Francesca Annis
Acting
Biography
Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress. She is known for television roles in Reckless (1998), Wives and Daughters (1999), Deceit (2000) and Cranford (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the ITV serial Lillie. Her film appearances include Krull (1983), Dune (1984), The Debt Collector (1999) and The Libertine (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Francesca Annis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: May 14, 1945
Place of Birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
Known For
The Comedy of Errors
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.
Lillie
The affair that shook Victorian society to its core: he was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.
Cranford
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Home Fires
The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world. By banding together as the Great Paxford Women’s Institute, they help maintain the nation’s fabric in its darkest hour, and discover inner resources that will change their lives forever.
The Human Jungle
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
Tales from the Crypt
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
Agatha Christie's Marple
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.
Hamlet
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre Royal Windsor to transform it into the immortal Elsinore Castle, from basement dungeon to roof-top battlement.
Copenhagen
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the event became the stuff of modern scientific mythology. Director Howard Davies puts his spin on the momentous meeting that occurred one night in September 1941, during which the longtime friends entered into a dangerous discussion about physics and politics.
Filmography
as Ann Forsyte
as Ghost
as Dame Harriet Kenny
as Vivien
as Lyn Reader
as Carol Bancroft
as Joyce Cameron
as Joyce Hatto
as Valerie
as Lady Ludlow
as Lady Ingram
as Lady Clare Wellesley
as Lily Walker
as Lady Selina Hazy
as Countess
as Margrethe Bohr
as Katiusha (uncredited)
as Hyacinth Gibson
as Val Dryden
as Harriet
as Anna Fairley
as Anna Fairley
as Sophie
as David's Mother
as Angela Berridge
as Leila
as Katya Princip
as Elizabeth Collier
as Elizabeth Collier
as Juliet (voice)
as Sharon Bannister
as Jacqueline Kennedy
as Lily Amberville
as Mrs. Wellington
as Dubarry
as Lady Jessica
as Tuppence
as Tuppence Cowley
as Widow of the Web
as Catherine Frode
as Self
as Galina
as Lady Frances Derwent
as Luciana
as Emilie 'Lillie' Le Breton
as Kate Crowley
as Emma Bovary
as Helen
as Tracy Conway
as Nicole Zachary
as Delphi / Diane
as Sister Clare
as Self
as Lady Macbeth
as Arabella Dainton
as Uptight Girl
as Estella Havisham
as Manuela von Meinhardis
as Helen
as Sally
as Gwen
as Annie Jones
as Helen
as Jean
as Sheila Upward
as June
as Phyl
as Jean
as Eiras
as Mary
as Maria
as Mariella
as Wanda
as Priscilla
as Judy
as Jean
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
as Sylvia
as Amy Racey