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Anna Madeley

ActorBorn March 8, 1976 (48 years)
Anna Madeley is an English actress. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". She grew up in London and started her career as a child actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in BBC TV films and on Channel 4. Anna has also done work in radio and film.

Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company: 2001-2002; and 2003-2004. She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher.

In 2005 she appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist (directed by David Grindley) and The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy.

In 2006, Madeley starred in two BBC TV films - as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, and in the original drama Aftersun - and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders.

In 2007, Madeley appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, Madeley played Nina in a production of The Seagull for a time, when the main actress fell ill.

She was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist.

In 2010 she appeared The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010.

In January 2013 Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw.

In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • A Fantastic Fear of Everything
  • The Ones Below
  • The Mercy
  • Affinity
  • The Royal
  • A Dinner of Herbs

Known For

  • All Creatures Great & Small (2020)
  • Patrick Melrose
  • Deadwater Fell
  • Brideshead Revisited
  • Code of a Killer
  • The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
  • Affinity
  • A Gentleman in Moscow
  • The Ones Below
  • The Child in Time
  • Secret State
  • Sitting in Limbo

Filmography

2024
A Gentleman in Moscow (TV Series) · as Narrator
2023
Secret Invasion (TV Series) · as Pamela Lawton
2022
Anatomy of a Scandal (TV Series) · as Ellie Frisk
2021
Time (2021) (TV Series) · as Anne Warren
2020
All Creatures Great & Small (2020) (TV Series) · as Mrs Hall
2020
National Theatre at Home: Les Blancs · as Dr. Martha Gotterling
2020
Sitting in Limbo · as Amelia Gentleman
2020
Unprecedented (TV Series) · as Annie
2020
Deadwater Fell (TV Series) · as Kate Kendrick
2018
2018
The Little Stranger · as Anne Granger
2018
Patrick Melrose (TV Series) · as Mary Melrose
2018
The Mercy · as Sara Milburn
2017
The Child in Time · as Rachel Murray
2016
The Crown (TV Series) · as Clarissa Eden
2015
2015
Doctor Foster (TV Series) · as Lucy
2015
Code of a Killer (TV Series) · as Sue Jeffreys
2014
The Crucible · as Elizabeth Proctor
2013
Crossing Lines (TV Series) · as Anne Schutte
2013
Utopia (TV Series) · as Anya Levchenko
2013
Mr Selfridge (TV Series) · as Miss Ravillious
2012
Secret State (TV Series) · as Gina Hayes
2012
Strawberry Fields · as Gillian
2012
2012
2011
The Reckoning (TV Series) · as Victoria Sturridge
2010
2009
Law & Order: UK (TV Series) · as Kayleigh Gaines
2008
Affinity · as Margaret
2008
Crooked House (TV Series) · as Katherine
2008
The Children (TV Series) · as Polly
2008
2008
In Bruges · as Denise
2008
Sense & Sensibility (2008) (TV Series) · as Lucy Steele
2007
The Old Curiosity Shop · as Betsy Qulip
2007
Consent · as Rebecca 'becky' Palmer
2006
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton · as Isabella Beeton
2006
The Outsiders · as Erica Chapman
2006
Aftersun · as Esther
2006
Lewis (TV Series) · as Anne Sadikov
2005
Stoned · as Stones' Receptionist
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple (TV Series) · as Adele Fortescue
2004
Hustle (TV Series) · as Jennifer Hughes
2004
The Rivals · as Lydia Languish
2003
The Royal (TV Series) · as Nurse Samantha Beaumont
2000
A Dinner of Herbs (TV Series) · as Florrie Roystan
2000
Waking the Dead (TV Series) · as Anna Vaspovic
1999
Guest House Paradiso · as Saucy Wood Nymph
1997
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (TV Series) · as Petra
1997
Dad (TV Series) · as Tasmin
1997
Cold Feet (TV Series) · as Emma
1996
Silent Witness (TV Series) · as Anna Lawson
1989
Back Home · as School Girl
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as Barbara Franklin

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