Jacqueline Cotter

Jacqueline Cotter (b. 1964) is an English television, theatre and film actress.

Biography

Early life and education

Jacqueline Cotter was born in Manchester in 1964 to a cleaner, Maura Cahalan, from Athenry, County Galway, Ireland, and a carpenter, Jeremiah Cotter, from Cape Clear Island, County Cork, Ireland, both of whom emigrated to England in the 1950's to find work. She is the eldest of three with a brother, Noel, and a sister, Geraldine, a social worker.

She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff for three years and completed further training at The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin.

Career

Cotter started her career at the Contact Theatre in Manchester in the Greek tragedy "Oedipus Tyrannus" directed by Scottish actor Kenny Ireland and including Will Knightley in the cast. It went on to win best play in the MEN theatre awards that year. After a call to audition for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Jacqueline was given a part in "September Song", a one-off comedy made by Granada Television in Manchester. Jacqueline was to later say that working on this comedy was one of the happiest times of her career.

Following "September Song" came a busy period of work.

References

*www.spotlight.com
*www.Imdb.com
*The Manchester Evening News
*A year in the theatre. (Broadfield publishing)

External links

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