Lesley Nicol (actress)

Lesley Nicol ( born 1953 in Manchester ) is a British film, theater and musicals.

Life

Lesley Nicol grew up in Irlam, Lancashire, the daughter of a Scottish family doctor and a Welsh actress. Already during his school years in Manchester, she worked at the Library Theatre. After she graduated in the early 1970s, a three-year course at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Since then she has worked as an actress. Your career as a musical performer, she began in the rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar. After working in various UK theaters, she performed in London's West End theater district, where she represented the Rosie in the jukebox musical Mamma Mia three years. In Our House, she starred in the role of Kath Casey.

Since the mid- 1980s she also appeared in various television series and films. In 1988 she was in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe to see a woman beaver. 1990 saw the role of the giant queen in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair. Since 2010, it found in the British television series Downton Abbey, the cook Mrs. Patmore represents the animal rights activist and a vegetarian can not cook very well, contrary to the expectations of their fans what to when creating a Downton Abbey - cookbook for a charity event some difficulty in choosing their favorite recipe led.

Lesley Nicol has been married since 2007.

Filmography (selection)

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