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 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)