Phoebe Nicholls

Phoebe Nicholls
Born	Phoebe Sarah Nicholls 1957 (age 59–60) London, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1964 – present
Spouse(s)	Charles Sturridge (1985-)
Children	Tom Sturridge Matilda Sturridge Arthur Sturridge
Parent(s)	Anthony Nicholls Faith Kent
Relatives	Kate Nicholls (sister) Horace Nicholls (grandfather)

Phoebe Sarah Nicholls (born 1957) is an English film, television and stage actress. She is known for her roles as Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited and as the mother of John Merrick in The Elephant Man.

Nicholls trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Nicholls married Brideshead Revisited director Charles Sturridge on 6 July 1985; they have two sons, including actor Tom Sturridge, and a daughter.

As a child actress in several films she was billed as Sarah Nicholls. In her early 20s, she appeared in David Lynch's The Elephant Man, Michael Palin's The Missionary and as Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. Since then, she has worked almost exclusively in television and theatre. Debuting in Michael Lindsay-Hogg's original staging of Whose Life Is It Anyway? in 1978, she went on to perform in Robert Strura's revival of Three Sisters with Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Daldry's acclaimed National Theatre version of J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls and in the Olivier Award-winning productions of Pravda, with The Elephant Man co-star Sir Anthony Hopkins and Terry Johnson's Hysteria. Her supporting performances in the 2008 West End revivals of Noël Coward's The Vortex and Harley Granville Barker's Waste earned her the 2009 Clarence Derwent Award from Equity. She also played the conniving art critic Rivera in the Royal National Theatre production of the Howard Barker drama, Scenes from an Execution.