Mary Roscoe

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Jun 12, 1959 (66 years old)

Mary Roscoe

Known For

The People We Hate at the Wedding
1h 39m
Movie 2022

The People We Hate at the Wedding

A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.

Enola Holmes
2h 3m
Movie 2020

Enola Holmes

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

The Riot Club
1h 47m
Movie 2014

The Riot Club

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.

Room Service
0h 14m
Movie 2012

Room Service

Washed-up salesman Dennis Meeks is forced to confront his demons in a hotel room where the plumbing has a mind of its own.

Chatroom
1h 37m
Movie 2010

Chatroom

When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.

Unrelated
1h 40m
Movie 2008

Unrelated

A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.

The Thieving Headmistress
1h 0m
Movie 2006

The Thieving Headmistress

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
1h 35m
Movie 2003

George Orwell: A Life In Pictures

Dramatised biography of writer George Orwell.

The Rector's Wife
1h 5m
TV Show 1994

The Rector's Wife

Three-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman's wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a philosopher and academic; and a wealthy businessman new to the village.

Biography

Mary grew up in Zimbabwe and came to London to train. She has been acting in film, television and theatre since 1980, and teaching alongside her acting work for 10 years. Recent acting with the acclaimed film directors Mike Leigh and Joanna Hogg led to Mary teaching improvisation for film at several drama schools in London. Film work includes – Testament of Youth (James Kent), The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig), Paddington (Paul King), Woman in Black Angel of Death (Tom Harper) Exhibition (Joanna Hogg), Les Miserables (Tom Hooper), Suspension of Disbelief (Mike Figgis), Chatroom (Hideo Nakata), Unrelated (Joanna Hogg – Guardian & Evening Standard award for best first film, Independent Film Critic’s Award for best film), Topsy Turvy (Mike Leigh). TV work includes – War & Peace, Partners in Crime, The Casual Vacancy, Whitechapel, Holby City, Great Expectations, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canoe Man, Antiques Rogue Show, The Thieving Headmistress, George Orwell A Life in Pictures, The Rector’s Wife, Frank Stubbs, Lovejoy, Sorry! Theatre includes playing lead roles in Repertory Theatres all over UK. London work includes “Aunt Dan & Lemon” Royal Court, Olive Oyl in “Popeye” Arts Theatre, Maria in “Twelfth Night” for Regents Park, “Trilby & Svengali” for Shared Experience at Lyric Hammersmith, 2 years of work for Mike Alfreds at Sadlers Wells, and experimental improvised work with David Gale & David Glass Ensemble.

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