Eleanor David

English actress

Eleanor M. David
Born	September 1954 (age 69) UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1981–present

Eleanor M. David (born September 1954) is a British actress who has worked on projects in the UK, the US and New Zealand. She won positive reviews for her starring role in the biopic Sylvia, in which she played pioneering educationalist Sylvia Ashton-Warner.

Life and career

David has appeared in several films and television programmes. Her work includes BAFTA-nominated comedy Comfort and Joy directed by Bill Forsyth, mini-series Paradise Postponed, Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy and Alan Parker's film of Pink Floyd The Wall, in which she played the wife of the main character.

In 1984, David travelled to New Zealand to star as Sylvia Ashton-Warner in the biopic Sylvia. Reviewing her performance, Janet Maslin of The New York Times commented: "Miss David bears a striking resemblance to the real woman and gives an intelligent, compassionate performance, limited only by the uncomplicated reverence with which the film makers regard their heroine."^[1] Village Voice critic Andrew Sarris praised the four principal actors and named Sylvia one of the ten best films of 1985.

Filmography

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) - Louise
Oliver Twist (1982) - Rose Maylie
Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) - Pink's wife
Comfort and Joy (1984) - Maddy
Sylvia (1985) - Sylvia Ashton-Warner
84 Charing Cross Road (1987) - Cecily Farr
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989) - Lady Willoughby
Slipstream (1989) - Ariel
Ladder of Swords (1989)
White Hunter Black Heart (1990) - Dorshka Zibelinsky
The King's Whore (1990) - La Reine
Topsy-Turvy (1999) - Fanny Ronalds
House of Boys (2009) - Emma

Television credits

The Professionals (TV series) episode Fugitive, 1980.
The Borgias (1981, TV Mini-Series) - Sancia
Reilly: Ace of Spies (1984, TV Mini-Series) - Eugenie
Shroud for a Nightingale (1984, TV Mini-Series) - Jo Fallon
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) - Mrs St Clair in "The Man with the Twisted Lip"
Paradise Postponed (1986, TV Mini-Series) - Agnes Simcox / Agnes Salter
Lovejoy (1992) - Katriona Brooksby
Rumpole of the Bailey (1992) - Elizabeth Casterini
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1993) - Alice Fielding in "Vanity Dies Hard"
Between the Lines (1993) - Penny Shaw
Drop the Dead Donkey (1993) - Lady Caroline
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (1994) - Margaret Ballantyne in "Dead Water"
Midsomer Murders (2001) - Georgina Canning in “Tainted Fruit”
The Last Detective (2002) - Tricia Lloyd
The Rotters Club (2005) - Ursula Boyd
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) - Mary Pentney
Playhouse Presents (2013) - Kathleen