Alex Kingston
Alex Kingston was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom on March 11th, 1963 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 61, Alex Kingston biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Career
Kingston made her television debut in three episodes of the children's soap opera Grange Hill, as well as appearing in the film The Wildcats of St Trinian's. She appeared in twenty different theatrical productions from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, and was active with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Calpurnia in Julius Caesar (1987), Cordelia in King Lear (1990), Much Ado About Nothing (1990), and Othello, 1993), were two of her classic Shakespearean performances.
She may have appeared in television shows like A Killing on the Exchange (1990), Soldier Soldier (1993), and Crocodile Shoes (1994), as well as various guest appearances in ITV's long-running police procedural The Bill (1988-1995). Helen Mirren appeared in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & His Lover (1989) with Oliver Platt and Carrington (1995), where she played writer Frances Partridge in film.
Katherine Roberts, the ITV crime drama The Knock, made her first television appearance in April 1996 as a customs officer in the ITV crime drama The Knock, which aired in all thirteen episodes of the second series. In December, she starred in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, an ITV adaptation of Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders. She was given the Best Actress award at the British Academy Television Awards the following year.
Kingston rose to prominence on North American television in September 1997 after being cast as a central figure in the long-running medical drama ER. Elizabeth Corday, a British surgeon, made her debut as a British surgeon in the premiere of the Emmy Award-winning live episode "Ambush." She appeared on the show for just over seven seasons, but after her deal was not renewed in October 2004, she departed it in the eleventh-season episode "Fear." "apparently, I, according to the designers and the writers, am part of the old fogies who are no longer fascinating," she wrote at the time. Despite this, she said she was "very proud of the work [she] had] achieved over the past eight years] and that she was "grateful for the professional associations and friendships [she] had] made through ER].
The ER role inspired Kingston's career to new heights, with productions including Clive Owen's neo-noir drama Croupier (1998) and independent period drama Sweet Land (2005), as well as the crime dramas Essex Boys (2000) and Alpha Dog (2006). In 2003, she competed with Romans as Britain's warrior queen in ITV's biopic Boudica, which was also released in the United States on PBS under the title Warrior Queen and marked Emily Blunt's debut.
In an episode of the CBS crime drama Without a Trace, titled "Viuda Negra" and starring Paul McCrane, a Kingston guest starred as a vacationer whose husband is kidnapped by a Mexican street gang in November 2005. After ten years in the West End production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, she returned to the stage as Nurse Ratched opposite Christian Slater as Randle McMurphy. She later admitted that she tried to audition for Lynette Scavo on ABC's Desperate Housewives but was turned down for being too curvy.
In the two-part story "Silence in the Library," starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, a Kingston guest appeared in the fourth series of the BBC's long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. She thought it was simply a one-off guest appearance, but she was delighted to learn that she would be a returning character after Russell T Davies, the story's writer, replaced Russell T Davies as the Doctor Who showrunner. She appeared in thirteen episodes between 2010 and 2015, playing opposite two more incarnations of the Doctor played by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. Kingston has also appeared in a number of audio dramas from Big Finish Productions, including her solo artist The Diary of River Song (2015-present).
Kingston performed Mrs. Bennet in ITV's acclaimed four-part drama Lost in Austen, based on Jane Austen's book Pride and Prejudice. Patricia Alwick, a psychiatrist and grief counsellor who supported the team cope with the team's handling of the death of one of their members in October, appeared in the episode "Art Imitates Life" of the police procedural drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in October.
In both 2009 and 2010, Kingston performed in the ABC science fiction drama FloodForward and Defense attorney Miranda Pond's special Victims Unit, in which she reunited with her former ER co-castmates, Mariska Hargitay and Maria Bello. Kingston returned to ER in spring 2009 for two episodes, "Dream Runner" and the two-hour series finale, "And in the End," as the fifteenth and final season. Ellie Lagden, one of four former prisoners, appeared in the BBC One eight-part drama series Hope Springs in June.
Kingston appeared in the five-part supernatural drama Marchlands (2011), an archaeologist in the second series of the revived Upstairs Downstairs (2012) and an investigator on a missing persons unit in the four-part crime drama Chasing Shadows (2014). In the guest role of a psychiatrist writing book reviews, she appeared in the romantic film Like Crazy (2011) and the Grey's Anatomy spin-off series Private Practice (2011) in the United States. Professor Dinah Lance, the mother of Laurel and Sara Lance, appeared in the first season of The CW's superhero drama series Arrow (2013), and later reprised the role in a few episodes over the next three seasons. She appeared on stage in Friedrich Schiller's play Luise Miller (2011), directed by Michael Grandage, and was on stage.
In July 2013, she played Lady Macbeth opposite Kenneth Branagh in the Manchester International Festival's production of Macbeth, which was broadcast live in cinemas around the world as part of the National Theatre Live programme. She reprised her appearance with Branagh at the Park Avenue Armory in June 2014, making her New York stage debut. She received a nomination for Best Actress at the Manchester Theatre Awards. Branagh and Kingston also appeared in the two-and-a-half hours in Antony and Cleopatra, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April.
She appeared in films such as Sarah Bishop in Sky's fantasy drama A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022), Shoot the Messenger (2016), and The Widow (2019). Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse for BBC Books, she wrote a River Song book in 2021 and re-lived portions of Time Fracture's interactive theatrical experience Time Fracture. She appeared as the villainous Lucifer in an episode of the Oliver Twist-inspired children's television series Dodger, also starring Christopher Eccleston.
For the first time since the early nineties in the role of Prost in The Tempest, it was announced in September 2022.