In 2011, after stints at Shakespeare's Globe where she was commended in the Ian Charleson Awards for her portrayal of Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, Pippa Nixon moved to the Royal Shakespeare Company to take on a number of lead roles.
21 Facts About Pippa Nixon
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In 2007, Pippa Nixon was cast by director Maria Aberg for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Roy Williams' Days of Significance which played at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon before moving to the Tricycle Theatre in London.
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In mid-2009, Pippa Nixon worked with Brooke Kinsella in S-27, and following that, in 2010, with her very moving performance as Bea in the Soho Theatre production of the same title.
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When Pippa Nixon left Manchester School of Theatre, she walked into two series of 24Seven for Granada Television playing Jax Duffy, and following its huge success in the UK, it sold to America and was aired on the Nickelodeon channel.
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Pippa Nixon has appeared in other major TV series such as Holby City, The Bill and Law and Order.
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In 2012, Pippa Nixon starred as the Lightmaster in John Carter.
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In July 2014, Pippa Nixon finished working on a film called Containment, and played the leading role of Amy in that same year's film Panic.
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On 13 October 2014, Pippa Nixon appeared as Daphne Young in the ITV series Grantchester.
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Pippa Nixon has played the role of DC Karen Willetts in the ITV drama, Unforgotten, since 2015, and Alice Gove in the TV series Cuffs.
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In 2013, Pippa Nixon was cast in the role of Lizzie Eustace in the BBC radio adaptation of The Eustace Diamonds.
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Pippa Nixon played Elizabeth Bennett in a BBC Radio 4 drama of Pride and Prejudice alongside Jamie Parker, Toby Jones, David Troughton, and Samantha Spiro, which was broadcast in early 2014.
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In 2015, Pippa Nixon reprised her role as Rosalind in BBC Radio 3's new production of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
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Later in 2015, Pippa Nixon played Lotty in the BBC Radio 4 drama The Enchanted April.
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At the Royal Shakespeare Company, Pippa Nixon played a number of leading roles.
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In 2011, Pippa Nixon played Dorathea in Shakespeare's supposed lost play Cardenio.
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In 2012, Pippa Nixon worked again with Maria Aberg in a production of Shakespeare's King John, where she played a female bastard alongside Alex Waldmann's King John.
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Pippa Nixon was again reunited with director Maria Aberg, and actor Alex Waldmann, a working relationship which hailed them as "the two most exciting actors in the company today".
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Pippa Nixon has a dancer's body, a spareness and litheness which make her cocky and capering in the guise of a man and deeply vulnerable as a woman.
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Pippa Nixon makes us able to read her mind, and that really is extraordinary.
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Pippa Nixon has been cast as Ariel in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse production of The Tempest.
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In 2016, Pippa Nixon made her debut at the National Theatre playing the role of Charlotte in Sunset at the Villa Thalia by Alexi Kaye Campbell.