Saskia Reeves

Saskia Reeves

1961-08-16 Paddington, London, England, UK 43 Credits

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...

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The Outrun

The Outrun

2024

as Annie

6.9
Acting

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

Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me

2024

Acting

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

Shadows

2023

as Mother

5.5
Acting

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

Creation Stories

2021

as Helen

5.8
Acting

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

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes

2020

7.5
Acting

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

National Theatre Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

2019

as Bushy / Green / Duchess of York

10.0
Acting

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

The Child in Time

2018

as Thelma Darke

5.8
Acting

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

King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2017

as Kent

Acting

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

Our Kind of Traitor

2016

as Tamara

6.1
Acting

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

The Prime Minister

2016

as President

5.9
Acting

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

The Program

2015

as Conference Director

6.4
Acting

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

Salting the Battlefield

2014

as Anthea Catcheside

6.3
Acting

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

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

2013

as Nurse

6.8
Acting

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

Anna

2013

as Michelle Greene

6.5
Acting

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

Page Eight

2011

as Anthea Catcheside

6.6
Acting

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

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number

2010

as Ruth Minnen

Acting

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

Canoe Man

2010

as Anne Darwin

4.0
Acting

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

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

2009

as Mandy Wymer

7.0
Acting

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

Me and Orson Welles

2008

as Barbara Luddy

6.4
Acting

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

Acting

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

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

2005

as Louisa Doyle

6.1
Acting

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

A Line in the Sand

2004

as Meryl Rogers

4.0
Acting

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

The Tesseract

2003

as Rosa

4.7
Acting

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

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

1999

as Mrs. Cratchit

6.9
Acting

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

L.A. Without a Map

1999

as Joy

5.9
Acting

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

Heart

1999

as Maria Ann McCardle

5.5
Acting

A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.

Faith

Faith

1998

as Anna

Acting

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

A Very British Psycho

1997

as Narrator

6.0
Acting

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

Different for Girls

1996

as Jean

7.2
Acting

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

Cruel Train

1995

as Selina Roberts

4.5
Acting

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

Acting

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

Butterfly Kiss

1995

as Miriam

6.5
Acting

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

I.D.

I.D.

1995

as Lynda

6.6
Acting

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

Acting

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

Traps

1994

as Louise Duffield

1.0
Acting

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

Acting

Story of John Locke...

The Bridge

The Bridge

1992

as Isobel Heatherington

4.5
Acting

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

Close My Eyes

1991

as Natalie Bryant

5.9
Acting

After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessiona...

December Bride

December Bride

1990

as Sarah Gilmartin

6.9
Acting

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

Children Crossing

1990

as Rosie

1.0
Acting

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

Antonia and Jane

1990

as Antonia McGill

5.5
Acting

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

Metamorphosis

1987

as Greta Samsa

7.0
Acting

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

Last Day of Summer

1984

as Linda

9.0
Acting

A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.