Delena Kidd

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Delena Kidd (born February 11, 1935 in Newcastle upon Tyne , Northumberland ) is a British actress .

Life

Education and theater

Delena Kidd, born to actress Violet Ormonde and a doctor, attended Cheltenham Ladies' College. She received her acting training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London . As a student, she won a gold medal and the Sybil Thorndike Prize for her performance there .

In the mid to late 1950s she played in numerous repertory theaters in Great Britain. She has performed with the Wolverhampton Repertory Company, the Alexandra Repertory Company in Birmingham , the Oxford Playhouse and the Hornchurch Repertory Company. In the 1958/59 season she appeared at the Theater Royal in Bath . She then played theater in London. She performed with the New Shakespeare Company at the Open Air Theater in Regent's Park, London (as Beatrice , Titania ). In the 1970s and 1980s she performed in Bath and Birmingham. For more than 20 years she worked as an actress, director and director of the London Shakespeare Group , with whom she toured over 50 countries worldwide. 2002 guest starred in Talking Heads by Alan Bennett at the Perth Theater .

She also appeared several times at Vienna's English Theater , including a. in plays by Brian Friel and Oscar Wilde (1996, in An Ideal Husband ). In June / July 2003 she played the role of the acclaimed former opera diva Jean Horton in Ronald Harwood's play Quartet . In September 2013, it appeared as Mrs. Patrick Campbell in Dear Liar (dt Title:. Beloved Liar ) by Jerome Kilty at the Burton Taylor Studio in Oxford , a reading from the correspondence of George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with Kidd in toured numerous times in the later years of her career.

Movie and TV

From the 1950s on, Delena Kidd also worked for the cinema, later focusing on television. One of her most important cinema works is the "excellently played [e] and atmospherically dense staged [e]", socially critical film drama The Way Up (1959).

She has had continuous series roles, episode roles and guest roles in numerous British television series, a. a. in The Four Righteous , Secret Mission for John Drake , With Umbrella, Charm and Melon , Crown Court , Die Füchse , Der Aufpasser , Casualty , Family Affairs (as the conservative mother Elsa Gates), Doctors and New Tricks - the crime specialists .

She has appeared in several TV films and some TV miniseries, such as Lady Morland in Scarlett (1994) and as Queen Adelaide in Victoria & Albert (2001). She also appeared in two episodes of the British hospital series Holby City . She also had an episode role in the 9th season of the British crime series Vera - A Very Special Case (2019).

In the ZDF opening film - “Herzkino” television series for the 2019/20 season, Kidd, alongside Hedi Honert , took on a guest role as Mary Cunningham, the mysterious secretary of a Rosamunde Pilcher film adaptation of Pralines for Breakfast (first broadcast: September 2019) Writer who died under unknown circumstances.

Private life

Delena Kidd has been married to British actor Gary Raymond since 1958 . The couple met at the beginning of 1957 in a joint theater production, a modern adaptation of Aristophanes ' Lysistrata , at the Oxford Playhouse. Delena Kidd lives with her husband in Hammersmith, London .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1955: The Browning Version (TV movie)
  • 1959: The Way Up (Room at the Top)
  • 1959: Dangerous Business: Dinner in Paris ( The Third Man ) (TV series, an episode)
  • 1960: The Four Just Men : Crack-Up ( The Four Just Men ) (TV series, episode)
  • 1961: John Drake's secret assignment : Name, Date and Place ( Danger Man ) (TV series, an episode)
  • 1961: With umbrella, charm and bowler hat : Girl on the Trapeze ( The Avengers ) (TV series, one episode)
  • 1971: The Doctors (TV series, series role)
  • 1973: Crown Court: Conduct Prejudicial: Part 3 (TV series, episode)
  • 1978: Die Füchse : One of Your Own ( The Sweeney ) (TV series, one episode)
  • 1978: Les Miserables (TV movie)
  • 1980–1981: Together (TV series, series role)
  • 1991: The Watcher : The Odds Couple ( Minder ) (TV series, episode)
  • 1994: Scarlett (TV miniseries)
  • 1995: Casualty : Lost Boys (TV series, episode)
  • 1997: Family Affairs (TV series, series role)
  • 2001: Victoria & Albert (TV miniseries)
  • 2002: Doctors : Cast the First Stone (TV series, episode)
  • 2004: New Tricks - The Crime Specialists : Home Truths ( New Tricks ) (TV series, one episode)
  • 2013; 2017: Holby City (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2019: Vera - A very special case : The Seagull ( Vera ) (TV series, an episode)
  • 2019: Rosamunde Pilcher : Chocolates for breakfast (TV series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g DELENA KIDD . Vita. Official website of Vienna's English Theater . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ THEATER REVIEW: Talking Heads . Theater criticism. In: The Scotsman, November 13, 2002. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  3. ^ Sandra Mayer: Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience . Brill / Rodopi. Leiden, Netherlands 2018. Appendix, page 331. ISBN 978-90-04-37042-5 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Pete Hughes: Back on Oxford stage where love blossomed . In: Oxford Times, September 27, 2013. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  5. ↑ The Way Up (1958) . Entry at Filmdienst.de . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Time Has Told Me . Cast list. Official website of the BBC. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  7. ^ Past Imperfect . Cast list. Official website of the BBC. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  8. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher: Chocolates for breakfast . Press kit. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  9. ^ "Rosamunde Pilcher - Pralines for Breakfast" series . TV review at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  10. ↑ Lysistrata . Production data. APGRD. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kidd, Delena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne , Northumberland , England, United Kingdom