Rebecca Saire

Rebecca Saire (born 16 April 1963) is a British actress and writer who gained early attention when, at the age of fourteen, she played Juliet for the BBC Television Shakespeare series.

Stage

 * Sybil in Private Lives (National Theatre)
 * Eliante in The Misanthrope (Piccadilly Theatre)
 * Mabel in An Ideal Husband (Gielgud Theatre)
 * Gwendolen in Travesties (RSC and Savoy Theatre)
 * Diana in All's Well That Ends Well (RSC)
 * Audrey Walsingham in The School of Night (RSC)
 * Rachel in A Jovial Crew (RSC)
 * She was "a beautiful and truly tragic Ophelia" (Time Out) to Mark Rylance's Hamlet at the RSC in 1989
 * Princess Mary in Crown Matrimonial (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre/Tour)

Television

 * Romeo and Juliet (1978)
 * Quatermass (1979, TV)
 * Love in a Cold Climate (TV serial, 1980), as Victoria
 * A.D. (1985), TV film
 * Vanity Fair (1987, TV)
 * Jeeves and Wooster (1991, TV)
 * Dr. Jenkins in My Dad's the PM
 * Aline Hemmingway in Jeeves and Wooster
 * Theresa Nolan in A Taste for Death
 * Shona, the high-flying executive wife of DC Duncan Lennox in the long running ITV Drama The Bill
 * She also made guest appearances in A Bit of Fry and Laurie
 * Midsomer Murders Season 7, Episode 3 (2004)
 * Lady Alexandra Curzon in episode 6, season 2 ("Vergangenheit") of The Crown (2017)
 * Mrs. Radowicz in Episode 4 Season 5, Episode 2 Series 7 of Endeavour (2019)
 * Killing Eve (2020, BBC TV), as Bertha Kruger, Series 3, Episode 4
 * Miriam Heartley-Reade in Season 7, Episode 3 - The Fisher King of Midsomer Murders
 * Jonquil Heathcote in Doctors (2022)

Films

 * The Shooting Party (1985)

Radio

 * Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales, in "The People's Princess",
 * Philippa in "The Experiences of an Irish RM", based on The Irish R.M. novels,
 * Sue in "The Small Back Room", based on the novel of that title,
 * Joan Greenwood in "Kind Hearts", about the classic comedy film Kind Hearts and Coronets

Writing
Saire has written three plays for BBC Radio 4, all produced by Eoin O'Callaghan:
 * Standing on Tiptoe
 * The Detox
 * Clapham Junction (Radio Times - Pick of the Week)