Madeleine Worrall (born 1977)Madeleine Worrall Biography
1MDb, Retrieved 3 April 2014 is a Scottish actress. She has worked extensively on stage, in London and across Britain.

Life and career

Born in

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and educated at

the Mary Erskine School The Mary Erskine School (MES) is an all-girls Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1694 and has a roll of around 750 pupils. The majority of its pupils live in the surrounding area ...

there, Worrall was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre (1994). She studied history of Art at the

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from 1995 to 1998 and at the

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(LAMDA) in 2000. In 2003 she played Irina in

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's ''Three Sisters'' with

Kristin Scott Thomas Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994) and the Olivi ...

and Kate Burton in the West End. She appeared as Sonya in John Byrne's ''

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'' with Brian Cox for the Royal Lyceum, and as

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's original version for the

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in London, for which she was listed as giving one of the five best stage performances of 2007, alongside

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and

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. She has also acted in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Good'', ''The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart'', ''

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'', ''Three Sisters'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and has worked extensively with director Lucy Bailey. In 2014 she began performing the title role in a stage version of Charlotte Brontë's novel ''

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'' at the

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. In 2015 a performance was live-screened to 650 cinemas across the UK. Her first short film, a one-minute documentary, was shortlisted to the final ten for the Friends of the Earth short film competition, and her first poems were published by Agenda. Her first album of folk songs, recorded with the Green House Band, received positive reviews from the folk and roots press, including ''Mojo''. She also appeared as Melanie in ''

Bunny and the Bull ''Bunny and the Bull'' is a 2009 British comedy film written and directed by Paul King. It stars Edward Hogg and Simon Farnaby in a surreal recreation of a road trip. King has previously worked on British television comedies ''The Mighty Boosh ...

'', premiered at the 2009

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, and as a guest artist in many British television series, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

Foyle's War ''Foyle's War'' is a British detective drama television series set during and shortly after the Second World War, created by '' Midsomer Murders'' screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV after the long-running series ...

'', alongside

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.(27 November 2010
Madeleine Worrall Information
Celebarazzi, Retrieved 3 April 2014 She appeared in the 2014 comedy film ''

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''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

profile
at the National Theatre * {{DEFAULTSORT:Worrall, Madeleine Living people 1977 births 21st-century Scottish actresses Actresses from Edinburgh Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Alumni of the University of Cambridge People educated at the Mary Erskine School