Ciaran Anne Magdalene MaddenDebrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Kelly's Directories, 2000. p. 256. (born 27 December 1942) is a retired English stage, film, and television actress, who was professionally active from the late 1960s through the late 1990s.
She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), and is an Associate Member of the academy.RADA Associates 2008
Madden is best known internationally for her multiple leading Agatha Christie, Shakespeare, and Tom Stoppard roles filmed for television, and for her dramatic performance as Marianne Dashwood in the 1971 BBC miniseries adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. She appeared in more than 30 television series, teleplays, made-for-television movies, and television miniseries, including a starring performance in the miniseries A Married Man (1984) opposite Anthony Hopkins. She also had major roles in five feature films, including Gawain and the Green Knight (1973), the cult horror film The Beast Must Die (1974), Spy Story (1976) and Swing Kids (1993).
She had originally trained at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford prior to enrolling at RADA. In the late 1990s she gave up acting and returned to painting, focusing on portraits, and received a diploma from the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London.
Personal life In 2001 she moved to Dorset with her second husband, Christian Tyler, whom she had married in 1987.Profile at CiaranTyler.com.England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, Richmond Upon Thames Registration District, County of Surrey, April–May–June 1987, Volume 14, p. 1225. Her previous husband, whom she had married in 1972, was John Patrick Scrivenor;England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, Chelsea Registration District, County of London, April–May–June 1972, Volume 5A, p. 1726. they had a son born in late 1972.Thomas Alexander J Scrivenor. Birth Registry, St. Marylebone Registration District, County of London, October–December 1972, Volume 5D, p. 2403.
Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes1969Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin HoodLady Marian Fitzwalter1973Gawain and the Green KnightLinet1974Davina1976Spy StoryMarjorie1993Swing KidsFrau Berger
Television Year Title Role Notes1969W. Somerset MaughamIsabel Longstaffe"The Fall of Edward Barnard"1969Play of the MonthAdrienne"The Marquise"1970Mary HogarthTV film1970ITV Sunday Night TheatreOphelia"Hamlet"1971Sense and SensibilityMarianne DashwoodTV miniseries1974Bedtime StoriesClare Rawley"Sleeping Beauty"1974Jennie: Lady Randolph ChurchillGwendoline Churchill"His Borrowed Plumes", "A Past and a Future"1976Star MaidensFidelia"The End of Time"1976BBC Play of the MonthAlison Porter"Look Back in Anger"1977BBC Play of the MonthAlithea"The Country Wife"1977JubileeKaren Seyric"An Hour in the Life..."1978Do You Remember?Ellen"Park People"1978Return of the SaintJanie Lennox"Signal Stop"1978Much Ado About NothingHeroTV film1979My Son, My SonLivia VaynolTV miniseries1979ITV PlayhouseTina Styles"Print Out"1980Call My BluffHerselfGuest contestant, 27/11981JazzTV miniseries1982The Agatha Christie HourTheo Darrell"Magnolia Blossom"1983On the RazzleMadame KnorrTV film1983Claire StricklandTV miniseries1984Oxbridge BluesRachel / Laura"Similar Triangles", "Cheap Day"1984Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Body in the LibraryAdelaide JeffersonTV film1985–1987DrummondsMary DrummondMain role1987Fortunes of WarAngela HooperTV miniseries1989PamelaTV film1989Agatha Christie's PoirotLady Mayfield"The Incredible Theft"1989Catherine"These Foolish Things"1990TECXAngela Kortenbach"Rock a Buy Baby"1990BoonMargery Keeverton"Thicker Than Water"1991Van der ValkMelanie van Hoorn"A Sudden Silence"1991CasualtyZoe Turner"Humpty Dumpty", "Judgement Day"1992MaigretMme. MaigretRegular role (season 1)1992Between the LinesSandra Urquhart"Nobody's Fireproof", "The Chill Factor"1997IvanhoeUrfriedTV miniseries
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Selected stage credits