Cain
John Caird
Jonathan Cake
David Calder
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Michael Calf
Camille
Camino Real
Cheryl Campbell
Il Candelaio
Can Opener
The Canterbury Tales
Captain Swing
John Carlisle
Jason Carr
Carrie
Nancy Carroll
Elaine Cassidy
The Castle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Changeling
Jan Chappell
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson Awards
Geoffrey Chaucer
Paddy Chayefsky
Anton Chekhov
Nick Chelton
The Cherry Orchard
Children of the Sun
Alison Chitty
A Christmas Carol
Christopher Columbus
Tony Church
Caryl Churchill
The Churchill Play
Clay
Dennis Clinton
A Clockwork Orange
The Collection
Patience Collier
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan
The Comedy of Errors
Complete Works Festival
Comrades
Kerry Condon
William Congreve
Shelley Conn
Paule Constable
The Constant Couple
Nina Conti
Kandis Cook
Ron Cook
Dominic Cooke
Nigel Cooke
Richard Cordery
Coriolanus
Charlotte Cornwell
Oliver Cotton
Yvonne Coulette
Country Dancing
The Country Wife
Courtyard Theatre
Cousin Vladimir
Andrea J. Cox
Brian Cox
Claire Cox
Cries from the Casement
Crimes in Hot Countries
The Criminals
Derbhle Crotty
Bob Crowley
The Crucible
Frances Cuka
Paddy Cunneen
Liam Cunningham
Julian Curry
Curse of the Starving Class
Curtmantle
Cyril Cusack
Niamh Cusack
Sinéad Cusack
The Custom of the Country
Cymbeline
Cyrano de Bergerac
The daughter of a pilot, Cheryl Campbell worked at the Watford Palace Theatre, the Birmingham Rep and the Glasgow Citizens' before coming to notice in 1975 at the National (Old Vic) as Freda in the Ralph Richardson/Peggy Ashcroft/Wendy Hiller John Gabriel Borkman (Peter Hall) and Maggie in W.S. Gilbert's Engaged (Michael Blakemore).
Blonde, pallid and emotionally wrecked, she played the rural schoolmistress in Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven (Piers Haggard, BBC, 1978), followed by Sarah Bernhardt in Lillie (ITV, 1978) and Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth (Moira Armstrong, BBC, 1979, BAFTA for Best Actress). In 1981 she joined the RSC and was a startlingly provocative Nora in The Doll's House (Adrian Noble, TOP, Pit, SWET Best Actress Award) and a coquettish Diana to Harriet Walter's Helena in All's Well That Ends Well (Trevor Nunn, RST, Barbican). She was next at the Lyric Hammersmith, playing the title role in Miss Julie (1983, also Duke of York's). In films she played Sheila McVicar in McVicar (Tom Clegg, 1980), Sister Monica in Hawk the Slayer (Terry Marcel, 1980), Jenny Liddell opposite Ian Charleson in Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson, 1981), Lady Aline Hartlip in The Shooting Party (Alan Bridges, 1984), and the shipwrecked Lady Alice Clayton in Greystoke (Hudson, 1984).
She has worked less prominently since, mostly on the stage: Asta in Little Eyolf (Lyric Hammersmith, 1985); the title role in The Daughter-in-Law (Hampstead Theatre, 1985); Margery Pinchwife to Gary Oldman's Horner in The Country Wife (Nicholas Hytner, Manchester Royal Exchange, 1986-87); Michael Frayn's Chekhov selection The Sneeze (Ronald Eyre, Aldwych, 1988); Constance in Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife (Lucy Parker, Theatr Clwyd, 1990); Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire (Leicester Haymarket, 1990); Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal (David Leveaux, Almeida, 1991); Phyllis Nagy's The Strip (Royal Court, 1995); Lady Wouldbe in Volpone (Matthew Warchus, NT Olivier, 1995); Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee (Michael Grandage, Mercury Theatre, Colchester, 1996); Emily in Some Sunny Day (1996); Arkadina in The Seagull (Stephen Unwin, English Touring Theatre, Tour and Donmar Warehouse, 1997); Peter Nichols's Passion Play (Michael Grandage, Donmar Warehouse, 2000); Hannie Rayson's Life After George (Michael Blakemore, Duchess Theatre, 2002); and Michael Frayn's Noises Off (Jeremy Sams, NT Piccadilly, 2003).
She returned to the RSC for the 1992-94 cycle and played Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor (David Thacker, RST); Beatrice-Joanna in The Changeling (Michael Attenborough, Swan, Pit); Natasha in Misha's Party (David Jones, Pit); and Lady Macbeth opposite Derek Jacobi in Macbeth (Noble, Barbican, RST).
Other television work includes Princess Beatrice in Edward VII (1975); Malice Aforethought (BBC, 1980); The Seven Dials Mystery (ITV, 1982); Dennis Potter's Rain on the Roof (Alan Bridges, ITV, 1980); Eva Jackson in Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular (1985); the Miss Marple mystery Murder at the Vicarage (BBC, 1986); an episode of Boon (ITV, 1990); an episode of Inspector Morse called 'Infernal Serpent' (ITV, 1990); The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (ITV, 1990); Nigel Williams's Centrepoint (Piers Haggard, 1990); the Ruth Rendell Mystery Means of Evil (ITV, 1991); Winnie to David Suchet's Verloc in The Secret Agent (1992); Bessy Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss (Graham Theakston, BBC, 1997); The Way We Live Now (BBC, 2001); Foyle's War (ITV, 2002); Mick Ford's William and Mary (ITV, 2003).
Education: Francis Bacon Grammar School, St Albans; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
RSC: Joined 1981
Seasons: 1981 (Strat.)-82 (Lond.); 1992 (Strat.)-93/94 (Lond./Strat.)
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