Amy Noble
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Amy Noble is an actress from Surbiton in Surrey.
She has played Becky Martin in Holby City
, and Lydia Asler in EastEnders
. She also appeared Peter Kosminky's Bafta award-winning Britz on Channel 4, and in the My Family Christmas special "Ho Ho... No" in 2008. In November/December 2007 she played one of the lead roles, Lily Wilson, in Chains
at the Orange Tree Theatre
, Richmond (for which she was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award, 2007) and subsequently also performed in The Woman Hater.
More recent theatre credits include Debbie in Stoppard's The Real Thing at Salisbury Playhouse, Bev in The Water When It Burns at Hampstead Theatre and Lili in Cabaret on a Sinking Ship at the Nightingale Theatre, Brighton. In 2010 Amy played Juliet in Creation Theatre Company's outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet
. Amy played Rapunzel in Creation's Christmas show Rapunzel or the Magic Pig to great acclaim, and then went on to play the role of Polyxena in Glyn Maxwell's Greek tragedy "After Troy".
Amy is currently appearing as Bobby in the Olivier award-winning production of "The Railway Children" at Waterloo Station.
On screen, Amy has starred opposite Keith Allen in the short film The Calculus of Love by acclaimed director Dan Clifton. Her debut feature film Spiderhole had its cinema and DVD release in late 2010.
and graduated in July 2006 with First Class Honours in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and German). She appeared in many plays during her time at Cambridge including Edward Albee
's The Goat, Neil Labute
's Bash
, George Bernard Shaw
's Pygmalion
and Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona
, at the Cambridge Arts Theatre
.
She has played Becky Martin in Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
, and Lydia Asler in EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
. She also appeared Peter Kosminky's Bafta award-winning Britz on Channel 4, and in the My Family Christmas special "Ho Ho... No" in 2008. In November/December 2007 she played one of the lead roles, Lily Wilson, in Chains
Chains (play)
Chains is a play by the English playwright Elizabeth Baker. It was first performed in April 1909 by the Play Actors Subscription Society at the Court Theatre....
at the Orange Tree Theatre
Orange Tree Theatre
The Orange Tree Theatre is a 172-seat theatre at 1 Clarence Street, Richmond in south west London, built specifically as a theatre in the round....
, Richmond (for which she was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award, 2007) and subsequently also performed in The Woman Hater.
More recent theatre credits include Debbie in Stoppard's The Real Thing at Salisbury Playhouse, Bev in The Water When It Burns at Hampstead Theatre and Lili in Cabaret on a Sinking Ship at the Nightingale Theatre, Brighton. In 2010 Amy played Juliet in Creation Theatre Company's outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
. Amy played Rapunzel in Creation's Christmas show Rapunzel or the Magic Pig to great acclaim, and then went on to play the role of Polyxena in Glyn Maxwell's Greek tragedy "After Troy".
Amy is currently appearing as Bobby in the Olivier award-winning production of "The Railway Children" at Waterloo Station.
On screen, Amy has starred opposite Keith Allen in the short film The Calculus of Love by acclaimed director Dan Clifton. Her debut feature film Spiderhole had its cinema and DVD release in late 2010.
Education
Amy went to Tolworth Girls' School and left in June 2000, before studying for her A levels at Esher College. Amy Noble attended Queens' College, Cambridge UniversityQueens' College, Cambridge
Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou , and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville...
and graduated in July 2006 with First Class Honours in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and German). She appeared in many plays during her time at Cambridge including Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...
's The Goat, Neil Labute
Neil LaBute
Neil N. LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright.-Early life:LaBute was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Marian, a hospital receptionist, and Richard LaBute, a long-haul truck driver. LaBute is of French Canadian, English and Irish ancestry, and was raised in Spokane,...
's Bash
Bash: Latter-Day Plays
bash: latterday plays is a collection of three dark one act plays written by Neil LaBute. Each play is an exploration of the complexities of evil in everyday life, and two of the works, "iphigenia in orem" and "medea redux" have direct Greek influence, specifically that of Euripides...
, George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
's Pygmalion
Pygmalion (play)
Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of...
and Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1590 or 1591. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and tropes with which he would later deal in more...
, at the Cambridge Arts Theatre
Cambridge Arts Theatre
Cambridge Arts Theatre is a 666-seat theatre on Peas Hill in central Cambridge, England. The theatre presents a varied mix of drama, dance, opera and pantomime. It attracts some of the highest-quality touring productions in the country, as well as many shows direct from, or prior to, seasons in the...
.