Selina Giles
Selina Giles (born 5 March 1972) is an English actress and writer. She is best known for playing Valerie Stowe in Until Death with Jean-Claude Van Damme Stephen Rea and Evey's mother in the Wachowskis V for Vendetta (film)
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Born | 5 March 1972 |
Nationality | English |
Occupation | Actress, Writer |
Notable work | Until Death, V for Vendetta |
Film and television
Giles began her acting career with minor roles in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles with Sean Patrick Flanery, Restoration with Robert Downey Jr. and Highlander: The Series with Adrian Paul. She went on to star in the Simon Rumley directed British film The Truth Game. The Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler St. Urbain's Horseman (TV series) with Andrea Martin and Elliott Gould. The Butcher Brothers vampire horror film The Thompsons, James Fair's The Confusion of Tongues. She appears in the John Mckay directed 2004 film Piccadilly Jim with Sam Rockwell the BBC series Holby Blue playing Sally Lewis and the successful children's show The Dumping Ground. In 2015 she wrote produced and acted in the short film Pickled.[1] In 2017 she appears as Ryan Woods in Greenhouse Academy.
Theatre
On the stage, she has played the role of Renee in David Henry Hwang's M Butterfly at the Singapore Repertory Theatre and Miss Julie in the August Strindberg play Miss Julie at the Tristian Bates Theatre. In 2013, she established Two Shillings and Six Pence Productions which is a company of actors who meet weekly perform quarterly and raise money for a local charity.
Giles wrote, produced and acted as Shelly Long in the play The Two Faces of Agent Lacey, directed by Simon Fellows and staged at The Arts in the ' Above The Arts' space.[2][3]
In 2015, she appeared as Claire Macneill in the play Bluebird by Simon Stephens at the Tabard Theatre.[4] In 2016, she appeared as Lisa in the play Wastwater by Simon Stephens at the Tabard Theatre. In 2017, she appeared as Heather in the play The Wasp by Morgan Lloyd Malcom at The Jermyn Street Theatre.
References
- "Selina Giles". IMDb.
- Ellie Bannerman. "Review: The Two Faces of Agent Lacey, Arts Theatre". A Younger Theatre.
- Alan Franks. "The Two Faces of Agent Lacey by Selina Giles". London Theatre 1.
- Ruth Gledhill. "Review of Bluebird at the Tabard Theatre London". London Theatre 1.