Daisy Donovan
Daisy Donovan ( born July 11, 1975 in Brooklyn, New York) is a British actress, writer and producer.
Life and career
Through its birth in 1975 on American soil in the New York City borough of Brooklyn Brit Daisy Donovan became automatically the U.S. citizenship. Her parents are the British fashion photographer and film director Terence Donovan and his wife, Diana Donovan, the director of the English National Ballet School. Her brother Terry Donovan is co-founder of Rockstar Games. Dan Donovan, keyboardist of the former band Big Audio Dynamite, is her half-brother.
Daisy Donovan attended St. Paul's Girls School in London's Hammersmith. She studied classical music at Cambridge University, but dropped out of this study and moved to Edinburgh University, there to demonstrate a degree in performing arts. After graduating, she went to the renowned London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Early in her career she worked in 1998 as a receptionist and messenger in the first episodes of The Eleven O'Clock Show. Their producers were looking for a female presenter and were successful in their posh speaking receptionist Daisy Donovan. In the following years she directed shows like Does Doug Know? and Daisy Does America. In addition to her work as a television presenter she is also known as an actress. In German-speaking she became known for her role of Martha in the 2007 British black comedy released Death at a Funeral next lead actor Matthew Macfadyen.
Donovan married in 2005 in Morocco, her longtime boyfriend, British comedian and producer Dan Mazer.
Filmography
Movies
TV series
- 2000: My Family (7 episodes )
- 2004: Agatha Christie's Poirot ( Episode role )
- 2005: Coming Up ( Episode role )