Age: 64
female
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saskia Reeves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Saskia Reeves
Elizabeth Braddock
for Elizabeth Braddock in Captain Britain
Suggested by resonlinklater1
Brian Braddock grew up as the middle child of a wealthy English family. When he was away at college he was informed that his parents had been killed by his father’s invention, the mastermind computer. Years later when he was working at the Darkmoor Research Centre, the assassin known as The Reaver and his men raided the facility and killed or kidnapped everybody there, Brian being the only to escape on his motorcycle. As Brian is making his escape he is tan off the road and begins to bleed to death but was saved when an old man and his daughter appeared before him, resurrecting him and bestowing upon him the power of Captain Britain, giving him the choice of the Amulet of Right or the Sword of Might, Brian chooses the Amulet, not seeing himself as a warrior. Brian then learns that the man was the wizard Merlyn, and his daughter Roma. Brian then goes on to become England’s hero Captain Britain, being adored by the people.
