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Penelope Alice Wilton,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Penelope Wilton )〕 (born 3 June 1946) is an English actress. She starred with Richard Briers in the BBC situation comedy ''Ever Decreasing Circles''. She is also known for playing the character of Isobel Crawley in the period drama ''Downton Abbey'', Ruth in the film ''Calendar Girls'', and Homily in the films ''The Borrowers'' and ''The Return of the Borrowers''. Wilton has also starred alongside David Tennant as fictional Prime Minister of The Golden Age as Harriet Jones in Doctor Who, Scarlett Johansson as Eleanor Hewett in her best known movie Match Point and Donald Sutherland as Mrs Gardiner in Pride & Prejudice. Wilton has successfully won the prestigious Critics' Circle Theatre Award. Wilton's talents vary from dramas based around meaningful plots to biography films like The Girl. Wilton has also starred in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel alongside Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith as a main character,Wilton later made a reappearance in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel reprising the same role but only as a supporting character. Wilton has definitely proved herself to be a dramatically soulful actress across the world of acting world as she has starred in comedies, dramas and biography films. Michelle Dockery stated that working with Wilton (and Maggie Smith) was an absolute "education". ==Life and career== Wilton was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the daughter of Alice Travers, a tap dancer and former actress, and Clifford William Wilton, a businessman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Former students - Central Saint Martins )〕〔http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=69552&back=〕 She is a niece of actors Bill Travers and Linden Travers〔("What'sOn: Wicked role for Penelope means it's Women Beware Wilton; Theatre.(Features)" ) ''Coventry Evening Telegraph'' (England) via HighBeam Research〕 and a cousin of the actor Richard Morant.〔("Biography for Richard Morant" ) at IMDb〕 Her maternal grandparents owned theatres.〔 She and her sisters, Rosemary and Linda, attended the convent school in Newcastle upon Tyne, at which their mother had previously taught. She attended the Drama Centre London.〔(Drama Centre: watch this face ). Central Saint Martins, 22 March 2009. Accessed August 2013.〕 Wilton had a successful stage career before transitioning into television acting, and her West End debut was opposite Sir Ralph Richardson. She played Ruth in the original 1974 London stage production of Alan Ayckbourn's ''Norman Conquests'' trilogy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Institute of Directors - IoD )〕 Her television acting career began in 1972, playing Vivie Warren in ''Mrs. Warren's Profession'' opposite Robert Powell. She then had several major TV roles, including two of the BBC Television Shakespeare productions (as Desdemona in ''Othello'' and Regan in ''King Lear'' ). Wilton's film career includes roles in ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1981), ''Cry Freedom'' (1987), ''Iris'' (2001), ''Calendar Girls'' (2003) and ''Shaun of the Dead'' (2004), Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'' (2005), Woody Allen's ''Match Point'' (2005), and in ''The History Boys'' (2006). However she did not become a household name until she appeared with Richard Briers in the 1984 BBC situation comedy, ''Ever Decreasing Circles'', which ran for five years. She played Ann, long suffering wife of Martin (Briers), an obsessive and pedantic "do-gooder". Throughout the run, Ann seeks a more adventurous lifestyle than that offered as a pillar of the community, and mildly flirts with their considerably more charismatic neighbour Paul (Peter Egan) but ultimately she remains faithful to Martin. In 2005, Wilton guest starred as Harriet Jones for two episodes in the BBC's revival of the popular TV science-fiction series ''Doctor Who''. This guest role was written especially for her by the programme's chief writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies, with whom she had previously worked on ''Bob and Rose'' (ITV, 2001). The character of Jones returned as Prime Minister in the ''Doctor Who'' 2005 Christmas special "The Christmas Invasion". In the first part of the 2008 series finale, "The Stolen Earth", she made a final appearance, now as the former Prime Minister who sacrifices herself for extermination by the Daleks so that the Doctor's companions can contact him. She appeared in four episodes overall. Wilton has also appeared on television as Barbara Poole, the mother of a missing woman, in the BBC television drama series ''Five Days'' in 2005; and in ITV's drama ''Half Broken Things'' (October 2007) and the BBC production of ''The Passion'' (Easter 2008). Since 2010, she has appeared as Isobel Crawley in the hit period drama ''Downton Abbey''. She was the castaway on BBC Radio 4's ''Desert Island Discs'' in April 2008. In December 2012 and February 2013, she was the narrator in Lin Coghlan's dramatisation of "The Cazalets" (Elizabeth Jane Howard) broadcast on BBC Radio. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Penelope Wilton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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