Sarah Woodward

Sarah Woodward is a British actress whose stage career began after training at RADA, where she graduated in 1983 and received the Bancroft Gold Medal. She then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, taking roles in productions of Richard III, Henry V, Hamlet, and Camille. In 1993 she went back to the RSC, where her work included The Tempest, The Venetian Twins, Murder in the Cathedral, and Love's Labour's Lost, with Sam Mendes directing The Tempest. Mendes also directed her in London Assurance, The Sea, Kean, and Habeas Corpus, and she acted alongside Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Imelda Staunton, Brenda Blethyn, and Jim Broadbent in those projects. Her performance in Stephen Churchett's Tom & Clem brought her an Olivier Award for best supporting role in 1998. Two years later she earned a Tony nomination for Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, a Donmar Warehouse production that moved to the Albery Theatre and Broadway.