Anna Madeley
Born: 1976-03-08 in London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Anna Madeley is an English actress. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". She grew up in London and started her career as a child actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in BBC TV films and on Channel 4. Anna has also done work in radio and film. Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company: 2001-2002; and 2003-2004. She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher. In 2005 she appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist (directed by David Grindley) and The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy. In 2006, Madeley starred in two BBC TV films - as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, and in the original drama Aftersun - and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders. In 2007, Madeley appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, Madeley played Nina in a production of The Seagull for a time, when the main actress fell ill. She was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist. In 2010 she appeared The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010. In January 2013 Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw. In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.
Filmography
2023
- Secret Invasion as Pamela Lawton
2022
- Anatomy of a Scandal as Ellie Frisk
2021
- Time as Anne Warren
2020
- All Creatures Great & Small as Mrs Hall
- Deadwater Fell as Kate Kendrick
- Sitting in Limbo as Amelia Gentleman
2019
- National Theatre Live: Les Blancs as Dr. Martha Gotterling
2018
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Marie Stahlbaum
- The Mercy as Sara Milburn
- Patrick Melrose as Mary Melrose
- The Child in Time as Rachel Murray
- The Little Stranger as Anne Granger
2016
- The Crown as Clarissa Eden
- The Ones Below as Abi
2015
- Code of a Killer as Sue Jeffreys
- We Are Happy as Sarah
2014
- The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor
2013
- Crossing Lines as Anne Schutte
- Utopia as Anya Levchenko
- One Wrong Word as Victoria
2012
- Strawberry Fields as Gillian
- Secret State as Gina Hayes
- Words of the Titanic as Reader
- A Fantastic Fear of Everything as WPC Taser
2010
- The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister as Mariana Belcombe
2008
- In Bruges as Denise
- Brideshead Revisited as Celia
- Sense and Sensibility as Lucy Steele
- Affinity as Margaret
- Crooked House as Katherine
- The Children as Polly
2007
- Lewis as Anne Sadikov
- Consent as Rebecca 'Becky' Palmer
- The Old Curiosity Shop as Betsy Qulip
2006
- The Outsiders as Erica Chapman
- Aftersun as Esther
- The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton as Isabella Beeton
2005
- Stoned as Stones' Receptionist
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Adele Fortescue
- Hustle as Jennifer Hughes
- The Rivals as Lydia Languish
2003
- The Royal as Nurse Samantha Beaumont
2001
- Waking the Dead as Anna Vaspovic
2000
- A Dinner of Herbs as Florrie Roystan
1999
- Guest House Paradiso as Saucy Wood Nymph
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Barbara Franklin
- Back Home as School Girl