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Janie Dee

Actor, ProducerBorn June 20, 1962 (63 years)
Janie is an award-winning British actress, singer and musical theatre performer, characterised by her extraordinary versatility in acclaimed work on stage, film, television and radio. Her career embraces everything from Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe, to revivals of classic plays at the Bath Festival, directed by Sir Peter Hall, acclaimed performances in modern dramas and comedies, and leading roles in classic musicals, both in the West End and major regional theatres. Janie is also a passionate champion of new writing. In addition, she regularly performs her own witty and sophisticated cabaret at leading venues including Crazy Coqs, The Hippodrome, The Pheasantry, the St James Studio, Aldeburgh Festival and the 'Divas at the Donmar' season.

Janie has worked closely with contemporary playwrights, particularly Alan Ayckbourn and Michael Frayn, and the late Harold Pinter in numerous productions and has become a renowned interpreter of their work. In recent years, she has also worked with the next generation of outstanding emerging playwrights, including Lucy Kirkwood, whose acclaimed new play NSFW was premiered at The Royal Court in 2012 and for which Janie received her fourth Olivier Award nomination, this time as Best Supporting Actress in a Play, for her performance as glossy womens' magazine editor, Miranda.

Janie is increasingly expanding her work in film and television and has recently completed two feature films; Dare To Be Wild, set in Ireland and written and directed by Vivienne Decourcy and The Trouble With Dot and Harry, opposite Neil Morrissey, written and directed by Sundance Festival Grand Prize-winner, Gary Walkow.

Janie won the three most prestigious awards in British Theatre; the Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award and Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Play, as well as the Obie and Theatre World Best Newcomer Award in New York, for her hilarious and heartbreaking performance as Jacie Triplethree in Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential. She also received the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carrie Pipperidge in Nicholas Hytner's acclaimed production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel at the National Theatre and the TMA UK Theatre Award 2013 for Best Performance in a Musical for her performance as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! at Curve, Leicester.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Official Secrets
  • Midsomer Murders
  • Heartbeat
  • London's Burning
  • Love Me Still

Known For

  • Dare to Be Wild
  • The Burning Girls
  • The Murder Room
  • Death in Holy Orders
  • Celebration
  • Little White Lies

Filmography

2024
2023
The Burning Girls (TV Series) · as Clara Rushton
2023
You & Me (2023) (TV Series) · as Hannah
2019
Official Secrets · as Jan Clements
2019
Chimerica (TV Series) · as Joanna Geary
2017
National Theatre Live: Follies · as Phyllis Rogers Stone
2016
Crashing (TV Series) · as Cara
2015
Dare to Be Wild · as Marigold
2012
2008
Me and Orson Welles · as Mrs. Samuels
2007
2007
Celebration · as Suki
2004
The Murder Room (TV Series) · as Emma Lavenham
2003
Death in Holy Orders (TV Series) · as Emma Lavenham
1998
Little White Lies · as Helen
1997
Midsomer Murders (TV Series) · as Caroline Harrington
1992
Heartbeat (TV Series) · as Sylvia Smith
1992
Love Hurts (TV Series) · as Megan Hood
1988
London's Burning (TV Series) · as Remy
1984
The Bill (TV Series) · as Sandra Stevenson
1975
Arena (1975) (TV Series) · as Various Characters
1967
Look and Read (TV Series) · as Singer

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