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Georgia Slowe (born 3 June 1966) is an English actress. She is best known for playing
Perdita Hyde-Sinclair Perdita "Perdy" Hyde-Sinclair (also Hyde) is a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Georgia Slowe. She made her first on screen appearance on 1 March 2006. Casting In March 2006, '' Inside Soap'' announced Sl ...
on the British soap opera ''
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'' from 2006 to 2008. Slowe received a
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nomination for her performance as
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in a 1989 production of ''
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''.


Early life

Slowe was born to Jewish parents. Her mother is from Hungary and her father from a Russian family. The family surname was originally Slovedinski, which was anglicized to Slowe. She has one sister, Tania, who is three years older. Her mother, Zsuzsi, left Hungary after the
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at the age of 16.


Career

Slowe began acting when she was a child and in a career that has spanned nearly 30 years, she played young Maggie Tulliver in the 1978 BBC production of The Mill on the Floss, she has worked alongside
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''),
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''),
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'') and
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('' Wallenberg''). As a member of the
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, Georgia has starred in numerous theatre productions, including ''
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'', where she played the doomed heroine twice, alongside
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and
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. She and David had a short relationship during the production. In 1989, Georgia was nominated for a
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for her performance in ''
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''. She made a guest appearance on The Family Channel's ''
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'' as the Native American maiden, Keenona, in its episode "''Rites of Passage''". In 2006, Slowe appeared in the long-running serial drama ''
Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, '' ...
'' as the new lady of the manor,
Perdita Hyde-Sinclair Perdita "Perdy" Hyde-Sinclair (also Hyde) is a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Georgia Slowe. She made her first on screen appearance on 1 March 2006. Casting In March 2006, '' Inside Soap'' announced Sl ...
. Her final appearance was broadcast on 22 July 2008, an episode which, for the first time in over three months, had higher viewership than the
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''. In 2011, she appeared in the short film ''
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''. She is a writer and co-producer of the 2014 short film ''Four Tails'', in which she also played a leading role. Slowe has set up a film production company Slowe Motion Film. In 2022, she provided an interview for the 2022 4K
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release of
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, reminiscing on
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as well as her experience working on the film. It was released by
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.


Personal life

Slowe was married to
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(founder of the
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clothing chain) from 1993 until they divorced in 2000. They have two sons. Slowe married photographer Stuart McClymont in 2017.


Filmography


Film


Television


References


External links

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Slowe Motion Film
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slowe, Georgia 1966 births Living people English stage actresses English television actresses English people of Jewish descent English people of Russian-Jewish descent English people of Hungarian-Jewish descent English Jews People educated at South Hampstead High School Royal Shakespeare Company members