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Emma Cunniffe (born 3 July 1973) is an English film, stage and television actress.
Early life
Cunniffe was raised in
Frodsham
Frodsham is a market town, civil parish, and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Its population was 8,982 in 2001, increasing to 9,077 at the 2011 Census. It is s ...
,
Cheshire and attended
Frodsham High School. She was in the local Frodsham panto group whilst growing up and was once in a pantomime with
Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow (born 20 January 1971) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. He is the lead singer of the British pop group Take That.
Barlow is one of the United Kingdom's most successful songwriters, havi ...
. Originally it was dance she was into, until she went to theatre school at the age of 13 and fell in love with drama.
Career
Her television credits include ''
Hetty Wainthrop Investigates'' (Chrissy in 'Safe as Houses', 1996), ''
The Lakes'' (
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1997, 1999), "Biddy" in a TV adaptation of ''
Great Expectations'', ''
All the King's Men
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'', ''
Clash of the Santas'', alongside
Robson Green
Robson Golightly Green (born 18 December 1964) is an English actor, angler, singer-songwriter and presenter.
His first major TV role was as hospital porter Jimmy Powell in BBC drama series '' Casualty'' in 1989. He then went on to portray Fusi ...
and
Mark Benton
Mark Benton (born 16 November 1965) is an English actor and television presenter known for his roles as Eddie in ''Early Doors'', Howard in '' Northern Lights'' and Martin Pond in '' Barbara''. Benton has also starred in the BBC One school-base ...
, ''
Clocking Off
''Clocking Off'' is a British television drama series which was broadcast on BBC One for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott.
It was effectively an an ...
'' (BBC), and ''Flesh and Blood'' with
Christopher Eccleston.
[
] She played DS Tina Murray in
New Tricks
''New Tricks'' is a British television police procedural
The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the ...
(S3:E4 Diamond Geezers, 2006.). She also appeared in the
sixth series ''
Doctor Who'' episode "
Night Terrors", alongside the
Eleventh Doctor
The Eleventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. He is played by Matt Smith in three series as well as five specials. As with previous incarnations of the Doct ...
played by
Matt Smith
Matthew Robert Smith (born 28 October 1982) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC series '' Doctor Who'' (2010–2013), Daemon Targaryen in the HBO series '' House of the Dr ...
. She appeared in the BBC documentary ''The Genius of Mozart'' as
Constanze, Wolfgang's wife. In 2009, she played Carol Boynton in the ITV adaptation of ''
Appointment with Death
''Appointment with Death'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 May 1938 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retai ...
'', in series 11 of ''
Agatha Christie's Poirot
''Poirot'' (also known as ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'') is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. David Suchet starred as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Her ...
''. In mid-2014, she played DS Hawthorn in ''
Coronation Street'', investigating the circumstances of the attack on and subsequent death of
Tina McIntyre
Tina McIntyre is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Portrayed by Michelle Keegan, the character first appeared on-screen during the episode that was shown 7 January 2008. The character was central to ma ...
(
Michelle Keegan
Michelle Elizabeth Keegan (born 3 June 1987) is an English actress, known for her roles as Tina McIntyre in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' and Sergeant Georgie Lane in the BBC drama series '' Our Girl''. Keegan also starred as Tra ...
) and on 5 January 2015, she played Kenzie Calhoun's mother, Ailsa in ''
Waterloo Road''
On stage, she won the
UK Theatre Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in ''
The Master Builder
''The Master Builder'' ( no, Bygmester Solness) is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
It was first published in December 1892 and is regarded as one of Ibsen's more significant and revealing works.
Performance
The play was published ...
'' in 2000. Her other stage work includes ''Tales from Hollywood'', ''
Losing Louis'' at the Trafalgar Studios in
London
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and in 2006 ''
Women Beware Women
''Women Beware Women'' is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton, and first published in 1657.
Date
The date of authorship of the play is deeply uncertain. Scholars have estimated its origin anywhere from 1612 to 1627; 1623–24 has be ...
'' for the
Royal Shakespeare Company in
Stratford-upon-Avon.
She was nominated for "what's on stage" award in 2011 for her role as
Elizabeth Proctor in ''
The Crucible
''The Crucible'' is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as ...
'' at
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is an open-air theatre in Regent's Park in central London.
The theatre
Established in 1932, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is one of the largest theatres in London (1,256 seats) and is situated in Queen Mary†...
.
In 2015 she appeared as Mabel Grayson in the BBC TV series ''
Father Brown
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English author G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intui ...
'' episode 3.9 "The Truth in the Wine". The same year, she appeared as
the eponymous monarch in the RSC's production of
Helen Edmundson's ''
Queen Anne''. In September 2019, she appeared in four episodes of ''
Doctors'' as Dr Janet Fielding.
Personal life
Cunniffe lives in London with her husband, Rufus Jones, who she married in 2008.
Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre credits
References
External links
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Living people
English television actresses
English stage actresses
1973 births
Actors from Chester