13 Facts About Jane Lapotaire

Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire is an English actress from Suffolk.

Additionally, Jane Lapotaire was twice nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for Marie Curie and Sea Tales: The Return and Blind Justice.

Jane Lapotaire was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the daughter of Louise Elise.

When Jane Lapotaire was about 12, her biological mother made a bid to get her back.

Jane Lapotaire chose to be with Granny Grace, but lived with her biological mother and stepfather, who worked in various French oil companies in North Africa, three times a year.

Jane Lapotaire studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1961 to 1963; the programme was a two-year course at that time, unlike the three-year course today.

Jane Lapotaire had earlier auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, but failed to get in.

Jane Lapotaire joined the Bristol Old Vic theatre company in 1965.

Jane Lapotaire won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play that year.

Jane Lapotaire has written a number of memoirs: Grace and Favour, Out of Order: A Haphazard Journey Through One Woman's Year, and Everybody's Daughter, Nobody's Child, which includes an account of her childhood growing up in Levington Road, Ipswich.

On 11 January 2000, while preparing to teach a course on Shakespeare at the Ecole Internationale in Paris, Jane Lapotaire suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage.

Jane Lapotaire writes about her recovery in Time Out of Mind.

Jane Lapotaire is honorary president of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Club, and is president of the Friends of Shakespeare's Globe.