Tara Fitzgerald

Tara Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald in June 2012
Born	Anne Tara G. F. Callaby (1967-09-18) 18 September 1967 (age 49) Cuckfield, Sussex, England, UK
Residence	Shepherd's Bush, London, United Kingdom and Barnes, London
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present
Height	5' 5" (1.65 m)
Spouse(s)	John Sharian (m. 2001–2003)
Parent(s)	Michael Callaby Sarah Fitzgerald

Tara Fitzgerald (born 18 September 1967) is an English actress who has appeared in feature films, television, radio and the stage. She won the New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 1995 as Ophelia opposite Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet. She won the Best Actress Award at The Reims International Television Festival in 1999 for her role of Lady Dona St Columb in Frenchman's Creek. Fitzgerald's most recent role has been in the West End production of The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre with Damian Lewis and Keira Knightley, and in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Donmar Warehouse. Since 2007, Fitzgerald has appeared in more than 30 episodes of the BBC television series Waking the Dead. She is best known for her role as Selyse Baratheon in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Anne Tara G. F. Callaby was born in Cuckfield, Sussex, to Irish portrait photographer Sarah Geraldine Fitzgerald and English artist Michael Callaby. She has one sister, Arabella, and one half-sister, Bianca, both younger. The sisters are great-nieces of the late Irish-American stage and film actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. When she was still a child her family moved to Freeport, Bahamas, where her maternal grandfather, David Fitzgerald, practised law. Returning to England, her parents divorced when Tara was three years old. Three years later, her mother married English-born Irish-based actor Norman Rodway and the family began several years of journeying across Britain and Ireland.