Nichola McAuliffe
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Nichola McAuliffe (born 1955) is an English television and stage actress and writer, best known for her role as Sheila Sabatini in the sitcom Surgical Spirit.
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[edit] Background
McAuliffe was born in 1955 in Surrey, southern England.
She is married to Don MacKay, crime reporter for the Daily Mirror.[1]
McAuliffe is a patron of Action for Children's Arts, an organisation dedicated to the promotion of creative arts among children under 12. [2]
[edit] Acting career
Between 1989 and 1995, she starred as obstreperous surgeon Sheila Sabatini in the ITV sitcom Surgical Spirit, her most high-profile acting role to date. More recently, she appeared in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street between 2001 and 2002.
She has also had a number of stage roles, and most recently appeared as the evil Baroness Bomburst in the West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Her other stage appearances have included Oedipus the King.
McAuliffe appeared as the voice of James Bond's BMW in the 1997 film Tomorrow Never Dies.
Her most recent screen role was in the second of a three-part episode of British science fiction drama Doctor Who, screened on 23rd June 2007.
[edit] Writing
McAuliffe has also turned to writing, having published her first novel, The Crime Tsar, based loosely on Macbeth, and a children's story, Attila, Loolagax and the Eagle, both in 2003.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Out, damned cop. Out, I say. Scotsman.com News (15 September 2003). Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
- ^ Action for Children's Arts. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
[edit] External links
- Nichola McAuliffe's author microsite at Bloomsbury Publishing
- Nichola McAuliffe at the BBC Comedy Guide
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