Bessie Carter

Height 5’9”
Eyes  Blue/Green
Hair  Brown

Parts played at Guildhall 

Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (dir. Richard Goulding)
Hecuba in The Trojan Women (dir. Patsy Rodenberg)
Sarah in Company (dir. Christian Burgess)
Orinthia in The Apple Cart (dir. Wyn Jones)
Connie in Habeas Corpus (dir. Wyn Jones)
Hester in The Deep Blue Sea (dir. Wyn Jones)
Melinda in The Recruiting Officer (dir. Justin Audibert)
Sophie in When the Whale Came (Devised: dir. Finn Caldwell)
Nina in The Seagull (dir. Wyn Jones)
Sally in Marine Parade (dir. Jo McInnes)
Mary in The Medieval Mystery plays (dir. Eliot Shrimpton)

Professional Experience

Factory Girl in Les Misérables (dir. Tom Hooper; Working Title)
Margaret Gidman in Cranford (dir. Simon Curtis; BBC)
Becky in Trevor Island (dir. Dermot Canterbury; CBBC)
Model in Shoot me! (dir. Kate Hardy; short film)

Other Experience

TV Workshops: Peter Creegan, Tim Mercier, Jonathan Sagall, Richard Kwietniowski, Jane Arnell
Radio training: Jane Morgan
Radio play: Louisa Chick in Dombey & Son (dir. Jane Morgan)
Voiceover training: Richard Pearce
Other workshops with Patrick Marber (Three Days in the country), Rupert Goold and Nick Skillbeck (Made In Dagenham), Annabel Arden (Founder of Théâtre de Complicité)
Member of National Youth Theatre
RADA Youth Company

Skills

Historical dance (Sue Lefton), 20th Century Dance, Showdance, Street Jazz, Basic acrobatics, Stage Combat, Cricket, Netball, Basic Horseriding, Strong singer, Alto/Mezzo Soprano

Dialects

Native RP, Contemporary/heightened RP, London, Manchester, Liverpool, General American, Boston, New York (old and contemporary), Southern American, Australian, South African