Rachel Pickup

Rachel Pickup

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderFemale
BirthdayJul 15, 1973
BiographyRachel Pickup is a British actress known for her extensive work in Shakespearean theatre. She has portrayed many of Shakespeare's heroines in productions on and off the West End, and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2016, she portrayed Portia opposite Sir Jonathan Pryce's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare's Globe, which toured internationally to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Pickup received a Critics' Circle Theatre Award nomination for her titular performance in August Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Rose Theatre Kingston.

In film, she starred as Sarah Holt in Michel Franco's Chronic, which received wide-spread acclaim at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. Her additional film roles include Clara Fairfax in Radha Bharadwaj's Basil (1998), Stella Primrose in Duncan Roy's AKA (2002), and Fausta Grables in Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman (2017). On television, Pickup is best known for her roles as Kaye Bentley in the 10-part BBC miniseries No Bananas (1996), Henrietta Standish in Victoria & Albert (2001), Lesley Parkes in Live!Girls! present Dogtown (2006) and Miss André in The Gilded Age (2023–present). Her father was British actor Ronald Pickup.

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No Bananas
Ended

No Bananas

as Kaye Bentley

Part of Crew

No Bananas
Ended

No Bananas

as Creator

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