About

Known credits:
15
Birthday:
1962-06-20
Place of birth:
Old Windsor, England, UK
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Janie Dee

Overview

Janie is an award-winning British actress, singer and musical theatre performer, characterised by her extraordinary versatility in acclaimed work on stage, film, television and radio. Her career embraces everything from Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe, to revivals of classic plays at the Bath Festival, directed by Sir Peter Hall, acclaimed performances in modern dramas and comedies, and leading roles in classic musicals, both in the West End and major regional theatres. Janie is also a passionate champion of new writing. In addition, she regularly performs her own witty and sophisticated cabaret at leading venues including Crazy Coqs, The Hippodrome, The Pheasantry, the St James Studio, Aldeburgh Festival and the 'Divas at the Donmar' season.

Janie has worked closely with contemporary playwrights, particularly Alan Ayckbourn and Michael Frayn, and the late Harold Pinter in numerous productions and has become a renowned interpreter of their work. In recent years, she has also worked with the next generation of outstanding emerging playwrights, including Lucy Kirkwood, whose acclaimed new play NSFW was premiered at The Royal Court in 2012 and for which Janie received her fourth Olivier Award nomination, this time as Best Supporting Actress in a Play, for her performance as glossy womens' magazine editor, Miranda.

Janie is increasingly expanding her work in film and television and has recently completed two feature films; Dare To Be Wild, set in Ireland and written and directed by Vivienne Decourcy and The Trouble With Dot and Harry, opposite Neil Morrissey, written and directed by Sundance Festival Grand Prize-winner, Gary Walkow.

Janie won the three most prestigious awards in British Theatre; the Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award and Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Play, as well as the Obie and Theatre World Best Newcomer Award in New York, for her hilarious and heartbreaking performance as Jacie Triplethree in Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential. She also received the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carrie Pipperidge in Nicholas Hytner's acclaimed production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel at the National Theatre and the TMA UK Theatre Award 2013 for Best Performance in a Musical for her performance as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! at Curve, Leicester.

Known for

Acting

2024 National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue Actor Eileen Herlie 59
Average
2023 The Burning Girls Actor Clara Rushton 69
Fair
2022 Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends Actor Self 58
Average
2020 Kings of Broadway 2020: A Celebration of the Music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, and Stephen Sondheim Actor N/A
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2019 Official Secrets Actor Jan Clements 67
Fair
2017 National Theatre Live: Follies Actor Phyllis Rogers Stone 59
Average
2016 The Driving Seat Actor 58
Average
2012 All's Well That Ends Well - Live at Shakespeare's Globe Actor Countess of Roussillon 58
Average
2010 Harold Pinter: A Celebration Actor Self N/A
N/A
2008 Me and Orson Welles Actor Mrs. Samuels 60
Fair
2007 Celebration Actor Suki 59
Average
2004 The Murder Room Actor Emma Lavenham 59
Average
2003 Death in Holy Orders Actor Emma Lavenham 70
Good
1998 Little White Lies Actor Helen 58
Average
1993 The Boot Street Band Actor N/A
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