Alexandra Gilbreath

Alexandra Gilbreath recently starred as Jane Banbury in Fallen Angels at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.

About Alexandra Gilbreath

Alexandra Gilbreath is a celebrated English actress with an extensive career across stage, film and television. A long-standing Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, she has become especially recognised for her performances in productions such as Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew (for which she was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award), The Tamer Tamed, The Winter’s Tale and Merry Wives: The Musical.

Her portrayal of Olivia in the RSC’s Twelfth Night, directed by Greg Doran, earned her an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress during its West End run at the Duke of York’s Theatre in 2010. Earlier in her career, she was awarded the Ian Charleson Award for her acclaimed performance as Hedda Gabler with English Touring Theatre.

Alongside her stage work, Gilbreath has built a varied screen career, appearing in leading British television dramas and feature films, and continues to balance classical theatre roles with contemporary new writing.

Theatre Credits

Her other theatre credits include Florian Zeller’s The Lie (Menier Chocolate Factory), Cymbeline, The Empress, The Provok’d Wife, Shakespeare Live, The Rover, The Merry Wives: The Musical, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew (Helen Hayes Award nomination – Best Actress), The Tamer Tamed, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac, Ghosts, Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC), The Fever Syndrome, Mother Christmas (Hampstead Theatre), The Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree Theatre), God’s Dice, Shallow Slumber (Soho Theatre), Dessert (Southwark Playhouse), The Invisible (Bush Theatre), The Wars of the Roses, Hay Fever (Rose Theatre Kingston), Playhouse Creatures (Chichester Festival Theatre), Othello (Sheffield Theatres), The Village Bike (Royal Court Theatre), Hedda Gabler (English Touring Theatre – Winner of the Ian Charleson Award), and Bernarda Alba (Gate Theatre).

TV credits

Her television work includes The Chelsea Detective, Becoming Elizabeth, A Hundred Streets, Midsummer Night’s Dreaming, WPC 56, Inspector George Gently, Rites of Passage, Trial and Retribution, Life Begins, Absolute Power, The Commander, The Waltz King, Happiness, The Project, Monarch of the Glen, Out of Hours, A Wing and a Prayer, The Heart Surgeon and Screaming; and for film Untamed, A Hundred Streets, Tulip Fever, The All Together and Dead Babies.

Book tickets to Fallen Angels at Menier Chocolate Factory, London.

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