Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is an English actress, best known for her roles in the films ''
Close My Eyes'' (1991) and
''I.D.'' (1995), the 2000
miniseries ''
Frank Herbert's Dune'' and the 2016 film ''
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''.
Early life
Saskia Reeves was born 16 August 1961, and brought up in
Twickenham and
Paddington
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,
London
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with her younger sister Imogen, by her Dutch mother and English father. Reeves attended the
Lady Eleanor Holles School in
Hampton and then studied at London's
Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Career
Early in her career she performed in
puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre.
Her television credits include ''
Spooks'', ''
The Commander'' and the ''
Bodies
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'' finale. Her
stage work includes productions at London's
National and
Royal Court
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theatres as well as on international tour.
In addition to her acting career, Reeves does voice work, including commercials, narration, and book readings.
In 2008, she starred in
English Touring Theatre's revival of
Athol Fugard's ''Hello and Goodbye'' at the
Trafalgar Studios in London.
In 2010, she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of John Darwin, in BBC4's ''Canoe Man'', a dramatisation of the
John Darwin disappearance case,
and co-starred in the BBC1 series ''
Luther''.
In 2011, Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of
D. H. Lawrence
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's novels ''
The Rainbow'' and ''
Women in Love'', first shown on BBC4.
She also had a major role in the 2016 ''Midsomer Murders'' episode “A Dying Art.”
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1961 births
Audiobook narrators
English people of Dutch descent
English film actresses
English radio actresses
English stage actresses
English television actresses
English voice actresses
Living people
Royal Shakespeare Company members
English Shakespearean actresses
Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
People educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
People from Paddington
Actresses from London