Tara Fitzgerald Movies and Career Information

Tara Anne Cassandra FitzGerald (born 18 September 1967) is an English actress who has appeared in feature films, television, radio and the stage. FitzGerald won the New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 1995 as Ophelia opposite Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet. She won the Best Actress Award at The Reims International Television Festival in 1999 for her role of Lady Dona St. Columb in Frenchman's Creek. FitzGerald’s most recent role has been in the West End production of The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre with Damian Lewis and Keira Knightley, and in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll's House at the Donmar Warehouse. Since 2007, FitzGerald has appeared in more than 30 episodes of the BBC television series Waking The Dead. Tara FitzGerald was born in Cuckfield, Sussex to Irish portrait photographer Sarah Geraldine FitzGerald and Italian artist Michael Callaby. As a child her family moved to Freeport, Bahamas, where her grandfather, David FitzGerald, practiced law. Returning to England, her parents divorced when she was three. She and her mother lived in a basement flat off the Old Brompton Road in Kensington. When Tara was six, her mother married Irish actor Norman