CARE- CAST AND CREATIVES

Linda Bassett

Theatre includes: What If/If Only, Escaped Alone, Love and Information, Serious Money, Far Away, In Basildon, Wastwater, Lucky Dog, Our Country, The Recruiting Officer (Royal Court); Fen (Almeida/ Royal Court); The Triumph of Love (Almeida); Visitors (Arcola); Roots(Donmar); People, A Place with the Pigs(National Theatre); A Winter’s Tale, Pericles (RSC); Richard 111,The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Love Me Tonight, Out in the Open (Hampstead/ Birmingham); East is East(Tamasha, UK tour)

Television Includes: Call The Midwife; Spies Of Warsaw; Grandma’s House; Larkrise to Candleford; Sense and Sensibility.

Film Includes: The Reader; Calendar Girls; The Hours; The Martins; East is East. 

Hayley Carmichael

Hayley is co-founder of Told by an Idiot theatre company.

Theatre includes: Hamlet (Young Vic); The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre/ West End); Street of Crocodiles (Complicite/National Theatre); Rhinoceros and Mr Puntila and His Man Matti (Almeida); The Cat and the Canary; Home (Chichester Festival Theatre); Richard III (Shakespeare's Globe); Shed (Royal Exchange); Why; The Prisoner; Fragments (Les Bouffes des Nord); Beyond Caring (Yard); Bliss (Royal Court);

Film includes: Undergods; Casanova, Last Love ; The Tale of Tales; Paddington Bear; The Emperor's New Clothes.

Television includes: Landscapers; Les Misérables; Witness for the Prosecution; Chewing Gum; Our Zoo. 

Rosie Cavaliero

Theatre includes: Personal Values (Hampstead); Abigail’s Party (Hampstead /West End); The Anniversary (Liverpool Playhouse/West End); In Flame (Bush/West End);  Airswimming (BAC); Northern Exposure (Paines Plough);  My Mother Said I Never Should (Bolton Octagon); Absurd Person Singular (Salisbury Playhouse).

Television includes: Bookish: A Woman of Substance: Kaos: The Power of Parker: Funny Woman; Gentleman Jack; Unforgotten; On The Edge; Cleaning Up; This Time with Alan Partridge; Prey; Code 404; Worzel Gummidge; Ghosts; Hunderby; The Enfield Haunting; Inside No. 9; Little Dorrit; Friday Night Dinner; Jam and Jerusalem. 

Film includes: That Christmas; The Children’s Act; Breathe; Vera Drake; Nativity; Jane Eyre.

Taru Devani

Taru Devani is a UK-based actor and singer originally from Uganda. For over thirty years, she balanced a full-time career with evenings and weekends on stage, raising money for charity, before launching her professional acting career at 51. For over two decades she has appeared widely in film and television.

Taru has also recorded six albums of devotional and Bollywood music 

Television includes: EastEnders; Doctors; DI Ray; The Revenge Club; No Offence

Film includes: The Long Goodbye; Tuesday; Song for Marion; Animal; Queer Parivaar; Glimpses

Richard Durden

Theatre includes: The Visit, The Emperor and Gallilean (National Theatre); Shadowlands (West End/tour); Titus Andronicus, A Mad World My Masters (RSC); Once Bitten, The Madras House (Orange Tree); A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream (Garsington Opera); A View From The Bridge (Birmingham Rep); Richard III, High Society (Sheffield Theatres); Orpheus Descending (Donmar); The Deep Blue Sea (Nottingham Playhouse); Broken Glass (Watford Palace).

Television includes: Ghosts; The Gold; Bridgerton; Back to Life; Brexit; The Child in Time; Harlots; Poldark.

Film includes: The People Before; Joy; Star Wars: Episode IX; Where is Annie Frank?; Churchill; Postcards From London; Batman.

Aoife Gaston

CARE is Aoife's Young Vic debut.

Theatre includes: The Tempest & Macbeth (Shakespeare's Globe); A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse/Alexandra Palace).

Television includes: Doctor Who.

Film includes: Delivery; Reawakening. 

Llewella Gideon

Theatre includes: Going for Gold (Park Theatre/ Daphne Hackett Theatre Barbados); Marys Seacole, The Vote (Donmar); The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre); Faith, Hope and Charity (European tour); Birthday (Royal Court); Play Mas (Orange Tree); Family Man, (Stratford East); The Architect (Actors Touring Company GDIF).

Television includes: Eastenders; Mr Loverman; Boarders; Queenie; Top Boy; Gangsta Granny Strikes Again; Mrs Sidhu Investigates; Christmas Carole; Small Axe Mangrove; The Real McCoy; Absolutely Fabulous; Nighty Night; Game Face; Millie In-Between; Still Open All Hours; Delivery Man; The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff; Holby; Casualty.

Film includes: Where He Sleeps; Rye Lane; Paddington; Second Coming; Manderlay; Nativity; Absolutely Fabulous –The Movie. 

William Lawlor

Theatre includes: Arcadia (The Old Vic); The Hills of California, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End); The Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre).  

Film includes: Mother’s Ruin, The Christmasaurus. 

Ethan Mahony

Ethan is a passionate performer and has trained in acting, singing, and dance from an early age. He also studies LAMDA. 

Amateur Theatre includes: Elf, Whistle Down the Wind, Oliver!

Ann Mitchell

Ann has enjoyed a distinguished 60 year career across film,. television and theatre

Theatre includes: Mother Courage (Citizens); The Rivals (Nottingham Playhouse); Tantalus (RSC); The Road to Mecca (Manchester Royal Exchange); Through the Leaves, Whose Life is it Anyway, Ayn Rand takes a Stand (West End).

Television includes: Widows; Eastenders; The Gold; For Her Sins; Call the Midwife; Vera; Unforgotten.

Films include: True Haunting; Farming; The Deep Blue Sea; Widows; The Bell; Cunning Women; The Son-in-law; Merry Xmas Aubrey Flint. 

Charlie Webb

Theatre includes: Sound of Music (Eynsford Castle); Anne Boleyn The Musical (Hever Castle).

Television includes: Ocado Commercial; Bringing Great Value to the Table; Barclays Commercial; Kids World.  

Film includes: Lincoln In The Bardo