news release: 15th Nov

With numerous television appearances including My Wife Next Door, Telford's Change, Joint Account, Lady Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs, Mrs Durrell in My Family And Other Animals, and several Morecambe and Wise Christmas shows, together with her appearances on London's West End stage where she has played Shirley Valentine, Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband directed by Sir Peter Hall, Miss Tina in The Aspern Papers, and Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Hannah Gordon is a well know and much loved Scottish actress whose personal appearance at Pitlochry is a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with a star of stage and screen.

Drawing on her highly popular performances of A Year to Remember (celebrating the highlights of the calendar), Hannah Gordon will present a sparkling evening of readings laced with her own brand of charm from material by writers as diverse as Willy Russell, Siegfried Sassoon, Noel Coward, John Betjeman and Joyce Grenfell at Pitlochry Festival Theatre on Saturday 26th November.

In the second half of the evening, Hannah will be in conversation with the distinguished broadcaster Mary Marquis, whose interviewing experience has involved many of the great names in British public life, and who, like Hannah, is a Fellow of the RSAMD.

Don't' miss this fantastic evening in the company of one of Scotland's great actresses. Tickets are available from the box office at Pitlochry Festival Theatre on 01796 484626 or buy online.

More on Hannah Gordon:

Born in Edinburgh, and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, where she won the James Bridie Gold Medal.

Her TV career began with the role of Sir Ralph Richardson's daughter in Johnson Over Jordan, and she was soon playing leading parts in the BBC's highly successful classic serials of David Copperfield, Great Expectations and Middlemarch.

She played James Mason's daughter in the film of Spring & Port Wine, Desdemona in Othello at Chichester and since then her West End appearances have included Can You Hear Me At The Back, The Country Girl, Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky at the Old Vic and the title role in Mary Stuart at the Edinburgh Festival.

Her film work includes the highly acclaimed The Elephant Man, and she was recently seen in the American comedy Made of Honour.

Her numerous television appearances include My Wife Next Door, Telford's Change, Lady Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs, The Day After the Fair by Thomas Hardy, Mrs Durrell in My Family & Other Animals, the comedy series Joint Account and several Morecambe and Wise Christmas Shows. Hannah has appeared in Jimmy McGovern's latest BBC series of Moving On, and opposite Robert Vaughn, in the very popular series Hustle.

She played Shirley Valentine at the Vaudeville, Lady Chiltern in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband directed by Sir Peter Hall, Miss Tina in The Aspern Papers, and Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

For four years Hannah presented the highly successful Watercolour Challenge, and made a memorable appearance in the last ever episode of One Foot in the Grave.

Hannah is a Fellow of the RSAMD and holds an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from Glasgow University.