Abigail J Thaw was born on 1 October 1965 and is an English actress known for her role of investigative journalist Dorothea Frazil in detective drama series Endeavour.
11 Facts About Abigail Thaw
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Abigail Thaw's mother was involved in the flour-bombing of the 1970 Miss World contest, the story of which is the subject of the 2020 film Misbehaviour.
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Abigail Thaw began her career working in rep at Cheltenham, York, and Salisbury, then performed with the RSC and the Royal Exchange Theatre and Library in Manchester, Chichester, The Tricycle, The Gate, Theatre503, The Orange Tree, Battersea Arts Centre, New End, The Finborough, Birmingham, Theatr Clwyd, Watford and extensive touring in Whipping It Up, Ladies in Lavender and Entertaining Angels.
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Abigail Thaw played Ms Capulet in Tom Morris' Juliet and her Romeo at the Bristol Old Vic, and acted in Cymbeline with Mark Rylance at The Globe Theatre and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Abigail Thaw spent a year working with Mike Alfred's company, "Method and Madness", performing in Private Lives, Jude the Obscure and Flesh and Blood.
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Abigail Thaw was nominated for the Best Actress Off West End award in 2011 for The Firewatchers at the Old Red Lion.
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Abigail Thaw has worked in television since 1990, including in The Bill, Casualty, Pie in the Sky, Peak Practice, Spywatch, Vanity Fair, Love Soup and Trust.
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Abigail Thaw performed in the 2016 BBC comedy series I Want My Wife Back.
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Abigail Thaw played a newspaper editor in the ITV1 2011 Christmas special edition of the Inspector Morse prequel, Endeavour, a role she continued in Series 1, and in subsequent series.
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In 2014, Abigail Thaw appeared as a shaman in The Inbetweeners 2.
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Abigail Thaw met Nigel Whitmey at RADA in the mid-1980s, and they married in 1986.