Tara Fitzgerald
Biography
Tara Fitzgerald is an English actress whose work spans the stage, film, television and radio. Born in Cuckfield, she graduated from Drama Centre London and made an early screen appearance in Hear My Song (1991). Her international breakthrough came in 1993 with Sirens, opposite Hugh Grant, which brought her a nomination for best actress from the Australian Film Institute. The pair acted together again in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995). Her other films include Brassed Off (1996) and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). On stage she played Ophelia in Hamlet in 1995, winning a New York Drama Desk Award, and has since appeared in A Doll's House and The Misanthrope. She starred as Eve Lockhart in more than 30 episodes of Waking the Dead from 2007, and played Selyse Baratheon in Game of Thrones. She took the best actress prize at the 1999 Reims International Television Festival for Frenchman's Creek.
59years old
Turns 60 on September 18in 340 days
- Born Cuckfield
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Tara Anne Cassandra Fitzgerald
Movie Career
- Films
- 19
- Career span
- 32 years1991 to 2023
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First role
In 1992, Fitzgerald took on her first big stage part, performing alongside Peter O'Toole in Our Song at the Apollo Theatre.
A first
Fitzgerald's Ophelia in Hamlet at London's Almeida Theatre led to her American stage debut, with the production transferring to Broadway's Belasco Theatre for more than 90 performances.
Behind the camera
Fitzgerald moved into directing after she became frustrated by the shortage of interesting parts for older actresses. Film London chose her as one of 12 filmmakers for its 2015 Microwave scheme.
Tara Fitzgerald movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain1995as Elizabeth aka Betty from Cardiff
IMDb rating 6.620K votes
Most often with
Ben Mendelsohn appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Ben Mendelsohn's page
Hugh Grant's page
Joel Edgerton's page
Geoff Bell's page
John Sessions's page
Indira Varma's page
Also two films together2 more actors
- Steven ElderMiss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop (2022) and The King (2019)
- Christopher SciuerefRise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance (2023) and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Tara Fitzgerald's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$346 million
10 of the 19 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 19 films: 10 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 5 figure not found.
- 10Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 5Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$268M77.5% of the total
- 2$43M12.4% of the total
- 3$11M3.2% of the total
- 4$7.8M2.2% of the total
- 5$6.6M1.9% of the total
- 6$5.1M1.5% of the total
- 7$2.6M0.7% of the total
- 8$935K0.3% of the total
$1.1 millionfrom the other 2 films with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total
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