Maxine Evans is a Welsh actress who has worked extensively in television and theatre roles. She is best known for playing Rhian in the

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TV comedy drama series '' Stella''. and is also well known for appearing in one episode of the spin-off series of ''

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. Maxine also played the character of Mrs Busby in the

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Evans's career as a director started on stage at the Glasgow Tron Theatre in 1996. A play by

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was underway, when the director was unable to continue Maxine was drafted from actor to actor/director to get the show to the opening night. Two years later Maxine directed her first Short Film, in which she was nominated for Best Director at the

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. A year later she started directing for television on the drama '' Nuts and Bolts''. She had started as script writer and head story-liner on the show the year before when it won a Royal Television Society Award. She continued to storyline, write and direct over the shows next three series. During her last year on ''Nuts and Bolts'', Evans was asked to take over as the

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on ''

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''. Eight months later she moved into the story office of ''

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''. She has also directed a musical feature film ''Rain: An Original Musical''. She worked on the YouTube comedy soap '' Storyline'' as director/producer. In theatre, her

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-nominated production of ''The Revlon Girl'' first enjoyed sell out runs at the

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and London, winning Best New Play at the

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before being nominated for Outstanding Achievement at the 2018 Olivier Awards.

Early life and training

Maxine Evans was born 9 November 1966 in

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and grew up in the village of Seven Sisters . Maxine was a member of the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and the National Youth Theatre of Wales. Where she acted alongside

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. Maxine went on to study at the

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where one of her classmates was a future 007

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Career

In 2006 Evans had a role in the ''

'' spin-off ''

'', appearing in the episode "

" as Helen Sherman, a

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who lived in the

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with her husband Evan Sherman, portrayed by

, who worked alongside Evan and other villagers to get those passing by ready for harvest. In the

TV Series ''Stella'', she plays the part of Rhian, who pushes a dog around in a pram and hasn't had a shower for some time. She was at school with Stella and already has seven grandchildren, despite being only 42. She also appeared as a semi regular character Mrs Busby in the

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. She has also worked extensively behind the camera too. First writing, directing and as the head story-liner on the

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winning welsh drama '' Nuts and Bolts''. She went on to be the series editor on ''

'' and story-liner on ''

''. Evans's production of ''

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'' written by

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won Best New Play the

and was nominated for Outstanding Achievement at the

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in 2018.

Personal life

Maxine met her husband

while still at Youth Theatre in South Wales. She has no children of her own and talks about her struggles with infertility https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/stellas-maxine-evans-how-knew-9535020 She talks about how she is over the moon of the role she has in '' Stella'', in which she plays a 42-year-old grandmother of seven: "I have two Staffordshire bull terriers that I love to pieces so I was overjoyed when I found out that the dog that I push around in a pram is a staff".

Film and television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Maxine Living people Welsh television actresses 1966 births