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Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December 1944) is an English actress.

Jane Lapotaire
Born	Jane Elizabeth Marie Burgess (1944-12-26) 26 December 1944 (age 77) Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1965–present
Spouse(s)	Oliver Wood ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1967)​ Roland Joffé ​ ​ (m. 1974; div. 1980)​
Children	Rowan Joffé

Biography

Lapotaire was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the daughter of Louise Elise (Burgess). Her stepfather, Yves Lapotaire, worked in the oil industry and was originally from Quebec, Canada.[1] From the age of two months she was raised as a foster child by an old-age pensioner, Grace Chisnell (Granny Grace), who was also the foster mother of Lapotaire's own biological mother, a French orphan, who was abandoned in England. When Lapotaire was about 12, her biological mother made a bid to get her back. The child welfare department of the Suffolk County Council intervened and decided that the mother had this right. Lapotaire chose to be with Granny Grace but lived with her biological mother and step-father, who worked in various French oil companies in North Africa (particularly Libya), three times a year. She also adopted their family name. The Lapotaires in North Africa were Francophone and, like French colonials at that time, lived around the French embassy. Granny Grace died in 1984 aged 96 and Louise Burgess in 1999.[2][3]

She studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1961 to 1963, the programme was a two-year course at that time unlike the three-year course today. She had earlier auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London but failed to get in. She joined the Bristol Old Vic theatre company in 1965.[4] She joined the National Theatre in 1967, was a founding member of The Young Vic Theatre in 1970/1971, and moved to the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974.[5]

Her performance in the title role of Marie Curie (1977) first brought her to wide attention. In 1978, she performed the title role Édith Piaf for Pam Gems's play Piaf, directed by Howard Davies for the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Stratford-upon-Avon and in London at the Warehouse Theatre, Covent Garden in 1979. Two years later, the show moved to Broadway. Lapotaire won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play that year.[6]

She was married to director Roland Joffé from 1974 to 1980;[7] they had one son, screenwriter and director Rowan Joffé (born 1973). Following their divorce, she was for a time the partner of actor Michael Pennington.[8]

She returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company in October–November 2013 as the Duchess of Gloucester in Gregory Doran's adaptation of Richard II with David Tennant in the title role.[9] This was followed in October–December 2015 as Queen Isobel in Henry V.[10][11] On Christmas Day in 2014, she appeared as Princess Irina Kuragin in season 5 episode 9 of Downton Abbey.

Writing

Lapotaire has written a number of memoirs: Grace and Favour,[12] Out of Order: A Haphazard Journey Through One Woman's Year,[13] and Everybody's Daughter, Nobody's Child,[14] which includes an account of her childhood growing up in Levington Road, Ipswich.

Illness

On 11 January 2000, while preparing to teach a course on Shakespeare at the Ecole Internationale in Paris France, Lapotaire suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage. Four days after her collapse, she underwent a six-hour surgery and spent the next three weeks largely unconscious.[3] She writes about her recovery in Time Out of Mind.[15]

Associations

Lapotaire is Honorary President of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Club,[16] and is President of the Friends of Shakespeare's Globe.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2021	Smyrna	Filio Mpaltatzi
2020	Rebecca	Granny
2016	The Young Messiah	Sarah
2005	Can't Stop Breathing	Daisy (short movie)
2000	There's Only One Jimmy Grimble	Alice Brewer[17]
1997	Shooting Fish	Dylan's Headmistress
1996	Surviving Picasso	Olga Picasso
1986	Lady Jane	Princess/Queen Mary
1984	To Catch a King	Irene Neumann
1983	Eureka	Helen McCann
1975	One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing	Miss Prescott
1973	The Asphyx	Christina Cunningham
1972	Antony and Cleopatra	Charmian
1970	Crescendo	Lillianne

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2019	The Crown	Princess Alice of Battenberg	2 episodes[18]
2014	Downton Abbey	Princess Kuragin	Episode: A Moorland Holiday
2006	Eleventh Hour	Gepetto	Episode: Resurrection
2005	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Fiona Deakin-Jones	Episode: War of God
2004	He Knew He Was Right	Lady Milborough
	Bella and the Boys	Mrs. Rogers	TV film
2000	Arabian Nights	Miriam	TV film
1996	Simisola	Anouk Khoori	TV film
1995	Johnny and the Dead	Mrs. Sylvia Liberty
1994	The Alleyn Mysteries	Elspeth Cost	Episode: Dead Water
1992–93	Love Hurts	Diane Warburg	(Series 1–2, 20 episodes)
1989	Murder in Space	Louise Mackey	TV film
1988	Theatre Night	Aline Solness	Episode: The Master Builder
1987	Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story	Letizia Bonaparte
1983	Macbeth	Lady Macbeth	TV film
1981	Antony & Cleopatra	Cleopatra	TV film[19]
1978	The Devil's Crown	Eleanor of Aquitaine
1977	Marie Curie	Marie Curie
1975	Edward the Seventh	Empress Marie of Russia
1973	Crown Court	Juliet Tomlin	3 episodes
	Van der Valk	Elly	Episode: Rich Man, Poor Man
1972	Armchair Theatre	Jean	Episode: On Call
	Love and Mr Lewisham	Miss Heydinger
	Callan	Kristina	Episode: The Contract
	The Edwardians	Alice Houston
1971	Jason King	French maid	Episode:Buried in the Cold Cold Ground
1968	Sherlock Holmes	Annie Harrison	Episode:The Naval Treaty

Theatre work

Her stage credits include:[20]

• (Stage debut) Ruby Birtle, When We Are Married, Bristol Old Vic Theatre, Bristol, England, 1965
• Vivie, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Bristol Old Vic Theatre, 1965–1967
• Natasha, War and Peace, Bristol Old Vic Theatre, 1965–1967
• Ruth, The Homecoming, Bristol Old Vic Theatre, 1965–1967
• Judith, The Dance of Death, National Theatre, London, 1967
• Antoinette, A Flea in Her Ear, National Theatre, 1967
• Mincing, later Mrs. Fainall, The Way of the World, National Theatre, 1969
• Tania, Macrune's Guevara, National Theatre, 1969
• Zanche, The White Devil, National Theatre, 1969
• Don Quixote's niece, The Travails of Sancho Panza, National Theatre, 1969
• Jessica, The Merchant of Venice, National Theatre, 1970
• Zerbinetta, Scapino, Young Vic Theatre, London, 1970–1971
• Katherina, The Taming of the Shrew, Young Vic Theatre, 1970–1971
• Jocasta, Oedipus, Young Vic Theatre, 1970–1971
• Isabella, Measure for Measure, Young Vic Theatre, 1970–1971
• Lieschen, The Captain of Koepenick, National Theatre, 1971
• Lady Macduff, Macbeth, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1974
• Sonya, Uncle Vanya, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1974
• Rosalind, As You Like It, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, England, then Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1975
• Viola, Twelfth Night, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford, England, then Aldwych Theatre, London, 1975
• Vera, A Month in the Country, Royal Shakespeare Company, Albery Theatre, London, 1975
• Lucy Honeychurch, A Room with a View, Royal Shakespeare Company, Albery Theatre, 1975
• Rosalind, As You Like It, Riverside Studios, London, 1976
• Title role, The Duchess of Malfi, Bristol Old Vic Theatre, 1976
• Rosaline, Love's Labour's Lost, Stratford, 1978 then Aldwych Theatre, 1979
• Edith Piaf, Piaf, Other Place Theatre, London, then Warehouse Theatre, London, later Aldwych Theatre, all 1979 then Wyndham's Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre, both London, 1980 later Plymouth Theatre, New York City, 1981
• Eileen, Kick for Touch, National Theatre, 1983
• Belvidera, Venice Preserv'd, National Theatre, 1984
• Antigone, National Theatre, 1984
• Title role, Saint Joan, Compass Company, 1985
• Double Double, Fortune Theatre, London, 1986
• Misalliance, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1986
• Archbishop's Ceiling, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1986
• Greenland, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1988
• Joy Davidman, Shadowlands, Queen's Theatre, London, 1989-1990
• Gertrude, Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London, 1992
• Mrs. Alving, Ghosts, Royal Shakespeare Company, Other Place Theatre, Stratford, 1993
• Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII (also known as The Famous History of the Life of Henry VIII), Royal Shakespeare Company, Young Vic Theatre, 1998
• Major Tours
• Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII (also known as The Famous History of the Life of Henry VIII), Royal Shakespeare Company, U.S. cities, 1998
• Maria Callas, Master Class, British cities, 1999

Awards

In April 2018, Lapotaire became the 29th recipient of the prestigious Pragnell Shakespeare Birthday Award[21] and gave the 454th Shakespeare Birthday Lecture on 20 April 2018.[22]

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1989	Blind Justice (1988)	British Academy Television Award for Best Actress	Nominated
1978	Marie Curie (1977)	British Academy Television Award for Best Actress	Nominated

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1981	Piaf (1978-1981)	Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play	Won
1983	Piaf (1978-1981)	CableACE Award for Actress in a Theatrical or Non-Musical Program	Nominated

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2020	The Crown (2019)	Gold Derby TV Award for Drama Guest Actress	Nominated

References

External links

• Jane Lapotaire at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jane Lapotaire at IMDb
• Performing La Vie En Rose at the 1981 Tony Awards ceremony on YouTube

На других языках

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- [en] Jane Lapotaire

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[es] Jane Lapotaire

Jane Lapotaire (Ipswich, Suffolk, 26 de diciembre de 1944) es una escritora y actriz inglesa de teatro, cine y televisión.[3]

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[ru] Лапотейр, Джейн

Джейн Лапотейр (англ. Jane Lapotaire, род. 26 декабря 1944 (1944-12-26)) — британская актриса театра, кино и телевидения.

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