1. Kelly Hunter was born on 21 July 1963 and is a British film, television, radio, stage and musical actress, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
13 Facts About Kelly Hunter
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Kelly Hunter is a Laurence Olivier Award nominee and Radio Academy Award and TMA Awards winner.
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The daughter of the actors Maria Charles and Robin Hunter, Kelly Hunter grew up in London and attended the Lady Margaret School in Parsons Green, followed by the Arts Educational Schools in London, which she left when she was 16.
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Kelly Hunter is the Founder and Artistic Director of Flute Theatre, a company which produces the works of William Shakespeare for interactive audiences.
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Kelly Hunter worked with Stephen Unwin at the English Touring Theatre, appearing as Nora Helmer in A Doll's House and as Rosalind in As You Like It, receiving a Theatre Awards UK for the latter role.
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Kelly Hunter played Dorothy Wordsworth in the one-woman play Exquisite Sister, which she co-wrote with Simon Usher and which was performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds and the Assembly Rooms during the Edinburgh Festival.
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In 2000 Kelly Hunter appeared in Sir Peter Hall's production of Giuseppe Manfridi's play Cuckoos at the Gate Theatre in London, and appeared in The Lucky Ones at Hampstead Theatre.
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Kelly Hunter played Goneril in King Lear and Hermione in The Winter's Tale in David Farr's productions at Stratford, London and New York.
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Kelly Hunter is the founder and Artistic Director of Flute Theatre, a touring company which performs the works of Shakespeare for interactive audiences.
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In June 2019 Kelly Hunter was appointed Member of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to theatre.
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Kelly Hunter first began working with children with autism during her time with the RSC in 2002, when she set up her own company, Touchstone Shakespeare Theatre, to work with children, some with autism, who had little if any access to the Arts.
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In June 2014 Kelly Hunter directed a production of The Tempest for children with autism at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon after which it toured to Ohio State University.
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Kelly Hunter was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to theatre.