Nancy Carroll (British actress)
Early life and education
Nancy Carroll grew up in Herne Hill in south London and attended Alleyn's School where she was an enthusiastic participant in student theatre. Before training in theatre, she worked at a hat shop in Lavender Hill. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in June 1998.
Acting career
Right after graduation, she landed a small part in the film An Ideal Husband) and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Her first professional stage role was as Ophelia in Hamlet at the Bristol Old Vic in 1999. She has appeared onstage in productions of George Etherege's The Man of Mode (2007), Harley Granville-Barker's The Voysey Inheritance (2006), as Emma Jung in The Talking Cure, and Pierre de Marivaux's The False Servant (2004) at the Royal National Theatre. She has also appeared at the Almeida Theatre in Jonathan Kent)'s King Lear (also at The Old Vic) and in another Granville-Barker play, Waste) (2008).
Acting career
Her "Lady Croom" in the 2009 London revival of Stoppard's Arcadia) received favourable reviews, as did her successful run as the psychologist Dr. Ford in David Mamet's House of Games at the Almeida Theatre.
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