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Janie Dee

Janie is an award-winning British actress, singer and musical theatre performer, characterised by her extraordinary versatility in acclaimed work on stage, film, television and radio. Her career embraces everything from Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe, to revivals of classic plays at the Bath Festival, directed by Sir Peter Hall, acclaimed performances in modern dramas and comedies, and leading roles in classic musicals, both in the West End and major regional theatres. Janie is also a passionate champion of new writing. In addition, she regularly performs her own witty and sophisticated cabaret at leading venues including Crazy Coqs, The Hippodrome, The Pheasantry, the St James Studio, Aldeburgh Festival and the 'Divas at the Donmar' season. Janie has worked closely with contemporary playwrights, particularly Alan Ayckbourn and Michael Frayn, and the late Harold Pinter in numerous productions and has become a renowned interpreter of their work. In recent years, she has also worked with the next generation of outstanding emerging playwrights, including Lucy Kirkwood, whose acclaimed new play NSFW was premiered at The Royal Court in 2012 and for which Janie received her fourth Olivier Award nomination, this time as Best Supporting Actress in a Play, for her performance as glossy womens' magazine editor, Miranda. Janie is increasingly expanding her work in film and television and has recently completed two feature films; Dare To Be Wild, set in Ireland and written and directed by Vivienne Decourcy and The Trouble With Dot and Harry, opposite Neil Morrissey, written and directed by Sundance Festival Grand Prize-winner, Gary Walkow. Janie won the three most prestigious awards in British Theatre; the Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award and Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Play, as well as the Obie and Theatre World Best Newcomer Award in New York, for her hilarious and heartbreaking performance as Jacie Triplethree in Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential. She also received the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carrie Pipperidge in Nicholas Hytner's acclaimed production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel at the National Theatre and the TMA UK Theatre Award 2013 for Best Performance in a Musical for her performance as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! at Curve, Leicester.


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Movie/TV Credits:
16
First Appeared:
In the series Heartbeat 1992-04-10
Latest Project:
Movie National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue 2024-03-21
Known For
Poster of National Theatre Live: Follies
Poster of Harold Pinter:  A Celebration
Poster of Celebration
Poster of The Boot Street Band
Filmography
Movie National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue Eileen Herlie 2024-03-21
Series The Burning Girls Clara Rushton 2023-10-19
Movie Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends Self 2022-05-03
Movie Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim 2020-05-31
Movie Official Secrets Jan Clements 2019-08-30
Movie National Theatre Live: Follies Phyllis Rogers Stone 2017-11-16
Movie All's Well That Ends Well - Live at Shakespeare's Globe Countess of Roussillon 2012-09-26
Movie Harold Pinter: A Celebration Self 2010-01-24
Movie Me and Orson Welles Mrs. Samuels 2008-09-05
Movie Celebration Suki 2007-02-26
Movie The Murder Room Emma Lavenham 2004-10-31
Series Death in Holy Orders Emma Lavenham 2003-08-23
Movie Little White Lies Helen 1998-06-17
Series Midsomer Murders Unknown 1997-03-23
Series The Boot Street Band 1993-11-11
Series Heartbeat Unknown 1992-04-10