Lolita Chakrabarti Biography
Lolita Chakrabarti is an actress and writer from Britain. She grew up in Birmingham, England. She trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Lolita has worked widely both as an actress and a writer for both on stage and screen. Her work includes Beowulf (ITV), Vera (ITV), The Casual Vacancy (BBC/HBO), Jekyll and Hyde (ITV), My Mad Fat Diary Season 3 (CH4) and Intruders (Canal+). She is married and has two children. Lolita also produced a short film, Of Mary.
Lolita Chakrabarti Actor | Actress | Writer | Career
In 1990, she graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art(RADA). Riviera Season 2, Delicious, Defending the Guilty , All Is True , ‘Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, The Casual Vacancy, Jekyll and Hyde, Intruders in 2011, Bodies, Vera, Outnumbered, Hustle, Born to Kill, Extras Christmas Special, William, and Mary, Fortysomething, Holby City, Silent Witness, and as WPC Jamila Blake in the long-running ITV drama The Bill is just some of the shows she has appeared in.
Fanny and Alexander for the Old Vic The Great Game: Afghanistan for the Tricycle Theatre in 2009, Last Seen for the Almeida in 2009 (which she co-wrote), Free Outgoing for the Royal Court in 2008 and John Gabriel Borkman for the Donmar Warehouse in 2007 are just some of the theatre plays she has appeared in. She is set to appear as Gertrude in a 2017 production of Hamlet. The play stars Tom Hiddleston and is directed by Kenneth Branagh for RADA.
Lolita Chakrabarti Of Mary
She ran Lesata Productions alongside Rosa Maggiora. In 2011, the pair produced Of Mary, a short film. The short film won the Best Short Film Award at PAFF, Los Angeles 2012.
2012, 2014 & 2016 Stage play: Red Velvet written by Lolita Chakrabarti. The play was premiered at The Tricycle Theatre, London transferred to St Anne’s Warehouse New York and then played London’s West End at the Garrick Theatre in Kenneth Branagh’s season. Across the world, Red Velvet has had numerous productions.
Lolita Chakrabarti Dragon
In 1992 she acted in Ultz and Cummings adaptation of “Dragon,” at a Royal National Theatre in London alongside Tony Armatrading, Christopher Campbell, Martin Chamberlain, John Cobb, Dhirendra Kaleb Gumbs, Mark Heap, Alex Langdon, Vicky Licorish, Paul J. Medford, Mark Saban, and Bill Thomas in the cast. Ultz also directed.
As of 2017, she is credited as a writer and is developing work for the stage, BBC, ITV, and film.
Lolita Chakrabarti All Is True
All Is True is a 2018 British film. The film was directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Ben Elton. Branagh stars in the film, playing the role of William Shakespeare. The film takes its title from an alternative name for his play Henry VIII. Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Lolita Chakrabarti, Lydia Wilson, Kathryn Wilder, and Jimmy Yuill star in the film.
Lolita Chakrabarti Palm Springs Film Festival
The film was released on the 21st of December in 2018. Additionally, it served as the opening feature at the 2019 Palm Springs Film Festival. On the 8th of February in 2019, the film was released in the United Kingdom.
Lolita Chakrabarti Age
She was born on the 1st of June in 1969. She is 50 years as of 2019.
Lolita Chakrabarti Family
Lolita was born in Kingston Upon Hull in England. She was born to Hindu Bengali parents who hailed from India. She grew up in Birmingham.
Chakrabarti is married to Adrian Lester. He is an English actor, director, and actor. The couple has two daughters named Lila and Jasmine. Both girls were born in Southwark, London.
Lolita Chakrabarti Interview
Fanny and Alexander is a feast for the eyes, but backstage we are changing wigs, costume and shifting furniture. It’s an unbelievably ensemble thing, which tells the story of an enormous family through the eyes of the children Fanny and Alexander. It’s hugely theatrical and Stephen Beresford has stayed very loyal to the original story, but it feels very magical. At the end when we take our bow, the audience is always surprised at how many of us there are involved in it.
Part of the reason I did this job is that I am playing two very different parts. Alma is the daughter in law of the matriarch Helena and the Bishop’s sister Henrietta who is the absolute opposite of Alma. She’s very buttoned up and forthright. She’s a very scary lady. This is such a huge canvas, with so many characters. It’s been great to play someone who is loose and free and happy and then extremely tyrannical.
I started writing because I got bored in between acting jobs. I did a pottery class, which I was terrible at, and I did a course in English romantic poetry, which I loved. Then I started writing short stories. I really enjoyed it and started selling them to a charity called InterAct where they send actors into hospitals to read stories to stroke patients. Then I just wondered whether I could write a play. I think I have finally accepted I am now also a writer.
Lolita Chakrabarti Red Velvet
The success of Red Velvet has been beyond my dreams. It had been so hard to get the play on in the first place. I’ve worked a lot with my husband Adrian Lester over the years. We had a theatre company together in our early 20s. He reads everything I write and tells me I’m brilliant if that’s what I need to hear. But he also gives me notes. Him starring in Red Velvet felt like a natural evolution, he’s such a great actor.
When I played Gertrude to Tom Hiddleston’s Hamlet, I hadn’t done a Shakespeare play for 16 years. I had begun to think maybe I’ve done all the Shakespeare I was going to do. Then when this came around I thought: I’ve graduated! I can do the mums and the older parts. I love Shakespeare, and I want to play all of the – Queen Margaret, Cleopatra, Lady M. And, I could do Macbeth! I might be a bit old and tired for Hamlet though.
Lolita Chakrabarti Films
All Is True in 2018
Delightful TV series from 2016 onwards
Delicious
Beowulf TV-series from 2016
Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
Random vacancy TV series from 2015
The Casual Vacancy
Jekyll and Hyde TV series (from 2015
Jekyll & Hyde
Smoke TV series from 2014
The Smoke
My crazy diary TV series from 2013
My Mad Fat Diary
Another child 2013
Charlotte Link – Das Andere Kind
One night TV series from 2012
One Night
Death in Heaven TV-series from 2011
Death in Paradise
Vera TV-series from 2011
Edge
Thorn: The Scarecrow 2010
Thorne: Scaredy Cat
Forgiven 2007
Forgiven
Venus 2006
Venus
Amnesia 2004
Amnesia
A little over forty 2003
Fortysomething
Pit 2001
The Hole
Review: Kids in a cage
Silent witness TV-series from 1996
Silent Witness
Corpse in Paris 1992
A Masculine Ending
Purely English murder TV series from 1984
The Bill
Lolita Chakrabarti Awards
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