Jane Lapotaire
Jane Lapotaire ( born December 26, 1944 in Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom) is a British film and stage actress, Shakespearean actress and author.
Life
Jane comes from a brief relationship with her mother Louise, a U.S. soldier. As her mother felt overwhelmed with the child, Jane grew from the third month of life by her grandmother. When her mother remarried in 1957, she was adopted by her stepfather, the Frenchman Yves Lapotaire, but remained with her grandmother.
Was educated Jane Lapotaire at the drama school at the Bristol Old Vic Theatres, where she made her debut in the play When We Were Married and his ensemble she belonged from 1965 to 1967. After a first film role in Isadora (1968 ), she moved only for three years for newly established London National Theatre, where she mainly acted under the direction of Laurence Olivier in supporting roles, and 1970 of her co-founded the Young Vic Theatre Company, where she and a as Catherine was now occupied in the taming of the Shrew and Jocasta in Oedipus usually for lead roles.
For ten years, played Jane Lapotaire then primarily in Shakespearean comedies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company. In between she came again and again in films and TV movies, including 1971 in Antony and Cleopatra and Marie Curie in 1977 as the eponymous television series. 1980 Jane Lapotaire embodied in the play Piaf by Pam Gems, the famous French singer Édith Piaf so convincing that they are a year later received the Tony Award for the role in the Broadway production as best actress.
To this day, Switch has since appeared in films and engagements at theaters in the UK and the USA from.
In addition, Jane Lapotaire worked as a drama teacher at the British American Drama Academy ( BADA ), The Actors Centre in London and at Washington University in St. Louis. The late nineties she wrote Shakespeare As I Knew Her ( Shakespeare, as I knew it ), an autobiographical play about her career as a Shakespearean actress.
In January 2000, Jane Lapotaire suffered a brain haemorrhage while a Shakespeare master class taught in Paris. However, they rebounded with difficulty and was able to continue her career.
Jane Lapotaire is, among other honorary member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
From 1965 to 1967 she was married to Oliver Wood and 1971-1980 with the director and producer Roland Joffé, who is also the father of her son Rowan (born 1972 ) is.
Honors
Filmography
Writings
- Grace And Favour. London: Pan, 1990 ISBN 0330311727.
- Out Of Order. A a haphazard journey through one what 's year. London: Kyle Cathie, 1999 ISBN 1856263169.
- Time Out Of Mind. London: Virago, 2003 ISBN 1860499775.