Madeleine Potter

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Madeleine Potter and Peter Siiteri in Loves Labor's Lost , The Shakespeare Center, 1981

Madeleine Potter (* ca.1964 in Washington, DC ) is an American actress who appears in films , on television and in the theater . She was best known to a wider audience through her collaboration in four films with director James Ivory .

biography

She grew up as the daughter of a diplomat . She began her acting career in the early 1980s with roles in small private theaters and at theater festivals in New York City , where she soon took on leading roles. In 1984 she appeared as Olivia in the comedy Was ihr wollt ( Twelfth Night ) by William Shakespeare on the stage of the Triplex Theater in New York, 1984–1985 as Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Folger Theater in her hometown of Washington. Further theater engagements in New York followed. In parallel, she began to take on roles in film and television. In 1983 she had a supporting role in the CBS production Svengali alongside Jodie Foster and Peter O'Toole . In 1984 she starred in her screen debut The Ladies from Boston for the first time under the direction of James Ivory - the only time in a leading role. In the film based on a novel by Henry James , she plays Verena Tarrant, a young woman who is desired by a man ( Christopher Reeve ) and a woman ( Vanessa Redgrave ) at the same time. The film earned Redgrave an Oscar nomination. Other films directed by Ivory included smaller roles in Big City Slaves (1989) (based on Tama Janowitz ) with Bernadette Peters and Chris Sarandon and The Golden Bowl (based on Henry James) with Kate Beckinsale and Nick Nolte . In 2005 she took on the expanded supporting role of Grushenka in The White Countess (2005) based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro . She was also seen in smaller film productions and in television plays in the USA and Great Britain. In 1990, she starred in the Italian Episonde - horror movie Two Evil Eyes (based on themes by Edgar Allan Poe ) by Dario Argento and George A. Romero in the episode The Black Cat a supporting role alongside Harvey Keitel , Martin Balsam and Kim Hunter .

In addition to her film and television work, Potter has been a frequent guest on London theater stages since 2000 , where she can be seen in socially critical plays by younger contemporary authors.

From the connection with the Irish actor Patrick Fitzgerald she has a daughter, Madeleine Daly, who was used in two films in child roles.

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lyn Gardner: picture of Madeleine Potter at the side of Elliot Cowan in the play The Internationalist by Anne Washburn in the Gate Theater London. In: Theater Blog. The Guardian , April 11, 2008, accessed October 29, 2010 (referenced from What to see this week ).
  2. ↑ Joe Harrod: The Water's Edge at Arcola Theater. (No longer available online.) Spoonfed.co.uk, February 6, 2009, formerly original ; Retrieved on October 29, 2010 (English, about the appearance in The Waters Edge by Theresa Rebeck at the Arcola Theater London): “Madeleine Potter as Helen sparkles with brains, sex appeal and anger and it's easy to see how she eclipses other women .. . "
  3. ^ After Mrs. Rochester. theaterpro.com, accessed October 29, 2010 (English, Madeleine Potter as the young Jean Rhys alongside Diana Quick as an alter ego in the biographical play After Mrs. Rochester by Polly Teale at the Duke of York's Theater).
  4. ↑ Madeleine Daly. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Potter, Madeleine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH around 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC , United States