ABSTRACT

Diana Quick’s professional career in the theatre began as an undergraduate at Oxford, where she became the first female president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. She has acted in a many plays, including Bond’s Lear and The Sea at the Royal Court; the British premiere of Jean Genet’s The Screens (translated by Howard Brenton); the West End musicals Threepenny Opera and Billy!; Plunder, Phaedra Brittanica, Troilus and Cressida, Tamburlaine, David Hare’s Map of the World; The Changeling (RSC); Doug Lucies’s Progress; W. Humble’s Fly Away Home; T. Frisby’s Rough Justice. She translated and performed Simone de Beauvoir’s A Woman Destroyed in 1994. Her many film and TV credits include Brideshead Revisited and The Orchid House. Her recent projects include the film Nostradamus; September Song for TV; and If We Are Women by Joanna McClelland Glass at Greenwich Theatre (March 1995).