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Rachel Pickup is a British theatre, television and film actress. Her first major role was as Kaye Bentley in the 10-part
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TV series ''No Bananas'', with
Alison Steadman
Alison Steadman (born 26 August 1946) is an English actress. She received the 1991 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for the Mike Leigh film '' Life Is Sweet'' and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as M ...
and
Tom Bell. She has since appeared in many British and American TV shows and has worked extensively in theatre, playing most of the major Shakespearean heroines. She played
Portia in ''
The Merchant Of Venice
''The Merchant of Venice'' is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock.
Although classified as ...
'' at
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in ...
in London, opposite
Jonathan Pryce
Sir Jonathan Pryce (born John Price; 1 June 1947) is a Welsh actor who is known for his performances on stage and in film and television. He has received numerous awards, including two Tony Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2021 he was ...
.
Pickup appeared in ''
Chronic'' starring
Tim Roth
Timothy Simon Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English actor and producer. He began acting on films and television series in the 1980s. He was among a group of prominent British actors of the era, the " Brit Pack".
He made his television debut ...
and directed by 2012 Un Certain Regard winner,
Michel Franco
Michel Franco (born 28 August 1979) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film '' After Lucia'' that won the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
His films typically deal with th ...
.
Early life and education
Pickup was born in London, to an American mother, playwright
Lans Traverse, and a British father, actor
Ronald Pickup
Ronald Alfred Pickup (7 June 1940 – 24 February 2021) was an English actor. He was active in television, film, and theatre, beginning with a 1964 appearance in ''Doctor Who''. Theatre critic Michael Billington described him as "a terrific sta ...
. She moved to New York in 2011. At the age of 16, Pickup won a place at the
National Youth Theatre under the artistic directorship of
Edward Wilson and subsequently was offered a place at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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 Senat ...
.
Career
Before graduating from RADA, Pickup won a leading role in the BBC series ''
No Bananas
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'', her first professional engagement. This was followed by a role opposite
Alan Bates in
Mike Poulton
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Poulton began his ...
's ''
Fortune's Fool''. Other major theatre roles followed, including
Irina
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in Mike Poulton's translation of ''
Three Sisters'' for
Bill Bryden
William Campbell Rough Bryden (12 April 1942 – 5 January 2022) was a Scottish stage and film director and screenwriter.
Early life and career
He worked as a trainee with Scottish Television before becoming assistant director at the Belgrad ...
,
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in ''
Twelfth Night
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'' for
Terry Hands
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, Helena in ''
All's Well That Ends Well'' for
Irina Brook
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,
Portia in ''
Julius Caesar
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'' for
David Farr at the
RSC
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* Royal Shakespeare Company, a British theatre company
* Reduced Shakespeare Company, a touring American acting troupe
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,
Sylvia in ''
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as showing his first tentative steps in laying ...
'' and
Helena in ''
A Midsummer Night's Dream'' also for the RSC.
In 2003, Pickup appeared at
The Old Vic
The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England. Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, and renamed in 1833 the Royal Victoria Theatre. In 1871 it was rebuilt and reopened as the Royal ...
in ''
King Lear
''King Lear'' is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane ...
'' playing
Cordelia
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.
This was followed by
Ophelia
Ophelia () is a character in William Shakespeare's drama '' Hamlet'' (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet, who, due to Hamlet's actions, ends u ...
in
Calixto Bieito
Calixto Bieito ( Miranda de Ebro, 2 November 1963) is a Spanish theater director known for his radical interpretations of classic operas.
Biography
Born in the small town of Miranda de Ebro, Bieito moved to Barcelona with his family when he wa ...
's ''
Hamlet
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'', and
Helen of Troy in ''
Troilus and Cressida
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At Troy during the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida begin a love affair. Cressida is forced to leave Troy to join her father in the Greek camp. Meanwh ...
'' for
Peter Stein.
She had a supporting role in the film ''
Basil
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'' and ''
AKA''.
In 2011, she moved to the United States to appear in the
Shakespeare Theatre Company
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's production of ''
An Ideal Husband''. In August 2011, she made her New York Off-Broadway debut in the
Irish Repertory Theatre
The Irish Repertory Theatre is an Off Broadway theatre founded in 1988.
History
The Irish Repertory Theatre was founded by Ciarán O'Reilly and Charlotte Moore, which opened its doors in September 1988,http://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations ...
's 20th Anniversary production of ''
Dancing at Lughnasa
''Dancing at Lughnasa'' is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in County Donegal in Ulster in the north of Ireland in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Eva ...
''. Other productions at the Irish Repertory Theatre include ''Airswimming'' by
Charlotte Jones for "Fallen Angel Theatre" and ''A Mind Bending Evening of Beckett'' for Robert Flanagan. In 2014, Pickup played
Goneril
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at the new
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for
Theatre For A New Audience
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History
Theatre for a New Audienc ...
, in Brooklyn New York, opposite
Michael Pennington
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's
King Lear
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It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane ...
, and Amanda in director
Darko Tresnjak
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s production of ''
Private Lives
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'' at Hartford Stage, CT, opposite American actor Ken Barnett.
Pickup played Portia in ''The Merchant Of Venice'' at
Shakespeare's Globe
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Theatre in London, England, opposite
Jonathan Pryce
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, directed by Jonathan Munby, and appeared in the feature film ''
Chronic'' directed by
Michel Franco
Michel Franco (born 28 August 1979) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film '' After Lucia'' that won the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
His films typically deal with th ...
, which was part of the official selection for the
Palme d'Or
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at the
2015 Cannes Film Festival
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. She had a cameo role as
Fausta Grables in ''
Wonder Woman
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''.
Pickup appeared with her father for the first time in 2008 in an episode of ''
Midsomer Murders:The Magician’s Nephew'' and played Molly, the central role in her mother's first screenplay "G - Litter" in 2015.
Pickup starred at the Criterion Theatre in ''
The 39 Steps'' and has worked with
Sir Peter Hall several times, including his 2009 revival of ''
Bedroom Farce''.
Awards
For Ophelia in
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
Pickup won a
Herald Angel award
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Heralds were originally messengers sent by monarchs or noblemen to c ...
. She also won a
MEN
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Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in ''
Time and the Conways
''Time and the Conways'' is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937. Wide ...
'' at the
Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester. She was nominated for a
Critics' Circle Best Actress Award for her performance in ''
Miss Julie
''Miss Julie'' ( sv, Fröken Julie) is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning, which is Midsummer and the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist. The setting is an estate of ...
'' with
Stephen Unwin at the
Rose Theatre, Kingston
The Rose Theatre Kingston is a theatre on Kingston High Street in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. The theatre seats 822 around a wide, thrust stage.
It officially opened on 16 January 2008 with ''Uncle Vanya'' by Anton Chekhov, with ...
.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1973 births
Living people
Alumni of RADA
Actresses from London
Actresses of American descent
English television actresses
English people of American descent
National Youth Theatre members