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Nicola Hollinshead
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Actress, Singer |
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About:
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Nicola started her professional career at Liverpool Everyman Theatre, after being cast from the Youth Theatre by director Ken Campbell for a part in Neil Oram's play THE WARP.
A compelling, truthful and passionate actor, she turns a role inside out to get to the heart and soul of a character and has delivered some fine work, mainly in leading theatre roles such as 'Therese' in Therese Desqueyroux, Antic Hay...sell out run at London's Bridewell Theatre & Critics choice, Time Out, who said 'at its centre is a complex and frightening performance by Niki Hollinshead who gives Therese grace, power and integrity'. Mrs Allen in 'Dark of the Moon', " a sensitive & well judged performance, an actress of real promise' Pieter Rogers, producer. " The splendid Niki Hollinshead' Beneath The Waves, Eastern Angles. ' A strong performance as an appealing tough little trouper, Gerda' The Snow Queen, Theatre Centre. Carol, the comic lead in the highly successful 'Girls Night' with Goodnights Entertainment in 2 sell -out UK National tours and most recently playing SHIRLEY in Willy Russell's one-woman show SHIRLEY VALENTINE in a very successful extended run with The New Theatre Dublin, and then subsequent tour, June - Oct 2007. The press said ..."you will rarely see a better solo performance than Nicola Hollinshead gives..." Michael Moffatt, Irish Mail on Sunday July 29 2007, ..."gives the performance of any actor's life..." Gerry Colgan, Irish Times, Aug 6 2007. See below for more details. For more reviews see www.actors-on-tap.com/nicolahollinshead.
Recent work playing VIRGINIA WOOLF in new comedy 2 hander by Paola Trimarco. The show had a successful preview performance at The Babylon Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire (March 2008) and will be playing at The Kings Head, Islington later this year.
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eMail:
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[Click to Contact]
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Address:
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Greater London
United Kingdom
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Agent:
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KSA (Keddie Scott Associates), 107-111 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2AB, 020 7936 9058, mob: 07786 070543, www.ks-ass.co.uk
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Playing Ages:
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32 to 42
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Weight:
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9.0 Stone (57 Kg)
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Height:
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5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
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Eyes:
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Blue
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Hair:
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Dark Brown
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Vocal Range:
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Mezzo-Soprano
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Affiliation:
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EQUITY
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Nationality:
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United Kingdom
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Languages:
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English and basic French
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Accents:
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RP, Gen American, Yorkshire, Liverpool, E. Anglian, Dublin, Belfast.
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Dancing:
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Tap
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Training and Skills
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Formal Training:
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- University of London Goldsmiths College, BA Hons Drama & English (2:1)
- Post Graduate Acting with The Actors Company, Arts Ed. Stanisvlaski
- Metropolitan Unversity, London. PG dip in Filmmaking
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Other Skills:
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Ongoing workshops at TAC (The Actors Centre) 2008
Recent workshops/classes:
Classial surgery - 2 day Shakespeare workshop with Jennie Buckman (x Head of Acting, Rada), Less is More - Masks/physical theatre with Steven Whinnery, TV workshop with Vivienne Cozens, Michael Chekov Technique with Christopher Heinmann
Regular rehearsed readings with Player Playwrights
City Lit 2008 - Refresher Accents for Actors course with Eileen Benskin, Courage for Big Emotions Workshop with Juliet Prague
Drama facilitation skills. Recently extended skills by training with Tony Cealy on his 'Breaking Barriers' (Boal, Forum, Improvising, Devising ) course and works as a drama facilitator.
Acting skills tutor and theatre director with Seconds Out Theatre Workshop on Merseyside for 2 years. First production with the group of Jim Cartwright's play ROAD, got a transfer to Liverpool Playhouse Studio.
Assistant director with Bob Tomson on a Bill Kenwright production at Liverpool Playhouse.
PG Diploma in Film making at London Metropolitan 2001/2. Shorts/docs. Edits on Avid/FCP/Proficient in use of Hi8/dv/16mm cameras.
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Additional Information
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Recent success playing SHIRLEY in the one-woman show SHIRLEY VALENTINE by Willy Russell, with The New Theatre, Dublin, www.thenewtheatre.com. The show had a successful extended run of 8 weeks at TNT and then a short tour of Ireland (Oct 2007). It received excellent reviews, packed houses and standing ovations along the way.
The Irish Times (Gerry Colgan) said " Nicola Hollinshead, directed by Ronan Wilmot, gives the performance of any actor's life, seducing the audience from the start with a highly individual blend of character, comic observation and self-analysis. She starts out as an angular denizen of a working-class estate, whose main mode of escapism is literally, talking to the wall. After her Grecian apotheosis, she has morphed into a serene, beautiful woman of independent character. The process is called acting, and it is a delight to experience it here". (Aug 6 2007). The Irish Mail on Sunday gave the show 5 stars and said " You will rarely see a better solo performance than Nicola Hollinshead gives in this very funny, beautifully observed and occasionally moving one-woman play by Willy Russell' (Michael Moffatt, July 29 2007)
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Credits
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Nicola Hollinshead's Page Statistics
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