Cheryl Campbell
Cheryl Campbell is an English actress. She starred opposite Bob Hoskins in the 1978 BBC drama Pennies From Heaven, before going on to win the 1980 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Testament of Youth and Malice Aforethought, and the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for A Doll's House. Her film appearances include Chariots of Fire, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Shooting Party.
Early life
Born 22 May 1949 in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Campbell is the daughter of an airline pilot. She was educated at Francis Bacon Grammar School, St Albans, and at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her repertory theatre experience includes the Palace Theatre, Watford, Birmingham Rep and the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow.Career
Film and TV
Campbell earned her first BAFTA nomination in 1978 for her portrayal of Eileen Everson, opposite Bob Hoskins in Dennis Potter's television serial Pennies from Heaven.Campbell is known for her starring role as Vera Brittain in the BBC's television dramatisation of Testament of Youth, for which she received Best Actress awards from the British Academy Television Award and the Broadcasting Press Guild Award.
Campbell's one other role in a work by Potter was as Janet in Rain on the Roof. The same year, she starred as Sheila McVicar alongside Roger Daltrey in the prison escape film McVicar, and played Jennie Liddell in Chariots of Fire. She played Lady Alice Clayton, alongside Ian Holm and Christopher Lambert in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
In 2010 Campbell played Lucetta in the film Tamara Drewe.
Stage
As a stage performer Campbell has twice been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. At the RSC in 1982, she appeared as Diana in All's Well That Ends Well, she played Nora Helmer in Adrian Noble's production of Ibsen's A Doll's House, for which she was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival.She returned to the RSC in the 1992–94 season, playing Lady Macbeth in Noble's production of Macbeth; Beatrice-Joanna in The Changeling; Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Natasha in Misha's Party. She worked at the Royal National Theatre: playing as a junior member of the company in 1975, as Freda in Sir Peter Hall's Old Vic production of John Gabriel Borkman and as Maggie in W. S. Gilbert's Engaged; in 1995, as Lady Politic Would-Be in Matthew Warchus's Volpone; and in 2003 as Dotty Otley in the NT's touring revival of Noises Off.
Campbell's other stage performances in London include You Never Can Tell ; Miss Julie in the title role; Little Eyolf as Asta; The Daughter-in-Law as Minnie; The Sneeze in various roles; Betrayal as Emma; The Strip as Loretta; Some Sunny Day as Emily; The Seagull as Arkadina; Passion as Nell; and Life After George as Beatrix.