Madeleine Potter
Madeleine Daly Potter is an American actress who has played roles in over 20 films and TV shows, including four productions directed by James Ivory. She has also appeared in numerous stage productions in the United States and United Kingdom. She made her New York stage debut in Loves Labor's Lost at The Shakespeare Center, produced by the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1981.
Family
Potter is the only daughter of Philip B.K. Potter, an American diplomat who served in the OSS, and his wife, the former Madeleine Mulqueen Daly. She is a niece of Medal of Honor recipient Michael J. Daly and a great-great-granddaughter of New York Mayor Thomas Francis Gilroy. She is also a great-great-granddaughter of Episcopal bishop Alonzo Potter and a great-grand-niece of Episcopal bishop Henry Codman Potter.Personal life
She was married to Patrick Fitzgerald, an Irish-born American actor, whom she wed in 1990.Potter's only child, Madeleine Daly, appeared as her character's niece in the 2005 movie The White Countess.
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | - | - | - | - |
| 1983 | Svengali | Antonia | TV movie | - | - | - | - |
| 1986 | The Equalizer | Zena | Episode: "Nightscape" | - | - | - | - |
| 1988 | The Equalizer | Simone Peters / Susan Petersborough | Episode: "A Dance on the Dark Side" | - | - | - | - |
| 2002 | State of Play | Professor Tate | 2 episodes | - | - | - | - |
| 2006 | Midsomer Murders | Celia Patchett | Episode: "Country Matters" | - | - | - | - |
| 2013 | Holby City | Sharon Kozinsky | 1 episode | - | - | - | - |
| 2015 | Foyle's War | Edith Del Mar | Episode" "High Castle" | - | - | - | - |
| 2015 | “” | Elizabeth Arden | Season IV Episode 2 | 2023 | Unforgotten | Niamh | 1 episode |
Audio
Doctor Who - Assassin in the Limelight - Lizzie WilliamsDoctor Who - The Cradle of the Snake - Yoanna RaylussStage
London
An Ideal Husband, directed by Peter Hall at Haymarket TheatreAll My Sons, directed by Howard Davies on the Lyttelton stage of the Royal National Theatre Southwark Fair, directed by Nicholas Hytner on the Cottsloe stage at the Royal National TheatreAfter Mrs. Rochester, written and directed by Polly Teale at the Lyric Theatre and then the Duke of York'sBroken Glass, directed by Iqbal Khan at the Tricycle TheatreBroadway
- Ibsen's Ghosts as Regina Engstrand, Mrs. Alving's maidCoastal Disturbances as Holly DancerMetamorphosis as Greta, Gregor Samsa's sisterThe Crucible as Abigail WilliamsGetting Married as LeoThe Master Builder as Hilde WangelA Little Hotel on the Side as Victoire