Saskia Reeves

Known for ActingBorn 1961-08-16 (age 64)Paddington, London, England, UK

Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and I.D. (1995), and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune. Born and brought up in London to a Dutch mother and English father, Reeves studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since worked with directors such as Mike Leigh, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Winterbottom and Nicholas Hytner. Early in her career she performed in puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre. Her television credits include Spooks and the Bodies finale. Her stage work includes productions at London's National and Royal Court Theatres as well as on international tour. In addition to her acting career, Reeves does voice work, including commercial and narration (book readings) for VocalPoint.net. In 2008, she starred in English Touring Theatre's revival of Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye at the Trafalgar Studios in London. In 2010 she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of the famous disappearing canoeist John Darwin (played by Bernard Hill) in Canoe Man, a dramatisation of the John Darwin disappearance case for BBC4 and in the BBC1 series Luther. In 2011 Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC4. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saskia Reeves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Read more

Movies & web series

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

Citizen Locke

Last Day of Summer

Plotlands

National Theatre at Home: End

Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire

Slow Horses

If...

One Night

A Very British Psycho

Island at War

Luther

Spooks

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes

Lewis

Wolf Hall

Shetland

Death in Paradise

Suspicion

Vera

Midsomer Murders

A Woman of Substance

From There to Here

Metamorphosis

Lytton's Diary

Waking the Dead

December Bride

Afterlife

Us

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Different for Girls

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

The Outrun

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Screen Two

A Christmas Carol

Red Riding

Frank Herbert's Dune

Page Eight

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

Fixer

Collateral

Anna

Roadkill

I.D.

Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

The Program

Me and Orson Welles