Biography
Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and I.D. (1995), and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune.
Born and brought up in London to a Dutch mother and English father, Reeves studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since worked with directors such as Mike Leigh, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Winterbottom and Nicholas Hytner.
Early in her career she performed in puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre.
Her television credits include Spooks and the Bodies finale. Her stage work includes productions at London's National and Royal Court Theatres as well as on international tour.
In addition to her acting career, Reeves does voice work, including commercial and narration (book readings) for VocalPoint.net.
In 2008, she starred in English Touring Theatre's revival of Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye at the Trafalgar Studios in London.
In 2010 she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of the famous disappearing canoeist John Darwin (played by Bernard Hill) in Canoe Man, a dramatisation of the John Darwin disappearance case for BBC4 and in the BBC1 series Luther.
In 2011 Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, first shown on BBC4.
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Filmography
all 74
Movies 42
TV Shows 32
self 3
Narrator 3
Director 1
The Outrun (2024)
Shadows (2023)
Slow Horses (2022)
Creation Stories (2021)
Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes (2020)
Us (2020)
Belgravia (2020)
National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (2019)
The Child in Time (2018)
Collateral (2018)
House of Saud: A Family at War (2018)
King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2017)
Redemption Road (2017)
Making 'Traps' (2016)
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
The Prime Minister (2016)
The Program (2015)
Wolf Hall (2015)
Canterbury Cathedral (2014)
Traders: Millions by the Minute (2014)
From There to Here (2014)
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Anna (2013)
Shetland (2013)
One Night (2012)
Death in Paradise (2011)
Page Eight (2011)
Vera (2011)
Women in Love (2011)
National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number (2010)
Luther (2010)
Canoe Man (2010)
Red Riding (2009)
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009)
Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Fixer (2008)
The Last Days of the Raj (2007)
Lewis (2007)
Afterlife (2005)
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005)
A Line in the Sand (2004)
Island at War (2004)
Suspicion (2003)
The Tesseract (2003)
The Commander (2003)
Spooks (2002)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002)
Waking the Dead (2001)
Frank Herbert's Dune (2000)
A Christmas Carol (1999)
L.A. Without a Map (1999)
Heart (1999)
Arthouse (1997)
Plotlands (1997)
Midsomer Murders (1997)
A Very British Psycho (1997)
Different for Girls (1996)
The Perfect Match (1995)
Butterfly Kiss (1995)
I.D. (1995)
Cruel Train (1995)
A Summer Day's Dream (1994)
Traps (1994)
Citizen Locke (1994)
The Bridge (1992)
Close My Eyes (1991)
Performance (1991)
December Bride (1990)
Children Crossing (1990)
Antonia and Jane (1990)
Metamorphosis (1987)
A Woman of Substance (1985)
Last Day of Summer (1984)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1961-08-16 (62 years old)
Birth PlacePaddington, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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