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Patricia Ann Hodge (born on 29 September 1946
in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is an
English actor.
Biography
Early
life
The daughter of the Royal Hotel owner/manager Eric and
his wife Marion (née Phillips),[1] Hodge
attended Wintringham Girls' Grammar School on
Weelsby Avenue in
Grimsby and then St. Helen's
School, Northwood, Middlesex; before attending Maria Grey
College (became West London
Institute of Higher Education in 1976 then the Twickenham
campus of Brunel University from 1995-2005), Twickenham to train as a
teacher. She undertook teaching drama in a primary school for a
year, whilst also applying to London Academy of
Music and Dramatic Art,[2]. She
started at LAMDA when she was 22, being awarded on graduation the
Eveline Evans Award for Best Actress.[3]
After graduation, she concentrated on theatre work and 18 months
later worked with Bob
Fosse on Pippin. However, she found when
applying for television work she had become classed as a theatre
actress. Having made the break through in the role of Phyllida
(Trant) Erskine-Brown in Rumpole Of The
Bailey, she found when trying to make he occasional return to
theatre work that she had been classed as a television actress.
Finding the need to have a flexible career to care for her young
children, Hodge made the decision to focus her career on the
theatre, and hence is mainly seen on television in focus parts and
singular roles in between chosen different theatre roles.[3]
Acting
She has appeared in roles as diverse as in The
Naked Civil Servant opposite John Hurt, as Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands
Play, and in 2007 as Betty, the wife of tycoon Robert Maxwell,
in the BBC TV drama Maxwell opposite David Suchet.[4]. She
achieved fame at the age of 36 in the 1983 film, Betrayal (based on Harold Pinter's
play Betrayal, where her part was based
on Joan
Bakewell).
She was nominated for a BAFTA for her role in Hotel Du Lac in
1987, and was awarded the Laurence
Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 for Best Supporting Actress for
her performance in the production of Money at the Royal
National Theatre.[5] Hodge
is an Honorary Graduate (DLitt) of Brunel University and one of the
founder members of the Brunel Club.[6]. She is
joint President of Grimsby's Caxton Theatre.
Personal
life
Hodge married music publisher Peter Douglas Owen on 31 July 1976
in Tonbridge. The couple
have two children: Alexander Richard Charles (born March 1989); and
Edward Frederick James (born January 1992).
Television
roles
Films
- The Disappearance, 1978
- Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse, 1978
- The Waterloo Bridge Handicap, 1979
- The Elephant Man,
1980
- Heavy Metal, 1981
- Riding High, 1981
- Betrayal, 1983
- Behind Enemy Lines, 1985
- Dust to Dust, 1985
- Skin, 1986
- 92 Grosvenor Street, 1987
- Sunset, 1987
- Falcon's Maltester, 1987
- Thieves in the Night, 1988
- Just Ask for Diamond, 1988
- "Before you Go" , 2002
Stage
- No-One Was Saved, 1971
- Rookery Nook, 1972
- Popkiss, 1972
- Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1973
- Pippin, 1973
- Hair, 1974
- The Beggar's Opera, 1975
- Pal Joey, 1976
- Look Back in Anger, 1976
- Then and Now, 1979
- The Mitford Girls, 1981
- As You Like It, 1983
- Benefactors, 1984
- Lady in the Dark, 1988
- Noël and Gertie, 1989-90
- Shades, 1992
- Separate Tables, 1993
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1994
- A Little Night Music, 1995
- Money, 1999-2000
- "Summerfolk" , 1999-2000
- "Noises Off" 2001-02
- "His Dark Materials" , 2003-04
- Dream Me a Winter, 2006 (part of the Old Vic's '24 Hour Plays')
- Boeing Boeing, 2007
- The Country Wife, 2007-08
- "The Clean House" , 2008
- Calendar Girls, 2008
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