Madeleine Potter

Madeleine Potter Biography

Madeleine Potter (born Washington DC) is an American actress who has played supporting roles in over twenty films and TV shows, including four productions directed by James Ivory. She has also appeared in numerous stage productions in the United States and United Kingdom. She made her New York stage debut in Loves Labor's Lost at The Shakespeare Center, produced by the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1981.

Potter is the daughter of Philip B.K. Potter, an American diplomat who served in the OSS, and his wife, the former Madeleine Mulqueen Daly. She is a first cousin, once removed, of the 1960s tastemaker and fashion designer Pauline de Rothschild. Potter is also a great-great-granddaughter of Episcopal bishop Alonzo Potter and a great-grand-niece of Episcopal bishop Henry Codman Potter.

She was married to Patrick Fitzgerald, an Irish-born American actor, whom she wed in 1990.

Potter's only child, Madeleine Daly (born circa 1996), appeared as her character's niece in the 2005 movie The White Countess.

Filmography

The Bostonians (1984, Merchant Ivory) - Verena Tarrant
Hello Again (1987) - Felicity Glick
The Suicide Club (1988) - Nancy
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) - Widow Mary
Slaves of New York (1989, Merchant Ivory) - Daria
Two Evil Eyes (1990) - Annabel (segment "The Black Cat")
Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns (1996) - Morgan de la Fey/Nula
The Golden Bowl (2000, Merchant Ivory) - Lady Castledean
Muffin - Carole
Refuge (2002) - Sylvia Oakes
The White Countess (2005, Merchant Ivory) - Greshenka
Red Lights (2012 - Sarah Sidgwick

Television

Midsomer Murders "Country Matters" (2006) - Celia Patchett
Holby City (2013) - Sharon Kozinsky

Audio

Doctor Who - Assassin in the Limelight (2008) - Lizzie Williams
Doctor Who - The Cradle of the Snake (2010) - Yoanna Rayluss

Stage

London

An Ideal Husband, directed by Peter Hall (1996) at Haymarket Theatre
Southwark Fair, directed by Nicholas Hytner (2006) at Royal National Theatre
After Mrs. Rochester, written and directed by Polly Teale (2003) at the Lyric Theatre and then the Duke of York's
Broken Glass, directed by Iqbal Khan (2010) at the Tricycle Theatre

Broadway

Ibsen's Ghosts (1982) - Regina Engstrand, Mrs. Alving's maid
Coastal Disturbances (1987) - Holly Dancer
Metamorphosis (1989) - Greta, Gregor Samsa's sister
The Crucible (1991) - Abigail Williams
Getting Married (1991) - Leo
The Master Builder (1992) - Hilde Wangel
A Little Hotel on the Side (1992) - Victoire

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