Joanna David

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Joanna David (born January 17, 1947 in Lancaster , England ; actually Joanne Elizabeth Hacking ) is a British theater and film actress .

Life

David was born Joanne Elizabeth Hacking in Lancaster . Her father, businessman John Hacking, left his wife and three children due to financial problems when Joanna David was ten years old. With her mother Davida Elizabeth (née Nesbitt) and two siblings, David then moved from a middle-class suburb in Manchester to the East End of London , where the mother worked as a nurse and also ran a boxing club to raise her children. David was later able to track down her father in Cornwall , but then broke off all contact with him.

David actually wanted to be a ballet dancer. After attending the Elmhurst Ballet School and the Royal Ballet School , but ultimately not being accepted into the Royal Ballet , she enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art to train as an actress. She then took her stage name Joanna David after her mother's first name and from then on played regularly on the theater stage and on British television. She had her first major role in 1971 as Elinor Dashwood in a four-part BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Mind and Emotion . A year later she appeared in front of the camera alongside Anthony Hopkins in War and Peace (1972) in Tolstoy . 1979 followed a leading role as shy Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca , another literary film adaptation of the BBC, based on Daphne du Maurier 's novel of the same name. From the 1980s she was seen in many television productions in rather small supporting roles, such as Miss Marple , Inspector Barnaby , Bleak House and 2013 as Duchess of Yeovil in Downton Abbey . In 2010 she appeared in the tragic comedy I See the Man of Your Dreams by Woody Allen in one of her few feature films.

On stage, David was in the course of their careers in such plays as The Importance of Being Earnest , Twelfth Night or in Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov to see. David is Vice President of the Theatrical Guild alongside Barbara Leigh-Hunt . Since the 1990s she has also been active on the radio and as a narrator for numerous audio books.

David has two children, Emilia (* 1974) and Frederick (* 1989), with actor Edward Fox , whom she met in 1971 during joint stage appearances in Chichester and who only married in 2004 at St. George's Church in London after a long partnership . Both children also became actors. In 1995, Joanna David and Emilia appeared in front of the camera in the internationally successful BBC multi-part TV series Stolz und Vorschluss (1995) alongside Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1969: delusion sweet Youth ( The Smashing Bird I Used to Know )
  • 1971: Sense and Sensibility (TV miniseries)
  • 1971: The Last of the Mohicans (TV miniseries)
  • 1972–1973: War & Peace (TV miniseries)
  • 1973: The Edwardians (TV miniseries)
  • 1975: Ballet Shoes (TV series, six episodes)
  • 1976–1977: The Hotel on Duke Street ( The Duchess of Duke Street ) (TV series, three episodes)
  • 1979: Rebecca (TV miniseries)
  • 1980: Lady Killers (TV series, episode)
  • 1982: Alexa (TV miniseries)
  • 1982: The Agatha Christie Hour (TV series, episode)
  • 1984: Brass (TV series, three episodes)
  • 1984: Sleepwalker
  • 1985: Anna Karenina (TV movie)
  • 1986: Rebellion of the Lawless ( Comrades )
  • 1986: First Among Equals (TV miniseries)
  • 1987: Miss Marple - 4:50 p.m. from Paddington ( Miss Marple - 4:50 from Paddington ) (TV series)
  • 1989: Prince Caspian ( Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader ) (TV miniseries)
  • 1991: Secret Friends
  • 1992: Maigret (TV series, one episode)
  • 1992: Inspector Morse - Dead on Time (TV series)
  • 1994: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV miniseries)
  • 1995: Pride and Prejudice ( Pride and Prejudice ) (TV miniseries)
  • 1996: Bramwell (TV miniseries)
  • 1998: Inspector Barnaby ( Midsomer Murders: Written in Blood ) (TV series)
  • 1999: The Dark Room (TV movie)
  • 1999: The Fast Money - The Nick Leeson Story ( Rogue Trader )
  • 1999: Cotton Mary
  • 2000: The Blind Date
  • 2001: The Glass (TV miniseries)
  • 2002: The Forsyte Saga (TV miniseries)
  • 2002: Prendimi l'anima
  • 2003: The Brides in the Bath (TV movie)
  • 2004: Family connection ( Belonging ) (TV movie)
  • 2004: Rosemary & Thyme (TV series, an episode)
  • 2004: Monarch of the Glen (TV series, episode)
  • 2005: Falling (TV movie)
  • 2005: Bleak House (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2005: These Foolish Things
  • 2007–2015: Doctors (TV series, four episodes)
  • 2008: Never Better (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2008: Mutual Friends (TV series, one episode)
  • 2008: One of Those Days
  • 2010: I See the Man of Your Dreams ( You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger )
  • 2011: Inspector Barnaby - Four Brides for Christ ( Midsomer Murders: A Sacred Trust ) (TV series)
  • 2013: Agatha Christie's Marple (TV series, one episode)
  • 2013: Downton Abbey (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2014: Death in Paradise (TV series, one episode)
  • 2015: Casualty (TV series, one episode)
  • 2016: Agatha Raisin (TV series, an episode)
  • 2017: Man in an Orange Shirt (TV movie)
  • 2017: Another Mother's Son
  • 2019: Cecelia Ahern - In Your Life ( Thanks for the Memories ) (TV-Movie)
  • 2019: The Cleansing Hour

Theater appearances (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Room: Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins . McFarland, 5th edition, 2010, ISBN 0-7864-4373-1 , p. 134.
  2. ↑ a b cf. filmreference.com
  3. ↑ a b Maureen Paton: “We all make fantastic blunders…” . In: The Daily Telegraph , September 18, 2006.
  4. ↑ cf. ttg.org.uk
personal data
SURNAME David, Joanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hacking, Joanne Elizabeth (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lancaster , Lancashire , England , United Kingdom