Sarah Bedi
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Sarah Bedi is a British actress. She has worked extensively in radio, stage and television.
She runs her own theatre company, Baz Productions, alongside Catherine Bailey
and Emma Luffingham. Baz Productions patrons are John Caird
and Dame Harriet Walter
.
Sarah trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
.
and written by Simon Gray
. Pinter wrote about Sarah in his introduction to Simon Gray's Key Plays, "The enterprise began with a miracle of casting. The central role (a thirteen-year-old boy) we found very difficult to cast. Suddenly we stumbled upon a fifteen-year-old girl (Sarah Bedi) who passed as a good-looking thirteen-year-old boy. She was wonderful; precise, contained, mysterious."
Television appearances have included: Holby City, The Bill and Casualty. She played Agnes D`Esterre in ITV's production of Affinity directed by Tim Fywell.
She has worked widely on the stage including the Royal National Theatre, the Finborough Theatre and Theatre 503. From 2007-2009 Sarah was part of The Factory Theatre Company
. She starred as Yasmin in I am Superhero directed by Lucy Kerbal and Louise in Cradle Me with Sharon Maughan
and Luke Treadaway
, directed by Duncan Mcmillan. She won a Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Ensemble as part of the cast of The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain directed by Dominic Hill (Traverse Theatre Company/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry/English Touring Theatre).
She runs her own theatre company, Baz Productions, alongside Catherine Bailey
Catherine Bailey
-Acting career:Catherine Bailey started acting at the age of 12 when she landed the lead role of Helen Green in Uncle Jack, a BBC television series starring Paul Jones and Fenella Fielding...
and Emma Luffingham. Baz Productions patrons are John Caird
John Caird
John Caird FRSE was a theologian, born at Greenock and educated at Greenock Academy and Glasgow University...
and Dame Harriet Walter
Harriet Walter
Dame Harriet Mary Walter, DBE is a British actress.-Personal life:She is the niece of renowned British actor Sir Christopher Lee, as the daughter of his elder sister Xandra Lee. On her father's side she is a great-great-great-granddaughter of John Walter, founder of The TimesShe was educated at...
.
Sarah trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, opened by Laurence Olivier in 1946, is an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, an organisation securing the highest standards of training in the performing arts, and is an associate school of the Faculty of Creative Arts of the University of the...
.
Acting career
Sarah Bedi started acting at the age of 15 when she took a lead role in the original cast of The Late Middle Classes (under the name 'Sam Bedi') directed by Harold PinterHarold Pinter
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...
and written by Simon Gray
Simon Gray
Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE , was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years...
. Pinter wrote about Sarah in his introduction to Simon Gray's Key Plays, "The enterprise began with a miracle of casting. The central role (a thirteen-year-old boy) we found very difficult to cast. Suddenly we stumbled upon a fifteen-year-old girl (Sarah Bedi) who passed as a good-looking thirteen-year-old boy. She was wonderful; precise, contained, mysterious."
Television appearances have included: Holby City, The Bill and Casualty. She played Agnes D`Esterre in ITV's production of Affinity directed by Tim Fywell.
She has worked widely on the stage including the Royal National Theatre, the Finborough Theatre and Theatre 503. From 2007-2009 Sarah was part of The Factory Theatre Company
The Factory Theatre Company
The Factory Theatre Company was created by Tim Evans and Alex Hassell in 2006.The Factory's cult-hit production of Hamlet, directed by Tim Carroll, initially played around London in secret locations, where the audience was informed where and when to turn up only a few days before the performances,...
. She starred as Yasmin in I am Superhero directed by Lucy Kerbal and Louise in Cradle Me with Sharon Maughan
Sharon Maughan
Sharon Maughan is a British actress.-Life and career:Maughan was born in Kirkby, Liverpool, one of five siblings in an Irish Catholic family...
and Luke Treadaway
Luke Treadaway
Luke Antony N. Treadaway is an English actor, whose career includes roles in the films Brothers of the Head and Attack the Block.- Personal life :...
, directed by Duncan Mcmillan. She won a Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Ensemble as part of the cast of The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain directed by Dominic Hill (Traverse Theatre Company/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry/English Touring Theatre).
External links
- Sarah Bedi at Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland,