Naomi Bentley

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Naomi Bentley (born 1982 ) is a British or Australian actress .

Life

Bentley completed a three-year acting course at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in 2004 . She made her television debut in an episode of the television series Holby City in 2004 , followed by an appearance on Blue Murder .

As a stage actress , she has appeared in the plays Burn by Deborah Gearing , Chatroom by Enda Walsh and Citizenship by Mark Ravenhill at the National Theater in London . In 2005 she played Martha in the play Martha Loves Michael at the Pleasence Theater in Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in 2006 the role of Leah in the play Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey at the Sound Theater. In 2009 she played the role of Gabrielle York (as a young woman) at the Almeida Theater in London in the new play When the Rain Stops Falling by the Australian playwright Andrew Bovell . Critics praised her "beautiful vulnerability" as an unhappy young woman who falls in love with Tom .

Bentley's other TV and film roles since 2004 have been Maria Jackson in the crime series Dalziel and Pascoe , Leonilda in Casanova , Rachel in the British sitcom Grownups and the role of Shelley in the Channel 4- produced film The Mark of Cain . The second season of the science fiction series Primeval , in which Bentley played a leading role, was shown on ITV in March and April 2008.

She starred in the BBC comedy Mutual Friends alongside Marc Warren , Keeley Hawes , Sarah Alexander and Alexander Armstrong . In 2008 she also starred in the role of medical student Holly Farr in the crime series Forensic Medicine Dr. See Leo Dalton . In 2009 she had an episode lead role in the Christmas special of the British mystery series Jonathan Creek .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2004: Holby City
  • 2004: Blue Murder
  • 2005: Casanova
  • 2005: Can You Take It?
  • 2005-2006: Doctors
  • 2006: Snuff Box
  • 2006: Dalziel and Pascoe
  • 2006: extras
  • 2006: Gold-plated
  • 2006: January 2nd
  • 2007: The Mark of Cain
  • 2007: Under One Roof
  • 2007: rush hour
  • 2007: Grownups
  • 2008: Primeval
  • 2008: Forensic specialist Dr. Leo Dalton (Silent Witness)
  • 2008: Mutual Friends
  • 2009: Jonathan Creek - The Grinning Man
  • 2013: Miranda (TV series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naomi Bentley: Naomi Bentley talks about her experience of mental illness . In: Time To Change . September 5, 2013 ( org.uk - according to its own information, 31 years old in September 2013).
  2. ↑ The Almeida cast includes two good Australian actors, Leah Purcell and Naomi Bentley, as the older and younger Gabrielle,… in: Confusion rains in this gloomy epic in a performance review by The Independent on May 28, 2009.
  3. ↑ Burn / Chatroom / Citizenship cast at the National Theater
  4. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Martha Loves Michael ) Short review at The Stage from August 8, 2005@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thestage.co.uk
  5. ↑ Beautiful Thing Performance Review at Curtain Up. 2006
  6. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Naomi Bentley - Gabrielle York (younger) ) Cast on the Almeida Theater website@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.almeida.co.uk
  7. ↑ When the Rain Stops Falling, at the Almeida Theater - review performance review in: The Daily Telegraph, May 26, 2009.
  8. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Naomi Bentley plays Anita ) BBC press release of August 13, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bbc.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Bentley, Naomi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British or Australian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1982