Saskia Reeves

Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961)[1][2] is an English actress best

Saskia Reeves
known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and I.D.
(1995), and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune. Born Saskia Reeves
16 August 1961
Paddington, London,
England
Contents
Nationality British
Early life and education
Occupation Actress
Career
Years active 1984–present
Screen credits
References
External links

Early life and education

Born and brought up in Twickenham and Paddington, London with her younger sister Imogen, by her Dutch
mother and English father, Reeves attended the Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton and then studied at
London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Career
Early in her career she performed in puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community
Theatre.

Her television credits include Spooks, The Commander and the Bodies finale. Her stage work includes
productions at London's National and Royal Court theatres as well as on international tour.

In addition to her acting career, Reeves does voice work, including commercials, narration, and book
readings.[3]

In 2008, she starred in English Touring Theatre's revival of Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye at the
Trafalgar Studios in London.

In 2010, she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of John Darwin, in BBC4's Canoe Man, a dramatisation of
the John Darwin disappearance case,[4] and co-starred in the BBC1 series Luther.

In 2011, Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part
adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC4.[5]

Screen credits
Close My Eyes (1991)
December Bride (1991)
 Antonia and Jane (1991)
The Bridge (1992)
Traps (1994)
Summer Day's Dream (1994, TV production)
I.D. (1995)
Butterfly Kiss (1995)
Cruel Train (1996, TV film)
Plotlands (1996 TV Series) as (Chloe Marsh)
Christmas Carol (1999, TV film)
Heart (1999)
Frank Herbert's Dune (2000, TV miniseries) as Lady Jessica
The Tesseract (2003)
Waking the Dead: Breaking Glass (2003, TV series) as Dr. Laurie Poole
Island at War (2004, TV series)
A Line in the Sand (2004, TV movie)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2006, TV series)
City of Birds (2008)
The Fixer (2008, TV series)
Me and Orson Welles (2009) as Barbara Luddy
Midsomer Murders: The Sword of Guillaume (2009, TV series) as Marcia Macintyre
Canoe Man (2010, TV drama)
Luther (2010, TV series)
Wallander (2010, TV series)
Women in Love (2011) as Anna Brangwen in the first part of BBC television's two-part series
Lewis: Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things (2011, TV series) as Alison McLennan
Page Eight (2011, TV movie) as Anthea Catcheside
Vera (2013, TV series) as Laura Marsden
NTSF:SD:SUV:: (2013, TV series) as P.M.O.T.R.N.
Nymphomaniac (2013)
From There to Here (2014)
Mindscape (2014)
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
Wolf Hall (2015)
Shetland (2016, BBC TV)
Midsomer Murders: A Dying Art (2016, TV series) as Summer Pitt
President Under Siege (2016) as President of the United States
Our Kind of Traitor (2016) as Tamara
The Child in Time (2017, BBC TV) as Thelma
Collateral (2018) as Deborah Clifford

References
1. "Portrait of the artist: Saskia Reeves, actor" (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/
oct/21/theatre) The Guardian (21 October 2008). Retrieved 27 February 2012.
2. Miss Saskia Reeves (http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/903276352) company-
director-check.co.uk. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
 3. "VocalPoint.net profile" (http://vocalpoint.net). VocalPoint.net. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
4. "Canoe Man" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rs2kc). BBC Online. Retrieved 26 March
2010.
5. "Women in Love, BBC Four, preview" (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/839902
8/Women-in-Love-BBC-Four-preview.html).

External links
Saskia Reeves (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716293/) on IMDb

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