Alexis Zegerman

Alexis Zegerman is a British actress and writer.

Background and career

She grew up in London^[1] and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.^[2]

Film and TV actress

She is probably most famous as Zoe, Poppy's best friend and roommate, in Oscar-nominated Mike Leigh's comedy-drama film Happy-Go-Lucky for which she won a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress^[3] and a London Film Critics' nomination. This was her second collaboration with Mike Leigh. She has also played the part of Daliah Sofer in Storm which premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival in 2009, and Gemma in ITV drama U Be Dead ^[4]

Theatre actress

In 2005 She appeared in the original cast of Mike Leigh's play Two Thousand Years, which premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London same year.^[2] In 2009, she also appeared in Seven Jewish Children, a play by Caryl Churchill at the Royal Court Theatre.^[5] She plays the part of Cissie in the revival of Arnold Wesker's Chicken Soup with Barley (June 2011 - ) at the Royal Court Theatre.^[6]

Playwriting

Zegerman has written plays for BBC Radio 4 including Ronnie Gecko, Are You Sure?, The Singing Butler, Jump, and the comedy series School Runs. She also wrote the play Déjà Vu, a co-production between the BBC and ARTE in France, which was simultaneously broadcast in both countries in February 2009.^[7] Her stage play Lucky Seven had its premiere at the Hampstead Theatre in London in November 2008.^[8] Alexis began writing on the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme. She became Pearson Writer-in-Residence at Hampstead Theatre in 2007, where her play Lucky Seven premiered in November 2008. It has since received further productions in the UK and abroad. Short plays include I Ran the World for the Royal Court, and Noise at Soho Theatre, London (Westminster Prize for New Playwriting 2003). Her play Killing Brando opened at the Young Vic as part of Paines Plough’s Wild Lunch in 2004, and was later produced at Òran Mór in Glasgow for their ‘A Play, a Pie and a Pint’ season.^[9] She has been named a finalist for the prestigious 2011-2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.^[10]

Screenwriting

Wrote the screenplay for The Honeymoon Suite (2010)^[11]

References

External links

• Alexis Zegerman at the Internet Movie Database
• Guardian article: First Sight - Alexis Zegerman
• Review of Happy-Go-Lucky, Independent on Sunday

Notes

• [4] Interview with Baz Bamigboye, The Daily Mail
• First Sight: The Guardian
• Profile at her literary agent

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