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Saskia Reeves

Highest Rated: 100% Antonia and Jane (1991)

Lowest Rated: 32% Anna (2013)

Birthday: Aug 16, 1961

Birthplace: Cambridge, England, UK

Highly-touted blonde British player who followed a somewhat less than classical path to become a classical actress. Saskia Reeves performed in satirical revues at the Convent Garden Community Theatre and did puppet shows before earning a foothold on the stage. She performed in "Cathleen Ni Hollinan" at the Lyric Hammersmith in London, and joined the Cheek By Jowl Company for 18 months, starring in the group's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Reeves played Greta in an acclaimed production of "The Metamorphosis," and repeated her role in the BBC rendition of the effort. She also has done seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company. But it was on film that Reeves won international notice and status. One critic gushed, "Saskia Reeves is an actress to watch for...Be the first on your block to see a Saskia Reeves film." Reeves' first screen performance was in "December Bride" (1990), in which she was an Irish housekeeper who has children by two brothers and flaunts convention by refusing to marry either. She switched to comedy for her second film, "Antonia & Jane," in which she played the former, a masochistic lost soul. In "Close My Eyes" (1991), Reeves was a woman who has a fling with her younger brother, and in "The Bridge" (1992), she is a woman who has an affair with artist Philip Wilson Steer and inspires a famous painting. In 1994, Reeves was in "Traps," as a photojournalist with her husband in Vietnam of 1950 -- she is supposed to prop up the French position for colonialization, but comes to see the war on the horizon. She had a stunning success with "Butterfly Kiss" (1995), in which she was a sad soul whose life is pumping petrol until she meets and finds love with Amanda Plummer. Reeves has called this film, "'Thelma and Louise' on acid." Reeves has appeared in some BBC productions, in addition to "Metamorphosis" and "Antonia & Jane" before its international big screen release. In 1992, she won raves for her one-woman "Two Monologues," particularly for "In My Defence" in which she was a young woman who wants to kill her terminally-ill mother.

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Highest rated movies

100% 78% Antonia and Jane
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93% 64% Page Eight
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82% 83% The Outrun Watchlist
80% 56% Close My Eyes
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79% 51% The Child in Time
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79% 60% Butterfly Kiss
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72% 50% Our Kind of Traitor Watchlist
48% 75% Different for Girls
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32% 38% Anna
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A Line in the Sand
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Filmography

Movies

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82% 83% The Outrun Annie (Character) $865.9K 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shadows Mother (Character) - 2020
79% 51% The Child in Time Thelma (Character) - 2017
72% 50% Our Kind of Traitor Tamara (Character) $3.2M 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet De Premier Unknown (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 50% Salting the Battlefield Anthea Catcheside (Character) - 2014
32% 38% Anna Michelle Greene (Character) - 2013
93% 64% Page Eight Anthea Catcheside (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle Unknown (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 76% Island at War Unknown (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Suspicion Julie Hopcroft (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 21% The Tesseract Rosa (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Line in the Sand Meryl Rogers (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 72% A Christmas Carol Mrs. Cratchit (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heart Maria Ann McCardle (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 63% L.A. Without a Map Joy (Character) - 1998
48% 75% Different for Girls Jean (Character) $307.1K 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Undercover Lynda (Character) - 1995
79% 60% Butterfly Kiss Miriam (Character) $79.5K 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Perfect Match Bridget (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 81% I.D. Lynda (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cruel Train Selina Roberts (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Summer Day's Dream Irina Shestova (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Traps Louise Duffield (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 40% The Bridge Isobel Hetherington (Character) - 1992
80% 56% Close My Eyes Natalie (Character) - 1991
100% 78% Antonia and Jane Antonia McGill (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 71% December Bride Sarah Gilmartin (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Children Crossing Rosie (Character) - 1988

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98% 90% Slow Horses Catherine Standish (Character),
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2023-2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Portrait Artist of the Year Guest 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game Narrator 2024
94% 80% Us Connie Petersen (Character) 2020
No Score Yet 85% Death in Paradise Frances Compton (Character) 2019
79% 67% Collateral Deborah Clifford (Character) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet House of Saud: A Family at War Narrator 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet From There to Here Claire (Character) 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet One Night Sally (Character) 2012
88% 89% Luther Rose Teller (Character) 2010
88% 89% Wallander Unknown (Guest Star) 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spooks Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Eileen Edwards (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Masterpiece Theatre Unknown (Character) 2005
No Score Yet 74% Dune Unknown (Character) 2000