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1 Early life  





2 Acting career  





3 Other work  





4 Personal life  





5 Filmography  



5.1  Film and television  





5.2  Theatre  







6 References  





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Daniela Lavender
Born

Daniela Barbosa de Carneiro


(1974-12-14) 14 December 1974 (age 49)
Bahia, Brazil
Other namesDaniela Kingsley
OccupationActress
Years active2000–present
Spouses

Ben Lavender

(m. 1996; div. 2003)

(m. 2007)

Daniela Lavender, Lady Kingsley (née Barbosa de Carneiro; 14 December 1974) is a Brazilian actress, appearing on Brazilian television and on English-language television, film and stage, including touring with the British Shakespeare Company.

Early life

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Lavender was born in Bahia, Brazil, daughter of a policeman father and English teacher mother.[1] At the age of eight, Lavender began training in ballet, jazz and contemporary dance. Lavender studied Flamenco dancing under Roberto Amaral Lavender received a journalism degree from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and studied drama at Dirceu de Mattos school[2]inRio de Janeiro, studied English for a year and traveled to London. She auditioned for the London International School of Performing Arts, playing 'Queen Anne' from Shakespeare's Richard III, and passed the audition in spite of the language barrier.[1]

Acting career

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Lavender appeared in the low budget independent film Emotional Backgammon (2003),[3] and was awarded "Best Actress" at the Denver Film Festival.[4] Lavender appeared in Ali G Indahouse and the BBC series Longitude, EastEnders,[5] and Casualty.[6] Lavender toured with the British Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2009, playing Hippolyta and Titania.[7][8] She made her theatre debut at London's Tabard Theatre in March 2011 in A Woman Alone (produced by Jason Greer).[9]

Other work

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Lavender has supported Action for Brazil's Children Trust (ABC) as an ambassador, to raise awareness and funding to assist the disadvantaged.[10]

Personal life

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In her professional life, Lavender uses the surname of her first husband, Ben Lavender, to whom she was married from 1996 to 2003.[11] She married, secondly, to actor Ben Kingsley on 3 September 2007.[12]

Filmography

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Film and television

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Year Title
2000 Longitude
2001 Down to Earth
2001 Casualty
2002 Ali G Indahouse
2002 Manchild[13]
2003 Emotional Backgammon
2003 EastEnders
2004 Paixão Crua[14]
2009 Midsummer Night's Dream
2009 Precious[15]
2010 The Scientist
2013 A Birder's Guide to Everything
2015 Tut
2018 Backstabbing for Beginners
2018 Paper Year
2018 Intrigo: Death of an Author
2018 Night Hunter
2019 A Dog's Journey

Theatre

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Year Title Venue
2011 A Woman Alone Tabard Theatre[16][17]
Viva Maria Ovalhouse
The Beelzebub Sonata Gate Theatre
Steel Magnolias The Troubadour
Tartuffe The Troubadour
Sexual Perversity in Chicago The Troubadour
Lysistrata The Troubadour
A Voice Screaming to Heaven The Troubadour
Viva O Povo Brasileiro Shanty Towns
Lanterna De Fogo Princesa Isabel
Trouser Press Independent
Nick Cave
Mulheres De Areia

References

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  1. ^ a b Soutar, Ian (13 August 2009). "Lady's not afraid of English mud". Sheffield Telegraph. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
  • ^ "Schools, Courses, Theatre and Circus" (in Portuguese). Artes.com. Archived from the original on 20 August 2011.
  • ^ "Emotional Backgammon(2003)". IMDb.
  • ^ "Award winning actress, Daniela Lavender, stars in husband's, Sir Ben Kingsley, production TAJ (2010)" (Press release). EthnicNow. 27 January 2010.
  • ^ ""EastEnders" Episode dated 25 March 2003 (2003)". IMDb.
  • ^ ""Casualty" Dirty Laundry (2001)". IMDb.
  • ^ "Daniela Lavender: Texto De Shakespeare (2009)" (in Portuguese). Caras.com. 2 July 2009. Archived from the original on 5 July 2009.
  • ^ "Cast (2009)". British Shakespeare Company. Archived from the original on 5 February 2010. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  • ^ "Knight in da house". The Independent. London. 11 February 2011. p. 77. Retrieved 12 June 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "event: Daniela Lavender supporting ABC Trust" Archived 6 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Action for Brazil's Children Trust. May 2011.
  • ^ "Daniela Lavender, Sir Ben Kingsley's Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". 12 October 2016.
  • ^ "Kingsley weds Brazilian actress". BBC. 7 September 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
  • ^ Manchild, BBC, 2002. Series 1 episode 3. Dir. David Evans. Character: Spanish Waitress.
  • ^ "Chemin Sylvia Bernard Casting Director" (doc). Casting Society.
  • ^ Precious. Cinema Montreal. 2009.
  • ^ Langton, Richard (7 April 2011). "A Woman Alone — review". Guardian (Webcitation). London. Archived from the original on 19 August 2011.
  • ^ Bowie-Sell, Daisy (12 April 2011). "A Woman Alone, Tabard Theatre, review". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
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