Maria Aitken

Maria Aitken

Aitken was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Sir William Aitken, a Conservative MP, and Penelope Aitken, whose father was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. Her grandfather was the UK Representative to Ireland (1939–49). She is a great-niece of newspaper magnate and war-time minister Lord Beaverbrook, and sister to former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken. She attended Riddlesworth Hall Preparatory School in Norfolk, Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she graduated with a degree in English Language and Literature. She has directed several plays in the West End and on Broadway. Her production of The 39 Steps, which ran in London for nine years, also played three years on Broadway and won Olivier and Tony Awards. In 2011, she directed Frank Langella in Man and Boy on Broadway. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Yale, NYU and Juilliard drama schools. Her extensive acting career includes leading roles at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the West End. She has played more Noël Coward leads than any other actress. Her film career includes appearances in Doctor Faustus (1967), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Half Moon Street (1986), A Fish Called Wanda (1988) (for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award), The Fool (1990), The Grotesque (1995), Fierce Creatures (1997), Jinnah (1998) and Asylum (2005). She is the author of A Girdle Round the Earth, a story of some of the more remarkable women travellers of the last 200 years, and Style: Acting in High Comedy, published in 1996, which contends that "High comedies are not bloodless, refined, wordy plays — their themes are sex, money and social advancement. They contain a splendid contradiction: wit and elegance at the service of man's basest drives." From Wikipedia

  • Tiotal: Maria Aitken
  • Popularity: 3.039
  • Aithnichte airson: Acting
  • Co-là-breith: 1945-09-12
  • Àite breith: Dublin, Ireland
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  • 1988
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    A Fish Called Wanda

    A Fish Called Wanda

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  • 1998
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    Jinnah

    Jinnah

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  • 1971
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    Mary, Queen of Scots

    Mary, Queen of Scots

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  • 1995
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    The Grotesque

    The Grotesque

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  • 1980
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    Bedroom Farce

    Bedroom Farce

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  • 1990
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    The Fool

    The Fool

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  • 1986
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    Half Moon Street

    Half Moon Street

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  • 1997
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    Fierce Creatures

    Fierce Creatures

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  • 1976
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    Out of the Trees

    Out of the Trees

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  • 2005
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    Asylum

    Asylum

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  • 1998
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    Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah

    Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah

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  • 1979
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    Whinfrey's Last Case

    Whinfrey's Last Case

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  • 1969
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    Some Girls Do

    Some Girls Do

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  • 1979
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    Don't Be Silly

    Don't Be Silly

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  • 2002
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    Spider

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  • 1987
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    Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment

    Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment

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  • 2004
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    Poor Little Rich Girls

    Poor Little Rich Girls

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  • 1972
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    Crown Court

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  • 1970
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    Codename

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  • 1982
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    Wogan

    Wogan

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  • 1977
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    Romance (UK)

    Romance (UK)

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  • 1972
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    The Edwardians

    The Edwardians

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  • 1994
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    Love on a Branch Line

    Love on a Branch Line

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  • 1978
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    Jemima Shore Investigates

    Jemima Shore Investigates

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  • 1972
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    Crown Court

    Crown Court

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  • 1971
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    Justice

    Justice

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  • 1970
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    Manhunt

    Manhunt

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