Sarah Woodward

Actress

Birthday April 3, 1963

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace London, England

Age 60 years old

Nationality United Kingdom

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1963

Sarah Woodward (born 3 April 1963) is a British actress.

1993

She returned to the RSC in 1993, in The Venetian Twins, Murder in The Cathedral, Loves Labours Lost, & The Tempest, the latter directed by Sam Mendes, whom she has worked with many times including London Assurance, with Paul Eddington; (Chichester/Haymarket Theatre); The Sea with Judi Dench (Royal National Theatre); Kean, with Derek Jacobi (Old Vic/ Toronto) and Habeas Corpus with Imelda Staunton, Brenda Blethyn, and Jim Broadbent (Donmar).

1998

Olivier Award winner 1998 for ‘Tom & Clem’ & Tony Nominated in 2000 for ‘The Real Thing’.

Sarah is the daughter of actor Edward Woodward and his first wife, actress Venetia Barrett, sister of actor Tim Woodward, and actor, voice artist, and screenwriter Peter Woodward, and sister to actress Emily Woodward, whose mother is actress Michele Dotrice.

Woodward trained as an actress at RADA, where she won the Bancroft Gold Medal, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she appeared in Anthony Sher’s Richard III, Keneth Branagh’ Henry V, Roger Rees’ Hamlet, & Francis Barber’s Camille.

Sarah won the Olivier Award for best performance in a supporting role in 1998 for her role in Tom & Clem by Stephen Churchett., with Michael Gambon & Alec McCowen.

2000

She was also nominated for a Tony Award in 2000 for her role in the Donmar Warehouse production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing.

which transferred to the Albery Theatre, (now Noel Coward Theatre) & then Broadway.