Mary Saunders
Overview
- Ethnicity
- White / European Descent
- Age Range
- 65 - 75
- Height
- 5' 4" (1m 63cm)
- Weight
- 8st. 9lb. (55kg)
- Hair Colour
- Multicolored / Dyed
- Eye Colour
- Blue
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2015 |
Role: Senior Nineteen (mother)
Film |
Short film: Thirteen |
|
2001 |
MA in Theatre Directing
Film |
Middlesex University Performing Arts Dept |
|
2017 |
Role: Shepherdess
Theatre |
Theatre: Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale |
|
2006 |
Role: Grieving mother
Film |
Film: Fighting knife crime |
|
1996 |
Director/Assistant Producer/Acting Producer
Television |
BBC Children's TV from 1985 to 1996 |
|
2019 |
Role: Queen Alonsa
Theatre |
Theatre: Cambridge Shakespeare Festival, The Tempest |
|
2013 |
Roles: Stepmother and witch
Theatre |
Theatre: Hansel and Gretel - the musical - 1st tour |
|
2002 |
Director
Film |
New plays, Shakespeare, Noel Coward, Beckett - 1997 to 2002 |
|
1985 |
Producer/Presenter
Television |
BBC Radio from 1981 to 1985 |
|
2014 |
Roles: Stepmother and witch
Theatre |
Theatre: Hansel and Gretel - the musical - 2nd tour |
|
2016 |
Role: Marta
Film |
Short Film: "Lula" Polish/German language film |
|
2019 |
Role: Gertrude
Theatre |
Theatre: Cambridge Shakespeare Festival, Hamlet |
|
2015 |
Role: The mother
Theatre |
Theatre: Snow White and Rose Red - the musical |
|
2017 |
Margaret - 60 year-old woman with early dementia
Film |
Short Film: Flowers of Hope |
|
2016 |
Jade (the mother-in-law)
Film |
Short Film: After the Beep |
|
2014 |
Role: Maleficent
Theatre |
Theatre: The Princess Tour |
|
2014 |
Role: Calpurnia
Theatre |
Theatre: Julius Caesar |
|
2016 |
Roles: Narrator, Captain, Maria, Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Theatre |
Theatre: Twelfth Night (Young people's version) |
|
2015 |
Role: The Abbess/Aemilia
Theatre |
Theatre: Comedy of Errors - at Oxford Castle's Shakespeare Festival |
|
2017 |
Role: The mother of the main character, Danny
Film |
Short Film: Cocoon |
|
2014 |
Roles: Hippolyta and Titania
Theatre |
Theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream |
|
2015 |
Role: University lecturer
Film |
Short film: Reparation |
|
2017 |
Role: Psyche's older sister
Theatre |
Theatre: Eros and Psyche (young people's version) |
|
2014 |
Role: Miss Prism
Theatre |
Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest |
|
2015 |
Role: Elderly woman with Alzheimers
Film |
Short film: Closing Time |
|
2015 |
2 roles in 2 of the plays
Theatre |
Theatre: Ideas in March/Valentine Plays - A programme of short plays |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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2001 | Theatre Directing and Performance | Middlesex University (Performing Arts Dept) |
About me
I am an experienced and versatile actress, having performed a wide variety of roles, both in film and theatre.Skills
Languages Spoken | English, French, Italian, Polish |
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Accents/Dialects | English - Cockney, English - London, Southern American |
Additional Skills | Acting |
Highlights
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Recent short films:
2017: : Margaret - 60 year-old woman with early dementia in "Flowers of Hope"
2017: The mother of the main character, Danny in "Cocoon"
2016: Marta in "Lula"
2016: Jade (the mother-in-law) in "After the Beep"
2015; Senior Nineteen (mother) in "Thirteen"
2015: Lecturer in "Reparation"
2015: Joan - Woman with alzheimers in "Closing Time"
Recent Professional Theatre Roles:
2019: Queen Alonsa in The Tempest (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival) - Open Hand Productions
2019: Gertrude in Hamlet (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival) - Open Hand Productions
2017: Shepherd(ess) in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale - Don't Hate the Players Theatre Company
2017: Psyche's older sister in Eros and Psyche (young people's version) - The Enchanted Players Theatre Company
2016: Narrator, Captain, Maria, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Young people's version) - The Enchanted PLayers Theatre Company
2015: The Mother in Snow White and Rose Red the musical for The Enchanted Players Theatre Company
2015: Aemilia the lady abbess in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, for Don't Hate the Players Theatre Company
2015: Programme of short plays with Almost Random Theatre Company; (performances in London's Barons Court Theatre, also venues in
Oxford and Poland).
2014: Stepmother and Witch in Hansel and Gretel the Musical (2nd Berkshire tour), Enchanted Players Theatre Company
2014: Maleficent in The Princess Tour (Berkshire) Enchanted Players Theatre Company
2014: Titania and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Berkshire Tour and The Amphitheatre, Said Business School, Oxford) Enchanted
Players Theatre Company
2014: Calpurnia in Julius Caesar (The Amphitheatre, Said Business School, Oxford) Don't Hate the Players Theatre Company
2014: Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest (Oxfordshire tour), Don't Hate the Players Theatre Company
2013: Stepmother and Witch in Hansel and Gretel the Musical (Berkshire and Oxfordshire tour), Enchanted Players Theatre Company
Community Plays
2015: Elizabeth I and Fairy Queen in The Merry Wives of Windsor (adapted) - The People's Shakespeare for Cookham Festival
2013: 2nd Citizen in Richard III - The People's Shakespeare for Cookham Festival
2003-2006: Variety of roles for Reading-based Forum Theatre Company: Sustain Ability
Voicework: BBC radio presenter for 7 years