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| Birth Name(s) : Frances de la Tour |
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Full Frances de la Tour Biography
In 1980, she played Stephanie, the violinist with MS in Duet for One, a play written for her by Kempinski, for which she won the Olivier for Best Actress. She played Sonya in Uncle Vanya opposite Donald Sinden at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1982. Her performance as Josie in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten won her another Olivier for Best Actress in 1983. She joined the National Theatre for the title role in Saint Joan in 1984 and appeared there in Brighton Beach Memoirs in 1986. She again won the Olivier for Best Supporting Actress for Martin Sherman's play about Isadora Duncan, When She Danced with Vanessa Redgrave at the Globe (now the Gielgud) Theatre in 1991, Leo in Les parents terribles at the National in 1994. She co-starred with Maggie Smith in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women at the Wyndham's in 1994 and with Alan Howard in Albee's The Play About the Baby at the Almeida in 1998). In 1999, she returned to the RSC to play Cleopatra opposite Alan Bates in Antony and Cleopatra. In 2004, she played Mrs Lintott in Alan Bennett 's The History Boys at the National, later on Broadway and in the film version (2006).
On television, her many appearances have included the TV version of Duet for One, the series A Kind of Living, Tom Jones, episodes of Poirot, Marple and Waking the Dead. She is best-known, however, for playing spinster Ruth Jones in the hit Yorkshire Television comedy Rising Damp. De la Tour did not get on well with her Rising Damp co-star Leonard Rossiter, and subsequently she has declined, for the most part, to be interviewed about this period of her life. But she told Richard Webber, when he wrote his book about the series in 2001 (Rising Damp: A Celebration), that Miss Jones "was an interesting character to play. We laughed a lot on set, but comedy is a serious business and Leonard took it particularly seriously, and rightly so. Comedy, which is so much down to timing, is exhausting work. But it was a happy time."
In 2003, de la Tour played a terminally ill woman in the film Love Actually, although her scenes were cut from the film's theatrical release, and only appear on the DVD.
In 2005 she played Olympe Maxime, headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She recently (Dec 2005) starred in the highly acclaimed anti-Iraq-war one-woman play, Peace Mom by Dario Fo, based on the writings of Cindy Sheehan, in London. She won a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award in 2006 for her work in The History Boys on Broadway. New York's critics have described her performance as "the drollest performance you'll ever see", "superb", "sublime", "marvellous" and "perfect" .
She was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA Award for Actress in a Supporting Role for her work on the film version of The History Boys, and is currently appearing in a revival of Boeing Boeing.
She won the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award four times.
- 1980: Best Actress in a New Play, Duet for One
- 1983: Best Actress in a Revival, A Moon for the Misbegotten
- 1992: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, When She Danced |
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