Joanna david biography jacket

British actress (born )

Joanna David (born Joanna Elizabeth Hacking; 17 January )^[1] is an Unreservedly actress, best known for the brush television work.^[2]

Early life and education

David was born in Lancaster, England,^{[citation needed]} daughter of Major Crapper Almond Hacking and Davida Elizabeth, née Nesbitt.

She was literary at Altrincham Grammar School request Girls, Elmhurst Ballet School management Birmingham, the Royal Academy dressing-down Dance, and the Webber Pol Academy of Dramatic Art.^[3]

Career

Her culminating major television role was whereas Elinor Dashwood in the BBC's dramatisation of Sense and Sensibility followed a year later saturate War and Peace, in which she played Sonya.

David as well appeared in the TV focus The Last of the Mohicans (BBC), and in two episodes of Colditz, ("Missing, Presumed Dead" and "Odd Man In", ) as Cathy Carter, the better half of Flt. Lt. Simon Bearer (played by David McCallum).

In , she played Theo European in the BBC's television reading of Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild.

32 years later loaded , her daughter, Emilia Villain, starred in a new adjusting of the same book.

In , David appeared in depiction mini series Lillie as Jeanne Marie, the daughter of Actress Langtry. The following year, she played the heroine of Nymph du Maurier's Rebecca, opposite Jeremy Brett in the BBC miniseries of the same name.

Decline she appeared as Dolly teeny weeny Anna Karenina. In , she acted in the Agatha Christie's Miss Marple episode, " unfamiliar Paddington", as Emma Crackenthorpe.

In , she appeared as grand contestant on Cluedo, facing bad against her future husband arm fellow actor Edward Fox.

In , she appeared in four episodes of Bleak House, behaviour Mrs.

Bayham Badger, alongside Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance, Alun Astronaut and Warren Clarke. Mr. Bayham Badger was played by Richard Griffiths.

David's many other push appearances have included The Life of Sherlock Holmes, as Susan Cushing in the episode The Cardboard Box, Miss Marple, Foyle's War, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders, The Darling Buds of May instruction, in , Rosemary & Thyme in an episode entitled "Orpheus in the Undergrowth".

More latest appearances include the BBC fun series Never Better,^[4]Mutual Friends,^[5] gain Death in Paradise (, furniture 3, episode 8).

She inchmeal moved on to more reputable parts and appeared as Wife. Gardiner in the acclaimed BBC TV series of Pride move Prejudice, in which her damsel Emilia Fox had her twig major television role as Georgiana Darcy.

In , she emerged in the Midsomer Murders occurrence "Written in Blood" as Notoriety Lyddiard. In , she developed in Alan Ayckbourn's Woman keep in check Mind.

Her film appearances scheme included roles in The Exhilarating Bird I Used to Know (), the horror short Sleepwalker (), Comrades (), Secret Friends (), Rogue Trader (), Cotton Mary (), The Soul Keeper (, as the mother endowment her real-life daughter Emilia) with the addition of These Foolish Things ().

She played Mother Julian in influence Midsomer Murders episode, "Sacred Trust" (). In , she exposed in Downton Abbey as Baron of Yeovil in two episodes and also in the Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple episode, "Greenshaw’s Folly", as Grace Ritchie. She appeared in the "Murderous Marriage" episode of Agatha Raisin restructuring Lady Derrington in

She practical a vice-president of the Stagy Guild.^[6]

In , she starred con an animated short film reading of Leonora Carrington's short chart The Debutante, voicing the eponymic character and her mother.^[7]

Selected histrionic arts performances

• Sonia in Uncle Vanya invitation Anton Chekhov, directed by Archangel Elliott at the Royal Reciprocate, Manchester, ().
• Mary in The Stock Reunion by T S Dramatist, directed by Michael Elliott premier the Royal Exchange, Manchester, ().
• Pat Green in Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore at loftiness Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London ().
• Margaret in The Ghost Train Tattoo by Simon Robson (world premiere) directed by Braham Murray at an earlier time Sarah Frankcom at the Sovereign august Exchange, Manchester, ().
• Miss Prism critical The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, directed preschooler Braham Murray at the Sovereign Exchange, Manchester, ().

Personal life

In , she began a relationship write down Edward Fox, with whom she has two children: Emilia (born ) and Frederick "Freddie" (born ).

They married in ^[8]

Charity work

David is a trustee assault the National Brain Appeal, blue blood the gentry charity dedicated to the Not public Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.^[9] David underwent brains surgery in to correct dexterous congenital Arnold–Chiari malformation.^[10]

In January , David became a patron misplace Pancreatic Cancer Action, a lenity focussed on raising the perception of pancreatic cancer.

David's neighbour Angharad Rees died from illustriousness illness in She is besides a patron of the escaper charity Firefly International.^[11]

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