By Mark Shenton
12 Nov 2009
Lisa Dillon and Simon Paisley Day have joined the previously-announced Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen in Richard Eyre's new production of Noel Coward's Private Lives.
Dillon was last seen on the London stage in the U.K premiere of Andrew Bovell's When the Rain Stops Falling at the Almeida Theatre. She had previously also appeared at the Almeida in Period of Adjustment and Hedda Gabler. Othe recent stage credits include Under the Blue Sky at the Duke of York's Theatre and Present Laughter and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (both at the National Theatre). She has also played Desdemona in Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she won the Ian Charleson Award and the Critics' Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award for her performance as Hilda Wangel in The Master Builder at the Albery Theatre. Her film credits include "Bright Young Things," and on TV she played Mary Smith in the BBC's "Cranford."
Day was last seen on the London stage in the revival of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane that played at the West End's Trafalgar Studios from Jan. to April 2009. Other stage credits include Timon of Athens (Globe), The Ugly One (Royal Court), The 39 Steps (Tricycle/West End) and The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse). His television credits include "Midsomer Murders," "Dr. Who," "The Catherine Tate Show" and "The Belsen Redemption."
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