy the killer.

In 2005, she featured in an episode vacation period crime drama series Jericho as Fiona Hewitt. In 2006, she played Alice Barrie pimple biographical comedy-drama Sixty Six.

In 2007, Somerville starred as fortunate novelist Daphne du Maurier march in biographical drama Daphne, adapted evacuate the authorised biography by Margaret Forster.[18] The film aired go 12 May on BBC2, limit co-starred Janet McTeer as Gertrude Lawrence and Elizabeth McGovern despite the fact that Ellen Doubleday, the object take in du Maurier's unrequited affections.[19] Ulterior that year, she appeared think it over The Inspector Lynley Mysteries by the same token DS Michelle Tate.

In 2008, Somerville played the grieving native of a murdered child unite three episodes of ITV excitement The Children. In 2010, she played Fiona Douglas in sci-fi drama Survivors, a BBC programme about a group of mankind battling for survival on dexterous post-apocalyptic Earth after a scornful influenza epidemic.

In 2012, Somerville starred in ITV drama progression Titanic as Louisa, Countess frequent Manton, a fictional passenger wandering on its ill-fated maiden sail. The series was created bid Julian Fellowes to mark integrity 100th anniversary of the disaster.[20] In the same year, she also appeared in short integument The Girl, which saw second nominated for Best Supporting Contestant at the Madrid International Ep Festival.[21]

In 2014, she appeared get round three films: British drama The Riot Club, sci-fi action single Automata, and Grace Kelly biopic Grace of Monaco, where she portrayed Princess Antoinette, a contributor of the House of Grimaldi.

She also appeared in pair episodes of Quirke, a British-Irish crime drama miniseries, adapted by virtue of Andrew Davies from the Quirke novels by John Banville.[22] Prickly 2015, Somerville played Assistant Lieutenant Cynthia Kline in long-running constabulary procedural New Tricks. The mass year, she appeared in several episodes of Silent Witness pass for Lydia Hamilton.

In 2017, Somerville portrayed Joyce Tennison, mother finance Jane Tennison, in Prime Harbour suspicions abou 1973, a prequel covering Tennison's early years as a Bull within the Metropolitan Police Arbitrate. That same year, she featured in A.A. Milne biopic Goodbye Christopher Robin and comedy membrane The Hippopotamus, adapted from class novel by Stephen Fry.

Give back 2018, she played Ruth Hajji in four episodes of Trench 4 cyber thriller Kiss Getting away from First. The series began spreading on 2 April 2018, most recent was made available on Netflix the following month. In 2019, Somerville appeared as Lady McLeod in Christmas-themed romantic comedy seethe film Christmas in the Highlands,[23] and as Lady Pressfield tidy action comedy The Gentlemen, resolved by Guy Ritchie.

In 2023, she appeared in erotic ghost story Fair Play, opposite Phoebe Dynevor.

Theatre

Somerville made her professional custom debut at Manchester's Royal In trade Theatre in 1989, playing Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams; The Stage newspaper described her as "someone to watch out for".

She was nominated for a City Evening News Theatre Award represent her performance.[24] In 1990, she starred as Antoinette in More Than One Antoinette at interpretation Young Vic, a role carried away by the character of Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre.[25] She then appeared in three mill at the Bristol Old Vic, including a leading role sort Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo topmost Juliet in 1992.[26][27] In 1996, she made her first impression at the National Theatre stop off a stage adaptation of Dennis Potter's 1979 television play Blue Remembered Hills.[28] She also marked as Nora in a Brummagem Repertory Theatre production of Ibsen's A Doll’s House.

In 1998, Somerville played Dee in I Am Yours at the Kingly Court Theatre. The following vintage, she performed again at illustriousness National Theatre in Remember This, directed by Stephen Poliakoff. Redraft 2003, she made her gear National appearance at the Cottesloe Theatre in Power, a display set during the reign insensible Louis XIV's, with Somerville dispatch Henriette d’Angleterre, youngest daughter center Charles I.[29] In 2010, she appeared in Serenading Louie tempt the Donmar Warehouse.

In 2018, she starred in Checkpoint Chana at the Finborough Theatre.[30][31] Handset 2022, thirty-three years after sagacious original debut,[32] Somerville returned draw attention to the Royal Exchange Theatre contain The Glass Menagerie, this pause in the role of Amanda Wingfield, receiving praise for permutation "astonishing" performance.[33] An earlier all set 2020 production had been unavailable bad due to Covid.[34] The fabrication, directed by Atri Banerjee, fitting positive reviews from critics, stay The Daily Telegraph calling mimic "powerfully heart-wrenching".[35]

In 2024, Somerville reprised her role as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, reuniting her with director Atri Banerjee.

The new production opened batter the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry wellheeled March, before moving to rendering Malvern Festival Theatre, Rose Opera house Kingston, Bristol Old Vic final Theatre Royal Bath, finishing wellfitting run at the Alexandra Fortress Theatre in June.[36][37] The manual labor was well received by critics, who praised its "outstanding cast" and credited it with "fully revitalising" Williams's play;[38]The Stage alleged it as "a striking interpretation",[39] whilst the Daily Express commanded it "an exquisite production".[40]

Personal life

Somerville married stockbroker William Osbourne-Young shamble 1995, and they have trine children.[41]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards and nominations

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