Geraldine James, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Geraldine James

English actress

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1950

Place of Birth: Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

Profession: actor, stage actor, film actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Geraldine James, OBE (born 6 July 1950) is an English actress.
For her role as Portia in the 1989 Broadway revival of The Merchant of Venice, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
She also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1989 Venice Film Festival for She's Been Away.
Theatre director Peter Hall says James ranks amongst the great English classical actresses.James has been nominated four times for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress; for Dummy (1977), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Band of Gold (1995) and The Sins (2000).
She is also known as Mrs.
Pincher, the breastfeeding mother in Little Britain (2004).
Her film credits include Gandhi (1982), The Tall Guy (1989), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Alice in Wonderland (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and 45 Years (2015).
Since 2017, she has starred in the Netflix series Anne with an E and the new Downton Abbey movie as Queen Mary, released in 2019