Paola Dionisotti
| Paola Dionisotti | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1946 (age 68–69) Torino, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress |
Paola Dionisotti (born 1946 in Torino, Italy) is an actress active on the stage and British television since 1975. A character actress best known on television for recurring roles as Lady Patricia Broughall in Forever Green and Aunt Nicholls in Harbour Lights, she also has had prominent roles in Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders. On the stage, she is noted for her Shakespearean roles.[1] She starred in Michael Bogdanov's 1978 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Aldwych.[2] In 2014, she played the tavern landlady Mistress Quickly in the acclaimed RSC production of Henry IV Parts One and Two.
Awards
- 2000: London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Further Than The Furthest Thing at the Royal National Theatre
Notes
- ↑ Rutter, Carol. Clamorous Voices, Shakespeare's Women Today with Sinead Cusack, Paola Dionisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter (London: The Woman's Press, 1988)
- ↑ Miller, Stephen Roy (ed.) The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto (The New Cambridge Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), page 52