Sarah Mortimer is a British actress. She has worked extensively in both television and theatre.
Life
Mortimer trained at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is a drama school located in Hammersmith, London. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest specialist drama school in the British Isles and a founding member of the Federation of Drama Schools. In ...
(LAMDA) and her stage career includes Peter Hall's production of Coriolanus with Ian Mckellen, playing the original Alice in "Daisy pulls it off" in London's West End, Ned Sherrin's "Sloane Ranger Review" also in the West End, and the lead role in the World Premiere of Bob Eaton's musical, "Good Golly, Miss Molly!", at the New Victoria Theatre, Staffordshire.
Mortimer played minor television parts in the series ''Friday Night, Saturday Morning'' and ''Jemima Shore Investigates'' and starred in the 1984 film ''
The Case of Marcel Duchamp''. More important television roles then followed in the mid eighties including ''Hot Metal'' (3 episodes, 1986) and ''Fast Forward'' (6 episodes, 1987). In the late eighties and early nineties Mortimer went on to star in numerous popular British sitcoms ''
You Rang, M'Lord?'', ''Traffik'', ''
One Foot in the Grave
''One Foot in the Grave'' is a British television British sitcom, sitcom written by David Renwick. There were six series (each consisting of six half-hour episodes) and seven Christmas specials over a period of ten years from early 1990 to late ...
'', ''
The Upper Hand
''The Upper Hand'' is a British television sitcom with dramatic elements broadcast by ITV from 1 May 1990 to 14 October 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom ''Who's the Boss?''
As in the former series, affluent single wo ...
'' (2 episodes, 1992) and ''
Drop The Dead Donkey''.
Her theatre work includes the ''Intimate Exchanges'' series by Alan Ayckbourn at the New Victoria Theatre with Adam Norton as well as the role of Molly in ''Good Golly, Miss Molly'', a musical by Bob Eaton in 1989 and in 1993.
External links
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1233569/#self
*http://www.locatetv.com/person/sarah-mortimer/21981
BFI.org
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British stage actresses
British television actresses
Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art