Geraldine James

TV Actress

Geraldine James was born in Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom on July 6th, 1950 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 74, Geraldine James biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 6, 1950
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom
Age
74 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Stage Actor
Geraldine James Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 74 years old, Geraldine James has this physical status:

Height
168cm
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Red
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Geraldine James Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Downe House School in Newbury, Berkshire; Drama Centre London
Geraldine James Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Joseph Blatchley ​(m. 1986)​
Children
1
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
Not Available
Geraldine James Life

Geraldine James, OBE, (born 6 July 1950) is an English actress.

She was nominated for the Best Actress in a Play at The Merchant of Venice in 1989 and received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.

She's Been Away also received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1989 Venice Film Festival.

James Hall, the theatre director, has been nominated four times for the Best Actress BAFTA award for Dummy (1977), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Band of Gold (1995), and The Sins (2000).

Mrs. Pincher, the breastfeeding mother in Little Britain (2004), is also known as Mrs. Pincher.

Gandhi (1982), The Tall Guy (1989), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Alice in Wonderland (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and 45 Years (2015) are among her film credits.

Since 2017, she has appeared in Anne's E and the new Downton Abbey film as Queen Mary.

Early life and family

James was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, to a cardiologist father and an alcoholic mother, who had been a nurse. She failed her 11th examination, but she was educated at Downe House, a girls' independent academy in Newbury, Berkshire, where she was identified as Gerry Thomas. While at school, embarrassing by her simple surname, James took the name of Vaughan-Thomas.

When James was 14 years old, her parents divorced him, and her two siblings were deemed wards of court by their stepmother.

She began working in repertory theatre after graduating from the Drama Centre London in 1973. Joseph Blatchley, their husband, was at a party on January 17th.

James has been nominated four times for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress (1977), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Band of Gold (1995) and The Sins (2000). She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 1989 and she was named for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. She's Been Away also received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. Gandhi (1982), The Tall Guy (1989), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Alice in Wonderland (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and 45 Years (2015) are among her film credits. Since 2017, she has appeared in Anne with an E as Marilla Cuthbert and in the 2019 film Downton Abbey as Queen Mary.

James Hall, according to theater director Peter Hall, is one of the best English classical actresses on record.

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Age-blind casting is the new woke move in theatre, with women playing characters decades younger becoming the norm alongside colour-blind and gender-blind casting

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 24, 2024
Age-blind casting is becoming more and more common, particularly on the UK theatre circuit, with Ian McKellen (pictured left) playing Hamlet at 84, Siân Phillips and Michael Byrn as an 80-year-old Romeo and Juliet (top right) and Downton Abbey's Geraldine James taking on the role of twenty-something Rosalind. FEMAIL takes a closer look at the rise of age-blind casting and the actors that are pioneering the trend.

Eiffel Tower: Building The Impossible review: How furious Parisians nearly gave the Eiffel Tower a saucy makeover, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 30, 2024
Did you see the French National Orchestra dripping wet in see-through plastic ponchos, and that grand piano filling up with water like a rain barrel? Yes, the Olympics opening ceremony was a wash-out. What fun! Every true Brit enjoys the spectacle when France tries to look très magnifique and ends up with oeuf on le visage. But it could have been so much worse. All that might have taken place in the shadow of a 1,000ft tall Wicked Willie.

Meet the Bard's young lovers - two pensioners at a commune!PATRICK MARMION reviews As You Like It

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 30, 2023
MARMION PATRICK MARMION: As the 'new' lovers Rosalind and Orlando in Shakespeare's woodland romance, we have a good idea for RSC couple Geraldine James (72) and Malcolm Sinclair (73) as a 'new' lover. Even though tales about elderly people falling in love among adults can make it a little uncomfortable (not least to the oldsters themselves). However, romance doesn't have to be all Romeo and Juliet to function. Older people have as much to lose as younger lovers, and they definitely have more to lose.