Cheryl Campbell (born 22 May 1949, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England) in 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 . 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, for which she received Best Actress awards form the British Academy Television Award 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.

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  • Cheryl Campbell (born 22 May 1949, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England) in 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 . 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, for which she received Best Actress awards form the British Academy Television Award 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 . 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 & 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 revival of Noises Off. Campbell's other stage performances in London have encompassed the classics as well as new plays; they include You Never Can Tell; Miss Julie in the title role; Little Eyolf as Asta; The Daughter-in-Law as Minnie; The Sneeze in various roles; Betrayal as Emma; The Strip as Loretta; Some Sunny Day as Emily; The Seagull as Arkadina; Passion Play as Nell; & Life After George as Beatrix. In provincial theatre, Campbell has appeared in: The Country Wife as Margery Pinchwife; The Constant Wife as Constance; A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche; and So Long Life as Wendy. She has also appeared regularly on British TV: In period pieces: Sarah Bernhardt in Lillie, Winnie Verloc in The Secret Agent, Bessy Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss, Lady Carbury in The Way We Live Now, Lady Somerset in To the Ends of the Earth.' In dramas: Madeleine Cranmere in Malice Aforethought, Janet in Rain on the Roof, Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent in The Seven Dials Mystery, Eva Jackson in Absurd Person Singular, Caroline Ashurst in A Winter Harvest, Elizabeth Fellowes in A Sort of Innocence, Maria Wearing in Centrepoint, Louie Williams in Fantabulosa. In episodic TV: Erica Taylor in The Sweeney, Griselda Clement in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage, Pamela Drake in Boon, Sylvie Maxton in Inspector Morse, Lady Frances Carfax in the The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Aline Bauche in Maigret, Emily Coxon in Bramwell, Louise McAllister in A Wing and a Prayer, Diana Grey in A Touch of Frost, Sandra MacKillop in Midsomer Murders, Emily Gascoigne in Foyle's War, Maureen Hunt in Waking the Dead, Deputy PM in Spooks, Jean Swainbank in Dalziel and Pascoe, Valli Helm in Lewis. In regular series: Madeleine Claveau in Monsignor Renard, Molly Gilcrest in William and Mary, Lola's mum in Funland, Sophie's mum in Peep Show. On film, her roles have included: Sheila McVicar in 1980's McVicar; Jennie Liddell in 1981's Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire; Lady Aline Hartlip in 1984's The Shooting Party; & Lady Alice Clayton (Tarzan's mother) in 1984's Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. (en)
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  • Cheryl Campbell (born 22 May 1949, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England) in 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 . 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, for which she received Best Actress awards form the British Academy Television Award 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. (en)
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