Cheryl Campbell Bio - Biography

Name Cheryl Campbell
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Naionality British
Date of Birth 22 May 1949
Place of Birth St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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Cheryl Campbell (born 22 May 1949 in St Albans) is an English actress of stage, film and television.

Campbell was educated at Francis Bacon Grammar School, St Albans; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Her repertory theatre experience includes the Watford Palace Theatre, Birmingham Rep and Glasgow Citizens' Theatre.

She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Vera Brittain in the BBC's television dramatization of Testament of Youth (1979), for which she received Best Actress awards form the British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) and the Broadcasting Press Guild Award.

Campbell earned her first BAFTA nomination just the previous year, for a very different character in a very different drama. To connoisseurs of Dennis Potter, Campbell is forever identified with the role of Eileen Everson, the female lead opposite Bob Hoskins in Potter's 1978 television serial Pennies from Heaven.

Cheryl Campbell is also a stage performer of considerable note and great range. She has been twice a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. At the RSC in 1982, she played Nora in Adrian Noble's memorable production of Ibsen's A Doll's House (for which she was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival). In that same season, she also appeared as Diana in All's Well That Ends Well. She returned to the RSC in the 1992-94 season, playing Lady Macbeth to Derek Jacobi's lead in Noble's controversial production of Macbeth; Beatrice-Joanna in The Changeling; Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor; & Natasha in Misha's Party. She has also worked at the Royal National Theater: playing as a junior member of the company in 1975, as Freda in Peter Hall's Old Vic production of John Gabriel Borkman (starring Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft & Wendy Hiller) & as Maggie in W.S. Gilbert's Engaged; in 1995, as an entirely memorable Lady Politic Would-Be in Matthew Warchus's Volpone; & in 2003 as Dotty Otley in the NT's touring (& London) revival of Noises Off.

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