Rachel Pickup
British actress · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1973 · age 53
Rachel Pickup is a British actress known for her extensive work in Shakespearean theatre. She has portrayed many of Shakespeare's heroines in productions on and off the West End, and with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Pickup appeared as Hazel Conway in J. B. Priestley's Time and the Conways at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, earning a Manchester Theatre Award.
In 2007 Pickup returned to the West End, starring in Patrick Barlow's The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre. The production won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
In 2016, Pickup starred as Portia opposite Sir Jonathan Pryce's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Lincoln Center, commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.About this person
In 2016, she portrayed Portia opposite Sir Jonathan Pryce's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare's Globe, which toured internationally to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Pickup received a Critics' Circle Theatre Award nomination for her titular performance in August Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Rose Theatre Kingston.
