Emma Wilkes
Overview
- Ethnicity
- White / European Descent
- Age Range
- 35 - 45
- Height
- 5' 9" (1m 75cm)
- Weight
- 10st. 1lb. (64kg)
- Hair Colour
- Brown
- Eye Colour
- Brown
- Build
- Slim
Images
Audio
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audio fileAUDIO BOOK Voice Reel
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audio fileDOCU-NARRATION Voice Reel
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audio fileCOMMERCIALS Voice Reel
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audio fileAUDIO DRAMA
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Video
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video fileMonologue Competition 2021
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video fileBlue Raincoat exerpt, by BAFTA nominated BBC writer Carolyn S Jones
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video fileCommercial Acting Reel
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video fileBonus Reel
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video fileMain SHOWREEL
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Agent
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Bartlett-Walford Associat...Agent
- Agent
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07366142572Contact
- Website
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2022 |
Tricia Yates, Guest Artist
Television |
DOCTORS Debbie Howard/BBC |
BBC Drama Village |
2021 |
Rachel (extended monologue)
Theatre |
Blue Raincoat Jonathan Legg |
Chapel Arts, Cheltenham |
2021 |
Tourist Mum
Film |
The Loneliest Boy Martin Owen/Friends of Oliver |
South Wales |
2021 |
Trix (extended monologue)
Theatre |
Fibster Gary Owston/ The Inner Circle, Circle Theatre |
Zed Alley, Bristol |
2021 |
Psychiatric Nurse
Film |
Black Twist Fridtjof Ryder / Black Twist Film |
Gloucestershire |
2021 |
Clara Von Holst
Film |
A Woman's Life (Screenplay) Roger Harding / AWL |
Cheltenham |
2020 |
Laura, lead
Commercials & Industrials |
Tap2Tag Paul Holbrook / Shunk Films |
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2020 |
Rachel
Film |
Blue Raincoat Carolyn S Jones |
Stroud |
2020 |
Female Swing
Online & Multimedia |
Measure For Measure Rob Myles / The Show Must Go Online |
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2020 |
multiple roles
Online & Multimedia |
The Ballad of Crookback & Shakespeare Claire Amias / A Monkey With Cymbals |
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2020 |
Queen Gertrude - Hamlet excerpt, Titania - A Midsummer Night's Dream excerpt, ensemble
Theatre |
BAA Shakespeare Showcase Gary Owston / BAA |
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School |
2019 |
Teresa, The Memory Of Water excerpt
Theatre |
BAA Contemporary Showcase Sam Bridges / BAA |
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School |
2019 |
Jenny
Film |
Domestic Abuse Sankha Guha / Zulutango TV |
Clapham |
2019 |
Clara Von Holst
Theatre |
A Woman's Life Carolyn S Jones, John Bassett / Stroud Theatre Festival, Spaniel In The Works |
Imperial Hotel, Stroud |
2019 |
Goneril, Lady Macbeth, ensemble
Theatre |
Shakespeare PickNMix Susan Lynch / Stroud Shakespeare Festival |
Stratford Park |
2019 |
Flo
Theatre |
Tess & Flo, part of charity gala, Shine Marianne Gaston / Foulisfair Theatre |
Performance Arts Building, Oxstalls, Glos |
2019 |
Mermaid
Film |
Close Your Eyes UOG |
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2019 |
Mother
Film |
Lilies In The Winter UOP |
Glos |
2019 |
Clara Von Holst, lead
Theatre |
A Woman's Life Marianne Gaston / Holst Birthplace Museum |
Cheltenham |
2018 |
Freya, lead
Film |
Live Bait Elliot Blakemore / UOG |
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2018 |
Amy
Film |
Cold Chips Elliot Blakemore / UOG |
Cheltenham |
2018 |
Mrs Potter, Mother
Film |
The Search Party Graeme Willetts / Hindsight Films |
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2018 |
The Mother
Film |
Those Remnants Of You Cameron Rutherford / Gloscol & ACC Productions |
Gloucestershire |
2017 |
Hermia
Theatre |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Susan Lynch / RATS |
Stroud |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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2023 | 8 month Showcase course | Bristol Acting Academy at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School |
About me
I began my journey into professional acting after joining Susan Lynch's theatre group, Rats, in Stroud in 2016, when I was cast as Hermia in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I went on to make my professional stage debut in 2019 in Cheltenham playing Gustav Holst's mother, the lead, in a play by BAFTA-nominated writer, Carolyn S Jones. My professional screen debut came later that year, playing the lead in a mini-documentary directed by BBC broadcaster Sankha Guha, called Domestic Abuse. I decided to train professionally that same autumn at BOVTS, playing Queen Gertrude as part of the Shakespeare Showcase, my performance receiving huge praise from Bristolian directors, and when the in-person course was abruptly halted by Covid, so began my newest journey - into the world of voice acting.Former BOVTS Senior Voice tutor, Gary Owston offered intensive voice coaching throughout lockdown and beyond, involving storytelling, Shakespeare speeches and rhetoric, phonetic dialect training and vocal variety. Swiftly becoming a new passion for me, it prompted me to invest heavily in professional audio recording equipment and software, and by last June I'd had my very own soundproofed booth built. I have gone on to win voice jobs for a variety of organisations including the RNIB's TV and online ads for their Life's Great Race campaign, as well as voicing many characters in immersive audio drama experiences in historic buildings such as Hampton Court Palace (Halloween Tour) and Fyvie Castle (National Trust for Scotland). I also voice many characters in the soundscape aboard the SS Great Britain, Bristol, and have just been asked to do more for their festive season. Lockdown also gave birth to a wonderful podcast called Theatrephonic, and I continue to feature in many of their audio plays.
At the beginning of the pandemic I was asked to self-film an extended monologue, 'Blue Raincoat', again written by Carolyn S Jones, to form part of a series called 'Tales From The Edge', which was finally brought to its natural home, the stage, last month in Cheltenham. My actual return to the stage, once restrictions were lifted, came last July, when I was asked to join Bristol's Circle Theatre's "Inner Circle", which saw professional writers, directors and actors matched as threesomes to work remotely via zoom on extended monologues, subsequently performed live in Bristol. And so I was thrilled to have been chosen to perform 'The Fibster' by award-winning young writer George Bailey.
I was thrilled to land a small role in my first feature film last February, 'The Loneliest Boy in The World', starring Max Harwood (Everyone's Talking About Jamie) and Alex Murphy (Young Offenders), release set for 2022.
Always striving to develop and learn, I joined the Everyman Cheltenham Actor's Lab back in 2019, as well as Inspire Actors Studio, Birmingham, where at both I have attended countless classes and workshops to practise everything from improvisation to radio drama acting. I found the short course I did with Complicite in London in 2019 to be an invaluable experience, and I jump on the train to Paddington regularly to attend in-person workshops with casting directors, to hone my audition skills.
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INDUSTRY PRAISE
Reviews for 'Blue Raincoat' (short film made in lockdown #1 written by BAFTA-nominated Carolyn S. Jones):
“Emma Wilkes’ performance is compelling, beautifully understated and utterly truthful.”
SIMON MCBURNEY, Actor, Co-Founder/Artistic Director of Complicite
"Emma Wilkes performance in Blue Raincoat is quietly truthful and absorbing. She shows a superb sense of control in perfectly pacing this miniature drama to its compelling conclusion."
BILL ALEXANDER, Theatre Director RSC, Birmingham Rep.
“This is a very watchable film. Emma tells the story and delivers the text with such ease, truth and confidence, you get so involved, it’s a joy. There exists a very fine line between no connection and over doing the emotions - it’s very clear that Emma has honed this rendition to perfection.“
GARY OWSTON, Senior Voice & Dialect Tutor 99 - 2017 (retired) BOVTS
"I believed you/her. And I was emotionally connected. Well done. Really, seriously, well done..... I think you are probably best when you are your most spontaneous. When you took time to think and remember as the character you were particularly good."
STEVEN BERNSTEIN, American Cinematographer/Director (White Chicks, Monster)
"Very good. I thought it played really well. Very natural, spontaneous, living the moment. I was impressed overall by the quality of the performance and the range of 'tone-shift' in the delivery."
DAVID BLAIR, British TV/Film Director (Care, Common, The Street)
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Praise for 'The Fibster' (extended monologue performed live on stage as part of Circle Theatre's Inner Circle, July 2021):
"You held your audience throughout, which is no mean feat in a fifteen minute monologue. Further, the ability you have to access intense emotions is quite incredible. That gave the climax of the piece an almost uncomfortable amount of truth."
J R PARSONAGE, Executive Producer, Circle Theatre.
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Praise for 'The Marathon'(self-filmed extended monologue written by Philip Pugh):
"This is great. Measured, controlled, engaged emotional. I liked it very much."
STEVEN BERNSTEIN, American Cinematographer/Director (White Chicks, Monster)
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I was born in Stourbridge, West Midlands, attended Aberystwyth University studying German, with Film, TV and Radio Studies, and went on to train and work as a secondary school language teacher in a school in the West Midlands, and then once we moved to Stroud. I have also co-directed a Software Development business for nearly twenty years with my husband, with whom I have three teenage children.
License & Passport
Driver's License: | Yes |
Skills
Languages Spoken | English, French, German |
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Accents/Dialects | American - General, Australian, English - Cockney, English - England North West (Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire), English - General, English - Gloucester, English - London, English - Received Pronunciation, English - Southwest England, English - West Midlands (Shropshire, Birmingham, Brummie), English - Yorkshire & Humber, French (Standard International), German, Southern American, Spanish (International Spanish) Acento Neutro, Standard American |
Dance Styles | Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Salsa, Tap |
Vocal Types | Alto, Mezzo Soprano |
Singing Styles | Legit/Classical |
Additional Skills | Acting, Dance, Singing |
Athletics | Aerobics, Badminton, Cycling, Skiing |
Musical Skills | Flute, Piano/Keyboards, Piccolo |