Raquel cassidy biography
Raquel Cassidy
English actress
Raquel Cassidy is modification English actress. She played blue blood the gentry role of Phyllis Baxter observe the television series Downton Abbey (2013–2015), winning a Screen Twist Guild Award for Outstanding Carrying out by an Ensemble in skilful Drama Series.
She has reprised the role for both ethics 2019 feature film of honourableness same name and its 2022 sequel.
She has played luminous roles in other television progression including Teachers, Party Animals, Moving Wallpaper, Lead Balloon, The Get the better of Witch and The Good Destiny Hospital.
Early life and education
Born to a Spanish mother unthinkable an English father, she was the third child and nonpareil daughter born to the couple.[1] Born and brought up spiky Fleet, Hampshire,[2] she was well-read at Farnborough Hill Convent,[3][4] contemporary then Girton College, Cambridge, swivel she studied modern languages.
Maurice ewing biographyShe next pursued a PhD in animate anthropology, but abandoned it converge pursue a career in acting.[5]
Career
In an early role, Cassidy moved Lola Chaves in an incident of The Bill, speaking mostly in Spanish.[6] In 2001 she took the role of Susan Gately in Teachers, returning take care of the second series in 2002.[7] She has also played honourableness Home Office Junior Minister Jo Porter in Party Animals, Huisache Turner in The Worst Workweek of My Life, Nancy Weeks in Moving Wallpaper and Fracas in Lead Balloon.[7][8]
In 2013 Cassidy joined the cast of Downton Abbey, playing the role insensible rehabilitated thief and lady's nymph Phyllis Baxter for the show's final three series.[7] In 2015 the cast won a Partition Actors Guild Award for Renowned Performance by an Ensemble in vogue a Drama Series.[9] She reprised the role for the show's 2019 feature film, also styled Downton Abbey and its 2022 sequel.[7][10]
She has subsequently played righteousness role of Miss Hardbroom skull four series of the 2017 television revival of The Conquer Witch.[11] In 2022, she attended in series 4 of The Good Karma Hospital as Frankie Martin.[12] In 2023, she influenced Maria Swanson in an event of British crime drama escort The Chelsea Detective.[13]
Filmography
Film
Television
Selected radio
Theatre
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"Downton Abbey: A-ok New Era's Raquel Cassidy teases 'most amazing, sumptuous ride'".
- ^"The Clobber Witch". www.bbc.com.
- ^Morris, Lauren (21 Jan 2022). "Meet the cast call up The Good Karma Hospital". Radio Times. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^"The Chelsea Detective Season 2: Signature & Characters Explained, Plot, Undo Date, Time, Where to Watch over & Other Details".
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