Joanna David

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Joanna David
Born
Joanna Elizabeth Hacking

(1947-01-17) 17 January 1947 (age 74)
Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Other namesJoanna Ward
OccupationActress
Years active1968–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2004)​
ChildrenEmilia Fox
Freddie Fox
FamilyFox (by marriage)

Joanna David (born Joanna Elizabeth Hacking; 17 January 1947) is an English actress, best known for her television work.[1]

Life[]

David was born in Lancaster, England to Davida Elizabeth (née Nesbitt) and John Almond Hacking.[2]

In 1971, she began a relationship with Edward Fox, with whom she has two children: Emilia (born 1974) and Frederick "Freddie" (born 1989). They married in 2004.[3][4]

She is a vice-president of the Theatrical Guild.[5]

Career[]

Her first major television role was as Elinor Dashwood in the BBC's 1971 dramatisation of Sense and Sensibility followed a year later by War and Peace, in which she played Sonya. David also featured in the TV series The Last of the Mohicans (BBC), in two episodes of Colditz, (Missing presumed Dead and Odd Man In, 1972) as Cathy Carter, the wife of Flt. Lt. Simon Carter (played by David McCallum).

In 1975, she played Theo Dane in the BBC's television adaptation of Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild. 32 years later in 2007, her daughter Emilia Fox starred in a new adaptation of the same book.

In 1979, David played the heroine of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, opposite Jeremy Brett in the BBC miniseries of the same name. In 1987, she acted in Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple “4:50 from Paddington” as Emma Crackenthorpe.

In 2005, she appeared in two episodes of Bleak House, playing Mrs. Bayham Badger, alongside Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance, Alun Armstrong, and Warren Clarke. Mr. Bayham Badger was played by Richard Griffiths.

David's many other television appearances have included The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Foyle's War, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders, The Darling Buds of May and in 2004 Rosemary & Thyme in an episode entitled "Orpheus in the Undergrowth". Recent appearances include the BBC comedy series Never Better,[6] Mutual Friends,[7] and Death in Paradise (2014 episode 3.8).

On stage, she played opposite Derek Jacobi in Breaking the Code. She gradually moved on to more mature parts, and appeared as Mrs. Gardiner in the acclaimed 1995 BBC TV series of Pride and Prejudice, in which her daughter Emilia Fox had her first major television role. In 1998 she appeared in Midsomer Murders “Written in Blood” as Amy Lyddiard. In 2009, she appeared in Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind.

Her film appearances have included roles in The Smashing Bird I Used to Know (1969), the horror short Sleepwalker (1984), Comrades (1986), Secret Friends (1991), Rogue Trader (1999), Cotton Mary (1999), The Soul Keeper (2002, as the mother of her real-life daughter Emilia), and These Foolish Things (2006). She played Mother Julian in Midsomer Murders “A Sacred Trust” (2011). In 2013, she appeared in Downton Abbey (TV Series) as Duchess of Yeovil in two episodes and also in Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple “Greenshaw’s Folly” as Grace Ritchie. She appeared in the “Murderous Marriage” episode of Agatha Raisin as Lady Derrington in 2016.

Selected theatre performances[]

Charity work[]

David is a Trustee of the National Brain Appeal, the charity dedicated to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.[8] David underwent brain surgery in 1993 to correct a congenital Arnold–Chiari malformation.[9]

In January 2013, David became a patron of Pancreatic Cancer Action, which is a charity that is focussed on raising the awareness of pancreatic cancer. David's friend Angharad Rees died from the illness in 2012.

References[]

  1. ^ Pitts, Michael R. (15 December 2004). Famous movie detectives III. Scarecrow Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-8108-3690-7. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  2. ^ "TreeView | Start New Tree: TheGenealogist". www.thegenealogist.co.uk.
  3. ^ Lee-Potter, Words Adam (17 September 2014). "Joanna David talks family, career and shares her favourite things about Dorset". Great British Life. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Joanna David's first time back in Chichester since 1971". www.chichester.co.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  5. ^ "The Theatrical Guild".
  6. ^ Never Better at BBC2 web site
  7. ^ Mutual Friends at BBC web site
  8. ^ "Downton Abbey star Joanna David tells how she 'owes her life' to neurology hospital". Camden New Journal. 2 September 2014. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  9. ^ "We all make fantastic blunders…". Telegraph. 18 September 2006. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

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