Saskia Reeves

Actor Aug 16 (age 65) Paddington, London, England, UK 1984–2026 (42 year career)

6.6 avg rating

Biography

Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and I.D. (1995), and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune. Born and brought up in London to a Dutch mother and English father, Reeves studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since worked with directors such as Mike Leigh, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Winterbottom and Nicholas Hytner. Early in her career she performed in puppet shows and in satiri…

Known For

Film

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Nurse

Film

Luther

Rose Teller

Film

Slow Horses

Catherine Standish

Film

Anna

Michelle Greene

Film

Frank Herbert's Dune

Lady Jessica Atreides

Film

The Program

Conference Director

Film

The Outrun

Annie

Film

Our Kind of Traitor

Tamara

Filmography

Acting (87)

Movies (45)

National Theatre at Home: End

as Julie

The Outrun

as Annie

Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me

Shadows

as Mother

Creation Stories

as Helen

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes

2020

7.5

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

2019

as Bushy / Green / Duchess of York

10.0

The Child in Time

2018

as Thelma Darke

5.7

King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2017

as Kent

Our Kind of Traitor

as Tamara

The Prime Minister

as President

The Program

as Conference Director

6.4

Salting the Battlefield

as Anthea Catcheside

Anna

as Michelle Greene

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

as Nurse

Page Eight

as Anthea Catcheside

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number

2010

as Ruth Minnen

Canoe Man

2010

as Anne Darwin

4.0

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

as Mandy Wymer

Me and Orson Welles

as Barbara Luddy

The Last Days of the Raj

2007

as Lady Mountbatten

Unknown Things

2007

as Mrs Hoogstraten

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

as Louisa Doyle

The Tesseract

as Rosa

A Line in the Sand

as Meryl Rogers

A Christmas Carol

as Mrs. Cratchit

L.A. Without a Map

as Joy

Heart

as Maria Ann McCardle

5.4

Faith

1998

as Anna

A Very British Psycho

as Narrator

Different for Girls

as Jean

Butterfly Kiss

as Miriam

I.D.

as Lynda

The Perfect Match

as Bridget

Cruel Train

as Selina Roberts

A Summer Day's Dream

Citizen Locke

as Lady Marsham

Traps

as Louise Duffield

The Bridge

as Isobel Heatherington

Close My Eyes

as Natalie Bryant

Children Crossing

as Rosie

Antonia and Jane

as Antonia McGill

December Bride

as Sarah Gilmartin

Metamorphosis

as Greta Samsa

Last Day of Summer

as Linda

Television (42)

Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire

2026

as Narrator (voice)

8.0

Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

2024

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.3

Slow Horses

2022

as Catherine Standish

8.0

Slow Horses

2022

as Catherine Standish

Belgravia

as Ellis

Roadkill

as Helen Laurence

as Connie Petersen

Collateral

as Deborah Clifford

House of Saud: A Family at War

as Narrator

Redemption Road

as Mrs. Hales

Wolf Hall

as Johane Williamson

From There to Here

as Claire

Traders: Millions by the Minute

2014

as Narrator

Canterbury Cathedral

2014

as Narrator

Shetland

as Freya Galdie

Playhouse Presents

as Teddy Brookman

One Night

as Sally

Death in Paradise

as Frances Compton

Vera

as Sarah Marsden

Women in Love

as Anna Brangwen

Luther

as Rose Teller

Red Riding

The Fixer

Lewis

as Alison McLennan

Afterlife

If...

as Mary Alton

Island at War

as Cassie Mahy

The Commander

as Eileen Judd

Suspicion

as Julie Hopcroft

Spooks

as Sally

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

as Eileen Edwards

Waking the Dead

as Dr. Laurie Poole

Frank Herbert's Dune

as Lady Jessica Atreides

Midsomer Murders

as Marcia Macintyre

Arthouse

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Plotlands

as Chloe Marsh

Performance

as Irina Shestova

In My Defence

as Phillipa Monaghan

ScreenPlay

as Antonia McGill

Screen Two

as Rosie

A Woman of Substance

as Edwina (uncredited)

7.6

Lytton's Diary

1985

as Pretty Girl

5.0