Claudia Jolly

Claudia Jolly is a London based actress She landed her first job straight out of drama school Guildhall School of Music Drama Gold Medal Winner in NW the BBC adaptation of Zadie Smiths novel of the same name After this she was cast as Katharine Draper in Girl from the North Country at The Old Vic The hugely successful run then transferred to the West End Claudias other theatre credits include Imran Qureshis new play The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs Soho Theatre The Butterfly Lion Minerva Theatre Chichester Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest Watermill Theatre Narrator in Roald Dahl Centenary Concert LSOBarbican Bianca in Men Arcola TheatreEdinburgh Fringe Festival NSDF Acting Commendation Rosalind in As You Like It Edinburgh Fringe Festival Rebecca in The Country and Mrs Milcote in Coram Boy Pleasance Theatre Lily Garland in On the Twentieth Century Isabella in Go Make You Ready Lulu in Lulu Myriam Horowitz in Mephisto Lady Macbeth in Macbeth Andromache in The Trojan Women Bakers Wife in Into the Woods Anne in Separate Tables Lois in For Services Rendered Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard and Mary Magdalene in Medieval Mystery Plays GSMD Additional television film and radio credits include The Feed Endeavour On Chesil Beach The Story of a New Name Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay and The Story of the Lost Child She won the award for Best Performance in a Female Role at the Iris Prize Film Festival 2022 Claudia can currently be seen in the latest season of DC show Pennyworth HBOmax and Black Doves Netflix