Justine Waddell

Justine Waddell
Justine Waddell (left) and director Alexander Zeldovich at the Berlin Film Festival 2011
Born	(1976-11-04) 4 November 1976 Johannesburg, South Africa
Residence	England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present

Justine Waddell (born 4 November 1976) is a British actress. Her roles include playing Tess in the 1998 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Estella in the 1999 BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and her dual role as Nurse Evelyn and Princess Evelyn in The Fall (2007). She has also appeared in various theatrical productions of works by Anton Chekhov.

Biography

Early life

Waddell was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her father, Gordon H. Waddell, is a Scottish-born progressive Member of Parliament, director of Anglo American PLC, and a former captain of the Scottish rugby team. Waddell moved with her family to Scotland when she was eleven. Some four years later they moved to London. Waddell is the only member of her family to take up a career in acting. She read Social and Political Science at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which allowed her to take time off from her studies to pursue her career.

Career

Waddell has divided her work between stage and screen. Amongst her roles to date have been her performance as Sasha opposite Ralph Fiennes and Bill Paterson in the Almeida Theatre's London production of Ivanov (1997), Countess Nordston in Anna Karenina (1997), Tess in Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1998), Julia Bertram in Mansfield Park (1999), Estella in Great Expectations, Nina in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (2000), for which she was nominated for an Ian Charleson award and Molly Gibson in the television mini series Wives and Daughters for which she won a Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actress award. She played Mary Heller in the American film, Dracula 2000. In 2002 she starred in The One and Only.She won a Prism Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Natalie Wood in The Mystery of Natalie Wood, a 2004 TV movie directed by Peter Bogdanovich.In 2006 Waddell starred alongside Jason Statham and Ryan Phillipe in Chaos. During the same year, she co-starred with Lee Pace in Tarsem Singh’s The Fall. In 2011 Waddell had a starring role in Mishen,^[1] which is a Russian science fiction film directed by Alexander Zeldovich and written by Vladimir Sorokin.^[2] For her role in the film, she learned the Russian language from scratch.^[3] Mishen had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival and then a gala premiere at the Moscow International Film Festival.

Filmography

References

External links

• Justine Waddell at the Internet Movie Database