Saskia Reeves
Actor
- Born
- August 16, 1961 (age 65) · Paddington, London, England, UK
Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and I.D. (1995), and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune.
Born and brought up in London to a Dutch mother and English father, Reeves studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since worked with directors such as Mike Leigh, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Winterbottom and Nicholas Hytner.
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Early in her career she performed in puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre.
Her television credits include Spooks and the Bodies finale. Her stage work includes productions at London's National and Royal Court Theatres as well as on international tour.
In addition to her acting career, Reeves does voice work, including commercial and narration (book readings) for VocalPoint.net.
In 2008, she starred in English Touring Theatre's revival of Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye at the Trafalgar Studios in London.
In 2010 she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of the famous disappearing canoeist John Darwin (played by Bernard Hill) in Canoe Man, a dramatisation of the John Darwin disappearance case for BBC4 and in the BBC1 series Luther.
In 2011 Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC4.
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Known for
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
December 25, 2013
Anna
October 13, 2013
Our Kind of Traitor
May 5, 2016
The Program
September 16, 2015
The Outrun
January 19, 2024
Page Eight
August 28, 2011
A Christmas Carol
December 5, 1999
Me and Orson Welles
September 5, 2008
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
November 11, 2009
Salting the Battlefield
March 27, 2014
I.D.
May 5, 1995
The Child in Time
July 5, 2018
Acting46
- 2026National Theatre at Home: End as Julie
- 2025Out of Nowhere as Narrator
- 2024Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me
- 2024The Outrun as Annie
- 2023Shadows as Mother
- 2021Creation Stories as Helen
- 2020Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes as Maddalena Fagandini / Mary Wollstonecraft
- 2019National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second as Bushy / Green / Duchess of York
- 2018The Child in Time as Thelma Darke
- 2017