Philippa Ann Guard was born on 13 October 1952 and is a British actress.
10 Facts About Pippa Guard
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Pippa Guard left RADA in 1975 as winner of the Ronson, Kendall and Pole prizes and was named as "Britain's Most Promising Actress".
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Pippa Guard joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976, and first attracted attention when she took over the role of Juliet from a sick Francesca Annis.
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Pippa Guard played Hermia in John Barton's 1977 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Luciana in Trevor Nunn's musical Comedy of Errors and Evie in Factory Birds.
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Pippa Guard portrayed P D James' sleuth Cordelia Gray in an adaptation of An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, her only film role.
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In 1984, Pippa Guard played Edith Holden in a twelve-part adaptation of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady.
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Pippa Guard did not return to television until 1986, although she focussed on her stage career in the meantime, playing Antigone at the National Theatre and Faye in A Chorus of Disapproval in the West End.
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Pippa Guard then returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987, where her roles included Maria in Twelfth Night, Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice, Natasha in Three Sisters, Caresse Crosby in Divine Gossip and Katherine in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Pippa Guard is married to production manager Steve Goldie, with whom she has one daughter.
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Pippa Guard's cousins are fellow actors Christopher and Dominic Guard.