Jane Lapotaire

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Jane Lapotaire (born December 26, 1944 in Ipswich , Suffolk , United Kingdom ) is a British film and stage actress , Shakespeare actress and author .

Life

Jane Lapotaire comes from a brief relationship between her mother Louise and an American soldier . Since her mother felt overwhelmed with the child, Jane grew up with her grandmother from the age of three months. When her mother married in 1957, she was adopted by her stepfather, the French Yves Lapotaire, but stayed with her grandmother.

Jane Lapotaire received her training at the drama school of the Bristol Old Vic Theater , where she made her debut in the play When We Were Married and to whose ensemble she belonged from 1965 to 1967. After her first film role in Isadora (1968), she only switched to the newly founded London National Theater for three years , where she mainly played supporting roles under the direction of Laurence Olivier , and in 1970 to the Young Vic Theater Company, which she co-founded, where she a. a. when Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew and Jocasta in Oedipus was now usually cast for leading roles.

For ten years, Jane Lapotaire played mainly in Shakespeare comedies , including with the Royal Shakespeare Company . In between she appeared again and again in cinema and TV films, including in 1971 in Antonius and Cleopatra and in 1977 as Marie Curie in the television series of the same name. 1980 embodied Jane Lapotaire in the play Piaf by Pam Gems , the famous French singer Edith Piaf so convincing that they for this role in the Broadway the -Inszenierung a year later Tony Award was awarded as best actress.

Since then, appearances in films and engagements on stages in Great Britain and the United States have alternated.

In addition, Jane Lapotaire worked as an acting teacher at the British American Drama Academy (BADA), The Actors Center in London and at Washington University in St. Louis . In the late 1990s, she wrote Shakespeare As I Knew Her ( Shakespeare as I knew her ), an autobiographical play about her career as a Shakespeare actress.

In January 2000, Jane Lapotaire suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while teaching a Shakespeare master class in Paris . However, she recovered with difficulty and was able to continue her career.

Jane Lapotaire is an honorary member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

From 1965 to 1967 she was married to Oliver Wood and from 1971 to 1980 with the director and producer Roland Joffé , who is also the father of her son Rowan (* 1972).

Honors

  • 1977 Bafta for Marie Curie
  • 1980 Society of West End Theaters Award for Best Actress in Piaf
  • 1981 Tony Award for Best Actress in Piaf
  • Broadcasting Guild Award for Blind Justice
  • 1999 Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress in The Famous History of the Life of Henry VIII

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personal data
SURNAME Lapotaire, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipswich , Suffolk, England, United Kingdom