Paola Dionisotti
Paola Dionisotti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːoladi.oniˈzɔtti,-djo-] ; born 1946 in Turin) is an Italian-British actress active on stage and British television since 1975.
Early life
[edit ]Dionisotti is the daughter of Italian literary critic Carlo Dionisotti and Marisa Pinna Pintor. She has two sisters: Anna Carlotta, a Latinist at the King's College London, and Eugenia, a librarian.
Career
[edit ]A character actress best known on television for recurring roles as Lady Patricia Broughall in Forever Green and Aunt Nicholls in Harbour Lights , Dionisotti also has had prominent roles in Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders . She is also known for playing Lady Waynwood in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones .[1] On the stage, she is noted for her Shakespearean roles.[2] She starred in Michael Bogdanov's 1978 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Aldwych.[3] In 2014, she played the tavern landlady Mistress Quickly in the RSC production of Henry IV Parts One and Two.
Partial filmography
[edit ]| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | The Sailor's Return | Lucy Sturmey |
| 1982 | The Young Ones : "Boring" | Queen |
| 1982 | The Young Ones : "Bomb" | DHSS Official |
| 1983 | Fords on Water | Eddie's Mother |
| 1984 | Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: "A Murder is Announced" | Miss Hinchcliffe |
| 1998 | The Tichborne Claimant | The Dowager |
| Vigo | Marie | |
| 2000 | Come and Go | Flo |
| 2001 | Intimacy | Amanda |
| 2004 | Love's Brother | Nonna |
| 2009 | Midsomer Murders: ’’The Great and the Good’’ | Mrs Stroud |
| 2010 | Doctors: "Careless Whisper" | Tricia Andrews |
| 2010 | Agatha Christie: Poirot: "Hallowe'en Party" | Mrs Goodbody |
| 2010 | My Mother's Coat | Narrator |
| 2012 | Cheerful Weather for the Wedding | Mrs Whitstable |
| 2014 | Game of Thrones: "The Mountain and the Viper" | Anya Waynwood |
| 2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | Baroness Le Feyre |
Awards
[edit ]- 2000: London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Further Than The Furthest Thing at the Royal National Theatre
Notes
[edit ]- ^ "'Game of Thrones' Season 4 Spoilers and Casting News: Paola Dionisotti Cast as Lady Anya Waynwood, Mysterious Innkeeper's Daughter to Appear in Season Premiere (PHOTOS)". www.hngn.com. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ Rutter, Carol. Clamorous Voices, Shakespeare's Women Today with Sinead Cusack, Paola Dionisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter (London: The Woman's Press, 1988)
- ^ Miller, Stephen Roy (ed.) The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto (The New Cambridge Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), page 52
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