Greta Scacchi

An experienced actress, Greta has had a prolific international film career, having made European, American and Australian films. Her recent TV drama roles include Margaret Thatcher in Jeffrey Archer: The Truth, and Lydia Glasher in Daniel Deronda.

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What's she been in? One of Greta's first film roles was in a short comedy film written by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings & a Funeral) which also starred Leslie Ash (Merseybeat), Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) and Jim Broadbent (Iris). Greta played sensuous femme fatale Lady Diana Broughton in White Mischief, a murder mystery set among the decadent British ex-patriots of 1940's Kenya. Greta starred with Harrison Ford in crime thriller Presumed Innocent and with Tim Robbins in Hollywood satire The Player as a character called June Gudmundsdottir. Her role as the manipulated Tsarina Alexandra opposite Alan Rickman's mad monk in Rasputin earned Greta an Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Mini-Series and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a TV Mini-Series. Greta played Tom's kindly Aunt Gwen in a 1999 adaptation of children's classic Tom's Midnight Garden. Greta played the jilted Lydia Glasher in Daniel Deronda. She's no stranger to costume drama having starred in Jane Austen adaptation Emma with Gywneth Paltrow and in Merchant Ivory production Cotton Mary Did you know? Greta broke the mould as a 'sexy' Margaret Thatcher in new drama Jeffrey Archer: The Truth, which depicted the life of Lord Archer through his own vision of himself - complete with rose-tinted spectacles. Greta turned down Sharon Stone's role in Basic Instinct. Personal Details Greta was born Greta Gracco in February 1960. She was raised in Italy and later moved to London, and Australia.

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