Emily Woof

Emily Woof (born 1967) is an English actress and author, best known for film and TV roles including Nancy in Oliver Twist (1999 miniseries), The Full Monty, The Woodlanders, Velvet Goldmine, Wondrous Oblivion, Silent Cry and The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse.

Her father was Wordsworth Trust Director Dr. Robert Woof.

Biography

Brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1970s and '80s, Woof went on to study at Oxford University.^[1] Her first stage work was a trilogy of one-man plays: Sex, Sex 2, and Sex 3.^[2] Sections of these plays were written to be performed on a trapeze, which Woof had trained to use in Bristol after completing her degree.^[3]

Parts in The Full Monty (1997), Photographing Fairies (1997), Velvet Goldmine (1998) and The Woodlanders (1998) established Emily Woof as one of Britain's leading young actresses.^[2]

She has also appeared in several television roles, ranging from period dramas (Middlemarch; Oliver Twist) to contemporary drama (Killer Net) and comedy (The Ronni Ancona Show).^[4] In 2016, she appeared in Coronation Street as the detective investigating the murder of Callum Logan (Sean Ward).

Author

For theatre she has written the Sex, Sex II, Sex III, and Revolver. For radio, Pianoman, Baby Love, and Home to The Black Sea. She has written and directed two short films, Between The Wars, and Meeting Helen.

Scan of ticket stub and performance info for Emily Woof's Edinburgh production of Revolver.

Her first novel, The Whole Wide Beauty (ISBN 9780571253999), was published in May 2010 by Faber & Faber.^[5] Her second novel "The Lightning Tree" published by Faber, March 2015

She has two children and lives in North London.^[6]

Filmography

Film

Television

Additional credits

• Going Going... as Anna (2000 short film - actor and writer)
• Between the Wars (2002 short film - director)
• Meeting Helen ... as Helen (2007 short film - actor, writer and director)

References

External links

• Emily Woof on IMDb