D > Janet Dale Timothy Dalton Charles Dance The Dance of Death Ron Daniels The Danton Affair Nick Darke Daughter of the Air Shaun Davey Alan David Howard Davies Rudi Davies Daniel Day-Lewis Days in the Trees Days of the Commune The Dead Monkey Nick Dear Deathwatch/The Maids Thomas Dekker Robert Delamere A Delicate Balance Frances de la Tour Robert Demeger Jeffery Dench Judi Dench The Desert Air Desire Under the Elms Destiny The Devil is an Ass The Devil's Disciple The Devils Ann Devlin Es Devlin Mark Dignam Stephen Dillane The Dillen Lisa Dillon Dingo The Dispute Divine Gossip Joe Dixon Doctor Faustus Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Dog in the Manger Monica Dolan A Doll's House Don Carlos Donmar Warehouse Declan Donnellan Gregory Doran Simon Dormandy Roy Dotrice John Dougall Wayne Dowdeswell Downchild Penny Downie Kevin Doyle A Dream of People Dreamplay Amanda Drew Darrell D'Silva Kate Duchêne The Duchess of Malfi Duck Song William Dudley The Dumb Waiter Lindsay Duncan Jeremy Dunn Marguerite Duras Friedrich Dürrenmatt Susan Dury Dutch Uncle The Dybbuk Charles Dyer Chris Dyer		Janet Dale A member of Alan Ayckbourn's company at Scarborough during the 1970s, Janet Dale created the roles of Ruth in The Norman Conquests (1973), Marge in Absent Friends (1974) and Helen in Ten Times Table (1976). She also wrote a series of plays for children—The Christmas That Nearly Wasn't (1974), The Adventures of Bongo Bungle (1975), The Village That Woke Up Asleep (1975), Charlie's Christmas Countdown (1975), The Mystery of the Lost City (in nine parts, 1976), Bertern Podger and the Great Game Robbery (1977), and Beano and the Great Christmas Cracker Mystery (1977). She joined the RSC at the end of the decade and established her reputation as a dramatic actress playing Olga in Three Sisters (Trevor Nunn, TOP, 1979, Warehouse, 1980), and Miss Knag/Mrs Wititterley in Nicholas Nickleby (Nunn/John Caird, Aldwych, 1980, 1981, New York, 1981). She continued with the RSC until 1986 and returned in 1993: May in Peter Whelan's The Accrington Pals (Bill Alexander, Warehouse, 1981); Kristin, succeeding Marjorie Bland, in A Doll's House (Adrian Noble, Pit, 1982); Micky in Peter Whelan's Clay (Alexander, Pit, 1982); Paulina in The Winter's Tale (Noble) and Ann Putnam in The Crucible (Barry Kyle/Nick Hamm, Small-scale Tour, 1984); Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Alexander, RST, 1985, Barbican, 1986); Emilia in Othello (Terry Hands, RST, 1985, Barbican, 1986); Yvonne in Scenes from a Marriage (Hands, Barbican, 1986); Goneril in the Robert Stephens King Lear (Noble, RST, 1993, Barbican, 1994); and Mrs Fidget in The Country Wife (Max Stafford-Clark, Swan, 1993, Pit, 1994). At the National she played Mum in Ayckbourn's Invisible Friends (Ayckbourn, Cottesloe, 1991), and Queen Charlotte in Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III (Nicholas Hytner, Lyttelton, 1991–92); at the Greenwich Theatre, Kath in Entertaining Mr Sloane (Jeremy Sams, 1993). Screen credits: Yanks (John Schlesinger, 1979); 84 Charing Cross Road (David Jones, 1987); Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears, 1987); Nice Work (BBC, 1989); Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (Bernard Rose, 1990); The Buddha of Suburbia (Roger Michell, BBC, 1993); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (BBC, 1996); Kangaroo Palace (1997); The Moth (1997); Breakout (1997); P.D. James's A Certain Justice (1998); Miss Briggs in Vanity Fair (BBC, 1998); Heartbeat (ITV, 1999); Sunburn (BBC, 2000); Peak Practice (ITV, 2000); and The Last Train (ITV, 2000).	Actress, b. [Yorkshire] RSC: Joined 1979 Seasons: 1979 (Strat.)-80/81 (Lond.); 1982 (Lond.); 1984 (Small-scale Tour); 1985 (Strat.)-85/86 (Lond.); 1993 (Strat.)-94 (Lond.)
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