Saskia Reeves
Actor
Saskia Reeves (born 1962) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and ID (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 ... Show more...
Saskia Reeves (born 1962) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and ID (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 DH Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC4.
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The Child in Time (2018)
As: Thelma Darke
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Julian Farino
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch | Stephen Campbell Moore | Kelly Macdonald | Saskia Reeves | Andrea Hall
King Lear: Live from Shakespeare's Globe (2017)
As: Kent
King Lear (Kevin McNally) decides to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters, but fails to anticipate the consequences of his actions. His generosity is cruelly repaid. As he comes to realise the false values by whch he has lived, he finally encounters his own humaity. Broadcast live to cinemas from the iconic Shakespeare's Globe, this brand new retelling of one of the Bard's greatest plays will ...
Directed by: Nancy Meckler
Stars: Saskia Reeves | Kevin McNally | Emily Bruni | Joshua James | Thomas Padden
De Premier (2016)
As: President
The family of the Belgian prime minister is kidnapped. To get them released, he must murder the American president.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Erik Van Looy
Stars: Koen De Bouw | Charlotte Vandermeersch | Saskia Reeves | Adam Godley | Nathan Wiley
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
As: Tamara
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Susanna White
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård | Ewan McGregor | Naomie Harris | Jeremy Northam | Damian Lewis
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
As: Anthea Catcheside
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: David Hare
Stars: Ewen Bremner | Helena Bonham Carter | Ralph Fiennes | Bill Nighy | Judy Davis
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
As: Nurse
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Shia LaBeouf | Christian Slater | Stacy Martin
Mindscape (2013)
As: Michelle Greene
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Jorge Dorado
Stars: Brian Cox | Richard Dillane | Mark Strong | Saskia Reeves | Taissa Farmiga
Page Eight (2011)
As: Anthea Catcheside
Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny Worricker, a jazz-loving charmer who works high up at MI5 as an intelligence analyst. It’s a part made for Bill Nighy and he purrs out bon mots ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: David Hare
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Felicity Jones | Michael Gambon | Rachel Weisz | Bill Nighy
National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number (2010)
As: Ruth Minnen
The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived and directed by Simon McBurney. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, it has toured the world and was recently performed in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
Directed by: Simon McBurney
Stars: Saskia Reeves | Paul Bhattacharjee | David Annen | Firdous Bamji | Chetna Pandya
Canoe Man (2010)
As: Anne Darwin
The story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life with a false identity.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Norman Hull
Stars: Bernard Hill | Saskia Reeves | Jeremy Legat | Philip Correia | Kate Ambler
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009)
As: Mandy Wymer
Nine years on, another Morley child has gone missing on her way home from school. Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Anand Tucker
Stars: David Morrissey | Jim Carter | Chris Walker | Lisa Howard | Shaun Dooley
Me and Orson Welles (2008)
As: Barbara Luddy
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Stars: Zoe Kazan | Christian McKay | Imogen Poots | Zac Efron | Claire Danes
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005)
As: Louisa Doyle
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Cilla Ware
Stars: Brian Cox | Emily Blunt | Sinéad Cusack | Douglas Henshall | Tim McInnerny
A Line in the Sand (2004)
As: Meryl Rogers
In a remote village on the Suffolk Coast, Frank Perry (Ross Kemp) waits for his past to catch up with him. Previously a spy for MI6 working on Iranian chemical and biological weapons production, his reports led to the deaths of many Iranian scientists while also undermining the progress of their production. Now the Iranians have found out he was responsible and have sent their best assassin to kill ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: James Hawes
Stars: Ralph Ineson | Saskia Reeves | Mark Bazeley | Kayvan Novak | Ross Kemp
The Tesseract (2003)
As: Rosa
A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Oxide Pang Chun
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Saskia Reeves | Lena Christensen | Alexander Rendell | Carlo Nanni
A Christmas Carol (1999)
As: Mrs. Cratchit
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: David Hugh Jones
Stars: Richard E. Grant | Ian McNeice | Patrick Stewart | Joel Grey | Saskia Reeves
L.A. Without a Map (1999)
As: Joy
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Mika Kaurismäki
Stars: Vincent Gallo | Julie Delpy | Vinessa Shaw | David Tennant | Steve Huison
Heart (1999)
As: Maria Ann McCardle
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Charles McDougall
Stars: Rhys Ifans | Christopher Eccleston | Anna Chancellor | Saskia Reeves | Kate Hardie
A Very British Psycho (1997)
As: Narrator
A documentary film examining Michael Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom," the controversy surrounding its release, and the life of its screenwriter, Leo Marks.
Runtime: 51 min.
Directed by: Chris Rodley
Stars: Michael Powell | Saskia Reeves | Leo Marks
Different for Girls (1996)
As: Jean
Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, and she has no desire to stir up the past while she's busy forging a neat and orderly new life. Prentice, on the other hand, has charm but is a social disaster stuck in a dead-end job. His main talent is for getting ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Richard Spence
Stars: Steven Mackintosh | Rupert Graves | Charlotte Coleman | Miriam Margolyes | Saskia Reeves
Butterfly Kiss (1995)
As: Miriam
Eunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the women at the cash desk not to be Judith, because Eunice is eccentric, angry and extreme dangerous. One day she meets Miriam, hard of hearing and a little ingenuous, who feels sympathy for Eunice and takes her home. Miriam is ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Amanda Plummer | Saskia Reeves | Des McAleer | Kathy Jamieson | Lisa Riley
I.D. (1995)
As: Lynda
Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Phil Davis
Stars: Richard Graham | Philip Glenister | Warren Clarke | Perry Fenwick | Reece Dinsdale
December Bride (1994)
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Stars: Ciarán Hinds | Patrick Malahide | Saskia Reeves | Donal McCann
Traps (1994)
As: Louise Duffield
An erotic thriller set in 1950 French Occupied Indo-China.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Pauline Chan
Stars: Robert Reynolds | Sami Frey | Saskia Reeves | Jacqueline McKenzie
Citizen Locke (1994)
As: Lady Marsham
Story of John Locke...
Runtime: 52 min.
Directed by: Agnieszka Piotrowska
Stars: John Sessions | Rufus Sewell | Joss Ackland | Saskia Reeves | Simon Dutton
The Bridge (1992)
When Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic. But the arrival of Phillip Wilson Steer for his annual painting visit launches a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Sydney Macartney
Stars: David O'Hara | Geraldine James | Joss Ackland | Saskia Reeves
Close My Eyes (1991)
As: Natalie Bryant
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Stephen Poliakoff
Stars: Karl Johnson | Clive Owen | Alan Rickman | Lesley Sharp | Saskia Reeves
Last Day of Summer (1984)
As: Linda
A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.
Runtime: 56 min.
Directed by: Derek Banham
Stars: Annette Badland | James Gaddas | Graham McGrath | Christine Winter | John Telfer