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18 Facts About Siobhan Redmond

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Siobhan Redmond is a Scottish actress, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and known for various stage, audio and television roles such as Anne Marie in Two Doors Down.

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Siobhan Redmond was born on 27 July 1959 in the Tollcross area of Glasgow, the second-eldest of three children to Charlotte Redmond, a drama teacher, and John Redmond, a university lecturer.

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Siobhan Redmond attended the Sunshine School of Dance and Park School for Girls in Glasgow's West End.

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Siobhan Redmond completed a course in massage and undertook a postgraduate year at the Bristol Old Vic.

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Siobhan Redmond featured in two series of Alfresco in 1983 and 1984, but her first major television success was as George Bulman's assistant Lucy McGinty in Bulman.

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Siobhan Redmond played, among other roles, Maureen Connell in Between the Lines ; Shona Spurtle in The High Life ; Madame Sin in In the Red BBC TV adaptation of the novel ; Janice Taylor in Holby City, Sharon in The Smoking Room ; Maeve Brown in EastEnders; clinical psychiatrist Pru Plunkett in Midsomer Murders; and Ailsa in Shoebox Zoo.

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Siobhan Redmond appeared on radio including in the 2002 BBC Radio 4 series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and as Jean Brash in BBC Radio 4's McLevy series.

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In 2004, Siobhan Redmond starred in the BBC TV series Sea of Souls as twin sisters Carol and Helen.

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Siobhan Redmond appeared in the "Gingers for Justice" sketch on The Catherine Tate Show in 2005, and then again in 2006.

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In November 2014, Siobhan Redmond joined Alun Armstrong and William Gaunt in a production of Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King at the Ustinov Studio in Bath.

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In 2018, Siobhan Redmond appeared in three episodes in Series 3 of Unforgotten as Derran Finch, and in 2019, she appeared in the Acorn TV series Queens of Mystery as Jane Stone.

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In January 2020, Siobhan Redmond played the role of the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge in the ITV series Grantchester.

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In 2021, Siobhan Redmond starred in the BBC Scotland comedy pilot Beep alongside Lois Chimimba and Paul Higgins.

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Siobhan Redmond played Liz, a woman visiting her comatose husband on their anniversary, the programme exploring their dysfunctional family's dynamics.

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In November 2022, Siobhan Redmond joined the cast of Two Doors Down as Colin's new partner Anne Marie.

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Siobhan Redmond appeared as Grey in the 2023 BBC comedy Rain Dogs.

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Siobhan Redmond was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by her alma mater, the University of St Andrews, in 2000.

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Siobhan Redmond was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to drama.