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词条 Diana Quick
释义

  1. Early life and family background

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. Politics

  5. Filmography

     Film  Television 

  6. References

  7. External links

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| name = Diana Quick
| image =
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| birthname = Diana Marilyn Quick
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|11|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = London, England
| occupation = Actress
| education = Dartford Grammar School for Girls
| alma_mater = Oxford
| years_active = 1958–present
| spouse = Kenneth Cranham (1974–1978) (divorced)
| partner = Bill Nighy (1980–2008; separated)
| children = Mary Nighy
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Diana Marilyn Quick (born 23 November 1946) is an English actress.

Early life and family background

Quick was born in London, England. She grew up in Dartford, Kent, the third of four children. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, Kent. She was greatly aided by her English teacher who encouraged her to pursue acting. She became a member of an amateur dramatic society in Crayford, Kent, while at school as well as appearing in many school productions. On leaving school, she went on in 1964 to pursue further studies at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.[1] Quick was the first female president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.

Quick spent seven years researching a book about her paternal family's life in India, which was published in 2009 by Virago with the title A Tug on the Thread: From the British Raj to the British Stage. In her book Quick reveals that she is of mixed race (Anglo-Indian) descent. Her great-grandfather served 23 years in the army in India before becoming a policeman and her great-grandmother had to flee from the Indian Rebellion of 1857 after her father was killed.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}

Career

Quick is perhaps best known for the role of Lady Julia Flyte in the television production of Brideshead Revisited. She received an Emmy and British Academy Television Awards nomination for her work. Quick has also appeared in many theatre, film and television productions. Her stage work has included roles in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida to Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.

In 2009, she portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Camilla?", an episode of the television documentary drama The Queen. Quick had played the same character as a younger woman in Alan Bennett's play, A Question of Attribution. She said of how she prepared for the television role:

I think one has to try to be as accurate as possible. You have to wear the right clothes, and in my case I wore a white wig, because I'm playing her as a mature Queen rather than when she was a younger woman. So you try and get the externals as accurate as possible, but then I think it's like any acting challenge, you just try to play the situation as truthfully as you can. So you play the spirit of the thing rather than the documentary reality of it.[2]

Personal life

Her longtime partner was actor Bill Nighy, and they have one daughter, actress Mary Nighy. They separated in 2008.[3] The couple met in 1981 when co-starring in a play at the National Theatre in London. She was previously married to the actor Kenneth Cranham for a short time.[4]

Politics

Quick was one of several celebrities who endorsed the successful parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election.[5]

Filmography

Film

  • Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
  • A Christmas Carol (1971) (voice)
  • A Private Enterprise (1974)
  • The Duellists (1977)
  • The Three Hostages (1977)
  • The Odd Job (1978)
  • The Big Sleep (1978)
  • Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
  • Max, Mon Amour (1986)
  • Wilt (1989)
  • Nostradamus (1994)
  • Saving Grace (2000)
  • The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
  • The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
  • Revengers Tragedy (2002)
  • Love/Loss (2010)

Television

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PCqmrZhokk The Complete and Utter History of Britain] - Monty Python etc (1969)
  • Brideshead Revisited (1981)
  • Minder: An Officer and a Car Salesman (1988)
  • Dandelion Dead (1994)
  • Dalziel and Pascoe ("For Love Nor Money") (2002)
  • Inspector Morse ("Absolute Conviction")
  • Poirot (Sad Cypress) (2003)
  • Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (2003)
  • Midsomer Murders (2004)
  • Kingdom: Series 2, Episode 5 (2008)
  • The Queen:

"How Do You Solve a Problem Like Camilla?" (2009)

  • "New Tricks": "Meat is Murder", Series 6, Episode 8 (2009)
  • Lewis: "Dark Matter" (2010)
  • The Missing (2014)
  • The Living and the Dead (2016)

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/Alumni/Prominent-alumni.aspx|title=LMH, Oxford - Prominent Alumni|accessdate=20 May 2015}}
2. ^Interview: The Queen, Channel 4, Thursday, 5 November 2009
3. ^Roberts, Laura. It's not Love Actually after all as star Nighy splits with partner of 27 years, Daily Mail, 25 August 2008.
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/67/Kenneth-Cranham.html|title=Kenneth Cranham Biography (1944-)|website=www.filmreference.com}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/24/celebrities-sign-statement-support-caroline-lucas-not-green-party|title=Celebrities sign statement of support for Caroline Lucas – but not the Greens|work=The Guardian|location=London, UK|first=Jessica|last=Elgot|date=24 April 2015|accessdate=23 July 2015}}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|id=0703438|name=Diana Quick}}
  • How love kept Bill Nighy and Diana Quick together, by Lester Middlehurst
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