Rosie Cavaliero

Rosie Cavaliero is a British actress who began her career in television in the 1990s, largely in comedy, including a stint on French and Saunders. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1967 and raised in Manchester, she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and studied at Manchester University. Her television work included the Mancunian character Amy in Cold Feet, along with roles in The Bill and Midsomer Murders. She moved into film with Mike Leigh's Vera Drake, playing a working-class Londoner seeking an abortion in the 1950s, and has also appeared on stage in Leigh's Abigail's Party at the Hampstead Theatre. In radio, she won a BBC Audio Drama Award for best actress as Ruthie in the Lost Property episode A Telegram from the Queen, part of a trilogy that took the best drama prize.