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Cheryl Campbell is a British actress of stage, film and television who is perhaps best known for her starring role as Vera Brittain in the BBC's television dramatization of Testament of Youth (1979), for which she received a British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) for best actress and a Broadcasting Press Guild Award for best actress. Campbell earned her first BAFTA nomination just the previous year, for a very different character in a very different drama. To connoisseurs of Dennis Potter, Campbell is forever identified with the role of Eileen Everson, the female lead opposite Bob Hoskins in Potter's 1978 television serial, understatedly described as a drama-with-music, Pennies from Heaven
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Cheryl Campbell is also, perhaps more importantly, a stage performer of considerable note and great range. She has been twice a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. At the RSC in 1982, she played Nora in Adrian Noble's memorable production of Ibsen's A Doll's House (for which she was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival). In that same season, she also appeared as Diana in "All's Well That Ends Well." She returned to the RSC in the 1992-94 season, playing Lady Macbeth to Derek Jacobi's lead in Noble's controversial production; Beatrice-Joanna in "The Changeling"; Mistress Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"; & Natasha in "Misha's Party." She has also worked at the Royal National Theater: playing as a junior member of the company in 1975, as Freda in Peter Hall's Old Vic production of "John Gabriel Borkman" (starring Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft & Wendy Hiller) & as Maggie in W.S. Gilbert's "Engaged"; in 1995, as an entirely memorable Lady Politic Would-Be in Matthew Warchus's "Volpone"; & in 2003 as Dotty Otley in the NT's touring (& London) revival of "Noises Off."

Campbell's other stage performances in London have encompassed the classics as well as new plays; they include "Miss Julie" (1983) in the title role; "Little Eyolf" (1985) as Asta; "The Daughter-in-Law" (1985) as Minnie; "The Sneeze" (1988) in various roles; "Betrayal" (1991) as Emma; "The Strip" (1995) as Loretta; "Some Sunny Day" (1996) as Emily; "The Seagull" (1997) as Arkadina; "Passion Play" (2000) as Nell; & "Life After George" (2002) as Beatrix. In provincial theatre (aside from the touring productions of "The Seagull" & "Noises Off"), Campbell has appeared in: "The Country Wife" (Manchester Royal Exchange) as Margery Pinchwife; "The Constant Wife" (Theatr Clwyd) as Constance; "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Leicester Haymarket) as Blanche (for which she received a Regional Theatre Best Actress award); and "So Long Life" (touring production) as Wendy.

She has also appeared regularly on British TV: in period pieces: Sarah Bernhardt in "Lillie," Winnie Verloc in "The Secret Agent," Bessy Tulliver in "Mill on the Floss," Lady Carbury in "The Way We Live Now," Lady Somerset in "To the Ends of the Earth"; dramas: Madeleine Cranmere in "Malice Aforethought," Janet in "Rain on the Roof," Lady 'Bundle' Brent in "Seven Dials Mystery," Eva Jackson in "Absurd Person Singular," Caroline Ashurst in "A Winter Harvest," Maria Wearing in "Centrepoint", as Louie Williams in "Fantabulosa"; episodic TV: Erica Taylor in "The Sweeney," Griselda Clement in "Miss Marple," Pamela Drake in "Boon," Sylvie Maxton in "Inspector Morse," Lady Frances Carfax in "Sherlock Holmes," Aline Bauche in "Maigret," Emily Coxon in "Bramwell," Louise McAllister in "A Wing and a Prayer," Diana Grey in "A Touch of Frost," Sandra MacKillop in "Midsomer Murders," Emily Gascoigne in "Foyle's War," Maureen Hunt in "Waking the Dead"); & lately in regular series: Madeleine Claveau in "Monsignor Renard," Molly Gilcrest in "William and Mary," Lola's mum in "Funland".

On film, her roles have included: Sheila McVicar (to Roger Daltrey's John McVicar) in 1980's "McVicar"; Jennie Liddell in 1981's Oscar-winning "Chariots of Fire"; Lady Aline Hartlip in 1984's "The Shooting Party" (with James Mason & John Gielgud); & Lady Alice Clayton (Tarzan's mother) in 1984's Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes'."

Personal details. Born: 22 May 1949, St. Albans. Education: Francis Bacon Grammar School, St. Albans; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Repertory theatre: Watford Palace Theatre, Birmingham Rep and Glasgow Citizens. Agent: Amanda Howard Associates, London W1.

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