Patricia Hodge

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Patricia Hodge
Born September 29, 1946 (1946-09-29) (age 61)
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire
Spouse(s) Peter Douglas Owen

Patricia Ann Hodge (born on 29 September 1946 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is an English actress.

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[edit] Biography

The daughter of hotel owner/manager Eric and his wife Marion (nee Phillips),[1] Hodge attended Wintringham Girls' Grammar School, Grimsby and then St. Helen's School, Northwood, Middlesex; before attending Maria Grey College, Twickenham to train as a teacher. She undertook teaching for a year, whilst also applying to London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,[2] where she was awarded on graduation the Eveline Evans Award for Best Actress.[3]

After graduation, she concentrated on theatre work and 18 months later worked with Bob Fosse on Pippin. However, she found when applying for television work she had become classed as a theatre actress. Having made the break through in the role of Phyllida (Trant) Erskine-Brown in Rumpole Of The Bailey, she found when trying to make he occasional return to theatre work that she had been classed as a television actress. Finding the need to have a flexible career to care for her young children, Hodge made the decision to focus her career on the theatre, and hence is mainly seen on television in focus parts and singular roles in between chosen different theatre roles.[3]

She has appeared in roles as diverse as The Naked Civil Servant opposite John Hurt, as Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands Play, and in 2007 as Betty, the wife of tycoon Robert Maxwell, in the BBC TV drama Maxwell opposite David Suchet.[4]

She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the production of Money at the Royal National Theatre.[5] Hodge is an Honorary Graduate (DLitt) of Brunel University and one of the founder members of the Brunel Club.[6]

[edit] Personal life

Hodge married music publisher Peter Douglas Owen on July 31, 1976. The couple have two children: Alexander Richard Charles; and Edward Frederick James.

[edit] Television Series

[edit] Television Specials

[edit] Films

  • The Disappearance, 1978
  • Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse, 1978
  • The Waterloo Bridge Handicap, 1979
  • The Elephant Man, 1980
  • Heavy Metal, 1981
  • Riding High, 1981
  • Betrayal, 1983
  • Behind Enemy Lines, 1985
  • Dust to Dust, 1985
  • Skin, 1986
  • 92 Grosvenor Street, 1987
  • Sunset, 1987
  • Falcon's Maltester, 1987
  • Thieves in the Night, 1988
  • Just Ask for Diamond, 1988

[edit] Stage

  • No-One Was Saved, 1971
  • Rookery Nook, 1972
  • Popkiss, 1972
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1973
  • Pippin, 1973
  • Hair, 1974
  • The Beggar's Opera, 1975
  • Pal Joey, 1976
  • Look Back in Anger, 1976
  • Then and Now, 1979
  • The Mitford Girls, 1981
  • As You Like It, 1983
  • Benefactors, 1984
  • Lady in the Dark, 1988
  • Noël and Gertie, 1989-90
  • Shades, 1992
  • Separate Tables, 1993
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1994
  • A Little Night Music, 1995
  • Money, 1999
  • Dream Me a Winter, 2006 (part of the Old Vic's '24 Hour Plays')
  • Boeing Boeing, 2007
  • The Country Wife, 2007-08

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bio at filmreference.com
  2. ^ LAMDA past
  3. ^ a b The Big Interview: Patricia Hodge London Theatre Guide - 2 May 2007
  4. ^ Dessau, B. "A taste of plummy", Theatre, The Times, 2007-09-29. Retrieved on 2007-10-03. 
  5. ^ O'Toole honoured at Oliviers BBC News - 18 February, 2000
  6. ^ Southbank Sinfonia and Patricia Hodge Brunel University - 2004

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