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
Complete Filmography

The Outrun
2024
as Annie
Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a dec...

Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me
2024
The film by Ed Atkins and Steven Zultanski combines a performative reading of Philip Atkins’ (Ed’s father) diary, written during the six months leadin...

Shadows
2023
as Mother
Alma and Alex, two adolescent sisters, are survivors of a catastrophic event. They live deep in the woods with their Mother, a strict, over-protective...

Creation Stories
2021
as Helen
The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtra...

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes
2020
A true pioneer in audio exploration and psycho-acoustics, Delia Derbyshire conceived one of the most familiar compositions in science fiction, the Doc...

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
2019
as Bushy / Green / Duchess of York
Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London to cinemas.

The Child in Time
2018
as Thelma Darke
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarke...

King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2017
as Kent
King Lear has three daughters, but no sons. Boldly he makes a decision to divide his kingdom among his children, but fails to anticipate the consequen...

Our Kind of Traitor
2016
as Tamara
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch....

The Prime Minister
2016
as President
The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is m...

The Program
2015
as Conference Director
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. ...

Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Anthea Catcheside
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. John...

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
2013
as Nurse
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac...

Anna
2013
as Michelle Greene
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a socio...

Page Eight
2011
as Anthea Catcheside
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number
2010
as Ruth Minnen
The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, it has toured the world and was recent...

Canoe Man
2010
as Anne Darwin
The story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life with a false identity.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2009
as Mandy Wymer
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and t...

Me and Orson Welles
2008
as Barbara Luddy
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
The Last Days of the Raj
2007
as Lady Mountbatten
Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to...

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
as Louisa Doyle
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets t...

A Line in the Sand
2004
as Meryl Rogers
In a remote village on the Suffolk Coast, Frank Perry (Ross Kemp) waits for his past to catch up with him. Previously a spy for MI6 working on Iranian...

The Tesseract
2003
as Rosa
A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.

A Christmas Carol
1999
as Mrs. Cratchit
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

L.A. Without a Map
1999
as Joy
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for...

Heart
1999
as Maria Ann McCardle
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.

Faith
1998
as Anna
A short film on the subject of an Arsenal fan's protest and based on an original short story by Fever Pitch author Nick Hornby, starring John Sessions...

A Very British Psycho
1997
as Narrator
A documentary film examining Michael Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom," the controversy surrounding its release, and the life of its screenwriter, Leo ...

Different for Girls
1996
as Jean
Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns out that the two were childhood friends in Catholi...

Cruel Train
1995
as Selina Roberts
In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfat...
The Perfect Match
1995
as Bridget
Guy proposes to his girlfriend by putting a notice on the half time scoreboard at the FA cup final. The entire crowd at wembley stadium cheer them on ...

Butterfly Kiss
1995
as Miriam
Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly se...

I.D.
1995
as Lynda
Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job...
A Summer Day's Dream
1994
Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in ...

Traps
1994
as Louise Duffield
The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber planta...
Citizen Locke
1994
as Lady Marsham
Story of John Locke...

The Bridge
1992
as Isobel Heatherington
When Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic. But the arrival ...

Close My Eyes
1991
as Natalie Bryant
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessiona...

December Bride
1990
as Sarah Gilmartin
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, sh...

Children Crossing
1990
as Rosie
Is Joe really having an affair - or is Rosie imagining it all? A story of sexual jealousy, betrayal and vengeance - an emotional journey which keeps y...

Antonia and Jane
1990
as Antonia McGill
Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest f...

Metamorphosis
1987
as Greta Samsa
TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man, who is the sole financial supporter of his family, awakes one...

Last Day of Summer
1984
as Linda
A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.