Michelle Terry

Acting

Michelle Terry

Born

1979-10-01 (47)

Place of birth

Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Born in Weston-Super-Mare in 1979, Michelle Terry is an Olivier award-winning English actress and writer, known for extensive work for the RSC, National Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe, the latter of which she became artistic director of in 2018. Her television work includes co-writing and starring with Ralf Little in Sky's Weston-set sitcom The Café. She is married to the actor, Paul Ready.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

National Theatre Live: The Comedy of Errors poster
10.0

Separated at birth, two sets of twins collide in the same city for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale.

National Theatre Live: The Comedy of Errors

2012

Reunited poster
2.0

Six former friends reunite eight years after their houseshare ended in acrimony and recrimination. But is newly-engaged Martin playing with fire by seeing old flame Hannah?

Reunited

2010

Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe poster
NR

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2010

RSC Live: Love's Labour's Lost poster
NR

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

RSC Live: Love's Labour's Lost

2015

RSC Live: Love's Labour's Won poster
NR

Christopher Luscombe directs one of Shakespeare's great romantic comedies. Labour's Won the world has changed forever, the roaring ’20s just around the corner. With Edward Bennett and Michelle Terry as the sparring couple.

RSC Live: Love's Labour's Won

2015

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe poster
8.8

On a Midsummer’s night, four young lovers find themselves wrapped in the dream-like arms of an enchanted forest where sprites lurk and fairies rule.

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2014

National Theatre Live: London Assurance poster
7.0

Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charles also falls in love with Grace. When his father appears on the scene, he has to convince him that there is a case of mistaken identity and he is somebody else. Then Lady Gay Spanker, a married woman also visiting at the house, is persuaded by Charles to seduce his father and thus divert his attention from Grace. Much confusion and scheming ensues. One of the first five episodes also released on terrestrial TV on a 2009 BBC TV series titled "National Theatre Live".

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

2010

Hamlet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe poster
4.0

Learning of his father’s death, Prince Hamlet comes home to find his uncle married to his mother and installed on the Danish throne. At night, the ghost of the old king demands that Hamlet avenge his ‘foul and most unnatural murder.’ Encompassing political intrigue and sexual obsession, philosophical reflection and violent action, tragic depth and wild humour, Hamlet is a colossus in the story of the English language and the fullest expression of Shakespeare’s genius.

Hamlet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2018

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