Cloudia Swann is an English stage, film and television actress.

Life and career

Swann was born in Leicestershire, and spent her early years living in Stratford-upon-Avon where she attended Bromsgrove School until the age of 13. Swann later attended Cheltenham College for her A-Levels before a 3-year Acting Diploma at the Oxford School of Drama, graduating in 2005 when she landed her first screen leading role opposite Jesper Christanson as Alice in an Independent Feature Shaking Dreamland.^[1] In 2006, she landed a 3 part series, Dream Team 80s for Sky TV^[2] before playing a semi-regular role for BBC Scotland's River City.^[3] In 2007, Swann landed leading role Sophie in Shine Productions Dis/connected^[4] directed by Tom Harper, as part of the BBC 3 pilot season. Swann played Mark Addy's daughter for ITV's Bike Squad.

Swann had a small role in an episode of Demons which screened in February 2009, and also appeared in independent film, Shoot on Sight^[5] directed by Jag Mundhra starring Brian Cox and Greta Scacchi about the 7/11 bombings in London. In 2010, she was cast in the award-winning The Great Game: Afghanistan at the Tricycle Theatre, a British series of short plays on the history of Afghanistan and foreign intervention there, from the First Anglo-Afghan War to the present day, directed by Nicolas Kent and Indhu Rubasingham.^[6] Swann played six different characters from a young Afghan girl in Black Tulips to Simon Stephens' Canopy of Stars as a wife confronting her sergeant husband about returning to war. The success of the US tour resulted in a return to Washington D.C. in early 2011 for two exclusive performances at the Pentagon.

Prior to this, Swann guested in many TV shows. She appeared in the Multi Million Rowntrees Randoms Campaign playing a random primary school teacher^[7] which was aired across the UK. Other company commercials in which Swann has appeared include telecommunications company Orange, Vageta and the Co-op. She starred in a stage production of Of Mice and Men at the Dukes Theatre in Lancaster.^[8] In September 2011, she completed filming Real Playing Game, a thriller.

Selected filmography

Television

Theatre

Cloudia Swann – Of Mice and Men

Other work

References

1. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/designer-babe-set-to-shake-up-shieldinch-1.972933 River City – The Evening Times Profile on Cloudia Swann

2. http://www.denofgeek.com/television/249802/lily_allen_eyes_doctor_who_role.html Doctor Who

3. https://web.archive.org/web/20120402073753/http://www.eaglefilms.co.uk/Shaking%20Dream%20Land/press/cloudia_swann.html Shaking Dreamland Film Press Page

4. http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/25682/of-mice-and-men Of Mice and Men – The Stage Review

5. https://web.archive.org/web/20111002204513/http://www.berkeleyrep.org/press/photos-10gg.asp The Great Game – Berkley Rep

6. http://outwestarts.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-ten-and-only-best-of-theater-10.html The Great Game – 10 of the best Review

7. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943942?refCatId=33 The Great Game Variety Review

8. http://outwestarts.blogspot.com/2010/10/like-poppies.html The Great Game Review

9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v4m2g BBC radio 3 Canopy of Stars

10. http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/greatgame10-rev.htm The Great Game (review)

11. http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/greatgame10-rev.htm The Great Game(review)

12. http://www.theatreindc.com/playdetail.php?playID=174 The Great Game (Washington DC)

13. http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/artsfun/afterhours/16812.html (Washington The Great Game Review)

14. http://theater.nytimes.com/show/25491/The-Great-Game-Afghanistan-/overview (New York Times – Overview of cast)

15. http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/09/21/the-great-game-afghanistan-part-2/ The Great Game Review

16. https://web.archive.org/web/20120514111357/http://www.stagevoices.com/stage_voices/2010/12/the-great-game-afghanistan-in-new-york-review.html (New York performance standout)

17. http://www.zimbio.com/Afghanistan/articles/eyZdZh3VS8Z/Olivier+Nominated+Great+Game+Afghanistan+Arrives http://www.abouttheartists.com/productions/30957 (Minneapolis Programme – The Great Game)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cloudia Swann.

1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2014175/ (Cloudia Swann IMDB Page).

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPRwHxXbCZc (Cloudia Swann as a teacher in Rowntree's Randoms Advert).