Phoebe Nicholls

She has worked extensively in the theatre since making her debut in Whose Life is it Anyway with Tom Conti. At the National Theatre she performed in Pravda with Anthony Hopkins and played Sheila Birling in Stephen Daldry’s revision of An Inspector Calls. At the Royal Court in London she created the part of Jessica in Hysteria which won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 1994 and starred opposite Vanessa Redgrave in Three Sisters. Her film work includes Heart of Darkness (1993) directed by Nicholas Roeg, Maurice (1987), Ordeal by Innocence (1984), and The Elephant Man (1980). On television she was seen in Brideshead Revisited (1981) as Cordelia.