Saskia Reeves
Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is an English actress, best known for her roles in the films "Close My Eyes" (1991) and "I.D." (1995), the 2000 miniseries "Frank Herbert's Dune" and the 2016 film "Our Kind of Traitor". Early life. Saskia Reeves was born 16 August 1961, and brought up in Twickenham and Paddington, London with her younger sister Imogen, by her Dutch mother and English father. Reeves attended the Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton and then studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Career. Early in her career she performed in  puppet shows and in satirical revues at the Covent Garden Community Theatre. Her television credits include "Spooks", "The Commander" and the "Bodies" finale. Her stage work includes productions at London's National and Royal Court theatres as well as on international tour. In addition to her acting career, Reeves does voice work, including commercials, narration, and book readings. In 2008, she starred in English Touring Theatre's revival of Athol Fugard's "Hello and Goodbye" at the Trafalgar Studios in London. In 2010, she starred as Anne Darwin, the wife of John Darwin, in BBC4's "Canoe Man", a dramatisation  of the John Darwin disappearance case, and co-starred in the BBC1 series "Luther". In 2011, Reeves played the matriarch, Anna Brangwen, in the first part of William Ivory's two-part adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novels "The Rainbow" and "Women in Love", first shown on BBC4. She also had a major role in the 2016 "Midsomer Murders" episode “A Dying Art.”