Madeleine Potter
Madeleine Potter ( * ca 1964 in Washington, DC) is an American actress, who appears in the film, on television and on the stage in appearance. It was to a wider audience, especially through her work in four films with director James Ivory.
Biography
She grew up as the daughter of a diplomat. Her acting work, she began in the early 1980s with roles in small private theaters and theater festivals in New York City, where she soon took over leading roles. In 1984 she stood as Olivia in the comedy As You Like It ( Twelfth Night ) by William Shakespeare on the stage of New York Triplex Theatre, from 1984 to 1985 as Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Folger Theatre in her hometown of Washington. Other theater roles in New York followed. At the same time she began to take on roles in film and television. She had a supporting role in the 1983 CBS production Svengali next Jodie Foster and Peter O'Toole. In 1984 she played in her screen debut, the ladies of Boston for the first time under the direction of James Ivory - the only time in a supporting lead role. In the film based on a novel by Henry James, it embodies as Verena Tarrant, a young woman by a man ( Christopher Reeve ) and a woman (Vanessa Redgrave ) is sought simultaneously. The films brought Redgrave an Oscar nomination. Other films in Ivory's director were minor roles in Slaves of New York ( 1989) ( Tama Janowitz after ) with Bernadette Peters and Chris Sarandon and The Golden Bowl ( by Henry James ) with Kate Beckinsale and Nick Nolte. In 2005 she developed the supporting role of Grushenka in The White Countess (2005) from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. In addition, she appeared in smaller film productions and in television dramas in the U.S. and the UK. In 1990, she starred in the Italian horror film Due occhi Episonde diabolici ( based on themes by Edgar Allan Poe ) by Dario Argento and George A. Romero in the episode The Black Cat a supporting role opposite Harvey Keitel, Martin Balsam, and Kim Hunter.
Since 2000, Potter is in addition to their film and television work is a frequent guest on London's theaters, where they can be seen in socio-critical pieces of younger contemporary authors.
From the union with the Irish actor Patrick Fitzgerald she has a daughter, Madeleine Daly, who is also an actress.