- Rachael Stirling
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name = Rachael Stirling
birthname = Rachael Atlanta Stirling
birthdate = birth date and age|1977|5|30
location = flagicon|UKLondon ,United Kingdom
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yearsactive =1997 - present
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notable role = Young Rebeccah in "In the Beginning" (2001 )
Nancy Astley in "Tipping the Velvet" (2002 )
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tonyawards =Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born
May 30 ,1977 inLondon ) is an English stage, film and television actress best known for her performance as Nancy Astley in theBBC drama "Tipping the Velvet". She is the daughter of actress Dame Diana Rigg and Archie Stirling.Biography
Rachael Stirling was born to Dame Diana Rigg and Archie Stirling on May 30, 1977. As the daughter of Archie Stirling, she has a long line of ancestry from the Scottish parish of
Lecropt , near her namesake city ofStirling . She attendedWycombe Abbey School andEdinburgh University , where she gained a BA in theHistory of Art .Stirling can also speak Russian and is highly skilled at
horse-riding and jumpingCareer
Stirling made her first major appearance on stage in 1996 as Desdemona in the
National Youth Theatre revival of "Othello " at theArts Theatre oppositeChiwetel Ejiofor in the title role. A year later, again at the Arts Theatre with the NYT, she played Olive in the female version ofThe Odd Couple ; while in 1998, portraying Kate in "Dancing at Lughnasa " for NYT at the Arts, she gave whatThe Stage reviewer described as "a performance of exceptional promise and authority."Her first screen appearance was in the 1998 British comedy film "
Still Crazy " (starringStephen Rea ,Billy Connolly ,Timothy Spall andJimmy Nail ).Other film projects have included "
Maybe Baby ", "Complicity" (with her "Tipping the Velvet" co-starKeeley Hawes ), "Another Life " (with "Vanity Fair" actressNatasha Little ), "The Triumph of Love " (starringMira Sorvino ), andRedemption Road .Her first TV break was in 2000 when she played the young
Rebecca h in the American made-for-television movie "In the Beginning", which charted God's creation of the universe and mankind, oppositeJacqueline Bisset andArt Malik .She continues to be active in the theatre, covering a diversity of roles in plays such as
Dusty Hughes ' "Helpless " (Donmar Warehouse , 2000); "A Woman of No Importance " (Theatre Royal Haymarket , 2003); "Anna in the Tropics " (Hampstead Theatre , 2004); "Tamburlaine " (Bristol Old Vic andBarbican , 2005); and she followed in her mother's footsteps, bringing an alluring erotic charge to her performance as Miranda Lionheart in theNational Theatre stage version of "Theatre of Blood " (2005).In 2006, for the Peter Hall Company at the
Bath Theatre Royal , she played Helena in Peter Gill's revival of "Look Back in Anger "; while in 2007 atWilton's Music Hall in London, she starred as Yelena inDavid Mamet 's version of "Uncle Vanya " [http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/15738/uncle-vanya] , and as a fiercely intelligent Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew " [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article1560970.ece] [http://www.wiltons.org.uk/productions/] .She is an occasional interviewer on the Radio Four chat show Loose Ends.
Television and Filmography
* "
Still Crazy " (1998) — Clare Knowles
* "Maybe Baby " (2000) — Joanna
* "Complicity" (2000) — Claire
* "In the Beginning" (2000) — Young Rebeccah (TV)
* "Redemption Road " (2001) — Becky
* "Another Life" (2001) — Avis Graydon
* "The Triumph of Love " (2001) — Corine
* "Othello" (2001) — Lulu (TV)
* "Tipping the Velvet" (2002) — Nan Astley (TV)
* "Bait" (2002) — Stephanie Raeburn (TV)
* "Agatha Christie's Poirot ": "Five Little Pigs " (2003) — Caroline Crale (TV)
* "Freeze Frame" (2004) — Katie Carter
* "Marple": "The Murder at the Vicarage " (2004) — Griselda Clement (TV)
* "The Final Quest" (2004) — Young Annabelle (TV)
* "Riot at the Rite " (2005) — Marie Rambert (TV)
* "Beyond" (2006) — Guilean Hade (TV)
* "The Truth" (2006) — Martha
* "Hotel Babylon " (2006) — Nina Bailey (TV)
* "The Haunted Airman" (2006) — Julia Jugg (TV)
* "Dangerous Parking " (2006) — Kirstin
* "Lewis": "Life Born of Fire" (2007) — Zoe Kenneth (TV)
* "The Young Victoria " (2008) — Duchess of Sutherland
* "Boy Meets Girl" (2008) — VeronicaExternal links
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