Paola Dionisotti
Paola Dionisotti | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) Torino, Italy |
Occupation | Actress |
Paola Dionisotti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːola djoniˈzɔtti]; born 1946) is an Italian-British actress active on stage and British television since 1975. She is the daughter of Italian literary critic Carlo Dionisotti and of Marisa Pinna Pintor. She has two sisters: Anna Carlotta, a Latinist at the King's College London, and Eugenia, a librarian.
A character actress best known on television for recurring roles as Lady Patricia Broughall in Forever Green and Aunt Nicholls in Harbour Lights, she also has had prominent roles in Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders. She is also known for playing Lady Waynwood in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.[1] On the stage, she is noted for her Shakespearean roles.[2] She starred in Michael Bogdanov's 1978 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Aldwych.[3] In 2014, she played the tavern landlady Mistress Quickly in the RSC production of Henry IV Parts One and Two.
Partial filmography
Year | Title | Role |
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1978 | The Sailor's Return | Lucy Sturmey |
1982 | The Young Ones: "Boring" | Queen |
1982 | The Young Ones: "Bomb" | DHSS Official |
1983 | Fords on Water | Eddie's Mother |
1984 | Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: “A Murder is Announced” | Miss Hinchcliffe |
1998 | The Tichborne Claimant | The Dowager |
Vigo | Marie | |
2000 | Come and Go | Flo |
2001 | Intimacy | Amanda |
2004 | Love's Brother | Nonna |
2009 | Midsomer Murders: ’’The Great and the Good’’ | Mrs Stroud |
2010 | Doctors: “Careless Whisper” | Tricia Andrews |
2010 | Agatha Christie: Poirot: "Hallowe'en Party" | Mrs Goodbody |
2010 | My Mother's Coat | Narrator |
2012 | Cheerful Weather for the Wedding | Mrs Whitstable |
2014 | Game of Thrones: “The Mountain and the Viper” | Anya Waynwood |
2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | Baroness Le Feyre |
Awards
- 2000: London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Further Than The Furthest Thing at the Royal National Theatre
Notes
- ^ "'Game of Thrones' Season 4 Spoilers and Casting News: Paola Dionisotti Cast as Lady Anya Waynwood, Mysterious Innkeeper's Daughter to Appear in Season Premiere (PHOTOS)". www.hngn.com. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ Rutter, Carol. Clamorous Voices, Shakespeare's Women Today with Sinead Cusack, Paola Dionisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter (London: The Woman's Press, 1988)
- ^ Miller, Stephen Roy (ed.) The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto (The New Cambridge Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), page 52
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