Stella Gonet

Stella Gonet (born May 8, 1963 in Greenock ) is a Scottish actress .

Life

Stella Gonet was born in Greenock in 1963 as the daughter of a Pole and a Scottish woman, the seventh of 12 children. Her father was a Polish soldier in Scotland during the Second World War . After their mother switched to the Roman Catholic Church , both married and moved to Buenos Aires , where their first two sons were born. They then moved back to Scotland, where ten more children were born.

In 1986 she began studying acting at the renowned RSAMD (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) . In 1989 she went to London, where she got an engagement at the Royal National Theater and performed with Daniel Day-Lewis in Hamlet , among others .

She achieved greater national and international fame through her role as Beatrice Eliott in the television series The House of Eliott . This earned her a CableACE Award nomination and enabled her to launch a film career that has so far included films like Stalin , Nicholas Nickleby and Persuasion .

She is married to the English actor Nicholas Farrell .

Filmography (selection)

• 1988: For Queen and Country ( For Queen & Country )
• 1988: Down Where The Buffalo Go
• 1991–1994: The House of Eliott (TV series, 34 episodes)
• 1992: Stalin
• 1996: Trip Trap
• 2000: The Three Sisters Who Fell Into the Mountain: A Story from Norway
• 2001: The Discovery of Heaven ( The Discovery of Heaven )
• 2002: Nicholas Nickleby
• 2007: Lewis - The Oxford Crime ( Lewis , TV series, an episode: On the wrong track )
• 2007: Persuasion
• 2013: How I Live Now
• 2018: The Cry (miniseries)

Awards (selection)

• 1993: nomination of CableACE Award as Best Actress a Drama Series for her role in The House of Eliott

Web links

• Stella Gonet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Stella Gonet in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stella Gonet's star is rising fast at the RSC. Michael Arditti reports , independent.co.uk