Rebecca Saire

Rebecca Saire

Rebecca Saire (born 16 April 1963) is a British actress and writer who gained early attention when, at the age of fourteen, she played Juliet for the BBC Television Shakespeare series.

Stage

Rebecca Saire

• Sybil in Private Lives (National Theatre) • Eliante in The Misanthrope (Piccadilly Theatre) • Mabel in An Ideal Husband (Gielgud Theatre) • Gwendolen in Travesties (RSC and Savoy Theatre) • Diana in All's Well That Ends Well (RSC) • Audrey Walsingham in The School of Night (RSC) • Rachel in A Jovial Crew (RSC) • She was "a beautiful and truly tragic Ophelia" (Time Out) to Mark Rylance's Hamlet at the RSC in 1989 • Princess Mary in Crown Matrimonial (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre/Tour)

Filmography

Television

• Romeo and Juliet (1978) • Quatermass (1979, TV) • Love in a Cold Climate (TV serial, 1980), as Victoria • A.D. (1985), TV film • Vanity Fair (1987, TV) • Jeeves and Wooster (1991, TV), as Aline Hemmingway • Dr. Jenkins in My Dad's the PM • Theresa Nolan in A Taste for Death • Shona, the high-flying executive wife of DC Duncan Lennox in the long running ITV Drama The Bill • She also made guest appearances in A Bit of Fry and Laurie • Midsomer Murders, season 7, episode 3 (2004) • Lady Alexandra Metcalfe in episode 6, season 2 ("Vergangenheit") of The Crown (2017) • Mrs. Radowicz in season 5, episode 4, season 7, episode 2, of Endeavour (2019) • Killing Eve (2020, BBC TV), as Bertha Kruger, season 3, episode 4 • Miriam Heartley-Reade in season 7, episode 3 – The Fisher King of Midsomer Murders • Jonquil Heathcote in Doctors (2022)

Films

• The Shooting Party (1985)

Radio

• Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales, in "The People's Princess", • Philippa in "The Experiences of an Irish RM", based on The Irish R.M. novels, • Sue in "The Small Back Room", based on the novel of that title, • Joan Greenwood in "Kind Hearts", about the classic comedy film Kind Hearts and Coronets

Writing

Saire has written three plays for BBC Radio 4, all produced by Eoin O'Callaghan:

• Standing on Tiptoe • The Detox • Clapham Junction (Radio Times – Pick of the Week)