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Lysette Anthony has established herself as a talented and versatile actress and writer. Born in Fulham, South London, she made her first stage appearance at the Cambridge Theatre at the age of ten. By the time she was 14 she had been accepted into the prestigious National Youth Theatre. Heralded as the face of the Eighties by David Bailey at the age of 16, Lysette was a highly successful model before she became a household name as an actress at the age of 20. Perhaps best recognised in comedy, Lysette has worked with legends including, Morecambe & Wise, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Sid Caesar, Blake Edwards, Mel Brooks and Woody Allen. In the 80's she starred for 3 years in the still repeated BBC sitcom Three Up, Two Down. Most recently on stage Lysette starred in No Expense Spared which Time Out described as an 'impressively prescient new comedy'. The Times said of her performance in The New End’s evening of Tennessee Williams’ short plays, that she 'compels’. The Stage 'Lysette Anthony, an actress of classic beauty, gives an emotionally wrought performance...the most committed I have seen in this much-acclaimed, intimate venue.' After a sell out run the show then transfered to the Hackney Empire. Last year she was nominated for a Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actress in a supporting role as Myra Arundel in the Manchester Royal Exchange production of Noel Coward’s Hayfever, directed by Greg Hersov. She also appeared in a no 1 tour of Alan Ayckbourn’s Tons of Money. Previous theatre work includes a sell out West End run and UK tour of The New Statesman, with Rik Mayall, directed by Josie Rourke; Michael Blakemore’s production of Present Laughter, opposite Simon Callow as Joanna Lypiatt, and as Eleanor in Matthew Lloyds’ 5 star reviewed production of Dead Funny at The West Yorkshire Playhouse. Lysette’s extensive work in over thirty feature films includes Woody Allen’s multi award winning Husbands & Wives, Mel Brook’s Dracula: Dead & Loving It, Look Who’s Talking Now with John Travolta, Without a Clue with Michael Caine & Ben Kingsley. Further film credits include: The award winning Farewell to Harry, The Loch with Patrick Bergin, Russell Mulcahy’s award winningTalos the Mummy with Gerard Butler and Christopher Lee Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde with Sean Young and Jeremy Piven, The Hour Of the Pig opposite Colin Firth and The Lady & The Highwayman with Hugh Grant. This year Lysette has completed award winning Saam Farahmand's first film, Study After Cruel Intentions and the 3DBak2Hell opposite Michael Madsen and Bai Ling, due for release in 2011. Well-known to television audiences, Lysette recently joined Coronation Street. Last year she returned to Hollyoaks as Yvonne Summers. Other current television appearances include Casualty, Doctors, and a new sit-com pilot, Baggy Trousers. She also played the roles of Rachel Heath for 18 months in The Bill and Veronica Cray in The Hollow, a two-part Poirot film for ITV, with David Suchet. Other credits include 248 episodes of the award winning soap Night & Day, Murder in Suburbia, Hotel, Jonathan Creek, Oliver Twist, Dombey & Son, Campion, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Lysette's other notable theatre credits include The Vagina Monologues at The Royal Albert Hall and the role of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in the Broadway transfer of Jackie at the Queens Theatre, Sarah Franken's 23:59 at The Crucible, Sheffield, Toys In the Attic at Watford with Gwen Watford and Hayley Mills, Restoration at Bristol Old Vic, The Lady's Not For Burning at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter and Ibsen's Ghosts at the Shaw Theatre. The Beth Ditto/Simian Mobile Disco video can be viewed on the SHOWREEL page. |
