Blythe Duff
Blythe Duff was born in East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom on November 25th, 1962 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 61, Blythe Duff 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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Duff's career began in the theatre, starting with the Scottish Youth and Community Theatre in Glasgow.
She worked in theatre for seven years, appearing with Scottish Opera in Street Scene as Shirley Kaplan in 1989, and at the Coliseum Theatre in London with the English National Opera. She also performed on the soundtrack album which was released on Decca Records in 1989. She was working for Scottish Opera when she landed the role of Jackie Reid in the sixth series of Taggart in 1990. Her first appearance was a community police officer in the second episode of the sixth series, "Death Comes Softly", on 3 December 1990, in which she is credited as playing WPC Reid. In the third episode, which first aired on 31 December 1990, she was credited as playing Jackie Reid and her character was seconded to CID as DC Reid. By series eight in 1993 her character was promoted to Detective Sergeant. She became the longest-serving member of the Taggart cast after James Macpherson left the show in 2002. The last Taggart was shown in 2011, seeing Jackie Reid finally reach Detective Inspector.
On 28 November 2003, she was a guest on the daytime talk show Today with Des and Mel. On 23 June 2004 she was a contestant on the celebrity comedy game show Win, Lose or Draw Late. She has also appeared twice as a guest on the daytime talk show Loose Women on 24 September 2004 and 15 September 2005.
On 26 April 2006, Duff appeared in the documentary There's Been a Murder: A Celebration of Taggart.
In October 2008 she attended the Mipcom television festival in Cannes, France, along with the other three main cast members, John Michie, Alex Norton and Colin McCredie to highlight the 25th anniversary of Taggart.
Away from filming Taggart, Duff enjoys live performance and has said that she prefers to work in theatre: "I love working on Taggart. I like my character and I like all the people I work with. I have been in Taggart since 1990 so I can't imagine my life without it, but I really like working on stage. That is where I feel very comfortable and I like the response of an audience good or bad."
In 1995 she played Rhona Clay in Swing Hammer Swing at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.
She starred in the European premiere of Mum's the Word in Spring 2002, which toured around Scotland and included a four-week run at the King's Theatre in Glasgow. She later reprised her role for Volcanic Productions for a tour of New Zealand.
At the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Duff has appeared in "Good With people", Intolerance, King of the Fields, Sharp Shorts, "Tally's Blood", "Sheila", and "The Young Playwright's Festival".
In February 2006 she appeared with the National Theatre of Scotland in their first production "Home, Glasgow" Cranhill, Glasgow. In January 2009 she appeared in a National Theatre of Scotland/Donmar Warehouse tour of Scotland and England of the play Be Near Me adapted by Ian McDiarmid from the novel of the same name by Andrew O'Hagan.
She has won Best Female Performance twice at the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland: in 2013 for her portrayal of Fay Black in Rona Munro's prison drama 'Iron'; and in 2014 for the titular role in David Harrower's 'Ciara'.
Duff has also appeared on radio, including the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game, Just a Minute.
On the concert platform she has narrated with numerous orchestras; the RSNO, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Opera Orchestra. She has recorded Hansel and Gretel by Savourna Stevenson with the Scottish Opera Orchestra, and recorded an audio book of "44 Scotland Street" by Alexander McCall Smith.
In 2011, she made her New York debut, playing Carlotta Burns in "Beautiful Burnout" (Frantic Assembly/NTS) at St Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, and reprised the role for the Sydney, Perth and Wellington Festivals in 2012.
In 2010, Blythe formed Datum Point Productions to capitalise on the wealth of talent in the theatre, film and TV industry in Scotland. The company filmed Sarajevo, a 20-minute monologue set in an empty classroom which follows Rachael Lewis as she prepares a farewell speech for the retiring head teacher. In Feb 2011 Just Checking successfully played at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow to full houses. The company brought the critically acclaimed production of David Harrower's Good With People to the Traverse Theatre for the 2012 Edinburgh Festival.
In May 2019, Duff joined the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the London West End production appearing as Professor Minerva McGonagall and the Trolley Witch in the multi award-winning show