Felicity Dean

Felicity Dean is a British actress whose work covers film, television, and the stage. Born in London, she attended Hurst Lodge School and won its De Valois Prize for Drama. Her screen career started with the part of Lady Jane Grey in the 1977 film The Prince and the Pauper. She later appeared in Hugh Hudson's Revolution, and in 1987 she played Cynthia Goodburn in The Whistle Blower. She played Mrs Clay in Roger Michell's Persuasion. She also took the part of Dido in Stuart: A Life Backwards. On stage she originated the role of Annie in Good with the Royal Shakespeare Company, a production that went to the West End and Broadway, and she earned a Critics Guild Award nomination as Masha in Three Sisters at Birmingham Rep. Rebecca West personally selected her to play Laura Bowen in the BBC adaptation The Birds Fall Down, and she later portrayed Queen Elizabeth I in the 2017 docu-drama Elizabeth I.