Most Recent Role: Miss Jane Marple (Series 1-3) (2004-2008) on Agatha Christie's Marple
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Old Windsor, England, UK
Birthday: 5-9-1932
Birth Name: Geraldine McKeown
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Old Windsor, England, UK
Birthday: 5-9-1932
Birth Name: Geraldine McKeown
This fine actress has starred in many roles, one of her most recent, starring as Jane Marple is possibly one of her best. Move over...Joan thingy your successor has arrived!!
Most Recent Appearance
Ordeal By Innocence
Sunday 30 September 2007 on ITV1
Rachel Argyle, mother of five adopted children, is murdered and immediately, the rest of the family just assumes that Jacko, one of her sons, must be the murderer because he threatened to kill her earlier that same evening. Two years later, a man shows up at the Argyle's mansion and confirms what...
Geraldine was nominated for a Tony award in 1998 as Best Actress for her role in The Chairs.
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Geraldine won the London Evening Standard Award in 1983 for Best Actress in The Rivals.
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Geraldine won a BAFTA award in 1991 for her role in Oranges are not the Only Fruit.
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Geraldine attended Windsor County Girl's School.
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Geraldine's husband was principal of RADA.
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Geraldine: I think Marple is a sort of heightened reality; you can't really say they're like everyday life. I think Agatha Christie must have had a sense of humor, the way she places this elderly, very middle-class figure in a country village, but solving all these horrific crimes.
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Geraldine: During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for ninepence, in the gods. I also had speech classes at grammar school - elocution, they called it in these days - and the teacher gave me a speech by Lady Macbeth to learn, which might seem pretty inappropriate for the age of ten.
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Geraldine: I'm not a workaholic but I love working, and Marple is really hard work but very stimulating.
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Other Appearances
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Agatha Christie's Marple
Miss Jane Marple |
Mapp and Lucia
Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas |
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Mulberry
Miss Rose Farnaby |
The Barchester Chronicles
Mrs. Proudie |
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The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
Jean Brodie |
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Mystery!
Miss Marple |
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GMTV
Friday 17th December Herself |
Masterpiece Theatre
Carrie's War Mrs Dilys Gotobed |
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Mystery!
Miss Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (1) Miss Jane Marple |
Out of This World (1962)
The Tycoons Mary Jones |
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Pebble Mill
Episode 96 Herself |
Play of the Month
Separate Tables |
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