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Stella Gonet

Stella Gonet
Born (1960-05-08) 8 May 1960 (age 56)
Greenock,Scotland, UK
Spouse(s) Nicholas Farrell (2005 - present)

Stella Gonet (born 8 May 1960) is a Scottish theatre, film and television actress. She is known for her roles in the BBC dramas The House of Eliott (1991–94) and Holby City (2007–09). Her stage credits include playing Ophelia in the 1989 National Theatre revival of Hamlet, opposite both Daniel Day-Lewis and Ian Charleston as Hamlet, and playing Margaret Thatcher in the original West End production of Handbagged (2014).

Gonet was born in Greenock, Scotland. Her Scottish mother and Polish father met when her father was stationed in Greenock during World War II. She is the seventh of twelve children and four of her sisters are nurses.

She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Gonet starred as Beatrice Eliott, one of the two lead roles, in three series of the television drama The House of Eliott, and played Chief Executive Officer Jayne Grayson in the medical drama Holby City. She also has appeared in Casualty, The Crow Road, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Foyle's War, Outnumbered and Lewis. She played a villain in the mini-series The Secret and played Grace Maplin in the Sins of Commission episode of Midsomer Murders.


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