David Benedict, of THE INDEPENDENT, had this to say about Lisa Harrow in GABRIEL:
"An actress of great subtlety, Lisa Harrow, as Jeanne, takes to the melodrama like a duck to water, knocking back the cognac and blazing her way through to survival...."
Lisa Harrow's theatre work includes extensive work for the RSC, including Olivia in Twelfth Night, Desdemona in Othello; Portia in Merchant of Venice; Anne Boleyn in Henry VIII and Dorcas in A Winters Tale. Other productions for them include EARWIG, The Hollow Crown, Island of the Mighty, Major Barbara, Wild Oats and The Lower Depths. Other work for the theatre includes Viola in Twelfth Night, Newcastle; Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Coventry The Great Caper, The Royal Court; Eliza in Pygmailion, Cambridge Theatre; Wild Oats, West End; Man and Superman, Triumph Apollo, Windsor and Playhouse Theatre; Double Take, Festival Theatre, Chichester (Director Hugh Wooldridge); Widower's House, Chelsea Centre (Director Sharon Maughan); The Eagle Has Two Heads, Lillian Baylis Theatre (Director Susannah York); Dogspot, Nuffield Theatre, Sheffield (Director Patrick Sandford); and In Praise of Love, Leatherhead and West End (Director Richard Olivier). Television includes Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Thames; The Water Maiden, BBC; Churchill's People, BBC; The Expert BBC; The Look, Yorkshire; Marya, BBC; Jekyll and Hyde, BBC; The Waterfall, BBC, NancyAstor, BBC; Under Capricorn, South Australian Film Corp; Playing Shakespeare, LWT; A Sense of Guilt, BBC; Inspector Morse IV, Zenith Productions; Poirot, LVVT; Witchcraft, BBC; The Strawberry Tree, Meridian; and Kavannagh QC, Central. Film includes The Tempter, All Creatures Great and Small, It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet; Man from a Far Country; Other Halves, Shaker Run, The Final Conflict; The Last Days of Chez Nous (winner Best Actress Australian Film Institute); That Eye in the Sky. Her last film, Sunday, won the 1997 Sundance Award. .
Last updated: 3 June 1999
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