Natasha Wightman
A short filmography can still be a good one. The English actress Natasha Wightman worked across British and American films and British television from the late 1990s, taking small precise parts in productions that people are still watching.
The three credits held here run through period English drama and into dystopian allegory. She is Lavinia Meredith in Gosford Park, one thread in a very crowded upstairs, and Mary Debenham in a 2001 telling of Murder on the Orient Express. Then there is Valerie in V for Vendetta, written as a letter and played in scenes separate from the main story, which is by some distance the role people remember her for. The extract also lists Revelation, Mouth to Mouth and episodes of the serial State of Play, none of them among the credits listed here.
Movies (3)
Where to start with Natasha Wightman
V for Vendetta is the one to see, and Valerie is the reason. Her scenes sit apart from the main plot, they are told as a letter rather than acted opposite anyone, and they carry more feeling than the rest of the film manages with all its speeches.
Gosford Park is the better film overall, though her part in it is small by design: Lavinia Meredith is one guest among dozens, and the pleasure is watching an ensemble actor hold a corner of the frame without pulling at it. Murder on the Orient Express is for completists only, a modernized version of the Christie case with Wightman as Mary Debenham.