Sarah Bedi
Sarah Bedi is a British actress. She has worked extensively in radio, stage and television.
She runs her own theatre company, Baz Productions,[1] alongside Catherine Bailey and Emma Luffingham. Baz Productions patrons are John Caird and Dame Harriet Walter.[2]
Bedi trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[3]
Acting career
Sarah Bedi was born Sarah Elizabeth Bedi she started acting at the age of 15 when she took a lead role in the original cast of The Late Middle Classes (under the name 'Sam Bedi') [4] directed by Harold Pinter and written by Simon Gray. Pinter wrote about Bedi in his introduction to Simon Gray's Key Plays, "The enterprise began with a miracle of casting. The central role (a thirteen-year-old boy) we found very difficult to cast. Suddenly we stumbled upon a fifteen-year-old girl (Sarah Bedi) who passed as a good-looking thirteen-year-old boy. She was wonderful; precise, contained, mysterious."[5]
Television appearances have included: Holby City, The Bill and Casualty.[6] She played Agnes D`Esterre in ITV's production of Affinity directed by Tim Fywell.[7]
She has worked widely on the stage including the Royal National Theatre, the Finborough Theatre and Theatre 503.[8] From 2007-2009 Bedi was part of The Factory Theatre Company.[8] She starred as Yasmin in I am Superhero[9] directed by Lucy Kerbal and Louise in Cradle Me[10] with Sharon Maughan and Luke Treadaway, directed by Duncan Mcmillan. She won a Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Ensemble as part of the cast of The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain[11] directed by Dominic Hill (Traverse Theatre Company/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry/English Touring Theatre).
References
- ↑ Baz productions' official website http://www.bazproductions.co.uk/, Baz productions' official facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Baz-Productions/123136657732731, Baz productions' official twitter account https://twitter.com/baz_productions
- ↑ Baz Productions Website, http://www.bazproductions.co.uk/whoweare.html
- ↑ Website of BOVTS graduating years, (Sarah Bedi 2005). http://www.winterbourne.freeuk.com/BOVTSgraduates.html
- ↑ Billington, Michael. The Guardian Press 1999. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/mar/27/weekend7.weekend6 Taylor, Paul. The Independent on Sunday Press 1999. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-a-family-at-war-1083039.html, Website about Harold Pinter, 'Sam Bedi' under cast list http://www.haroldpinter.org/directing/directing_middle.shtml
- ↑ Gray, Simon.Key Plays, p viii. 2002 (Quote from introduction by Harold Pinter)
- ↑ Sarah Bedi at IMBd http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1527262/, Sarah Bedi credits at Talent Agency Sainou Sainou website. http://www.sainou.com/actress.php?actor=Sarah+Bedi&voice=0,
- ↑ IMDB Affinity full cast list. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1116182/fullcredits#cast
- 1 2 Sainou website. http://www.sainou.com/actress.php?actor=Sarah+Bedi&voice=0
- ↑ Name in cast list http://www.offwestend.com/index.php/plays/view/1266. Listed under theatre credits on talent agency website, credits http://sainou.com/actress.php?actor=Sarah+Bedi&voice=1
- ↑ Trueman, Matt. The Stage Press 2008. http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/21982/cradle-me
- ↑ Website for The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (where Sarah Bedi is included on cast list) http://www.ett.org.uk/productions/64/the-three-musketeers-and-the-princess-of-spain