Madeleine Potter

Madeleine Potter
Madeleine Potter
	Madeleine Potter and Peter Siiteri in Loves Labor's Lost at The Shakespeare Center, 1981.
Born	Madeleine Daly Potter; Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Patrick Fitzgerald (divorced)

Madeleine Daly Potter is an American actress who has played roles in over 20 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.^[1]

Family

Potter is the only daughter of Philip B.K. Potter (1927-1975), an American diplomat who served in the OSS,^[2] and his wife, the former Madeleine Mulqueen Daly (1921-1985).^[3] She is a niece of Medal of Honor recipient Michael J. Daly and a great-great-granddaughter of New York Mayor Thomas Francis Gilroy. She is also a great-great-granddaughter of Episcopal bishop Alonzo Potter and a great-grand-niece of Episcopal bishop Henry Codman Potter.

Personal life

She was married to Patrick Fitzgerald, an Irish-born American actor, whom she wed in 1990.^[4]

Potter's only child, Madeleine Daly (born June 4, 1995),^[5] appeared as her character's niece in the 2005 movie The White Countess.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

The Bostonians (1984) as Verena Tarrant
Hello Again (1987) as Felicity Glick
The Suicide Club (1988) as Nancy
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) as Widow Mary
Slaves of New York (1989) as Daria
Two Evil Eyes (1990) as Annabel (segment "The Black Cat")
Leapin' Leprechauns! (1995) as Morgan de la Fey/Nula (uncredited)
Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns (1996) as Morgan de la Fey/Nula
The Golden Bowl (2000, Merchant Ivory) as Lady Castledean
Refuge (2002) as Sylvia Oakes
The White Countess (2005) as Greshenka
Red Lights (2012) as Sarah Sidgwick

Television

State of Play as Professor Tate
Midsomer Murders, episode: "Country Matters" (2006) as Celia Patchett
Holby City (2013) as 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
All My Sons, directed by Howard Davies (1999) on the Lyttelton stage of the Royal National Theatre
Southwark Fair, directed by Nicholas Hytner (2006) on the Cottsloe stage at the 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^[6]

Broadway

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

References

^ Review by Mel Gussow, The New York Times, May 10, 1981, and "Shakespeare in New York City," by Maurice Charney and Arthur Ganz, The Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer, 1982), pp. 218–22.
^ John Prados, Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby (Oxford University Press, 2003), page 65
^ "Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendants of Michael Mulqueen". Familytreemaker.genealogy.com. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
^ MERVYN ROTHSTEIN (1990-08-28). "A Friendly, Competitive Symbiosis In a Play Looking for a New Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-30. Retrieved 2013-11-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ [1] Archived July 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

External links

[1] Review by Mel Gussow, The New York Times, May 10, 1981, and "Shakespeare in New York City," by Maurice Charney and Arthur Ganz, The Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer, 1982), pp. 218–22.

[2] John Prados, Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby (Oxford University Press, 2003), page 65

[genealogy1-3] "Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendants of Michael Mulqueen". Familytreemaker.genealogy.com. Retrieved 2013-12-28.

[4] MERVYN ROTHSTEIN (1990-08-28). "A Friendly, Competitive Symbiosis In a Play Looking for a New Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-28.

[5] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-30. Retrieved 2013-11-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[6] [1] Archived July 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

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