Jane Lapotaire

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Jane Lapotaire (born 26 December 1944) is a British actress born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. She was married to director Roland Joffé from 1971 to 1980; they had one son, the screenwriter and director Rowan Joffé.

Her role in the title role of Marie Curie (1977) first brought her to wide attention. In 1978 she performed the title role Édith Piaf for Pam Gems's play Piaf directed by Howard Davies for the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and in London, England at the Warehouse Theatre, Covent Garden in 1979 and subsequently in 1981 at the Broadway for which she won the Tony Awards Best Actress in a Play.

She wrote an autobiography, Everybody's Daughter, Nobody's Child, which includes an account of her childhood growing up in Levington Road Ipswich.

In 2000 while working in France, Jane Lapotaire suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. She writes about her recovery in Time Out of Mind.

Filmography

• Eleventh Hour (TV series)
  • Resurrection (2006) - Gepetto
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (TV series)
  • The Word of God (2005) - Fiona Deakin-Jones
• He Knew He Was Right (2004 TV mini-series) - Lady Milborough
• Bella and the Boys (2004 TV film) - Mrs. Rogers
• Can't Stop Breathing (2004 short)
• Midsomer Murders (TV series)
  • Who Killed Cock Robin? (2001) - Mary Mohan
• There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000) - Alice Brewer
• Arabian Nights (2000 TV film) - Miriam
• Where the World Begins (1997 TV film) - Narrator
• Shooting Fish (1997) - Dylan's Headmistress
• Ain't Misbehavin' (1997 TV film) - Clara von Trapp
• McCallum (TV series)
  • Sacrifice (1997) - Miriam
• Surviving Picasso (1996) - Olga Picasso
• Simisola (1996 TV film) - Anouk Khoori
• Giving Tongue (1996 TV film) - Hilda Jacob
• Johnny and the Dead (1995 TV series) - Mrs. Sylvia Liberty
• The Alleyn Mysteries (TV series)
  • Dead Water (1993) - Elspeth Cost
• Love Hurts (TV series) - Diane Warburg (Series 1-2, 1992-1993)
• The Big Battalions (1992 TV mini-series) - Martha Hoyland
• Simone Weil:Utopian Pessimist (1989 docu-drama) directed by John Mair
• Murder in Space (1989 TV film) - Louise Mackey
• Blind Justice (1988 TV mini-series)
• The Dark Angel (1987 TV film) - Madame La Rougiere
• Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987 TV mini-series) - Bonaparte
• Seal Morning (1986 TV series) - Aunt Miriam
• Lady Jane (1986) - Princess Mary
• To Catch a King (1984 TV film) - Irene Neumann
• Eureka (1984) - Helen McCann
• Piaf (1984 TV film) - Edith Piaf
• The Testament of John (1984 TV film) - Claire
• Macbeth (1983 TV film) - Lady Macbeth
• The Captain's Doll (1983 TV film)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1982 TV film) - Elisabeth Moulton-Barrett
• Antony & Cleopatra (1981 TV film) - Cleopatra
• The Search for Alexander the Great (1981 TV mini-series) - Queen Olympias
• The Devil's Crown (1978 TV series) - Aliéner d'Aquitaine
• Marie Curie (1977 TV mini-series) - Marie Curie
• Play for Today (TV series)
  • The House of Bernarda Alba (1976)
• The Other Woman (1976)
• Stocker's Copper (1972)
• One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) - Miss Prescott
• Edward the Seventh (1975 TV mini-series) - Empress Marie of Russia
• Country Matters (1974 TV mini-series)
• Crown Court (TV series)
  • Robin and Juliet (1973)
• Van der Valk (TV series)
  • Rich Man, Poor Man (1973) - Elly
• The Horror of Death (1973) - Christina Cunningham
• The Asphyx (1973) - Peter Newbrook
• Armchair Theatre (TV series)
  • On Call (1972) - Jean
• Love and Mr Lewisham (1972 TV series) - Miss. Heydinger
• Stoker Leishman's Diaries (1972 TV film)
• Callan (TV series)
  • The Contract (1972) - Kristina
• Antony and Cleopatra (1972) - Charmian
• The Edwardians (1972 TV mini-series) - Alice Houston
• Jason King (TV series)
  • Buried in the Cold Cold Ground (1971) - French Maid
• Crescendo (1970) - Lillianne
• Sherlock Holmes (TV series)
  • The Naval Treaty (1968) - Annie Harrison

Links

• Jane Lapotaire at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jane Lapotaire at the Internet Movie Database