1. Tara Anne Cassandra Fitzgerald was born on 18 September 1967 and is an English actress who has appeared in feature films, television, radio and the stage.
18 Facts About Tara Fitzgerald
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Tara Fitzgerald won the New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 1995 as Ophelia in Hamlet.
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Tara Fitzgerald won the Best Actress Award at The Reims International Television Festival in 1999 for her role of Lady Dona St Columb in Frenchman's Creek.
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Since 2007, Tara Fitzgerald has appeared in more than 30 episodes of the BBC television series Waking the Dead and played the role of Selyse Baratheon in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
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Tara Fitzgerald is the daughter of artist Michael Callaby and Irish portrait photographer Sarah Geraldine Tara Fitzgerald.
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Tara Fitzgerald spent part of her childhood in the Bahamas, where her maternal grandfather ran a law firm.
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Tara Fitzgerald has a half-sister from this marriage, Bianca Rodway.
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Tara Fitzgerald's great-aunt was actress Geraldine Fitzgerald; other cousins through the Fitzgerald family are the Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston and Irish actress Susan Fitzgerald.
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Tara Fitzgerald came to international attention in 1993 when she starred with Hugh Grant in the Australian comedy Sirens.
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Tara Fitzgerald appeared in a steady stream of independent feature films through the 1990s and 2000s, among them A Man of No Importance, Brassed Off, the Czech World War II fighter pilot drama Dark Blue World, and the 2004 drama, Secret Passage, set during the Spanish Inquisition.
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Tara Fitzgerald decided to expand her career into directing after becoming frustrated with what she saw as a lack of interesting roles for older actresses.
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Tara Fitzgerald has alternated between stage and screen for almost two decades, with frequent theatre roles.
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Tara Fitzgerald has appeared in Moliere's The Misanthrope in 2009 at the Comedy Theatre.
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Tara Fitzgerald appeared in The Winters Tale at the RSC in 2013, performed as Lady Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe theatre and appeared in Gaslight at the Royal and Derngate Theatre in 2015.
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Tara Fitzgerald won Best Actress at the 1999 Reims International Television Festival for the costumes-and-pirates love story Frenchman's Creek.
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Tara Fitzgerald had a recurring role on Game of Thrones, playing Selyse Baratheon.
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In 2020 Tara Fitzgerald played a role as Lady Templemore in the ITV-series Belgravia, a historical drama based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Julian Fellowes.
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In 2001, Tara Fitzgerald married the English actor-director John Sharian, who directed her in the short film The Snatching of Bookie Bob.