Janie Dee

Janie Dee won the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards for Best Actress for Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential which she performed in London and New York, and the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for Carousel, directed by Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre. She has worked extensively with both Sir Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter, originating roles in Ayckbourn's Comic Potential, House and Garden, and Dreams from a Summerhouse and starred in Pinter's Old Times, Betrayal and the film of Celebration, opposite Colin Firth (Channel 4). She has worked extensively with Sir Peter Hall who directed Janie in Much Ado About Nothing, Betrayal and Design For Living. Recent dramatic roles include: Michael Frayn's Noises Off at the Old Vic and West End, Lucy Kirkwood's NSFW at the Royal Court, (earning a fourth Olivier Award nomination), Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre, with Dame Angela Lansbury and A Midsummer Night's Dream on tour in Asia and Russia for Shakespeare's Globe. Janie has performed in numerous classic musicals, both in the West End and across the UK, including: Cats, Cabaret, Showboat (RSC at the London Palladium), South Pacific, The Sound of Music, The King And I, My One and Only (Olivier Award Nomination) and Mack and Mabel, opposite David Soul. She starred in Hello Dolly! at Curve Leicester, for which she received the TMA UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical, the Stephen Sondheim revue, Putting It Together at the St James Theatre, London and a 40th Anniversary concert performance of A Little Night Music at the Palace Theatre. She regularly performs in cabaret at Crazy Coqs, The Pheasantry and King's Place and is a champion of new musical theatre writing. Her screen credits include; Me and Orson Welles (directed by Richard Linklater), Harold Pinter: A Celebration (BBC4), Dare to be Wild, written and directed by Vivienne DeCourcy, and The Trouble With Dot and Harry, written and directed by Sundance Festival grand prize-winner, Gary Walkow. TV credits include: In Love With Shakespeare (Sky Arts), The Southbank Show (Sir Peter Hall), Death in Holy Orders, The Murder Room (BBC) and House of Cards (Warner Bros).