Janie Dee Bio - Biography

Name Janie Dee
Height
Naionality English
Date of Birth
Place of Birth United kingdom
Famous for Acting
Janie Dee is an English actress and singer. She is married to the actor Rupert Wickham. Dee is presently part of the Globe Theatre 2011 season playing The Countess of Roussillion in Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends Well" and in October she goes to Nottingham Playhouse to play Amanda in Noel Coward's "Private Lives". She has performed a wide range of stage productions, from modern comedy to Shakespeare, contemporary drama to musical theatre and opera. She has also directed drama school productions.

In 2010, She won great critical acclaim for her performances as Natalia Petrovna in "A Month in the Country"(Brian Friel's adaptation of Turgenev) at Chichester for Director Jonathan Kent, Susan in Nancy Mitford's "The Little Hut" dir. Tim Luscombe, Anna in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I" Curve, Leicester for Paul Kerryson and Annie in Calendar Girls West End dir. Hamish McColl. 2008 and 2009 were mostly taken up with her reunion with Alan Ayckbourn to play Susan in his play "Woman in Mind" at Scarborough and then in the West End. Although latterly in 2009 she returned to work with Sir Peter Hall on George Bernard Shaw's "The Apple Cart" playing the King's 'Muse' "Orinthia" The End of 2007 and beginning of 2008 the West End saw her as Joy Gresham in a critically acclaimed production of William Nicholson's "Shadowlands" opposite Charles Dance as C.S. Lewis. At The Wyndhams Theatre and then extended at The Novello Theatre. Dir Michael Barker Caven. In 2007, she played Kate in the Harold Pinter play Old Times, alongside Neil Pearson and Susannah Harker.

In 2005 she starred as Beatrice in Sir Peter Hall's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Theatre Royal in Bath. Hall remarked in a radio interview that the reason he had chosen to produce that play was to see Dee perform the role. Early in 2003, she had worked with Sir Peter on Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" and Noel Coward's "Design for Living". She played the role of Nurse Fay in the premiere production of Sondheim'sAnyone Can Whistle at the Bridewell Theatre.

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