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Louise
is probably best known as Rosa di marco in Eastenders.
She has done six other series for the BBC including Tom Brown's School
Days, Dr. Who, Omega
Factor, Bergerac, Rides,
and her personal favourite, Tenko, not to mention
guest appearances in Casualty, Wycliffe,
The Bill and some classy 'one offs' such as
Cider with Rosie and The Game.
Series for other companies includes Stick with Me Kid
(Disney), The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (YTV)
and Mollie (Sky).
Her
first love however is the theatre and very shortly after finishing her
RADA training, where she won the Shakespeare Award for Best Classical
Performance, she joined the RSC for three years and played Stratford,
London and America in numerous plays including Romeo and Juliet,
Richard II, Love's Labour's Lost
and The Taming of the Shrew. Non-Shakespearean
roles included Molly in The Marquis of Keith
(with Sir Ian McKellan), Sylvia Plath in Three Women,
Kate in Passion Play (Best New Play) and Nadia
Polikarpovna in Gorky's Barbarians. More recently
she has worked with the Royal National Theatre as The Woman in Death
of a Salesman. Away from the 'Royals' other favourite theatre
includes Rosalind in As You Like It (Regent's
Park Open Air Theatre), Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Old Vic), Miriam Gotchalk in Mephisto
and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (both
for Oxford Theatre Company), Roxanne in Sticky Fingers
(a musical for the King's Head), Moll in Moll Flanders (also
a musical, Yorkshire Playhouse) and Mollie in Sleeping Nightie
(Royal Court Upstairs).
Three
years ago she started tlc productions ltd., with a view to performing/producing/directing
new writing/compilations and to take a sideways look at the classics to
which end she produced and directed Wotcha Will,
a compilation of the canon dipping into 17 of the plays and premiered
Sex Wars with David Warwick and (brilliant
guitarist) Simon James. Also Louise performs Love Letters
with Colin Baker (next performance week at The
Gatehouse, Highgate, in late August 2007) and most excitingly has
premiered her one woman show at Hackney Empire called Face
Value by Helen Goldwyn. This show has 'legs' as they say.
Not only a tour next February but another London outing, also at The Gatehouse
in early September where she teams up with Pete Searles (Sex
with Pete Searles) for an hilarious evening of mid-life
crisis. See you there?
Louise has also recorded numerous Radio 4 afternoon plays,
and some monologue work for Radio 3. She lives in Kent with her two sons
Harry and Tom and believes them to be by far the best things she's ever
produced.
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