Janie Dee

Janie Dee is an award-winning British actress celebrated for her versatility across stage, film, television, and radio. A two-time Olivier Award winner, she received accolades for her performances in Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential (Lyric Theatre/New York) and Carousel (National Theatre). Janie was also nominated for Best Actress for her work in Follies (National Theatre) and NSFW (Royal Court).

Janie’s extensive theatre work includes Old Friends (Gielgud Theatre); The Motive and the Cue (National Theatre); The Grass is Greener (Theatre Royal Windsor); An Hour and a Half Late (Theatre Royal Bath); Vanva and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Theatre Royal Bath and Charing Cross Theatre); Jamie Lloyd’s Pinter Season (Pinter Theatre), Torben Bett’s black comedy Monogamy (Park Theatre and UK tour), Linda (Manhattan Theatre Club NY), Hand to God (Vaudeville Theatre), The Seagull (Regent’s Park), Dream Queen (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Ah, Wilderness! (Young Vic), Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Russia and China tour with Shakespeare’s Globe), Blithe Spirit opposite Dame Angela Lansbury (Gielgud Theatre), Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! (Curve Leicester, TMA Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical), NSFW (Royal Court, Olivier Award nomination), Noises Off (Old Vic and Novello Theatre), Private Lives (Nottingham Playhouse), A Month in the Country (Chichester Festival), Woman in Mind (Stephen Joseph and Vaudeville Theatre), Shadowlands opposite Charles Dance (Wyndhams and tour), My One and Only (Chichester Festival and Piccadilly Theatre, Olivier Award nomination), Carousel and Women of Troy (both National Theatre), Show Boat (London Palladium), Old Times (Theatre Royal, Bath/National tour); Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal, Bath); Betrayal (West End).

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Janie Dee is an award-winning British actress celebrated for her versatility across stage, film, television, and radio. A two-time Olivier Award winner, she received accolades for her performances in Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential (Lyric Theatre/New York) and Carousel (National Theatre). Janie was also nominated for Best Actress for her work in Follies (National Theatre) and NSFW (Royal Court).

Janie’s extensive theatre work includes Old Friends (Gielgud Theatre); The Motive and the Cue (National Theatre); The Grass is Greener (Theatre Royal Windsor); An Hour and a Half Late (Theatre Royal Bath); Vanva and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Theatre Royal Bath and Charing Cross Theatre); Jamie Lloyd’s Pinter Season (Pinter Theatre), Torben Bett’s black comedy Monogamy (Park Theatre and UK tour), Linda (Manhattan Theatre Club NY), Hand to God (Vaudeville Theatre), The Seagull (Regent’s Park), Dream Queen (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Ah, Wilderness! (Young Vic), Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Russia and China tour with Shakespeare’s Globe), Blithe Spirit opposite Dame Angela Lansbury (Gielgud Theatre), Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! (Curve Leicester, TMA Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical), NSFW (Royal Court, Olivier Award nomination), Noises Off (Old Vic and Novello Theatre), Private Lives (Nottingham Playhouse), A Month in the Country (Chichester Festival), Woman in Mind (Stephen Joseph and Vaudeville Theatre), Shadowlands opposite Charles Dance (Wyndhams and tour), My One and Only (Chichester Festival and Piccadilly Theatre, Olivier Award nomination), Carousel and Women of Troy (both National Theatre), Show Boat (London Palladium), Old Times (Theatre Royal, Bath/National tour); Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal, Bath); Betrayal (West End).

Television work includes The Burning Girls opposite Samantha Morton (Paramount+), Lucy Kirkwood’s adaptation of her own multi-award-winning play Chimerica, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comedy Crashing (both Channel 4), A Tribute to Harold Pinter, P.D. James’s The Murder Room and Death in Holy Orders opposite Martin Shaw (BBC); Celebration opposite Colin Firth (CBC); Midsommer Murders (ITV); Heartbeat (ITV Granada); Little White Lies (The Drama House/RTE), House of Cards (Warner Bros), London’s Burning (Channel 4) and Doctor Who.

Her other film credits include The Trouble With Dot and Harry (Existential Films), Dare to be Wild (Oasis Films) and Me and Orson Welles (CinemaNX).

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