Sarah Quintrell
Sarah Elizabeth Quintrell (born in Lambeth, London) is an English writer and actress, best known for writing Ellen (Channel 4, 2016) and The Trial: A Murder In The Family (Channel 4, 2017), as well as performances in Rillington Place (2016), Call the Midwife (2016), Doctor Who and BBC TV sitcom Carrie and Barry.
Actor
Sarah Quintrell started her career playing Sinéad in the BBC TV sitcom Carrie and Barry. She has gone on to appear in Rillington Place, Call the Midwife, Doctor Who, Lewis, The Watcher, The Last Trace, The Marchioness Disaster, Doctors and Island at War.
Sarah was the original Bobbie in Mike Kenny's The Railway Children [1] at York Theatre Royal. She transferred with the production to London Waterloo Station, where it won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment (2011).[2] She has also played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (2005).[3][4] Other theatre includes As You Like It, Forty Years On and an assortment of new writing including AgeSexLocation, Bloodtide and playing Natalie in James Phillips's City Stories [5] which had a residency at St James Theatre London (2014-2015). She transferred with the production to 59East59 Theater in New York as part of Brits Off Broadway (2016).
Writer
Quintrell's writing debut Ellen, was broadcast on Channel 4, late 2016. Directed by Mahalia Belo and starring Jessica Barden, Yasmin Monet Prince, Jaime Winstone, Joe Dempsie and Charlie Creed-Miles.[6] Ellen won the Broadcast Television Award Best Single Drama 2016.
The Trial: A Murder In The Family was broadcast in May 2017. Directed by Kath Mattock and Nick Holt, starring Michael Gould, Emma Lowndes and Laura Elphinstone.
Awards
2016 Writers' Guild Great Britain Best Short Form Drama - Ellen (Won)
2017 British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) Breakthrough Talent (Nominated)
Filmography
TELEVISION (Actor)
Year | Show | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2016 | Rillington Place (TV Series) | Murial Eady | BBC |
2016 | Call the Midwife (TV Series) | Mrs Phillips | BBC |
2015 | Der Beobachter (TV Movie) | Christy McMarrow | |
2014 2010 2007 |
Doctors (TV Series)
Debbie Kenly / Leah Whitehead / Rose Thom - "Rosie" (2014) ... Debbie Kenly - "Sins of a Father" (2010) ... Leah Whitehead - "A Sting in the Tail" (2007) ... Rose Thom |
Debbie Kenly Leah Whitehead Rose Thom |
BBC |
2011 | Doctor Who (TV Series) | Lucy Hayward | BBC |
2007 | The Marchioness Disaster (TV Movie) | Tamsin | Granada Yorkshire |
2006 | Inspector Lewis (TV Series) | Chloe | ITV Drama |
2004-2005 | Carrie & Barry (TV Series) | Sinead | BBC/Hartswood Films
12 Episodes |
References
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/jul/25/theatre/
- ↑ http://www.olivierawards.com/winners/view/item120248/olivier-winners-2011/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/jun/02/theatre1/
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3653096/On-the-road-Bad-Girls-The-Musical-Shadowmouth-Pygmalion.html/
- ↑ http://www.femalearts.com/node/1202/
- ↑ "Jessica Barden, Joe Dempsie and Jaime Winstone star in Ellen - Channel 4 - Info - Press". www.channel4.com. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
External links
- ↑ Cavendish, Dominic. "On the road: Bad Girls: The Musical, Shadowmouth, Pygmalion". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-05.