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Zoë Wanamaker
Born Zoë Wanamaker
May 13, 1949 (1949-05-13) (age 59)
New York, USA
Other name(s) Zoe Wanamaker
Occupation Actress, Presenter
Years active 1973-present
Spouse(s) Gawn Grainger {November 1994-present)

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Biography

Personal life

Wanamaker was born in New York City, the daughter of Charlotte Holland, an actress and radio performer, and actor/director/producer Sam Wanamaker, who left the United States for England after being blacklisted in 1952. The City of New York Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Sam Wanamaker ( June 14, 1919 &ndash December 18, 1993) was an American Film director and Actor, credited England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland "Hollywood Ten" redirects here For the 1950 short documentary film see The Hollywood Ten. [1] She has a sister, Abby. [2] Wanamaker is Jewish,[3] with her family having originated in Odessa and Russia. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ ODESSA which stands for the German phrase O rganisation d er e hemaligen SS - A ngehörigen which in turn translates Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending [4] She holds both American and British citizenship, having become a British citizen in 2000, specifically so that she would receive a CBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace rather than an honorary decoration from the British Foreign Secretary. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. [5] In November 1994, she married the Irish actor and dramatist Gawn Grainger.

Education

According to Who's Who on Television (1982 edition), Wanamaker was educated at the independent King Alfred School in Hampstead, London and at Sidcot School, a Quaker boarding school in Somerset. The King Alfred School was founded in London, England, in 1898 by a group of parents who believed in the then radical idea that boys and girls should be Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. Sidcot School is an independent fee-paying school associated with the Religious Society of Friends. Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young Actors and other students

Career

She played Madam Hooch in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The following Fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books written by J Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States as Harry

She played Clarice, one of the dimwitted twin sisters of Lord Groan in Gormenghast, a BBC television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's trilogy. Biography Mervyn Peake was born of British parents in Kuling ( Lushan) in Jiangxi Province of central China in 1911 only three months before the revolution She has also appeared in a variety of films, programmes, and plays. Successful television series have included Love Hurts with Adam Faith. Love Hurts is a British television series running from 1992 - 1994 on the BBC scripted by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran and starring Adam Terence (Terry Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith (23 June 1940 East Acton, London &mdash 8 March 2003 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

Her stage performance in Sophocles' Electra, for which she won an Olivier Award, was widely acclaimed. Sophocles (ˈsɒfəkliːz Ancient Greek, sopʰoklɛ̂ːs circa Electra or Elektra (Ηλέκτρα / Ēlektra) is a Greek tragic play by Sophocles. The Laurence Olivier Award is regarded as the most prestigious award in British theatre and is presented in recognition of artistic achievement in London theatre She had previously won an Olivier Award in 1979, for her performance in Once In a Lifetime. Wanamaker voiced a CGI character named Lady Cassandra in the Doctor Who episode "The End of the World" (2005), and reprised the role (also appearing in the flesh this time) in the episode "New Earth". Computer animation Computer-generated imagery (also known as CGI) is the application of the field of Computer graphics or more specifically 3D computer graphics Lady Cassandra O'BrienΔ17 is a fictional character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. " The End of the World " is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast " New Earth " is an episode of the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who which was first broadcast on

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Zoe Wanamaker Biography (1949-)
  2. ^ Zoe Wanamaker Biography - Yahoo! Movies
  3. ^ Zoe Wanamaker - British stage actor - Interview | Interview | Find Articles at BNET.com
  4. ^ 'Madam Hooch' rides her broomstick in from Odesa: Actress Zoë Wanamaker offers a glimpse into her family history
  5. ^ Why my face doesn't always fit - Telegraph

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