Wendy Albiston

Wendy was born in Pontypridd, South Wales to Mancunian parents, and spent her teens inStockport. She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Last summer, Wendy played the Landlady in SKIP Theatre's site specific production of TheMermaid's Curse. Wendy played the swashbuckling eldest daughter, Morgana Lear in theworld premiere of Ben Benison’s Jack Lear for the Stephen Joseph Theatre directed by BarrieRutter of Northern Broadsides. She was a founder member of the theatre company ShowDon't Tell and played roles in Loveplay, Relative Values and Dangerous Corner. Duringher time with the company, she was particularly delighted to be asked by Moira Buffini toplay Barbara in her short play, The Games Room as part of the Miniaturist season at the oldSouthwark Playhouse.

On the small screen Wendy played Baines the masculine chauffeur in the BBC's 1920sadaptation of The Turn of the Screw, where she skillfully got to drive a 100 year oldFord Model T! Other period drama includes Martha, the Dashwood's maid in Sense andSensibility. Other TV credits include Five Daughters about the 2006 Ipswich murders. Lastyear Wendy played Rachel Allen, a suicidal psychiatric patient about to jump off a bridge in ashort film for the Police Bravery Awards. On the big screen, Wendy played the surly GuardMiller in Provoked: A True Story alongside Miranda Richardson and Aishwarya Rai and Annain the Bollywood film Jahoota Hi Sahi with Bollywood heart throb John Abraham.

Wendy can be seen hurling abuse at Omid Djalili in a moneysupermarket.com advert for carinsurance and was seen being chatted up by an elderly gentleman in a BBC iplayer ident!

Wendy had an exciting start to 2009, jetting off to Peru to film the drama documentary seriesLocked Up Abroad, in which she plays Julie Goldstein and finished off the year in Malta andGozo playing Pam in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg with In Company Theatre.

Other work includes recordings for Big Finish playing Mme De Chevreaux in Dr Who and TheChurch and The Crown, and Nellie in Sarah Jane Smith - The Tao Connection.

Wendy is a skilled role-player having worked for The Harry Partnership, The Role PlayCompany, and with the NHS, London Stock Exchange, HBOS and The Serious Fraud Office.