Sinead Matthews (born )
is an English actress whose credits include film, television and stage. Her notable TV roles include Marcia Williams in ''
The Crown
The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states). Legally ill-defined, the term has different ...
''.
She was born in
Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed b ...
, England, and attended
Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School in that city.
She studied A-level Drama at
Stratford-upon-Avon College between 1996 and 1998. She graduated from
RADA
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Se ...
in 2003.
Career
She made her television debut in the 2004 costume drama ''
He Knew He Was Right''.
[ In 2009 she starred in ''Our Class'', a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek at the NT and in Penelope Skinner's 2010 play ''Eigengrau'' at the Bush Theatre.] On 21 August 2016, Matthews played Hermia/Fairy/Mistress Quince in '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'', composed by Felix Mendelssohn, at The Proms
The BBC Proms or Proms, formally named the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hal ...
.
Filmography
Film
Television
Radio
* ''I Love Stephen Fry'' (2010) – Chloe
* '' Diary of a Nobody'' (2012) – Sarah
* ''All Those Women'' (2015) – Jen
Stage
References
External links
*
Sinead Matthews credits
at Hamilton Hodell (management company): separate buttons for Theatre, Television, Film, Short Film, Radio, Skills, Characteristics
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1980 births
Living people
Actresses from Coventry
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
English film actresses
English radio actresses
English stage actresses
English television actresses
English voice actresses
21st-century English actresses