Catherine Russell (actress)
| Catherine Russell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 April 1965 Lambeth, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Television | Holby City |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Holmes |
| Family | Nicholas Smith |
Catherine Russell (born 17 April 1965 in London) is a British stage, television and screen actress.
Catherine Russell is the daughter of actor Nicholas Smith and his wife Mary. She is married to film producer Richard Holmes and they have two children, Sam (born 1989) and Poppy (born 1997). She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1983 to 1986 under George Hall.
Russell's credits are extensive and varied including being nominated for an Ian Charleson Award for her performance in Chekhov's Three Sisters. She has played leads in the West End at the National, the Royal Court, Soho Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Lyric; Royal Exchange, Manchester and the Almeida Theatre.
She regularly works with the director Max Stafford-Clark for his theatre company Out of Joint where, as well as Masha in Three Sisters, she created roles such as Tess in Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Break of Day, Rima and Phoebe in Robin Soans' Talking to Terrorists, Mrs Peacham and Bett Rock in Stephen Jeffreys' The Convict's Opera and Hildy in Stella Feehily's Dreams of Violence. Other new work includes Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest directed by Michael Buffong, leading roles in Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's The Last Carnival and award winning Kevin Elyot's The Day I Stood Still directed by the renowned Ian Rickson. She is also a singer and played Rosie in the West End production of Mamma Mia!
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