Geraldine James is a British actress who lives in London. She was born on July 6, 1950. Theatre director Peter Hall says Geraldine James ranks among the great English classical actresses. [1]. July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall (born 22 November 1930) is a British theatre and film director. ...

Desert Island Discs

On 30 May 2004 Geraldine James was a guest on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs. She chose the following music to take with her if she was ever stranded on a desert island Desert Island Discs is a long running BBC Radio 4 programme. ... The article on Mount Desert Island, an island off the coast of Maine, redirects here. ...

• "Adagio from Concerto opus 9 No.2" by Tomaso Albinoni
• "Goodness Gracious Me" performed by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren
• "Love Me or Leave Me" performed by Nina Simone
• "Man in a Shed" performed by Nick Drake
• "The Times They are a Changin'" performed by Bob Dylan
• "Nana" performed by Pablo Casals (cello) and Eugene Istomin (piano)
• "By your Side" performed by Sade
• "In tears of grief, Dear Lord, we leave thee" by from St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) by Johann Sebastian Bach

Tomaso Albinoni (June 14, 1671, Venice, Italy – January 17, 1751, Venice) was an Italian baroque composer. ... Peter Sellers Richard Henry Sellers (September 8, 1925 – July 24, 1980), better known as Peter Sellers, was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show, before embarking on a successful film career. ... Sophia Loren in 1955 Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is considered to be the most famous Italian actress of all time. ... Nina Simone Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Dr. Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was a singer, songwriter and pianist. ... Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney Drake (June 19, 1948 – November 25, 1974) was a British singer/songwriter. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman 24 May 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet. ... Pau Casals i Defilló (December 29, 1876 – October 22, 1973), commonly known as Pablo Casals, was a virtuoso Catalan cello player (and later conductor). ... A cello The violoncello, or as it is more commonly to refered to as the cello or cello (pronounced Cheh-loh), is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. ... Eugene George Istomin (November 26, 1925—October 10, 2003) was an American pianist born in New York City. ... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... Sade on the cover of her 1994 collection Best of Sade Sade Adu, pronounced Shar-day (IPA //), British-Nigerian singer, songwriter (born Helen Folasade Adu on 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria), is a jazz, pop, urban and adult contemporary vocalist, noted for her soulful, smoky contralto. ... The 1748 Haussmann portrait of the composer. ...

Television appearances

• Played Sarah Layton in The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
• Played Lady Maud Lynchwood in Blott on the Landscape (1985)
• Played Rose the prostitute in Band of Gold
• Supporting actress in Moll Flanders
• Has a cameo role in Little Britain as the mother of a thirty-year old mummy's boy

The Jewel in the Crown is a British television drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and based on the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott. ... Blott on the Landscape is a novel written in 1975 by Tom Sharpe, which became a special 6-part television series, made by the BBC, in 1985. ... The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe. ... Little Britain is a BBC radio and television sketch show written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. ...

Theatre appearances

• Played Portia opposite Dustin Hoffman in the London and Broadway productions of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Dustin Hoffman Hoffman with Ben Stiller in 2004s Meet the Fockers. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Movie appearances

• Calendar Girls
• Gandhi

Calendar Girls is a British film of 2003, based on the true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produce a nude calendar to raise money for charity, under the auspices of the Womens Institute. ... Gandhi (1982) is an Anglo-Indian film, directed by Richard Attenborough, about the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul), leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. ...

Awards

• Best actress at the Venice Biennale for her work in the film She's Been Away.

View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005. ...

References

• Geraldine James page on myclapham.co.uk
• Guest on Desert Island Discs

External links

• Geraldine James at the Internet Movie Database