English actress, writer (b. 1955)
Nichola McAuliffe
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Born
| Nichola Teresa Mary McAuliffe
(
1955-08-27
)
27 August 1955
(age 68)
Cobham, Surrey, England
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Alma mater
| LAMDA
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Occupation(s)
| Actress and writer
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Years active
| 1979?present
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Spouse
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Don MacKay
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m.
1996; died 2017)
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Nichola McAuliffe
(born 27 August 1955) is an English television and stage actress and writer, best known for her role as Sheila Sabatini in the
ITV
hospital sitcom
Surgical Spirit
(1989?1995). She has also starred in several stage musicals and won the 1988
Olivier Award
for
Best Actress in a Musical
for her role in
Kiss Me, Kate
.
Acting career
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McAuliffe was born in 1955 in
Cobham
,
Surrey
, England,
[1]
and trained at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
.
[2]
In 1984 she won the Clarence Derwent Award for her role as Queen Victoria in the West End production of
Poppy
at the Adelphi Theatre.
Between 1989 and 1995, she starred as obstreperous surgeon Sheila Sabatini in the
ITV
sitcom
Surgical Spirit
, her most high-profile acting role to date. She also appeared in the long-running soap opera
Coronation Street
between 2001 and 2002.
[3]
Other TV roles were in "
The Sound of Drums
", a
Doctor Who
episode screened on 23 June 2007, and in
My Family
as the judge in episode "Life Begins at Fifty".
[3]
In 1999 she played
Jocasta
, alongside
Michael Sheen
in the title role, in a
Naxos Records
audio recording of
Sophocles
'
Oedipus the King
.
[4]
She has also had a number of stage roles, and was awarded the
Laurence Olivier Theatre Award
in 1988 (1987 season) for "Best Actress in a Musical" for
Kiss Me, Kate
.
[5]
She also appeared as the evil
Baroness Bomburst
in the
West End
production of
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
at the
London Palladium
, and was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role or Musical of 2002 for her performance in the production.
[6]
In 2009 she appeared as the
Wicked Fairy
at the
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
, Guildford, in
Sleeping Beauty
alongside
Sarah-Jane Honeywell
and
Shane Lynch
. In 2011 she played
Miss Shepherd
in
The Lady in the Van
at
Hull Truck Theatre
.
[7]
In 2012, McAuliffe, a winner in 2001 for her performance in
A Bed Among the Lentils
was again named best actress (the only person to win the nomination twice) in the
Stage Awards for Acting Excellence
at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
.
[8]
She subsequently wrote and appeared in a comic play,
Maurice's Jubilee
, staged at
The Pleasance
, which tells the story of an elderly man at the end of his life who is preparing to celebrate the
Queen's Diamond Jubilee
.
[9]
In film, McAuliffe provided the voice of
James Bond
's
BMW
in the 1997 film
Tomorrow Never Dies
. In 2009 she appeared in
Cheri
with Michelle Pfeiffer. She also appeared in the Radio 2 show 'The News Huddlines.'
In 2014, McAuliffe appeared as Maria Borrow in the
Sky1
television film
television film adaptation
of the
M. C. Beaton
novel
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
.
In 2022, McAuliffe appeared as Black Eyed Mog, in the BBC production of "The English".
Writing
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As well as writing several plays,
[10]
McAuliffe has published two novels,
The Crime Tsar
, based loosely on
Macbeth
; and
A Fanny Full of Soap
, a comic novel about the pre-West End run of a stage musical, plus a children's story,
Attila, Loolagax and the Eagle
, both in 2003.
[3]
[11]
She is also an occasional contributor to newspapers such as the
Daily Mail
. In 2015, her play
Maurice's Jubilee
was produced in the
Moscow Art Theatre
under the title
The Jeweller's Jubilee
and received good reviews.
[12]
Personal life
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McAuliffe married Don MacKay, a crime reporter for the
Daily Mirror
, in 1996.
[13]
He died in 2017.
She is a patron of Saving Faces, the facial surgery research foundation; and of Action for Children's Arts, an organisation dedicated to the promotion of creative arts among children under 12.
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