Judy Parfitt
Judy Parfitt ( born November 7, 1935 in Sheffield, England) is a British actress. She began her career on stage, playing since the 1960s but also supporting roles in television productions and feature films.
Biography
Judy Parfitt received her acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ). She made her stage debut in 1954 in the play Fools Rush In. Starting in 1962, took over Parfitt also supporting roles in television and film productions, including television series like the British production The Avengers and melon as well as from the year 2000 in several episodes of the American television series ER.
Her work in the theater sat Parfitt while constantly continuing and aired it out on Gertrude in Shakespeare's Hamlet at the side of Anthony Hopkins as Claudius and Marianne Faithfull as Ophelia, both on stage and in a big screen adaptation of 1969. Besides classic pieces such as The Cherry Orchard and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi she also played in contemporary productions such as Vivat! Vivat Regina! by John Bolt in London's West End theater district. For television, she stood mainly for historical and literary material in front of the camera, such as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ( in an adaptation of Fay Weldon ) and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. They often played queens, duchesses and other aristocrats.
Since 1995, she took on increasingly supporting roles in American cinema productions, its most conspicuous among them the roles of the bedridden Vera Donovan in the movie Dolores alongside Kathy Bates and her portrayal of the mother of the painter Vermeer likely to be the girl with the pearl earring in the movie for which it 2004 nomination at the British Academy film Awards received. On Broadway, she starred opposite Matthew Broderick in 1999 in a production of psychodrama Night Must Fall of Welsh playwright Emlyn Williams.
Parfitt heard as a successful graduate of the Academy to the associates of RADA, exercising a kind of tutor function for current students of the Academy. Professionally, she currently works with on a TV series adaptation of Dickens ' Little Dorrit.
Judy Parfitt was from 1963 married to actor Tony Steedman, who died in 2001. She has a son and two granddaughters. Parfitt lives in Sussex in southern England.